Director

MASUMURA Yasuzo

Cast

WAKAO Ayako, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, FUNAKOSHI Eiji

What do you think "The Most Valuable Madam" means? Some people say that it means a woman who keeps her husband completely under her thumb. According to another view it means a woman who has a profound knowledge about how to handle a man. lchiro, the...

Release Date

Feb, 10th, 1959

Director

OSHIMA Nagisa

Cast

ABE Tetsuo, WATANABE Fumio, KOYAMA Akiko

A deadbeat father exploits his status as a veteran to force his son to feign being hit by cars in order to shake down the drivers for money. The film captures poignantly the boy's lonely plight as, following his father's orders, he repeatedly puts hi...

Release Date

Jul, 26th, 1969

Director

IDA Motomu

Cast

OKAZAKI Jiro, GO Eiji, KUWAHARA Yukiko

Saburo (Eiji Go), a brawny dandy fresh from the country meets Yoko (Sachiko Kuwabara) knew on a train, and finds her a job in a mani- kin club, run by a woman named Utako (Yaeko Wakamizu) and where he works as a driver. The joy of reunion, however, ...

Release Date

Feb, 6th, 1971

Director

MAEDA Yoichi

Cast

NAKAMURA Akiko, OGIMACHI Kyoko, Hoki TOKUDA

South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playland and the girls, who had been abalone divers, now become geisha, and the old ways of the island are ...

Release Date

Jun, 26th, 1965

Director

OSHIMA Nagisa

Cast

NAKAMURA Katsuo, KAGA Mariko, NOGAWA Yumiko

Director Oshima Nagisa was considered as a leader of Japanese New Wave, he directed Cruel Tales of Youth and The Sun's Burial. In this film a young man, disillusioned in love, is blackmailed into keeping a very large sum of money for a man who goes t...

Release Date

Aug, 29th, 1965

Director

MATSUO Akinori

Cast

NITANI Hideaki, ASAOKA Ruriko, SHISHIDO Joe

Saeki Ryutaro, a member of Asia Interpol -- a secret service organization comprised of agents from various Asian countries is on his latest assignment, tracking a shipment of contraband being sent from Hong Kong to one Georgie Eaton. The truck, howev...

Release Date

Dec, 10th, 1966

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

NIHONMATSU Kazui

Cast

KAWAZU Yusuke, SHINDO Emi, SONOI Keisuke

A plane carrying a hydrogen bomb over Japan is attacked by a swarm of insects and crashes on a small island. Two of the survivors are horribly mutilated and the one still living has lost his memory. Nearby a young insect-specialist, George (Yusuke K...

Release Date

Nov, 9th, 1968

Director

SHIMA Koji

Cast

ICHIKAWA Raizo, WAKAO Ayako, URAJI Yoko

Kiyohime is the only daughter of the headman of the village of Manago who whilst out hunting accidentally shoots Anchin, a young priest, who with his colleague, Dokaku, on the way to the famous Dojoii Temple to practice Buddhist meditation. Terrified...

Release Date

Aug, 9th, 1960

Director

ONODA Yoshiki

Cast

MIHARA Yoko, IKEUCHI Junko, AMACHI Shigeru

This is an exciting action-drama concerning the righteousness and bravery of Tamami Sakura, a female gang boss. One day she arrives with her followers at a hot spring to investigate the suicide of Kinryu which she suspects is murder. She visits Ki...

Release Date

Jan, 15th, 1961

Director

IMAMURA Shohei

Cast

OZAWA Shoichi, SAKAMOTO Sumiko, NAKAMURA Ganjiro

From the director of "Insect Woman" and "Hogs and Warships", this is an ironic comedy about a man who makes pornography his living. In being completely honest about a subject over which society is universally hypocritical, he naturally sees himself a...

Release Date

Mar, 12th, 1966

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

NIHONMATSU Kazui

Cast

OKADA Eiji, WAZAKI Syunya, Peggy NEAL

The Japan Space Development Bureau's giant spaceship, launched from Earth and travelling from the Moon to Mars, runs into an unexplained disturbance and returns bearing on its fuselage a strange glowing object which the Astroflying Center at the base...

Release Date

Mar, 25th, 1967

Director

MASUDA Toshio

Cast

KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko, SHIRAKI Mari

Kitagawa is appointed as Second Officer of the " Monroe ", which plies between Japan and Brazil. That night he is involved in a fight with hoodlums in a bar. Kitagawa is taken back to his hotel by Omori, manager of a cabaret, and a colleague of marin...

Release Date

Jul, 15th, 1961

Director

WATANABE Kunio

Cast

TAKADA Kokichi, SAGA Michiko, KONOE Jushiro

The life of Bunzaemon Kinokuniya, a merchant of feudal Japan is legendary to the Japanese, and this film covers the early days of his career from the time he sacrifices himself for others until the day he again proves himself against tremendous odds....

Release Date

Jun, 14th, 1959

Director

MATSUO Akinori

Cast

TAKAHASHI Hideki, IZUMI Masako, INOUE Akifumi

In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves...

Release Date

Jul, 14th, 1963