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The Chop Professor (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
チョップ先生
director: Eiichi Koishi actor: Eiji Okada / Yuriko Tashiro
other title: チョップ先生
Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital after being thrown by Nobuyoshi Shinohara during practice and injured, he met Asako, the sister of Arisawa's mother, Katsuko. When they entering a coffee shop run by Asako's best friend Hisako, Hisako misunderstood them as lovers...
The Daring Nun (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
尼くずれ
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Michiyo Yasuda / Kayo Mikimoto
other title: 尼くずれ
One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion that nuns should not lead cloistered lives but should see something of modern life. She makes the acquaintance of a young girl named lkuko (Kayo Mikimoto) and saves her from the advances of a gangster named Goro (lchiro Nakatani). In the meantime she turns down several propositions and, in revenge, one of her admirers denounces her to the Mother Superior (Kuniko Miyake). This lady is of liberal views, however, and refuses to do anything about it. Then Shunko is visited by Goro's gang boss who wants lkuko back and says he will blackmail Shunko unless she agrees.
The Virgin Witness (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
処女が見た
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Ayako Wakao / Michiyo Yasuda
other title: 処女が見た
An uncle decides to put his delinquent orphaned niece into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of discipline, she ends up falling in love with the nun who is in charge of her.
Goodbye, Hello (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
あなたと私の合言葉 さようなら、今日は
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Ayako Wakao / Shin Saburi
other title: あなたと私の合言葉 さようなら、今日は
Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in life and are not ready for marriage. Their families think differently and strive to arrange their personal happiness.
The Temple of Wild Geese (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
雁の寺
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Ayako Wakao / Masao Mishima
other title: Le Temple des Oies Sauvages / 雁の寺
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satoko's utter dependence on the man. Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satoko's interest in him; he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness. The story unfolds in a dreamlike manner—a flashback inspired by a now-infamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the so-called Temple of the Wild Geese.
Etajima, the Naval Academy (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
海軍兵学校物語 あゝ江田島
other title: 海軍兵学校物語 あゝ江田島
The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account.
Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.