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A Geisha’s Diary (1961)
- Director
- KAWASHIMA Yuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, FUJIMAKI Jun, SAZANKA Kyu
Some geishas have had many years of training and are accomplished women, skilled in singing, dancing or playing musical instruments, as well as composing poetry and being agreeable companions. On the other hand, there are geisha who cannot do any of...
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A Design for Dying (1961)
- Director
- YOSHIMURA Kozaburo
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, WAKAO Ayako, KANO Junko
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into pictur...
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Last-Ditch Glory (1961)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, FUJIMAKI Jun
This is a dynamic story of five young soldiers from diverse walks of life who are thrown together in the final stages of the lmphal Operation in Burma. It is the vivid account of the fears, rivalries, and hates of ordinary men whose love of self is f...
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All for Love (1961)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, WAKAO Ayako, NAKAMURA Tamao
Yonosuke is the son of a wealthy Kyoto merchant whose only thought is how to increase his already large fortune. But the son secretly helps himself to his father's money to spend on women. Yonosuke considers women sublime, and believes that all shou...
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Adorable Schemers (1961)
- Director
- KIMURA Keigo
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Tamao, KITABAYASHI Tanie, SAKURA Mutsuko
A Girl Named Kinue Kinue works at the lsogaki Massage Service Center at a hot-spring resort not far from Tokyo where, with a number of other girls she goes to the various hotels to massage their guests. Kinue's secret is her love for her employer's...
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Nocturne of a Woman (1961)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Fujiko, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, MORI Masayuki
By the time the busy and bustling streets of Tokyo are wrapped in the glitter of neon signs, thousands of young women start powdering their faces ... to prepare for the relentless competition of the night. After her father's death, Toko becomes a gei...
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Les Mesdemoiselles (1961)
- Director
- YUGE Taro
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, NOZOE Hitomi
A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against the bold spirited love makers and begin to take a liking to them is the theme of the picture. The fol...
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Fantastico (1961)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, KYO Machiko, KOBAYASHI Katsuhiko
Omon is the successful proprietress of a weaving shop, but at the same time she is the boss of 3,000 tough gamblers. She is also an accomplished swordswoman and at the same time a real beauty. One day she decides to get married to someone who will be...
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The Ginza Three Boys (1961)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Ganjiro, MIMASU Aiko, KAWASAKI Keizo
This is the story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza, the busiest street in Tokyo. lchiro, the eldest, is a former title holder of the amateur bantam weight wrestling championship. Yuji, the second son, is a fine American football play...
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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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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...
