Lemon Girls on the Go
Light comedy about three high-school girls on the campus.
Hirokazu Ichimura
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Hirokazu Ichimura
Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. The official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin. Three of them band together to accomplish this, one an expert swordsman, another a huge judo master and the third is deadly with a chain. To escape, she heads for the fishing town of Itso but soon comes face to face with Sankuro, the swordsman...
Coming of age/high school sports drama.
Youth movie.
Japanese comedy film.
1966 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.
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