Fires on the Plain

Fires on the Plain

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...

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Gamera vs. Barugon

Gamera vs. Barugon

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is...

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Love for Eternity

Love for Eternity

The Lights of Asakusa

The Lights of Asakusa

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

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Gamera vs. Gyaos

Gamera vs. Gyaos

Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray...

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Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho

Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho

君は海を見たか

君は海を見たか

Zatoichi Challenged

Zatoichi Challenged

Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After...

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Her Brother

Her Brother

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship...

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Giants and Toys

Giants and Toys

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

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Surging Waves

Surging Waves

An Ode to Yakuza

An Ode to Yakuza

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending...

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Ten Dark Women

Ten Dark Women

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as...

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Bridge of Japan

Bridge of Japan

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

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Young Boss: Prison Release

Young Boss: Prison Release

The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.

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Assignment Dragon No. 3

Assignment Dragon No. 3

In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was...

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Punishment Room

Punishment Room

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

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The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly

The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly

A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a weird buzzing sound is always heard right...

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A Killer's Key

A Killer's Key

Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer.

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The Woman Gambler's Supplication

The Woman Gambler's Supplication

Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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