Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's all about to change when her real father mysteriously comes to get her and finally bring her home.
Atomic Energy Research Institute Chief
北極海で大爆発が起き、氷の中に閉じこめられていたカメの大怪獣ガメラを目覚めさせてしまう。北海道に現われたガメラは、エネルギーを求めて地熱発電所を襲撃。自衛隊が応戦するが、ガメラはどんな攻撃も受け付けない。そこで自衛隊は、自力で起き上がれないカメの特性を利用した転倒作戦を考案。ガメラをひっくり返し、飢え死にさせるという狙いは成功したかに見えたが、転倒したガメラは驚くべき方法で起き上がった。
A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. Actually, it is anything but harmless. Both the customer and his sister are involved in a jewel robbery in which they have double-crossed two of their accomplices who are now out of prison and thirsting for revenge.
Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.
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Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji, 1926).
Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still rages on -- unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly attentions of his daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, flashy dancer with a shady past. Pitiful and ridiculous as he is, Utsugi is without a trace of self-pity, and his diary shines with self-effacing good humor.
Jivaka
釈迦の生誕から入滅までを壮大なスケールで描いた歴史スペクタクル。世を憂えて修行の道に入ったシッダ太子は、悪魔の誘惑を退けついに悟りを開く。だが彼に嫉妬するダイバ・ダッタは、バラモンの法力を以て、シッダ太子と仏教徒を様々な方法で迫害していくが......。
Doctor
One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi
Tokezo
旅回りの駒十郎一座の乗った船が港に着いた。駒十郎は一膳飯屋にお芳を訪ね、その昔二人がもうけた清も今では郵便局に勤めていると知って安心する。清には駒十郎はお芳の兄ということになっていた。駒十郎の連れ合いのすみ子は、清のことを不審に思い加代に清を誘惑してくれるよう頼む。加代と清は恋仲になり、それを知った駒十郎は加代とすみ子を激しく叱りつける。客入りの悪くなった一座は解散することになり、駒十郎と清は加代を巡って対立する。お芳は清に駒十郎が実の父親だと打ち明けるが、清は許さず、駒十郎は気が抜けたように立ち去る。駅に行くとすみ子が待っていて、二人は車中の人となるのだった。
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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.
Kenkichi Yamada
Li Kuei-nien
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.
A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.
Kasuke
The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.
