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When Women Lie / 嘘 / Uso (‘Lies’, 1963)
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Teruo Ishii is unable to deliver what made the first film so enjoyable: the visual celebration of Ocho Inoshika’s phallic fury.
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The Third Will / 女系家族 / Nyokei kazoku (1963)
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The Twilight Years (恍惚の人, Shiro Toyoda, 1973)
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The Lost World of Sinbad: Samurai Pirate (大盗賊, Senkichi Taniguchi, 1963)
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A young couple find their love is not accepted by the world around them in Li Han-Hsiang’s swooning adaptation of the legend of butterfly lovers.
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The Hidden Profile / 風の視線 / Kaze no shisen (‘Gaze of the Wind’, 1963)
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Episode #64 (S9E2) – Battles Without Honor and Humanity [仁義なき戦い] (1973)
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