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"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming ronin) after their daimyo (feudal lord) was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official named Kira Yoshinaka, whose title was Kōzuke no suke. The ronin avenged their master's honor after patiently waiting and planning for over a year to kill Kira. In turn, the ronin were themselves forced to commit seppuku for committing the crime of murder.
Government Personnel
地球の6千倍もの質量を持つ恒星が発見された。土星探査船・隼によって、その恒星・ゴラスの軌道は地球を目指していることが判明する。地球上の爆発物ではゴラスを粉砕出来ないことを知った国連は、地球その物をロケットに変え、公転軌道上からの離脱を決意する。各国の科学技術者は総力を結集、南極に巨大なロケット噴射口を建造するが……。
This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, Who decided to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.
Nightclub patron (uncredited)
Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.
Detective
火星と木星の間に分布するアステロイドベルトは、かつて存在していた惑星ミステロイドの爆発によって生まれたものだった。ミストロイドの住人・ミステリアンは新たな居住地を地球に定め、富士の裾野に巨大なドーム基地を作り上げる。そして地球人に対し、地球人女性との結婚と居住権を宣言した。防衛軍のミステリアン対策委員会は、地球の科学力を結集、自衛のためミステリアンに総攻撃をかける……。
Lieutenant Miura
タイとビルマの国境近くにある日本軍の捕虜収容所では捕虜を使って国境に流れるクワイ河に橋を架ける準備が進められていた。英軍大佐はジュネーヴ協定に反するとして所長と対立し、所長は恩赦を条件にしたことで大佐はこれを承諾し建設工事が始まった。だが同時に、収容所から脱走した米海軍少佐の手引きによって連合軍による架橋爆破作戦も開始されようとしていた。
Coal mine employee (uncredited)
九州の阿蘇山にある炭坑で、坑道に巣くう巨大なヤゴ・メガヌロンの幼虫による犠牲者が発生した。事件を調査する河村は、その怪物をもしのぐ、巨大な怪鳥の姿を目撃する。その怪鳥・ラドンこそ、各地で相次ぐ災害の元凶だったのだ。その音速を超える飛翔速度はソニックブームを起こし、街はまたたくまに壊滅していく。そして、自衛隊の圧倒的な火力によってラドンを追いつめたかに思われたとき、もう一体のラドンが現れたのだった……。
Doctor
Priest (uncredited)
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A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.
Villager (uncredited)
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.
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An Ishiro Honda film.
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
Park Division Staff
市役所の市民課長・渡辺勘治は30年間無欠勤のまじめな男。ある日、渡辺は自分が胃癌であることを知る。命が残り少ないと悟ったとき、渡辺はこれまでの事なかれ主義的生き方に疑問を抱く。そして、初めて真剣に申請書類に目を通す。そこで彼の目に留まったのが市民から出されていた下水溜まりの埋め立てと小公園建設に関する陳情書だった……。
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one end, they must contend with the local villagers who balk at the prospect of relocation; on the other, they face the ambitions of the headstrong lumber baron, whose actions will only further destabilize the land. Their pleas for reason ignored, the scientists can do little but observe as nature runs its inevitable course.
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
