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Rambling Is My Destiny (1965)
- Director
- IDA Motomu
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Akira, KAWACHI Tamio, ITO Ruriko
Beside the grave of the girl he loved, the young man vows never again to gamble. Back in the city he sees the sister of the dead girl but she does not know his identity. She is in trouble and the only way to save her seems to be to gamble with the ga...
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A Chain of Islands (1965)
- Director
- KUMAI Kei
- Cast
- UNO Jukichi, ASHIKAWA Izumi, NITANI Hideaki
An American soldier is found drowned in Tokyo Bay. A year later while both the CID and the Japanese are still investigating, the U.S. Army suddenly declares the case closed. There have been several other deaths which seem to be connected with this ca...
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Joy Girls (1965)
- Director
- SUZUKI Seijun
- Cast
- KAWACHI Tamio, NOGAWA Yumiko, TAMAGAWA Isao
During the Manchurian War, Private Mikami falls in love with one of the prostitutes attached to his barracks, but his officer, jealous that his love seems returned, puts him in jail. During a Chinese attack, both the soldier and the girl are cut off ...
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Four Young Sisters (1964)
- Director
- MORINAGA Kenjiro
- Cast
- ASHIKAWA Izumi, ASAOKA Ruriko, YOSHINAGA Sayuri
Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought s...
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The Challenge (1964)
- Director
- IDA Motomu
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Hideki, IZUMI Masako, WADA Koji
Back in the 1920's Ryuji is the head of a local group of gamblers. He and his friends are quite aware that the police are crooked and take bribes but efforts to expose them only result in making them bitter enemies. The police and the rival gangs now...
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Whirlpool of Flesh (1964)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- NAKAYA Noboru, KAWACHI Tamio, INANO Kazuko
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that...
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Gazing at Love and Death (1964)
- Director
- SAITO Buichi
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, KITABAYASHI Tanie
A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save her life was to sacrifice an eye and part of her fac...
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Eddy Currents of Life (1964)
- Director
- SAITO Buichi
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, YAMAUCHI Ken
This film is based upon a story by Hayashi Fumiko, one of Japan's best-loved authors. A girl in her last year of high school is poor but happy. A young man takes an interest in her but she has little time for him as she is helping her parents. To hel...
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Intensions of Murder (1964)
- Director
- IMAMURA Shohei
- Cast
- HARUKAWA Masumi, NISHIMURA Ko, TSUYUGUCHI Shigeru
This is the story of a woman who is dissatisfied with her husband and is one day raped by a thief. When the rapist discovers that she has not reported the crime to the police, he comes back and uses her again and again. The wife hates the thief for ...
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Homecoming (1964)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Katsumi, SHIRATORHI Shinichi
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, TAKAHASHI Hideki, ASHIDA Shinsuke
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, during the revolution in Cuba, but is now living in Japan. Tomoko's mother has remarried a strict, na...
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Gate of Flesh (1964)
- Director
- SUZUKI Seijun
- Cast
- SHISHIDO Joe, WADA Koji, NOGAWA Yumiko
From the ashes left by the war, rose an army of prostitutes and black marketers, forming themselves into groups for self-preservation, and living by their own code. Into one of these groups of joy girls comes Shintaro, who eventually begins to rule ...
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The Sound of Waves (1964)
- Director
- MORINAGA Kenjiro
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, KIYOKAWA Nijiko
One of the first Japanese novels translated into English after World War II, it met with widespread acclaim as a story dealing with the universal theme of youthful love. On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman'...
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The Long Death (1964)
- Director
- KUMAI Kei
- Cast
- SHIN Kinzo, NAITO Taketoshi, SASAMORI Reiko
Sixteen years ago, a man entered a bank in the suburbs of Tokyo, introduced himself as a health officer, and requested all' the employees to line up and take medicine against dysentery. Most of the staff obeyed and died of poisoning, but the few who ...
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The Hunter’s Diary (1964)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- NAKAYA Noboru, TOGAWA Masako, KITAMURA Kazuo
Honda has a tremendous sex drive but is married to a frigid wife whom he sees only on weekends. During his free time Honda hunts women, and keeps a record of his sexual conquests in a notebook he has entitled - The Hunter's Diary. Suddenly each one o...
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Red Handkerchief (1964)
- Director
- MASUDA Toshio
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, NITANI Hideaki
Two detectives of the Yokohama Police Department have worked together for many years to round up a gang of dope smugglers. After catching one prize witness, he is shot and killed by Detective Mikami, when he grabs the gun from the other detective, Is...
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The Fight of the Gamblers (1963)
- Director
- MATSUO Akinori
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Hideki, IZUMI Masako, SUGIYAMA Toshio
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building ...
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Bright Sea (1963)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, IZUMI Masako
This is the story of a group of classmates, thirty-three girls and only seven boys, after their graduation from college. Mieko (Yoshinaga Sayuri) lives with her divorced mother who runs a bar. Her ambition is to be a successful author. Kazuko (Toak...
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Mother’s Wedding Gown (1963)
- Director
- SAITO Buichi
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, WADA Koji
Ryuichi (Hamada Mitsuo) comes home from Merchant Marine school to Oshima, the island of his birth and asks his father if it would be right to steal a girl who is already engaged to another. When Ryuichi tells his father that the girl loves him, which...
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The Insect Woman (1963)
- Director
- IMAMURA Shohei
- Cast
- AIZAWA Keiko, AOKI Tomio, AOYANAGI Akiko
Since Tome can remember men have always cast dark shadows over her life. She had been born only two months after her parents' marriage, and rumor says that she is an illegitimate child. Tome is married at 23, bears a child, but leaves home after fin...
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Eden by the Sea (1963)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Katsumi
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Hideki, IZUMI Masako, TONO Eijiro
When Nanjo (Takahashi Hideki), a young and handsome teacher, comes to a private girls' school, Tomoe becomes angry and argues with him, but the other girls mistakenly believe she has a crush on him, and become jealous. When Nanjo goes on his summer ...
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Under the Roof of Young Tokyo (1963)
- Director
- SAITO Buichi
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, YAMAUCHI Ken, HAMADA Mitsuo
The ordinary, middle-class family comprises an aging father, mother, and five brothers and sisters. 19-year-old Michiko and her youngest brother are living with their parents, but two brothers and the elder sister are married and living separately. ...
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The Symbol of a Man (1963)
- Director
- MATSUO Akinori
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Hideki, IZUMI Masako, INOUE Akifumi
In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves...
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Love Comes with Youth (1963)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Katsumi
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, TAKAHASHI Hideki
This is the story of a young college student, and his platonic love for a 16-year-old girl belonging to an itinerant dancing group, against the background of the Izu hot spring resort. Written by Kawabata Yasunari, one of Japan's leading writers, it ...
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Escape into Terror (1963)
- Director
- MASUDA Toshio
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, NITANI Hideaki, IWASAKI Kaneko
Saeki, a Japanese newspaper man is sent to Bangkok to investigate suspected illegal sales of Japanese-made arms. He discovers that Hayami and another man employed by the Japanese weapons company, although previously reported dead, are still alive and...
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Each Day I Cry (1963)
- Director
- URAYAMA Kirio
- Cast
- IZUMI Masako, HAMADA Mitsuo, KOZUKI Minako
Because of her drunken father, 15 year old Wakae leaves school and is working in a cheap bar. When she steals a pair of shoes, a young hoodlum who knows of the theft, demands three thousand yen and she breaks into a high school, is discovered, and fl...