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Nishijin (1961)

Director

MATSUMOTO Toshio

Cast

Short film directed by Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of avant-garde documentary films. A documentary film appreciation group in Kyoto self-produced the film as part of their cultural activities. The film is not about Nishijin as the origin of the luxur...
60's

Sekaidaisenso (1961)

Director

MATSUBAYASHI Shue

Cast

Frankie SAKAI, TAKARADA Akira, HOSHI Yuriko
60's

SANJURO (1961)

Director

KUROSAWA Akira

Cast

MIFUNE Toshiro, NAKADAI Tatsuya, KOBAYASHI Keiju
60's

YOJIMBO (1961)

Director

KUROSAWA Akira

Cast

MIFUNE Toshiro, NAKADAI Tatsuya, TSUKASA Yoko
60's

Pursuit (1961)

Director

NISHIKAWA Katsumi

Cast

NITANI Hideaki, MATSUBARA Chieko, KODAKA Yuji

Detective Iwase resigns the police force to protect his sister from reprisal by members of a vicious gang who had been sentenced to prison five years before as a result of her identification and testimony. But, in spite of Iwase's vigilance, in addit...
60's

The Grass-Mowers (1961)

Director

NISHIKAWA Katsumi

Cast

YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, MOCHIZUKI Yuko

A heart-warming story which tells of the love between an 18-year-old country maiden, Moyoko, and an innocent 19-year-old farmer's son, Tokizo, who meet and fall in love during the autumn grass-mowing in the plains of North-eastern Japan. The two are...
60's

The Song of the Season (1961)

Director

TAKIZAWA Eisuke

Cast

ASAOKA Ruriko, TAKAHASHI Hideki, HAYAMA Ryoji

Hiroko, a war orphan and governess at a children's nursery, falls in love with Takayuki, younger brother of the head of the hospital where she is recuperating from an illness. Their love affair proceeds smoothly and the wealthy Takayuki takes Hiroko ...
60's

Where the Horizon Meets the Sun (1961)

Director

MASUDA Toshio

Cast

KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko, SHIRAKI Mari

Kitagawa is appointed as Second Officer of the " Monroe ", which plies between Japan and Brazil. That night he is involved in a fight with hoodlums in a bar. Kitagawa is taken back to his hotel by Omori, manager of a cabaret, and a colleague of marin...
60's

Lost in the Sun (1961)

Director

MASUDA Toshio

Cast

HAMADA Mitsuo, YOSHINAGA Sayuri, KAWACHI Tamio

Keiichi, a student, is goaded into a fight by a hoodlum, and in a fit of anger he injures his opponent badly and runs away. He is followed by Tsune, another ruffian, who takes him to the tea-room C'est Moi, where he meets Sawayama, the leader of a ga...
60's

Gambler in the Sea (1961)

Director

KURAHARA Koreyoshi

Cast

SHISHIDO Joe, SASAMORI Reiko, NAKAHARA Sanae

Joe, a deep-sea diver, is persuaded by Gosuke and Sankichi to join in a treasure-hunt for a smuggling vessel which sank when pursued by a patrol boat off Oshima. The story recalls in Joe's mind the strange sinking of a ship two years before off Kyush...
60's

Whistling in the Darkness (1961)

Director

USHIHARA Yoichi

Cast

WADA Koji, YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAYAMA Ryoji

Whistler Sabu appears suddenly in a harbor town in search of his father's killer. At the Joker night club, he helps a boy who is being bullied by two men and, hearing that his sister has disappeared, promises he will find her for him. While at a fi...
60's

Quick Draw Joe (1961)

Director

NOMURA Takashi

Cast

SHISHIDO Joe, SASAMORI Reiko, YOSHINAGA Sayuri

One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the armored payroll car headed for the dam construction site, takes the wounded man to the police and clai...
60's

Hot-Bed of Crime (1961)

Director

MASUDA Toshio

Cast

NITANI Hideaki, SASAMORI Reiko, KAWACHI Tamio

Jiro Takabe had spent 5 years in prison in taking the blame for his elder brother. Six months before Jiro's release his brother was killed and now he is bent on revenge. Jiro suspects his brother's former henchmen, Omura and Sakazaki, but he has no ...
60's

The Rambler Under the Southern Cross (1961)

Director

SAITO Buichi

Cast

KOBAYASHI Akira, SHISHIDO Joe, ASAOKA Ruriko

Shinji Taki saves Joji Matsumoto, a young businessman, from a group of gangsters who tried to rob him a document which is part of a map Nanjo, an archaeologist, asked him to deliver on his next trip to Thailand. Shinji takes a keen interest in the c...
60's

Hogs and Warships (1961)

Director

IMAMURA Shohei

Cast

NAGATO Hiroyuki, YOSHIMURA Jitsuko, MINAMIDA Youko

An American naval base in post-war Japan is like a melting pot of sex and greed. But times are changing, and the Himori gang must look for other means of income after the illegal brothel they operate is raided and closed down. Tetsuji, the boss, ord...
60's

For This We Fight (1961)

Director

MATSUO Akinori

Cast

ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASHIKAWA Izumi, KODAKA Yuji

Shinichi Masaki returns after years of medical study in Germany, to the rundown temple of Kofukuji, in the suburbs of Tokyo, where his father, the priest Toko, lives. It is Shinichi's wish to renovate the temple and to open up a medical clinic, but T...
60's

Queen Bee Goes to the Spa (1961)

Director

ONODA Yoshiki

Cast

MIHARA Yoko, IKEUCHI Junko, AMACHI Shigeru

This is an exciting action-drama concerning the righteousness and bravery of Tamami Sakura, a female gang boss. One day she arrives with her followers at a hot spring to investigate the suicide of Kinryu which she suspects is murder. She visits Ki...
60's

Invitation to the Enchanted Town (1961)

Director

MAGATANI Morihei

Cast

SUGAWARA Bunta, OZORA Mayumi, NUMATA Yoichi

This is an amusing comedy-film with bright, humorous and satirical touches, in the telling of a modern weak-hearted young man who fails to commit suicide by drowning and then goes astray into a dreamland. Here, in turn various exotic and romantic, s...
60's

Sexy Line (1961)

Director

ISHII Teruo

Cast

MIHARA Yoko, YOSHIDA Teruo, SANJO Mako

This is an intriguing story about "Call Girls" produced under the direction of Teruo Ishii, responsible for such sensational films as "Yellow Line," "Black Line" etc. A business girl, Reiko Takigawa, works at the Tokyo Trading Company as a typist in...
60's

Queen Bee And College Boy Ryu (1961)

Director

ISHII Teruo

Cast

MIHARA Yoko, BANRI Masayo, ARASHI Kanjuro

After the Pacific War ends a group of strange hoodlums forcibly take over a district utilized by street vendors. The Sakuragumi group which is assisting repel the invaders then finds a recruit in the person of Ryuji, nicknamed the "University Dragon"...
60's

Her Devotion (1961)

Director

TANAKA Shigeo

Cast

KANO Junko, KAWASAKI Keizo, UTSUI Ken

In the train to Tokyo, Asako becomes acquainted with Kashiwagi, a public prosecutor. The next day, Asako visits Kashiwagi at his home to ask him to help release lchijo, who is detained by the police under suspicion of dealing in opium. lchijo has a...
60's

The Wife's Confession (1961)

Director

MASUMURA Yasuzo

Cast

WAKAO Ayako, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, OZAWA Eitaro

Three mountain climbers, Ryokichi, his wife Saiko and Ryokichi's friend Koda are roped together. Suddenly, Ryokichi misses his footing and he and his wife are suspended in mid-air. Koda clings to the edge of the precipice holding the two with the ro...
60's

Tough Guy (1961)

Director

TANAKA Tokuzo

Cast

KATSU Shintaro, TAMIYA Jiro, NAKAMURA Tamao

Asakichi is a farmer's son, who delights in spending his time betting on cock fighting with his friend, Tatsukichi. He becomes intimate with a farmer's wife, who lies in telling him she is going to have his child. Then he meets Kotoito who arouses h...
60's

Refresher Course for Wives (1961)

Director

INOUE Umetsugu

Cast

YAMAMOTO Fujiko, KANO Junko, ASAOKA Yukiji

One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and invites them to " P " Hotel to see for themselves. They have been married for many years and are bore...
60's

A Geisha’s Diary (1961)

Director

KAWASHIMA Yuzo

Cast

WAKAO Ayako, FUJIMAKI Jun, SAZANKA Kyu

Some geishas have had many years of training and are accomplished women, skilled in singing, dancing or playing musical instruments, as well as composing poetry and being agreeable companions. On the other hand, there are geisha who cannot do any of...