Movies
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That Wonderful Guy (1958)
- 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...
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The Seasons of Love (1958)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- YAMADA Isuzu, YASUI Shoji, NAKAHARA Sanae
Akira Shimizudani is a conscientious writer married to a fashion model named Ginko who disapproves of his mother Urako who is always borrowing money from him to go to Atami hot-spring resort. Moreover, Momoko, Akira's sister who is married to a decen...
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The Boy Who Came Back (1958)
- Director
- SUZUKI Seijun
- Cast
- HIDARI Sachiko, KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko
Keiko Midorikawa is a member of an organization which gives advice and assistance to juvenile delinquents. Nobuo Kasahara, just released from reform school to which he was committed for having attempted to kill his father is 19 years of age and seem...
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Tomorrow is Another Day (1958)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, OSAKA Shiro
On the night of the Fukagawa Festival, Torajiro Hirata, boss of the Tomoe Gang, stabbed to death Taizo Matsuyama, one of the chiefs of the Kanto Motsumonji Gang. On his release from prison eighteen years later, he visits the house of Matsumonji, and...
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Street in the Sun (1958)
- Director
- TASAKA Tomotaka
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, ASHIKAWA Izumi
Takako Kuramoto, a college student, is employed as companion and tutor to Kumiko Tashiro and through her likeable character has come to be regarded as one of the family. Kumiko, an extremely bright girl, is somewhat handicapped through an injury rec...
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Forever My Love (1958)
- Director
- TAKIZAWA Eisuke
- Cast
- HAYAMA Ryoji, ASHIKAWA Izumi, KANEKO Nobuo
It is 1943 and Shigeru, a university student is on his way to join the colors. He has only one wish before he goes to war and this is to see Tsubura, the girl he has loved since childhood, who is stricken with polio and unable to walk. Tsubura's fat...
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Black Line (1959)
- Director
- ISHII Teruo
- Cast
- AMACHI Shigeru, MITSUYA Utako, MIHARA Yoko
Journalist Machida is trying to uncover the secrets of a call-girl organization. One day in the street he sees a girl he thinks can help him but he loses her in the crowd. A female-fortune-teller who knows her tells him of an inn where he can find he...
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Basement of Death (1959)
- Director
- NAMIKI Kyotaro
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, IKEUCHI Junko, WADA Keinosuke
Dr. Tagawa, a famous chemical weapons scientist has been kidnapped. G-man Akiyama and detective Kagawa meet Sanae, the scientist's daughter who finally reveals that her brother Eiji is being used as a tool by a foreign secret organization. One day Ak...
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Emperor Meiji and General Nogi (1959)
- Director
- KOMORI Kiyoshi
- Cast
- ARASHI Kanjuro, TAKAKURA Miyuki, HAYASHI Hiroshi
In January 1 904, the situation between Japan and Russia had grown tense. The Emperor Meiji is deeply concerned, for Russia has started to build an invincible fortress at Port Arthur, and the relations between two countries have become strained to br...
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The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin (1959)
- Director
- MAGATANI Morihei
- Cast
- SUGAWARA Bunta, MATSUURA Namiji, MIHARA Yoko
In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of Shirayama gather round a blazing fire, and utter incantations while an old headman tempers a sword. The mi...
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Haunted Cave (1959)
- Director
- MAGATANI Morihei
- Cast
- MIHARA Yoko, SETO Reiko, BANRI Masayo
The treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred years before. Yumi Aoyama is the only person who knows the location, but her family dies one after another through curious incidents, as if the family ...
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Stormy Virtue (1959)
- Director
- DOI Michiyoshi
- Cast
- TAKASHIMA Tadao, TAKAKURA Miyuki, HOSOKAWA Toshio
Yuri is looking forward to marrying her fiancé Minoru. However, a few days before the wedding she falls victim to his brother Takehiko, and against her will, she becomes Takehiko's wife. The day after the wedding, Yuri begins her silent revenge by no...
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Queen of the China Sea (1959)
- Director
- ONODA Yoshiki
- Cast
- TAKAKURA Miyuki, AMACHI Shigeru, NUMATA Yoichi
In Amoy, China, at the end of the Pacific War, Rika Wo, manageress of a night club is about to be arrested on suspicion of smuggling. However, she escapes through the assistance rendered her by First Lieutenant Yokoyama of the Japanese Naval Commande...
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Male Vampire (1959)
- Director
- NAKAGAWA Nobuo
- Cast
- AMACHI Shigeru, WADA Keinosuke, MIHARA Yoko
Beautiful Miwako, wife of an atomic scientist and a descendant of Shiro Amakusa who 300 years before was defeated by the Shogun, because he was a Christian is kidnapped by a mysterious Male Vampire and taken to an underground castle in southern Japan...
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Queen Bee’s Anger (1959)
- Director
- ISHII Teruo
- Cast
- KUBOTA Nahoko, UTSUI Ken, AMACHI Shigeru
Hoodlums of the rival Ryujin and Kaido gangs disturb the peace of the port town during a festival, and amid the fight Yuri, female boss of the Kaido ganger is rescued from danger by a vagabond named "Hurricane Masa." However, it transpires that Masa ...
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The Pacific War and the interenational Military Tribunal (1959)
- Director
- KOMORI Kiyoshi
- Cast
- ARASHI Kanjuro, TAKADA Minoru, SASAKI Takamaru
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and se...
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Broken Blossoms (1959)
- Director
- ISHII Teruo
- Cast
- OBATA Kinuko, MITSUYA Utako, UTSUI Ken
After the surrender in August 1945, the Japanese residents in Manchuria fell into the hands of the enemy forces. The volunteer nurses soon attract the attention of the occupation troops and they are drafted to a medical relief station. Then a group o...
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Underwater Murder (1958)
- Director
- ONODA Yoshiki
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, MIHARA Yoko, MITSUYA Utako
One day, the body of a man drifts ashore near where women divers are working. They crowd around the corpse and recoil with gasps of horror when they see the repulsive, battered face of the unfortunate individual. But a different fear clutches at Sada...
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Naked Island (1958)
- Director
- NOMURA Hiromasa
- Cast
- NAKAYAMA Shoji, KUBOTA Nahoko, NUMATA Yoichi
On board the ship in which Goro lnada a pro-boxer is returning to Japan he falls in love with Ayame, a popular singer. But their happiness is of short durations as the vessel is wrecked. When lnada awakens from the nightmare of shipwreck, he finds h...
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Holiday in Japan (1958)
- Director
- OMI Toshiro, MAGATANI Morihei
- Cast
- TAKASHIMA Tadao, UTSUI Ken, ARASHI Kanjuro
This picture with an all-star cast and in Shintoho Scope and Eastman Color was produced to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Shintoho. The New Eastern Times Company of Tokyo on the 10th Anniversary of its establishment, celebrates the occasion with ...
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Black Cat Mansion (1958)
- Director
- NAKAGAWA Nobuo
- Cast
- WADA Keinosuke, KITAZAWA Noriko, SATSUKI Fujie
Six years before, when Dr. Kuzumi took his wife to the house of her parents to recuperate from an illness, mysterious events began to happen in the mansion. And from an old priest he learns of the legend of the "Ghost Mansion." 140 years ago, there...
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Super Giant part 6 (1958)
- Director
- ISHII Teruo
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, MITSUYA Utako, HAYASHI Hiroshi
(This synopsis includes "Super Giant part 5" and "Super Giant part 6") One day, Super Giant finds an unknown flying substance with his Geiger Counter. But though he follows it at full speed, he loses sight of it because the meteors co me down like...
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Super Giant part 5 (1958)
- Director
- ISHII Teruo
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, MITSUYA Utako, HAYASHI Hiroshi
(This synopsis includes "Super Giant part 5" and "Super Giant part 6") One day, Super Giant finds an unknown flying substance with his Geiger Counter. But though he follows it at full speed, he loses sight of it because the meteors co me down like...
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Red piers (1958)
- Director
- ISHII Teruo
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, TSUKUSHI Akemi, MIHARA Yoko
A last action story of Yoshioka, a skillful police investigator, who under the pretense of being a fugitive from justice is investigating the call-girl racket. Led to the "Arizona" club through a pink card being slipped between the door of his car h...
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Queen of Asia (1958)
- Director
- NOMURA Hiromasa
- Cast
- TAKASHIMA Tadao, TAKAKURA Miyuki, TANBA Tetsuro
Yoshiko Kawashima was born the fourteenth princess of the Ching dynasty and adopted by a Japanese patriot, Naniwa Kawashima, unaware of her noble birth. Hoping to marry a Japanese second lieutenant she is obstructed by her father and a colonel named...
