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  • The Last Gunfight

    The Last Gunfight (1960)

    Director
    OKAMOTO Kihachi
    Cast
    MIFUNE Toshiro, TSURUTA Koji, TSUKASA Yoko

    The third installment in Toho's "made-in-Japan" gangster Underworld series, following on the heels of Underworld (Ankokugai, dir. YAMAMOTO Kajiro, 1956) and Boss of the Underworld (Ankokugai no kaoyaku, dir. Okamoto, 1959), starring MIFUNE Toshiro an...

  • The Island

    The Island (1960)

    Director
    SHINDO Kaneto
    Cast
    OTOWA Nobuko, TONOYAMA Taiji, TANAKA Shinji

    Shindo's celebrated work poetically depicting the struggle between man and nature. The film portrays the daily lives of a middle-aged couple and their young sons on a remote island as they cultivate the barren land, fetch water in a rowboat, and cont...

  • Jigoku

    Jigoku (1960)

    Director
    NAKAGAWA Nobuo
    Cast
    AMACHI Shigeru, NUMATA Yoichi, NAKAMURA Torahiko

    A bold concoction of a work, Nakagawa's Jigoku looks beyond Eastern values to incorporate Western classics such as Goethe's Faust and Dante's Divine Comedy among its tapestry of influences. When his friend Tamura commits a hit-and-run, it sets in mot...

  • The Wandering Princess

    The Wandering Princess (1960)

    Director
    TANAKA Kinuyo
    Cast
    KYO Machiko, FUNAKOSHI Eiji, RYU Yomei

    This tearful masterpiece about the harshness and depth of love known only to women is dedicated to women everywhere from an all-female creative team, namely the author Aishin Kakura Hiro, screenplay writer Wada Natto, and director Tanaka Kinuyo. Que...

  • HER BROTHER

    HER BROTHER (1960)

    Director
    ICHIKAWA Kon
    Cast
    KISHI Keiko, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, TANAKA Kinuyo

    Based upon a novel written by Aya Koda. A woman loves her brother very much. They share their dreams as they grow up. When the brother turns 17, he tragically dies, leaving his sister devastated and alone. 【Quoted from the database of KADOKAWA】...

  • Musume tsuma haha

    Musume tsuma haha (1960)

    Director
    NARUSE Mikio
    Cast
    HARA Setsuko, TAKAMINE Hideko, TAKARADA Akira

  • THE STORM OF THE PACIFIC

    THE STORM OF THE PACIFIC (1960)

    Director
    MATSUBAYASHI Shue
    Cast
    NATSUKI Yosuke, SATO Makoto, UEHARA Misa

  • Denso ningen

    Denso ningen (1960)

    Director
    FUKUDA Jun
    Cast
    TSURUTA Koji, SHIRAKAWA Yumi, SEIZABURO Kawazu

  • Onna ga kaidan o noboru toki

    Onna ga kaidan o noboru toki (1960)

    Director
    NARUSE Mikio
    Cast
    TAKAMINE Hideko, MORI Masayuki, DAN Reiko

  • Kuroi gashu Aru salaryman no shogen

    Kuroi gashu Aru salaryman no shogen (1960)

    Director
    HORIKAWA Hiromichi
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Keiju, HARA Chisako, HIRATA Akihiko

  • THE BAD SLEEP WELL

    THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960)

    Director
    KUROSAWA Akira
    Cast
    MIFUNE Toshiro, MORI Masayuki, KAGAWA Kyoko

  • Wait for Tomorrow

    Wait for Tomorrow (1960)

    Director
    NAKAHIRA Ko
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASHIKAWA Izumi, WATANABE Misako

    Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company which offers him an assignment to "Cover Tokyo" with a camera. But he is disill...

  • The Rusted Chain

    The Rusted Chain (1960)

    Director
    SAITO Buichi
    Cast
    AKAGI Keiichiro, SASAMORI Reiko, KODAKA Yuji

    Kenichi Nagaoka, an intellectual type, and his brother Eiji, practical and active, have lost their father who died after Kenichi lost a 20-million-yen promissory note signed by the Nagaoka stevedoring company. A money-lender named Mizuhara who holds...

  • The Reformer

    The Reformer (1960)

    Director
    MATSUO Akinori
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, KITABAYASHI Tanie

    Nitta returns to the Airin Private Reform School where he spent his orphaned and delinquent childhood, as a counsellor. He finds about 30 boys in the school, headed by the rebellious Koji, the pickpocket, Charisuke, Yukiko, a half-black, and Fujio, w...

  • Volcano Wind

    Volcano Wind (1960)

    Director
    YAMAZAKI Tokujiro
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko, SHISHIDO Joe

    When a plane crashes near Kagoshima, mystery surrounds the incident when it is found that the remains of the pilot Mitsuhiko are not among the wreckage, nor the sum of fifty million yen which was on board, and the authorities believe that the pilot m...

  • The Gun Like Lightning

    The Gun Like Lightning (1960)

    Director
    NOGUCHI Hiroshi
    Cast
    AKAGI Keiichiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, NITANI Hideaki

    Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a new leaf. He has returned, however, because of Keiko, his sweetheart, who he now finds is engaged to...

  • The Day of Youth

    The Day of Youth (1960)

    Director
    MASUDA Toshio
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, ASHIKAWA Izumi

    At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang again...

  • Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

    Ryuji, the Gun Slinger (1960)

    Director
    NOGUCHI Hiroshi
    Cast
    AKAGI Keiichiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, SHISHIDO Joe

    When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is employed as a bodyguard by Yo Sangen, chief of a narcotics smuggling ring. Later Yo breaks with the Hor...

  • The Cards Will Tell

    The Cards Will Tell (1960)

    Director
    USHIHARA Yoichi
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, SHIMIZU Mayumi

    Hatanaka Eiji returns to Tokyo from serving a prison sentence for the killing of a gang boss which he did not commit, but had been framed by Takagi the real murderer. At the Montparnasse cabaret he finds Nami, his former sweetheart who is now Takagi...

  • Blossoms of Love

    Blossoms of Love (1960)

    Director
    TAKIZAWA Eisuke
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASHIKAWA Izumi, NAKAHARA Sanae

    Tosuke, a commercial artist, assists an old man named Genjuro when he falls and breaks his leg. This leads to Tosuke meeting Keiko, the old man's daughter who is jealously guarded like a tender flower as a result of her mother Ikuko having run away w...

  • The Guitarist and the Rancher

    The Guitarist and the Rancher (1960)

    Director
    SAITO Buichi
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, ASAOKA Ruriko, KODAKA Yuji

    This is the fast action story of Shinji, the guitar playing vagrant who on coming to the Sagara pastureland finds the Matoba group trying to take over the property from Sagara Nobuo who owes Matoba a gambling debt and is also infatuated with his sist...

  • Fighting Horizon

    Fighting Horizon (1960)

    Director
    KOMORI Kiyoshi
    Cast
    MASTUBARA Rokuro, NUMATA Yoichi, MITSUYA Utako

    Tetsuo is a wild youth and unhappy over the indifference shown him by his father and stepmother. When Mariko falls in love with him this arouses the jealousy of Shuichi who challenges Tetsuo to a motor cycle race. Shuichi is seriously injured but i...

  • Female Detective

    Female Detective (1960)

    Director
    MAGATANI Morihei
    Cast
    OBATA Kinuko, MATSUURA Namiji, SUGAWARA Bunta

    This is the vigorous and hard but touching story of a police-woman who devotes her life to preventing and correcting teen-age delinquency, fighting all the vices and violences which lurk in the dark streets and slums of every big city. This chief ch...

  • Brutal Woman

    Brutal Woman (1960)

    Director
    DOI Michiyoshi
    Cast
    OBATA Kinuko, IKEUCHI Junko, SUGAWARA Bunta

    This is a very sensitive and intriguing story filled with suspense and revealed through the checkered careers of two half-sisters each endowed with her own different character, one being good, and the other evil. Tired of poverty, Keiko leaves home...

  • Yellow Line

    Yellow Line (1960)

    Director
    ISHII Teruo
    Cast
    AMACHI Shigeru, MIHARA Yoko, YOSHIDA Teruo

    Moroki threatened a dancer called Rumi at Tokyo Station and forced her to accompany him to Kobe. Mayama, Rumi's lover, finding her shoe on the platform senses that the New Japan Art Corporation with which she had been concerned is an international pr...