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The Abalone Gals (1965)
- Director
- MAEDA Yoichi
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Akiko, OGIMACHI Kyoko, Hoki TOKUDA
South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playland and the girls, who had been abalone divers, now become geisha, and the old ways of the island are ...
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With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
- Director
- SHINODA Masahiro
- Cast
- KAGA Mariko, YAMAMURA So, YACHIGUSA Kaoru
This film by the director of Pale Flower and Assassin is the strange story of a young girl and her love affairs with two older people: a well-known married writer, and a famous lady-artist who'd had an affair with him twenty years before. Then the gi...
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Love in the Snow (1965)
- Director
- OBA Hideo
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, KIMURA Isao, KAGA Mariko
This is a new film version of the famous Yasunari Kawabata novel "Snow Country" which tells of a writer who returns to the hot-spring resort in the north country where he had known a geisha the year before. She is waiting for him and they continue th...
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Judo Duel (1965)
- Director
- WATANABE Kunio
- Cast
- KURAOKA Shintaro, HIRAI Shoichi, MATSUYAMA Yoko
At the end of the nineteenth century, when Western customs became popular in Japan, traditional Japanese sports suffered a decline - among them jujutsu. This film is about a young man who continued to believe in the sport and who, in the face of all ...
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The Soundless Cry (1965)
- Director
- ICHIMURA Hirokazu
- Cast
- KAYAMA Yoshiko, TAMURA Masakazu, SONOI Keisuke
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gav...
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The Scarlet Camellia (1964)
- Director
- NOMURA Yoshitaro
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, KATO Go, HAYAKAWA Tamotsu
Oshino has but one goal in life - to revenge her humiliated father. Her mother took lover after lover and this eventually led to her father's disgrace. Beautiful Oshino tracks down the lovers, one by one, gives herself to them, and then murders them....
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Mr. Radish and Mr. Carrot (1965)
- Director
- SHIBUYA Minoru
- Cast
- RYU Chishu, KATO Daisuke, OTOWA Nobuko
Reference to people as radishes or carrots implies that they are good common stock, the salt of the earth, the Smiths and Joneses of this world. One in this film is very good friends with another. He leads a perfectly ordinary life until he realizes ...
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The Treasure of Death Castle (1964)
- Director
- KIKUCHI Yasushi, TANBA Tetsuro
- Cast
- TANBA Tetsuro, WANIBUCHI Haruko, MISHIMA Masao
Just as the Tatsunokuchi family has come into the possession of a large amount of gold, a cholera epidemic turns the castle city into a ghost town and the whereabouts of the gold is unknown. Among those who search for it is the masterless samurai, S...
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The Shape of Night (1964)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Noboru
- Cast
- KUWANO Miyuki, HIRA Mikijiro, SUGAWARA Bunta
Yoshie first met Eiji in a small bar in Tokyo. Though she was only nineteen, she gave herself to him as she thought they could marry and live happily together. Instead, he turns out to be a gangster who forces her to prostitute herself for him. Later...
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Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)
- Director
- GOSHA Hideo
- Cast
- TANBA Tetsuro, HIRA Mikijiro, NAGATO lsamu
Shiba, a masterless samurai, enters a village under the administration of magistrate Matsushita where he senses trouble. Due to bad crops and heavy taxation, the farmers have kidnapped the magistrate's daughter, Aya, and barricaded themselves in a m...
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The Scent of Incense (1964)
- Director
- KINOSHITA Keisuke
- Cast
- OKADA Mariko, OTOWA Nobuko, MIKI Norihei
Tomoko's father died when she was only 3 years old and her mother, Ikuyo, married a wealthy man who, unable to carry on the responsibilities of a family, runs away to Tokyo with her to lose his share of the estate. Ikuyo then sells Tomoko as an appre...
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The Assassin (1964)
- Director
- SHINODA Masahiro
- Cast
- TANBA Tetsuro, IWASHITA Shima, KIMURA Isao
In 1863, Lord Matsudaira of the Tokugawa Shogunate appeals to Premier Itakura and obtains an amnesty for Hachiro Kiyokawa, a masterless samurai, who has been imprisoned on the charge of murdering an agent of the Edo Police. At the same time, Matsudai...
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Young Geisha (1964)
- Director
- ICHIMURA Hirokazu
- Cast
- BAISHO Chieko, HASHI Yukio, MIZUSHIMA Michitaro
Yukiji, a geisha of Kyoto and an outstanding dancer, goes to Tokyo with two other geisha to appear in a fashion show where she meets Kotaro, who is working as a truck driver to help his younger sister. During her short stay, they enjoy each other's ...
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Our Happiness Alone (1964)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Noboru
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Kei, BAISHO Chieko, SUGURO Homare
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Motot...
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Samurai from Nowhere (1964)
- Director
- UCHIKAWA Seiichiro
- Cast
- NAGATO lsamu, IWASHITA Shima, BAISHO Chieko
To escape the fate of a concubine, Tae elopes with Ihei, a master sword-man. As hired killers give chase, the two lovers work their way about the country. Tae becomes a maid at an inn while Ihei works as a day-laborer. But his income is so meager tha...
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Naked Girl (1964)
- Director
- SHIBUYA Minoru
- Cast
- MARI Akemi, SADA Keiji, RYU Chishu
17-year-old Ichiko Shima lives with her stiff-backed railroad crossing guard father. Her mother is confined to a mental asylum. Lured by tales of how Marilyn Monroe started out as a nude model, she agrees to take up modelling on condition that she be...
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Destroyer Yukikaze (1964)
- Director
- YAMADA Tatsuo
- Cast
- NAGATO lsamu, IWASHITA Shima, YAMANOUCHI Akira
Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he he...
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Tange Sazen (1963)
- Director
- UCHIKAWA Seiichiro
- Cast
- TANBA Tetsuro, WANIBUCHI Haruko, SONOI Keisuke
In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders, the Yagyu Clan, to repair the Nikko Shrine. As the orders cannot be rejected the very poor clan must find means to raise the vast sum of money necessary for the repairs. The eldest son Genzaburo and his younger...
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This Scarlet Rose (1963)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- OKADA Mariko, YOSHIDA Teruo, SAKAKI Hiromi
Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles of Maki, the beautiful night club singer and one of the leaders of the ring. One by one, Maki's disc...
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18 Roughs (1963)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Yoshishige
- Cast
- HAYAKAWA Tamotsu, KAYAMA Yoshiko, TONOYAMA Taiji
In Kure, a shipbuilding town, facing the Inland Sea of Japan, works a skilled laborer named Shimazaki, whose only trouble is drinking and gambling. One day his boss offers him free lodgings in the company's dormitory and a raise in pay if he will ma...
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Love in Rome (1963)
- Director
- KAWAZU Yoshiro
- Cast
- KUWANO Miyuki, WANIBUCHI Haruko, HAYAKAWA Tamotsu
In Rome, Chino, an unsuccessful singer, has an affair with Takagi, a struggling painter. When Takagi returns to Japan after winning the attention of Akizuki, an art connoisseur, an exhibition of his paintings proves highly successful. Visitors to th...
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A Legend… or Was It? (1963)
- Director
- KINOSHITA Keisuke
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, SUGAWARA Bunta, KAGA Mariko
Towards the end of the Pacific War, Keiko, eldest daughter of the Sonobe family which had been evacuated to a remote Hokkaido village, rejects the marriage proposal of Koichi, son of the village master. Now Koichi inflames the villagers to persecute...
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Return of the Samurai (1963)
- Director
- UCHIKAWA Seiichiro
- Cast
- KUWANO Miyuki, SONOI Keisuke, KATO Daisuke
Lord Mitsuhide sends Hayato, a spy, into the backwoods of Ochinogo to see if there is gold in the territory as rumored. Hayato was born in this area but was thrown into a river and given up for dead when still a baby. He conceals this fact during his...
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The Rats Among the Cats (1963)
- Director
- SHIBUYA Minoru
- Cast
- OKADA Mariko, I. George, MIYAKO Chocho
Seki, a gangster with a violent temper, decides to reform and marries Mitsuko, the sister of fellow gangster Isomura. The two open a drugstore near a row of apartment houses. But business is difficult. When Seki saves the life of a woman in an apart...
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Dear Emperor…. (1963)
- Director
- NOMURA Yoshitaro
- Cast
- ATSUMI Kiyoshi, NAGATO Hiroyuki, NAKAMURA Meiko
Yamada, a country youth, is drafted into the army. Compared to the poverty that he has known, the army is like a paradise where he is at least assured of three meals a day. He becomes attached to Munemoto, an aspiring a novelist, the two become fast...