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A tragic love story about the heiress of the Kitakyushu Tagawa family who becomes a hostess in Osaka.

A master rifleman challenges a family of yakuza who have stolen his favorite gun.

Since comic artist Yeh Hung-chia started publishing the comic series, Jhuge Shiro in 1958, this production was the first live-action movie made based on the story and the only Taiwanese-language Jhuge Shiro movies that has survived. King Gui’s two daughters become the victims of the Demon Society as the villains try to seize King Gui’s treasured Dragon and Phoenix Swords. When King Gui is at his wit’s end, Jhuge Shiro and Zheng Ping, two young swordsmen, turn up and solve the crisis. Made in the era of Taiwanese-language cinema, the traditional music and dance are incorporated in the film; moreover, the masks the gangsters wear have become a unique trademark.

A man meets a woman on his hiking trip to Mountain Seorak, but she suffers from incurable diseases. He becomes infatuated with her hair. When he tells her about his feeling she promises him that she would leave her hair after she dies as part his heritage for the man. But when he looks for her later she is already dead, and her hair was already sold to another person. He meets another woman he becomes intimate with, but finds that she is his biological mother.

1969 Japanese movie

Anma (The Masseurs) is a representative and historical work by the creator of Butoh dance, Tatsumi Hijikata in his early period in the 1960s. The film is realized not only as a dance document but also as a Cine-Dance, a term made by Iimura, that is meant to be a choreography of film. The filmmaker "performed" with a camera on the stage in front of the audience. With the main performers: Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, the film has the highlights such as Butohs of a soldier by Hijikata & a mad woman by Ohno. There is a story of the mad woman, first outcast and ignored, at the end joins to the community through her dance. Inserted descriptions of Anma (The Masseurs) are made for the film by the filmmaker, but were not in the original Butoh. The film, the only document taken of the performance, must be seen for the understanding of Hijikata Butoh and the foundation of Butoh.

Seoul, under a drizzling spring rain; Korea is under the rule of Japan. A gisaeng(Korean geisha) named Jeong-ok (Ju Jeung-nyeo) and Myeong-gyu (Lee Min), the son of a bank president, fall in love. However, the bank president, Lee Eun-jik (Kim Seung-ho), placing importance on family background, objects to his son's relationship because of Jeong-ok's occupation. However, Myung-gyu leaves home and sets up a home with Jeong-ok. When Myung-gyu dies, Jeong-ok has his baby, named Yeong-gu (Park Geum-hui). When Eun-jik brings Yeong-gu home to raise him as the family's successor, he becomes impressed with the close relationship between mother and son, finally bringing Jeong-ok into his household and accepting her as his daughter-in-law.

1961 Japanese movie

A low ranking yakuza who spends more time enjoying life than doing the yakuza work falls in love with a pretty student girl, whose brother later gets drawn into the yakuza business against his own wishes.

Seven convicts are on the loose after their prison bus crashes.

A melodrama from director Kim Chun that revolves around a circus troupe.

Taiwanese romance film.

Before producing a TV series, a pilot film was made to let sponsors and television stations grasp the work's pervasive quality. This is the pilot film for "Dororo" in which the characters are closer to those of the original story compared to the characters in the TV series. The faces and personalities of the characters in the TV series are altered from time to time to gain popularity among its viewers. As a result, sometimes viewers really loved it, but at other times it didn't go over as well. The pilot for "Dororo" was made in color, but the TV series was monochrome due to a tighter budget. The story depicts a journey in which the boy thief named Dororo and a cursed man called Hyakkimaru destroy monsters. Hyakkimaru can be a complete "human" only after he destroys 48 devils.

To save her husband and child from drowning a woman seeks help in a village nearby.

After orphan Fung Ma-Chun marries Tzu Feng he learns the truth of his parents' death. The newlywed couple of sword-fighters set out for revenge, but their path is beset by surprise and tragedy.

A document of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno as the guest dancer shot in Hijikata's early period when he was emerging as the originator of Butoh. All of the male dancers are dressed up with evening suits and move gracefully, yet an intruder breaks up the whole scene abruptly. The film is worth seeing, even if just to see a memorable gay duet of Hijikata and Ohno. Overexposed, washed out images are sandwiched among normal ones.

Katsujiro the fisherman overcomes his laziness when he learns of his younger sister Okiku’s unfortunate fate. Nakamura Kinnosuke stars in two roles (Katsugoro and Aoyama Harima) in this film about the tragic nature of society in the late Edo period.

The actions and downfall of a man who lives a life of cold calculation, adapted from a Hideo Shirasaki novel.

The emperor, too impatient to wait for his ministers to present portraits of the renowned beauties, had already heard tales of two stunning courtesans working at a teahouse, admired for their beauty but refusing to sell their bodies. Claiming ill health to avoid morning court, he secretly left the capital in disguise to see them with his own eyes. On the road, he was attacked by bandits but was rescued by a young nobleman, who then joined him on his journey.

Pinku directed by Kôji Wakamatsu.

This film was made by Shanghai Animation Film Studio and is based on contemporary events in February, 1964. It’s a retelling of how Mongolian sisters Long Mei and Yurong, ages 11 and 8 respectively, successfully walked nearly 70 kilometers after having been surprised by a blizzard while grazing their father’s sheep. Both girls survived with severe frostbite.

Hong Kong crime drama thriller film.

A university boxing captain struggles between love and ambition as he secretly longs for a woman promised to another. When betrayal and heartbreak push him toward a professional career, loyalty and sacrifice draw him back—ending in a fight against gangsters, a lost championship, and a tearful farewell to youth.

The Magic Crane (Part 3)

A Shaw Brothers drama starring Diana Chang Chung-Wen and Margaret Tu Chuan.

When two wives realize that their wealthy and otherwise upstanding husbands have mistresses, they invite the 'other women' to stay in their houses for awhile. Realizing that they are breaking up happy families, the girls eventually agree to give up the married men.

Two unfettered robbers try to steal a new, mysterious medicine from a laboratory; they butt heads with a needy crow and the head professor's apprentice.

Liang Meilan sneaked into Zhou Zhigang's home and abducted his daughter Liang Meifen, pretending to be her and waiting for an opportunity to regain the family heirloom's Night Pearl. It turns out that Meifen and Meilan are twin sisters. Lan's mother was insulted by Zhigang eighteen years ago, and Zhigang even killed her husband and took away his family property. After many risks, Meilan finally succeeded in seizing the treasure, and Detective Li Haiming also found out everything.

Hong Kong horror movie from 1961.

Kind-hearted girl next door beauty (Junko Ikeuchi) turns the heads of all the handsome boys, so three other models decide to push her off the nearest cliff. But her aunt is a witch who grants her monstrous powers to transform into a beast and get her revenge.

A black and white movie by Osamu Yamashita.

In the senses-shattering conclusion, our heroes search high and low for the White-Bone Swords, righting wrongs wherever they find them, at last discovering the swords are under the protection of a fierce dragon.

A melodrama about a man whose girlfriend leaves him for another man after his face is disfigured. The man gets plastic surgery, then tracks down his old girlfriend to make her regret her past actions.

1961 Japanese movie

Nikkatsu youth masterpiece, which celebrates the love and friendship of young people who have blossomed in a beautiful northern spring with a lot of young dreams. Based on the novel "Memory of Snow" written by Takeo Tomishima.

Sojourning in Macau, Su Erning by chance helps Pan Meiniang resuscitate his younger brother and fends off the thug. In her admiration, Pan calls off the engagement arranged by her mother to exchange vows with Su despite having known him for only three days. To raise the money for the wedding, Su plans to sell his family yacht to the rich wife of his classmate Lu Zuhua in Hong Kong and promises to buy Pan a pearl necklace. The promiscuous Mrs Lu seduces Su on the yacht and then dumps him. 18 years later, Pan's daughter is getting married. Su prepares a wedding gift—a stolen pearl necklace—for the bride but is too ashamed to show himself.

HK drama film.

Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu.

Ling Bor plays Wen Fei E who is both an excellent academic as well as martial arts expert. Since her childhood days fond of dressing up as a boy, she becomes a village scholar sharing classes with Tu Zi Zheng (Chin Feng) and Wei Zhun Zhi (Ho Fan). When Fei E's innocent father is framed and sent to prison, she rushes to his rescue saving Jing Fu Quan (Kam Fie) who is in the hands of robbers along the way. Mistaking Fei E to be a noble hero, Fu Quan has no greater wish than to get married to her savior...

1962 Japanese movie

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...

HK mystery film.

Two young lovers stake their lives on passion. Yet a cruel and capricious fate cruelly extinguishes the blazing flame of their love.

The sex appeal factor shoots skyhigh here with Ting playing Susan, a young woman hiding from her father by being a nightclub singer in Japan. Pop singer Chao Ke-jen (the handsome Lin Chong) gets permission from his boss to visit Japan – but only on condition he finds the boss’s daughter. Boy finds girl, boy falls in love. But will Daddy approve?

Pink film directed by Kinya Ogawa.

YU Pi-hsia, mother of three children asks for a favor from CHANG Nieh-tien to save her husband in jail. When YU’s husband is killed, she is forced to marry CHANG. The three children are raised by their uncle, who treats them as his own. Their aunt, however, treats them like slaves. When the uncle discovers she is having an affair, he kills his wife and her lover. Before turning himself in, he reveals to the three children their true identities and tells them to find Da Fu Temple and learn kung fu. The three children begin a journey of revenge and rescue.