Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
Autumn Has Already Started / Aki tachinu (1960) Mikio Naruse, Nobuko Otowa, Jun Fujimaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Single mum (father of child dead) from the country with 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo Read More »
Good-for-nothing (1960) Yoshishige Yoshida, Hizuru Takachiho, Masahiko Tsugawa, Yûsuke Kawazu
A bored young student falls for the young secretary of his rich friend’s father. Read More »
Blind Date / Randevou me mia agnosti (1968) Vasilis Georgiadis, Elena Nathanail, Giannis Voglis, Dimitris Myrat
Christina is a Prosecutor’s wife who lives in an old mansion by the sea, in a remote city where her husband’s work has brought them. Read More »
Open Letter / Anoihti epistoli (1967) Yiorgos Stamboulopoulos, Nikiforos Naneris, Eleni Theofilou, Betty Arvaniti
Dimitris, a shy and not ambitious 30-year-old bourgeois, is struggling against his past Read More »
Chimes at Midnight (1965) Campanadas a medianoche
Sir John Falstaff is the hero in this compilation of extracts from Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV’ and other plays Read More »
Young Jesse James (1960) William F. Claxton, Ray Stricklyn, Willard Parker, Merry Anders
In this one, the father of Jesse and Frank James is unjustly hanged by Union troops Read More »
Patty / Gang Rape (1962) Leo A. Handel, Merry Anders, J. Edward McKinley, Dani Lynn
Sweet young lass Patty Smith moves from her native Kansas to Los Angeles, California. Read More »
Campus A-Go-Go / Ereki no wakadaishô (1965) Katsumi Iwauchi, Yûzô Kayama, Yuriko Hoshi, Chôko Iida
A thoroughly charming 60s youth film centered around Beatlesmania / Group Sounds-era rock music Read More »
Big Shots Die at Dawn / Kaoyaku akatsukini shisu (1961) Kihachi Okamoto, Yûzô Kayama, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Shimazaki
After a long stint working in Alaska, Jiro returns to his hometown. Read More »