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Actors: Reiko Ike, Christina Lindberg, Masataka Naruse, Seizaburo Kawazu, Hiroshi Nawa
Synopsis: This was the first of two films in which Japanese exploitation star Reiko Ike played the character of Inoshika Ocho. After a brief prologue depicting the murder of Ocho's policeman father, it is revealed that she has grown up to become a professional gambler. Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits Read More
Synopsis: East China Sea is a "life is cheap" melodrama in which the American characters are the least appealing. A sociopathic gangster offers to shepherd a Japanese boat crew to safety. What the crew doesn't know is that the gangster is leading them into a trap. The U.S. Air Force is on maneuvers, and the Read More
Actors: Seizaburo Kawazu, Yukie Kagawa, Sachiko Kuwahara, Shingo Yamashiro, Kunio Murai
Synopsis: Long credited with being the father of the Japanese horror film, Jigoku director Nobuo Nakagawa helms this tale of a wealthy landlord who incurs the wrath of a vengeful peasant. Chobei rules over his rural village with an iron fist, callously exploiting the small people for all they're worth. One Read More
Actors: Toshiya Wazaki, Ryohei Uchida, Seizaburo Kawazu
Synopsis: In this Japanese drama, a young man becomes a student of the chief martial arts adviser to the Tokyo police after he uses Kodokan judo to save the teacher's daughter from an explosion. He shows his teacher a new throw, but the teacher strongly disapproves, claiming that it is too dangerous and Read More
Actors: Yoko Fujiyama
Synopsis: In this Japanese feature, when diamond robbers find that a kind of goo from outer space is beating them to the diamonds and consuming the jewels for food, they have to do something about it. Meanwhile, an elderly scientist has been working on the problem and discovers that wasp venom freezes the Read More
Actors: Ryo Ikebe, Akihiko Hirata, Jun Tazaki, Yumi Shirakawa, Takashi Shimura
Synopsis: Japanese sci-fi director Inoshiro Honda and special effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya teamed up again (Rodan, Godzilla, Mothra) for this thriller/adventure. Set in the futuristic 1980, a group of Tokyo scientists discover that Earth is in the direct path of a star with a gravitational pull 6,000 times Read More
Actors: Sachiko Hidari, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Nagato, Seizaburo Kawazu, Kazuo Kitamura
Synopsis: The Insect Woman covers 45 years in the life of long-suffering Japanese woman Tome Matsuki, played brilliantly by Sachiko Hidari. Thrust into the cold world at age 20, the pregnant Tome takes a factory job. She gives this up for the relative comfort of the life of an American GI's mistress. Once Read More
Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Isuzu Yamada, Yuriko Hoshi, Yoshiko Kuga
Synopsis: Mohei (Toshiro Mifune) is the samurai warrior who battles against the Portuguese arsenal of guns and cannons. With these newly introduced weapons, two families battle for control of a valuable land parcel in 17th-century Japan. This feature was made in 1961 but obviously introduced in America to Read More
Synopsis: In this Japanese melodrama, set during the last years of WW II, Tsukasa, a high school student, ends up marrying a manipulative teacher after he sabotages her relationship with a college student. Not long after the wedding, he begins beating her so frequently that she runs away from him. She is Read More
Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai, Isuzu Yamada, Seizaburo Kawazu, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Daisuke Kato
Synopsis: Toshiro Mifune portrays a Samurai who finds himself in the middle of a feud-torn Japanese village. Neither side is particularly honorable, but Mifune is hungry and impoverished, so he agrees to work as bodyguard (or Yojimbo) for a silk merchant (Kamatari Fujiwara) against a sake merchant (Takashi Shimura Read More
Synopsis: The Japanese Secret of the Telegian features Koji Tsurata as a reporter and Akihiko Hirata as a detective, both investigating a series of interrelated murders. All the victims had been in on a wartime scheme to steal a fortune in gold. The killer (Tadao Nakamaru) also one of the thieves, has Read More
Actors: Jerry Ito, Ken Uehara, Yumi Ito
Synopsis: Mothra was the third major addition to the Toho Studios' giant-monster stable after Godzilla and Rodan, and the first female beast in the series. The creature begins Ishiro Honda's entertaining film as a giant larva worshipped by island tribesmen and guarded by twin sisters (Emi and Yumi Ito) who Read More
Synopsis: The Japanese potboiler Dangerous Kiss stars Akira Takarada as a famous prizefighter. When not dodging punches in the ring, Takarada is besieged by seemingly hundreds of beautiful young ladies. The title refers to the old adage that boxing and dames don't mix. Takarada finds this out en route to Read More
Synopsis: In the Japanese detective saga/action film Ankokugai no Taiketsu (AKA Last Gunfight), the legendary Toshiro Mifune portrays Fujioka, a detective facing corruption charges. As the story opens, he receives a demotion and gets reassigned to a crime-ridden district overrun by two notoriously violent Read More
Synopsis: Released in Japan as Sengoku Gunto-Den, Saga of the Vagabonds stars Toshiro Mifune as a feudal bandit. Koji Tsuruta, entrusted with the money that will be used to fund the local warlords' battle against Mifune, is waylaid and robbed. Accused of stealing the money, the disgruntled Tsuruta casts Read More
Synopsis: A Geisha is a 1953 filmed adaptation of a novel by Matsutaro Kawaguchi. Directed by Japanese filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi, the movie centers on two young geishas, Miyoharu (Michiyo Kogure) and her apprentice Eiko (Ayako Wakao). Near the end of World War II, social attitudes toward females are Read More
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