Giants and Toys
Genres
Overview
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
95 min
Release Date
1958-06-22
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Vote Count
34
Vote Average
6.838
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Yousuke Nishi
Hitomi Nozoe
Kyoko Shima
Yūnosuke Itō
Junji Harukawa
Michiko Ono
Masami Kurahashi
Kyū Sazanka
Takakura Higashi
Kinzō Shin
Kohei Yashiro
Hideo Takamatsu
Ryuji Goda
Hisako Horigome
Miyuki Fujimoto
Mantarō Ushio
Natsuki
Osamu Abe
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
Tatsuo Hanabu
Fuyusaki
Hikaru Hoshi
Kurosawa
Kōichi Itō
Haruoka
Naoyasu Itō
Nakazaki
Hiroko Machida
Suzue Goda
Sachiko Meguro
Iwasaki
Fumiko Murata
Kiku
Shō Natsuki
Minami
Tsuneko Sudō
Eiichi Takamura
Akimura
Kisao Tobita
Matsuya
Tetsuya Watanabe
Kōichi Fujiyama
Tadao Yokoyama
Fujio Harumoto
Shimomura
Kenji Oyama
Kita
Kan Takami
Ototsu
Yoshio Takee
Kaneko
Shōzaburō Date
Ekichi
Nobuo Minamitaka
Sarusawa
Jirō Tamiya
Student (uncredited)
0.0
The Shadow of Fear
In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors about the murder.
1956-09-11 | ja
8.2
Woman in the Dunes
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
1964-02-15 | ja
6.6
18 Roughs
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its running. After moving in, Shimazaki finds out that this will also mean taking care of a flock of youngsters, and he soon becomes their none-too-successful warden. At work the boys are disciplined, as soon as they return to their dormitory however they turn into an unmanageable mob.
1963-09-11 | ja
8.0
The Naked Island
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
1960-11-23 | ja
7.1
Pigs and Battleships
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
1961-01-21 | ja
7.8
The Face of Another
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
1966-07-15 | ja
7.2
Intentions of Murder
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
1964-06-28 | ja
7.3
The Pornographers
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.
1966-03-12 | ja
6.9
Fighting Elegy
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
1966-11-09 | ja
7.2
Crazed Fruit
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.
1956-07-12 | ja
6.6
Gate of Flesh
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. With Gate of Flesh, visionary director Seijun Suzuki delivers a whirlwind of social critique and pulp drama, shot through with brilliant colors and raw emotions.
1964-05-31 | ja
7.0
Tattooed Life
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.
1965-11-13 | ja
7.4
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise.
1971-04-24 | ja
6.5
The Sun's Burial
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.
1960-08-09 | ja
6.4
Night and Fog in Japan
Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments.
1960-10-09 | ja
6.7
Cruel Story of Youth
A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
1960-06-03 | ja
7.1
Assassination
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.
1964-07-04 | ja
6.2
The Christian Revolt
In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.
1962-03-21 | ja
6.6
Kisses
Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at the beach.
1957-07-23 | ja
6.6
Street of Love and Hope
A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing of Kyoko, an older student whose heart is touched after Masuo sells his pigeons to her. However, after his scam is revealed, can these feelings truly remain the same?
1959-11-17 | ja