Movies
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A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970)
- Director
- IMAMURA Shohei
- Cast
- AKAZA Tami, AKAZA Etsuko, AKAZA Akemi
Etsuko, the hostess of a Yokosuka drinking establishment catering to foreigners, reflects on her past for the camera. Encouraged by the results of his experimental pseudo-documentary A Man Vanishes (Ningen johatsu, 1967), Imamura was only too happy t...
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)
- Director
- SHINDO Kaneto
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, KYO Machiko, YAMADA Isuzu
This is a documentary on the life and films of Kenji Mizoguchi, the great Japanese film director who died in 1956, directed by the now well-known creator of films who was once assistant director to Mizoguchi. Beginning in the hospital where Mizoguch...
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SANDAKAN NO.8 (1974)
- Director
- KUMAI Kei
- Cast
- KURIHARA Komaki, TANAKA Kinuyo, TAKAHASHI Yoko
The Long Darkness and Rise, Fair Sun director Kumai Kei helmed this film adaptation of a story by Oya Soichi Nonfiction Award-winner Yamazaki Tomoko. Depicts the cruel and checkered destiny of girls known as "Karayuki-san." Mitani Keiko (Kurihara Ko...
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Chi o suu bara (1974)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Michio
- Cast
- KUROSAWA Toshio, TANAKA Kunie, SASAKI Katsuhiko
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Kaiguntokubetsunenshohei (1972)
- Director
- IMAI Tadashi
- Cast
- CHII Takeo, SASAKI Katsuhiko, SAYAMA Taizo
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Gunki hatameku moto ni (1972)
- Director
- FUKASAKU Kinji
- Cast
- TANBA Tetsuro, HIDARI Sachiko, FUJITA Yumiko
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Kozureokami Sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma (1972)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- WAKAYAMA Tomisaburo, MATSUO Kayo, OKI Minoru
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Kozureokami Ko o kashi ude kashi tsukamatsuru (1972)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- WAKAYAMA Tomisaburo, WATANABE Fumio, TSUYUGUCHI Shigeru
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Zatoichi goyotabi (1972)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, MORISHIGE Hisaya, SAKAI Osamu
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Noroi no yakata Chi o suu me (1971)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Michio
- Cast
- FUJITA Midori, EMI Sanae, TAKAHASHI Choei
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BATTLE OF OKINAWA (1971)
- Director
- OKAMOTO Kihachi
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Keiju, TANBA Tetsuro, NAKADAI Tatsuya
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Gekido no showashi Gunbatsu (1970)
- Director
- HORIKAWA Hiromichi
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Keiju, KAYAMA Yuzo, KUROSAWA Toshio
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Kessen nankai no daikaiju (1970)
- Director
- HONDA Ishiro
- Cast
- KUBO Akira, TAKAHASHI Atsuko, KOBAYASHI Yukiko
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DODES'KA-DEN (1971)
- Director
- KUROSAWA Akira
- Cast
- ZUSHI Yoshitaka, SUGAI Kin, TONOMURA Toshiyuki
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Godzilla tai Mechagodzilla (1974)
- Director
- FUKUDA Jun
- Cast
- DAIMON Masaaki, AOYAMA Kazuya, TAJIMA Reiko
In Okinawa, a prophetess predicts that monsters will soon overrun the world. The first signs of the coming destruction are found by Masahiko Shimizu and his brother Keisuke. When they explore a newly discovered cave, they find samples of a strange, u...
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GODZILLA VS. GIGAN (1972)
- Director
- FUKUDA Jun
- Cast
- ISHIKAWA Hiroshi, UMEDA Tomoko, HISHIMI Yuriko
Gengo, a comic-book artist, lands a job at the World Children's Land, an amusement park and museum dedicated to all the world's monsters. The company headquarters is located inside Godzilla Tower, a building that looks like a huge statue of the King ...
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GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH (1971)
- Director
- BANNO Yoshimitsu
- Cast
- YAMANOUCHI Akira, KAWASE Hiroyuki, KIMURA Toshie
Marine biologist Dr. Yano is intrigued when a fisherman brings him a strange saltwater tadpole. Then on the television news, Dr. Yano sees a gigantic version of that same tadpole sink a ship. The scientists takes his young son Ken on a diving expedi...
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Love in a Small Room (1973)
- Director
- KUMASHIRO Tatsumi
- Cast
- MIYASHITA Junko, OKA Naomi, ESUMI Eimei
At the Umegae Restaurant, the mistress is waiting for Sodeko, the geisha. Her guest is a man in his thirties. He resembles an actor in appearance and mannerisms. It is summer and there are riots over the shortage of rice but Shinsuke couldn't care le...
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The Hell-Fated Courtesan (1973)
- Director
- TANAKA Noboru
- Cast
- NAKAGAWA Rie, YAMASHINA Yuri, ABE Hijiri
Yoshiwara in Asakusa was the most famous gay quarter in Japan and there are many colorful tales about it. Courtesans in beautiful, silken costumes, with elaborate hairdressing and made-up in traditional Japanese fashion, were not held in contempt lik...
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Children of the Snow Country (1972)
- Director
- HIGUCHI Hiromi
- Cast
- KONO Akitake, HINO Michio, MACHIDA Hiroko
Short summers and long winters are the rule in Hokkaido lying in the north of Japan. The scenery in Hokkaido is magnificent with towering mountains, fire-belching volcanoes, deep valleys, forests cradling lakes and vast plains with rare flora and fau...
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Secret Rendezvous (1972)
- Director
- NISHIMURA Shogoro
- Cast
- SHIRAKAWA Kazuko, HAMAGUCHI Tatsuya, ASAKA Haruhiko
Shuichi (Tatsuya Hamaguchi) and Nobuko (Kazuko Shirakawa) are an ordinary, young couple, a promising company employee and his pretty wife. They think nothing can mar their peaceful life but nothing is permanent in this world and Shuichi 's company g...
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Burning Desire (1972)
- Director
- OHARA Koyu
- Cast
- OGAWA Setsuko, MAKI Keiko, TAKAMI Yuki
Oshichi (Setsuko Ogawa), the daughter of a green grocer, is only seventeen years old but is known as one of the most beautiful girls in Edo. She is betrothed to Sakubei (Tatsuya Hamaguchi) but does not love him. One day, the whole city is flooded by...
