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Criterion Channel
71
6.5
/11549/
66
/496/
70
/323/
3.5
/35210/
92
/13/
68
/385/

Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea for its return. As their requests are denied, Godzilla arises near Nagoya and the people of Infant Island must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help.
poster
Criterion Channel
65
6.7
/777/
56
/13/
63
/53/
3.5
/1241/
84
/6/

A Taxing Woman's Return (1988)
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath.
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Criterion Channel
61
59
6.2
/8437/
61
/337/
67
/243/
3.2
/22099/
50
/8/
62
/245/

Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world from "Monster Zero". In exchange for borrowing Godzilla and Rodan, the Xiliens offer a cure for cancer. As Glenn investigates, he develops a romance with Miss Namikawa and uncovers the Xilien's true intentions.
poster
57
55
6.2
/2874/
63
/530/
69
/332/
3.1
/28178/
52
/21/
56
/700/
40
/4/

King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.
poster
Criterion Channel
59
47
5.5
/2647/
57
/77/
67
/69/
3.1
/4488/
54
/733/

Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
44
7.4
/1646/
71
/53/
68
/39/
3.6
/1829/

Zatoichi Challenged (1967)
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.
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70
11
7.3
/212/
65
/5/
71
/14/
3.6
/209/

A Trap (1965)
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
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10
/1/

School for Thieves (1968)
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10
/1/

I'm a Bodyguard (1964)
Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a writer living in the area while working at a police box. His dream is to become a bodyguard (BG) for the Prime Minister, just like his senior, Detective Inspector Takagi (Ryu Chishu). Kita Ippei is very successful in both work and love, getting attacked while guarding a female minister, getting some perks as a BG for a foreign princess, and becoming friends with a woman at his favorite bar.
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6.4
/9/
10
/1/

The Sandal Keeper (1964)
N/A
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8.1
/13/
10
/1/

Garakuta (1964)
1964 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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4.0
/8/
10
/1/

The Diary of a Sex Counsellor (1968)
N/A
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10
/1/

Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1 (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

与太郎戦記 女は幾万ありとても (1970)
N/A
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10
/1/

Rikugun rakugo-hei (1971)
N/A
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7.9
/18/
10
/1/

The Gift of the Fox (1971)
N/A
poster
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6.6
/8/
10
/1/

I Sell My Husband (1968)
Japanese comedy film.
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7.9
/13/
10
/1/

My Hobo (1962)
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who become a most atypical Japanese family.
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10
/1/

Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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6.7
/27/
10
/1/

The Blue Beast (1960)
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral drama. When things get too hot, he bails and goes to work for a prominent politician (Koreya Senda). Soon he has impregnated the daughter (Yoko Tsukasa) of his boss, but he figures marriage will solve his current problems. His happiness is short-lived when he is stalked by a union radical he once double-crossed who now seeks vengeance.
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6.9
/11/
10
/1/

Fifty-Fifty (1963)
The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.
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6.6
/7/
10
/1/

This Greedy Old Skin (1960)
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs.
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7.4
/99/
62
/4/
63
/3/

Saga of the Vagabonds (1959)
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting and befriending Taro, Rokuro decides to return the money to Taro. But Taro's unscrupulous brother Jiro falsely accuse Taro of the theft, and Taro reactively joins the outlaw band and encourages them to steal from the nobles and give to the poor.
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6.0
/25/
10
/1/
65
/2/

The Million Dollar Pursuit (1968)
Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.
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6.6
/14/
10
/1/

My Voiceless Friends (1972)
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
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7.2
/13/
10
/1/

Romance Express (1961)
Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as a dour company president. Based on the novel "Seven and a half hours", by Shishi Bunroku.
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10
/1/
80
/1/

Black Comedy - Ah, Fool (1969)
A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
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10
/1/

Awamori-kun kanpai! (1961)
Second of the three Awamori-kun movies.
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10
/1/

Ayako (1962)
An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who stole money from his firm to repay his son's debt.
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6.0
/7/
10
/1/

Dynamite Doctor Returns (1966)
Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie
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5.3
/7/
10
/1/

Dynamite Doctor (1966)
Film by director Kenji Misumi
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7.5
/18/
10
/1/

The Two Bodyguards (1968)
Film directed by Kenji Misumi
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10
/1/

Chihō kisha (1962)
N/A
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10
/1/
60
/1/

Dotanba (1956)
Dotanba - Last Minute
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10
/1/

Way Out, Way In (1970)
Japanese crime film.
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6.2
/38/
30
/2/
70
/1/

Beast Alley (1965)
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his political schemes. As she descends further into a downward spiral of moral decay, Tamiko realizes that the freedom she sought is merely a new form of entrapment.
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10
/1/

The All-Out Game (1970)
When Daisaku Hotta (Kosaburo Onogawa), the cheer leader of Tonan High School, hears that Rikiya Kudo (Saburo Shindo), the captain of the Judo team and Shiro Usami (Kei Wakakura) of the boxing team are about to fight, he breaks it up that are apt to erupt so suddenly on campus. Rikiya is an honor student, recommended to the Toa University by his school and is almost certain of being accepted next spring. Shiro is long on brute strength but short on brains. Naturally, they waste little love on each other, so there is very little ground for any understanding between them.
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50
/3/

Sex Revolution (1970)
Story exposes free-sex among highschool students.
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64
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7.6
/202/
45
/5/
65
/6/
3.6
/254/

A Human Promise (1986)
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.
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6.0
/15/
10
/1/

Crazy Operation: First Move (1963)
After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural vitality, they solve one dispute after another. But as it turns out, their next dispute will be at a global scale.
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10
/1/

The Genius and Delinquent (1971)
A talented man and a dull-witted one plan a big crime.
poster
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7.3
/62/
10
/1/
80
/1/

Irresponsible Age of Japan (1962)
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.
poster
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7.8
/30/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Come Marry Me (1966)
Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection despite the disapproval of his wealthy parents and Masako's own feelings towards the working-class cabbie Noro.
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6.6
/29/
10
/1/

The Donkey Comes on a Tank (1964)
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.
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6.8
/38/
40
/2/
60
/1/

Get 'em All (1960)
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.
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7.9
/14/
10
/1/

The Shop Curtain (1958)
The lives of a family of kelp (kombu) merchants in Osaka across three generations, spanning from the Meiji era through the aftermath of World War II.
poster
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6.5
/41/
35
/2/
70
/3/

Gamblers' Luck (1966)
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.


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