23 September 1958 Action, Crime 99 mins
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.
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Yūjirō Ishihara as Jiro
Mie Kitahara as Keiko Sugita
Masumi Okada as Taabô
Sanae Nakahara as Mami
Shirō Ōsaka as Detective Noro
Yukiko Todoroki as Mama
Hideaki Nitani as Katsumata
Shinichi Yanagisawa as Shiraishi Paku-san
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as Matsuda
Mayumi Shimizu as Mitsuko
Zenji Yamada as Tanabe
Hiroshi Hijikata as Tsuchida
Taizō Fukami as Yottsuan
Shirō Amakusa as Police chief Hasegawa
Ryusei Ito as Owner of the Chinese restaurant Fukushû
Ichirō Ikeda Writer
Shinsaku Himeda Director of Photography
Toshio Masuda Director
Toshio Masuda Writer
Hajime Kaburagi Music
Ryôichi Yamanouchi Assistant Director
Masanori Tsujii Editor
Takiko Mizunoe Producer
Akai hatoba Trailer
The Left Hand of Jiro Trailer
Red Quay Trailer
Japan 23 September 1958
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22 October 1957
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19 September 1960
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi.
17 February 1966
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10 April 1966
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo.
23 March 1960
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion.
01 February 1964
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair.
01 March 1964
A recently released gangster has to cope with the recent shifts of power between gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
04 February 1967
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
11 March 1958
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug.
13 January 1960
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31 October 1958
A German village gets a new doctor, but the conservative folk have trouble accepting a female for the job.
29 January 1958
Masked rider clears up the mysteries surrounding the ownership of two haciendas and the disappearance of a young heiress' father.
01 January 1958
While trying to break an "animal game" gambling scheme, Det. Bartolomeu hits his head, and the gamblers convince him that he is one of them.
01 January 1958
Reconstructs the case of United States vs. Darby Lumber Company, which, in 1941, resolved long struggles over the question of whether Congress had the right to set minimum wages, limit child labor, and in other respects legislate employment standards.
01 December 1958
At a college party, a girl named Gay (Jill Corey) meets a guy named Tom (Paul Hampton) and they soon fall in love.
04 April 1958
La Création du Monde is among the first animated feature films made in France. But to be exact, the film was animated in Czechia and directed by Eduard Hofman.
04 April 1958
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family.
16 May 1958
Jean-Paul is a Frenchman who yearns to live in communist Czechoslovakia. His wish is granted when, mistaken as a masseur of a French boating team, he manages to elude the democratic authorities long enough to scamper over the Czech border.
01 January 1958
The curious image of figure and the name "Mingoloo" comes to an artist in a dream. Short film directed by Theodore Zichy.
01 January 1958
In 1957, Peter Kubelka was hired to make a short commercial for Schwechater beer. The beer company undoubtedly thought they were commissioning a film that would help them sell their beers; Kubelka had other ideas.
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