Daizaburo Hirata
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Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
1962-01-14
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Kusa wo karu musume
1961-10-25
Kusa wo karu musume
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-25
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Kanto Wanderer
1963-11-23
Kanto Wanderer
Overview: Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-23
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The Insect Woman
1963-11-16
The Insect Woman
Overview: A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-16
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Nuki uchi fūraibō
1962-03-18
Nuki uchi fūraibō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-18
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Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
1966-03-12
Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Overview: Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburban train, is the only woman able to beat the best professional players in Japan; or that she is wearing the tattoo of the man that loved her and died for her...
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-12
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The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding
1967-06-28
The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding
Overview: A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-28
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Blood and Sea
1965-10-01
Blood and Sea
Overview: The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her grandmother, Tom, who is in her sixties, her mother, Kura, and older sister, Saki, all women. Toma, despite her advanced age, is still the best diver in the village, Nami has grown up to be an excellent diver too. However, her older sister Saki was born with a mental disorder and no one in the village wants to do business with her. Nami, on the other hand, is very popular among the boys of the village, she is healthy and beautiful. The fisherman Shosaku is crazy about Nami, and day and night he asks her on dates. However, Nami has a crush on her cousin Yuji, who works for the fishermen's union, and casually rejects Shosaku's advances.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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Wharf Temperament
1961-10-14
Wharf Temperament
Overview: The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the ship, and a young docker, whom he loves like a younger brother.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-14
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Thanks for the tears
1965-04-29
Thanks for the tears
Overview: A film starring Teruhiko Saigo and Hideki Takahashi about two men who join the fight against a gang selling weapons.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-29
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Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
1961-12-01
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
Overview: A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Song of a Traveller
1962-05-20
Song of a Traveller
Overview: A crime film released in 1962
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-20
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Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows
1967-04-08
Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows
Overview: During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has already attracted envious attention and that Senzo, the boss of the local gang, plans to have him killed. Seiji, the disowned son of the innkeeper, has run up a big gambling bill and, to settle it, the hoodlums decide to kill him. He is saved, however, by Hanako, star of the dancing troupe also staying at the inn. Gengo meets Hanako and learns that the troupe cannot open their show because the local police corruptly demand too much of the receipts. After another fight, Gengo sees the police-chief on behalf of the troupe, but is refused. So he suspects that the police and the hoodlums are implicated with each other. There seems no way to open the show until they hear that the governor is coming to the town for a local banquet. They appeal to him and he promises to investigate. It is decided that a duel will settle the matter...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-08
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The Man From the Sea
1962-07-08
The Man From the Sea
Overview: Japanese action film.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-08
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The Long Death
1964-04-12
The Long Death
Overview: On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amount of money. In parallel with the investigation conducted by the Japanese police, journalists are also trying to find the culprit. Based on a true incident.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-12
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A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966-06-25
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
Overview: Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-25
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Keep Your Chin Up
1962-03-04
Keep Your Chin Up
Overview: Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and Ryoji demands that they be taken to a hospital, little dreaming that Nagai, the driver, is the official guardian of juveniles. The next morning the two boys hear a light knock, and Nagai's daughter, Noriko enters, but surprise is changed to fear as they see her father approaching with Kume, the Juvenile Officer. Their one thought is escape but Kyu discovers his leg is stiff and it pains him to move. In the excitement, he had not realized he had really been hit by the truck. He sends Ryoji away while he waits alone for Officer Kume. Nagai takes Kyu under his wing, while Ryoji finds himself again in the hard-boiled world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-04
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Glass-Hearted Johnny
1962-09-30
Glass-Hearted Johnny
Overview: Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and her brutal yakuza pimp (George Ai).
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Story of a Prostitute
1965-02-27
Story of a Prostitute
Overview: Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-27
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The Flame of Devotion
1964-11-22
The Flame of Devotion
Overview: The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of war.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-22
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Danger Pays
1962-12-01
Danger Pays
Overview: 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 them the idea that they need Sakamoto, the best counterfeiter in Japan. A seesaw game unfolds between the three men as each tries to outdo the other two in handing over Sakamoto for one million yen to Hijikata, the big boss, who intends to make counterfeit money with the stolen paper. A little belatedly, they realize it needs their combined forces to outwit Hijikata and they raid his place together. Outnumbered, however, they are thrown into a basement room and the gas is turned on. Certain death stares them in the face, but the three men are not ones to take things lying down....
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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Massacre Gun
1967-09-06
Massacre Gun
Overview: Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburo, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-06
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Eddy Currents of Life
1964-11-22
Eddy Currents of Life
Overview: It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and Fumiko finds herself in financial trouble, not being able to pay for her schooling and her school excursion trip. Still, she gets a temporary job at a factory and tries to make ends meet. A film about bright side of youth adapted from the television serial of the same name.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-22
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Dreams Come True at Night
1967-01-14
Dreams Come True at Night
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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The Rambler Returns Home
1962-08-12
The Rambler Returns Home
Overview: Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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The Sound of Waves
1964-04-29
The Sound of Waves
Overview: On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spread of them having an illicit affair. Soon after, Shinji jumps into a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. The vessel turns out to be owned by Hatsue's arrogant father, who now becomes an understanding and sympathetic parent and allows the two lovers to marry.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-29
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Shutsugeki
1964-04-04
Shutsugeki
Overview: An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. The photo was taken by Minoru Yokoyama from “Asakusa no Toko Odoriko Monogatari”
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-04
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Youth of the Beast
1963-04-21
Youth of the Beast
Overview: When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-21
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Love in the Air
1962-02-03
Love in the Air
Overview: Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped and fell to his death, he had felt responsible and, sick at heart, left the circus for a life at sea. On land again Shoji goes to a cabaret where he is soon involved in a brawl. Kasamatsu, the owner of the cabaret, impressed by Shoji's strength, offers him a job as his bodyguard. The next morning Shoji visits Shingo's grave and meets Miyako, Shingo's former sweetheart, who is still a trapeze performer and now the star of the Kuroko Circus which Shoji realizes Kasamatsu intends to control.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-03
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The Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devil
1966-01-27
The Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devil
Overview: The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player Kôji, control the international casino empire and use the profits to achieve world domination. But Japan's most famous left hand knows what to do.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-27
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Jinsei Gekijo
1964-02-23
Jinsei Gekijo
Overview: 1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-23
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Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
1963-07-07
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
Overview: A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-07
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Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
1964-09-09
Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
Overview: Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying anything, leaving her wallet with Kunio. A few days later, she visited Kunio. She was working at a toy factory called Tomoko Nishizawa. Kunio naturally became attracted to Tomoko, but for some reason Tomoko refused to talk about her past. One day, the two went to the bowling alley and were approached by Tempira...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-09
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Cheers to the Sky
1966-02-25
Cheers to the Sky
Overview: Stewardess Yuriko goes through rigorous two-month training and finishes her maiden flight safely with the help of her colleagues and instructors.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-25
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Oyuki
1966-12-04
Oyuki
Overview: A movie-loving nanny lives and works in the home of a university professor and eventually becomes the family's support system, leading a bright and joyful life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-04
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Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
1965-06-20
Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
Overview: Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing, and car racing.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-20
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The Scarred Crest
1964-08-01
The Scarred Crest
Overview: A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels responsible for.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-01
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