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Boy (1969)
- 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...
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
- Director
- OSHIMA Nagisa
- Cast
- YOKOO Tadanori, YOKOYAMA Rie, KARA Juro
An allegorical portrayal of the relationship between a young book thief named Birdie and Umeko, a store clerk who catches him in the act. The action unfolds against the chaotic and politically charged backdrop of Shinjuku in 1968, a convergence point...
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My Face is Red in the Sun (1961)
- Director
- SHINODA Masahiro
- Cast
- KAWAZU Yusuke, IWASHITA Shima, HONO Kayoko
A gang of eight competitive hired killers is thrown for a loop by the appearance of a young marksman who outclasses them all. Responding to a sudden request from Shochiku, Shinoda co-wrote the script – a parody of Nikkatsu's popular gun-blazing actio...
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Pale Flower (1964)
- Director
- SHINODA Masahiro
- Cast
- IKEBE Ryo, KAGA Mariko, FUJIKI Takashi
A yakuza gangster freshly released from prison encounters a mysterious young woman at a gambling den, who requests that he introduce her to games with higher and higher stakes. Stylishly dressed in outfits designed by MORI Hanae, KAGA Mariko cuts a c...
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Flora on the Sand aka Jungle Interlude (1964)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- NAKAYA Noboru, INANO Kazuko, NISHIO Mieko
After a chance encounter with a precocious high school student, a cosmetics salesman is solicited by the young girl to seduce and "hurt" her older sister. The film is adapted from a famous novel by YOSHIYUKI Junnosuke, a member of the so-called "thir...
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All Mixed Up (1964)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, KISHIDA Kyoko, KAWAZU Yusuke
A literary adaptation from Masumura's mid-career period. The title is taken from the Japanese name for the swastika, an ancient Buddhist symbol representing good fortune, whose four-pronged shape serves as a visual metaphor for the intertwined fates ...
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963)
- Director
- OKAMOTO Kihachi
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Keiju, ARATAMA Michiyo, YANAI Shigeru
Unremarkable office worker Eburi Man – a play on the English word "everyman" – makes an inebriated promise to a pair of editors to write them a serial novel that will attract a huge readership. The film comically portrays his process as he mines his ...
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The Last Gunfight (1960)
- Director
- OKAMOTO Kihachi
- Cast
- MIFUNE Toshiro, TSURUTA Koji, TSUKASA Yoko
The third installment in Toho's "made-in-Japan" gangster Underworld series, following on the heels of Underworld (Ankokugai, dir. YAMAMOTO Kajiro, 1956) and Boss of the Underworld (Ankokugai no kaoyaku, dir. Okamoto, 1959), starring MIFUNE Toshiro an...
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Branded to Kill (1967)
- Director
- SUZUKI Seijun
- Cast
- SHISHIDO Joe, MARI Annu, NAMBARA Koji
Suzuki's notoriously off-the-wall masterpiece about professional hitmen vying for rank subverted the template of the action films Nikkatsu was then mass-producing while also pushing at the limits of cinematic expression. When Hanada, the Japanese und...
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Carmen from Kawachi (1966)
- Director
- SUZUKI Seijun
- Cast
- NOGAWA Yumiko, WADA Koji, KAWACHI Tamio
In this unabashed crowd-pleaser, NOGAWA Yumiko plays the curvaceous Tsuyuko, a young woman from a poor household who falls in love with Akira, the heir to a factory. Fed up with her hometown, she leaves for the city where she finds work in a nightclu...
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The Sword-Cut (1962)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, FUJIMURA Shiho, NAGISA Mayumi
A showcase of Misumi's skills as a modernist director, and the first installment in the "Sword Trilogy," a collaboration between the director and Daiei star ICHIKAWA Raizo. Ichikawa plays Takakura Shingo, a samurai whose foster father and sister are ...
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The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, AMACHI Shigeru, BANRI Masayo
The first installment of the popular Zatoichi series, which over the course of twenty-six films stamped its mark on popular culture worldwide. Zatoichi, a humble blind swordsman skilled in the quick-draw sword technique of iai-jutsu, encounters Hirat...
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Elegant Beast (1962)
- Director
- KAWASHIMA Yuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, ITO Yunosuke, YAMAOKA Hisano
In this dazzlingly original work set entirely within a single public-housing apartment, we follow the Maedas, a family of four whose surface elegance belies their moral depravity, as they engage in one act of deception after another. Featuring an ori...
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The Island (1960)
- Director
- SHINDO Kaneto
- Cast
- OTOWA Nobuko, TONOYAMA Taiji, TANAKA Shinji
Shindo's celebrated work poetically depicting the struggle between man and nature. The film portrays the daily lives of a middle-aged couple and their young sons on a remote island as they cultivate the barren land, fetch water in a rowboat, and cont...
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Jigoku (1960)
- Director
- NAKAGAWA Nobuo
- Cast
- AMACHI Shigeru, NUMATA Yoichi, NAKAMURA Torahiko
A bold concoction of a work, Nakagawa's Jigoku looks beyond Eastern values to incorporate Western classics such as Goethe's Faust and Dante's Divine Comedy among its tapestry of influences. When his friend Tamura commits a hit-and-run, it sets in mot...
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LONELY LANE (1962)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- TAKAMINE Hideko, TAKARADA Akira, KATO Daisuke
Naruse Mikio helmed this film adaptation of Hayashi Fumiko's bestselling autobiographical novel, which was also adapted for the stage. Born as a peddler's daughter, the impoverished Fumiko struggles as a waitress while writing poetry and eventually f...
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The Wandering Princess (1960)
- Director
- TANAKA Kinuyo
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, FUNAKOSHI Eiji, RYU Yomei
This tearful masterpiece about the harshness and depth of love known only to women is dedicated to women everywhere from an all-female creative team, namely the author Aishin Kakura Hiro, screenplay writer Wada Natto, and director Tanaka Kinuyo. Que...
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HER BROTHER (1960)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Kon
- Cast
- KISHI Keiko, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, TANAKA Kinuyo
Based upon a novel written by Aya Koda. A woman loves her brother very much. They share their dreams as they grow up. When the brother turns 17, he tragically dies, leaving his sister devastated and alone. 【Quoted from the database of KADOKAWA】...
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BATTLE OF THE JAPAN SEA (1969)
- Director
- MARUYAMA Seiji
- Cast
- MIFUNE Toshiro, KAYAMA Yuzo, NAKADAI Tatsuya
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Furinkazan (1969)
- Director
- INAGAKI Hiroshi
- Cast
- MIFUNE Toshiro, SAKUMA Yoshiko, NAKAMURA Kinnosuke
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