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| 28/1 - |
A Soldier's Prayer, the final part of Masaki Kobayashi's Nigen no joken (The Human Condition) trilogy, is released. Following on from No Greater Love (1958) and Road to Eternity (1959), the film concludes the tale of the pacifist Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai), who escapes from a prison camp to be re-united with his wife (Michiyo Aratama). [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 25/4 - |
Yojimbo, Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s story Red Harvest, is released. The film will later be remade as the spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 29/10 - |
Yasujiro Ozu’s Kohayagawa-ke no aki (The End of Summer, aka Early Autumn) is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Buta to gunkan (Hogs and Warships) (Shohei Imamura) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Akira Kurosawa's Tsubaki Sanjuro (Sanjuro) is released. Toshiro Mifune stars as a wandering samurai who helps a band of warriors take on a corrupt lord. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 18/11 - |
Yasujiro Ozu's Samma no aji (An Autumn Afternoon) premieres in Tokyo. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Sukiyaki (Ueo Muite Aruko) (Kyu Sakamoto) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Watashi wa nisai (Being Two isn’t Easy) (Kon Ichikawa) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 13/1 - |
Kon Ichikawa’s Yukinojo henge (An Actor's Revenge) is released. It tells the story of an early 19th Century female impersonator who takes revenge on the men who caused caused his parents’ death. Veteran actor Kazuo Hasegawa stars in a dual role. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Director Yasujiro Ozu dies of cancer on the eve of his 60th birthday in Tokyo. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Taiheiyo hitori-botchi (Alone in the Pacific) (Kon Ichikawa) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Tengoku to jigoku (High and Low) (Akira Kurosawa) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1964 | ||||
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Kaidan (Ghost Stories) (Masaki Kobayashi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes) (Hiroshi Teshigahara) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1965 | ||||
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– Director Tetsuji Takechi is arrested on public indecency charges after the release of his controversial drama Kuroi yuki (Black Snow). [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Akahige (Red Beard) (Akira Kurosawa) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Tôkyô orimpikku (Tokyo Olympiad) (Kon Ichikawa) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Jinruigaku nyumon: Erogotshi yori (The Pornographer) (Shohei Inamura) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Muri shinju: Nihon no natsu (Japanese Summer: Double Suicide) (Nagisa Oshima) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Shinjuku dorobo nikki (Diary of a Shinjuku Thief) (Nagisa Oshima) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| – The Shochiku studio begin producing the Tora San series, the most successful movie series in history. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Koshikei (Death by Hanging) (Nagisa Oshima) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Onna to misoshiru (Woman and Bean Soup) (Heinosuke Gosho) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Shinjû: Ten no amijima (Double Suicide at Amijima) (Masahiro Shinoda) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Shonen (Boy) (Nagisa Oshima) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 31/10 - |
The four-hour Dodesukaden, Akira Kurosawa's first film since 1965, is released. Yoshitaka Zushi and Junzaburo Ban star. [MORE] [ADD] |
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- Imax, the large screen system that uses horizontally-fed 70mm film, is demonstrated at Expo 70 in Osaka. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Erosu purasu Gyakusatsu (Eros Plus Massacre) (Yoshishige Yoshida) [MORE] [ADD] |