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  • A Geisha’s Diary

    A Geisha’s Diary (1961)

    Director
    KAWASHIMA Yuzo
    Cast
    WAKAO Ayako, FUJIMAKI Jun, SAZANKA Kyu

    Some geishas have had many years of training and are accomplished women, skilled in singing, dancing or playing musical instruments, as well as composing poetry and being agreeable companions. On the other hand, there are geisha who cannot do any of...

  • A Design for Dying

    A Design for Dying (1961)

    Director
    YOSHIMURA Kozaburo
    Cast
    KYO Machiko, WAKAO Ayako, KANO Junko

    Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into pictur...

  • Last-Ditch Glory

    Last-Ditch Glory (1961)

    Director
    INOUE Umetsugu
    Cast
    HONGO Kojiro, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, FUJIMAKI Jun

    This is a dynamic story of five young soldiers from diverse walks of life who are thrown together in the final stages of the lmphal Operation in Burma. It is the vivid account of the fears, rivalries, and hates of ordinary men whose love of self is f...

  • All for Love

    All for Love (1961)

    Director
    MASUMURA Yasuzo
    Cast
    ICHIKAWA Raizo, WAKAO Ayako, NAKAMURA Tamao

    Yonosuke is the son of a wealthy Kyoto merchant whose only thought is how to increase his already large fortune. But the son secretly helps himself to his father's money to spend on women. Yonosuke considers women sublime, and believes that all shou...

  • Adorable Schemers

    Adorable Schemers (1961)

    Director
    KIMURA Keigo
    Cast
    NAKAMURA Tamao, KITABAYASHI Tanie, SAKURA Mutsuko

    A Girl Named Kinue Kinue works at the lsogaki Massage Service Center at a hot-spring resort not far from Tokyo where, with a number of other girls she goes to the various hotels to massage their guests. Kinue's secret is her love for her employer's...

  • Nocturne of a Woman

    Nocturne of a Woman (1961)

    Director
    INOUE Umetsugu
    Cast
    YAMAMOTO Fujiko, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, MORI Masayuki

    By the time the busy and bustling streets of Tokyo are wrapped in the glitter of neon signs, thousands of young women start powdering their faces ... to prepare for the relentless competition of the night. After her father's death, Toko becomes a gei...

  • Les Mesdemoiselles

    Les Mesdemoiselles (1961)

    Director
    YUGE Taro
    Cast
    WAKAO Ayako, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, NOZOE Hitomi

    A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against the bold spirited love makers and begin to take a liking to them is the theme of the picture. The fol...

  • Fantastico

    Fantastico (1961)

    Director
    TANAKA Tokuzo
    Cast
    ICHIKAWA Raizo, KYO Machiko, KOBAYASHI Katsuhiko

    Omon is the successful proprietress of a weaving shop, but at the same time she is the boss of 3,000 tough gamblers. She is also an accomplished swordswoman and at the same time a real beauty. One day she decides to get married to someone who will be...

  • The Ginza Three Boys

    The Ginza Three Boys (1961)

    Director
    INOUE Umetsugu
    Cast
    NAKAMURA Ganjiro, MIMASU Aiko, KAWASAKI Keizo

    This is the story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza, the busiest street in Tokyo. lchiro, the eldest, is a former title holder of the amateur bantam weight wrestling championship. Yuji, the second son, is a fine American football play...

  • Tokyo Detective Saga

    Tokyo Detective Saga (1961)

    Director
    INOUE Umetsugu
    Cast
    SADA Keiji, OKI Minoru, TAKACHIHO Hizuru

    Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Hemmi, who comes to Tokyo in 1926 from faraway Kagoshima to join the Tokyo police force. His closest friend is Nihei,...

  • Her Last Pearl

    Her Last Pearl (1961)

    Director
    YAGI Mitsuo
    Cast
    IWASHITA Shima, TSUGAWA Masahiko, ISHIHAMA Akira

    When Chiaki testifies for her husband, Ikejiri, who is charged with attempted homicide, a young industrialist, Miyahara, who is struck by her beauty offers her help while secretly desiring her. When Chiaki asks Ikejiri for a divorce, he refuses and ...

  • The Bitter Spirit

    The Bitter Spirit (1961)

    Director
    KINOSHITA Keisuke
    Cast
    TAKAMINE Hideko, SADA Keiji, NAKADAI Tatsuya

    When fighting breaks out in Shanghai in 1933, Sadako's sweetheart Takashi and landowner Heizaemon's son, Heibei, are drafted. Heibei is wounded and returns home. One day he forces Sadako to yield to him. Sadako tries to drown herself but is saved. Wh...

  • The Estuary

    The Estuary (1961)

    Director
    NAKAMURA Noboru
    Cast
    OKADA Mariko, YAMAMURA So, TAMURA Takahiro

    Rie Shirakawa opens an art gallery in Tokyo with the financial assistance of Miyahara, a rich, old businessman whose mistress she has been for three years. Tatebayashi, a middle-aged art lover, becomes her devoted manager. In need of more money, Rie ...

  • Don’t Ever Die, Mama!

    Don’t Ever Die, Mama! (1961)

    Director
    KAWAZU Yoshiro
    Cast
    ARIMA Ineko, YAMAZAKI Jiro, SHIMOMOTO Tsutomu

    This screen play is based on a prize-winning composition by an 8 year old school boy Yoshitaka Hirabayashi, whose name in the film has been changed to Yoshiyuki Hirai . Yoshiyuki and his elder brother Yoshihisa attend the Takefu West Grammar School ...

  • A Pearl in the Waves

    A Pearl in the Waves (1961)

    Director
    YAGI Mitsuo
    Cast
    IWASHITA Shima, TSUGAWA Masahiko, TAKAMINE Mieko

    Chiaki is in love with Ryuichi, but to help her family decides to marry lkejiri. The marriage is not a success. When lkejiri's embezzlement of school money is discovered, he sends Chiaki to Hokkaido to borrow it from her real mother, Minako. Ryuich...

  • The Shrikes

    The Shrikes (1961)

    Director
    SHIBUYA Minoru
    Cast
    ARIMA Ineko, AWASHIMA Chikage, KAWAZU Yusuke

    Sugako Okada, a restaurant waitress, and her daughter Sachiko meet for the first time in twenty years. But their long separation has made it difficult for them to understand each other and Sachiko leaves to work at a beauty parlor. When her mother fa...

  • Far Beyond the Waves

    Far Beyond the Waves (1961)

    Director
    YAGI Mitsuo
    Cast
    IWASHITA Shima, TSUGAWA Masahiko, TAKAMINE Mieko

    When Chiaki Ezawa returns home after graduating from a Tokyo school, she finds her father's pearl business taken over by a former clerk. Her father strongly opposes her friendship with Ryuichi Satake, a research worker at the Pearl Institute. She the...

  • Enraptured

    Enraptured (1961)

    Director
    OBA Hideo
    Cast
    OKADA Mariko, SADA Keiji, IWASHITA Shima

    Senya Hamamura, an attractive dancing mistress, falls in love with Nishikawa, a genius in the Noh play. Nishikawa is a notorious libertine and soon, finding herself in a dilemma between art and love, she breaks with him. Lonely and desperate, Senya...

  • A Soldier’s Prayer

    A Soldier’s Prayer (1961)

    Director
    KOBAYASHI Masaki
    Cast
    NAKADAI Tatsuya, ARATAMA Michiyo, TAKAMINE Hideko

    In the face of the sudden Russian invasion, Kaji and a handful of survivors fight their way to the safety of southern Manchuria. The fate of the women is highlighted in numerous sequences and the crumbling of the hero's ideals which have labeled him ...

  • Incidental Murders

    Incidental Murders (1961)

    Director
    INOUE Kazuo
    Cast
    TSUGAWA Masahiko, KUWANO Miyuki, SUGIURA Naoki

    The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and Sanko are unaware that Tatsuko is the heiress to a fortune. Two strong-arm brothers, Kosaka and Takeshi, learn of her identity and join the...