Quick-Draw Okatsu (Yoen Dokufuden: Hitokiri Okatsu) (1969)

Kuroneko (Criterion Collection) (1968)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi

"Onibaba" director Kaneto Shindo offers up another poetic and eerie Japanese horror classic with this story set in medieval times. To combat an unseen force gruesomely killing samurai ... more

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Kill! (Kiru) (1968)

Category: Foreign | Director: Kihachi Okamoto | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Etsushi Takahashi, Shigeru Koyama

Two samurai are better than one in this genre-bending, dark action comedy that pokes fun at the swordplay genre. Taken from the same source material as Kurosawa's "Sanjuro," the story follows two luckless ... more

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Naked Pursuit (Kofun) (1968)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White / Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Masayoshi Nogami, student , Mari Oaki

Arrested and convicted for the unintentional murder of a police officer, a young man (Masayoshi Nogami) escapes custody and, while on the run, happens upon a young woman (Maki Oaki) about to commit suicide. ... more

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Snake Woman's Curse (Kaidan Hebi-onna) (1968)

Category: Foreign | Director: Nobuo Nakagawa | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Akemi Negishi, Seizaburo Kawazu, Ko Nishimura

"Step on a crack, break your mother's back." Kill a snake, be driven to madness and watch helplessly as your son marries a woman with a sssserious, sssscaly skin problem. Filled with menace, sensuality, ... more

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Female Demon Ohyaku (Yoen Dokufuden Hannya No Ohyaku) (1968)

Category: Foreign | Director: Yoshihiro Ishikawa | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Hosei Komatsu, Kunio Murai

An actress (Junko Miyazono) is imprisoned and subsequently abused and humiliated by her captors. Once she gets a sword in her hands, though, Miyazono deals out some vicious payback while proudly showing ... more

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Okatsu The Fugitive (Yoen Dokufaden: Okatsu Kyojo Tabi) (1969)

Category: Foreign | Director: Nobuo Nakagawa | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Toru Abe, Tatsuo Umemiya

Determined to avenge her parents' murder, Okatsu (Junko Miyazono) finds sympathy and valuable backup from a handsome swordsman with a mysterious past. As Okatsu prepares to confront the wealthy tycoon ... more

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Tora-San Collector's Set, Vol. 1: Films 1-4

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

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Once the longest-running film series with the same actor in the lead role (according to Guinness), Japan's popular "Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo" seriocomedies began with "Am I Trying" (1969), in which star Kiyoshi ... more

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Double Suicide (1969)

Category: Foreign | Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Hosei Komatsu

Compelling Japanese drama, based on a traditional Bunraku puppet play (which is performed within the film itself) about a unhappily married shopkeeper who enters into a suicide pact with his mistress. ... more

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Goyokin (1969)

Category: Foreign | Director: Hideo Gosha | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba, Kinnosuke Nakamura

Riddled with guilt after taking part in the massacre of a village, a samurai turns his back on his clan, vowing to protect the village's only survivor. But his last chance at redemption comes when he ... more

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