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  • Black-Tight Killers

    Black-Tight Killers (1966)

    Director
    HASEBE Yasuharu
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, MATSUBARA Chieko, NISHIO Mieko

    A young cameraman just back from Vietnam becomes involved with a group of kidnappers and a trio of girls from Okinawa who will kill to get a cache of gold which the young man's dead father is supposed to have brought in during the war. The kidnappers...

  • The Song of Love

    The Song of Love (1965)

    Director
    SAITO Buichi
    Cast
    YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, YAMAUCHI Ken

    A young girl yearns to become a concert pianist. Music runs in her family, her father having been a well-known clarinetist, though now forced to play in a dance-band, which affects his health. His daughter takes all her savings, which she had intende...

  • Killer's Dice

    Killer's Dice (1965)

    Director
    EZAKI Mio
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, NITANI Hideaki, YUMI Keiko

    The boss of Macao's gambling houses has died and the question is, "Who will succeed him?" A young Japanese is considered the chief candidate and so the Macao syndicate decides to have him killed. He meets the killer in a plush gambling den and first ...

  • The Black Challenger

    The Black Challenger (1965)

    Director
    NAKAHIRA Ko
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, SUZUKI Yasushi, HIROSE Misa

    Two bodies are found in Bangkok. One is an American Interpol agent; the other an unknown Japanese. The Japanese Interpol agent goes to Tokyo and there meets a beautiful stripteaser who seems to be involved in the Bangkok affair. He discovers that the...

  • Office Girl Exposé

    Office Girl Exposé (1965)

    Director
    IDA Motomu
    Cast
    KAWACHI Tamio, WADA Koji, KASHIWAGI Yuko

    A young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the story of a young girl who committed suicide when recognized by her former fiancee after she had become a prostitute. Other stories are interwoven, and th...

  • The Frivolous Age

    The Frivolous Age (1965)

    Director
    MORINAGA Kenjiro
    Cast
    YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, MATSUBARA Chieko

    An idealistic young girl who believes that all is right with the world decides to give up her office-job and work as a house-maid. She overcomes the protests of her boyfriend and parents because she knows the work is well-paid at her place of employm...

  • The Crimson Sea

    The Crimson Sea (1965)

    Director
    MATSUO Akinori
    Cast
    WATARI Tetsuya, NITANI Hideaki, MATSUBARA Chieko

    A graduate from the Mercantile Marine College on his first voyage in his brother's ship discovers traffic in contraband in which his brother is implicated. At the same time he finds a beautiful stowaway. The rest of the picture explains and illustrat...

  • The Start of Life

    The Start of Life (1965)

    Director
    NOMURA Takashi
    Cast
    YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, NOGAWA Yumiko

    A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the ...

  • Rambling Is My Destiny

    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...

  • A Chain of Islands

    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...

  • Joy Girls

    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 ...

  • Four Young Sisters

    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...

  • The Challenge

    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...

  • Whirlpool of Flesh

    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...

  • Gazing at Love and Death

    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...

  • Eddy Currents of Life

    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...

  • Intensions of Murder

    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 ...

  • Homecoming

    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...

  • Gate of Flesh

    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 ...

  • The Sound of Waves

    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'...

  • The Long Death

    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 ...

  • The Hunter’s Diary

    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...

  • Red Handkerchief

    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...

  • The Fight of the Gamblers

    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 ...

  • Bright Sea

    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...