Ninjin Club
Ninjin Club was a Japanese independent film production company founded on April 16, 1954, by actresses Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Kuga, and Ineko Arima. The company aimed to circumvent the restrictive Japanese studio system and enable creative freedom for actors, particularly women. It collaborated with major studios like Shochiku and Toho and produced many acclaimed films, but declared bankruptcy in 1965 after the costly epic Kwaidan failed commercially. In 1966, the company's president Shigeru Wakatsuki founded a successor, Ninjin Productions, to produce Kamikaze Man: Duel at Noon.
Selected films
- Mune yori mune ni - debut
- Black River
- The [Human Condition I: No Greater Love|The Human Condition I: No Greater Love]
- Road to Eternity
- A Soldier's Prayer
- Mitasareta seikatsu
- Love Under the Crucifix
- Pale Flower
- [Kwaidan (film)|Kwaidan]