Director

OZU Yasujiro

Cast

HARA Setsuko, TSUKASA Yoko, SADA Keiji

On the seventh anniversary of her husband's death, the widow Akiko still looks young and beautiful, and three friends, Mamiya, Taguchi and Hirayama, are trying to find a good husband for her daughter, Ayako. Mamiya realizes that Ayako is hesitant ab...

Release Date

Nov, 13th, 1960

Director

HORIUCHI Manao

Cast

OKI Minoru, SUGIURA Naoki, RYU Chishu

In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied women and children interned in camp Kampili. Kampili is located some ten kilometers outside Macassar...

Release Date

Sep, 29th, 1960

Director

YAMADA Yoji

Cast

ATSUMI Kiyoshi, BAISHO Chieko, MORIKAWA Shin

Torajiro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) from a poor family has a wild and untamed nature that only those born in like circumstances can understand. It is therefore easy to understand how he turned to the life of a racketeer. One day, he learns his parents have di...

Release Date

Aug, 27th, 1969

Director

ICHIKAWA Kon

Cast

KISHI Keiko, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, TANAKA Kinuyo

Based upon a novel written by Aya Koda. A woman loves her brother very much. They share their dreams as they grow up. When the brother turns 17, he tragically dies, leaving his sister devastated and alone. 【Quoted from the database of KADOKAWA】...

Release Date

Nov, 1st, 1960

Director

SAITO Koichi

Cast

KISHI Keiko, HAGIWARA Kenichi, MIKUNI Rentaro

Akira (Kenichi Hagiwara) takes a seat in a train opposite an attractive middle-aged woman, Keiko (Keiko Kishi), both going to the same town in northern Japan. She is accompanied by an older severe-looking woman, Fusae (Yoshie Minami), who watches her...

Release Date

Mar, 29th, 1972

Director

YASUDA Kimiyoshi

Cast

KATSU Shintaro, FUJIMURA Shiho, TONO Eijiro

Zatoichi looks like an ordinary blind masseur but he is really one of Japan's most adept swordsmen. He carries his sword disguised as an ordinary cane and it has become as dear to him as his right arm. Now, however, he learns that his sword is old, ...

Release Date

Jan, 3rd, 1967

Director

FUKUDA Jun

Cast

TSURUTA Koji, SHIRAKAWA Yumi, SEIZABURO Kawazu

Release Date

Apr, 10th, 1960

Director

MORI Kazuo

Cast

KATSU Shintaro, FUJIYAMA Kambi, TAKI Eiko

This continues the extremely popular series of pictures about the blind masseur, Zatoichi, who is also one of the most skillful swordsmen in Japan. Here he is again helping the poor and weak and punishing the rich and powerful. While in prison-for be...

Release Date

Sep, 18th, 1965

Director

MATSUO Akinori

Cast

TAKAHASHI Hideki, IZUMI Masako, SUGIYAMA Toshio

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building ...

Release Date

Dec, 26th, 1963

Director

NISHIKAWA Katsumi

Cast

ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, YOSHINAGA Sayuri

The small town in Southern Japan, blessed with azure skies and emerald sea, is also proud of its Girls' High School and the bright eyed girls studying there. Mr. Mazaki, the new mathematics teacher, enters this peaceful scene. Soon almost all the gi...

Release Date

Oct, 6th, 1962

Director

YUASA Namio

Cast

ANDO Noboru, TAKAMIYA Keiji, WATANABE Fumio

Another in Shochiku's series. Minami Yoichiro is a gang member who has killed the boss of opponent clan. Before leaving Japan forever, he visits his sister's grave and becomes involved with a rival gang. He then discovers that his sister was murdered...

Release Date

Nov, 20th, 1965

Director

IDA Motomu

Cast

WADA Koji, FUJI Tatsuya, OKAZAKI Jiro

Jun Nakata (Koji Wada) and his sister Mayumi (Satoko Sato) work in Tokyo, he as a cook and she as a seamstress. On the night of Mayumi's birthday, a car hits her by accident and the two men in the vehicle take her and flee from the scene. Jun seeks p...

Release Date

May, 28th, 1969

Director

NAKAMURA Noboru

Cast

IWASHITA Shima, YOSHIDA Teruo, HAYAKAWA Tamotsu

Young and beautiful Chieko meets her twin sister, who informs her that their real parents are dead. The family tragedy stemmed from the old superstition that twins were unlucky and wrong. Chieko has been brought up by a dry goods merchant Sada and hi...

Release Date

Jan, 13th, 1963

Director

MISUMI Kenji

Cast

WAKAYAMA Tomisaburo, WATANABE Fumio, TSUYUGUCHI Shigeru

Release Date

Jan, 15th, 1972

Director

TANAKA Noboru

Cast

NAKAGAWA Rie, YAMASHINA Yuri, ABE Hijiri

Yoshiwara in Asakusa was the most famous gay quarter in Japan and there are many colorful tales about it. Courtesans in beautiful, silken costumes, with elaborate hairdressing and made-up in traditional Japanese fashion, were not held in contempt lik...

Release Date

Apr, 14th, 1973

Director

NARUSE Mikio

Cast

TAKAMINE Hideko, KAYAMA Yuzo, KUSABUE Mitsuko

Release Date

Jan, 15th, 1964