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Women of Whirpool Island (1960)
- Director
- ISHII Teruo
- Cast
- MIHARA Yoko, YOSHIDA Teruo, AMACHI Shigeru
The cabaret "Doto" located in Tsushima Island between Japan and Korea is a veritable base for smugglers of opium. It is operated by Yuri, who is the mistress of the chief smuggler named Chin-Un-Ryu, and there are many waitresses who are forced to ser...
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Enigmatic Explosion if the Battleship Mutsu (1960)
- Director
- KOMORI Kiyoshi
- Cast
- AMACHI Shigeru, SUGAWARA Bunta, ARASHI Kanjuro
This film is based on the fact that the Mutsu, the great Japanese battlecruiser exploded from an unknown cause at a secret base in the Inland Sea during the last days of the Pacific War, and is a story filled with thrills, suspense, and spectacular w...
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Female Slave Ship (1960)
- Director
- ONODA Yoshiki
- Cast
- SUGAWARA Bunta, MITSUYA Utako, MIHARA Yoko
During the early part of 1945, when the command of the sea had passed to the American Navy, Japan's defeat was almost certain. First Lieutenant Sugawa received a secret mission from Navy Headquarters, and took off in a transport plane, which was atta...
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Quiet Dawn in the Front (1960)
- Director
- KOMORI Kiyoshi
- Cast
- AMACHI Shigeru, Elise RICHTER, S. P. Ghandi
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So Like the Flowers (1960)
- Director
- MIZUHO Shunkai
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, NEGAMI Jun, MARUYAMA Osamu
Kuniko is like a fresh flower and has been discovered by a TV director who has asked her to appear in commercials. Her family consists of herself, her parents and an elder brother who has returned after many years in POW camp. Yoko, her friend, has l...
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Scorching Sand (1960)
- Director
- MIZUHO Shunkai
- Cast
- MITAMURA Hajime, FUJIMAKI Jun, ISHII Ryuichi
The main streets of Tokyo are crowded with zigzagging leftist demonstrators shouting "Resistance to Rearmament," "Down with the Government" etc. One night, four young men, total strangers to each other, and living an insecure adolescence, like the ...
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The Priest and the Beauty (1960)
- Director
- SHIMA Koji
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, WAKAO Ayako, URAJI Yoko
Kiyohime is the only daughter of the headman of the village of Manago who whilst out hunting accidentally shoots Anchin, a young priest, who with his colleague, Dokaku, on the way to the famous Dojoii Temple to practice Buddhist meditation. Terrified...
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Patterns of Love (1960)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Fujiko, KANO Junko, NOZOE Hitomi
This is an omnibus picture consisting of three stories. Tosaku Yakata is a well-known college professor who writes under the name of Toku Ogata. One day, in Asakusa, the amusement center of Tokyo, he sees a beautiful girl dressed in a lavender and ...
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The Last Betrayal (1960)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, SUGAWARA Kenji
It is past midnight when Tsumura, a gang boss scurries to the rear entrance of the Bar Modonne, pushes open the door, and enters. A light is snapped on to reveal Chizu a beautiful woman and his mistress. He loves her deeply but, as they go upstairs t...
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The Ogre in Mt. Oe (1960)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, ICHIKAWA Raizo, KATSU Shintaro
At the beginning of the eleventh century when the Fujiwaras held the reigns of power, Kyoto, then capital of Japan was infested with bandits and mysterious apparitions. Michinaga Fujiwara, the prime minister, is haunted by monsters in the form of a ...
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Bonchi (1960)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Kon
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, WAKAO Ayako, NAKAMURA Tamao
In 1926 Kikuji was a real "Bonchi", the son of a great merchant family of the Osaka Senba District. The house is ruled by the grandmother, a stern matriarch who, with her daughter Sei, wants to see young Kikuji married well. What they particularly wa...
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The Woman’s Testament (1960)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo, ICHIKAWA Kon, YOSHIMURA Kozaburo
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, NAKAMURA Ganjiro, KANO Junko
"Jokyo" is a three-part omnibus picture, and Daiei's three best directors, and practically all of its stars, have combined their talents to create three stories in which various aspects of women are shown and commented upon. Director Yasuzo Masumura...
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Kamikaze (1960)
- Director
- INOUE Yoshio
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, TAKIHANA Hisako, NOZOE Hitomi
By 1944 the tide of war had turned against Japan and Akira Nozawa, lieutenant, junior grade, is a student-soldier. On one of his rare days of leave from the Yokosuka Air Base, Akira visits his Alma Mater to read in the school library. He asks the li...
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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...
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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. ...
