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1960s Japanese Movies

Public list by WPS with 334 movies or TV shows/series

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King Kong vs. Godzilla(1963)

NR
| 1h 31min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 98 votes)

US version. The re-edited John Beck version of the film: released outside of Japan and restructured with new footage of American actors centering around a news report plot not present in the original. Eric Carter of United Nation News is joined by Dr. Arnold Johnson as a prehistoric monster emerges from hibernation while a pharmaceutical company seeks publicity with their own monster.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Mie Hama, Kenji Sahara, Haruo Nakajima, Ichirō Arishima, Shoichi Hirose, Akihiko Hirata, ...

The Magnificent Seven(1960)

NR
| 2h 8min | Western, Action, Adventure
3.8/5 (with 766 votes)

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

Directed by John Sturges - With Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson, ...
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Woman in the Dunes(1964)

2h 27min | Drama, Thriller
4.1/5 (with 183 votes)

An entomologist suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village.

Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara - With Eiji Okada, Kyōko Kishida
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Return of the Seven(1966)

NR
| 1h 35min | Western, Action
3.1/5 (with 108 votes)

Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico.

Directed by Burt Kennedy - With Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Warren Oates, Claude Akins, Fernando Rey, Emilio Fernández, ...
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Kwaidan(1964)

3h 3min | Fantasy, Horror, Drama
3.9/5 (with 152 votes)

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi - With Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Kei Satō, Rentarō Mikuni, Keiko Kishi, Michiyo Aratama, ...
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Yojimbo(1961)

NR
| 1h 50min | Drama, Thriller
4.1/5 (with 592 votes)

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Daisuke Katō, ...
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Harakiri(1962)

NR
| 2h 15min | Action, Drama, History
4.2/5 (with 377 votes)

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi - With Tatsuya Nakadai, Kei Satō, Rentarō Mikuni, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurō Tamba, Yoshio Inaba, ...
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Invasion of Astro-Monster(1965)

G
| 1h 36min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 75 votes)

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.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Akira Takarada, Nick Adams, Haruo Nakajima, Jun Tazaki, Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, ...
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The Face of Another(1966)

NR
| 2h 4min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.9/5 (with 100 votes)

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara - With Tatsuya Nakadai, Machiko Kyō, Eiji Okada, Kyōko Kishida, Minoru Chiaki, Hideo Kanze, ...

Mothra vs. Godzilla(1964)

1h 29min | Drama, Action, Science Fiction
3.5/5 (with 110 votes)

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.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Akira Takarada, Kenji Sahara, Haruo Nakajima, Yū Fujiki, The Peanuts, Yuriko Hoshi, ...
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An Autumn Afternoon(1962)

1h 54min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 110 votes)

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Chishū Ryū, Mariko Okada, Daisuke Katō, Eijirō Tōno, Sugimura Haruko, Keiji Sada, ...
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster(1964)

NR
| 1h 32min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 93 votes)

A meteor lands in Kurobe Valley as detective Shindo is assigned to protect Princess Salno from assassination. She emerges under the guise of a Venusian prophetess and catches the attention of journalist Naoko and Mothra's fairies by predicting a powerful space monster's arrival. The infant Mothra must convince Godzilla and Rodan to set aside their hatred of humanity or face the monster alone.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Haruo Nakajima, Akiko Wakabayashi, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, The Peanuts, Hiroshi Koizumi, ...
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Sanjuro(1962)

NR
| 1h 36min | Drama, Action, Comedy
4.0/5 (with 246 votes)

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Reiko Dan, Takashi Shimura, Yūzō Kayama, Takako Irie, ...
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Destroy All Monsters(1968)

G
| 1h 29min | Action, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 93 votes)

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Haruo Nakajima, Jun Tazaki, Andrew Hughes, Kenji Sahara, Akira Kubo, Yukiko Kobayashi, ...
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All Monsters Attack(1969)

G
| 1h 10min | Fantasy, Science Fiction, Kids & Family
2.5/5 (with 67 votes)

Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents' constant struggle to make ends meet often leaves the schoolboy alone. Constantly teased by a bully nicknamed Gabara, his only friends are toy consultant Shinpei and fellow classmate Sachiko. Ichiro turns to escapist dreams of Monster Island where he befriends the equally bullied Minilla.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Haruo Nakajima, Kenji Sahara, Hideyo Amamoto

High and Low(1963)

2h 22min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
4.2/5 (with 359 votes)

A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted over whether he should pay the ransom.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Isao Kimura, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kyōko Kagawa, ...
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Onibaba(1964)

NC-17
| 1h 45min | Horror, Drama
3.8/5 (with 150 votes)

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

Directed by Kaneto Shindō - With Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satō, Jūkichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama

The Sword of Doom(1966)

2h 2min | Action, Drama
3.8/5 (with 86 votes)

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.

Directed by Kihachi Okamoto - With Tatsuya Nakadai, Yūzō Kayama, Michiyo Aratama, Toshirō Mifune, Kei Satō, Ryōsuke Kagawa, ...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep(1966)

PG
| 1h 27min | Science Fiction, Action, Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 70 votes)

Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.

Directed by Jun Fukuda - With Haruo Nakajima, Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, Jun Tazaki, Kumi Mizuno, Hideyo Amamoto, ...

Shogun's Joy of Torture(1968)

1h 36min | Horror, Drama
2.7/5 (with 11 votes)

A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.

Directed by Teruo Ishii - With Fumio Watanabe

Three Outlaw Samurai(1964)

1h 33min | Action, Drama
3.8/5 (with 39 votes)

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.

Directed by Hideo Gosha - With Jun Tatara, Kamatari Fujiwara, Tetsurō Tamba, Hisashi Igawa, Mikijirō Hira

Yongary, Monster from the Deep(1967)

PG
| 1h 19min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.3/5 (with 32 votes)

Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.

Directed by Kim Ki-duk
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Story of a Prostitute(1965)

1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

Directed by Seijun Suzuki - With Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa, Shoichi Ozawa

Late Autumn(1960)

2h 8min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 54 votes)

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Setsuko Hara, Mariko Okada, Chishū Ryū, Fumio Watanabe, Keiji Sada, Sadako Sawamura, ...

Gamera vs. Guiron(1969)

1h 22min | Adventure, Science Fiction, Action, Kids & Family
2.7/5 (with 34 votes)

Two young boys sneak aboard a spaceship and find themselves whisked away to the mysterious planet Terra. There, they encounter Gamera's old foe Gyaos and two female aliens with a taste for human brains. Gamera must save the children and battle the new monster Guiron, whose entire body is a deadly living weapon.

Directed by Noriaki Yuasa - With Eiji Funakoshi, Yūko Hamada

Red Beard(1965)

3h 5min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 136 votes)

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Toshirō Mifune, Kinuyo Tanaka, Chishū Ryū, Yūzō Kayama, Bokuzen Hidari, Noriko Honma, ...

An Actor's Revenge(1963)

1h 53min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his revenge, firstly by seducing the daughter of one of them, secondly by ruining them.

Directed by Kon Ichikawa - With Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Nakamura Ganjirō II, Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Shintarō Katsu, ...
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Tokyo Drifter(1966)

1h 23min | Action, Crime
3.6/5 (with 71 votes)

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.

Directed by Seijun Suzuki - With Tetsuya Watari, Hideaki Nitani, Eiji Gō, Chieko Matsubara, Ryūji Kita
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Son of Godzilla(1967)

1h 26min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 76 votes)

Reporter Goro Maki stumbles upon scientists conducting weather experiments on Sollgel Island in the South Seas. He discovers the island is inhabited by giant mantis and a woman named Saeko who's been cast away since the death of her father. The pair soon find a helpless infant monster that Godzilla must adopt and learn to raise as one of his own.

Directed by Jun Fukuda - With Haruo Nakajima, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Kubo, Tadao Takashima, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kenji Sahara, ...

Samurai Rebellion(1967)

G
| 2h 1min | Drama, Action
4.1/5 (with 86 votes)

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi - With Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Jun Hamamura, Shigeru Kōyama, Yōko Tsukasa, Isao Yamagata, ...
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