Movies
120 Results
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SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954)
- Director
- MIZOGUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, HANAYAGI Yoshiaki, KAGAWA Kyoko
Winner of the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. Medieval Japan: a compassionate governor is exiled, his family sold into slavery. Raised by a brutal tax collector, the governor's son grows into a brute himself but a childhood memory forc...
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Miss Oyu (1951)
- Director
- MIZOGUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, OTOWA Nobuko, HORI Yuji
Shinosuke is promised to Shizu but he falls in love with her sister, Oyu, a widowed single mother who is forbidden to marry. Oyu convinces both Shinosuke and Shizu to marry so she can stay close to him. 【Quoted from the database of KADOKAWA】...
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Watashi wa kai ni naritai (1959)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Shinobu
- Cast
- Frankie SAKAI, ARATAMA Michiyo, RYU Chishu
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Bijo to ekitai ningen (1958)
- Director
- HONDA Ishiro
- Cast
- SAHARA Kenji, HIRATA Akihiko, SHIRAKAWA Yumi
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Muhomatsu no issho (1958)
- Director
- INAGAKI Hiroshi
- Cast
- MIFUNE Toshiro, TAKAMINE Hideko, AKUTAGAWA Hiroshi
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THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (1958)
- Director
- KUROSAWA Akira
- Cast
- MIFUNE Toshiro, CHIAKI Minoru, FUJIWARA Kamatari
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When a Man Risks His Life (1959)
- Director
- MATSUO Akinori
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASHIKAWA Izumi, KAWACHI Tamio
Komuro, a ship's doctor, says goodbye to the sea as he has now enough money to start a small hospital of his own. On his way to Tokyo, in Izu a local doctor's body is found riddled with shots and, as Komuro is carrying his shotgun, the dead man's dau...
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A Secret Rendezvous (1959)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- KATSURAGI Yoko, ITO Takao, MIYAGUCHI Seiji
Kikuko, attractive wife of Prof. Miyahara, is beset with dire forebodings that she may be found out concerning her affair with Ikuo, one of her husband's students, through the murder of a taxi driver they both witnessed. Ikuo, too, is conscience-stri...
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Who Is in the Background? (1959)
- Director
- NOGUCHI Hiroshi
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko, AOYAMA Kyoji
The police have been tracking down a big counterfeit money ring and although they suspect that the scandal surrounding the Japan Development Corporation is closely connected have no proof. Nikaido Takuya, nicknamed the Human Cyclone, learns from pri...
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A Turning to Hell (1959)
- Director
- KURAHARA Koreyoshi
- Cast
- HAYAMA Ryoji, INAGAKI Mihoko, MINAMIDA Youko
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a su...
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The Age of Our Own (1959)
- Director
- KURAHARA Koreyoshi
- Cast
- NAGATO Hiroyuki, YOSHIYUKI Kazuko, WATANABE Misako
Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named Wilson. Whenever Wilson comes, Yasuo spends his time in the tea-shop "La Gana." Yasuo is asked by his brother Shigeru to teach French to Akiko, a you...
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Love and Death (1959)
- Director
- TAKIZAWA Eisuke
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, HAYAMA Ryoji
Starring the screen idol Yujiro Ishihara, "Love and Death" based on the famous novel by Mushanokoji Saneatsu is the first Japanese film to be made on location in Europe. Muraoka Yuji, an assistant professor, falls in love with beautiful Nonomura Hat...
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Farewell to Southern Tosa (1959)
- Director
- SAITO Buichi
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko, Peggy HAYAMA
Returning to his native village he finds that Harue, who has been waiting for him, is now claimed by the local boss to whom the girl's deceased father owed money. Joji tries hard to pay Harue's debts but people are not sympathetic with a former conv...
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The Echo of Love (1959)
- Director
- USHIHARA Yoichi
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, KANEKO Nobuo
This is the first melodrama for popular action star Yujiro Ishihara. Mountain photographer Jiro Makito narrowly escapes death in an avalanche. When Tsuzuko with whom Jiro's brother lchiro is in love visits him in hospital she asks him whether she sh...
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We Live Today (1959)
- Director
- MASUDA Toshio
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, MINAMIDA Youko
One day a man named Jo Shunji makes a sudden appearance at the Uzan Mine where quarrels break out everyday between the Mikuni and Yamaichi Transportation Companies over the transport of ore. Realizing the underhand practices of the Mikuni Company, S...
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Her Name Was Sakura (1959)
- Director
- SAITO Buichi
- Cast
- TSUKIOKA Yumeji, SHIMOMOTO Tsutomu, KAWAMURA Keiko
Born of a black father and a Japanese mother, Sakura was adopted by a black family who took her to America but had no real affection for child. Finally, unable to stand life with her foster parents any longer, she runs away to make the long journey b...
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Explosion Came (1959)
- Director
- MASUDA Toshio
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, ASAOKA Ruriko
Yoneji Muroto's farm in Yatsugatake is famous for its religious atmosphere and the son Kensaku is now the head of the family. One day, seeing a woman going down to the valley where many people have committed suicide, Kensaku fallows her, but in miss...
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The Stream of Youth (1959)
- Director
- TASAKA Tomotaka
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, ASHIKAWA Izumi
Kensuke Sone, a young employee of the K. Co., is chosen as the bridegroom-to-be for Fusako the daughter of Kawasaki, managing director of the firm. Misako Kitaoka loves Kensuke, but is resigned to her marriage with Kensuke. However, when Fusako mee...
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Friendship of Jazz (1959)
- 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...
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Crimson Wings (1958)
- 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...
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The Tragedy of Today (1958)
- Director
- MASUDA Toshio
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Akira, ASHIKAWA Izumi, HAYAMA Ryoji
This is a fast moving story of a group of university students in search of easy money whose schemes lead only to disaster. The plan of Toda, the leader of the group, was to swindle an illegal betting agency by obtaining the results of the bicycle ra...
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Showdown in the Storm (1958)
- Director
- KURAHARA Koreyoshi
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, OKADA Masumi
It is when assisting his friend Nakagawa by riding for his team in a horsemanship contest that Senkichi Kira, a physical culture instructor meets beautiful Setsuko, but when they are pestered by hoodlums and Senkichi becomes involved with a gang boss...
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The Endless Desire (1958)
- Director
- IMAMURA Shohei
- Cast
- NAGATO Hiroyuki, NAKAHARA Sanae, WATANABE Misako
During the last days of the war, a certain Lieutenant Hashimoto buried morphia, valued at 60 million yen. On August 15th 1957, five persons met to discuss the recovery of the drug, but there was one more than the three with whom the lieutenant agree...
