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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...
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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...