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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Chushingura Haru no maki Yuki no maki (1962)
- Director
- INAGAKI Hiroshi
- Cast
- MATSUMOTO Koshiro, KAYAMA Yuzo, MIHASHI Tatsuya
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
