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Tag Archives: 1970s
Bloodiest Flower / Nihon jokyo-den: ketto midare-bana (1971) Kôsaku Yamashita, Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Masahiko Tsugawa
The story of Tei, a female coalmine operator, who risks her life to protect the business that was passed on by her late husband. Read More »
Brave Red Flower of the North / Nihon jokyo-den: makka na dokyo-bana (1970) Yasuo Furuhata, Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Shingo Yamashiro
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning Read More »
Superdad (1973) Vincent McEveety, Bob Crane, Kurt Russell, Barbara Rush
Charlie McCready is a worried father. His daughter, Wendy will be attending college in the fall Read More »
Winner Take All (1975) Paul Bogart, Shirley Jones, Laurence Luckinbill, Sam Groom
In this TV-movie, Shirley Jones plays an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling. Read More »
Yatsuhaka-mura / Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) Yoshitarô Nomura, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki
A Tokyo man witnesses the death by poisoning of his grandfather, Read More »
Kage no kuruma / The Shadow Within (1970) Yoshitarô Nomura, Shima Iwashita, Gô Katô, Mayumi Ogawa
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him. Read More »
Shussho Iwai / The Wolves (1971) Hideo Gosha, Rumi Aiki, Hideyo Amamoto, Noboru Andô
Seiji Iwahashi is released early from a 10-year prison sentence for killing the boss of a rival. Read More »
A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan (1972) Jamaa Fanaka, Katina Gordon Fanaka, Carmen Gordon
Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions Read More »
The Creature Called Man / Jaga wa hashitta (1970) Kiyoshi Nishimura, Yûzô Kayama, Jirô Tamiya, Mariko Kaga
A police inspector and Olympic sharpshooter (Kayama) Read More »