Katsumi Nishikawa

Katsumi Nishikawa

Katsumi Nishikawa (西河克己, Nishikawa Katsumi) (1 July 1918 – 6 April 2010) was a Japanese film director most famous for his youth films (seishun eiga). Graduating from Nihon University, he started out at the Shochiku studio in 1939 and directed his first film in 1952. He moved to Nikkatsu in 1954 and, while working in a variety of genres, became most famous for his youth films starring Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yujiro Ishihara, and Hideki Takahashi. In the 1970s, he remade some of these films with the idol singer Momoe Yamaguchi and her future husband Tomokazu Miura. The Katsumi Nishikawa Memorial Film Museum was opened in his hometown of Chizu, Tottori, in 2001. Nishikawa published several books, including one about his war experience and another about filming Yasunari Kawabata's The Dancing Girl of Izu several times. He died of pneumonia on April 6, 2010.

  • Title: Katsumi Nishikawa
  • Popularity: 0.4961
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1918-07-01
  • Place of Birth: Chizu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
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  • Also Known As: Кацуми Нисикава
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Katsumi Nishikawa Movies

  • 1983
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    The Sea of Sparta

    The Sea of Sparta

    1 1983 HD

    Violent delinquent Shunpei is sent to Totsuka Yacht School, a grueling rehabilitation center. The principal fears that this "half-wolf" is too much. When kids go bad, this school beats them straight. But they've never seen anything like this punk before.

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  • 1966
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    Tomo o okuru uta

    Tomo o okuru uta

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1974
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    The Izu Dancer

    The Izu Dancer

    8 1974 HD

    While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling performers, and he tags along with them on their journeys.

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  • 1959
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    Immoral Lecture

    Immoral Lecture

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Wild Daisy

    The Wild Daisy

    1 1977 HD

    Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections ensue as Tamiko is older than Masao, and the two cannot marry in peace.

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  • 1966
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    Night of Sorrow

    Night of Sorrow

    1 1966 HD

    A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.

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  • 1955
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    Striving to Live

    Striving to Live

    1 1955 HD

    Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more.

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  • 1961
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    Pursuit

    Pursuit

    1 1961 HD

    Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.

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  • 1962
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    Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko

    Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1975
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    The Surf

    The Surf

    6 1975 HD

    Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue's father forbids her to see Shinji. But when the boy saves the passengers on a boat owned by Hatsue's father, his luck in love begins to change.

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  • 1969
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    Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

    Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

    1 1969 HD

    A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors who, after her father's death, disbanded her gang and moved to Tokyo by herself, where she becomes a hostess and demonstrates her natural chivalrous temperament, risking her life in the neon-lit Ginza district.

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  • 1962
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    Red Bud and White Flower

    Red Bud and White Flower

    1 1962 HD

    A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

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  • 1967
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    Lost Love

    Lost Love

    7 1967 HD

    Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his former house to get a camellia blooming from the garden, he sees a beautiful schoolgirl who lives there. After they coincidentally meet again they fall for each other, but she is already engaged.

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  • 1968
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    Eternal Love

    Eternal Love

    1 1968 HD

    The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are actually brother and sister.

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  • 1964
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    Homecoming

    Homecoming

    1 1964 HD

    Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, during the revolution in Cuba, but is now living in Japan. Tomoko's mother has remarried a strict, narrow-minded university professor, whose only worry is protecting his family name from the slightest blemish.

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  • 1964
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    Homecoming

    Homecoming

    1 1964 HD

    Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, during the revolution in Cuba, but is now living in Japan. Tomoko's mother has remarried a strict, narrow-minded university professor, whose only worry is protecting his family name from the slightest blemish.

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  • 1963
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    Beyond the Green Hills

    Beyond the Green Hills

    1 1963 HD

    Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.

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  • 1977
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    Sweet Revenge

    Sweet Revenge

    6.6 1977 HD

    Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.

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  • 1963
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    Love Comes with Youth

    Love Comes with Youth

    8 1963 HD

    During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru (Sayuri Yoshinaga), one of the “odoriko”. Kawasaki is taken and cannot take his eyes off her. When he is invited to stay at the same lodgings, the two grow closer. In time, the two come to learn the pain of love.

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  • 1963
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    Love Comes with Youth

    Love Comes with Youth

    8 1963 HD

    During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru (Sayuri Yoshinaga), one of the “odoriko”. Kawasaki is taken and cannot take his eyes off her. When he is invited to stay at the same lodgings, the two grow closer. In time, the two come to learn the pain of love.

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  • 1953
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    Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido

    Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido

    1 1953 HD

    Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent in Hakodate, Hokkaido, and meets along the way a young bear-hunter with whom she begins an adventure.

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  • 1956
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    Funny Friend: The Baby and Express

    Funny Friend: The Baby and Express

    1 1956 HD

    East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the name suggests. Daikichi was a driver working for the East-West transportation company, and Rokuheita served as his assistant. The Daikichi truck, which was packed with luggage today, has left for its destination. And soon after Daikichi's truck left, Rokuheita heard a cat meowing from behind, so Daikichi stopped the car and turned to check the cargo, and there in a large basket he saw a crying baby...

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  • 1956
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    Funny Friend: The Baby and Express

    Funny Friend: The Baby and Express

    1 1956 HD

    East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the name suggests. Daikichi was a driver working for the East-West transportation company, and Rokuheita served as his assistant. The Daikichi truck, which was packed with luggage today, has left for its destination. And soon after Daikichi's truck left, Rokuheita heard a cat meowing from behind, so Daikichi stopped the car and turned to check the cargo, and there in a large basket he saw a crying baby...

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  • 1976
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    A Portrait of Shunkin

    A Portrait of Shunkin

    7.3 1976 HD

    Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight.

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  • 1976
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    A Portrait of Shunkin

    A Portrait of Shunkin

    7.3 1976 HD

    Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight.

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  • 1989
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    My Phoenix

    My Phoenix

    1 1989 HD

    Romance story about the first female manager of the Nihon University Phoenix

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  • 1956
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    Family of Sorrow

    Family of Sorrow

    1 1956 HD

    Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

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  • 1967
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    Journey to the North

    Journey to the North

    1 1967 HD

    Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings. However, Yuko, having returned home, has just become engaged to a local young man, and the sudden appearance of Eikichi makes others worry that their good relationship will be spoiled. An epic about pure love, which tells the story of a man who leaves his beloved woman, praying for her happiness. Adapted from the novel "Kiri no Naka no Shojo" Yojiro Ishizaka.

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  • 1975
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    The Last Song

    The Last Song

    6.8 1975 HD

    Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his father's wishes, Junkichi decides to run away with Koyuki to start a new life. But when Junkichi is called off to war, they make a pledge to sing the song of engagement everyday until they are able to reunite

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  • 1975
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    The Last Song

    The Last Song

    6.8 1975 HD

    Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his father's wishes, Junkichi decides to run away with Koyuki to start a new life. But when Junkichi is called off to war, they make a pledge to sing the song of engagement everyday until they are able to reunite

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  • 1963
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    Beyond the Green Hills

    Beyond the Green Hills

    1 1963 HD

    Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.

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  • 1992
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    One Bowl of Kakesoba

    One Bowl of Kakesoba

    1 1992 HD

    Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One New Year's day, a haggard-looking mother and her two adorable moppets poke their heads into the restaurant and ask for a single bowl of kakesoba. Noticing that the trio is looking a little low in the heels, she puts in an extra scoop of noodles. The youngest boy declares that the soba is delicious. The next year, the same threesome appears again asking for one bowl of kakesoba. This time the old man dumps in two helpings. He is struck by how much the youngest looks like their own son who was hit by a truck three years previous. The following year, the three return and this time the mother tells her story...

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  • 1963
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    Gone in the Rain

    Gone in the Rain

    1 1963 HD

    Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from their career and love life. Soon, their room share takes a turn, when ideals begin to clash with reality.

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  • 1963
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    Gone in the Rain

    Gone in the Rain

    1 1963 HD

    Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from their career and love life. Soon, their room share takes a turn, when ideals begin to clash with reality.

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  • 1960
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    Tatsumaki kozō

    Tatsumaki kozō

    1 1960 HD

    Tommy, a tornado boy who arrived at Arima Onsen in search of his father, whom he separated from when he was young, meets a girl named Eiko after driving away a group of thugs causing trouble at a variety show venue. Additionally, a drifter named Nanajo, impressed by Tommy's skills, approaches him with a story about a smuggling ship sinking off the coast of Kobe...

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  • 1960
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    My Hometown is the Wild West

    My Hometown is the Wild West

    1 1960 HD

    George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,000 check to Matsuyama, a Japanese soldier who had helped Tom around the time of World War I, and to perform some act of kindness in Japan using $300 pocket money. This was to test whether George was a suitable boy to inherit Tom's YES Ranch.

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  • 1966
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    No Greater Love

    No Greater Love

    1 1966 HD

    In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as the eye can see. People treated him with respect. But even the richest must think about the future. One day, he decides to arrange a marriage between his only son, Junkichi and the daughter of an even more powerful family. Sobei, hoping to benefit from this union, soon discovers that his son was in love with a lower class girl.

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  • 1966
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    No Greater Love

    No Greater Love

    1 1966 HD

    In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as the eye can see. People treated him with respect. But even the richest must think about the future. One day, he decides to arrange a marriage between his only son, Junkichi and the daughter of an even more powerful family. Sobei, hoping to benefit from this union, soon discovers that his son was in love with a lower class girl.

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  • 1965
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    Song of Farewell

    Song of Farewell

    1 1965 HD

    After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part ways with him forever. However, in Yuriko's heart... Pure love duo Yoshinaga and Hamada rigorously pursue a life of sincerity and love of the younger generation, and love but parting, in this lyrical and melancholy touching story of Ishizaka literature.

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  • 1976
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    The Sea of Eden

    The Sea of Eden

    1 1976 HD

    Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation with a female teacher. It turns out that Nanjo and Shimizu have fallen in love.

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  • 1962
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    Kimagure tosei

    Kimagure tosei

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1961
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    Kusa wo karu musume

    Kusa wo karu musume

    1 1961 HD

    1961 Japanese movie

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  • 1959
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    Immoral Lecture

    Immoral Lecture

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1962
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    Seinen no isu

    Seinen no isu

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1984
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    Seito shokun!

    Seito shokun!

    1 1984 HD

    Based on the comic book of the same name by Youko Shouji

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  • 1989
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    Virgin Road

    Virgin Road

    1 1989 HD

    Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai

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  • 1989
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    Virgin Road

    Virgin Road

    1 1989 HD

    Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai

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  • 2020
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    Black Art Collection -Testimony-

    Black Art Collection -Testimony-

    1 2020 HD

    Ishino Teiichiro (Tanihara Shosuke) married his wife Sachiko (Nishida Naomi) and took over her family’s clinic in Kanazawa. Although he is a respected doctor and seems to have a happy family life with Sachiko and their two children

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  • 1956
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    Frankie the Milkman

    Frankie the Milkman

    9 1956 HD

    Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.

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  • 1960
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    Wakai toppū

    Wakai toppū

    1 1960 HD

    On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her and they head towards Yokohama in Yoshiko's car. In Yokohama, there is an uproar because Kenji's father, Shozo Hase, a customs officer, has been accused of stealing confiscated drugs. The story unfolds with thrilling action as Kenji bravely confronts the gang of villains who framed his father and kidnapped him, all while seeking justice and vindicating his father's innocence.

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  • 1960
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    Wakai toppū

    Wakai toppū

    1 1960 HD

    On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her and they head towards Yokohama in Yoshiko's car. In Yokohama, there is an uproar because Kenji's father, Shozo Hase, a customs officer, has been accused of stealing confiscated drugs. The story unfolds with thrilling action as Kenji bravely confronts the gang of villains who framed his father and kidnapped him, all while seeking justice and vindicating his father's innocence.

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  • 1962
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    Fresh Leaves

    Fresh Leaves

    1 1962 HD

    Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr. Mazaki, the new mathematics teacher.

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  • 1968
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    The Spiders' The Road to Bali

    The Spiders' The Road to Bali

    1 1968 HD

    The Spiders, a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band, star. During their Asian tour spies try to smuggle plutonium hidden in The Spiders' guitar amps, but the boys just want to Rock and Roll!

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  • 1959
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    Windy Street

    Windy Street

    6 1959 HD

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  • 1959
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    Windy Street

    Windy Street

    6 1959 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Wild Daisy

    The Wild Daisy

    1 1977 HD

    Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections ensue as Tamiko is older than Masao, and the two cannot marry in peace.

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  • 1968
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    The Spiders' The Road to Bali

    The Spiders' The Road to Bali

    1 1968 HD

    The Spiders, a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band, star. During their Asian tour spies try to smuggle plutonium hidden in The Spiders' guitar amps, but the boys just want to Rock and Roll!

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  • 1958
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    The Nun

    The Nun

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Nun

    The Nun

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Swan Elegy

    The Swan Elegy

    1 1966 HD

    One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering between two men, learns from her father that she is the child of her deceased mother and uncle. In this ambitious work, Sayuri Yoshinaga takes on the role of a girl who loves two men at the same time. The latest work from the golden duo of director Katsumi Nishikawa and actress Sayuri Yoshinaga, who created many masterpieces such as “The Izu Dancer”.

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  • 1965
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    The Four Loves

    The Four Loves

    1 1965 HD

    A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each of the daughters has a romantic interest and it's noticeable that the father, too, has someone in mind.

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  • 1956
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    Shiawase wa doko ni

    Shiawase wa doko ni

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1956
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    Shiawase wa doko ni

    Shiawase wa doko ni

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow

    The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow

    6 1958 HD

    Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his relative Morihiko. He said he forgot the winning lottery ticket of 2 million yen at the hotel, so he wants Daishiro to go and pick it up. Morihiko used the hotel for secret meetings, so he said he couldn't go there himself because he was afraid it would become public. When Daishiro entered the hotel, the Yakuza, who learned about the lottery from the newspaper, threaten the hotel maid Noriko, and want to rob her. Daishiro helps Noriko and safely picks up the lottery, but a message arrives from his relative Seikichi from Osaka. His missing son Kaoru is said to be a boxer in Osaka. "My son... He has the blood of a boxer in him..." Daishiro is heading to Osaka in a hurry...

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  • 1959
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    Downhill Youth

    Downhill Youth

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1969
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    Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority

    Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority

    1 1969 HD

    A tragic love story about the heiress of the Kitakyushu Tagawa family who becomes a hostess in Osaka.

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  • 1960
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    Shippû kozô

    Shippû kozô

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1959
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    Beneath the Gallows

    Beneath the Gallows

    1 1959 HD

    Who is the vicious criminal challenging the investigation team? Mysteries lead to more mysteries, and deductions lead to more deductions in this bizarre and terrifying thriller!

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  • 1961
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    Doing What I Please

    Doing What I Please

    1 1961 HD

    Koichi Haruyama, who works at the Morita Automobile Factory, was driving a convertible through Ginza in search of accident sites. He buys cars that have been damaged in accidents at a low price and scraps them for his own company. He uses the money he earns in this way to pay back Kanda Trading. Morita, the president of the company, is suspicious about the identity of Kanda Trading, from whom he borrowed money. However, what is borrowed must be repaid, and Koichi drives to Toyokawa to beg his grandfather for money as his scrap business is not going well. In addition to begging for money, Koichi has another secret purpose...

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  • 1960
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    六三制愚連隊

    六三制愚連隊

    1 1960 HD

    I'm going to help that rebel guy! Young people burst into rage, roaring with dreams and hopes! The sense of justice and humanism of these second-generation boys brings justice to the drug gangs that have taken over Hama. A bright, healthy, and exciting youth drama.

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  • 1963
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    The Sea of Eden

    The Sea of Eden

    1 1963 HD

    High school student Tomoe's initial apprehension towards Nanjo, a new handsome teacher in her school, is mistakenly perceived as a crush by her classmates, leading to dramatic consequences.

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  • 1977
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    Lover's Cape

    Lover's Cape

    1 1977 HD

    Drama filmed in 1977

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