Director

INOUE Umetsugu

Cast

ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, TSUKIOKA Yumeji

This is a story of the bright lights of show business. Yoko, a dancer, dreams of happiness away from the hand to mouth existence of the theatre, and marriage with a handsome, rich man who haunts her dreams, a combination of James Dean, Yujiro Ishihar...

Release Date

Jul, 6th, 1958

Director

NOGUCHI Hiroshi

Cast

KOBAYASHI Akira, SASAMORI Reiko, KANEKO Nobuo

It is still early for the cherry blossoms, but the castle city of Sendai had never seemed so beautiful to Misaki Akira, a former high school teacher, ousted by shocked PTA members for an unlucky tangle with Tokyo hoodlums. Akira had been brought up ...

Release Date

May, 20th, 1962

Director

ITO Daisuke

Cast

ICHIKAWA Raizo, KATSU Shintaro, AOYAMA Kyoko

Kikunosuke is one of the street rogues led by Nipponzaemon whose ostensible trade is pawnbroking. However, their real business is blackmail and in order to deceive people on one occasion Kikunosuke disguises himself as a beautiful girl and on another...

Release Date

Dec, 7th, 1958

Director

NOMURA Yoshitaro

Cast

IWASHITA Shima, KURIZUKA Asahi, ARIKAWA Yuki

Originally a best selling biography, then a top TV serial, Ohanahan now becomes a film, starring Iwashita Shima, remembered from The Scarlet Camellia and Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon. This picture, the first part of the novel, recounts the tomboy childh...

Release Date

Jul, 30th, 1966

Director

MASUMURA Yasuzo, YOSHIMURA Kozaburo, KINUGASA Teinosuke

Cast

TAKI Eiko, Jelly FUJIO, NAKAMURA Takashi

Episode I: Playgirl Mariko Hayashi has a way with men and her little yellow book is filled with details of prospective husbands. Yosuke Kimura, the son of a company president, tops her list. Jiro Ueno likes to be pampered by girls. Yoshiaki Yamada...

Release Date

Mar, 31st, 1963

Director

HORIKAWA Hiromichi

Cast

KOBAYASHI Keiju, HARA Chisako, HIRATA Akihiko

Release Date

Mar, 13th, 1960

Director

KINOSHITA Keisuke

Cast

OKADA Mariko, KUGA Yoshiko, KAWAZU Yusuke

This human comedy is set in the palatial residence in Tokyo belonging to the president of a pharmaceutical company. One day, an elderly vendor of sweet potatoes, introduced by the young maidservants of the residence, suffers a stroke in the parlor. ...

Release Date

Jan, 3rd, 1960

Director

SADANAGA Masahisa

Cast

KATO Go, IWASHITA Shima, ICHIHARA Etsuko

Takashi (Go Kato), a clerk in a trading company, has an aggressive wife named Keiko (Shima Iwashita), also a girlfriend, Taeko (Etsuko Ichihara), he intends to leave believing she will stand in his way for promotion. Takashi is ordered to go to Osak...

Release Date

Aug, 25th, 1971

Director

KIMURA Keigo

Cast

ICHIKAWA Raizo, WAKAO Ayako, KATSU Shintaro

Once in the Land of Badgers, there lived an old badger named Doroemon who had a lovely daughter named Okuro, a meek and obedient girl who always went to buy sake' for him. Now, near the forest where Doroemon and Okuro lived was a palace in which liv...

Release Date

Dec, 27th, 1959

Director

SHINODA Masahiro

Cast

IWASHITA Shima, YAMAZAKI Tsutomu, OGAWA Mayumi

In 1937 Private Saegusa deserts his regiment, changes his name to Kosugi, gets a new job and prepares to build himself a new life. In a small town on the Japan Sea coast he meets a young girl, Matsuno, working as a maid in a hotel. Attracted by her ...

Release Date

Sep, 30th, 1967

Director

ISHII Teruo

Cast

TAKEWAKI Muga, YOSHIMURA Jitsuko, LIN Tsui Jeanette

Tengle likes having a good time with the girls more than anything else but he gets himself involved in a dangerous counterfeiting ring at Hong Kong. It all begins when Alang, one of his girlfriends, picks up a tape on which instructions are recorded....

Release Date

Dec, 24th, 1966

Director

MURAYAMA Mitsuo

Cast

KOBAYASHI Katsuhiko, NANBU Shozo, MOMOYAMA Taro

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbea...

Release Date

Sep, 6th, 1959

Director

INOUE Kazuo

Cast

SADA Keiji, TSUGAWA Masahiko, MIKUNI Rentaro

In 1802, vagrants are rounded up in Edo and sent to Sado Island for forced labor in a mine. Among them is handsome Yaju who was falsely charged with a crime by Kurozuka. Kurozuka arrives on Sado Island as an official under the new magistrate Shuzen,...

Release Date

Jan, 27th, 1963

Director

NARUSE Mikio

Cast

KAYAMA Yuzo, TSUKASA Yoko, MORI Mitsuko

Release Date

Nov, 18th, 1967

Director

KOMORI Kiyoshi

Cast

AMACHI Shigeru, Elise RICHTER, S. P. Ghandi

Release Date

Sep, 5th, 1959

Director

TOYODA Shiro

Cast

NAKADAI Tatsuya, OKADA Mariko, IKEUCHI Junko

Release Date

Jul, 25th, 1965