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Devil’s Temple (1969)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, TAKAMINE Hideko, ARATAMA Michiyo
Adapted from the original drama by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is the story of the loves and hates of two men and two women, their strange involvement with one another, and how their searing lust affected their lives. Mumyo Taro (Shintaro Katsu) is a n...
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Broken Swords (1969)
- Director
- IKEHIRO Kazuo
- Cast
- MATSUKATA Hiroki, HONGO Kojiro, IWAI Yumi
The Genroku Era in the seventeenth century was one of the most colorful periods when the arts and literature flourished while political morals deteriorated. Blessed with peace, the people became more and more extravagant, wearing gorgeous kimono and ...
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Spook Warfare (1968)
- Director
- YASUDA Kimiyoshi
- Cast
- AOYAMA Yoshihiko, KAWASAKI Akane, OKAWA Osamu
In the eighteenth century the governor of lzu is out fishing with his daughter (Akane Kawasaki) when there is a sudden storm out of which materializes the monster Daimon. This creature once ruled over ancient Babylon and has now awakened from its sl...
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Secrets of a Women’s Temple (1969)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, NAKAHARA Sanae, SHIMEGI Shigako
In 1785 the Hosho Temple in old Edo was burned to the ground. It was never rebuilt and an old story suggests the reason why. A nun named Shigetsuin (Shigako Shimegi) was in charge of this temple-convent, sent there as a punishment. Cousin to the Sho...
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The Blind Beast (1969)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- FUNAKOSHI Eiji, MIDORI Mako, SENGOKU Noriko
Based on a story by Japan's best-known author of horror tales, Rampo Edogawa, this picture is about a young girl, Aki (Mako Midori), and her terrible experiences. She is a professional model and one day goes to a gallery where sculpture for which sh...
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Women’s Cell (1968)
- Director
- YASUDA Kimiyoshi
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, NAKAHARA Sanae, MIKIMOTO Kayo
Conditions in the famous Denmacho Prison in old Edo were notorious. It was called a veritable hell on earth - it was warden against criminal, prisoner against prisoner, and torture for all. In the women's cell there were many different kinds of girl...
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Ukiyoe (1968)
- Director
- TAKECHI Tetsuji
- Cast
- KARINA Tamawa, TATSUMI Noriko, KURENAI Chitose
When it comes time to redecorate the elaborate Toshogu Shrine in Nikko, the artist Shunga Kano is asked to supervise the work. Now old and dissipated he feels he is not up to the task, and turns it over to a disciple, Choshun Miyagawa. Choshun, not ...
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The Daring Nun (1968)
- Director
- IKEHIRO Kazuo
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, MIKIMOTO Kayo, KOBAYASHI Naomi
One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion that nuns should not lead cloistered lives but should see something of modern life. She makes the ...
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The Sex Check (1968)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, OGATA Ken, OGAWA Mayumi
Shiro (Ken Ogata) was a promising athlete but he failed to realize his ambition to break the short-sprint world record. This unfulfilled dream changes him. Though a lady's man he is brutal, even rapacious. Then he meets Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda). Now ...
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The Man Without a Map (1968)
- Director
- TESHIGAHARA Hiroshi
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, ICHIHARA Etsuko, OKAWA Osamu
A man suddenly disappears. Worried, his wife (Etsuko Ichihara) hires a private detective (Shintaro Katsu) to find him. Yet, when the detective visits the wife she does not seem the least bit worried and speaks of other things. He realizes he must do ...
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The Bride from Hades (1968)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, AKAZA Miyoko, OGAWA Mayumi
On the evening of the Festival of All Souls, young Shinzaburo (Kojiro Hongo) meets a beautiful girl and her older servant. Later they visit him and he discovers that her name is Otsuyu (Miyoko Akaza) and she is a courtesan. He is surprised that an el...
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Yukionna (1968)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- FUJIMURA Shiho, ISHIHAMA Akira, HASEGAWA Machiko
One of Japan's most beautiful and mysterious legends is that about the Yukionna or snow spirit, a lovely woman, dressed in white, who appears before snowbound travellers and leads them to destruction. This new version of the old story takes place in ...
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The Saga of Tanegashima (1968)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- Rick JASON, WAKAO Ayako, FUJIMURA Shiho
In the middle of the 16th-century, a storm drives a large Portuguese sailing ship ashore at Tanegashima, an island in the south ofJapan. There the local lord, Tokiaki meets Captain Pinto and his crew and sees foreign firearms for the first time. Imp...
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The Hundred Monsters (1968)
- Director
- YASUDA Kimiyoshi
- Cast
- FUJIMAKI Jun, TAKADA Miwa, HIRAIZUMI Sei
Japan is a land of ghost-stories, particularly in the summer when, before air-conditioning, the pleasant chills induced by such tales were most welcome to sweltering audiences. One such series of stories was called "The Hundred Monster Collection", a...
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Women’s Prison (1968)
- Director
- INOUE Akira
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, NAKAHARA Sanae, SHIMEGI Shigako
The Kodenmacho Prison in old Edo was a hell on earth. In addition to the crowded quarters, the general lack of sanitation, the violence, and homosexuality, punishment was made according to confession-hence suspects were tortured and even killed. Int...
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Evil Trio (1968)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, SATO Kei, MIDORI Mako
Yoshiko, a beautiful but impulsive young girl, gets mixed up with a gangster who takes nude pictures of her and then threatens to blackmail her unless she helps him. He makes her sleep with pop-singer Teruo Shima, takes pictures of them in the act, a...
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The Diary of a Sex Counsellor (1968)
- Director
- YUGE Taro
- Cast
- FUNAKOSHI Eiji, MIZUKI Masako, ISHIGURO Saburo
While on a vacation, Dr. Negishi, is called upon to treat a young boy for a bad cut. He arranges for a blood transfusion but several months later notices that the child has contracted venereal disease, apparently from the transfusion. He rechecks the...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, WAKAO Ayako, TAKAMINE Hideko
At the end of the 18th century, Kae, a young girl, is much impressed by Otsugi, an older woman whom she regards as the most beautiful lady she has ever seen. When, much later, she is approached by this same lady as a possible wife for her son, she is...
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The Silent Gun (1967)
- Director
- INOUE Yoshio
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, AMACHI Shigeru, SAKAMOTO Sumiko
A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while investigating the case. This occurred while he was with Ritsuko, daughter of a company president. Detective Kim...
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G-Men of the Sea (1967)
- Director
- TANAKA Shigeo
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, HONGO Kojiro, NARITA Mikio
With the steamship "Norde" about to dock, the Customs request Kobinata and his crack ICPO squad to watch for possible gold smuggling. On deck, however, the only persons to be seen are three innocent looking priests until one scrambles down a ladder a...
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The Trail of Traps (1967)
- Director
- IKEHIRO Kazuo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, WANIBUCHI Haruko, NARITA Mikio
Dealing with the famous folk-hero, Kyoshiro Nemuri, this film has him setting out on a long journey to Kyoto. Though a sacred image belonging to the Shogunate has been entrusted to him, Kyoshiro is not anxious to take responsibility, knowing that the...
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An Idiot in Love (1967)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, OZAWA Shoichi, TAMURA Masakazu
Based on a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this film is about a man named Joji who seems perfectly ordinary in all ways but keeps a teen-age mistress in his house. She is so whimsical, fickle, and eventually so tyrannical, that one suspects his obvious ...
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The Blind Swordsman's Rescue (1967)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, MIKUNI Rentaro, NISHIMURA Ko
Another in the popular series about the blind masseur, Zatoichi, this one has him involved with both the local government and gangsters. The latter are extorting money from the peasants, and the government does nothing about it, since it is getting i...
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The Sisters and I (1967)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- FUJIMURA Shiho, WAKAYANAGI Kiku, ITO Eiko
Shinkichi Yuki, a well-known novelist, returns to Kyoto and meets two sisters he used to know who run a Japanese-style restaurant. Staying at the home of Shima, formerly a famous geisha, he calls on the two and finds that Kiyoko, an unhappy marriage ...
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A Certain Killer (1967)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, NOGAWA Yumiko, NARITA Mikio
Shiozawa is a known and feared killer. But not only is he very skillful, his motivations are almost entirely moral ones. An ex-kamikaze pilot, he feels that he has known good men and true, and his anger is intensely aroused at the sight of the kind n...
