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The Pacific War and the interenational Military Tribunal (1959)
- Director
- KOMORI Kiyoshi
- Cast
- ARASHI Kanjuro, TAKADA Minoru, SASAKI Takamaru
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and se...
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Broken Blossoms (1959)
- Director
- ISHII Teruo
- Cast
- OBATA Kinuko, MITSUYA Utako, UTSUI Ken
After the surrender in August 1945, the Japanese residents in Manchuria fell into the hands of the enemy forces. The volunteer nurses soon attract the attention of the occupation troops and they are drafted to a medical relief station. Then a group o...
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Enchanted Princess (1959)
- Director
- KIMURA Keigo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, WAKAO Ayako, KATSU Shintaro
Once in the Land of Badgers, there lived an old badger named Doroemon who had a lovely daughter named Okuro, a meek and obedient girl who always went to buy sake' for him. Now, near the forest where Doroemon and Okuro lived was a palace in which liv...
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Samurai Vendetta (1959)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, KATSU Shintaro, MAKI Chitose
Receiving an urgent letter from his uncle, Yasubei Nakayama, an accomplished fencer of the ltto school, hurries to assist him in a duel with the Murakami Brothers, his rivals in swordship. On his way, Yasubei almost collides with a young rider, evide...
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A Gambler as I Am (1959)
- Director
- WATANABE Kunio
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, HONGO Kojiro, KOBAYASHI Katsuhiko
In 1905, a few days before the fall of Mukden the citizens of Tokyo are surprised at the murder of a member of parliament, Kentaro Akashi, at the home of his young mistress. Naojiro, a spirited young man who used to be a house boy at the Akashi's vo...
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Etajima, the Naval Academy (1959)
- Director
- MURAYAMA Mitsuo
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Katsuhiko, NANBU Shozo, MOMOYAMA Taro
The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbea...
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Odd Obsession (1959)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Kon
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, KANO Junko, NAKADAI Tatsuya
Mr. Kenmochi, in his early sixties, is enjoying an obviously happy life in his Kyoto home. A man of artistic temperament, he is not merely an art-critic and an antiquarian, but also a connoisseur of beautiful things and a dilettante. He complains of...
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The Lord and the Gambler (1959)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, HONGO Kojiro, AWAJI Keiko
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his step-brother's castle, when the ruler of the Takatori Clan suddenly dies leaving no heir and despite the protes...
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Beauty the Enemy (1959)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- SUGIMURA Haruko, YAMAMOTO Fujiko, WAKAO Ayako
Fusa Yoshino's only ambition in life is to care for her ancestral estate on the outskirts of Tokyo. By her first husband she has a lovely daughter name Kikue, while from her deceased second husband she has another daughter, named Keiko, who is just a...
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The Path I Remember (1959)
- Director
- SHIMA Koji
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Fujiko, WANAMI Takayoshi, KUROIWA Kaoru
When Saya's parents died several years before she was left with her blind younger brother and sister. Assisted by his sister blind Minoru acquires confidence in himself and shows great talent as a violinist. Minoru has a pen friend named Johan in Vi...
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The Gaijin (1959)
- Director
- KATO Bin
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, NAKADA Yasuko, NEGAMI Jun
In 1625 a great Burmese army invaded Siam. At the same time Cambodian forces are also planning an invasion. With his country in dire peril the Siamese king approaches the Japanese settlers in his country and asks for their help. A young Japanese name...
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The Cast-Off (1959)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- SABURI Shin, SAWAMURA Sadako, WAKAO Ayako
Sanada who has been a mere technician in a small laboratory becomes a director of a chemical company through his invention of a binding agent, Sandait. With the change in his social position his life undergoes a sudden transformation. His wife, kind-...
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The Most Valuable Madam (1959)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, FUNAKOSHI Eiji
What do you think "The Most Valuable Madam" means? Some people say that it means a woman who keeps her husband completely under her thumb. According to another view it means a woman who has a profound knowledge about how to handle a man. lchiro, the...
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The Makioka Sisters (1959)
- Director
- SHIMA Koji
- Cast
- TODOROKI Yukiko, KYO Machiko, YAMAMOTO Fujiko
Based on the famous novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is a story of the four sisters of the ancient and reputable Makioka family of Osaka. After their father's death, the fortunes of the family decline and their large mansion passes into other hands...
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Hey, Pineapple! (1959)
- Director
- UCHIKAWA Seiichiro
- Cast
- SUGIURA Naoki, KOSAKA Kazuya, BAN Junzaburo
This is the film version of a war novel by Robert N. Hongo, a Hawaiian Nisei, based on his experiences during the Korean War which was best-seller in Hawaii, and was widely discussed when Shochiku finally obtained the film rights in severe competitio...
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Tokyo Omnibus (1959)
- Director
- BANSHO Yoshiaki
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Teiji, SADA Keiji, OKI Minoru
"Samba Garasu," meaning three-some, has always been a Shochiku tradition. In this film, celebrating the 3,000th production of the Shochiku Company, three generations of the "Samba Garasu" tradition have been brought together in a gay modern day story...
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Road to Eternity (1959)
- Director
- HAYASHI Masaki
- Cast
- NAKADAI Tatsuya, ARATAMA Michiyo, SADA Keiji
"Road to Eternity" is the sequel to No Greater Love in which the wide-screen process plus striking black-white photography vividly depicts the unbelievable, irrational, and inhuman practices of an army at war. For suspected Red sympathies, Kaji has ...
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Affair in the Mist (1959)
- Director
- SHIBUYA Minoru
- Cast
- OKADA Mariko, TSUGAWA Masahiko, MIKAMI Shinichiro
"Affair in the Mist" is the story of Sonoko, mistress of the managing director of construction firm who has fought his way up from a stevedore, and is striving to begin a new life after leaving her man. A terrible burden is her father who once tried ...
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Vagabond Lovers (1959)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Noboru
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Teiji, ARIMA Ineko, ITO Yunosuke
This is a fun-packed travelogue-comedy which carries the audience to many scenic places, on and off the beaten path. Beautiful shots of the Inland Sea, the ultra-modern aspects of Nagoya and the historic and picturesque city of Hirado come to life in...
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Okinawa Interlude (1959)
- Director
- HORIUCHI Manao
- Cast
- OKI Minoru, OKADA Mariko, NAMBARA Shinji
For the first time since the end of the war, a Japanese motion picture group went on location to Okinawa to film "Kairyu", based on a popular magazine serial. The result is a charming landscape of exotic Okinawa in a beautiful widescreen film. The p...
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Kinokuniya, the Dauntless Merchant (1959)
- Director
- WATANABE Kunio
- Cast
- TAKADA Kokichi, SAGA Michiko, KONOE Jushiro
The life of Bunzaemon Kinokuniya, a merchant of feudal Japan is legendary to the Japanese, and this film covers the early days of his career from the time he sacrifices himself for others until the day he again proves himself against tremendous odds....
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Takamaru and Kikumaru (1959)
- Director
- MARUNE Santaro
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Kinshiro, HANANOMOTO Kotobuki, IZUMI Kyoko
Two brothers, Takamaru and Kikumaru, are living with their father, Hakuraku-Ou, until one day Hakuraku-Ou is killed by "Death's-Head" Ginnosuke, a villain skilled in the art of sorcery. Hakuraku-Ou had long been seeking a Tiger Seal which, together ...
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Red Pants : "Underwater" Series (1959)
- Director
- IWAMA Tsuruo
- Cast
- OKI Minoru, IZUMI Kyoko, KOYAMA Akiko
A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko, another diver, as a rash act. Her attitude, however, is nothing but a cloak to hide her affection for him. Shinji, hard working and manly, becomes th...
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High Teen (1959)
- Director
- INOUE Kazuo
- Cast
- SADA Keiji, KUWANO Miyuki, MIKAMI Shinichiro
Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when p...
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No Greater Love (1959)
- Director
- HAYASHI Masaki
- Cast
- NAKADAI Tatsuya, ARATAMA Michiyo, ARIMA Ineko
Director Masaki Kobayashi says of this film: "My chief reason for making a motion picture of "Ningen no Joken" was probably the fact that I, too, went through similar experiences like Kaji during the war. And through the character of Kaji I wished t...
