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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963)
- Director
- OKAMOTO Kihachi
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Keiju, ARATAMA Michiyo, YANAI Shigeru
Unremarkable office worker Eburi Man – a play on the English word "everyman" – makes an inebriated promise to a pair of editors to write them a serial novel that will attract a huge readership. The film comically portrays his process as he mines his ...
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Shiro to kuro (1963)
- Director
- HORIKAWA Hiromichi
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Keiju, NAKADAI Tatsuya, OZORA Mayumi
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The Fight of the Gamblers (1963)
- Director
- MATSUO Akinori
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Hideki, IZUMI Masako, SUGIYAMA Toshio
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building ...
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Bright Sea (1963)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, IZUMI Masako
This is the story of a group of classmates, thirty-three girls and only seven boys, after their graduation from college. Mieko (Yoshinaga Sayuri) lives with her divorced mother who runs a bar. Her ambition is to be a successful author. Kazuko (Toak...
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Mother’s Wedding Gown (1963)
- Director
- SAITO Buichi
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, WADA Koji
Ryuichi (Hamada Mitsuo) comes home from Merchant Marine school to Oshima, the island of his birth and asks his father if it would be right to steal a girl who is already engaged to another. When Ryuichi tells his father that the girl loves him, which...
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The Insect Woman (1963)
- Director
- IMAMURA Shohei
- Cast
- AIZAWA Keiko, AOKI Tomio, AOYANAGI Akiko
Since Tome can remember men have always cast dark shadows over her life. She had been born only two months after her parents' marriage, and rumor says that she is an illegitimate child. Tome is married at 23, bears a child, but leaves home after fin...
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Eden by the Sea (1963)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Katsumi
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Hideki, IZUMI Masako, TONO Eijiro
When Nanjo (Takahashi Hideki), a young and handsome teacher, comes to a private girls' school, Tomoe becomes angry and argues with him, but the other girls mistakenly believe she has a crush on him, and become jealous. When Nanjo goes on his summer ...
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Under the Roof of Young Tokyo (1963)
- Director
- SAITO Buichi
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, YAMAUCHI Ken, HAMADA Mitsuo
The ordinary, middle-class family comprises an aging father, mother, and five brothers and sisters. 19-year-old Michiko and her youngest brother are living with their parents, but two brothers and the elder sister are married and living separately. ...
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The Symbol of a Man (1963)
- Director
- MATSUO Akinori
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Hideki, IZUMI Masako, INOUE Akifumi
In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves...
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Love Comes with Youth (1963)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Katsumi
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, TAKAHASHI Hideki
This is the story of a young college student, and his platonic love for a 16-year-old girl belonging to an itinerant dancing group, against the background of the Izu hot spring resort. Written by Kawabata Yasunari, one of Japan's leading writers, it ...
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Escape into Terror (1963)
- Director
- MASUDA Toshio
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, NITANI Hideaki, IWASAKI Kaneko
Saeki, a Japanese newspaper man is sent to Bangkok to investigate suspected illegal sales of Japanese-made arms. He discovers that Hayami and another man employed by the Japanese weapons company, although previously reported dead, are still alive and...
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Each Day I Cry (1963)
- Director
- URAYAMA Kirio
- Cast
- IZUMI Masako, HAMADA Mitsuo, KOZUKI Minako
Because of her drunken father, 15 year old Wakae leaves school and is working in a cheap bar. When she steals a pair of shoes, a young hoodlum who knows of the theft, demands three thousand yen and she breaks into a high school, is discovered, and fl...
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A Modern Samurai Village (1963)
- Director
- WAKASUGI Mitsuo
- Cast
- HAMADA Mitsuo, TASHIRO Mirdori, MATSUO Kayo
Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, delights the eyes with its ever-changing scenic beauty......the deep snows of winter, the sudden unfolding of the buds in spring, the fields and cities alive with vivid flowers in summer, and the scarlet ti...
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Beyond the Green Hills (1963)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Katsumi
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, TASHIRO Mirdori
Shinko has just transferred to a girls' high school in an old castle town by the sea. She is so vivacious and full of life that she arouses envy in her classmates and, sometimes, envy nurtures maliciousness: Miss Shimazaki, Shinko's English teacher,...
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Masseur Ichi on the Road (1963)
- Director
- YASUDA Kimiyoshi
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, FUJIMURA Shiho, SHIMADA Ryuzo
"Masseur" Ichi, the blind gambler, and the fastest draw on the sword, meets Kisuke, who is scouting help for the forthcoming gang war between his boss, Hikozo of Doyama, and Tobei of Shimozuma, and the blindman joins him. But Jingoro, scout for the ...
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Japan’s Number One Judo-Man (1963)
- Director
- MIZUHO Shunkai
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, TAKADA Miwa, FUJIMAKI Jun
When Hideyuki Mishima, protege of Gonzaburo Noda, a famous jujitsu master is defeated by Baba, student of Judo, originated by Jigoro Kano, Noda realizes that jujitsu has been supplanted by the new form and young Mishima goes to the Kodokan at Tokyo. ...
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The Fractured Bamboo Doll (1963)
- Director
- YOSHIMURA Kozaburo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, YAMASHITA Junichiro, NAKAMURA Tamao
Takegami is a small village in Echizen, Central Japan, is a humble place but noted far and wide for its exquisite bamboo products. Here a young woman comes one day in the snow to call on Kisuke, a young bamboo craftsman, whose father has just passed...
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The Black Trademark (1963)
- Director
- YUGE Taro
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, FUJI Yukiko, MISHIMA Masao
Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are...
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Whispering Dead Beauty (1963)
- Director
- MURAYAMA Mitsuo
- Cast
- KAWASAKI Keizo, BANRI Masayo, HANABU Tatsuo
Fujiko Niwa, a nurse, is in love with Dr. Suga, but fear clutches her heart when she overhears that Reiko, the Director's daughter, is coming to the hospital to see the man she hopes to marry. When Dr. Kawada asks the young doctor if he will marry R...
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Typhoon Reporter (1963)
- Director
- TANAKA Shigeo
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, TAMIYA Jiro, KANO Junko
Tamura had been dubbed the Typhoon Reporter, for the topic is never far from his lips. And every time he sees the mammoth neon signs, blinking on and off everywhere under the night sky, each seems like a weapon, always poised to fall on people passi...
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Rabble Tactics (1963)
- Director
- IKEHIRO Kazuo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, FUNAKOSHI Eiji, FUJIMURA Shiho
The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are recruited in groups of fifteen. In Yaju's village, there are only twelve men, so they press Oto, who looks...
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When Women Lie (1963)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo, YOSHIMURA Kozaburo, KINUGASA Teinosuke
- Cast
- TAKI Eiko, Jelly FUJIO, NAKAMURA Takashi
Episode I: Playgirl Mariko Hayashi has a way with men and her little yellow book is filled with details of prospective husbands. Yosuke Kimura, the son of a company president, tops her list. Jiro Ueno likes to be pampered by girls. Yoshiaki Yamada...
