Movies
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Ambush at Iga Pass (1958)
- Director
- WATANABE Kunio
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, ICHIKAWA Raizo, HAYASHI Naritoshi
Lord Honda is on his way to Edo guarded by famous for his bravery, whose wife Mine is also in the long procession and who looks forward to meeting her father Yukie, and her brother Kazuma, in the Shogunate capital. However, Yukie is murdered and the...
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The Swishing Sword (1958)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Fujiko, ICHIKAWA Raizo, UMEWAKA Shoji
Rokubei Kagiya, a wealthy merchant in Edo, had been executed seven years before through a false accusation brought by Magistrate Doki and the wealthy merchants Echizenya and Ryogokuya. After obtaining the wealth of Kagiya, they plan to obtain more r...
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My Son's Revolt (1958)
- Director
- SHIMA Koji
- Cast
- KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, YANAGI Eijiro, TODOROKI Yukiko
Shinichi is the only son of a famous businessman, Karoku Shindo whose real mother Yurie killed herself in his childhood. He believes that it was his father's love affairs which drove his mother to her death, and he hates him. However, his father regr...
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The Judo Champ (1958)
- Director
- EDAGAWA Hiromu
- Cast
- SUGAWARA Kenji, SHINAGAWA Ryuji, WAKAO Ayako
When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his brother, Ryota, and the teacher's only daughter, Akiko, are greatly disturbed by Zanba, who intends to...
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The Precipice (1958)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- SUGAWARA Kenji, YAMAMOTO Fujiko, NOZOE Hitomi
Set in the magnificent scenery of the Japan Alps the story opens with Uotsu and Kosaka inching their way up the northern side of Mount Maehodaka in the midst of a snow storm. Thirty feet from a good foothold a strong gust blows up, the nylon rope giv...
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The Long Nose (1958)
- Director
- IMAMURA Sadao
- Cast
This is the story of Indian elephants; a bull, the leader of a herd of twenty, a cow and a cub. The cub lives happily with its parents, and every morning they go to a river to bathe and return to their jungle for food. But all the leaves and twigs o...
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Chance Meeting (1958)
- Director
- SHIMA Koji
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, KITABAYASHI Tanie
Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her pi...
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Maria of the Ant Village (1958)
- Director
- GOSHO Heinosuke
- Cast
- CHINO Kakuko, NAMBARA Shinji, SANO Shuji
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordin...
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His Scarlet Cloak (1958)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Kanzaburo, ARIMA Ineko, KAGAWA Kyoko
The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's beauty attracts numerous would-be lovers among whom is the local governor, a timid creature, who is dominated by his high-born and beautiful wife, who...
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Higan-Bana (1958)
- Director
- OZU Yasujiro
- Cast
- ARIMA Ineko, KUGA Yoshiko, SADA Keiji
Wataru Hirayama, sympathizes with both his old friend Shukichi Mikami, a former naval officer, and his daughter Fumiko who because of her father's stubbornness has run away from home and is living with her lover, a pianist, and works at a bar. But w...
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Days of Evil Women (1958)
- Director
- SHIBUYA Minoru
- Cast
- YAMADA Isuzu, OKADA Mariko, TONO Eijiro
Millionaire Yashiro, an old miser, has a fortune in hidden diamonds. He has no near relatives to whom to leave his estate but he has a mistress, Taeko, who attends to his needs. Taeko plans to rid herself of her master and leaves the gas jet open in...
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Taikoki (1958)
- Director
- OSONE Tatsuo
- Cast
- TAKADA Kokichi, YAMADA Isuzu, MATSUMOTO Koshiro
This is a story of the turbulent age when numerous ambitious leaders fought for mastery of Japan. Hiyoshi-moru, who later rose to great fame and power in the empire as Hideyoshi, the great warlord, was born to on extremely poor yeoman family. After ...
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Love in the Deep: "Underwater" Series (1958)
- Director
- HORIUCHI Manao
- Cast
- IZUMI Kyoko, OKI Minoru, HITOMI Reiko
The plot follows the adventures of two armed thugs who rob a Tokyo bank and make off with seven million yen in cash. The culprits are Ueda and Takeo who immediately head for the latter's home island which is inhabited mainly by women divers and their...
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Ballad of the Narayama (1958)
- Director
- KINOSHITA Keisuke
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, TAKAHASHI Teiji, MOCHIZUKI Yuko
69 years old Orin lives with her widowed son and three grandchildren. As the Narayama Festival approaches the villagers are heard singing the ballad of the hills which reminds all that with each year, one grows older and the time approaches when one ...
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Chace (1958)
- Director
- NOMURA Yoshitaro
- Cast
- TAKAMINE Hideko, OKI Minoru, TAKACHIHO Hizuru
The brutal murder of a pawn-broker in Tokyo is only partially solved with the capture of the murderer Yamada. But the search continues for his accomplice, Ishii, who is armed, with comb-like thoroughness. Yamada's confession includes the information...
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Bloody River (1958)
- Director
- WATANABE Kunio
- Cast
- TAKADA Kokichi, SAGA Michiko, TAKACHIHO Hizuru
In the middle of the 19th century, Sukegoro of Iioka, and Shigezo of Sasagawa, are gambling bosses whose territories in the Kashima district, divided by the River Tone are competing to increase their influence. The Sukegoro, old established, and in l...
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The Adulteress (1958)
- Director
- IMAI Tadashi
- Cast
- ARIMA Ineko, MIKUNI Rentaro, MORI Masayuki
In the feudal Japan of the 18th century the all-powerful Shogun controlled the entire country through daimyo who, in turn, administered the samurai and others within their respective fiefs, and in alternate years the daimyo were obliged to go and liv...