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  • The Cards Will Tell

    The Cards Will Tell (1960)

    Director
    USHIHARA Yoichi
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, SHIMIZU Mayumi

    Hatanaka Eiji returns to Tokyo from serving a prison sentence for the killing of a gang boss which he did not commit, but had been framed by Takagi the real murderer. At the Montparnasse cabaret he finds Nami, his former sweetheart who is now Takagi...

  • Blossoms of Love

    Blossoms of Love (1960)

    Director
    TAKIZAWA Eisuke
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASHIKAWA Izumi, NAKAHARA Sanae

    Tosuke, a commercial artist, assists an old man named Genjuro when he falls and breaks his leg. This leads to Tosuke meeting Keiko, the old man's daughter who is jealously guarded like a tender flower as a result of her mother Ikuko having run away w...

  • When a Man Risks His Life

    When a Man Risks His Life (1959)

    Director
    MATSUO Akinori
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASHIKAWA Izumi, KAWACHI Tamio

    Komuro, a ship's doctor, says goodbye to the sea as he has now enough money to start a small hospital of his own. On his way to Tokyo, in Izu a local doctor's body is found riddled with shots and, as Komuro is carrying his shotgun, the dead man's dau...

  • A Secret Rendezvous

    A Secret Rendezvous (1959)

    Director
    NAKAHIRA Ko
    Cast
    KATSURAGI Yoko, ITO Takao, MIYAGUCHI Seiji

    Kikuko, attractive wife of Prof. Miyahara, is beset with dire forebodings that she may be found out concerning her affair with Ikuo, one of her husband's students, through the murder of a taxi driver they both witnessed. Ikuo, too, is conscience-stri...

  • The Guitarist and the Rancher

    The Guitarist and the Rancher (1960)

    Director
    SAITO Buichi
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko, KODAKA Yuji

    This is the fast action story of Shinji, the guitar playing vagrant who on coming to the Sagara pastureland finds the Matoba group trying to take over the property from Sagara Nobuo who owes Matoba a gambling debt and is also infatuated with his sist...

  • Who Is in the Background?

    Who Is in the Background? (1959)

    Director
    NOGUCHI Hiroshi
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko, AOYAMA Kyoji

    The police have been tracking down a big counterfeit money ring and although they suspect that the scandal surrounding the Japan Development Corporation is closely connected have no proof. Nikaido Takuya, nicknamed the Human Cyclone, learns from pri...

  • A Turning to Hell

    A Turning to Hell (1959)

    Director
    KURAHARA Koreyoshi
    Cast
    HAYAMA Ryoji, INAGAKI Mihoko, MINAMIDA Youko

    Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a su...

  • The Age of Our Own

    The Age of Our Own (1959)

    Director
    KURAHARA Koreyoshi
    Cast
    NAGATO Hiroyuki, YOSHIYUKI Kazuko, WATANABE Misako

    Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named Wilson. Whenever Wilson comes, Yasuo spends his time in the tea-shop "La Gana." Yasuo is asked by his brother Shigeru to teach French to Akiko, a you...

  • Love and Death

    Love and Death (1959)

    Director
    TAKIZAWA Eisuke
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, HAYAMA Ryoji

    Starring the screen idol Yujiro Ishihara, "Love and Death" based on the famous novel by Mushanokoji Saneatsu is the first Japanese film to be made on location in Europe. Muraoka Yuji, an assistant professor, falls in love with beautiful Nonomura Hat...

  • Farewell to Southern Tosa

    Farewell to Southern Tosa (1959)

    Director
    SAITO Buichi
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko, Peggy HAYAMA

    Returning to his native village he finds that Harue, who has been waiting for him, is now claimed by the local boss to whom the girl's deceased father owed money. Joji tries hard to pay Harue's debts but people are not sympathetic with a former conv...

  • The Echo of Love

    The Echo of Love (1959)

    Director
    USHIHARA Yoichi
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, KANEKO Nobuo

    This is the first melodrama for popular action star Yujiro Ishihara. Mountain photographer Jiro Makito narrowly escapes death in an avalanche. When Tsuzuko with whom Jiro's brother lchiro is in love visits him in hospital she asks him whether she sh...

  • We Live Today

    We Live Today (1959)

    Director
    MASUDA Toshio
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, MINAMIDA Youko

    One day a man named Jo Shunji makes a sudden appearance at the Uzan Mine where quarrels break out everyday between the Mikuni and Yamaichi Transportation Companies over the transport of ore. Realizing the underhand practices of the Mikuni Company, S...

  • Her Name Was Sakura

    Her Name Was Sakura (1959)

    Director
    SAITO Buichi
    Cast
    TSUKIOKA Yumeji, SHIMOMOTO Tsutomu, KAWAMURA Keiko

    Born of a black father and a Japanese mother, Sakura was adopted by a black family who took her to America but had no real affection for child. Finally, unable to stand life with her foster parents any longer, she runs away to make the long journey b...

  • Explosion Came

    Explosion Came (1959)

    Director
    MASUDA Toshio
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, ASAOKA Ruriko

    Yoneji Muroto's farm in Yatsugatake is famous for its religious atmosphere and the son Kensaku is now the head of the family. One day, seeing a woman going down to the valley where many people have committed suicide, Kensaku fallows her, but in miss...

  • The Stream of Youth

    The Stream of Youth (1959)

    Director
    TASAKA Tomotaka
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, ASHIKAWA Izumi

    Kensuke Sone, a young employee of the K. Co., is chosen as the bridegroom-to-be for Fusako the daughter of Kawasaki, managing director of the firm. Misako Kitaoka loves Kensuke, but is resigned to her marriage with Kensuke. However, when Fusako mee...

  • Friendship of Jazz

    Friendship of Jazz (1959)

    Director
    INOUE Umetsugu
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, KAWACHI Tamio, SAWAMOTO Tadao

    The "Jazz Boat" is a popular night spot on Tokyo's Ginza. It was from an old trumpet artist, Koichiro Hate that Okabe and Kawazoe first learned how to blow the horn, and although Koichiro now performs at a small place on the edge of town, he is remem...

  • Crimson Wings

    Crimson Wings (1958)

    Director
    NAKAHIRA Ko
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASHIKAWA Izumi, NAKAHARA Sanae

    At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company's office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft whic...

  • The Tragedy of Today

    The Tragedy of Today (1958)

    Director
    MASUDA Toshio
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, ASHIKAWA Izumi, HAYAMA Ryoji

    This is a fast moving story of a group of university students in search of easy money whose schemes lead only to disaster. The plan of Toda, the leader of the group, was to swindle an illegal betting agency by obtaining the results of the bicycle ra...

  • Showdown in the Storm

    Showdown in the Storm (1958)

    Director
    KURAHARA Koreyoshi
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, OKADA Masumi

    It is when assisting his friend Nakagawa by riding for his team in a horsemanship contest that Senkichi Kira, a physical culture instructor meets beautiful Setsuko, but when they are pestered by hoodlums and Senkichi becomes involved with a gang boss...

  • The Endless Desire

    The Endless Desire (1958)

    Director
    IMAMURA Shohei
    Cast
    NAGATO Hiroyuki, NAKAHARA Sanae, WATANABE Misako

    During the last days of the war, a certain Lieutenant Hashimoto buried morphia, valued at 60 million yen. On August 15th 1957, five persons met to discuss the recovery of the drug, but there was one more than the three with whom the lieutenant agree...

  • That Wonderful Guy

    That Wonderful Guy (1958)

    Director
    INOUE Umetsugu
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, TSUKIOKA Yumeji

    This is a story of the bright lights of show business. Yoko, a dancer, dreams of happiness away from the hand to mouth existence of the theatre, and marriage with a handsome, rich man who haunts her dreams, a combination of James Dean, Yujiro Ishihar...

  • The Seasons of Love

    The Seasons of Love (1958)

    Director
    NAKAHIRA Ko
    Cast
    YAMADA Isuzu, YASUI Shoji, NAKAHARA Sanae

    Akira Shimizudani is a conscientious writer married to a fashion model named Ginko who disapproves of his mother Urako who is always borrowing money from him to go to Atami hot-spring resort. Moreover, Momoko, Akira's sister who is married to a decen...

  • The Boy Who Came Back

    The Boy Who Came Back (1958)

    Director
    SUZUKI Seijun
    Cast
    HIDARI Sachiko, KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko

    Keiko Midorikawa is a member of an organization which gives advice and assistance to juvenile delinquents. Nobuo Kasahara, just released from reform school to which he was committed for having attempted to kill his father is 19 years of age and seem...

  • Tomorrow is Another Day

    Tomorrow is Another Day (1958)

    Director
    INOUE Umetsugu
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, OSAKA Shiro

    On the night of the Fukagawa Festival, Torajiro Hirata, boss of the Tomoe Gang, stabbed to death Taizo Matsuyama, one of the chiefs of the Kanto Motsumonji Gang. On his release from prison eighteen years later, he visits the house of Matsumonji, and...

  • Street in the Sun

    Street in the Sun (1958)

    Director
    TASAKA Tomotaka
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, ASHIKAWA Izumi

    Takako Kuramoto, a college student, is employed as companion and tutor to Kumiko Tashiro and through her likeable character has come to be regarded as one of the family. Kumiko, an extremely bright girl, is somewhat handicapped through an injury rec...