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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...