A woman uncovers the secret of her aunt’s withdrawal from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
Spring Night, Summer Night (1967) Joseph L. Anderson, Larue Hall, Ted Heimerdinger, Marjorie Johnson
Jessica, the eldest daughter of a coal miner-turned-farmer, has a fling with her half-brother Carl, which complicates things more when she becomes pregnant. Read More »
Blood of Revenge (1965) Tai Katô, Kôji Tsuruta, Junko Fuji, Tetsurô Tanba
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running Read More »
A Cold Wind in August (1961) Alexander Singer, Lola Albright, Scott Marlowe, Joe De Santis
An older woman seduces an impressionable working-class boy who falls deeply in love with her. Read More »
Battle of Britain (1969) Guy Hamilton, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews
Historical reenactment of the air war in the early days of World War Two for control of the skies over Britain Read More »
A Lively Geisha (1968) Kôsaku Yamashita, Sumiko Fuji, Bunta Sugawara, Keiko Yumi
Koshizu (Fuji), a young geisha, tries to kill herself but is saved by cook Yukichi (Sugahara). Read More »
Five for Revenge (1966) Aldo Florio, Guy Madison, Mónica Randall, Vassili Karis
A few Western-types seek out a friend’s murderer. Read More »
Where the Truth Lies (1962) Henri Decoin, Juliette Gréco, Jean-Marc Bory, Liselotte Pulver
François is a vet surgeon on the Noirmoutier island. He is married to Catherine. Read More »
Life in Danger (1959) Terry Bishop, Derren Nesbitt, Julie Hopkins, Howard Marion-Crawford
The inhabitants of a small village, led by a war veteran, try to catch a vagrant, who they suspect to be an escaped mental patient. Read More »
Ishimatsu The Yakuza: Somethings Fishy (1967) Norifumi Suzuki, Saburô Kitajima, Hideo Murata, Teruo Yoshida
Matsukichi, a worker at a local fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors on his turf. Read More »
The Amazing Transparent Man (1960) Edgar G. Ulmer, Marguerite Chapman, Douglas Kennedy, James Griffith
Paul Krenner, an ex-major with delusions of grandeur, has forced scientist Peter Ulof to develop a radiation-based technique to turn men invisible Read More »
Gangster VIP (1968) Toshio Masuda, Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Mitsuo Hamada, Tamio Kawachi
The film stars Tetsuya Watari who plays Goro, a gangster who was sent to prison for three years for stabbing a hitman Read More »
The Hands of Orlac (1960) Edmond T. Gréville, Mel Ferrer, Dany Carrel, Christopher Lee
A pianist has a transplant operation that gives him a new pair of hands. Read More »
Gangster VIP 2 (1968) Keiichi Ozawa, Tetsuya Watari, Izumi Ashikawa, Eimei Esumi, Jûkei Fujioka
Wherever he goes, trouble follows Goro like a shadow. Continuing in the storyline of its predecessor Read More »
Burying Old Alive (1963) Ki-young Kim, Jin Kyu Kim, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Ye-chun Lee
Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one’s parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. Read More »