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  • Gazing at Love and Death

    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...

  • Eddy Currents of Life

    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...

  • Intensions of Murder

    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 ...

  • Homecoming

    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...

  • Gate of Flesh

    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 ...

  • The Sound of Waves

    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'...

  • The Long Death

    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 ...

  • The Hunter’s Diary

    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...

  • Red Handkerchief

    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...

  • The Fight of the Gamblers

    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 ...

  • Bright Sea

    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...

  • Mother’s Wedding Gown

    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...

  • The Insect Woman

    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...

  • Eden by the Sea

    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 ...

  • Under the Roof of Young Tokyo

    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. ...

  • The Symbol of a Man

    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...

  • Love Comes with Youth

    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 ...

  • Escape into Terror

    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...

  • Each Day I Cry

    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...

  • A Modern Samurai Village

    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...

  • A Man with a Dragon Tattoo

    A Man with a Dragon Tattoo (1962)

    Director
    MASUDA Toshio
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, IWASAKI Kaneko

    At the turn of the century, Kyushu in Southern Japan, has begun to enjoy a wave of prosperity due to the trade with China. All sorts of people are attracted to Kyushu including Tamai Kingoro, fresh from the country who joins the Hamao group of longs...

  • Beyond the Green Hills

    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,...

  • Rainbow over the Kinmen

    Rainbow over the Kinmen (1962)

    Director
    MATSUO Akinori
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, NITANI Hideaki, HUA Hsin

    In the autumn of 1958, Dr. Takei stands on the deck of a cargo boat, watching the shadowy outlines of Chinmen Island in the distance. Matsuzaka, a reporter, meets Takei when he lands, but their happy reunion is interrupted by the wail of sirens and b...

  • Fresh Leaves

    Fresh Leaves (1962)

    Director
    NISHIKAWA Katsumi
    Cast
    ISHIHARA Yujiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, YOSHINAGA Sayuri

    The small town in Southern Japan, blessed with azure skies and emerald sea, is also proud of its Girls' High School and the bright eyed girls studying there. Mr. Mazaki, the new mathematics teacher, enters this peaceful scene. Soon almost all the gi...

  • Danger Paws

    Danger Paws (1962)

    Director
    NAKAHIRA Ko
    Cast
    SHISHIDO Joe, ASAOKA Ruriko, NAGATO Hiroyuki

    Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling th...