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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...
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Women’s Prison (1968)
- Director
- INOUE Akira
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, NAKAHARA Sanae, SHIMEGI Shigako
The Kodenmacho Prison in old Edo was a hell on earth. In addition to the crowded quarters, the general lack of sanitation, the violence, and homosexuality, punishment was made according to confession-hence suspects were tortured and even killed. Int...
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Evil Trio (1968)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, SATO Kei, MIDORI Mako
Yoshiko, a beautiful but impulsive young girl, gets mixed up with a gangster who takes nude pictures of her and then threatens to blackmail her unless she helps him. He makes her sleep with pop-singer Teruo Shima, takes pictures of them in the act, a...
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The Diary of a Sex Counsellor (1968)
- Director
- YUGE Taro
- Cast
- FUNAKOSHI Eiji, MIZUKI Masako, ISHIGURO Saburo
While on a vacation, Dr. Negishi, is called upon to treat a young boy for a bad cut. He arranges for a blood transfusion but several months later notices that the child has contracted venereal disease, apparently from the transfusion. He rechecks the...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, WAKAO Ayako, TAKAMINE Hideko
At the end of the 18th century, Kae, a young girl, is much impressed by Otsugi, an older woman whom she regards as the most beautiful lady she has ever seen. When, much later, she is approached by this same lady as a possible wife for her son, she is...
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The Silent Gun (1967)
- Director
- INOUE Yoshio
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, AMACHI Shigeru, SAKAMOTO Sumiko
A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while investigating the case. This occurred while he was with Ritsuko, daughter of a company president. Detective Kim...
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G-Men of the Sea (1967)
- Director
- TANAKA Shigeo
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, HONGO Kojiro, NARITA Mikio
With the steamship "Norde" about to dock, the Customs request Kobinata and his crack ICPO squad to watch for possible gold smuggling. On deck, however, the only persons to be seen are three innocent looking priests until one scrambles down a ladder a...
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The Trail of Traps (1967)
- Director
- IKEHIRO Kazuo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, WANIBUCHI Haruko, NARITA Mikio
Dealing with the famous folk-hero, Kyoshiro Nemuri, this film has him setting out on a long journey to Kyoto. Though a sacred image belonging to the Shogunate has been entrusted to him, Kyoshiro is not anxious to take responsibility, knowing that the...
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An Idiot in Love (1967)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- YASUDA Michiyo, OZAWA Shoichi, TAMURA Masakazu
Based on a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this film is about a man named Joji who seems perfectly ordinary in all ways but keeps a teen-age mistress in his house. She is so whimsical, fickle, and eventually so tyrannical, that one suspects his obvious ...
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The Blind Swordsman's Rescue (1967)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, MIKUNI Rentaro, NISHIMURA Ko
Another in the popular series about the blind masseur, Zatoichi, this one has him involved with both the local government and gangsters. The latter are extorting money from the peasants, and the government does nothing about it, since it is getting i...
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The Sisters and I (1967)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- FUJIMURA Shiho, WAKAYANAGI Kiku, ITO Eiko
Shinkichi Yuki, a well-known novelist, returns to Kyoto and meets two sisters he used to know who run a Japanese-style restaurant. Staying at the home of Shima, formerly a famous geisha, he calls on the two and finds that Kiyoko, an unhappy marriage ...
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A Certain Killer (1967)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, NOGAWA Yumiko, NARITA Mikio
Shiozawa is a known and feared killer. But not only is he very skillful, his motivations are almost entirely moral ones. An ex-kamikaze pilot, he feels that he has known good men and true, and his anger is intensely aroused at the sight of the kind n...
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The Bogus Policeman (1967)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, SUGATA Michiko, KATO Daisuke
Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while doing one of his good deeds. He saves a child from drowning, restores it to his mother, then finds that...
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The Red Angel (1966)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, ASHIDA Shinsuke, KAWAZU Yusuke
Nurse Sakura is transferred to the Tientsin Army Hospital during the Sino-Japanese war. She works with the head surgeon in the amputation wards and can do little professionally to help the wounded soldiers. She can, however, offer them love and this ...
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The Great White Tower (1966)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, TAMURA Takahiro, TONO Eijiro
Young Dr. Zaizen is intent upon making a name for himself in the big hospital in which he works and fully intends to take the place of the head doctor, due to retire shortly. In order to do this he curries favour, plays politics - and neglects his pa...
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Assignment Cloud (1966)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, MURAMATSU Eiko, KATO Daisuke
A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected but, finally, it seems that an Army captain and h...
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The School of Spies (1966)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, OGAWA Mayumi, MACHIDA Kyosuke
In 1938 the Imperial Japanese Army opened the famous Nakano school, an organization devoted to the training of spies. The men were all hand picked including one (Raizo Ichikawa, star of Kon Ichikawa's "Conflagration"). Cut off from the world for a ye...
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The Return of Majin (1966)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, FUJIMURA Shiho, MARUI Taro
A sequel to the spectacular "Majin", this film is about the return of the ancient god of war in the form of an immense image of a man in full armor. Here, the Golem-like creature takes sides during a medieval feud, losing its patience when its effigy...
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Dynamite Doctor (1966)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, ENAMI Kyoko, TONO Eijiro
This film, with a script by the director of "The Island" and starring Shintaro Katsu, one of Japan's most popular actors, is about a slum doctor who, little by little and more or less against his will, becomes the good samaritan of his neighborhood. ...
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Majin (1966)
- Director
- YASUDA Kimiyoshi
- Cast
- TAKADA Miwa, AOYAMA Yoshihiko, FUJIMAKI Jun
In the middle-ages there was a legend that the great god of war - an immense image in the form of a man in ancient armor - would one day break loose and destroy the country. The local lord is very cruel and exploits the peasants and beats the slaves ...
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Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)
- Director
- TANAKA Shigeo
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, ENAMI Kyoko, NATSUKI Akira
The monster Gamera (shot to Mars in its last Daiei appearance) has fallen back to earth again and soon begins creating its customary havoc. At the same time some Japanese adventurers, hunting for a fabulous opal, bring back an object which turns out ...
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The Freezing Point (1966)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, FUNAKOSHI Eiji, YASUDA Michiyo
Based upon the best seller by Ayako Miura, this is about a couple whose only child is killed. The husband, as a means of macabre revenge on the wife, adopts the child of the murderer and they bring her up as their own. There comes a day, however, whe...
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The Virgin Witness (1966)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, YASUDA Michiyo, JO Kenzaburo
Though still young and beautiful, the head nun of a temple is given a young wayward girl to bring up. This she does successfully but when the head priest dies his successor seduces her and when pregnant she takes her own life. Finally the young girl ...
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The Spider Tattoo (1966)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, HASEGAWA Akio, YAMAMOTO Manabu
Based upon one of the famous stories by the late Junichiro Tanizaki, the script is by the director of "The Island", photography by the cinematographer for "Rashoman" and "Yojimbo", and direction by the creator of "The Hoodlum Soldier". A beautiful yo...
