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5.6

♡ 4

Crime

Mystery

Nenji Kobayashi as Detective Akutsu

Shigeru Kôyama as Kashiwabara

Hitomi Nakahara as Masayo

Jinpachi Nezu as Sudo

Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for revenge. All intertwined with the investigation of journalists into local murders, the manipulations of a palmist known as the “blue moth”, and political corruption.

Black Statement Book

1963

6.9

♡ 6

Kichijirô Ueda as

Yûzô Hayakawa as

Kenji Ôyama as Presiding Judge Ezaki

Tetsuya Watanabe as Yukichi Terayama

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

Black Test Car

1962

7.1

♡ 6

Kichijirô Ueda as

Kenji Ôyama as

Ichirô Sugai as

Eiji Funakoshi as Kimio Hiraki

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Giants and Toys

1958

7.2

♡ 3

Hitomi Nozoe as Kyôko Shima

Shunji Tsuda as Reporter

Tetsuya Watanabe as Singer

Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Yôsuke Nishi

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

Blind Beast

1969

7.0

♡ 9

100%

Mako Midori as Aki / Model

Eiji Funakoshi as Michio / sculpter

Noriko Sengoku as Michio's Mother

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.

The Red Angel

1966

7.8

♡ 6

Kenji Ohba as

Ayako Wakao as Nurse Sakura Nishi

Jôtarô Senba as Private Sakamoto

Yûsuke Kawazu as Pvt. Orihara

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.

Irezumi

1966

7.1

♡ 3

Kei Satô as Hatamoto Serizawa

Fujio Suga as Kenji

Ayako Wakao as Otsuya

Kikue Môri as Shinsuke's Mother

Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts the gaze of Seikichi, a mysterious master tattooist who sees her pristine white skin as the perfect canvas for his art. The image of the large demonic spider that he emblazons across Otsuya's back marks her as the property of another man, radically altering her relationships with all around her as her personality seems to transform under its influence.

Double Suicide of Sonezaki

1978

6.8

♡ 2

Gen Kimura as Kichibei

Hisashi Igawa as Kyuemon

Shigeo Katô as Master of the head family

Meiko Kaji as Ohatsu

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.

Yakuza Masterpiece

1970

6.9

♡ 3

Michiko Araki as

Yûsuke Kawazu as Kaizuka

Shintarô Katsu as Minoru

Masakazu Tamura as Yuji

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her to college and turning her into a perfect young lady. He's extremely fond of Akane. His fondness for her goes beyond how he feels about his mistress, Kanae. And yet, Akane feels alone. Now, a new tutor comes into her life that seems to have taken a liking to her...

The School of Spies

1966

7.1

♡ 4

Yûzô Hayakawa as Colonel Iwakura

Raizô Ichikawa as Jiro Miyoshi

Chikara Hashimoto as Military Police Major

Tsutomu Nakata as Sakura regiment warrant officer

Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English army to pass the final exam. However, he reaches the crossroad when his fiancee Yukiko turns out to be a spy of the enemy.

Afraid to Die

1960

6.4

♡ 7

63%

Action

Crime

yakuza

Keizô Kawasaki as Shoichi Koizumi

Eiji Funakoshi as Susumu Aikawa

Ayako Wakao as Yoshie Koizumi

Jun Negami as Yusaku Sagara

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan. But their exit proves more difficult than planned when their rival clan steps in to exact revenge.

We'll Meet Again

1957

7.2

♡ 5

Action

Comedy

stepparent stepchild relationship

Tetsuya Watanabe as

Keizô Kawasaki as Ryôsuke Hirooka

Sadako Sawamura as Tatsuko Ono

Ayako Wakao as Yûko Ono

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.

Saikô shukun fujin

1959

6.8

♡ 2

Comedy

Eiji Funakoshi as Ichiro Mihara

Ayako Wakao as Kyoko Nonomiya

Seiji Miyaguchi as Rintaro Nonomiya

Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Saburo Mihara

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...

Seisaku's Wife

1965

7.7

♡ 3

100%

Romance

War

Takamaru Sasaki as

Ayako Wakao as Okane

Takahiro Tamura as Seisaku

Yûzô Hayakawa as Sergeant

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.

Lullaby of the Earth

1976

6.9

♡ 8

Action

erotic movie

Eiji Okada as Evangelist

Mieko Harada as Rin

Shigeo Katô as Seisuke

Meiko Kaji as Young girl

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies.

Swastika

1964

6.8

♡ 7

Yûzô Hayakawa as

Yûsuke Kawazu as Eijirô Watanuki

Eiji Funakoshi as Kôtarô Kakiuchi

Ayako Wakao as Mitsuko Tokumitsu

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

1973

6.9

♡ 7

Keizô Kanie as

Toshio Kurosawa as Junai Mikoshiba

Kei Satô as Shobei Hamajima

Hitoshi Takagi as Tanbaya

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead.

A Wife Confesses

1961

7.4

♡ 9

67%

Ken Yamaguchi as

Tsutomu Nakata as

Chôtarô Tôgin as

Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Osamu Kôda

Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

1967

7.2

♡ 6

83%

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