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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
- Director
- OKAMOTO Kihachi
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, MIFUNE Toshiro, KISHIDA Shin
lchi (Shintaro Katsu) is blind. Outwardly, a masseur, he is called Zatoichi who, handicapped by lack of sight, has honed his remaining senses until they are as sharp as a razor's blade. His constant companion is his sword. This looks like an innocent...
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Mission Iron Castle (1970)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- MATSUKATA Hiroki, MINEGISHI Ryunosuke, HONGO Kojiro
During an era of civil wars when powerful rival war lords competed to rule the land, magician-spies, who came and went swiftly and silently like dark shadows, were used by them to ferret out information about the enemy or to carry out difficult missi...
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Haunted Castle (1969)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, KOBAYASHI Naomi, KAMEI Mitsuyo
In 1730, when Yoshimune Tokugawa, the eighth Shogun, ruled the country, the people were thrown into utter confusion and terror in Lord Nabeshima's Saga Castle in southern Kyushu. Something appeared by night and killed the ladies-in-waiting, ate the ...
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Vixen (1969)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- ASAOKA Ruriko, OKADA Eiji, KISHIDA Kyoko
Michi (Ruriko Asaoka)'s first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida (Eiji Okada), secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swindle him out of two million yen for alleged rape by his son. Akie (Kyo...
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The Magoichi Saga (1969)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Kinnosuke, KURIHARA Komaki, HONGO Kojiro
During the civil wars Lord Nobunaga Oda (Shintaro Katsu) finally gains control over almost the entire country. But there are still many watching for a chance to overthrow him. So Magoichi Saika (Kinnosuke Nakamura) and his 3000 gunners are made much...
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The Falcon Fighters (1969)
- Director
- MURAYAMA Mitsuo
- Cast
- SATO Makoto, FUJIMURA Shiho, HONGO Kojiro
In 1929 - the Japanese Air Force is still in its infancy. Lieutenant Kato (Makoto Sato), instructor at the Tokorozawa Flying Academy, has two promising young pilots. Second Lieutenant Kihara (Sei Hiraizumi), who graduated from the Army Academy with a...
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Tenchu! (1969)
- Director
- GOSHA Hideo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, NAKADAI Tatsuya, BAISHO Mitsuko
It is 1862. For hundreds of years under the irontight rule of the Tokugawas, Japan's door has been virtually closed to the world. But it was no longer possible to continue a policy of isolation and under pressure, the Tokugawa Shogunate concludes tr...
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Gateway to Glory (1969)
- Director
- MURAYAMA Mitsuo
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Kichiemon, UTSUI Ken, HONGO Kojiro
In April 1934, lchiro Hirata (Kichiemon Nakamura) enters the Naval Academy at Etajima Island. The son of a poor farmer deep in his heart he is at first irked by all the rules of the academy but tries hard to suppress this feeling by forcing himself t...
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The Curse of the Ghost (1969)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- SATO Kei, INANO Kazuko, AOYAMA Yoshihiko
Samon Yotsuya, a vassal of the Sagara Clan, has two beautiful daughters. Oiwa (Kazuko lnano), the elder, marries Iemon Tamiya (Kei Sato) and Osode (Kyoko Mikage), the younger daughter, is to Yomoshichi Sato (Yoshihiko Aoyama). Soon after their marri...
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Thousand Cranes (1969)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- HIRA Mikijiro, WAKAO Ayako, AZUSA Eiko
Kikuji Mitani (Mikijiro Hira) is an orphan and Chikako Kurimoto (Machiko Kyo) and Mrs. Ota (Ayako Wakao) were once his father's lovers. When Kikuji was about ten years old, he had accompanied his father to Chikako's home and had seen the purplish bi...
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Devil’s Temple (1969)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, TAKAMINE Hideko, ARATAMA Michiyo
Adapted from the original drama by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is the story of the loves and hates of two men and two women, their strange involvement with one another, and how their searing lust affected their lives. Mumyo Taro (Shintaro Katsu) is a n...
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Broken Swords (1969)
- Director
- IKEHIRO Kazuo
- Cast
- MATSUKATA Hiroki, HONGO Kojiro, IWAI Yumi
The Genroku Era in the seventeenth century was one of the most colorful periods when the arts and literature flourished while political morals deteriorated. Blessed with peace, the people became more and more extravagant, wearing gorgeous kimono and ...
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Spook Warfare (1968)
- Director
- YASUDA Kimiyoshi
- Cast
- AOYAMA Yoshihiko, KAWASAKI Akane, OKAWA Osamu
In the eighteenth century the governor of lzu is out fishing with his daughter (Akane Kawasaki) when there is a sudden storm out of which materializes the monster Daimon. This creature once ruled over ancient Babylon and has now awakened from its sl...
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Secrets of a Women’s Temple (1969)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, NAKAHARA Sanae, SHIMEGI Shigako
In 1785 the Hosho Temple in old Edo was burned to the ground. It was never rebuilt and an old story suggests the reason why. A nun named Shigetsuin (Shigako Shimegi) was in charge of this temple-convent, sent there as a punishment. Cousin to the Sho...
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The Blind Beast (1969)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- FUNAKOSHI Eiji, MIDORI Mako, SENGOKU Noriko
Based on a story by Japan's best-known author of horror tales, Rampo Edogawa, this picture is about a young girl, Aki (Mako Midori), and her terrible experiences. She is a professional model and one day goes to a gallery where sculpture for which sh...
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Women’s Cell (1968)
- Director
- YASUDA Kimiyoshi
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, NAKAHARA Sanae, MIKIMOTO Kayo
Conditions in the famous Denmacho Prison in old Edo were notorious. It was called a veritable hell on earth - it was warden against criminal, prisoner against prisoner, and torture for all. In the women's cell there were many different kinds of girl...
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Ukiyoe (1968)
- Director
- TAKECHI Tetsuji
- Cast
- KARINA Tamawa, TATSUMI Noriko, KURENAI Chitose
When it comes time to redecorate the elaborate Toshogu Shrine in Nikko, the artist Shunga Kano is asked to supervise the work. Now old and dissipated he feels he is not up to the task, and turns it over to a disciple, Choshun Miyagawa. Choshun, not ...
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The Daring Nun (1968)
- Director
- IKEHIRO Kazuo
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, MIKIMOTO Kayo, KOBAYASHI Naomi
One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion that nuns should not lead cloistered lives but should see something of modern life. She makes the ...
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The Sex Check (1968)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, OGATA Ken, OGAWA Mayumi
Shiro (Ken Ogata) was a promising athlete but he failed to realize his ambition to break the short-sprint world record. This unfulfilled dream changes him. Though a lady's man he is brutal, even rapacious. Then he meets Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda). Now ...
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The Man Without a Map (1968)
- Director
- TESHIGAHARA Hiroshi
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, ICHIHARA Etsuko, OKAWA Osamu
A man suddenly disappears. Worried, his wife (Etsuko Ichihara) hires a private detective (Shintaro Katsu) to find him. Yet, when the detective visits the wife she does not seem the least bit worried and speaks of other things. He realizes he must do ...
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The Bride from Hades (1968)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, AKAZA Miyoko, OGAWA Mayumi
On the evening of the Festival of All Souls, young Shinzaburo (Kojiro Hongo) meets a beautiful girl and her older servant. Later they visit him and he discovers that her name is Otsuyu (Miyoko Akaza) and she is a courtesan. He is surprised that an el...
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Yukionna (1968)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- FUJIMURA Shiho, ISHIHAMA Akira, HASEGAWA Machiko
One of Japan's most beautiful and mysterious legends is that about the Yukionna or snow spirit, a lovely woman, dressed in white, who appears before snowbound travellers and leads them to destruction. This new version of the old story takes place in ...
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The Saga of Tanegashima (1968)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- Rick JASON, WAKAO Ayako, FUJIMURA Shiho
In the middle of the 16th-century, a storm drives a large Portuguese sailing ship ashore at Tanegashima, an island in the south ofJapan. There the local lord, Tokiaki meets Captain Pinto and his crew and sees foreign firearms for the first time. Imp...
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The Hundred Monsters (1968)
- Director
- YASUDA Kimiyoshi
- Cast
- FUJIMAKI Jun, TAKADA Miwa, HIRAIZUMI Sei
Japan is a land of ghost-stories, particularly in the summer when, before air-conditioning, the pleasant chills induced by such tales were most welcome to sweltering audiences. One such series of stories was called "The Hundred Monster Collection", a...
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Women’s Prison (1968)
- Director
- INOUE Akira
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, NAKAHARA Sanae, SHIMEGI Shigako
The Kodenmacho Prison in old Edo was a hell on earth. In addition to the crowded quarters, the general lack of sanitation, the violence, and homosexuality, punishment was made according to confession-hence suspects were tortured and even killed. Int...
