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Conflagration (1958)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Kon
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, NAKAMURA Ganjiro, NAKADAI Tatsuya
A young Buddhist acolyte fanatically obsessed with Shukakuji Temple despairs at how its beauty is being tarnished by worldly corruption and decides to set it ablaze. The film adapts MISHIMA Yukio's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, with Ichikawa usi...
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Conflagration 4K Digitally Restored Version (1958)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Kon
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, NAKADAI Tatsuya, NAKAMURA Ganjiro
Goichi starts working as an apprentice in Shukaku Temple (common name) in Kyoto in spring of 1944, which he worships. However, the temple becomes no more than a tourist attraction after the World War II. The life style of priests in the temple also c...
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Bijo to ekitai ningen (1958)
- Director
- HONDA Ishiro
- Cast
- SAHARA Kenji, HIRATA Akihiko, SHIRAKAWA Yumi
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Muhomatsu no issho (1958)
- Director
- INAGAKI Hiroshi
- Cast
- MIFUNE Toshiro, TAKAMINE Hideko, AKUTAGAWA Hiroshi
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THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (1958)
- Director
- KUROSAWA Akira
- Cast
- MIFUNE Toshiro, CHIAKI Minoru, FUJIWARA Kamatari
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Crimson Wings (1958)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASHIKAWA Izumi, NAKAHARA Sanae
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company's office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft whic...
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The Tragedy of Today (1958)
- Director
- MASUDA Toshio
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Akira, ASHIKAWA Izumi, HAYAMA Ryoji
This is a fast moving story of a group of university students in search of easy money whose schemes lead only to disaster. The plan of Toda, the leader of the group, was to swindle an illegal betting agency by obtaining the results of the bicycle ra...
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Showdown in the Storm (1958)
- Director
- KURAHARA Koreyoshi
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, OKADA Masumi
It is when assisting his friend Nakagawa by riding for his team in a horsemanship contest that Senkichi Kira, a physical culture instructor meets beautiful Setsuko, but when they are pestered by hoodlums and Senkichi becomes involved with a gang boss...
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The Endless Desire (1958)
- Director
- IMAMURA Shohei
- Cast
- NAGATO Hiroyuki, NAKAHARA Sanae, WATANABE Misako
During the last days of the war, a certain Lieutenant Hashimoto buried morphia, valued at 60 million yen. On August 15th 1957, five persons met to discuss the recovery of the drug, but there was one more than the three with whom the lieutenant agree...
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That Wonderful Guy (1958)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, TSUKIOKA Yumeji
This is a story of the bright lights of show business. Yoko, a dancer, dreams of happiness away from the hand to mouth existence of the theatre, and marriage with a handsome, rich man who haunts her dreams, a combination of James Dean, Yujiro Ishihar...
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The Seasons of Love (1958)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- YAMADA Isuzu, YASUI Shoji, NAKAHARA Sanae
Akira Shimizudani is a conscientious writer married to a fashion model named Ginko who disapproves of his mother Urako who is always borrowing money from him to go to Atami hot-spring resort. Moreover, Momoko, Akira's sister who is married to a decen...
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The Boy Who Came Back (1958)
- Director
- SUZUKI Seijun
- Cast
- HIDARI Sachiko, KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko
Keiko Midorikawa is a member of an organization which gives advice and assistance to juvenile delinquents. Nobuo Kasahara, just released from reform school to which he was committed for having attempted to kill his father is 19 years of age and seem...
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Tomorrow is Another Day (1958)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, OSAKA Shiro
On the night of the Fukagawa Festival, Torajiro Hirata, boss of the Tomoe Gang, stabbed to death Taizo Matsuyama, one of the chiefs of the Kanto Motsumonji Gang. On his release from prison eighteen years later, he visits the house of Matsumonji, and...
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Street in the Sun (1958)
- Director
- TASAKA Tomotaka
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, ASHIKAWA Izumi
Takako Kuramoto, a college student, is employed as companion and tutor to Kumiko Tashiro and through her likeable character has come to be regarded as one of the family. Kumiko, an extremely bright girl, is somewhat handicapped through an injury rec...
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Forever My Love (1958)
- Director
- TAKIZAWA Eisuke
- Cast
- HAYAMA Ryoji, ASHIKAWA Izumi, KANEKO Nobuo
It is 1943 and Shigeru, a university student is on his way to join the colors. He has only one wish before he goes to war and this is to see Tsubura, the girl he has loved since childhood, who is stricken with polio and unable to walk. Tsubura's fat...
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Underwater Murder (1958)
- Director
- ONODA Yoshiki
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, MIHARA Yoko, MITSUYA Utako
One day, the body of a man drifts ashore near where women divers are working. They crowd around the corpse and recoil with gasps of horror when they see the repulsive, battered face of the unfortunate individual. But a different fear clutches at Sada...
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Naked Island (1958)
- Director
- NOMURA Hiromasa
- Cast
- NAKAYAMA Shoji, KUBOTA Nahoko, NUMATA Yoichi
On board the ship in which Goro lnada a pro-boxer is returning to Japan he falls in love with Ayame, a popular singer. But their happiness is of short durations as the vessel is wrecked. When lnada awakens from the nightmare of shipwreck, he finds h...
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Holiday in Japan (1958)
- Director
- OMI Toshiro, MAGATANI Morihei
- Cast
- TAKASHIMA Tadao, UTSUI Ken, ARASHI Kanjuro
This picture with an all-star cast and in Shintoho Scope and Eastman Color was produced to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Shintoho. The New Eastern Times Company of Tokyo on the 10th Anniversary of its establishment, celebrates the occasion with ...
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Black Cat Mansion (1958)
- Director
- NAKAGAWA Nobuo
- Cast
- WADA Keinosuke, KITAZAWA Noriko, SATSUKI Fujie
Six years before, when Dr. Kuzumi took his wife to the house of her parents to recuperate from an illness, mysterious events began to happen in the mansion. And from an old priest he learns of the legend of the "Ghost Mansion." 140 years ago, there...
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Super Giant part 6 (1958)
- Director
- ISHII Teruo
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, MITSUYA Utako, HAYASHI Hiroshi
(This synopsis includes "Super Giant part 5" and "Super Giant part 6") One day, Super Giant finds an unknown flying substance with his Geiger Counter. But though he follows it at full speed, he loses sight of it because the meteors co me down like...
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Super Giant part 5 (1958)
- Director
- ISHII Teruo
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, MITSUYA Utako, HAYASHI Hiroshi
(This synopsis includes "Super Giant part 5" and "Super Giant part 6") One day, Super Giant finds an unknown flying substance with his Geiger Counter. But though he follows it at full speed, he loses sight of it because the meteors co me down like...
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Red piers (1958)
- Director
- ISHII Teruo
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, TSUKUSHI Akemi, MIHARA Yoko
A last action story of Yoshioka, a skillful police investigator, who under the pretense of being a fugitive from justice is investigating the call-girl racket. Led to the "Arizona" club through a pink card being slipped between the door of his car h...
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Queen of Asia (1958)
- Director
- NOMURA Hiromasa
- Cast
- TAKASHIMA Tadao, TAKAKURA Miyuki, TANBA Tetsuro
Yoshiko Kawashima was born the fourteenth princess of the Ching dynasty and adopted by a Japanese patriot, Naniwa Kawashima, unaware of her noble birth. Hoping to marry a Japanese second lieutenant she is obstructed by her father and a colonel named...
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The Gay Masquerade (1958)
- Director
- ITO Daisuke
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, KATSU Shintaro, AOYAMA Kyoko
Kikunosuke is one of the street rogues led by Nipponzaemon whose ostensible trade is pawnbroking. However, their real business is blackmail and in order to deceive people on one occasion Kikunosuke disguises himself as a beautiful girl and on another...
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The Lowest Man (1958)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, NOZOE Hitomi, NAGAI Tomoo
"Homeless. Convicted several times. Age, 22." This is Saburo's personal record, when he is arrested for abduction. Having deceived Hideko, a country girl, he is arrested by Detective lgawa and is sent to prison. Saburo's mother died while he was a c...
