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The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.
Nude models are being brutally murdered one after another. Is the painter with the dark sunglasses really the killer?
Goro Takano works while attending night school is branded a criminal and joins a gang of delinquents; after a benefactor is killed, he seeks revenge and ultimately loses his own life. A youth-oriented action drama.
Koji, a driver for the Tokyo-Nagoya express bus service, picked up a woman one day on the Hakone Driveway. While Koji and his assistant Saburo were checking the engine, the woman disappeared, leaving a thick envelope on the seat.
Early pinku.
The fifth volume of the Ningyo Sana Torimonocho series. Based on the original work by Seishi Yokomizo, the film was adapted by Mitsuo Kaneda (The Nude Model Murder Case), directed by Tatsuo Yamada, who worked on The Golden Bugyo, and shot by Kikuzo Kawasaki. Keiko Hibino, Shigeru Amachi, Tomisaburo Wakayama
1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".
Asako Miura grew up in a wealthy family, but she rebelled against her mother Sawako's adulterous relationship with Akagi, a boss who controlled the underworld, and joined a gang of delinquent girls. Now, she spends her days acting like a queen, surrounded by many teenage yakuza.
Early film directed by Satoru Kobayashi.
During a fever, Tateo, the male protagonist believes he is dying and has the hallucination that his beautiful wife, Reiko (Tamaki Katori), the daughter of a wealthy family, is having an affair w/ another man. He then tells her an ancient Chinese story: the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi wanted to test the faithfulness of his wife, so he faked his own death; the wife was grief-stricken and went into mourning. While funeral arrangements were in progress, a handsome young man came to call on Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi's wife soon fell into love w/ the young man and decided to marry hi. However, the young man fell ill; his servant said that the only medicine to cure him is human brain. Zhuangzi's wife eventually decided to break his husband's coffin and take his brain. However the young man turns out be Zhuangzi in disguise.
Sashichi investigates the mysterious murders of four beauties, all of whom were stabbed in the chest.
Horror film directed by Satoru Kobayashi. Kin'ya Ogawa served as Kobayashi's assistant on this film.
1957 crime film
