Two twin girls are separated at birth. One grows up in a loving family. Read More »
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Sword of the Beast AKA Kedamono no ken (1965) Hideo Gosha, Mikijirô Hira, Gô Katô, Shima Iwashita
Gennosuke, a clan retainer, kills one of the clan ministers as part of a plot to achieve reform. Read More »
Double Suicide (1969) Masahiro Shinoda, Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Shizue Kawarazaki
Set in Osaka in the 18th century, the film centers on the doomed romance between Jihei (Kichiemon Nakamura) Read More »
Youth in Fury (1960) Masahiro Shinoda, Shin’ichirô Mikami, Shima Iwashita, Kayoko Honoo
A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku’s iconoclastic New Wave. Read More »
Assassination (1964) Masahiro Shinoda, Tetsurô Tanba, Shima Iwashita, Eiji Okada
In 1863, when Americans warships approach Japan, a enigmatic ronin becomes a important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire. Read More »
Sanma no aji / An Autumn Afternoon (1962) Yasujirô Ozu, Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Drama
In the early 60’s in Tokyo, the widower Hirayama is a former captain from the Japanese navy that works as a manager of a factory and lives with his twenty-four year-old daughter Michiko and his son Kazuo in his house.
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