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Hong Kong horror movie from 1955.

Sanmao is a poor child in the old society. He is helpless and tortured, but he is also a kind and brave boy. What happened to him is what happened to thousands of children in the old society. The skinny Sanmao walks in the brightly lit metropolis Shanghai, full of laughter and songs.

Yan Jun and Li Han-hsiang teamed up again with Lin Dai to tell the love story of a rural lady Jin Feng. Marred by tears and sorrow, this love story reveals the destructive impact of feudal superstition on marital happiness, while standing up for the oppressed who suffer from the tyranny of the powerful few. Although the film concludes on a soothing note, the entire film is permeated with a heavy sense of sadness. The straightforwardness and courageous nature of Jin Feng is very much in line with the vividness and self-confidence of her real self. With her sparkling dark eyes and finely knitted braid, her innocent yet unyielding character attracted many admirers. The yet-to-be famous director King Hu plays the naïve little lad who has a crush on Jin Feng. His speech and expressions are all endearing, providing a lighthearted counterbalance to the film’s somber tone, and making him an extremely outstanding supporting character.

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A thrilling historical drama that revolves around the exoneration of a falsely accused family, the protection of a fallen merchant house, and the overturning of the powerful Shimazu clan, while the Echizen governor brilliantly unravels the truth behind the incident, offering a tale filled with excitement, intrigue, and delightful entertainment.

Depiction of the harsh life in a rural town in Yamagata.

Fantasy from Hong Kong directed by Fung Chi-Kong.

Film about Japanese ghost story Banchō Sarayashiki.

Documentary by Noda Shinkichi

Blood Battle in Furong Valley

Hong Kong horror movie from 1952.

1959 Japanese film.

In the morning, the chirping of the sparrows woke up the old woman. After getting up, the old woman packed a basket full of dates and left home. After a while, the weather turned cloudy and it started to rain. When the rain stopped, the ground was covered with dates. The hedgehog who had just experienced the wind and rain saw the jujube, rolled over excitedly and stabbed himself with thorns, ready to carry it home.

Documentary by Noda Shinkichi

Once upon a time the Chuang family chopped firewood for a living. Mother Tanja spent three years day and night weaving this tapestry. One day a wind storm came and the tapestry flew away. Kam Tong, one of the children, would venture off to the dangerous Tibet mountains to try to get the tapestry back. Very few have ever survived the cave.

An examination of a specialist school for twin siblings and the theme of heredity and environment on human development

Chang-hwan, who came down from the north, calls his mother and lover Sung-hee's brother and friend Sung-ho (the beneficiary) of Sung-hee, to North Korea, but they refuse to do so. When June 25 broke out, Sung-ho served as the commander of the Korean Army and was isolated in battle. However, with the participation of the UN forces, the charter is improved, and the name that saved Captain Brown from the wounded moves to join the national army. The Sung-ho party, who accidentally defeated the Changhwan Workers who brutally killed the people of his hometown, rescues Sung-hee, who was in crisis. In order to save the wounded black soldier, Sung-hee's mother loses her eyes, and Sung-hee becomes a nursing officer.

A fascinating glimpse of the Chinese diaspora across southeast Asia, this Hong Kong production follows a wayward husband through Southern China and Thailand, and tracks the travails of the wife he leaves behind.

On her mother's order, Luk Wai Wai goes to the Shi family to serve her eccentric aunt, Mrs. Shi, but she accidentally witnesses a murder and is almost killed by the murderer, Tam Pak Lam. The murderer, Tam Pak-lam, is almost killed by her. In order to avenge his father's death, Tam Pak-lam sneaks into the Shi family to carry out his murderous plan.

Eri stars as a jazz-crazy waitress pursuing a singing career.

Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General is a satire play well-known around the world. In the period between the end of World War II and the 1960s, the play was adapted in Hong Kong cinema a total of six times. Director Huang Yu alone adapted it twice, as a Republic era story and a period comedy, respectively. The 1955 Republic era-set film is more faithful to its source material, following a spoiled rich brat who is mistaken as a government inspector in a small town and ends up being wined and dined by a corrupted local official. The film pokes fun at the ugliness of bureaucracy in old society, calling back to renowned Qing Dynasty novel Officialdom Unmasked while keeping the original play's artistic style.

In the early days of liberation, Battalion Commander Shen (played by Ge Zhenbang) felt that after liberation, there was no battle to fight, so he should take off his military uniform and go to work locally. The division commander (played by Liu Jia) told him that at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the reactionaries were not willing to accept their defeat and had to underestimate the enemy. After listening carefully, he felt deeply and knew the importance of the gun and the great responsibility of their own.

The hotel Arizona and the hotel Mankwang in Gyeongju, one of the most famous tourist sites, fiercely compete for customers, and the owners of the hotels become hostile toward one another. To complicate matters, a son and a daughter of the owners of the two hotels love each other. When the hostile relationship between the two owners gets worse, the son and daughter try to make their parents reconcile. In the end, everything works out, and the two are married happily.

HK horror crime.

Japanese film.

A short puppet animation from 1957 directed by Tadahito Mochinaga.

King Rose returns, unleashing terror from beyond the grave. Detective Kotaro Ran, as Seven-Color Mask, investigates eerie crimes. As he unravels the mystery, he faces deadly traps and a final battle to stop King Rose's reign.. The third and final installment of Seven-Color Mask: King Rose.

Film directed by Manao Horiuchi.

Soldiers stay in Hainan Island and fight Japanese invaders in harsh conditions.

The film is adapted from the 1946 American film "Sunset Boulevard“. The film tells the story of Cui Lingxiu, who, after being deceived by her cousin Tong Sanyuan, attempts to kill him with a gun but accidentally falls into a mountain valley named "Valley of the Dead Souls." Ultimately, she returns home with Da Yuan, who has been secretly in love with her, experiencing a series of misunderstandings and emotional entanglements.

A taiwanese language film. The folk tales of Gezai Opera are put on the screen, and the form of the stage play is maintained.

A retelling of part of the Gulliver's Travels adventures. A short film from 1950.

In 1950s Bangkok, a group of young detectives and scholars investigate a chilling mystery when the statue of Dr. Thongkham, a revered pro-democracy scientist, begins speaking with a voice urging citizens to embrace communism. As strange events escalate into a series of murders, the team uncovers a sinister plot threatening the city’s stability.

Haneda’s debut as full director, made after four years spent as an assistant, is set in a farming village in Shiga Prefecture (east of Kyoto). The film depicts the traditional architecture, lifestyles and customs of the village, its agricultural and domestic labour, but its central focus, as with many of Iwanami’s early films, is on education.

One day, a frog saw a group of wild geese flying by, and suddenly thought of it, so he begged the wild geese to take him to the sky.

Commissioned by the Tokyo National Museum, this film, regarded in some quarters as the masterpiece of Haneda’s Iwanami period, is one of several in which she documented Japan’s ancient and classical artistic treasures. Here she focuses on the Tokyo National Museum’s collection of art from the earliest eras of Japan’s (pre)history, including earthenware pottery and the striking terracotta figurines known as haniwa.

Drama from Hong Kong directed by Mok Hong-See.

The first Taiwanese-language film produced by a public studio.

Filmed soon after the end of the Allied occupation, this documentary is an extremely valuable record of the production and nationwide tour of “The Hiroshima Panels” at the time.

When he loses his sight during one of the battles of the Korean War, Geon-yeong(Choe Hyeon) is taken to a military hospital. There he meets a nursing officer named Hye-yeong(Hwang Yui-hui), but still misses Soon-hui in his hometown. When Geon-yeong's mother donates one of her eyes to him, he is no longer blind.

One of Toei Animation's first animated short films in color.

A Chinese screen opera

The Tragic Story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai

This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temples. Horyu-ji, in the small town of Ikaruga outside Japan’s ancient capital of Nara, was one of the first Buddhist places of worship established in Japan, and contains the oldest surviving wooden buildings in the world, dating from the seventh century.

The Opera Boat at Star Island 星 島 紅 船 (Xingdao hongchuan) (1955) aka The Opera Boat in Singapore is a Hong Kong film in the Cantonese language of the comedy and musical genre, directed by Ku Wen-Chung and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio.

Set in 1950s. Veteran Mancang returns home country which locates in north China. He falls in love with Lanying. But she wants to go to the city because she is influenced by a girl who went there earlier. Lanying's brother and his wife live in the city and they both persuade her to stay in the country and work hard for good life.

The Tone River flows from the Mikuni Mountains through the Kanto Plain. The film follows its path from its source to Choshi and into the Pacific Ocean, documenting the lifestyles and industries along its banks and the history of its management.

A short visualization of a poem by Fukunaga Takehiko.

1955 / Elephant Girl (Gadis Liar) / – / Eddy Infante / Shaws, Malay Film Productions

Tomo no shichijo, Mikawa CHO, who captured the mysterious robbery of a bird who had made a mistake in Edo hachihyaku CHO, was in the midst of the celebration. It was sadakichi nakanokami of otsukasa sandaya who came to rush there. Sadayoshi, who was stained with a blood stain arrow, came to sandaya with kinda no Kata. Tomoshichi, who was married to his husband Mohei and his daughter, ogi, and rokubei Ohira, stayed at mitaraya that evening.