Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. Read More »
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Legend of a Duel to the Death AKA Shitô no densetsu (1963) Keisuke Kinoshita, Shima Iwashita, Mariko Kaga, Gô Katô
A young woman who has been evacuated to Hokkaido with her family during Read More »
I’m Dandy AKA Migimagari No Dandy (1989) Hiroyuki Nasu, Kobuhei Hayashiya, Miyuki Imori, Mariko Kaga
Ichijo, a middle-aged salary man, hassles to get his career back on track. Read More »
Only On Mondays AKA Getsuyôbi no Yuka (1964) Kô Nakahira, Mariko Kaga, Akira Nakao, Yasukiyo Umeno
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa Read More »
The Creature Called Man AKA Jaga wa hashitta (1970) Kiyoshi Nishimura, Yûzô Kayama, Jirô Tamiya, Mariko Kaga
A police inspector and Olympic sharpshooter (Kayama) Read More »
Pale Flower AKA Kawaita hana (1964) Masahiro Shinoda, Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki
Just released from prison after serving three years for murdering a member of a rival gang Read More »
Muddy River AKA Doro no kawa (1981) Kôhei Oguri, Takahiro Tamura, Mariko Kaga, Nobutaka Asahara
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends. Read More »
Silence Has No Wings AKA Tobenai chinmoku (1966) Kazuo Kuroki, Mariko Kaga, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shôichi Ozawa
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido Read More »
The Unspoiled Diamond (1982) Toshiya Fujita, Misako Tanaka, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Mariko Kaga
Story of 20-year-old college student is involved in middle-aged lecturer to Kakemochi the prep of several for liquor and women, eventually greet goodbye. Read More »
Kagerô-za / Heat-Haze Theatre (1981) Seijun Suzuki, Yûsaku Matsuda, Michiyo Ohkusu, Mariko Kaga, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Playwright Matsuzaki (Yusaku Matsuda) crosses paths with a beautiful woman on her way to the hospital who tells him a friend is dying. Frightened of a mysterious older woman who sells the fruit of the Chinese Lantern Plant – rumored to be distaff souls – she implores Matsuzaki to accompany her.
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Utsukushisa to kanashimi to / With Beauty And Sorrow (1965) Masahiro Shinoda, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Kaga, Sô Yamamura, Drama, Romance
Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn. Their relation stopped at the same time. Much later Ôki had become a famous writer, not least because of a novel about this love story. Otoko had become a famous painter. But she had never overcome the double early trauma and had become a Lesbian. Her favourite student and beloved one was the beautiful Keiko. 24 years after the early love Ôki goes from Tokyo to Kyoto to meet Otoko. The meeting is polite with secret emotional shadows. Keiko makes a plan. She intends to seduce Ôki, become pregnant, bear Ôki’s child and give it to Otoko. She hopes that Otoko may thereby get rid of her trauma. But she also wants to take her revenge on the man who had harmed her beloved. Secretly she gets acquainted with Ôki’s son, invites him to Kyoto and seduces him. Then she calls his parents and tells that he had promised to marry her.
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