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A Soldier’s Prayer (1961)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Masaki
- Cast
- NAKADAI Tatsuya, ARATAMA Michiyo, TAKAMINE Hideko
In the face of the sudden Russian invasion, Kaji and a handful of survivors fight their way to the safety of southern Manchuria. The fate of the women is highlighted in numerous sequences and the crumbling of the hero's ideals which have labeled him ...
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Incidental Murders (1961)
- Director
- INOUE Kazuo
- Cast
- TSUGAWA Masahiko, KUWANO Miyuki, SUGIURA Naoki
The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and Sanko are unaware that Tatsuko is the heiress to a fortune. Two strong-arm brothers, Kosaka and Takeshi, learn of her identity and join the...
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Late Autumn (1960)
- Director
- OZU Yasujiro
- Cast
- HARA Setsuko, TSUKASA Yoko, SADA Keiji
On the seventh anniversary of her husband's death, the widow Akiko still looks young and beautiful, and three friends, Mamiya, Taguchi and Hirayama, are trying to find a good husband for her daughter, Ayako. Mamiya realizes that Ayako is hesitant ab...
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Internees of Kampili (1960)
- Director
- HORIUCHI Manao
- Cast
- OKI Minoru, SUGIURA Naoki, RYU Chishu
In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied women and children interned in camp Kampili. Kampili is located some ten kilometers outside Macassar...
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The Grave Tells All (1960)
- Director
- NOMURA Yoshitaro
- Cast
- SADA Keiji, KUWANO Miyuki, YOSHIMURA Mari
Tateno, who operates a drug store also introduces talent to radio and TV stations, handles black-market dollars and supplies waitresses to restaurants. One day, he sees a member of a pseudo religion buying pistols from a Korean. Masquerading as a ne...
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Women of Kyoto (1960)
- Director
- YOSHIMURA Kozaburo
- Cast
- SADA Keiji, OKADA Mariko, KOCHI Momoko
The affairs of Kagimura, a noted cake shop in Kyoto, are taken over by Akie, a kinswoman of the late proprietor. Before arriving in Kyoto, Akie had planned to renovate the Kagimura and turn it into a dressmaking shop. But when she sees Taniji, an ex...
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The Sun’s Burial (1960)
- Director
- OSHIMA Nagisa
- Cast
- TSUGAWA Masahiko, KAWAZU Yusuke, HONO Kayoko
Hanako, the heroine, is the daughter of a junk dealer. Her "racket" is operating medical outposts to which impoverished laborers and the unemployed go to sell their blood ... The head of the local thugs known as the Shinei-kai is the coldly handsome ...
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Mid-Summer Affair — “Underwater" Series, Part 4 (1960)
- Director
- IWAMA Tsuruo
- Cast
- IZUMI Kyoko, OKI Minoru, KOYAMA Akiko
One summer day, a team of performing swimmers discovers Fumiko, a young woman, adrift on the sea whose husband has been drowned while attempting to save her. Next morning, on seeing Fumiko's picture in a swimming suit, Ryuko, a member of the team an...
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Of Men and Money (1960)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Noboru
- Cast
- SADA Keiji, ITO Yunosuke, MITSUI Koji
Matsumoto, a veteran detective, is vastly interested in the newly established Investment Society which is promising its investors a three percent monthly interest. His alert mind and years of experience on the force tell him that such high rate of in...
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Naked Youth — A Story of Cruelty (1960)
- Director
- OSHIMA Nagisa
- Cast
- KAWAZU Yusuke, KUWANO Miyuki, KUGA Yoshiko
A school girl, restless, in search of excitement and experience, takes to accepting rides from strange men. A university student rescues her from the advances of one of the middle-aged drivers but sensing her vulnerability takes her out on a speed-bo...
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Goodbye to Glory (1960)
- Director
- INOUE Kazuo
- Cast
- YAMADA Isuzu, SUGIURA Naoki, YAMAMOTO Toyozo
This is the story of a group of Naval Cadets, a segment of the Japanese Air Force that went down in flaming but futile glory during the Pacific War, and one member of the group who lived to see the return of peace from a cell in Fuchu Prison. Parole...
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When a Woman Loves (1960)
- Director
- GOSHO Heinosuke
- Cast
- ARIMA Ineko, SABURI Shin, OTOWA Nobuko
At the funeral of Niizu, a well-known newspaper man, a young woman appears dressed in mourning. None present can place her ... her name is Kiyo ... One hot August night, Kiyo, then 16 years old, had slept together with Niizu, and the geisha, Hideya...
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Spring Dreams (1960)
- Director
- KINOSHITA Keisuke
- Cast
- OKADA Mariko, KUGA Yoshiko, KAWAZU Yusuke
This human comedy is set in the palatial residence in Tokyo belonging to the president of a pharmaceutical company. One day, an elderly vendor of sweet potatoes, introduced by the young maidservants of the residence, suffers a stroke in the parlor. ...
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Hey, Pineapple! (1959)
- Director
- UCHIKAWA Seiichiro
- Cast
- SUGIURA Naoki, KOSAKA Kazuya, BAN Junzaburo
This is the film version of a war novel by Robert N. Hongo, a Hawaiian Nisei, based on his experiences during the Korean War which was best-seller in Hawaii, and was widely discussed when Shochiku finally obtained the film rights in severe competitio...
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Tokyo Omnibus (1959)
- Director
- BANSHO Yoshiaki
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Teiji, SADA Keiji, OKI Minoru
"Samba Garasu," meaning three-some, has always been a Shochiku tradition. In this film, celebrating the 3,000th production of the Shochiku Company, three generations of the "Samba Garasu" tradition have been brought together in a gay modern day story...
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Road to Eternity (1959)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Masaki
- Cast
- NAKADAI Tatsuya, ARATAMA Michiyo, SADA Keiji
"Road to Eternity" is the sequel to No Greater Love in which the wide-screen process plus striking black-white photography vividly depicts the unbelievable, irrational, and inhuman practices of an army at war. For suspected Red sympathies, Kaji has ...
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Affair in the Mist (1959)
- Director
- SHIBUYA Minoru
- Cast
- OKADA Mariko, TSUGAWA Masahiko, MIKAMI Shinichiro
"Affair in the Mist" is the story of Sonoko, mistress of the managing director of construction firm who has fought his way up from a stevedore, and is striving to begin a new life after leaving her man. A terrible burden is her father who once tried ...
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Vagabond Lovers (1959)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Noboru
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Teiji, ARIMA Ineko, ITO Yunosuke
This is a fun-packed travelogue-comedy which carries the audience to many scenic places, on and off the beaten path. Beautiful shots of the Inland Sea, the ultra-modern aspects of Nagoya and the historic and picturesque city of Hirado come to life in...
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Okinawa Interlude (1959)
- Director
- HORIUCHI Manao
- Cast
- OKI Minoru, OKADA Mariko, NAMBARA Shinji
For the first time since the end of the war, a Japanese motion picture group went on location to Okinawa to film "Kairyu", based on a popular magazine serial. The result is a charming landscape of exotic Okinawa in a beautiful widescreen film. The p...
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Kinokuniya, the Dauntless Merchant (1959)
- Director
- WATANABE Kunio
- Cast
- TAKADA Kokichi, SAGA Michiko, KONOE Jushiro
The life of Bunzaemon Kinokuniya, a merchant of feudal Japan is legendary to the Japanese, and this film covers the early days of his career from the time he sacrifices himself for others until the day he again proves himself against tremendous odds....
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Takamaru and Kikumaru (1959)
- Director
- MARUNE Santaro
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Kinshiro, HANANOMOTO Kotobuki, IZUMI Kyoko
Two brothers, Takamaru and Kikumaru, are living with their father, Hakuraku-Ou, until one day Hakuraku-Ou is killed by "Death's-Head" Ginnosuke, a villain skilled in the art of sorcery. Hakuraku-Ou had long been seeking a Tiger Seal which, together ...
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Red Pants : "Underwater" Series (1959)
- Director
- IWAMA Tsuruo
- Cast
- OKI Minoru, IZUMI Kyoko, KOYAMA Akiko
A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko, another diver, as a rash act. Her attitude, however, is nothing but a cloak to hide her affection for him. Shinji, hard working and manly, becomes th...
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High Teen (1959)
- Director
- INOUE Kazuo
- Cast
- SADA Keiji, KUWANO Miyuki, MIKAMI Shinichiro
Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when p...
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No Greater Love (1959)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Masaki
- Cast
- NAKADAI Tatsuya, ARATAMA Michiyo, ARIMA Ineko
Director Masaki Kobayashi says of this film: "My chief reason for making a motion picture of "Ningen no Joken" was probably the fact that I, too, went through similar experiences like Kaji during the war. And through the character of Kaji I wished t...
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Maria of the Ant Village (1958)
- Director
- GOSHO Heinosuke
- Cast
- CHINO Kakuko, NAMBARA Shinji, SANO Shuji
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordin...