A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.Read More »
Shigeru Amachi
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Nobuo Nakagawa – Jigoku AKA The Sinners of Hell (1960) (HD)
1951-1960HorrorJapanNobuo Nakagawa -
Hiroshi Shimizu – Mogura yokochô AKA Mole Alley (1953)
Hiroshi Shimizu1951-1960DramaJapan
33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls’ school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writing Ogata’s manuscript, he would buy dorayaki as a gratuity and devour it.Read More »
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Tokuzô Tanaka – Yadonashi inu AKA Homeless Dog (1964)
Tokuzô Tanaka1961-1970ActionCrimeJapan -
Kyôtarô Namiki – Kenpei to barabara shibijin AKA The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty (1957)
Japan1951-1960Kyôtarô NamikiMysteryThriller
synopsis
Set in 1937, the body of a pregnant woman without head and arms is found in a well. The investigation centres on a military unit, but there are frictions between the civilian police and the military police.Read More » -
Nobuo Nakagawa – Jigoku AKA Hell (1960)
1951-1960AsianHorrorJapanNobuo Nakagawa
A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.Read More »
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Nobuo Nakagawa – Kenpei to yûrei AKA M.P. and the Ghost AKA Ghost In the Regiment (1958)
1951-1960HorrorJapanNobuo NakagawaWar
Synopsis:
Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and a firing squad. The lieutenant rapes the wife, but is haunted by bad dreams which after he is assigned to a battalion with the victim’s brotherRead More » -
Tomu Uchida – Tasogare sakaba AKA Twilight Saloon (1955)
1951-1960ClassicsDramaJapanTomu Uchida
Synopsis:
In Twilight Saloon a cast of diverse characters spend an eventful evening in a cheap beer hall filled with music, dance, drunkenness, and self-reflection. Witty and lively, it also has a confessional quality: Uchida cast his regular prewar star Isamu Kosugi as an artist lamenting his art’s use for propagandistic purposes during the war….Read More » -
Tokuzô Tanaka – Zatoichi no uta ga Kikoeru AKA Zatoichi’s Vengeance (1966)
1961-1970ActionJapanMartial ArtsTokuzô Tanaka
Synopsis:
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to “Taichi”. Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that “Taichi” was the man’s young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.Read More »
