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53 Results
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A Room for Rent (1959)
- Director
- KAWASHIMA Yuzo
- Cast
- Frankie SAKAI, AWASHIMA Chikage, KATSURA Kokinji
A quick-moving yarn that follows the exploits of a zany cast of characters living in an old Osaka boarding house. The film's unique stylings are said to have angered IBUSE Masuji, the author of the novel it was originally based on; Kawashima, meanwhi...
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Farewell to Spring (1959)
- Director
- KINOSHITA Keisuke
- Cast
- TSUGAWA Masahiko, YAMAMOTO Toyozo, KAWAZU Yusuke
Five childhood best friends reunite early one spring in their hometown of Aizu-Wakamatsu, only to find themselves shaken by the discovery that they are not quite as similar as they once were. For this film focused on youth, Kinoshita called on a tale...
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The Ghost Story of Yotsuya (1959)
- Director
- NAKAGAWA Nobuo
- Cast
- AMACHI Shigeru, WAKASUGI Katsuko, EMI Shuntaro
Based on a kabuki play by TSURUYA Nanboku. After he is witnessed carrying out a murder, samurai Iemon falls prey to the manipulations of Naosuke. He later drives his wife Oiwa to suicide, incurring the wrath of her vengeful ghost. Nakagawa's bold tra...
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Watashi wa kai ni naritai (1959)
- Director
- HASHIMOTO Shinobu
- Cast
- Frankie SAKAI, ARATAMA Michiyo, RYU Chishu
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When a Man Risks His Life (1959)
- Director
- MATSUO Akinori
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASHIKAWA Izumi, KAWACHI Tamio
Komuro, a ship's doctor, says goodbye to the sea as he has now enough money to start a small hospital of his own. On his way to Tokyo, in Izu a local doctor's body is found riddled with shots and, as Komuro is carrying his shotgun, the dead man's dau...
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A Secret Rendezvous (1959)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- KATSURAGI Yoko, ITO Takao, MIYAGUCHI Seiji
Kikuko, attractive wife of Prof. Miyahara, is beset with dire forebodings that she may be found out concerning her affair with Ikuo, one of her husband's students, through the murder of a taxi driver they both witnessed. Ikuo, too, is conscience-stri...
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Who Is in the Background? (1959)
- Director
- NOGUCHI Hiroshi
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko, AOYAMA Kyoji
The police have been tracking down a big counterfeit money ring and although they suspect that the scandal surrounding the Japan Development Corporation is closely connected have no proof. Nikaido Takuya, nicknamed the Human Cyclone, learns from pri...
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A Turning to Hell (1959)
- Director
- KURAHARA Koreyoshi
- Cast
- HAYAMA Ryoji, INAGAKI Mihoko, MINAMIDA Youko
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a su...
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The Age of Our Own (1959)
- Director
- KURAHARA Koreyoshi
- Cast
- NAGATO Hiroyuki, YOSHIYUKI Kazuko, WATANABE Misako
Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named Wilson. Whenever Wilson comes, Yasuo spends his time in the tea-shop "La Gana." Yasuo is asked by his brother Shigeru to teach French to Akiko, a you...
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Love and Death (1959)
- Director
- TAKIZAWA Eisuke
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, HAYAMA Ryoji
Starring the screen idol Yujiro Ishihara, "Love and Death" based on the famous novel by Mushanokoji Saneatsu is the first Japanese film to be made on location in Europe. Muraoka Yuji, an assistant professor, falls in love with beautiful Nonomura Hat...
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Farewell to Southern Tosa (1959)
- Director
- SAITO Buichi
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko, Peggy HAYAMA
Returning to his native village he finds that Harue, who has been waiting for him, is now claimed by the local boss to whom the girl's deceased father owed money. Joji tries hard to pay Harue's debts but people are not sympathetic with a former conv...
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The Echo of Love (1959)
- Director
- USHIHARA Yoichi
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, KANEKO Nobuo
This is the first melodrama for popular action star Yujiro Ishihara. Mountain photographer Jiro Makito narrowly escapes death in an avalanche. When Tsuzuko with whom Jiro's brother lchiro is in love visits him in hospital she asks him whether she sh...
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We Live Today (1959)
- Director
- MASUDA Toshio
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, MINAMIDA Youko
One day a man named Jo Shunji makes a sudden appearance at the Uzan Mine where quarrels break out everyday between the Mikuni and Yamaichi Transportation Companies over the transport of ore. Realizing the underhand practices of the Mikuni Company, S...
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Her Name Was Sakura (1959)
- Director
- SAITO Buichi
- Cast
- TSUKIOKA Yumeji, SHIMOMOTO Tsutomu, KAWAMURA Keiko
Born of a black father and a Japanese mother, Sakura was adopted by a black family who took her to America but had no real affection for child. Finally, unable to stand life with her foster parents any longer, she runs away to make the long journey b...
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Explosion Came (1959)
- Director
- MASUDA Toshio
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, ASAOKA Ruriko
Yoneji Muroto's farm in Yatsugatake is famous for its religious atmosphere and the son Kensaku is now the head of the family. One day, seeing a woman going down to the valley where many people have committed suicide, Kensaku fallows her, but in miss...
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The Stream of Youth (1959)
- Director
- TASAKA Tomotaka
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, ASHIKAWA Izumi
Kensuke Sone, a young employee of the K. Co., is chosen as the bridegroom-to-be for Fusako the daughter of Kawasaki, managing director of the firm. Misako Kitaoka loves Kensuke, but is resigned to her marriage with Kensuke. However, when Fusako mee...
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Friendship of Jazz (1959)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Akira, KAWACHI Tamio, SAWAMOTO Tadao
The "Jazz Boat" is a popular night spot on Tokyo's Ginza. It was from an old trumpet artist, Koichiro Hate that Okabe and Kawazoe first learned how to blow the horn, and although Koichiro now performs at a small place on the edge of town, he is remem...
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Black Line (1959)
- Director
- ISHII Teruo
- Cast
- AMACHI Shigeru, MITSUYA Utako, MIHARA Yoko
Journalist Machida is trying to uncover the secrets of a call-girl organization. One day in the street he sees a girl he thinks can help him but he loses her in the crowd. A female-fortune-teller who knows her tells him of an inn where he can find he...
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Basement of Death (1959)
- Director
- NAMIKI Kyotaro
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, IKEUCHI Junko, WADA Keinosuke
Dr. Tagawa, a famous chemical weapons scientist has been kidnapped. G-man Akiyama and detective Kagawa meet Sanae, the scientist's daughter who finally reveals that her brother Eiji is being used as a tool by a foreign secret organization. One day Ak...
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Emperor Meiji and General Nogi (1959)
- Director
- KOMORI Kiyoshi
- Cast
- ARASHI Kanjuro, TAKAKURA Miyuki, HAYASHI Hiroshi
In January 1 904, the situation between Japan and Russia had grown tense. The Emperor Meiji is deeply concerned, for Russia has started to build an invincible fortress at Port Arthur, and the relations between two countries have become strained to br...
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The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin (1959)
- Director
- MAGATANI Morihei
- Cast
- SUGAWARA Bunta, MATSUURA Namiji, MIHARA Yoko
In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of Shirayama gather round a blazing fire, and utter incantations while an old headman tempers a sword. The mi...
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Haunted Cave (1959)
- Director
- MAGATANI Morihei
- Cast
- MIHARA Yoko, SETO Reiko, BANRI Masayo
The treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred years before. Yumi Aoyama is the only person who knows the location, but her family dies one after another through curious incidents, as if the family ...
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Stormy Virtue (1959)
- Director
- DOI Michiyoshi
- Cast
- TAKASHIMA Tadao, TAKAKURA Miyuki, HOSOKAWA Toshio
Yuri is looking forward to marrying her fiancé Minoru. However, a few days before the wedding she falls victim to his brother Takehiko, and against her will, she becomes Takehiko's wife. The day after the wedding, Yuri begins her silent revenge by no...
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Queen of the China Sea (1959)
- Director
- ONODA Yoshiki
- Cast
- TAKAKURA Miyuki, AMACHI Shigeru, NUMATA Yoichi
In Amoy, China, at the end of the Pacific War, Rika Wo, manageress of a night club is about to be arrested on suspicion of smuggling. However, she escapes through the assistance rendered her by First Lieutenant Yokoyama of the Japanese Naval Commande...
