Director

MASUMURA Yasuzo

Cast

HIRA Mikijiro, WAKAO Ayako, AZUSA Eiko

Kikuji Mitani (Mikijiro Hira) is an orphan and Chikako Kurimoto (Machiko Kyo) and Mrs. Ota (Ayako Wakao) were once his father's lovers. When Kikuji was about ten years old, he had accompanied his father to Chikako's home and had seen the purplish bi...

Release Date

Apr, 19th, 1969

Director

SHINDO Kaneto

Cast

OTOWA Nobuko, YAMAGISHI Eiko, TONOYAMA Taiji

When her husband loses his job in the coal mine, Fumiko (Nobuko Otowa) is not too put out. Taking her daughter Kimiko (Eiko Yamagishi) she sets out to make a living in Kyoto where, she has heard, there are jobs open for women. She finds one for hers...

Release Date

Jun, 30th, 1968

Director

MISUMI Kenji

Cast

NAKAMURA Kinnosuke, KURIHARA Komaki, HONGO Kojiro

During the civil wars Lord Nobunaga Oda (Shintaro Katsu) finally gains control over almost the entire country. But there are still many watching for a chance to overthrow him. So Magoichi Saika (Kinnosuke Nakamura) and his 3000 gunners are made much...

Release Date

Nov, 1st, 1969

Director

YASUDA Kimiyoshi

Cast

AOYAMA Yoshihiko, KAWASAKI Akane, OKAWA Osamu

In the eighteenth century the governor of lzu is out fishing with his daughter (Akane Kawasaki) when there is a sudden storm out of which materializes the monster Daimon. This creature once ruled over ancient Babylon and has now awakened from its sl...

Release Date

Dec, 14th, 1968

Director

INOUE Umetsugu

Cast

KOBAYASHI Akira, KAWACHI Tamio, SAWAMOTO Tadao

The "Jazz Boat" is a popular night spot on Tokyo's Ginza. It was from an old trumpet artist, Koichiro Hate that Okabe and Kawazoe first learned how to blow the horn, and although Koichiro now performs at a small place on the edge of town, he is remem...

Release Date

Jan, 3rd, 1959

Director

WATANABE Yusuke

Cast

ATSUMI Kiyoshi, NISHIMURA Ko, OSAKA Shiro

Four man, Seki, Yamaguchi, Tsuyuki, and Sakura, are all out for a fast dollar and can think of no better way than putting on a strip-show using the charms and talents of glamorous Mary Harlow. Deciding to take her on one-night stands around the small...

Release Date

May, 15th, 1968

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

SUZUKI Seijun

Cast

SHISHIDO Joe, MARI Annu, NAMBARA Koji

Suzuki's notoriously off-the-wall masterpiece about professional hitmen vying for rank subverted the template of the action films Nikkatsu was then mass-producing while also pushing at the limits of cinematic expression. When Hanada, the Japanese und...

Release Date

Jun, 15th, 1967

Director

IKEHIRO Kazuo

Cast

ICHIKAWA Raizo, WANIBUCHI Haruko, NARITA Mikio

Dealing with the famous folk-hero, Kyoshiro Nemuri, this film has him setting out on a long journey to Kyoto. Though a sacred image belonging to the Shogunate has been entrusted to him, Kyoshiro is not anxious to take responsibility, knowing that the...

Release Date

Jul, 15th, 1967

Director

KAWAZU Yoshiro

Cast

KUWANO Miyuki, WANIBUCHI Haruko, HAYAKAWA Tamotsu

In Rome, Chino, an unsuccessful singer, has an affair with Takagi, a struggling painter. When Takagi returns to Japan after winning the attention of Akizuki, an art connoisseur, an exhibition of his paintings proves highly successful. Visitors to th...

Release Date

Jun, 29th, 1963

Director

TANAKA Kinuyo

Cast

KITAHARA Mie, SUGI Yoko, YASUI Shoji

Setsuko plays the role of overzealous matchmaker for her elder sister, but what about when it comes to her own budding romance? Featuring a screenplay by SAITO Ryosuke and OZU Yasujiro, Tanaka's sophomore film about three sisters' love lives skillful...

Release Date

Jan, 8th, 1955

Director

FUKUDA Jun

Cast

DAIMON Masaaki, AOYAMA Kazuya, TAJIMA Reiko

In Okinawa, a prophetess predicts that monsters will soon overrun the world. The first signs of the coming destruction are found by Masahiko Shimizu and his brother Keisuke. When they explore a newly discovered cave, they find samples of a strange, u...

Release Date

Mar, 21st, 1974

Director

KUROSAWA Akira

Cast

MIFUNE Toshiro, MORI Masayuki, KAGAWA Kyoko

Release Date

Oct, 1st, 1960

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...

Release Date

Jan, 9th, 1961

Director

TANAKA Kinuyo

Cast

ARIMA Ineko, NAKADAI Tatsuya, TAKAMINE Mieko

Rikyu Sen is a renowned 16th Century tea master in the service of the powerful warlord Hideyoshi Toyotomi. Rikyu's stepdaughter Gin loves Ukon Takayama, a Christian lord, who is already married. When her father Rikyu returns from Kyushu, Gin hears t...

Release Date

Jun, 3rd, 1962

Director

KOBAYASHI Masaki

Cast

NAKADAI Tatsuya, ARATAMA Michiyo, TAKAMINE Hideko

In the face of the sudden Russian invasion, Kaji and a handful of survivors fight their way to the safety of southern Manchuria. The fate of the women is highlighted in numerous sequences and the crumbling of the hero's ideals which have labeled him ...

Release Date

Jan, 28th, 1961