Mansai Nomura’s Typical Vibe
2 films — measured, dark, intense, layered, styled

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Mansai Nomura has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Ran.

The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
Drama · Romance

Miss Hokusai
2015
Animation · Drama

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
2019
Animation · Drama

Cezanne and I
2016
Drama · History

Kagemusha
1980
Action · Drama

The Princess of Montpensier
2010
Action · Drama

The Peasants
2023
Animation · History

Amadeus
1984
Drama · History

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
Dir. Akira Kurosawa · With Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
Dir. Hayao Miyazaki · With Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miori Takimoto