The first film of a trilogy about mentally challenged children. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
The Third Shadow / Daisan no kagemusha (1963) Umetsugu Inoue, Raizô Ichikawa, Hizuru Takachiho, Masayo Banri
A warlords’ retainer offers a farmer the chance to become a samurai Read More »
In the Doghouse (1961) Darcy Conyers, Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins, Hattie Jacques
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice. Read More »
Never on Sunday / Pote tin Kyriaki (1960) Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Giorgos Foundas
Illia is Piraeus’s most popular person: an energetic prostitute, full of life and good humor. Read More »
The Blazing Sword (1966) Moeyo-ken
Set during the last days of the Tokugawa (Edo) Period, Moeyo-ken tells the story of Hijikata Toshizo and the Shinsengumi. Read More »
Shinsengumi Last Days of the Shogunate / Shoretsu shinsengumi – bakumatsu no doran (1960) Yasushi Sasaki, Chiezô Kataoka, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Yatarô Kurokawa
Near the end of the Edo period, a military force known as Shinsengumi guards the Shogun. Read More »
Rise Against the Sword / Abare Gôemon (1966) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Nobuko Otowa, Makoto Satô
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. Read More »
They Call Us Misfits / Dom kallar oss mods (1968)
The first in Stefan Jarl’s Mods Trilogy, the film documents the life of two teenagers, Kenta and Stoffe. Read More »
Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969) Daniel Petrie, Lloyd Bridges, Shirley Jones, Lynn Carlin
Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. Read More »
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965) Richard Kaplan, Archibald Macleish, Eric Sevareid, Corinne Alsop Cole
Richard Kaplan documents the life of one of America’s most influential first ladies. Read More »