Director

INAGAKI Hiroshi

Cast

MATSUMOTO Koshiro, KAYAMA Yuzo, MIHASHI Tatsuya

Release Date

Nov, 3rd, 1962

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...

Release Date

Oct, 29th, 1961

Director

NARUSE Mikio

Cast

TAKAMINE Hideko, MORI Masayuki, DAN Reiko

Release Date

Jan, 15th, 1960

Director

ICHIMURA Hirokazu

Cast

KAYAMA Yoshiko, TAMURA Masakazu, SONOI Keisuke

Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gav...

Release Date

Jan, 30th, 1965

Director

YAMAMOTO Satsuo

Cast

WAKAO Ayako, FUNAKOSHI Eiji, YASUDA Michiyo

Based upon the best seller by Ayako Miura, this is about a couple whose only child is killed. The husband, as a means of macabre revenge on the wife, adopts the child of the murderer and they bring her up as their own. There comes a day, however, whe...

Release Date

Mar, 26th, 1966

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"...

Release Date

Sep, 3rd, 1960

Director

SHINDO Kaneto

Cast

TANAKA Kinuyo, KYO Machiko, YAMADA Isuzu

This is a documentary on the life and films of Kenji Mizoguchi, the great Japanese film director who died in 1956, directed by the now well-known creator of films who was once assistant director to Mizoguchi. Beginning in the hospital where Mizoguch...

Release Date

May, 24th, 1975

Director

IDA Motomu

Cast

KAWACHI Tamio, WADA Koji, KASHIWAGI Yuko

A young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the story of a young girl who committed suicide when recognized by her former fiancee after she had become a prostitute. Other stories are interwoven, and th...

Release Date

Jun, 20th, 1965

Director

MIZOGUCHI Kenji

Cast

TANAKA Kinuyo, YAMANE Hisako, MIFUNE Toshiro

Mizoguchi Kenji's adaptation of a literary classic won the International Award at the 13th Venice International Film Festival. Oharu (Tanaka Kuniyo) is a star-crossed woman destroyed by men, both hateful and beloved. One freezing winter morning at d...

Release Date

Apr, 2nd, 1952

Director

KOMORI Kiyoshi

Cast

AMACHI Shigeru, Elise RICHTER, S. P. Ghandi

Release Date

Sep, 5th, 1959

Director

MORI Kazuo

Cast

Rick JASON, WAKAO Ayako, FUJIMURA Shiho

In the middle of the 16th-century, a storm drives a large Portuguese sailing ship ashore at Tanegashima, an island in the south ofJapan. There the local lord, Tokiaki meets Captain Pinto and his crew and sees foreign firearms for the first time. Imp...

Release Date

May, 18th, 1968

Director

YAGI Mitsuo

Cast

IWASHITA Shima, TSUGAWA Masahiko, TAKAMINE Mieko

When Chiaki Ezawa returns home after graduating from a Tokyo school, she finds her father's pearl business taken over by a former clerk. Her father strongly opposes her friendship with Ryuichi Satake, a research worker at the Pearl Institute. She the...

Release Date

Apr, 16th, 1961

Director

ICHIMURA Hirokazu

Cast

BAISHO Chieko, HASHI Yukio, MIZUSHIMA Michitaro

Yukiji, a geisha of Kyoto and an outstanding dancer, goes to Tokyo with two other geisha to appear in a fashion show where she meets Kotaro, who is working as a truck driver to help his younger sister. During her short stay, they enjoy each other's ...

Release Date

Apr, 12th, 1964

Director

MARUYAMA Seiji

Cast

MIFUNE Toshiro, KAYAMA Yuzo, TSUKASA Yoko

Release Date

Aug, 14th, 1968

Director

YAMAMOTO Satsuo

Cast

YAMAMURA So, MURASE Sachiko, KITAHARA Yoshiro

Early in life, Katsuhei Arima had decided exactly what he wanted, married Fujiko for her wealth, and is now the lord of a business empire. Arima's two sons hold important positions in his business, as do the husbands of his two daughters, but he dom...

Release Date

Apr, 4th, 1964

Director

MASUMURA Yasuzo

Cast

YASUDA Michiyo, OGATA Ken, OGAWA Mayumi

Shiro (Ken Ogata) was a promising athlete but he failed to realize his ambition to break the short-sprint world record. This unfulfilled dream changes him. Though a lady's man he is brutal, even rapacious. Then he meets Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda). Now ...

Release Date

Jun, 1st, 1968