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  • A Modern Samurai Village

    A Modern Samurai Village (1963)

    Director
    WAKASUGI Mitsuo
    Cast
    HAMADA Mitsuo, TASHIRO Mirdori, MATSUO Kayo

    Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, delights the eyes with its ever-changing scenic beauty......the deep snows of winter, the sudden unfolding of the buds in spring, the fields and cities alive with vivid flowers in summer, and the scarlet ti...

  • A Man with a Dragon Tattoo

    A Man with a Dragon Tattoo (1962)

    Director
    MASUDA Toshio
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, IWASAKI Kaneko

    At the turn of the century, Kyushu in Southern Japan, has begun to enjoy a wave of prosperity due to the trade with China. All sorts of people are attracted to Kyushu including Tamai Kingoro, fresh from the country who joins the Hamao group of longs...

  • Beyond the Green Hills

    Beyond the Green Hills (1963)

    Director
    NISHIKAWA Katsumi
    Cast
    YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, TASHIRO Mirdori

    Shinko has just transferred to a girls' high school in an old castle town by the sea. She is so vivacious and full of life that she arouses envy in her classmates and, sometimes, envy nurtures maliciousness: Miss Shimazaki, Shinko's English teacher,...

  • Rainbow over the Kinmen

    Rainbow over the Kinmen (1962)

    Director
    MATSUO Akinori
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, NITANI Hideaki, HUA Hsin

    In the autumn of 1958, Dr. Takei stands on the deck of a cargo boat, watching the shadowy outlines of Chinmen Island in the distance. Matsuzaka, a reporter, meets Takei when he lands, but their happy reunion is interrupted by the wail of sirens and b...

  • Fresh Leaves

    Fresh Leaves (1962)

    Director
    NISHIKAWA Katsumi
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, YOSHINAGA Sayuri

    The small town in Southern Japan, blessed with azure skies and emerald sea, is also proud of its Girls' High School and the bright eyed girls studying there. Mr. Mazaki, the new mathematics teacher, enters this peaceful scene. Soon almost all the gi...

  • Danger Paws

    Danger Paws (1962)

    Director
    NAKAHIRA Ko
    Cast
    SHISHIDO Joe, ASAOKA Ruriko, NAGATO Hiroyuki

    Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling th...

  • The Zero Fighter

    The Zero Fighter (1962)

    Director
    MASUDA Toshio
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, NITANI Hideaki, HAMADA Mitsuo

    The tides of war have turned against Japan when Lt. Tanimura flies his Zero fighter to an island in the Solomon to take up his duties as the new commander. He finds most of the small group of men under him more like tough hoodlums in appearance and ...

  • Red Buds and White Flowers

    Red Buds and White Flowers (1962)

    Director
    NISHIKAWA Katsumi
    Cast
    YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, KANEKO Nobuo

    Miwa Shigeo and Iwase Tomiko are classmates and inseparable friends. Shigeo's father, a doctor, is a widower, while Tomiko's mother, the principal of a dressmaking school, is a widow. They long for their parents to become good friends like themselve...

  • I Hate but Love

    I Hate but Love (1962)

    Director
    KURAHARA Koreyoshi
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, NAGATO Hiroyuki

    Kita Daisuke, a talented movie and TV idol, lives in a glass bowl without a single moment to call his own. Sakakida Noriko is officially his manager and rules his business life with an iron hand, but in private, she is his sweetheart. One day, Dais...

  • Song of a Traveller

    Song of a Traveller (1962)

    Director
    NOGUCHI Hiroshi
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, SASAMORI Reiko, KANEKO Nobuo

    It is still early for the cherry blossoms, but the castle city of Sendai had never seemed so beautiful to Misaki Akira, a former high school teacher, ousted by shocked PTA members for an unlucky tangle with Tokyo hoodlums. Akira had been brought up ...

  • Love in Ginza

    Love in Ginza (1962)

    Director
    KURAHARA Koreyoshi
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, ERI Chiemi

    Jiro, a painter is in love with Hisako, who works at the Ginza-ya, a dressmaking store. His friend is Miyamoto, a pianist, with whom he shares a room. Both are striving to get ahead in their professions, and Jiro is painting the girl he loves. One d...

  • A Torrent of Love

    A Torrent of Love (1962)

    Director
    NOMURA Takashi
    Cast
    TAKAHASHI Hideki, YOSHINAGA Sayuri, NITANI Hideaki

    Kurosu Ryutaro, once a welter-weight boxer, inadvertently kills a young hoodlum in a street brawl. It was in self-defense, but sick at heart, he decides to sign on the S.S. Brazil Maru. However, sailing is delayed for ten days and Ryutaro finds hims...

  • Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow

    Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow (1962)

    Director
    URAYAMA Kirio
    Cast
    YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, TONO Eijiro

    Tatsugoro discharged from work in a foundry because of his age, lives in a crowded tenement house with his wife, Tomi, daughter, Jun, and two sons, Takayuki and Tetsuharu. He spends his retirement allowance in drink and gambling, and the family is r...

  • Love in the Air

    Love in the Air (1962)

    Director
    NOGUCHI Hiroshi
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, MATSUBARA Chieko, SAWAMOTO Tadao

    Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped and fell to his death, he had felt responsible and, sick at heart, left the circus for a life at sea. On land again Shoji goes to a cabaret where he ...

  • Keep Your Chin Up

    Keep Your Chin Up (1962)

    Director
    MASUDA Toshio
    Cast
    SAKAMOTO Kyu, HAMADA Mitsuo, TAKAHASHI Hideki

    Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and R...

  • Pursuit

    Pursuit (1961)

    Director
    NISHIKAWA Katsumi
    Cast
    NITANI Hideaki, MATSUBARA Chieko, KODAKA Yuji

    Detective Iwase resigns the police force to protect his sister from reprisal by members of a vicious gang who had been sentenced to prison five years before as a result of her identification and testimony. But, in spite of Iwase's vigilance, in addit...

  • The Grass-Mowers

    The Grass-Mowers (1961)

    Director
    NISHIKAWA Katsumi
    Cast
    YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, MOCHIZUKI Yuko

    A heart-warming story which tells of the love between an 18-year-old country maiden, Moyoko, and an innocent 19-year-old farmer's son, Tokizo, who meet and fall in love during the autumn grass-mowing in the plains of North-eastern Japan. The two are...

  • The Song of the Season

    The Song of the Season (1961)

    Director
    TAKIZAWA Eisuke
    Cast
    ASAOKA Ruriko, TAKAHASHI Hideki, HAYAMA Ryoji

    Hiroko, a war orphan and governess at a children's nursery, falls in love with Takayuki, younger brother of the head of the hospital where she is recuperating from an illness. Their love affair proceeds smoothly and the wealthy Takayuki takes Hiroko ...

  • Where the Horizon Meets the Sun

    Where the Horizon Meets the Sun (1961)

    Director
    MASUDA Toshio
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko, SHIRAKI Mari

    Kitagawa is appointed as Second Officer of the " Monroe ", which plies between Japan and Brazil. That night he is involved in a fight with hoodlums in a bar. Kitagawa is taken back to his hotel by Omori, manager of a cabaret, and a colleague of marin...

  • Lost in the Sun

    Lost in the Sun (1961)

    Director
    MASUDA Toshio
    Cast
    HAMADA Mitsuo, YOSHINAGA Sayuri, KAWACHI Tamio

    Keiichi, a student, is goaded into a fight by a hoodlum, and in a fit of anger he injures his opponent badly and runs away. He is followed by Tsune, another ruffian, who takes him to the tea-room C'est Moi, where he meets Sawayama, the leader of a ga...

  • Gambler in the Sea

    Gambler in the Sea (1961)

    Director
    KURAHARA Koreyoshi
    Cast
    SHISHIDO Joe, SASAMORI Reiko, NAKAHARA Sanae

    Joe, a deep-sea diver, is persuaded by Gosuke and Sankichi to join in a treasure-hunt for a smuggling vessel which sank when pursued by a patrol boat off Oshima. The story recalls in Joe's mind the strange sinking of a ship two years before off Kyush...

  • Whistling in the Darkness

    Whistling in the Darkness (1961)

    Director
    USHIHARA Yoichi
    Cast
    WADA Koji, YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAYAMA Ryoji

    Whistler Sabu appears suddenly in a harbor town in search of his father's killer. At the Joker night club, he helps a boy who is being bullied by two men and, hearing that his sister has disappeared, promises he will find her for him. While at a fi...

  • Quick Draw Joe

    Quick Draw Joe (1961)

    Director
    NOMURA Takashi
    Cast
    SHISHIDO Joe, SASAMORI Reiko, YOSHINAGA Sayuri

    One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the armored payroll car headed for the dam construction site, takes the wounded man to the police and clai...

  • Hot-Bed of Crime

    Hot-Bed of Crime (1961)

    Director
    MASUDA Toshio
    Cast
    NITANI Hideaki, SASAMORI Reiko, KAWACHI Tamio

    Jiro Takabe had spent 5 years in prison in taking the blame for his elder brother. Six months before Jiro's release his brother was killed and now he is bent on revenge. Jiro suspects his brother's former henchmen, Omura and Sakazaki, but he has no ...

  • The Rambler Under the Southern Cross

    The Rambler Under the Southern Cross (1961)

    Director
    SAITO Buichi
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, SHISHIDO Joe, ASAOKA Ruriko

    Shinji Taki saves Joji Matsumoto, a young businessman, from a group of gangsters who tried to rob him a document which is part of a map Nanjo, an archaeologist, asked him to deliver on his next trip to Thailand. Shinji takes a keen interest in the c...