Movies
44 Results
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The Midday Trap (1962)
- Director
- TOMIMOTO Sokichi
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, KANO Junko, TAKAMATSU Hideo
Tokyo with its large modern buildings is filled with white-collar workers caught in the feverish rat race to climb the ladder of success. But one misstep, a few sweet stolen moments, and even the ablest of men can topple from the highest rung and bea...
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Killer Whale (1962)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, HONGO Kojiro, FUJIMURA Shiho
Once a year, the quiet fishing village of Wadaura in Southern Japan is in a turmoil. The whalers have always concentrated their efforts to try and catch a Killer Whale which is easily twice as large as an ordinary leviathan, and passes by in the offi...
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Stolen Pleasure (1962)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, TAMIYA Jiro, MIZUTANI Yoshie
Some time after Masuko, once the reigning queen of a cabaret, and Asai, an automobile salesman, set up housekeeping together, she finds out that he is already married to Ryuko, the daughter of the man to whom he was indebted while still a student. I...
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Princess and I (1962)
- Director
- TANAKA Shigeo
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, Charito SOLIS, FUJIMAKI Jun
Dr. Shinji Mori, a nuclear scientist, stops over in Hongkong to see a fellow scientist he'd known in the United States. On his arrival in the airport, two men wearing glasses are about to abduct him, but luckily he is rescued by a stranger. When ou...
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Their Legacy (1962)
- Director
- YOSHIMURA Kozaburo
- Cast
- YAMAMURA So, WAKAO Ayako, KANO Junko
Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He c...
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Her Hidden Past (1962)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, BANRI Masayo, FUNAKOSHI Eiji
Chikara, a young pickpocket, was picked up by Sakai, a professor at the university, taken into his home and treated as one of the family. Ten years later, he has justified the professor's trust in him. But daughter Taeko has now begun to consider Ch...
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If It Were a Dream (1962)
- Director
- TOMIMOTO Sokichi
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, KIMURA Isao, TAKAMI Kuniichi
Sono who works for a pearl shop, goes to Kyoto on a business trip with several leisured society women. On the train she meets Motomura. Coming home from Kyoto, Sono discovers that her husband Kiyomi has been having an affair with Kyoko, her step-sist...
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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...
