
01 Mar 1963

High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Daijirô Tamon
Tsunako Andô
Yûko Hamajima
Jûbei Hamajima
Gorô Kashima
Kuji
Akahori
Captain Takamura
Ôta
Osen
Housewife
Concierge of Gorô's Apartment
Yuhata
Clerk of Inn
Yamaoka
Manager of Strip Theater
Masaki
Shôko
01 Mar 1963
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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01 Nov 1961
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17 Feb 1966
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10 Apr 1966
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02 Dec 1967
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03 Sep 1960
A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.
29 Apr 1960
The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assassin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.
01 Jun 1968
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.
15 Jan 1966
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assassinate three strangers given to him on a list. However, upon meeting his first potential victim, Oida has second thoughts. Yet, even as he tries to back out, the body count starts climbing. Oida must now try to alert the people on his list of their impending danger, and find out why they are being targeted in the first place.
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23 Mar 1960
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29 Nov 1960
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.
09 Jun 1959
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
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