An Edo Magistrate
1961
An Edo Magistrate 1961
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- Premiere:
- 12 мар. 1961
- Country:
- Japan
- Director:
- Yasushi Sasaki
- Actors:
- Satomi Oka, Keiko Okawa, Isao Yamagata, Kinnosuke Nakamura and Sumiko Hidaka
- Tags:
- Movies 1961
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1961 Movies
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In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
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- Year: 1961
- Country: USA
- Genre: History and Drama
- Rating:
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In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
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- Year: 1961
- Country: USA
- Genre: Mystery, Horror and Drama
- Rating:
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Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
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- Year: 1961
- Country: USA
- Genre: History and Drama
- Rating:
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During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .
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- Year: 1961
- Country: USA and United Kingdom
- Genre: Sci-Fi and Adventure
- Rating:
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A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.
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- Year: 1961
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Drama, Thriller and Crime
- Rating:
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Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
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- Year: 1961
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi and Action
- Rating:
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Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga', to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and wreaks havoc all over London!
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- Year: 1961
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Horror and Sci-Fi
- Rating:
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In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gambler and a rancher become rivals for her affections.
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- Year: 1961
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy and Western
- Rating:
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In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword...
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- Year: 1961
- Country: Greece
- Genre: History and Drama
- Rating:
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Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.
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- Year: 1961
- Country: Italy
- Genre: Comedy
- Rating:
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An example of social realism in Turkish cinema, the story follows a bus driver who takes side of the poor who has been exploited by a rich man with the promise of making new apartments for them.
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- Year: 1961
- Country: Turkey
- Genre: Drama
- Rating:
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The adventures of a young boy who runs away from an orphanage on a search to find his father.
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- Year: 1961
- Genre: Drama
- Rating:
Best director movies - Yasushi Sasaki
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When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss in a crooked gambling casino it sets in motion the story of Ooka Echizen, the famed magistrate of Edo during the reign of Shogun Tsuneyoshi. In a world where humans bow down to dogs and are beheaded for harming them, it's a wonder people can survive at all. Nakamura Kinnosuke is a former samurai who has left the fold to live freely and must put his life on the line to save the girl he loves, and rescue her from the yakuza who duped her brother. When the truth comes out about his background, he is forced to take on the role of Edo Magistrate, a decision that brings him unimaginable heartache and danger!
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- Year: 1961
- Country: Japan
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