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Ken Kawahara
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The Lady Vampire · 1959The Lady Vampire
★ 5.41959
MovieHorror
Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...
Super Giant: The Spaceship and the Clash of the Artificial Satellite · 1958Super Giant: The Spaceship and the Clash of the Artificial Satellite
★ 10.01958
MovieScience FictionAction
The 6th Super Giant film. Although he was believed to be destroyed by the Nazi-like army, Super Giant breaks into the satellite, and a long, riotous battle ensues. (Part 2 of 2)
Ghost in the Regiment · 1958Ghost in the Regiment
★ 8.01958
MovieHorrorCrime
Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and a firing squad. The lieutenant rapes the wife, but is haunted by bad dreams which after he is assigned to a battalion with the victim’s brother.
Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity · 1957Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity
★ 7.01957
MovieScience FictionAction
The 5th Super Giant film. Super Giant pursues a Nazi-like army that operates on a huge satellite in space. The satellite is armed with weapons that could destroy whole cities on Earth from afar. (Part 1 of 2)
Death Row Woman · 1960Death Row Woman
★ 6.01960
MovieDramaCrime
Arrested for the murder of her wealthy businessman father, convicted on false evidence and sentenced to death, Kyoko is determined to prove her innocence.
Black Line · 1960Black Line
★ 5.01960
MovieCrime
Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line’s rotten swamp of drugs, prostitution, and murder and finds unexpected help in Maya, a steamy female gambler familiar with the neon-lit streets, shadowy alleyways, and seedy nightclubs he must navigate. The closest film in the Line series to classic American film noir, Ishii’s Black Line is a pulpy assortment of crime film conventions including the starkly expressionistic black and white cinematography by Jûgyô Yoshida, a jazzy music score by Michiaki Watanabe, and a sleazy screenplay by Ishii and Ichirô Miyagawa.
Flesh Pier · 1958Flesh Pier
★ 5.81958
MovieCrime
Director Teruo Ishii's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style.
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