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Blazing Continent (1968)
- Director
- NISHIMURA Shogoro
- Cast
- WATARI Tetsuya, MATSUBARA Chieko, AKAZA Miyoko
Keiichi (Tetsuya Watari), a popular young illustrator, seems to have everything. Actually, however, he longs to leave the noise and crush of the city and go where there is space, fresh air, sunlight. Then one day he sees a photo exhibition of Austra...
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No Greater Love Than This (1968)
- Director
- YOSHIDA Kenji
- Cast
- KASHIYAMA Fumie, SUGURO Homare, NIKI Terumi
Based on the life story of a real nurse, this film is about Hatsuko Araki (Fumie Kashiyama) who went to work on the small island of Okinoshima, at the southern tip of Shikoku. There was no doctor, and she found a very backward and suspicious people. ...
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Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
- Director
- IMAMURA Shohei
- Cast
- MIKUNI Rentaro, KAWARAZAKI Choichiro
A culmination of his Nikkatsu days, released in 1968 by master director Imamura Shohei. A huge storm and tsunami hit Kurage Island, an isolated island in the South Sea where awe and faith in the gods are deeply rooted. When the storm passes, a huge ...
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East China Sea (1968)
- Director
- ISOMI Tadahiko
- Cast
- TAMURA Masakazu, UCHIDA Ryohei, KAGAWA Yukie
Rokuro (Masakazu Tamura), a student, hires out for the summer on a fishing vessel. He finds himself involved in an adventure, however, when the ship stops at Okinawa for repairs and he and his shipmates run into a gangster named Ganaha (Seizaburo Kaw...
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The Worship of the Flesh (1968)
- Director
- DOI Michiyoshi
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Masaya, UCHIDA Takako, AOI Mitsuko
Toward the end of the nineteenth century Japan is moving toward the modern age but there are backward pockets where older beliefs are still held. In one of the smaller villagers along the coast phallic worship is still practiced. Two men no better t...
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Tokyo Bath Harem (1968)
- Director
- IDA Motomu
- Cast
- HAYAMA Ryoji, OKAZAKI Jiro, NIHONYANAGI Toshie
During the eighteenth century one of the many amenities of Japanese life was the public bath. It was a place of conversation and gaiety during the daytime. But at night the scene was different. Many of the bath attendants were girls who had been sold...
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The Duel in the Storm (1968)
- Director
- MATSUO Akinori
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Akira, TAKAHASHI Hideki, NOGAWA Yumiko
Seijiro (Kobayashi Akira) is not the type of man to become a gangster, yet he joined the gang. The reason was that he believed that the modern yakuza were still animated by feelings for a brotherhood code, and there was still some chivalry left in th...
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The Outlaw Sword (1968)
- Director
- OZAWA Keiichi
- Cast
- WATARI Tetsuya, MATSUBARA Chieko, UCHIDA Ryohei
Goro, a gangster, decides to quit his dangerous and ill-paying profession. He goes to live with his friends, Yukiko and Yumeko, but is soon drawn back into his old life. Yumeko is ill and to pay for her treatment Goro enters Kiuchi's gang. In line w...
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Eternal Love (1968)
- Director
- NISHIKAWA Katsumi
- Cast
- FUNAKI Kazuo, MATSUBARA Chieko, YAMAGATA Isao
On an outing in the country, Takahiko, an architectural student, meets a young girl on a forest path. He feels that somehow he has seen her before. After he has made friends with her, it appears that Akiko, a simple country girl who helps her mother...
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Diamond of the Andes (1968)
- Director
- SAITO Buichi
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Akira, TANBA Tetsuro, KANEKO Nobuo
Five years before, Jiro had the bad luck to bungle a smuggling job. Escaping with his life, he went to Rio where his parents were living but found that they had killed themselves. Assuming another name he stayed on to work. Saeki, the man who tricke...
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”Outlow" Gangster VIP (1968)
- Director
- MASUDA Toshio
- Cast
- WATARI Tetsuya, MATSUBARA Chieko, KAWACHI Tamio
Goro, child ofthe slums, no father, mother a prostitute, unable to enter school, forced to watch his sister die ofmalnutrition, has no choice but to become a criminal. It is therefore only a matter oftime before he is sent to prison where he learns t...
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The Code of Man (1968)
- Director
- EZAKI Mio
- Cast
- WATARI Tetsuya, TATSUMI Ryutaro, KOIKE Asao
Eight years before, Tahei set out to avenge the death of one of the henchmen of his boss. Successful, he is apprehended, and sent to prison. On release he finds everything changed. Gennosuke, his old boss, now heads a profitable construction company...
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Spook Warfare (1968)
- Director
- YASUDA Kimiyoshi
- Cast
- AOYAMA Yoshihiko, KAWASAKI Akane, OKAWA Osamu
In the eighteenth century the governor of lzu is out fishing with his daughter (Akane Kawasaki) when there is a sudden storm out of which materializes the monster Daimon. This creature once ruled over ancient Babylon and has now awakened from its sl...
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Women’s Cell (1968)
- Director
- YASUDA Kimiyoshi
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, NAKAHARA Sanae, MIKIMOTO Kayo
Conditions in the famous Denmacho Prison in old Edo were notorious. It was called a veritable hell on earth - it was warden against criminal, prisoner against prisoner, and torture for all. In the women's cell there were many different kinds of girl...
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Ukiyoe (1968)
- Director
- TAKECHI Tetsuji
- Cast
- KARINA Tamawa, TATSUMI Noriko, KURENAI Chitose
When it comes time to redecorate the elaborate Toshogu Shrine in Nikko, the artist Shunga Kano is asked to supervise the work. Now old and dissipated he feels he is not up to the task, and turns it over to a disciple, Choshun Miyagawa. Choshun, not ...
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The Daring Nun (1968)
- Director
- IKEHIRO Kazuo
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, MIKIMOTO Kayo, KOBAYASHI Naomi
One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion that nuns should not lead cloistered lives but should see something of modern life. She makes the ...
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The Sex Check (1968)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, OGATA Ken, OGAWA Mayumi
Shiro (Ken Ogata) was a promising athlete but he failed to realize his ambition to break the short-sprint world record. This unfulfilled dream changes him. Though a lady's man he is brutal, even rapacious. Then he meets Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda). Now ...
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The Man Without a Map (1968)
- Director
- TESHIGAHARA Hiroshi
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, ICHIHARA Etsuko, OKAWA Osamu
A man suddenly disappears. Worried, his wife (Etsuko Ichihara) hires a private detective (Shintaro Katsu) to find him. Yet, when the detective visits the wife she does not seem the least bit worried and speaks of other things. He realizes he must do ...
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The Bride from Hades (1968)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, AKAZA Miyoko, OGAWA Mayumi
On the evening of the Festival of All Souls, young Shinzaburo (Kojiro Hongo) meets a beautiful girl and her older servant. Later they visit him and he discovers that her name is Otsuyu (Miyoko Akaza) and she is a courtesan. He is surprised that an el...
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Yukionna (1968)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- FUJIMURA Shiho, ISHIHAMA Akira, HASEGAWA Machiko
One of Japan's most beautiful and mysterious legends is that about the Yukionna or snow spirit, a lovely woman, dressed in white, who appears before snowbound travellers and leads them to destruction. This new version of the old story takes place in ...
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The Saga of Tanegashima (1968)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- Rick JASON, WAKAO Ayako, FUJIMURA Shiho
In the middle of the 16th-century, a storm drives a large Portuguese sailing ship ashore at Tanegashima, an island in the south ofJapan. There the local lord, Tokiaki meets Captain Pinto and his crew and sees foreign firearms for the first time. Imp...
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The Hundred Monsters (1968)
- Director
- YASUDA Kimiyoshi
- Cast
- FUJIMAKI Jun, TAKADA Miwa, HIRAIZUMI Sei
Japan is a land of ghost-stories, particularly in the summer when, before air-conditioning, the pleasant chills induced by such tales were most welcome to sweltering audiences. One such series of stories was called "The Hundred Monster Collection", a...
