Director

NAKAHIRA Ko

Cast

ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASHIKAWA Izumi, NAKAHARA Sanae

At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company's office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft whic...

Release Date

Dec, 28th, 1958

Director

IMAMURA Shohei

Cast

OGATA Ken, SAKAMOTO Sumiko, AKI Takejo

The second film adaptation of FUKAZAWA Shichiro's novel of the same title, based on the legend of a small mountain community whose custom it was for aged relatives to be carried to a mountain and left there to die. Unlike KINOSHITA Keisuke's 1958 ver...

Release Date

Apr, 29th, 1983

Director

TAKAHASHI Osamu

Cast

NAKADAI Tatsuya, HIRA Mikijiro, KURIHARA Komaki

Sakamoto, a young engineer, visits Hong Kong to see his friend, Katori, who shortly afterwards disappears. Disturbed, Sakamato begins searching for him. In so doing he encounters a number of people, Li-Hwa, Katori's girl-friend, Detective Lu-Chee, ...

Release Date

May, 27th, 1967

Director

MIZOGUCHI Kenji

Cast

TANAKA Kinuyo, OTOWA Nobuko, HORI Yuji

Shinosuke is promised to Shizu but he falls in love with her sister, Oyu, a widowed single mother who is forbidden to marry. Oyu convinces both Shinosuke and Shizu to marry so she can stay close to him. 【Quoted from the database of KADOKAWA】...

Release Date

Jun, 22nd, 1951

Director

KUMAI Kei

Cast

UNO Jukichi, ASHIKAWA Izumi, NITANI Hideaki

An American soldier is found drowned in Tokyo Bay. A year later while both the CID and the Japanese are still investigating, the U.S. Army suddenly declares the case closed. There have been several other deaths which seem to be connected with this ca...

Release Date

May, 26th, 1965

Director

MAEDA Yoichi

Cast

NAKAMURA Akiko, OGIMACHI Kyoko, Hoki TOKUDA

South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playland and the girls, who had been abalone divers, now become geisha, and the old ways of the island are ...

Release Date

Jun, 26th, 1965

Director

TANAKA Shigeo

Cast

HONGO Kojiro, ENAMI Kyoko, NATSUKI Akira

The monster Gamera (shot to Mars in its last Daiei appearance) has fallen back to earth again and soon begins creating its customary havoc. At the same time some Japanese adventurers, hunting for a fabulous opal, bring back an object which turns out ...

Release Date

Apr, 17th, 1966

Director

TASAKA Tomotaka

Cast

ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, ASHIKAWA Izumi

Takako Kuramoto, a college student, is employed as companion and tutor to Kumiko Tashiro and through her likeable character has come to be regarded as one of the family. Kumiko, an extremely bright girl, is somewhat handicapped through an injury rec...

Release Date

Apr, 15th, 1958

Director

YASUDA Kimiyoshi

Cast

YASUDA Michiyo, NAKAHARA Sanae, MIKIMOTO Kayo

Conditions in the famous Denmacho Prison in old Edo were notorious. It was called a veritable hell on earth - it was warden against criminal, prisoner against prisoner, and torture for all. In the women's cell there were many different kinds of girl...

Release Date

Nov, 16th, 1968

Director

MASUDA Toshio

Cast

ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, ASAOKA Ruriko

Yoneji Muroto's farm in Yatsugatake is famous for its religious atmosphere and the son Kensaku is now the head of the family. One day, seeing a woman going down to the valley where many people have committed suicide, Kensaku fallows her, but in miss...

Release Date

Apr, 28th, 1959

Director

YOSHIMURA Kozaburo

Cast

WAKAO Ayako, YAMASHITA Junichiro, NAKAMURA Tamao

Takegami is a small village in Echizen, Central Japan, is a humble place but noted far and wide for its exquisite bamboo products. Here a young woman comes one day in the snow to call on Kisuke, a young bamboo craftsman, whose father has just passed...

Release Date

Oct, 5th, 1963

Director

MIZUHO Shunkai

Cast

MITAMURA Hajime, FUJIMAKI Jun, ISHII Ryuichi

The main streets of Tokyo are crowded with zigzagging leftist demonstrators shouting "Resistance to Rearmament," "Down with the Government" etc. One night, four young men, total strangers to each other, and living an insecure adolescence, like the ...

Release Date

Jul, 24th, 1960

Director

TANAKA Tokuzo

Cast

YASUDA Michiyo, NAKAHARA Sanae, SHIMEGI Shigako

In 1785 the Hosho Temple in old Edo was burned to the ground. It was never rebuilt and an old story suggests the reason why. A nun named Shigetsuin (Shigako Shimegi) was in charge of this temple-convent, sent there as a punishment. Cousin to the Sho...

Release Date

Jan, 25th, 1969

Director

INOUE Umetsugu

Cast

FAN Wen-Chiao, MORITSUGU Koji,

Lill "Darling Witch" (Fan Wen-Chiao) is a young and beautiful singer. To save her friend Hanae from the forced marriage proposed by a management consultant, she goes to his apartment for pictures of love-making with herself. Next morning the consulta...

Release Date

Feb, 23rd, 1972

Director

KONUMA Masaru

Cast

MAKI Keiko, MITAMURA Hajime, SUZUKI Rie

Masako Yano (Keiko Maki), a woman reporter for the weekly magazine " Modern Women," loses her memory as she falls victim to a group of rapists while in pursuit of her last scoop just prior to her marriage with Takashi Togawa (Tatsuya Hamaguchi). Mas...

Release Date

Dec, 18th, 1971

Director

SAITO Buichi

Cast

KOBAYASHI Akira, TANBA Tetsuro, KANEKO Nobuo

Five years before, Jiro had the bad luck to bungle a smuggling job. Escaping with his life, he went to Rio where his parents were living but found that they had killed themselves. Assuming another name he stayed on to work. Saeki, the man who tricke...

Release Date

Apr, 28th, 1968