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I’ll Cry Alone (1965)
- Director
- TANAKA Shigeo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, MACHIDA Hiroko, FUNAKOSHI Eiji
Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to re-marry she insists he either wed or stop seeing her. Returning home, she again meets the man she first l...
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Hoodlum Soldier (1965)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, TAMURA Takahiro, TAKI Eiko
Two soldiers, stationed in Manchuria during the last years of World War II, become friends even though one is a pacifist intellectual and the other a brawling ruffian from the streets. Scenarist Kikushima, who has worked on a number of Kurosawa films...
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The Forest of No Escape (1965)
- Director
- TOMIMOTO Sokichi
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, SONOI Keisuke, ENAMI Kyoko
A young automobile salesman is stopped by two girls, one of whom is extremely beautiful. She leaves behind a notebook filled with her own poems and he is surprised at the despair reflected in her writing. When she calls for the book he learns very li...
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The Dedicated Gunman (1965)
- Director
- MURANO Tetsutaro
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, MIZUTANI Yoshie, ENAMI Kyoko
Daisuke is a favourite with the ladies, and one of the best gangmen in the country. One day he is picked up by a young woman who tells him that three gangsters are about to kill her. He tries to help but soon gets into trouble, for one of the man is ...
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Back Stairways (1965)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, TSUKASA Yoko, ABE Toru
A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless...
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Pier Without Pity (1965)
- Director
- YUASA Namio
- Cast
- ANDO Noboru, TAKAMIYA Keiji, WATANABE Fumio
Another in Shochiku's series. Minami Yoichiro is a gang member who has killed the boss of opponent clan. Before leaving Japan forever, he visits his sister's grave and becomes involved with a rival gang. He then discovers that his sister was murdered...
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Samurai Gold Seekers (1965)
- Director
- GOSHA Hideo
- Cast
- HIRA Mikijiro, KATO Go, IWASHITA Shima
In this story a young man runs into trouble when he tries to reform his clan's governmental system. The time is 1857 and the feudal government is near collapse from the onslaught of the Imperialist forces. He and his friends flee and find refuge to d...
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The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
- Director
- OSHIMA Nagisa
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Katsuo, KAGA Mariko, NOGAWA Yumiko
Director Oshima Nagisa was considered as a leader of Japanese New Wave, he directed Cruel Tales of Youth and The Sun's Burial. In this film a young man, disillusioned in love, is blackmailed into keeping a very large sum of money for a man who goes t...
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Judo Typhoon (1965)
- Director
- NISHIYAMA Masateru
- Cast
- KURAOKA Shintaro, HIRAI Shoichi, WAZAKI Syunya
This is the second of Shochiku's popular judo-series. Again, we are back at the beginning of the Meiji period, the 1880's and Shogoro Yano, Japan's "father of judo," is attempting to popularize his sport while exponents of jujutsu, which judo eventua...
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A Trap (1965)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- BAISHO Chieko, TAKIZAWA Osamu, ARATAMA Michiyo
A young girl asks a prominent lawyer to defend her brother who has been unjustly accused of a crime. He refuses, however, and the innocent boy is executed. Now the girl decides on revenge and this she achieves, first by finding evidence that the lawy...
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Samurai Spy (1965)
- Director
- SHINODA Masahiro
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Koji, YOSHIMURA Jitsuko, WATANABE Misako
Sarutobi Sasuke is one of the folk-heroes of Japan's civil war period of the 1600s. He was a counter-spy and since both sides employed spies there were a number of mix-ups, all of which have become popular legends. In this episode he is on the anti-g...
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The Abalone Gals (1965)
- Director
- MAEDA Yoichi
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Akiko, OGIMACHI Kyoko, Hoki TOKUDA
South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playland and the girls, who had been abalone divers, now become geisha, and the old ways of the island are ...
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With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
- Director
- SHINODA Masahiro
- Cast
- KAGA Mariko, YAMAMURA So, YACHIGUSA Kaoru
This film by the director of Pale Flower and Assassin is the strange story of a young girl and her love affairs with two older people: a well-known married writer, and a famous lady-artist who'd had an affair with him twenty years before. Then the gi...
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Love in the Snow (1965)
- Director
- OBA Hideo
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, KIMURA Isao, KAGA Mariko
This is a new film version of the famous Yasunari Kawabata novel "Snow Country" which tells of a writer who returns to the hot-spring resort in the north country where he had known a geisha the year before. She is waiting for him and they continue th...
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Judo Duel (1965)
- Director
- WATANABE Kunio
- Cast
- KURAOKA Shintaro, HIRAI Shoichi, MATSUYAMA Yoko
At the end of the nineteenth century, when Western customs became popular in Japan, traditional Japanese sports suffered a decline - among them jujutsu. This film is about a young man who continued to believe in the sport and who, in the face of all ...
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The Soundless Cry (1965)
- Director
- ICHIMURA Hirokazu
- Cast
- KAYAMA Yoshiko, TAMURA Masakazu, SONOI Keisuke
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gav...
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Mr. Radish and Mr. Carrot (1965)
- Director
- SHIBUYA Minoru
- Cast
- RYU Chishu, KATO Daisuke, OTOWA Nobuko
Reference to people as radishes or carrots implies that they are good common stock, the salt of the earth, the Smiths and Joneses of this world. One in this film is very good friends with another. He leads a perfectly ordinary life until he realizes ...
