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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...
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Hogs and Warships (1961)
- Director
- IMAMURA Shohei
- Cast
- NAGATO Hiroyuki, YOSHIMURA Jitsuko, MINAMIDA Youko
An American naval base in post-war Japan is like a melting pot of sex and greed. But times are changing, and the Himori gang must look for other means of income after the illegal brothel they operate is raided and closed down. Tetsuji, the boss, ord...
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For This We Fight (1961)
- Director
- MATSUO Akinori
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASHIKAWA Izumi, KODAKA Yuji
Shinichi Masaki returns after years of medical study in Germany, to the rundown temple of Kofukuji, in the suburbs of Tokyo, where his father, the priest Toko, lives. It is Shinichi's wish to renovate the temple and to open up a medical clinic, but T...
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Wait for Tomorrow (1960)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASHIKAWA Izumi, WATANABE Misako
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company which offers him an assignment to "Cover Tokyo" with a camera. But he is disill...
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The Rusted Chain (1960)
- Director
- SAITO Buichi
- Cast
- AKAGI Keiichiro, SASAMORI Reiko, KODAKA Yuji
Kenichi Nagaoka, an intellectual type, and his brother Eiji, practical and active, have lost their father who died after Kenichi lost a 20-million-yen promissory note signed by the Nagaoka stevedoring company. A money-lender named Mizuhara who holds...
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The Reformer (1960)
- Director
- MATSUO Akinori
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, KITABAYASHI Tanie
Nitta returns to the Airin Private Reform School where he spent his orphaned and delinquent childhood, as a counsellor. He finds about 30 boys in the school, headed by the rebellious Koji, the pickpocket, Charisuke, Yukiko, a half-black, and Fujio, w...
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Volcano Wind (1960)
- Director
- YAMAZAKI Tokujiro
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko, SHISHIDO Joe
When a plane crashes near Kagoshima, mystery surrounds the incident when it is found that the remains of the pilot Mitsuhiko are not among the wreckage, nor the sum of fifty million yen which was on board, and the authorities believe that the pilot m...
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The Gun Like Lightning (1960)
- Director
- NOGUCHI Hiroshi
- Cast
- AKAGI Keiichiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, NITANI Hideaki
Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a new leaf. He has returned, however, because of Keiko, his sweetheart, who he now finds is engaged to...
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The Day of Youth (1960)
- Director
- MASUDA Toshio
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, ASHIKAWA Izumi
At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang again...
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger (1960)
- Director
- NOGUCHI Hiroshi
- Cast
- AKAGI Keiichiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, SHISHIDO Joe
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is employed as a bodyguard by Yo Sangen, chief of a narcotics smuggling ring. Later Yo breaks with the Hor...