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  • 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...

  • Mother’s Wedding Gown

    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...

  • The Insect Woman

    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...

  • Eden by the Sea

    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 ...

  • Under the Roof of Young Tokyo

    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. ...

  • The Symbol of a Man

    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...

  • Love Comes with Youth

    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 ...

  • Escape into Terror

    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...

  • Each Day I Cry

    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...

  • 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...