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Gamera vs Jiger (1970)
- Director
- YUASA Noriaki
- Cast
- TAKAKUWA Tsutomu, Kerry VARIS, Katherine MURPHY
Progress and Harmony for Mankind is the theme of the Japan World Exposition at Senri Hills, Osaka, Japan. However, there was a life-and-death struggle between Gamera, the staunch friend of children, and Jiger, a hideous monster bent on ruining the Ex...
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
- Director
- OKAMOTO Kihachi
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, MIFUNE Toshiro, KISHIDA Shin
lchi (Shintaro Katsu) is blind. Outwardly, a masseur, he is called Zatoichi who, handicapped by lack of sight, has honed his remaining senses until they are as sharp as a razor's blade. His constant companion is his sword. This looks like an innocent...
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Mission Iron Castle (1970)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- MATSUKATA Hiroki, MINEGISHI Ryunosuke, HONGO Kojiro
During an era of civil wars when powerful rival war lords competed to rule the land, magician-spies, who came and went swiftly and silently like dark shadows, were used by them to ferret out information about the enemy or to carry out difficult missi...
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High-School Outcasts (1970)
- Director
- MORISAKI Azuma
- Cast
- MORITA Kensaku, TAKEHARA Hideko, YAMAMOTO Norihiko
Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a high school. On the beach, he meets a young fisherman, Yusuke (Norihiko Yamamoto) also a student of the...
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Where Spring Comes Late (1970)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- BAISHO Chieko, IGAWA Hisashi, RYU Chishu
It is April. On a small island near Kyushu, western Japan, lives a coal mining family. When the company of Seiichi (Hisashi Igawa), the husband, goes bankrupt, he makes up his mind to leave the island and move to reclaimed land in Hokkaido. There he ...
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Oh, My Comrade! (1970)
- Director
- MAEDA Yoichi
- Cast
- Frankie SAKAI, ZAITSU Ichiro, JONO Yuki
Fukuzo (Frankie Sakai), Kato (lchiro Zaitsu) and Matsuko (Kayako Sono), Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One day Fukuzo guides Harumi (Tanie Kitabayashi), an old woma...
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Waterfront Blues (1970)
- Director
- SAITO Koichi
- Cast
- OKADA Mariko, MORITSUGU Koji, NISHIMURA Ko
Maki (Mariko Okada) leads a comfortable life as mistress of Nikaido (Ko Nishimura), president of a big company. She is given everything she wants, but sometimes feels an intolerable emptiness. Then she goes to the waterfront and watches the sea. She ...
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Tora-san’s Runaway (1970)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- ATSUMI Kiyoshi, BAISHO Chieko, MORIKAWA Shin
Tora-san (Kiyoshi Atsumi), a good-natured street vendor, dreams that his uncle (Shin Morikawa) is seriously ill and hurries back to his native town. He is shocked to find his uncle in bed with a doctor (Tatsuo Matsumoto) at his side and calls for the...
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Our Dear Buddies (1970)
- Director
- FUKASAKU Kinji
- Cast
- ISHIDATE Tetsuo, MAEDA Gin, KAWARAZAKI Choichiro
Five youths, Kikuo (Tetsuo lshidate), Asao (Gin Maeda), Kiyoshi (Choichiro Kawarazaki), lchiro (Hideki Hayashi) and Ryuji (Ryunosuke Minegishi), all of poor local families, work at a small factory in Tokyo. But the factory goes into bankruptcy leavin...
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Journey of Love (1970)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Noboru
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, ISHIZAKA Koji, KAYAMA Yoshiko
Yuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga}, a young office girl, decides to go to Australia to see her married sister Yuki (Yoshiko Kayama) who was separated from her parents at the age of 5 in Manila during the war, adopted by an Australian and brought up in his count...
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The Shadow Within (1970)
- Director
- NOMURA Yoshitaro
- Cast
- KATO Go, IWASHITA Shima, OGAWA Mayumi
One day, Yukio (Go Kato), is addressed by Yasuko (Shima Iwashita) in a bus. A neighbor in his childhood, she is now a widow living with her young son. Married, with no children, he is an ordinary middle-aged man working in a travel agency. Tired wit...
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Dawn of Judo (1970)
- Director
- WATANABE Kunio
- Cast
- TAKEWAKI Muga, TAKAHASHI Koji, OZAKI Nana
Shogoro Yano (Koji Takahashi) attempts to reform Jujitsu, the traditional martial art, by harmonizing technique with theory. So he opens Kodokan, an exercise-hall, where he teaches his followers Judo of his own doctrine and forbids them to fight thos...
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Crimson Bat-Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive (1970)
- Director
- ICHIMURA Hirokazu
- Cast
- MATSUYAMA Yoko, MEGURO Yuuki, SOGANOYA Meicho
Oichi (Yoko Matsuyama}, a blind swords-woman, is wanted by the authorities after killing government officials in order to save a girl. Many ronin pursue her for the reward. Among them, Jokai (Hitoshi Omae), a giant priest, Jinbei (Shinji Hotta), an e...
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Tora-san’s Grand Scheme (1970)
- Director
- KOBAYASHI Shunichi
- Cast
- ATSUMI Kiyoshi, BAISHO Chieko, MORIKAWA Shin
Torajiro (Kiyoshi Atsumi), born and raised in a poor family, is racketeer with a wild and untamed nature. After long absence, he returns to his hometown with a lot of money which he has won on the turf. With this money, he wishes to repay his uncle ...
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The Romance Express (1970)
- Director
- SEGAWA Masaharu
- Cast
- Frankie SAKAI, KANAI Katsuko, BAISHO Chieko
Genta Akagaki (Frankie Sakai) works as agent at the Ako City railway station, cared for by Tamako (Chiho Yuki), his younger sister, and Keizo (Kon Omura), her husband. But they can't openly enjoy their married life in front of Genta and want him to m...
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The Performers (1970)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- MISORA Hibari, MORI Shinichi, SHIMADA Shogo
Seijuro Fujihana (Shogo Shimada), head master of the Fujihana dance school, is a proud and lonely artist. And because of his character, his group lacks the prosperity of others. He wishes his daughter Kasumi (Hibari Misora), gifted like himself, to t...
