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Enchanted Princess (1959)
- 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...
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Samurai Vendetta (1959)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, KATSU Shintaro, MAKI Chitose
Receiving an urgent letter from his uncle, Yasubei Nakayama, an accomplished fencer of the ltto school, hurries to assist him in a duel with the Murakami Brothers, his rivals in swordship. On his way, Yasubei almost collides with a young rider, evide...
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A Gambler as I Am (1959)
- Director
- WATANABE Kunio
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, HONGO Kojiro, KOBAYASHI Katsuhiko
In 1905, a few days before the fall of Mukden the citizens of Tokyo are surprised at the murder of a member of parliament, Kentaro Akashi, at the home of his young mistress. Naojiro, a spirited young man who used to be a house boy at the Akashi's vo...
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Etajima, the Naval Academy (1959)
- 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...
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Odd Obsession (1959)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Kon
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, KANO Junko, NAKADAI Tatsuya
Mr. Kenmochi, in his early sixties, is enjoying an obviously happy life in his Kyoto home. A man of artistic temperament, he is not merely an art-critic and an antiquarian, but also a connoisseur of beautiful things and a dilettante. He complains of...
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The Lord and the Gambler (1959)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, HONGO Kojiro, AWAJI Keiko
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his step-brother's castle, when the ruler of the Takatori Clan suddenly dies leaving no heir and despite the protes...
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Beauty the Enemy (1959)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- SUGIMURA Haruko, YAMAMOTO Fujiko, WAKAO Ayako
Fusa Yoshino's only ambition in life is to care for her ancestral estate on the outskirts of Tokyo. By her first husband she has a lovely daughter name Kikue, while from her deceased second husband she has another daughter, named Keiko, who is just a...
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The Path I Remember (1959)
- Director
- SHIMA Koji
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Fujiko, WANAMI Takayoshi, KUROIWA Kaoru
When Saya's parents died several years before she was left with her blind younger brother and sister. Assisted by his sister blind Minoru acquires confidence in himself and shows great talent as a violinist. Minoru has a pen friend named Johan in Vi...
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The Gaijin (1959)
- Director
- KATO Bin
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, NAKADA Yasuko, NEGAMI Jun
In 1625 a great Burmese army invaded Siam. At the same time Cambodian forces are also planning an invasion. With his country in dire peril the Siamese king approaches the Japanese settlers in his country and asks for their help. A young Japanese name...
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The Cast-Off (1959)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- SABURI Shin, SAWAMURA Sadako, WAKAO Ayako
Sanada who has been a mere technician in a small laboratory becomes a director of a chemical company through his invention of a binding agent, Sandait. With the change in his social position his life undergoes a sudden transformation. His wife, kind-...
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The Most Valuable Madam (1959)
- 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...
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The Makioka Sisters (1959)
- Director
- SHIMA Koji
- Cast
- TODOROKI Yukiko, KYO Machiko, YAMAMOTO Fujiko
Based on the famous novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is a story of the four sisters of the ancient and reputable Makioka family of Osaka. After their father's death, the fortunes of the family decline and their large mansion passes into other hands...
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The Gay Masquerade (1958)
- 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...
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The Lowest Man (1958)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, NOZOE Hitomi, NAGAI Tomoo
"Homeless. Convicted several times. Age, 22." This is Saburo's personal record, when he is arrested for abduction. Having deceived Hideko, a country girl, he is arrested by Detective lgawa and is sent to prison. Saburo's mother died while he was a c...
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The Ladder of Success (1958)
- Director
- YOSHIMURA Kozaburo
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, WAKAO Ayako, NEGAMI Jun
Directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura, one of Japan's greatest directors, with a fine cast, including the fabulous Machiko Kyo, this spectacular film treats of the Japanese dance, and the life and loves of Akemi, a dancer. In 1942, during an air-raid on a ...
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Ambush at Iga Pass (1958)
- Director
- WATANABE Kunio
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, ICHIKAWA Raizo, HAYASHI Naritoshi
Lord Honda is on his way to Edo guarded by famous for his bravery, whose wife Mine is also in the long procession and who looks forward to meeting her father Yukie, and her brother Kazuma, in the Shogunate capital. However, Yukie is murdered and the...
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The Swishing Sword (1958)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Fujiko, ICHIKAWA Raizo, UMEWAKA Shoji
Rokubei Kagiya, a wealthy merchant in Edo, had been executed seven years before through a false accusation brought by Magistrate Doki and the wealthy merchants Echizenya and Ryogokuya. After obtaining the wealth of Kagiya, they plan to obtain more r...
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My Son's Revolt (1958)
- Director
- SHIMA Koji
- Cast
- KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, YANAGI Eijiro, TODOROKI Yukiko
Shinichi is the only son of a famous businessman, Karoku Shindo whose real mother Yurie killed herself in his childhood. He believes that it was his father's love affairs which drove his mother to her death, and he hates him. However, his father regr...
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The Judo Champ (1958)
- Director
- EDAGAWA Hiromu
- Cast
- SUGAWARA Kenji, SHINAGAWA Ryuji, WAKAO Ayako
When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his brother, Ryota, and the teacher's only daughter, Akiko, are greatly disturbed by Zanba, who intends to...
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The Precipice (1958)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- SUGAWARA Kenji, YAMAMOTO Fujiko, NOZOE Hitomi
Set in the magnificent scenery of the Japan Alps the story opens with Uotsu and Kosaka inching their way up the northern side of Mount Maehodaka in the midst of a snow storm. Thirty feet from a good foothold a strong gust blows up, the nylon rope giv...
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The Long Nose (1958)
- Director
- IMAMURA Sadao
- Cast
This is the story of Indian elephants; a bull, the leader of a herd of twenty, a cow and a cub. The cub lives happily with its parents, and every morning they go to a river to bathe and return to their jungle for food. But all the leaves and twigs o...
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Chance Meeting (1958)
- Director
- SHIMA Koji
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, KITABAYASHI Tanie
Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her pi...
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Hey, Pineapple! (1959)
- Director
- UCHIKAWA Seiichiro
- Cast
- SUGIURA Naoki, KOSAKA Kazuya, BAN Junzaburo
This is the film version of a war novel by Robert N. Hongo, a Hawaiian Nisei, based on his experiences during the Korean War which was best-seller in Hawaii, and was widely discussed when Shochiku finally obtained the film rights in severe competitio...
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Tokyo Omnibus (1959)
- Director
- BANSHO Yoshiaki
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Teiji, SADA Keiji, OKI Minoru
"Samba Garasu," meaning three-some, has always been a Shochiku tradition. In this film, celebrating the 3,000th production of the Shochiku Company, three generations of the "Samba Garasu" tradition have been brought together in a gay modern day story...
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Road to Eternity (1959)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Masaki
- Cast
- NAKADAI Tatsuya, ARATAMA Michiyo, SADA Keiji
"Road to Eternity" is the sequel to No Greater Love in which the wide-screen process plus striking black-white photography vividly depicts the unbelievable, irrational, and inhuman practices of an army at war. For suspected Red sympathies, Kaji has ...
