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The Fractured Bamboo Doll (1963)
- Director
- YOSHIMURA Kozaburo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, YAMASHITA Junichiro, NAKAMURA Tamao
Takegami is a small village in Echizen, Central Japan, is a humble place but noted far and wide for its exquisite bamboo products. Here a young woman comes one day in the snow to call on Kisuke, a young bamboo craftsman, whose father has just passed...
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The Black Trademark (1963)
- Director
- YUGE Taro
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, FUJI Yukiko, MISHIMA Masao
Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are...
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Whispering Dead Beauty (1963)
- Director
- MURAYAMA Mitsuo
- Cast
- KAWASAKI Keizo, BANRI Masayo, HANABU Tatsuo
Fujiko Niwa, a nurse, is in love with Dr. Suga, but fear clutches her heart when she overhears that Reiko, the Director's daughter, is coming to the hospital to see the man she hopes to marry. When Dr. Kawada asks the young doctor if he will marry R...
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Typhoon Reporter (1963)
- Director
- TANAKA Shigeo
- Cast
- UTSUI Ken, TAMIYA Jiro, KANO Junko
Tamura had been dubbed the Typhoon Reporter, for the topic is never far from his lips. And every time he sees the mammoth neon signs, blinking on and off everywhere under the night sky, each seems like a weapon, always poised to fall on people passi...
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Rabble Tactics (1963)
- Director
- IKEHIRO Kazuo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, FUNAKOSHI Eiji, FUJIMURA Shiho
The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are recruited in groups of fifteen. In Yaju's village, there are only twelve men, so they press Oto, who looks...
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When Women Lie (1963)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo, YOSHIMURA Kozaburo, KINUGASA Teinosuke
- Cast
- TAKI Eiko, Jelly FUJIO, NAKAMURA Takashi
Episode I: Playgirl Mariko Hayashi has a way with men and her little yellow book is filled with details of prospective husbands. Yosuke Kimura, the son of a company president, tops her list. Jiro Ueno likes to be pampered by girls. Yoshiaki Yamada...
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The Third Shadow (1963)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, TAKACHIHO Hizuru, BANRI Masayo
During the 16th century, Kyonosuke Ninomiya, the second son of a farmer-squire, lives in the mountainous province of Hida. One day, Sahyota Shinomura, the chief of staff to Lord Yasutaka lkemoto who has headquarters at Mitaya Castle, comes to enlist...
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Masseuse vs. Geisha (1963)
- Director
- KIMURA Keigo
- Cast
- KANO Junko, TAKACHIHO Hizuru, KAWASAKI Keizo
At Shutokuji Spa, masseuse and geisha are main attractions for the guests to the small resort. But while the geisha try to hold back the masseuse from the guests, the masseuses do likewise, without reserve. One day, handsome Shibata visits the hotel...
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Medals for Gangsters (1962)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, FUJIMAKI Jun, HONGO Kojiro
Kawashima is a gang boss in the thriving city of Tokai. One night in 1948 he is assaulted by foreign hoodlums of another gang. Hide, Kawashima's right-hand man, hears of the attack in a police cell and tries to break out of the jail but is stopped by...
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A Band of Assassins (1962)
- Director
- YAMAMOTO Satsuo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, FUJIMURA Shiho, URAJI Yoko
In the 1570's there were many martial artists expert in the occult, including Goemon Ishikawa, grouped under two leaders, Sandayu Momochi and Nagato Fujibayashi, who lived in two different forts. General Nobunaga Oda had almost unified the country b...
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Daddy Long Fingers (1962)
- Director
- KIMURA Keigo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, YAMAMURA So, KAWASAKI Keizo
Tokusuke, a semi-invalid is crippled with neuralgia. With time heavy on his hands, he is forced to live with memories of the days when he was still a vigorous man, and the nearness of Satsuko, his beautiful daughter-in-law, only adds fuel to the fire...
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Being 2 Isn’t Easy (1962)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Kon
- Cast
- SUZUKI Hiroo, FUNAKOSHI Eiji, YAMAMOTO Fujiko
I am Taro. I am one year old. I live with Papa and Mama in an apartment house. What surprises me is that they are surprised at everything I do. If I laugh, they think I am wonderful. If I take a few steps, they squeal with joy. I think it's all a li...
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Akiko (1962)
- Director
- SHIMA Koji
- Cast
- KANO Junko, UTSUI Ken, ROPPONGI Masato
Akiko lives with her brother Toshio in suburban Tokyo working in different companies. One day, Toshio loses 500,000 yen which he was holding for his section chief, and as he is unable to return the money, tries to kill himself. Akiko determines to ob...
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The Midday Trap (1962)
- Director
- TOMIMOTO Sokichi
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, KANO Junko, TAKAMATSU Hideo
Tokyo with its large modern buildings is filled with white-collar workers caught in the feverish rat race to climb the ladder of success. But one misstep, a few sweet stolen moments, and even the ablest of men can topple from the highest rung and bea...
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Killer Whale (1962)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, HONGO Kojiro, FUJIMURA Shiho
Once a year, the quiet fishing village of Wadaura in Southern Japan is in a turmoil. The whalers have always concentrated their efforts to try and catch a Killer Whale which is easily twice as large as an ordinary leviathan, and passes by in the offi...
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Stolen Pleasure (1962)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, TAMIYA Jiro, MIZUTANI Yoshie
Some time after Masuko, once the reigning queen of a cabaret, and Asai, an automobile salesman, set up housekeeping together, she finds out that he is already married to Ryuko, the daughter of the man to whom he was indebted while still a student. I...
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Princess and I (1962)
- Director
- TANAKA Shigeo
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, Charito SOLIS, FUJIMAKI Jun
Dr. Shinji Mori, a nuclear scientist, stops over in Hongkong to see a fellow scientist he'd known in the United States. On his arrival in the airport, two men wearing glasses are about to abduct him, but luckily he is rescued by a stranger. When ou...
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Their Legacy (1962)
- Director
- YOSHIMURA Kozaburo
- Cast
- YAMAMURA So, WAKAO Ayako, KANO Junko
Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He c...
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Her Hidden Past (1962)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, BANRI Masayo, FUNAKOSHI Eiji
Chikara, a young pickpocket, was picked up by Sakai, a professor at the university, taken into his home and treated as one of the family. Ten years later, he has justified the professor's trust in him. But daughter Taeko has now begun to consider Ch...
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If It Were a Dream (1962)
- Director
- TOMIMOTO Sokichi
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, KIMURA Isao, TAKAMI Kuniichi
Sono who works for a pearl shop, goes to Kyoto on a business trip with several leisured society women. On the train she meets Motomura. Coming home from Kyoto, Sono discovers that her husband Kiyomi has been having an affair with Kyoko, her step-sist...
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Her Devotion (1961)
- Director
- TANAKA Shigeo
- Cast
- KANO Junko, KAWASAKI Keizo, UTSUI Ken
In the train to Tokyo, Asako becomes acquainted with Kashiwagi, a public prosecutor. The next day, Asako visits Kashiwagi at his home to ask him to help release lchijo, who is detained by the police under suspicion of dealing in opium. lchijo has a...
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The Wife's Confession (1961)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, OZAWA Eitaro
Three mountain climbers, Ryokichi, his wife Saiko and Ryokichi's friend Koda are roped together. Suddenly, Ryokichi misses his footing and he and his wife are suspended in mid-air. Koda clings to the edge of the precipice holding the two with the ro...
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Tough Guy (1961)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- KATSU Shintaro, TAMIYA Jiro, NAKAMURA Tamao
Asakichi is a farmer's son, who delights in spending his time betting on cock fighting with his friend, Tatsukichi. He becomes intimate with a farmer's wife, who lies in telling him she is going to have his child. Then he meets Kotoito who arouses h...
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Refresher Course for Wives (1961)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Fujiko, KANO Junko, ASAOKA Yukiji
One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and invites them to " P " Hotel to see for themselves. They have been married for many years and are bore...
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A Geisha’s Diary (1961)
- Director
- KAWASHIMA Yuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, FUJIMAKI Jun, SAZANKA Kyu
Some geishas have had many years of training and are accomplished women, skilled in singing, dancing or playing musical instruments, as well as composing poetry and being agreeable companions. On the other hand, there are geisha who cannot do any of...
