Movies
38 Results
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Masseuse vs. Geisha (1963)
- Director
- KIMURA Keigo
- Cast
- KANO Junko, TAKACHIHO Hizuru, KAWASAKI Keizo
At Shutokuji Spa, masseuse and geisha are main attractions for the guests to the small resort. But while the geisha try to hold back the masseuse from the guests, the masseuses do likewise, without reserve. One day, handsome Shibata visits the hotel...
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Tange Sazen (1963)
- Director
- UCHIKAWA Seiichiro
- Cast
- TANBA Tetsuro, WANIBUCHI Haruko, SONOI Keisuke
In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders, the Yagyu Clan, to repair the Nikko Shrine. As the orders cannot be rejected the very poor clan must find means to raise the vast sum of money necessary for the repairs. The eldest son Genzaburo and his younger...
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This Scarlet Rose (1963)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- OKADA Mariko, YOSHIDA Teruo, SAKAKI Hiromi
Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles of Maki, the beautiful night club singer and one of the leaders of the ring. One by one, Maki's disc...
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18 Roughs (1963)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Yoshishige
- Cast
- HAYAKAWA Tamotsu, KAYAMA Yoshiko, TONOYAMA Taiji
In Kure, a shipbuilding town, facing the Inland Sea of Japan, works a skilled laborer named Shimazaki, whose only trouble is drinking and gambling. One day his boss offers him free lodgings in the company's dormitory and a raise in pay if he will ma...
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Women… Oh, Women! (1963)
- Director
- TAKECHI Tetsuji
- Cast
This is an epoch-making feature length documentary, of Japan at night...with a sharp focus on women, whose beauty, charm, energy, sadness and mysterious eroticism are vividly portrayed. The colorful scenes photographed with a highly polished touch i...
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Love in Rome (1963)
- Director
- KAWAZU Yoshiro
- Cast
- KUWANO Miyuki, WANIBUCHI Haruko, HAYAKAWA Tamotsu
In Rome, Chino, an unsuccessful singer, has an affair with Takagi, a struggling painter. When Takagi returns to Japan after winning the attention of Akizuki, an art connoisseur, an exhibition of his paintings proves highly successful. Visitors to th...
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A Legend… or Was It? (1963)
- Director
- KINOSHITA Keisuke
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, SUGAWARA Bunta, KAGA Mariko
Towards the end of the Pacific War, Keiko, eldest daughter of the Sonobe family which had been evacuated to a remote Hokkaido village, rejects the marriage proposal of Koichi, son of the village master. Now Koichi inflames the villagers to persecute...
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Return of the Samurai (1963)
- Director
- UCHIKAWA Seiichiro
- Cast
- KUWANO Miyuki, SONOI Keisuke, KATO Daisuke
Lord Mitsuhide sends Hayato, a spy, into the backwoods of Ochinogo to see if there is gold in the territory as rumored. Hayato was born in this area but was thrown into a river and given up for dead when still a baby. He conceals this fact during his...
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The Rats Among the Cats (1963)
- Director
- SHIBUYA Minoru
- Cast
- OKADA Mariko, I. George, MIYAKO Chocho
Seki, a gangster with a violent temper, decides to reform and marries Mitsuko, the sister of fellow gangster Isomura. The two open a drugstore near a row of apartment houses. But business is difficult. When Seki saves the life of a woman in an apart...
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Dear Emperor…. (1963)
- Director
- NOMURA Yoshitaro
- Cast
- ATSUMI Kiyoshi, NAGATO Hiroyuki, NAKAMURA Meiko
Yamada, a country youth, is drafted into the army. Compared to the poverty that he has known, the army is like a paradise where he is at least assured of three meals a day. He becomes attached to Munemoto, an aspiring a novelist, the two become fast...
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Noboru
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, YOSHIDA Teruo, HAYAKAWA Tamotsu
Young and beautiful Chieko meets her twin sister, who informs her that their real parents are dead. The family tragedy stemmed from the old superstition that twins were unlucky and wrong. Chieko has been brought up by a dry goods merchant Sada and hi...
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The Hidden Profile (1963)
- Director
- KAWAZU Yoshiro
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, SONOI Keisuke, SADA Keiji
While Shigetaka is abroad Ayako lives with her blind mother. She is idolized by young artists, among whom is Natsui, a promising cameraman. Ayako persuades Natsui to marry Chikako, with whom she knows her husband has had an affair and because she is...
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Escape from Hell (1963)
- Director
- INOUE Kazuo
- Cast
- SADA Keiji, TSUGAWA Masahiko, MIKUNI Rentaro
In 1802, vagrants are rounded up in Edo and sent to Sado Island for forced labor in a mine. Among them is handsome Yaju who was falsely charged with a crime by Kurozuka. Kurozuka arrives on Sado Island as an official under the new magistrate Shuzen,...