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Tag Archives: 1960s
Legacy of the 500,000 (1963) Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki
During the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a huge cache of gold in the Phillippine mountains. Read More »
Unperishable Sword (1960) Yasushi Sasaki, Kôji Tsuruta, Hiroko Sakuramachi, Keiko Fujita
Obsessions (1969) Pim de la Parra, Alexandra Stewart, Dieter Geissler, Tom van Beek
Student Nils is spying on his neighbor doing kinky stuff while his girlfriend Marina, a journalist, is looking for a missing girl. Read More »
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) Charles Jarrott, Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Henry VIII of England discards one wife Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of a young and beautiful woman Read More »
Girl with Green Eyes (1964) Desmond Davis, Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave
An awkward young Irish farm girl Kate Brady moves to Dublin and shares a room with funny Read More »
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969) Nagisa Ôshima, Tadanori Yokoo, Rie Yokoyama, Moichi Tanabe
Story of a bookstore thief named Birdey who is led through various adventures in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko. Read More »
Becket (1964) Peter Glenville, Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, John Gielgud
Debauched King Henry II installs his longtime court facilitator Thomas Becket as the Archbishop of Canterbury Read More »
The Sinners of Hell (1960) Nobuo Nakagawa, Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yôichi Numata
A graduate-school student has a friend who is pure evil. Read More »
The Killing Game (1967) Alain Jessua, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claudine Auger, Michel Duchaussoy
Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. Read More »