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Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Noboru
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, YOSHIDA Teruo, HAYAKAWA Tamotsu
Young and beautiful Chieko meets her twin sister, who informs her that their real parents are dead. The family tragedy stemmed from the old superstition that twins were unlucky and wrong. Chieko has been brought up by a dry goods merchant Sada and hi...
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The Hidden Profile (1963)
- Director
- KAWAZU Yoshiro
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, SONOI Keisuke, SADA Keiji
While Shigetaka is abroad Ayako lives with her blind mother. She is idolized by young artists, among whom is Natsui, a promising cameraman. Ayako persuades Natsui to marry Chikako, with whom she knows her husband has had an affair and because she is...
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Escape from Hell (1963)
- Director
- INOUE Kazuo
- Cast
- SADA Keiji, TSUGAWA Masahiko, MIKUNI Rentaro
In 1802, vagrants are rounded up in Edo and sent to Sado Island for forced labor in a mine. Among them is handsome Yaju who was falsely charged with a crime by Kurozuka. Kurozuka arrives on Sado Island as an official under the new magistrate Shuzen,...
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Mama, I Need You! (1962)
- Director
- KAWAZU Yoshiro
- Cast
- SUGURO Homare, BAISHO Chieko, KAWAZU Yusuke
After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a job in a small laundry in downtown Tokyo and works hard till late at night. At a nearby restaurant...
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The Body (1962)
- Director
- NARUSAWA Masashige
- Cast
- SAGA Michiko, KAWAZU Yusuke, SHINDO Eitaro
Sakiko, who works at a firm on the Ginza, is gifted with so sensual a physique that it even attracts her own sex. Her parents work at public bathhouse in a fishing town. One night she gives herself to her boss Sasaki and becomes his mistress. Sasaki...
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An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
- Director
- OZU Yasujiro
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, MIKAMI Shinichiro, SADA Keiji
Shuhei, auditor of a company, is enjoying life with his daughter Michiko and second son Kazuo. Michiko, now of marriageable age, has looked after the household since the death of her mother. One day Shuhei and two of his old friends hold a party fo...
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Love Under the Crucifix (1962)
- Director
- TANAKA Kinuyo
- Cast
- ARIMA Ineko, NAKADAI Tatsuya, TAKAMINE Mieko
Rikyu Sen is a renowned 16th Century tea master in the service of the powerful warlord Hideyoshi Toyotomi. Rikyu's stepdaughter Gin loves Ukon Takayama, a Christian lord, who is already married. When her father Rikyu returns from Kyushu, Gin hears t...
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Harakiri (1962)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Masaki
- Cast
- NAKADAI Tatsuya, MIKUNI Rentaro, IWASHITA Shima
In the seventeenth century, Hanshiro Tsugumo, a masterless samurai, or "ronin", enters Lord Ii's Edo mansion and begs to be allowed the use of a place to perform the ritual of harakiri as he cannot go on living in such dire poverty and shame. The maj...
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Ballad of a Workman (1962)
- Director
- KINOSHITA Keisuke
- Cast
- SADA Keiji, TAKAMINE Hideko, YAMAMOTO Toyozo
In 1946, Yoshio Nonaka, a repatriate, becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang in Yamanashi Prefecture. His wages are small and he must support his wife Torae, only son Toshiyuki, and his aged parents. Torae becomes a handy woman at the o...
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Flower in a Storm (1962)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Noboru
- Cast
- OKADA Mariko, YOSHIDA Teruo, SADA Keiji
Katsue Takaishi, a nurse at the Tsumura Hospital in Tokyo, is startled when Kozo Tsumura, the eldest son of the hospital's director, proposes marriage. Katsue, a widow, has concealed the fact that she has a daughter, Toshiko, because only unmarried n...
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Tokyo Bay (1962)
- Director
- NOMURA Yoshitaro
- Cast
- ISHIZAKI Jiro, SAKAKI Hiromi, AOI Kyoko
An undercover government agent is killed while investigating a narcotics ring and clues point to the killer being left-handed. Sumikawa is assigned to the case with Akine, who is in love with his sister, Yukiko. The detective meets his wartime frie...
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Mother Country (1962)
- Director
- MATSUYAMA Zenzou
- Cast
- TAKAMINE Hideko, TAMURA Takahiro, ISHIHAMA Akira
After immigrating to Hawaii, the first generation Japanese settlers have a difficult time, but through hard work gradually improve their position. Among the immigrants are the Inoues and the Godas. The Inoues have two sons, Haruo and Akira, and the ...
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New Year’s Love (1962)
- Director
- KINOSHITA Keisuke
- Cast
- OKADA Mariko, YOSHIDA Teruo, MINE Kyoko
Mikako Aikawa, the pretty and spirited daughter of the keeper of a fashionable Japanese restaurant in Ginza, Tokyo, has a younger brother named Ichiro, a high school student, who seems poor in his studies. Mikako suspects his poor achievements due to...
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The Inheritance (1962)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Masaki
- Cast
- KISHI Keiko, NAKADAI Tatsuya, KAWAZU Yusuke
Company president Kawahara's days are limited as he suffers from cancer. His estate is valued at three hundred million yen and he has no legitimate heir other than his wife. He entrusts his faithful employees with the task of locating three children...
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A Full Life (1962)
- Director
- HANI Susumu
- Cast
- ARIMA Ineko, I. George, TAMURA Takahiro
Junko Asakura, an actress, had been swept off her feet by the irresistible charms of Yoshioka, and had married him only to find him an inveterate dreamer who has no idea of his responsibilities as a husband. With mingled feelings of relief and regret...
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Tokyo Detective Saga (1961)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- SADA Keiji, OKI Minoru, TAKACHIHO Hizuru
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Hemmi, who comes to Tokyo in 1926 from faraway Kagoshima to join the Tokyo police force. His closest friend is Nihei,...
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Her Last Pearl (1961)
- Director
- YAGI Mitsuo
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, TSUGAWA Masahiko, ISHIHAMA Akira
When Chiaki testifies for her husband, Ikejiri, who is charged with attempted homicide, a young industrialist, Miyahara, who is struck by her beauty offers her help while secretly desiring her. When Chiaki asks Ikejiri for a divorce, he refuses and ...
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The Bitter Spirit (1961)
- Director
- KINOSHITA Keisuke
- Cast
- TAKAMINE Hideko, SADA Keiji, NAKADAI Tatsuya
When fighting breaks out in Shanghai in 1933, Sadako's sweetheart Takashi and landowner Heizaemon's son, Heibei, are drafted. Heibei is wounded and returns home. One day he forces Sadako to yield to him. Sadako tries to drown herself but is saved. Wh...
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The Estuary (1961)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Noboru
- Cast
- OKADA Mariko, YAMAMURA So, TAMURA Takahiro
Rie Shirakawa opens an art gallery in Tokyo with the financial assistance of Miyahara, a rich, old businessman whose mistress she has been for three years. Tatebayashi, a middle-aged art lover, becomes her devoted manager. In need of more money, Rie ...
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Don’t Ever Die, Mama! (1961)
- Director
- KAWAZU Yoshiro
- Cast
- ARIMA Ineko, YAMAZAKI Jiro, SHIMOMOTO Tsutomu
This screen play is based on a prize-winning composition by an 8 year old school boy Yoshitaka Hirabayashi, whose name in the film has been changed to Yoshiyuki Hirai . Yoshiyuki and his elder brother Yoshihisa attend the Takefu West Grammar School ...
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A Pearl in the Waves (1961)
- Director
- YAGI Mitsuo
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, TSUGAWA Masahiko, TAKAMINE Mieko
Chiaki is in love with Ryuichi, but to help her family decides to marry lkejiri. The marriage is not a success. When lkejiri's embezzlement of school money is discovered, he sends Chiaki to Hokkaido to borrow it from her real mother, Minako. Ryuich...
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The Shrikes (1961)
- Director
- SHIBUYA Minoru
- Cast
- ARIMA Ineko, AWASHIMA Chikage, KAWAZU Yusuke
Sugako Okada, a restaurant waitress, and her daughter Sachiko meet for the first time in twenty years. But their long separation has made it difficult for them to understand each other and Sachiko leaves to work at a beauty parlor. When her mother fa...
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Far Beyond the Waves (1961)
- Director
- YAGI Mitsuo
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, TSUGAWA Masahiko, TAKAMINE Mieko
When Chiaki Ezawa returns home after graduating from a Tokyo school, she finds her father's pearl business taken over by a former clerk. Her father strongly opposes her friendship with Ryuichi Satake, a research worker at the Pearl Institute. She the...
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Enraptured (1961)
- Director
- OBA Hideo
- Cast
- OKADA Mariko, SADA Keiji, IWASHITA Shima
Senya Hamamura, an attractive dancing mistress, falls in love with Nishikawa, a genius in the Noh play. Nishikawa is a notorious libertine and soon, finding herself in a dilemma between art and love, she breaks with him. Lonely and desperate, Senya...
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Some Pumpkin (1960)
- Director
- SAKAI Tatsuo
- Cast
- SAGA Michiko, FUJIYAMA Kambi, YASUI Shoji
This is a story of the Kawachi district in the southwestern part of Osaka, where the people live an open but greed-filled existence which never changes in peace or war. They call Oichi a "Kotsuma Nankin", meaning a small, round and firm pumpkin, tas...
