This melodramatic Japanese tearjerker concerns a young woman who receives the most devastating news of her life: not only...
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2009
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Oscar-winning director Florian Gallenberger explores the crucial role that foreigners played in helping countless Chinese...
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2009
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Based on the bestselling novel by author Barry Eisler, this action thriller from director Max Minnix follows a seasoned...
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2009
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Director Fumihiko Sori simultaneously reinvents and continues the Zatoichi legend with this tale of a blind, wandering...
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2008
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Imagine an ugly future in which the government randomly selects individuals under the age of 24 for sudden death - and taps...
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2008
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Director Issei Shibata delivers this adrenalin-fueled thriller about a rash of murders all involving people with the surname...
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2008
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A courtroom sketch artists takes in the parade of sensationalist trials at work while simultaneously contending with a tragic...
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2008
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A nebbish father and schoolteacher finds the courage to face both his personal issues and a horde of invading aliens after...
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2007
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A violent and outrageous revenge comedy with a thoughtful undercurrent, director Lee Sang-il's Scrap Heaven opens with three...
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2007
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A high-class prostitute and two misfit admirers are on the run in 19th Century Japan in this comedy from director Hideyuki...
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2007
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The material and spiritual sides of one man's life are reflected in a game that allowed him to become a hero in this...
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2006
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An aimless twenty-year old drowning himself in booze after a recent break-up begins to come around while piecing together the...
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2006
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Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan. In the first segment, we...
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2006
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British-born filmmaker John Williams directs this semi-surreal Japanese-language drama that blurs the lines between reality...
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2005
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Beat Takeshi Kitano directs and plays the title role in this tribute to the wildly popular "blind swordsman" of Japanese...
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2004
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2004
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2004
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Yuka (Hiromi Nagasaku) is an attractive young woman whose brother has recently died under mysterious circumstances. Shortly...
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2003
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2003
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2003
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Junji Sakamoto directs this taut spy thriller about the real-life abduction of Kim Dae Jung -- who would later be elected...
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2002
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In a time when demons and ghosts threaten to bring total devastation to a powerful kingdom, betrayal from within the powerful...
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2001
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Can five teenage boys overcome clumsiness, inexperience, and the taunts of their classmates to become a champion team of...
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2001
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The fantastically prolific Takashi Miike directs this dizzyingly stylish thriller -- one of four in the year 2000 alone --...
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2000
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Veteran filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, who was 86 at the time of making this film, tackles the graying of Japan's population. The...
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1999
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Following up on his acclaimed and Cannes Grand Prix-winning Unagi, veteran iconoclast Shohei Imamura directs this gleefully...
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Dr. Akagi
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1998
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Veteran filmmaker and perennial iconoclast Shohei Imamura directs this darkly comic tale about love, redemption, and a man's...
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1998
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This is the fifth adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's erotic novel about middle-aged professor Soichiro Anzai (Akira Emoto of...
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Soichiro Anzai
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1998
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A black comedy awash in post-modern nihilism, Bootleg Film follows two friends who are driving to a funeral -- Tatsuo...
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Tatsuo
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1998
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Reminiscent of the Australian hit Strictly Ballroom (1992), this romantic comedy from Japan was a hit in its country of...
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Toru Miwa
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1995
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Japanese documentarian Hirokazu Kore-eda made his first dramatic feature with this austere drama, which recalls the visual...
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Yoshihiro
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1995
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Godzilla must once again fight to protect his island domain (gee, you'd think he'd have installed a security system by now!)...
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1994
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Shusei has a problem. When he graduates from college, he has a fine job waiting for him. Family connections have made certain...
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Anayama
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1992
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In 1964, an outbreak of the so-called "German" measles in Okinawa struck a U.S. military base and swiftly spread to the...
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1991
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Nobuhiko Obayashi spins this warm-hearted tale about Chinese exchange students and a rural vegetable vendor. The film centers...
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Teramoto
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1990
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A junk collector picks up a common household heater that proves to have a mind of it's own in this punk-infused horror film...
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1989
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Kiyoshi Atsumi plays Tora-San, a legendary Japanese "everyman" whose seriocomic adventures have been documented in dozens of...
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1989
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The trauma of medical school and residency provides the fodder for this story of the lives of a few students on their way to...
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Kenji
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1981
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