Movies
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Broken Swords (1969)
- Director
- IKEHIRO Kazuo
- Cast
- MATSUKATA Hiroki, HONGO Kojiro, IWAI Yumi
The Genroku Era in the seventeenth century was one of the most colorful periods when the arts and literature flourished while political morals deteriorated. Blessed with peace, the people became more and more extravagant, wearing gorgeous kimono and ...
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Secrets of a Women’s Temple (1969)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, NAKAHARA Sanae, SHIMEGI Shigako
In 1785 the Hosho Temple in old Edo was burned to the ground. It was never rebuilt and an old story suggests the reason why. A nun named Shigetsuin (Shigako Shimegi) was in charge of this temple-convent, sent there as a punishment. Cousin to the Sho...
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The Blind Beast (1969)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- FUNAKOSHI Eiji, MIDORI Mako, SENGOKU Noriko
Based on a story by Japan's best-known author of horror tales, Rampo Edogawa, this picture is about a young girl, Aki (Mako Midori), and her terrible experiences. She is a professional model and one day goes to a gallery where sculpture for which sh...
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Watch Out, Crimson Bat! (1969)
- Director
- ICHIMURA Hirokazu
- Cast
- MATSUYAMA Yoko, IBUKI Goro, KURIZUKA Asahi
Oichi (Yoko Matsuyama), a blind swordswoman, finds a dying young man who asks her to take charge of a small sack. While carrying the sack, she is attacked by two masked men on a bridge and only just manages to kill them. Then she is challenged by a ...
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The Song from My Heart (1969)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Noboru
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Kanzaburo, IWASHITA Shima, NAKAMURA Katsuo
Lisa Jacobsen, a student from Sweden, is studying in one of Kenji (Muga Takewaki)'s classes and when she learns that his father is Hideo Yoshino (Kanzaburo Nakamura), the famous poet, she is very anxious to meet him. Yoshino writes of love in many f...
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Heat Wave Island (1969)
- Director
- SHINDO Kaneto
- Cast
- OTOWA Nobuko, TOMIYAMA Masako, TOURA Mutsuhiro
The corpse of a woman is found buried in the white sands by the Inland Sea. The police discover that the victim is Otoyo (Nobuko Otowa) who ran a small bar in town, and that Michiko (Masako Tomiyama), a young waitress at the bar, has been missing si...
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Trapped, the Crimson Bat (1969)
- Director
- MATSUDA Sadatsugu
- Cast
- MATSUYAMA Yoko, , MATSUOKA Kikko
The conflict between Oichi (Yoko Matsuyama), a blind young swordswoman who wanders around winning prize money by killing men wanted by the police, and O-en (Kikko Matsuoka), a woman hoodlum who has as her weapon a whip made of human hair, seems witho...
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Lady with Seven Faces (1969)
- Director
- MAEDA Yoichi
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, OGATA Ken, ARISHIMA Ichiro
Yukiko (Shima Iwashita), a lovely female thief, and disguise artist, has a great passion for her next big job which she sets up with her right-hand man, Scholar (Ken Ogata). First, Scholar helps Locksmith (lchiro Arishima), an expert safecracker, es...
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Am I Trying (1969)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- ATSUMI Kiyoshi, BAISHO Chieko, MORIKAWA Shin
Torajiro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) from a poor family has a wild and untamed nature that only those born in like circumstances can understand. It is therefore easy to understand how he turned to the life of a racketeer. One day, he learns his parents have di...
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Forward, Ever Forward (1969)
- Director
- MORIKAWA Tokihisa
- Cast
- TANAKA Kunie, HASHIMOTO Isao, YAMAMOTO Kei
This is a world of shifting loyalties and conceptions. There is a glaring generation gap, no communication in one's own family, let alone understanding among nations. The days of closely-knit and loving families are gone. The Sato family could be ca...
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Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman (1969)
- Director
- MATSUDA Sadatsugu
- Cast
- MATSUYAMA Yoko, NAGATO lsamu, TATARA Jun
Oichi (Yoko Matsuyama), a blind orphan girl, is brought up by Yasuke (Akitake Kono), an old neighbor, who loves her like his real daughter. Happy days continue until Yasuke is murdered. Oichi is also attacked, but rescued by Jubei (Isamu Nagata), a ...
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AIDO: Slave of Love (1969)
- Director
- HANI Susumu
- Cast
- SUEMASA Yuri, KAWARAZAKI Kenzo, TANUMA Ruriko
Shusei (Kenzo Kawarazaki) wanders in the night when he comes upon a lotus pond with a lantern floating on the surface. While staring at its flame, he encounters the beautiful Madame Enjoji (Kimiko Nukamura). She leads Shusei to a gorgeous mansion an...
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Through Days and Months (1969)
- Director
- NAKAMURA Noboru
- Cast
- IWASHITA Shima, MORI Masayuki, KUGA Yoshiko
Young and beautiful Matsuko (Shima Iwashita) lives alone with her father (Masayuki Mori) in old Kamakura. Her mother (Yoshiko Kuga) has long deserted them in order to live with a younger man. Though Matsuko herself has experienced love - just once, w...
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Farewell, My Beloved (1969)
- Director
- OBA Hideo
- Cast
- FUNAKI Kazuo, OZORA Mayumi, OGATA Ken
During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Mayumi Ozora), the widow of a naval officer. She, however, is living with the memories of her husband and it is her younger sister, Yumiko (Nana Ozaki),...
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Black Rose (1969)
- Director
- FUKASAKU Kinji
- Cast
- MARUYAMA Akihiro, OZAWA Eitaro, TAMURA Masakazu
Kyohei (Eitaro Ozawa) is the successful owner of the private club "Black Rose." Then, one day, a mysterious woman appears. She is Ryuko (Akihiro Maruyama), beautiful, without a past and thanks to her popularity the club becomes even more prosperous. ...
