Movies
422 Results
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The Bogus Policeman (1967)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, SUGATA Michiko, KATO Daisuke
Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while doing one of his good deeds. He saves a child from drowning, restores it to his mother, then finds that...
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The Red Angel (1966)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, ASHIDA Shinsuke, KAWAZU Yusuke
Nurse Sakura is transferred to the Tientsin Army Hospital during the Sino-Japanese war. She works with the head surgeon in the amputation wards and can do little professionally to help the wounded soldiers. She can, however, offer them love and this ...
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The Great White Tower (1966)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, TAMURA Takahiro, TONO Eijiro
Young Dr. Zaizen is intent upon making a name for himself in the big hospital in which he works and fully intends to take the place of the head doctor, due to retire shortly. In order to do this he curries favour, plays politics - and neglects his pa...
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Assignment Cloud (1966)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, MURAMATSU Eiko, KATO Daisuke
A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected but, finally, it seems that an Army captain and h...
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The School of Spies (1966)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, OGAWA Mayumi, MACHIDA Kyosuke
In 1938 the Imperial Japanese Army opened the famous Nakano school, an organization devoted to the training of spies. The men were all hand picked including one (Raizo Ichikawa, star of Kon Ichikawa's "Conflagration"). Cut off from the world for a ye...
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The Return of Majin (1966)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, FUJIMURA Shiho, MARUI Taro
A sequel to the spectacular "Majin", this film is about the return of the ancient god of war in the form of an immense image of a man in full armor. Here, the Golem-like creature takes sides during a medieval feud, losing its patience when its effigy...
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Dynamite Doctor (1966)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, ENAMI Kyoko, TONO Eijiro
This film, with a script by the director of "The Island" and starring Shintaro Katsu, one of Japan's most popular actors, is about a slum doctor who, little by little and more or less against his will, becomes the good samaritan of his neighborhood. ...
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Majin (1966)
- Director
- YASUDA Kimiyoshi
- Cast
- TAKADA Miwa, AOYAMA Yoshihiko, FUJIMAKI Jun
In the middle-ages there was a legend that the great god of war - an immense image in the form of a man in ancient armor - would one day break loose and destroy the country. The local lord is very cruel and exploits the peasants and beats the slaves ...
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Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)
- Director
- TANAKA Shigeo
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, ENAMI Kyoko, NATSUKI Akira
The monster Gamera (shot to Mars in its last Daiei appearance) has fallen back to earth again and soon begins creating its customary havoc. At the same time some Japanese adventurers, hunting for a fabulous opal, bring back an object which turns out ...
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The Freezing Point (1966)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, FUNAKOSHI Eiji, YASUDA Michiyo
Based upon the best seller by Ayako Miura, this is about a couple whose only child is killed. The husband, as a means of macabre revenge on the wife, adopts the child of the murderer and they bring her up as their own. There comes a day, however, whe...
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The Virgin Witness (1966)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, YASUDA Michiyo, JO Kenzaburo
Though still young and beautiful, the head nun of a temple is given a young wayward girl to bring up. This she does successfully but when the head priest dies his successor seduces her and when pregnant she takes her own life. Finally the young girl ...
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The Spider Tattoo (1966)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, HASEGAWA Akio, YAMAMOTO Manabu
Based upon one of the famous stories by the late Junichiro Tanizaki, the script is by the director of "The Island", photography by the cinematographer for "Rashoman" and "Yojimbo", and direction by the creator of "The Hoodlum Soldier". A beautiful yo...
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The Hoodlum Soldier Deserts Again (1966)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, SAGA Michiko, TAMURA Takahiro
This film is a sequel to Yasuzo Masumura's popular "Hoodlum Soldier". In this the two soldiers desert in Manchuria, steal an army truck, and end up in the hands of the military police. They also become involved with a brothel-keeper and eventually st...
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Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (1965)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, FUJIYAMA Kambi, TAKI Eiko
This continues the extremely popular series of pictures about the blind masseur, Zatoichi, who is also one of the most skillful swordsmen in Japan. Here he is again helping the poor and weak and punishing the rich and powerful. While in prison-for be...
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While Yet a Wife (1965)
- Director
- TOMIMOTO Sokichi
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, FUNAKOSHI Eiji, FUJIMURA Shiho
The story, scripted by famed director Keisuke Kinoshita, is based on the life of Mieko Ikegami, an authoress whose autobiography became a best seller. Recently married, the heroine, is happy but becomes very ill of an extremely painful rheumatic cond...
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Gamera (1965)
- Director
- YUASA Noriaki
- Cast
- FUNAKOSHI Eiji, KIRITACHI Harumi, YAMASHITA Junichiro
An accidental atomic explosion in the Arctic regions releases Gamera, a one-hundred and eighty feet turtle who thrives on a diet of geothermal plants and atomic research institutes, but also likes oil refineries and volcanoes. He is distracted from h...
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Vietnam in Turmoil (1965)
- Director
- AKASA Masaharu
- Cast
- OZAWA Eitaro
A documentary about Vietnam, its history and the present war. Here are scenes of the countryside, of Saigon, and many details of actual battles. The on-the-spot scenes show not only the actual fighting, but also incidents of alleged torture. The brut...
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Strange Triangle (1965)
- Director
- TANAKA Shigeo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, KAWASAKI Keizo, ENAMI Kyoko
A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however. For she is pregnant and so he agrees to live with her. But he misses very much the other younger girl whom he s...
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The Private and the C.O. (1965)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, TAMURA Takahiro, KOYAMA Akiko
This is a sequel to "The Hoodlum Soldier" and begins where the first film left off. The two privates make their escape by locomotive but at the last minute the train is blown up by guerillas and they land in the hospital. They are then put into a com...
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Two Notorious Men Strike Again (1965)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, TAMIYA Jiro, MIZUTANI Yoshie
Though rough and tough, both Asakichi and Seiji have hearts of gold. The former becomes involved with a gang of Osaka gamblers and discovers that they plan to blackmail a poor widow. The gang boss, however, is a man of some substance to whom loyalty ...
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I’ll Cry Alone (1965)
- Director
- TANAKA Shigeo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, MACHIDA Hiroko, FUNAKOSHI Eiji
Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to re-marry she insists he either wed or stop seeing her. Returning home, she again meets the man she first l...
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Hoodlum Soldier (1965)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, TAMURA Takahiro, TAKI Eiko
Two soldiers, stationed in Manchuria during the last years of World War II, become friends even though one is a pacifist intellectual and the other a brawling ruffian from the streets. Scenarist Kikushima, who has worked on a number of Kurosawa films...
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The Forest of No Escape (1965)
- Director
- TOMIMOTO Sokichi
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, SONOI Keisuke, ENAMI Kyoko
A young automobile salesman is stopped by two girls, one of whom is extremely beautiful. She leaves behind a notebook filled with her own poems and he is surprised at the despair reflected in her writing. When she calls for the book he learns very li...
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The Dedicated Gunman (1965)
- Director
- MURANO Tetsutaro
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, MIZUTANI Yoshie, ENAMI Kyoko
Daisuke is a favourite with the ladies, and one of the best gangmen in the country. One day he is picked up by a young woman who tells him that three gangsters are about to kill her. He tries to help but soon gets into trouble, for one of the man is ...
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Back Stairways (1965)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, TSUKASA Yoko, ABE Toru
A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless...
