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  • The Sword-Cut

    The Sword-Cut (1962)

    Director
    MISUMI Kenji
    Cast
    ICHIKAWA Raizo, FUJIMURA Shiho, NAGISA Mayumi

    A showcase of Misumi's skills as a modernist director, and the first installment in the "Sword Trilogy," a collaboration between the director and Daiei star ICHIKAWA Raizo. Ichikawa plays Takakura Shingo, a samurai whose foster father and sister are ...

  • The Tale of Zatoichi

    The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)

    Director
    MISUMI Kenji
    Cast
    KATSU Shintaro, AMACHI Shigeru, BANRI Masayo

    The first installment of the popular Zatoichi series, which over the course of twenty-six films stamped its mark on popular culture worldwide. Zatoichi, a humble blind swordsman skilled in the quick-draw sword technique of iai-jutsu, encounters Hirat...

  • Elegant Beast

    Elegant Beast (1962)

    Director
    KAWASHIMA Yuzo
    Cast
    WAKAO Ayako, ITO Yunosuke, YAMAOKA Hisano

    In this dazzlingly original work set entirely within a single public-housing apartment, we follow the Maedas, a family of four whose surface elegance belies their moral depravity, as they engage in one act of deception after another. Featuring an ori...

  • LONELY LANE

    LONELY LANE (1962)

    Director
    NARUSE Mikio
    Cast
    TAKAMINE Hideko, TAKARADA Akira, KATO Daisuke

    Naruse Mikio helmed this film adaptation of Hayashi Fumiko's bestselling autobiographical novel, which was also adapted for the stage. Born as a peddler's daughter, the impoverished Fumiko struggles as a waitress while writing poetry and eventually f...

  • Chushingura Haru no maki Yuki no maki

    Chushingura Haru no maki Yuki no maki (1962)

    Director
    INAGAKI Hiroshi
    Cast
    MATSUMOTO Koshiro, KAYAMA Yuzo, MIHASHI Tatsuya

  • GORATH

    GORATH (1962)

    Director
    HONDA Ishiro
    Cast
    IKEBE Ryo, SHIRAKAWA Yumi, KUBO Akira

  • KING KONG VS. GODZILLA

    KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962)

    Director
    HONDA Ishiro
    Cast
    TAKASHIMA Tadao, SAHARA Kenji, FUJIKI Yu

    The United Nations dispatches a submarine, the Sea Hawk, to study abnormally high temperatures in the Bering Sea. But as soon as the Sea Hawk arrives, it is damaged and sends out a distress signal. When a rescue helicopter arrives, its crew spots God...

  • A Man with a Dragon Tattoo

    A Man with a Dragon Tattoo (1962)

    Director
    MASUDA Toshio
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, IWASAKI Kaneko

    At the turn of the century, Kyushu in Southern Japan, has begun to enjoy a wave of prosperity due to the trade with China. All sorts of people are attracted to Kyushu including Tamai Kingoro, fresh from the country who joins the Hamao group of longs...

  • Rainbow over the Kinmen

    Rainbow over the Kinmen (1962)

    Director
    MATSUO Akinori
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, NITANI Hideaki, HUA Hsin

    In the autumn of 1958, Dr. Takei stands on the deck of a cargo boat, watching the shadowy outlines of Chinmen Island in the distance. Matsuzaka, a reporter, meets Takei when he lands, but their happy reunion is interrupted by the wail of sirens and b...

  • Fresh Leaves

    Fresh Leaves (1962)

    Director
    NISHIKAWA Katsumi
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, YOSHINAGA Sayuri

    The small town in Southern Japan, blessed with azure skies and emerald sea, is also proud of its Girls' High School and the bright eyed girls studying there. Mr. Mazaki, the new mathematics teacher, enters this peaceful scene. Soon almost all the gi...

  • Danger Paws

    Danger Paws (1962)

    Director
    NAKAHIRA Ko
    Cast
    SHISHIDO Joe, ASAOKA Ruriko, NAGATO Hiroyuki

    Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling th...

  • The Zero Fighter

    The Zero Fighter (1962)

    Director
    MASUDA Toshio
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, NITANI Hideaki, HAMADA Mitsuo

    The tides of war have turned against Japan when Lt. Tanimura flies his Zero fighter to an island in the Solomon to take up his duties as the new commander. He finds most of the small group of men under him more like tough hoodlums in appearance and ...

  • Red Buds and White Flowers

    Red Buds and White Flowers (1962)

    Director
    NISHIKAWA Katsumi
    Cast
    YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, KANEKO Nobuo

    Miwa Shigeo and Iwase Tomiko are classmates and inseparable friends. Shigeo's father, a doctor, is a widower, while Tomiko's mother, the principal of a dressmaking school, is a widow. They long for their parents to become good friends like themselve...

  • I Hate but Love

    I Hate but Love (1962)

    Director
    KURAHARA Koreyoshi
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, NAGATO Hiroyuki

    Kita Daisuke, a talented movie and TV idol, lives in a glass bowl without a single moment to call his own. Sakakida Noriko is officially his manager and rules his business life with an iron hand, but in private, she is his sweetheart. One day, Dais...

  • Song of a Traveller

    Song of a Traveller (1962)

    Director
    NOGUCHI Hiroshi
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, SASAMORI Reiko, KANEKO Nobuo

    It is still early for the cherry blossoms, but the castle city of Sendai had never seemed so beautiful to Misaki Akira, a former high school teacher, ousted by shocked PTA members for an unlucky tangle with Tokyo hoodlums. Akira had been brought up ...

  • Love in Ginza

    Love in Ginza (1962)

    Director
    KURAHARA Koreyoshi
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, ERI Chiemi

    Jiro, a painter is in love with Hisako, who works at the Ginza-ya, a dressmaking store. His friend is Miyamoto, a pianist, with whom he shares a room. Both are striving to get ahead in their professions, and Jiro is painting the girl he loves. One d...

  • A Torrent of Love

    A Torrent of Love (1962)

    Director
    NOMURA Takashi
    Cast
    TAKAHASHI Hideki, YOSHINAGA Sayuri, NITANI Hideaki

    Kurosu Ryutaro, once a welter-weight boxer, inadvertently kills a young hoodlum in a street brawl. It was in self-defense, but sick at heart, he decides to sign on the S.S. Brazil Maru. However, sailing is delayed for ten days and Ryutaro finds hims...

  • Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow

    Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow (1962)

    Director
    URAYAMA Kirio
    Cast
    YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, TONO Eijiro

    Tatsugoro discharged from work in a foundry because of his age, lives in a crowded tenement house with his wife, Tomi, daughter, Jun, and two sons, Takayuki and Tetsuharu. He spends his retirement allowance in drink and gambling, and the family is r...

  • Love in the Air

    Love in the Air (1962)

    Director
    NOGUCHI Hiroshi
    Cast
    KOBAYASHI Akira, MATSUBARA Chieko, SAWAMOTO Tadao

    Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped and fell to his death, he had felt responsible and, sick at heart, left the circus for a life at sea. On land again Shoji goes to a cabaret where he ...

  • Keep Your Chin Up

    Keep Your Chin Up (1962)

    Director
    MASUDA Toshio
    Cast
    SAKAMOTO Kyu, HAMADA Mitsuo, TAKAHASHI Hideki

    Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and R...

  • Medals for Gangsters

    Medals for Gangsters (1962)

    Director
    INOUE Umetsugu
    Cast
    TAMIYA Jiro, FUJIMAKI Jun, HONGO Kojiro

    Kawashima is a gang boss in the thriving city of Tokai. One night in 1948 he is assaulted by foreign hoodlums of another gang. Hide, Kawashima's right-hand man, hears of the attack in a police cell and tries to break out of the jail but is stopped by...

  • A Band of Assassins

    A Band of Assassins (1962)

    Director
    YAMAMOTO Satsuo
    Cast
    ICHIKAWA Raizo, FUJIMURA Shiho, URAJI Yoko

    In the 1570's there were many martial artists expert in the occult, including Goemon Ishikawa, grouped under two leaders, Sandayu Momochi and Nagato Fujibayashi, who lived in two different forts. General Nobunaga Oda had almost unified the country b...

  • Daddy Long Fingers

    Daddy Long Fingers (1962)

    Director
    KIMURA Keigo
    Cast
    WAKAO Ayako, YAMAMURA So, KAWASAKI Keizo

    Tokusuke, a semi-invalid is crippled with neuralgia. With time heavy on his hands, he is forced to live with memories of the days when he was still a vigorous man, and the nearness of Satsuko, his beautiful daughter-in-law, only adds fuel to the fire...

  • Being 2 Isn’t Easy

    Being 2 Isn’t Easy (1962)

    Director
    ICHIKAWA Kon
    Cast
    SUZUKI Hiroo, FUNAKOSHI Eiji, YAMAMOTO Fujiko

    I am Taro. I am one year old. I live with Papa and Mama in an apartment house. What surprises me is that they are surprised at everything I do. If I laugh, they think I am wonderful. If I take a few steps, they squeal with joy. I think it's all a li...

  • Akiko

    Akiko (1962)

    Director
    SHIMA Koji
    Cast
    KANO Junko, UTSUI Ken, ROPPONGI Masato

    Akiko lives with her brother Toshio in suburban Tokyo working in different companies. One day, Toshio loses 500,000 yen which he was holding for his section chief, and as he is unable to return the money, tries to kill himself. Akiko determines to ob...