青春とは、怪談である!芦川いづみの記念すべき「日活入社第一回作品」。獅子文六の評判小説を才匠市川崑が描く青春波乱のメロドラマ。バレリーナの千春と、徹底的な合理主義者で幼馴染の慎一。いずれは結婚を考えている二人の前に、船越トミという女が現われた。Read More »
Tatsuya Mihashi
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Kon Ichikawa – Seishun kaidan AKA Ghost Story of Youth (1955) (HD)
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Makoto Shinozaki – Wasurerarenu hitobito AKA Not Forgotten (2000)
1991-2000AsianDramaJapanMakoto ShinozakiSynopsis:
The central characters are elderly men, former soldiers in the Pacific War, one of whom is still haunted by guilt for abandoning a wounded colleague to die. When the ‘religious’ cult Utopia turns up and starts swindling old people out of their savings and homes, the veterans are goaded into action one last time.Read More » -
Frank Sinatra – None But the Brave (1965)
1961-1970DramaFrank SinatraUSAWarNone but the Brave, also known as Yūsha nomi (勇者のみ, None but the brave men) in Japan, is a 1965 war film with Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tommy Sands and Brad Dexter. This is the only film directed by Frank Sinatra, and the first Japanese-American co-production.Read More »
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Hiroshi Inagaki – Chûshingura AKA The 47 Ronin (1962)
1961-1970AsianClassicsHiroshi InagakiJapanThe 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.Read More »
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Kon Ichikawa – Biruma no tategoto aka The Burmese harp (1956)
1951-1960AsianDramaJapanKon IchikawaCaptain Inouye is a music lover and he taught his unit to sing. One of his soldiers, Mizushima, learned to play harp to accompany the chorus of his comrades, discovering a gift unknown to himself before war. The music will save the company when Japan surrenders but now the country and its soldiers has to split his spirit in two: either accept, either refuse… either live, either die… but the film finds even more subtle separations, as if receiving like the burman soil it begins and ends with all the scars and tugs of postwar Japan.Read More »
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Toshirô Mifune – Gojuman-nin no isan AKA The Legacy of 500,000 (1963) (HD)
1961-1970AdventureAsianJapanToshirô MifuneDuring the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a huge cache of gold in the Phillippine mountains. Years after the war, he is kidnapped by Mitsura and Keigo Gunji, brothers who want Matsuo to lead them to the still-buried gold. Matsuo, who is tormented by the memories of the half-million Japanese who died in the Phillippines during the war, wants to make off with the gold and return it to the Japanese people. But of course the Gunji brothers have other ideas.Read More »
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Ishirô Honda – Gasu ningen dai ichigo AKA The Human Vapor (1960)
1951-1960AsianIshirô HondaJapanSci-FiSynopsis:
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into ‘The Human Vapour’. He uses his new ability to rob banks to fund the career of his girlfriend, a beautiful dancer. The Human Vapour is ruthless in his quest for money and kills anyone who stands in his way, especially police. He soon becomes Tokyo’s most wanted criminal. Can he be stopped before he kills again?Read More »