The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphireans (or "Spherions") kidnap Dr. Yamanaka and force him to use his spaceship against the Earth.
Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!
A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman from the Emerald Planet to save the human race before it's too late.
An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle them all to save his planet.
Nurse
A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent feature—long thought lost until a negative was recently discovered—about a group of idle bourgeois students known as the “Roppongi Tribe” (Roppongi zoku). Depicting the resignation and nihilism of the postwar generation in the years following the Anpo Treaty conflicts through a coming-of-age narrative, Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japan's new youth offered by Nikkatsu's taiyozoku (“Sun Tribe”) films and the New Wave at large.
Chieko, Chief Inspector Fuji's wife
Third and last "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.
Mrs. Yajima
대학생인 시로는 야지마 교수의 딸 유키코와 약혼식을 올린 날, 친구 타무라와 차를 타고 가던 중 실수로 사람을 치게 되고 도주하지만 목격자가 있다. 자수를 결심한 시로는 유키코와 택시를 타지만 교통사고로 유키코마저 잃게 된다. 실의에 빠진 시로는 술로 시간을 보내다가 어머니가 병에 걸렸다는 소식을 듣고 집으로 돌아온다. 어느 날 야지마 교수 부부와 타무라가 시로의 아버지가 운영하는 양로원의 10주년 기념 행사에 참석하기 위해 시로를 방문한다. 모든 메인 캐릭터들이 모인 가운데 각자의 죄목에 따라 지옥으로 떨어진다.
Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not want to let them go. Once upon a time, over a century ago, there had been a crime, whose shadow still hovers over these places.
Midori Imai
Arrested for the murder of her wealthy businessman father, convicted on false evidence and sentenced to death, Kyoko is determined to prove her innocence.
Japanese thriller.
Kin
1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".
Sashichi investigates the mysterious murders of four beauties, all of whom were stabbed in the chest.
A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot to murder them all, but as it turns out he has done this sort of thing before. As bodies pile up in the nearby Kagami Pond, a ghostly vengeance is about to be unleashed.
Yuri's mother Miwako
Yuri is looking forward to marrying her fiancé Minoru. However, a few days before the wedding she falls victim to his brother Takehiko, and against her will, she becomes Takehiko's wife. The day after the wedding, Yuri begins her silent revenge by not talking to her husband. She retains her love for Minoru and never gives herself to Takehiko's embrace again. She also contributes large sums of money from Takehiko's fortune to charity.
Hirota's older daughter
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor agrees to unconditional surrender. Under the supervision of the occupation forces the International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo to try the Japanese war leaders. Established in the cause of justice, and to prevent future aggressive wars the trials drag on for two and a half years. And on December 23, 1948, General Tojo and six other war leaders mount the thirteen steps to the gallows at Tokyo's Sugamo prison.
Shizu Tazawa
다자와 헌병오장과 아키코는 나미지마 헌병소위의 질투를 뒤로 하고 결혼한다. 헌병대에서 기밀문서가 도둑맞는 사건이 일어나고, 소위의 음모로 누명을 뒤집어쓴 오장은 총살당한다. 오장의 동생 다자와 이등병은 형의 복수를 맹세하며 헌병대에 입소하고, 겁탈당한 아키코 역시 복수를 꿈꾸며 중국 대륙으로 향한다. 한편 소위의 앞에 다자와의 유령이 출몰하기 시작한다.
The film marked Yōko Mihara's debut as the star of Shintoho's series of ama films, a role she took over from Michiko Maeda.
Miyaji (segment "Period Drama")
의사인 테츠이치로는 결핵에 걸린 아내 요리코의 건강을 위해 아내의 고향인 큐슈로 이사를 결심하고 허름하지만 넓은 저택으로 이사를 한다. 그리고 그 집에 병원도 열게 된다. 하지만 이사온 첫날부터 저택으로부터 이상한 기운을 느낀 요리코는 급기야 그녀의 목을 조르는 노파의 공격을 받는다. 처음에는 테츠이치로도 단순히 이사로 인한 스트레스와 요리코의 병이 원인이라고 생각하며 믿지 않았지만, 병원의 간호사까지 비슷한 경험을 하게 되면서 저택과 관련된 끔찍한 과거가 서서히 밝혀지게 된다.
Director Teruo Ishi's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style.
Fusae
A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his wife by mistake and then goes to the swamp and drowns himself. 20 years later, the masseur's daughter unknowingly falls in love with the samurai's son who has been brought up to be a servant. After she is horribly disfigured in an accident, he plots to run away with another woman, but the path of their escape lies by the Kasane swamp...
Japanese comedy film.
