Toshio Shimura

ミス海女に選ばれて上京したチエとユキが行方不明になり、まもなくユキの溺死体が発見された。チエの姉ヨシは、風来坊・俊介の力を借りてチエの行方を追うが、やがてダイヤモンドをめぐる陰謀が一行の行く手を阻む…。

1957 crime film directed by Toshio Shimura for Shintoho.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.

Kizaki, an upstart at a trading company has one more assignment for the day before meeting his lovely girlfriend, Natsuki for a date. Little does he know that he's walking straight into a trap set up by his boss, Asanuma and his murderous right hand man. The next day Kizaki finds himself framed for the murder of the company president, and the robbing of the company safe. Natsuki innocently waves goodbye to her loved ones as the boat sails only find herself caught in Asanuma's evil scheming and the object of his lust. In a desperate attempt to escape, she falls to the watery depths. When we next see her she has washed ashore like a siren in the nude on a deserted island inhabited by five castaways who fight each other for her. She learns there's a rich wealth of clams underwater and eventually comes into a large fortune in pearls. Once rescued, she returns to Japan with revenge on her mind.

Utako Mitsuya's film debut.

The first film appearence of The Golden Bat

「群狼」「人生選手」の筈見恒夫が製作担当、「群狼」「海のＧメン　玄海灘の狼」の志村敏夫が監督に当っている。原作は、講談倶楽部に掲載された島田一男の探偵小説を、「大都会の丑満時」の笠原良三が脚色している。俳優は「こころ妻」の堀雄二「雪夫人絵図(1950)」の久我美子、「羅生門」の千秋実、「君が心の妻」の月丘千秋、「いつの日君帰る」の田崎潤等。

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

粗忽者だが、人助けが唯一の楽しみという仙台藩の純情家臣・磯川兵助。公儀の難題と勝負してどんな手柄をたてるのやら…。戦争真っ只中に封切られた作品であるが、エノケンは相変わらず持ち前のおかしさを発揮し、ロケ撮影のシーンの広々とした感じや馬が疾走する場面などセットの豪華さは、今の映画より豊かな印象を訴えてくる。

Japanese war-era film