Director

SEKIGAWA Hideo

Cast

ARAI Chizuko, ABE Toru, KAWAZU Yusuke

Tonomura has a singular taste in women. He likes them, but he wants them tattooed. To this end, young Osayo has herself decorated with a celebrated flying-angel pattern and in this way brings much pleasure to her patron. A young hoodlum named Shinno...

Release Date

Apr, 13th, 1968

Director

HORIUCHI Manao

Cast

IZUMI Kyoko, OKI Minoru, HITOMI Reiko

The plot follows the adventures of two armed thugs who rob a Tokyo bank and make off with seven million yen in cash. The culprits are Ueda and Takeo who immediately head for the latter's home island which is inhabited mainly by women divers and their...

Release Date

Jun, 8th, 1958

Director

YOSHIDA Kenji

Cast

KASHIYAMA Fumie, SUGURO Homare, NIKI Terumi

Based on the life story of a real nurse, this film is about Hatsuko Araki (Fumie Kashiyama) who went to work on the small island of Okinoshima, at the southern tip of Shikoku. There was no doctor, and she found a very backward and suspicious people. ...

Release Date

Sep, 21st, 1968

Director

TANAKA Shigeo

Cast

WAKAO Ayako, KAWASAKI Keizo, ENAMI Kyoko

A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however. For she is pregnant and so he agrees to live with her. But he misses very much the other younger girl whom he s...

Release Date

Jul, 31st, 1965

Director

MASUDA Toshio

Cast

ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASHIKAWA Izumi, YUMI Kaoru

A young man (Ishihara Yujiro) is employed by a supposedly liberal politician who is anxious for reform. He believes the politician, works hard and helps expose the various schemes of rival politicians. Becoming suspicious, however the young man decid...

Release Date

Jul, 9th, 1966

Director

FUKASAKU Kinji

Cast

ISHIDATE Tetsuo, MAEDA Gin, KAWARAZAKI Choichiro

Five youths, Kikuo (Tetsuo lshidate), Asao (Gin Maeda), Kiyoshi (Choichiro Kawarazaki), lchiro (Hideki Hayashi) and Ryuji (Ryunosuke Minegishi), all of poor local families, work at a small factory in Tokyo. But the factory goes into bankruptcy leavin...

Release Date

May, 27th, 1970

Director

NARUSE Mikio

Cast

TAKAMINE Hideko, TAKARADA Akira, KATO Daisuke

Naruse Mikio helmed this film adaptation of Hayashi Fumiko's bestselling autobiographical novel, which was also adapted for the stage. Born as a peddler's daughter, the impoverished Fumiko struggles as a waitress while writing poetry and eventually f...

Release Date

Sep, 29th, 1962

Director

MASUDA Toshio

Cast

ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, MINAMIDA Youko

One day a man named Jo Shunji makes a sudden appearance at the Uzan Mine where quarrels break out everyday between the Mikuni and Yamaichi Transportation Companies over the transport of ore. Realizing the underhand practices of the Mikuni Company, S...

Release Date

Mar, 10th, 1959

Director

KAWAZU Yoshiro

Cast

ARIMA Ineko, YAMAZAKI Jiro, SHIMOMOTO Tsutomu

This screen play is based on a prize-winning composition by an 8 year old school boy Yoshitaka Hirabayashi, whose name in the film has been changed to Yoshiyuki Hirai . Yoshiyuki and his elder brother Yoshihisa attend the Takefu West Grammar School ...

Release Date

May, 26th, 1961

Director

OZAWA Keiichi

Cast

WATARI Tetsuya, KAYAMA Yoshiko, UCHIDA Ryohei

Japan seems good to Teppei Hondo (Tetsuya Watari)afterayearonacargoship. Hehadkilled two Shinwa Group men four years ago for killing his brother. After serving a 3-year prison term, he had thought of going home but his father, the Boss of the !-:Ion...

Release Date

Jan, 24th, 1970

Director

HASHIMOTO Shinobu

Cast

Frankie SAKAI, ARATAMA Michiyo, RYU Chishu

Release Date

Apr, 12th, 1959

Director

IMAMURA Shohei

Cast

HARUKAWA Masumi, NISHIMURA Ko, TSUYUGUCHI Shigeru

This is the story of a woman who is dissatisfied with her husband and is one day raped by a thief. When the rapist discovers that she has not reported the crime to the police, he comes back and uses her again and again. The wife hates the thief for ...

Release Date

Jun, 28th, 1964

Director

INOUE Umetsugu

Cast

OKADA Mariko, YOSHIDA Teruo, SAKAKI Hiromi

Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles of Maki, the beautiful night club singer and one of the leaders of the ring. One by one, Maki's disc...

Release Date

Aug, 11th, 1963

Director

IMAMURA Shohei

Cast

MIKUNI Rentaro, KAWARAZAKI Choichiro

A culmination of his Nikkatsu days, released in 1968 by master director Imamura Shohei. A huge storm and tsunami hit Kurage Island, an isolated island in the South Sea where awe and faith in the gods are deeply rooted. When the storm passes, a huge ...

Release Date

Nov, 22nd, 1968

Director

YAMADA Yoji

Cast

ATSUMI Kiyoshi, BAISHO Chieko, YACHIGUSA Kaoru

There is time even for Tora, a happy-go-lucky rover, a drummer by trade, to feel melancholy. Conversing with a lady in a rural community, he begins to feel homesick and wants to return to his uncle, aunt and sister, gentle people who live in his home...

Release Date

Dec, 29th, 1972

Director

TANNO Yuji

Cast

KOBAYASHI Akira, AOE Mina, OKAZAKI Jiro

Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a scout and overseer of Ginza bar hostesses, receives an urgent phone call from Sawako (Tokie Hidari), a hostess at the bar Rie, and rushes to Tokyo International Airport to meet her. When he arrives she is gone. At the bar ...

Release Date

Feb, 7th, 1970