27 January 1963 Drama, Crime 118 mins
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform forced labor. Living conditions on the island are terrible and the men soon become rebellious. Based on a short story by Seichō Matsumoto.
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Rentaro Mikuni as Shinpei
Mariko Okada as Kumi
Keiji Sada as Yajuro
Takahiro Tamura as Yokouchi
Hiroyuki Nagato as Kojuro
Kiyoshi Atsumi as Ichibei
Kō Nishimura as Heiroku
Junzaburō Ban as Chojiro
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as Kisuke
Masahiko Tsugawa as Senta
Shinichirō Mikami as Kichisuke
Seiji Miyaguchi as Usuke
Sachiko Hidari as Orin
Nakajirō Tomita as Sadagoro
Jiro Kawarazaki as Kyuma
Kan'emon Nakamura as Seibei
Masao Shirai Producer
Masayoshi Ikeda Music
Hiroshi Dōwaki Director of Photography
Tadaoto Kainoshō Costume Design
Seicho Matsumoto Short Story
Kazuo Inoue Director
Hideo Oguni Screenplay
Mushukunin-betsuchô Trailer
Escape from Hell Trailer
Japan 27 January 1963
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This scene was filmed inside Sloppy Joes BarKey West Florida in father is playing the flute. Originally on this film it was his band playing in real time.
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26 March 1963
A woman is tormented by dreams that she is the reincarnation of a dead countess. Her father, trying to get her to stop the dreams, takes her to a village near the castle of the late countess.
18 December 1963
The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be.
25 December 1963
El Piporro, desperate to earn more money, decides to fight and put his skills to the test in the rodeo using a nickname.
02 October 1963
A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor.
01 June 1963
João Eduardo, a young inexperienced doctor, takes up work in a village. The initial skepticism from the community gives place to esteem for the new physician after some well succeeded cases.
10 October 1963
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE.
12 November 1963
A Wild West cow town is starving for entertainment and it falls upon Calamity Jane, a rowdy, gun-toting tomboy, to go to Chicago to bring back a famed stage actress.
28 February 1963
Papa hires a "boyfriend" to indulge her in her fantasies of old-fashioned romance.
03 July 1963
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war.
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