Movies
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Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)
- Director
- TANAKA Shigeo
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, ENAMI Kyoko, NATSUKI Akira
The monster Gamera (shot to Mars in its last Daiei appearance) has fallen back to earth again and soon begins creating its customary havoc. At the same time some Japanese adventurers, hunting for a fabulous opal, bring back an object which turns out ...
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The Freezing Point (1966)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, FUNAKOSHI Eiji, YASUDA Michiyo
Based upon the best seller by Ayako Miura, this is about a couple whose only child is killed. The husband, as a means of macabre revenge on the wife, adopts the child of the murderer and they bring her up as their own. There comes a day, however, whe...
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The Virgin Witness (1966)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, YASUDA Michiyo, JO Kenzaburo
Though still young and beautiful, the head nun of a temple is given a young wayward girl to bring up. This she does successfully but when the head priest dies his successor seduces her and when pregnant she takes her own life. Finally the young girl ...
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The Spider Tattoo (1966)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, HASEGAWA Akio, YAMAMOTO Manabu
Based upon one of the famous stories by the late Junichiro Tanizaki, the script is by the director of "The Island", photography by the cinematographer for "Rashoman" and "Yojimbo", and direction by the creator of "The Hoodlum Soldier". A beautiful yo...
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The Hoodlum Soldier Deserts Again (1966)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, SAGA Michiko, TAMURA Takahiro
This film is a sequel to Yasuzo Masumura's popular "Hoodlum Soldier". In this the two soldiers desert in Manchuria, steal an army truck, and end up in the hands of the military police. They also become involved with a brothel-keeper and eventually st...
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Secret Agent 101 (1966)
- Director
- ISHII Teruo
- Cast
- TAKEWAKI Muga, YOSHIMURA Jitsuko, LIN Tsui Jeanette
Tengle likes having a good time with the girls more than anything else but he gets himself involved in a dangerous counterfeiting ring at Hong Kong. It all begins when Alang, one of his girlfriends, picks up a tape on which instructions are recorded....
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Our Wonderful Years (1966)
- Director
- GOSHO Heinosuke
- Cast
- HIDARI Sachiko, ATSUMI Kiyoshi, BAISHO Chieko
This film is based on the life of a real person, Tora Yoshida, who married at fourteen and after her husband was sent to the front raised eleven children all by herself. There were years of heart-break and poverty but, nonetheless, she carried on, ra...
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The Lovable Tramp (1966)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- HANA Hajime, BAISHO Chieko, ARISHIMA Ichiro
Tramps are usually treated with contempt. But the tramp that a middle-aged white collar worker meets on the train is quite different. Things happen when he is around and brighten up. Among the incidents are trouble over a dog, a would-be suicide, and...
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Lost Sex (1966)
- Director
- SHINDO Kaneto
- Cast
- KANZE Hideo, OTOWA Nobuko, TONO Eijiro
A new picture by the director of Naked Island and Onibaba, is the story of a man (played by Noh actor, Hideo Kanze) who is impotent due to being exposed to the atom-bomb explosion at Nagasaki. He lives alone with his house-keeper (Nobuko Otowa, star ...
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Violence at High Noon (1966)
- Director
- OSHIMA Nagisa
- Cast
- SATO Kei, KOYAMA Akiko, KISHI Teruko
This story is purposely fragmented by flashbacks within flashbacks, of a young man (Sato Kei, seen in Onibaba) whose grasp of reality is so precarious that, due to a previous experience, it is only an unconscious girl, or better, a dead one whom he c...
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Mr. Greenhorn (1966)
- Director
- ICHIMURA Hirokazu
- Cast
- SAKAMOTO Kyu, KOGA Masao, KAGA Mariko
This is film version of the most famous novel of Natsume Soseki, well-known in the West in its English translation. It is about a young school-teacher who has just obtained his first job at the turn-of-the- century when Japan is just accustoming itse...
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Miss Ohanahan (1966)
- Director
- NOMURA Yoshitaro
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, KURIZUKA Asahi, ARIKAWA Yuki
Originally a best selling biography, then a top TV serial, Ohanahan now becomes a film, starring Iwashita Shima, remembered from The Scarlet Camellia and Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon. This picture, the first part of the novel, recounts the tomboy childh...
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Spring Breeze (1966)
- Director
- ICHIMURA Hirokazu
- Cast
- KUWANO Miyuki, TAKAMINE Mieko, IWASHITA Shima
A girl lives with her mother in Tokyo. She meets a young man and it seems they will be happy together until he discovers that her mother is having an affair with a married man. He does not mind, but his mother does, and forbids such a marriage. The g...
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Gamblers’ Luck (1966)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- HANA Hajime, BAISHO Chieko, INUZUKA Hiroshi
This episodic film is patterned on the old picaresque comic novels so popular in eighteenth century Edo. A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge ...
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The Flesh Market (1966)
- Director
- ISHII Teruo
- Cast
- TAKEWAKI Muga, YOSHIDA Teruo, KAYAMA Yoshiko
A girl approaches a young man offering him an evening he won't forget if in exchange he gives her his name-card. He does, has a fine time, and indeed does not forget it because he is in the grip of an ingenious call-girl racket which blackmails him t...
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Cash Calls Hell (1966)
- Director
- GOSHA Hideo
- Cast
- NAKADAI Tatsuya, KUWANO Miyuki, HIRA Mikijiro
A young man just out of jail - played by Nakadai Tatsuya, hero of Harakiri and Kwaidan -becomes involved in a mysterious scheme to kill three men. All three are eventually murdered, but not by him. For it seems that another plot is unfolding and at t...
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The Betrayers Out! (1966)
- Director
- NOMURA Yoshitaro
- Cast
- ANDO Noboru, TAKEWAKI Muga, ATSUMI Kiyoshi
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tr...
