Movies
42 Results
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Pale Flower (1964)
- Director
- SHINODA Masahiro
- Cast
- IKEBE Ryo, KAGA Mariko, FUJIKI Takashi
A yakuza gangster freshly released from prison encounters a mysterious young woman at a gambling den, who requests that he introduce her to games with higher and higher stakes. Stylishly dressed in outfits designed by MORI Hanae, KAGA Mariko cuts a c...
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Flora on the Sand aka Jungle Interlude (1964)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- NAKAYA Noboru, INANO Kazuko, NISHIO Mieko
After a chance encounter with a precocious high school student, a cosmetics salesman is solicited by the young girl to seduce and "hurt" her older sister. The film is adapted from a famous novel by YOSHIYUKI Junnosuke, a member of the so-called "thir...
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All Mixed Up (1964)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, KISHIDA Kyoko, KAWAZU Yusuke
A literary adaptation from Masumura's mid-career period. The title is taken from the Japanese name for the swastika, an ancient Buddhist symbol representing good fortune, whose four-pronged shape serves as a visual metaphor for the intertwined fates ...
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GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEAD MONSTER (1964)
- Director
- HONDA Ishiro
- Cast
- NATSUKI Yosuke, HOSHI Yuriko, KOIZUMI Hiroshi
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Dogora-the Space Monster (1964)
- Director
- HONDA Ishiro
- Cast
- NATSUKI Yosuke, FUJIYAMA Yoko, KOIZUMI Hiroshi
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Shikonmado Daitatsumaki (1964)
- Director
- INAGAKI Hiroshi
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Somegoro, NATSUKI Yosuke, SATO Makoto
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MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA (1964)
- Director
- HONDA Ishiro
- Cast
- TAKARADA Akira, HOSHI Yuriko, KOIZUMI Hiroshi
A violent storm destroys an industrial park and washes a huge egg ashore in Japan. Reporter Sakai and his photographer, Junko, are taking pictures of the devastation when they find a strange organic object, which they give to Professor Miura, who has...
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Four Young Sisters (1964)
- Director
- MORINAGA Kenjiro
- Cast
- ASHIKAWA Izumi, ASAOKA Ruriko, YOSHINAGA Sayuri
Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought s...
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The Challenge (1964)
- Director
- IDA Motomu
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Hideki, IZUMI Masako, WADA Koji
Back in the 1920's Ryuji is the head of a local group of gamblers. He and his friends are quite aware that the police are crooked and take bribes but efforts to expose them only result in making them bitter enemies. The police and the rival gangs now...
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Whirlpool of Flesh (1964)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- NAKAYA Noboru, KAWACHI Tamio, INANO Kazuko
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that...
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Gazing at Love and Death (1964)
- Director
- SAITO Buichi
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, KITABAYASHI Tanie
A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save her life was to sacrifice an eye and part of her fac...
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Eddy Currents of Life (1964)
- Director
- SAITO Buichi
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, YAMAUCHI Ken
This film is based upon a story by Hayashi Fumiko, one of Japan's best-loved authors. A girl in her last year of high school is poor but happy. A young man takes an interest in her but she has little time for him as she is helping her parents. To hel...
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Intensions of Murder (1964)
- Director
- IMAMURA Shohei
- Cast
- HARUKAWA Masumi, NISHIMURA Ko, TSUYUGUCHI Shigeru
This is the story of a woman who is dissatisfied with her husband and is one day raped by a thief. When the rapist discovers that she has not reported the crime to the police, he comes back and uses her again and again. The wife hates the thief for ...
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Homecoming (1964)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Katsumi, SHIRATORHI Shinichi
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, TAKAHASHI Hideki, ASHIDA Shinsuke
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, during the revolution in Cuba, but is now living in Japan. Tomoko's mother has remarried a strict, na...
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Gate of Flesh (1964)
- Director
- SUZUKI Seijun
- Cast
- SHISHIDO Joe, WADA Koji, NOGAWA Yumiko
From the ashes left by the war, rose an army of prostitutes and black marketers, forming themselves into groups for self-preservation, and living by their own code. Into one of these groups of joy girls comes Shintaro, who eventually begins to rule ...
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The Sound of Waves (1964)
- Director
- MORINAGA Kenjiro
- Cast
- YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, KIYOKAWA Nijiko
One of the first Japanese novels translated into English after World War II, it met with widespread acclaim as a story dealing with the universal theme of youthful love. On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman'...
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The Long Death (1964)
- Director
- KUMAI Kei
- Cast
- SHIN Kinzo, NAITO Taketoshi, SASAMORI Reiko
Sixteen years ago, a man entered a bank in the suburbs of Tokyo, introduced himself as a health officer, and requested all' the employees to line up and take medicine against dysentery. Most of the staff obeyed and died of poisoning, but the few who ...
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The Hunter’s Diary (1964)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- NAKAYA Noboru, TOGAWA Masako, KITAMURA Kazuo
Honda has a tremendous sex drive but is married to a frigid wife whom he sees only on weekends. During his free time Honda hunts women, and keeps a record of his sexual conquests in a notebook he has entitled - The Hunter's Diary. Suddenly each one o...
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Red Handkerchief (1964)
- Director
- MASUDA Toshio
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, NITANI Hideaki
Two detectives of the Yokohama Police Department have worked together for many years to round up a gang of dope smugglers. After catching one prize witness, he is shot and killed by Detective Mikami, when he grabs the gun from the other detective, Is...
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Super-Express (1964)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, FUJI Yukiko, FUNAKOSHI Eiji
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built dire...
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The Night of the Honeymoon (1964)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, TAKAHASHI Masaya, KAWAZU Yusuke
A young couple start on their honeymoon. There is nothing to mar the girl's happiness as she sits beside the man she loves and respects. As night falls her heart is divided between expectation and fear, for tomorrow she will really be a wife. Yet, de...
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Green Fruit (1964)
- Director
- INOUE Yoshio
- Cast
- FUNAKOSHI Eiji, KATO Haruko, KIRITACHI Harumi
Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears. When found, it appears he has a secret and the girl goes with him to spend a week-end at...
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Wolf Girl (1964)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, KIRITACHI Harumi, TAKI Eiko
Toshimi was only eight years old when Masayo became her stepmother. Her father, Dr. Tanimura, a noted surgeon, passed away four years later. Ever since then, it had been almost an obsession with the young and beautiful Masayo to return her husband's ...
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The Sword of Zatoichi (1964)
- Director
- IKEHIRO Kazuo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, KUBOTA Nahoko, NAGISA Mayumi
Zatoichi is pursued by killers whose boss, Sukegoro, he has slain. A gambler named Seiroku fails to kill him, and the blind masseur goes to thank Okuni, the older daughter of the local boss Bunkichi Tsumugi, who rescued him. Yasu, whose headquarters...
