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Shintoho crime film directed by Kyotaro Namiki.

Kawamura, a high school student, wanted a new stimulus, and lived a life of golf, sake, women and emptiness.

A musical adaptation of 'Dream of the Red Chamber'

Lee Kei-hau is happily married with a son. His wife Wong Tai-chu, who has been complaining of discomfort lately, goes to see a doctor where her friend Wong Mau works as an assistant. Wong mixes up her report with that of a cancer patient. Believing her days are numbered, Tai-chu discusses with her mother to choose a second wife for Lee and finds the nurse So Lin-yung, Mau's girlfriend. Mau feels obligated to adhere to her request to hire So as family nurse. Lee urges his wife to make regular exercise a habit to improve her health but when his advice falls on deaf ears, he spurs her to action by dating the nurse. Infuriated by his wife's unexpected exhilaration, Lee accuses her of having an affair with Mau. Tai-chu retaliates by displaying great affection towards a man, her girlfriend Judy in disguise. Lee chases after the beau relentlessly and is told the truth by Judy. Mau's blunder is patched up with a smile, for his lover So, and for the reconciled couple Tai-chu and Lee.

A beautiful nightclub owner finds herself desired by many men, but she is saving herself for the one man she cannot have .

Pinku from 1965.

1961 Japanese movie

London special agents Wong Tak-fat and Fong Lung have arrived in Hong Kong to investigate a murder in connection with a drugs trafficking ring. Fong attends a ball hosted by his girlfriend's rich father Sze Kam-wing where evidences lead him to the Black Eye Bar. Wong befriends the recently widowed bar owner Lee Mei-chen and soon becomes enlisted as member of the ring and the ring leader's trusted aide. Falling in love with Lee, Wong is told that her husband was killed for leaving the organisation. Wong is however unable to establish contact with Fong with all outside communication cut off. Anxious to hear from Wong, Fong investigates discreetly at the bar. Mistaken for a cop, Fong is captured but helped to flee by Lee. Alarmed by Fong's escape and the leak of Wong's identity, ring members are just about to execute Wong and Lee just when the police raid the drugs den and arrest the ringleader—Sze.

A writer who was disabled during the Korean War is now contributing a serial to a newspaper. His wife, who once adored him, is tempted by a young man she happens to know. But he overlooks her affair thanking her for her utmost care up until that time. Then the young man asks her to leave with him for a faraway place.

In around the 1950s. A man in charge of a guerilla unit is hiding in the Masingryeong Mountains. On the other hand, his brother, a high government official in the North Korean Ministry of Defense has his father killed blaming him a reactionary. He suffers greatly from the guilt of killing his father and finally decides to give himself up to his brother's guerilla unit. Tragically, however, he is shot to death on his way to the unit to surrender. At his last breath, in his brothers arms, he gives his brother the logistics secrets of the North Korean army.

The last film produced by Shintoho.

In director Won-shik Lim's rousing martial arts adventure, sightless orphan Elaine (Mi-ja Sa) embarks on an impassioned journey when she learns that her mother -- who abandoned Elaine years earlier -- may still be alive. On her quest, Elaine, who is a skilled swordswoman, unexpectedly finds herself pitted against a cathouse madam and a brutal crime lord.

Captures the optimistic attitude and entrepreneurial spirit characteristic of the Vietnamese people, who remain positive despite ever-present reminders of the horrors of the Vietnam War.

1966 Japanese movie

Thai ghost story. Was remade under the same title in the mid 1980s.

The Korean alphabet, illustrated with animation, spoken, and accompanied by music.

Three tales taken from author Pu Songling's collection of famous classical ghost stories. Wu Qiuyue- Wang Ding falls in love with a ghost and fights with the guards of Hades to bring her back. Monk Lu Shan-A monk takes Wang Qi as pupil and teaches him the act of walking through walls. A Woman's Head- Li Sheng marries Rui niang only to discover that she is a headless ghost.

Pinku from 1968.

Early pinku.

1961 Japanese movie

The film, which was shot to promote the Korean air force team, depicts the story of air force students who are assigned to their base after hard training.

A man who has left the yakuza world is drawn back into the fray for his younger brother in this gunfighting action film.

Short student film by Masao Adachi.

Sit Muk-fu covets the beauty of the maidservant Ku Kar-lin. Ku concocts a scheme with her husband Wong Hoi to swindle money out of the lascivious man and has to flee into hiding with Sit being stabbed to death during their secret liaison. Detector Lui Hak investigates into the murder at Ku's house and arrests the husband who has a sharp knife in his possession. Bearing witness to the murder, their daughter Bo-bo fights to prove her father's innocence. Upon receiving a score of mysterious phone calls revealing Ku's whereabouts, Lui lures the woman out with Bo-bo as bait, subduing and detaining the suspect. The detective fathoms the mystery of the murder case which leads him to another suspect, But Kei. But has been extorting money from Sit and forces his daughter, the sole heir to his inheritance, into marriage in return for concealing his murder-for-money scheme. But submits to arrest without resistance while Ku and husband walk free, acquitted of the charges.

The movie follows a series of twists surrounding a child's paternity after a mother unknowingly becomes pregnant.

A Taiwanese language film. After the death of their mother, Siok-hui sings in a nightclub to support her younger sister Siok-tshing, but her immature sister looks down on her occupation. Siok-tshing then begins working in a pharmaceutical company where she has a crush on her colleague Bun-pin. But little does she know that Bun-pin has fallen passionately in love with her sister. When she finally discovers the truth, she runs away and drowns her sorrows at a bar. There, a lascivious businessman who stalks her sister forces here to go with him to a hotel. Siok-hui rushes to the hotel, where she finds the man lying in a pool of blood...

"Orgy Party" A secret apartment in Kansai. Everyone is naked, and while some drink alcohol calmly, five women and seven men intertwine silently or loudly. "Sexual Perverts" A perverted man is chained and whipped. A man and woman, dressed as dogs, drink a woman's urine and indulge in abnormal sex. "Vagabond Gathering" A group of vagabonds suddenly gather at Hanazono Shrine while under police surveillance. The group of vagabonds dance, sing, and light fires in a frenzy. "Bizarre Ritual" Men try to express the pain of childbirth by getting on a gynecological examination table, spreading their legs, screaming, and writhing in agony. "Kansai Striptease" Miyako Masumi, a popular figure in the Kansai nude scene, works as a nude model for magazines and chats with other strippers backstage. "Summer Night Park" Summer night parks are a paradise for couples. As the excitement builds with kissing and petting, they tumble onto the grass. They are oblivious to the sounds and sights around them.

Based upon a hugely popular romance novel by Shanghai writer Zhang Henshui, the film tells the intriguing relationship between a rich Beijing college boy and three young women: a street artist, an upper class lady, and a teahouse songstress.

A clerk at a jewelry store is an avid reader of the 007 series and admires the protagonist of the story. One day, he loses a huge amount of jewelry to a con artist. In order to catch them, he disguises himself as an woman and pretends to be a cabaret hostess to observe the perpetrators. And he finally reports to the police to arrest them all. A comedy.

1962 Japanese movie

A man called 'Tiger' slips into a Japanese camp to rescue the POW's. While escaping, the group discovers a bridge that is a weak link in the Japanese supply routes. Heedless of their own safety, they set about devising a plot to destroy it.

Hong Kong horror movie from 1962.

The One-Eyed Swordsman is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie starring Stanley Fung.

Two boys set their sites on some vacationing girls in a summer resort town; they place bets on which one of them will score first.

A Cantonese factory woman obsessed with a famous Wuxia actor, has her fantasy crushed after discovering he is not the charming and humble person his movies portray him as. - Matthew E Carter

Early Pink film directed by Kinya Ogawa.

Pink film directed by Masanao Sako.

Hong Kong horror movie from 1968.

The scenery of Samui in 1969 is the background of the musical love story between the couples from the rival families. Sombat Mathanee stars the playboy, Paduempun against Arunya Naamwong who plays the business girl, Napaporn. They came to Paradise Island to take care of their family coconut orchards. They bet who could work more successful. If the guy won, the girl must have married him. If he lost, he gave up his business to her. In the midst of controversy, he fell in love with her. Meanwhile, she began to be confused because she might be in love with him as well.

Hong Kong movie

1961 Japanese movie

A touching drama based on the novel of the same name by Eikichi Hashimoto. In the 23rd year of the Meiji period, weather forecasts were rarely correct, and people endlessly suffered from typhoons and natural disasters. Nonaka Itaru, a private meteorologist, settled on Mount Fuji during the harsh winter, where it was thought impossible to overwinter, and opens up the future of high-altitude weather observations in Japan.

1884. The samurai days have come to an end. Capitalism and democracy flourished across Japan. But in Chichibu, an area just north of Tokyo, samurai spirits still lived. Out of the many schools that taught Japanese swordsmanship, the school of Ono and Kogen were most dominant. Every year, they each selected a master swordsman to fight a dedicatory match held at the Chichibu Shrine. Gengo (Hideki Takahashi) represented the school of Ono. His opponent Danhichiro of the Kogen school was feared by many as the "Devil".

1962 Japanese movie based on the Crazy Cats smash hit single, "Sudara Festival", sung by Hitoshi Ueki.

Film directed by Satoru Kobayashi.

1962 Japanese movie

One night, the phone rings at the home of the Takiguchi family. The daughter Reiko hands the receiver to her father, who then instantly goes up in flames and is burned to death! Subsequently, another incident of apparently spontaneous human combustion occurs right before Reiko’s eyes. Made for "Operation: Mystery".

1969 Pink film