The island of Hokkaido, in Japan, is located near the Arctic Circle and is famous for its cold, snowy winters. In this...
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1992
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Wim Wenders' sprawling cyberpunk noir epic -- shot in no less than nine different countries -- is set in 1999 and stars...
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1991
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Following up on his critically acclaimed, blood-splattered epic Ran, master director Akira Kurosawa looks inward with this...
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103-year-old Man [Village Of The Watermills]
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1990
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This comedy satire is the sequel to the third biggest box office draw in Japan during the 1987 season. Ryoko (Nobuko...
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1989
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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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1989
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The directorial debut of Juzo Itami, this irreverent black comedy satirizes death and burial customs in a surprising manner...
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The priest
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1987
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This is a probing tale set in turn of the century Japan, involving three people trapped in a complex relationship of love and...
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Father
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1987
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1987
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This nostalgic backward glance at the earliest days of Japanese talking pictures was originally titled Kinema no Tenchi. The...
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1987
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1986
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The environment and the movie stars at a Japanese film studio in the early '30s are recreated in this drama that looks back...
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1986
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In this intriguing documentary, award-winning German director and producer Wim Wenders combines clips from one of his...
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1985
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1984
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1983
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1983
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1971
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In this Japanese drama, the captain of a university soccer team is so obsessed with winning that he alienates his teammates...
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1970
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This riotous 1969 comedy was the first in a series of 28 (counting up to 1981) and except for two instances, all were...
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1969
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Tora-san returns in this the sequel to Otokowa Tsuraiyo. Once again the film's gruff but kind-hearted protagonist ventures...
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1969
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A clever injunction against war, this film by director Kihachi Okamoto centers on the character of a dedicated, old-fashioned...
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1968
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This star-studded and relatively lavishly produced fact-based war drama, set in 1945 Japan during WW II, chronicles the...
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Prime Minister
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1967
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In this Japanese comedy drama, a trading company office manager has a nice life with his wife and family. Of his four...
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1965
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In 1820, young Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) completes his medical education in Nagasaki and returns to his native Edo hoping...
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1965
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Director Yasujiro Ozu's final film, and a rare outing in color for him, continues his quietly observed explorations of...
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Shuhei Hirayama
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1962
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This Japanese drama chronicles the trials and joys of five young women struggling to live and love in a modern Tokyo suburb....
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1962
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1961
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The highly accomplished Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu demonstrates his stylistic touch for deceptive simplicity, rapier wit,...
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1961
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In this Japanese drama, a ten-year-old boy lives in the country with his sister and his widowed father, a Buddhist priest....
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1961
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In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old...
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1960
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Director Yasujiro Ozu (1903-63) was famous for dramas which focused tightly on the character of family members and friends...
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1960
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1960
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1959
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Yasujiro Ozu's Ohayo (Good Morning) is a comedy about a pair of boys who bring much trouble to their family and community by...
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1959
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This 1959 Ozu production centers on the likable but fallible leader of an itinerant acting troupe ("floating weeds" being the...
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1959
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Equinox Flower (Higanbana) is one of the most lighthearted of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu's "home dramas." Motivating the...
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1958
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1958
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Tough and ready Mitsu, the rickshaw man, goes in for anything rough and tumble. His life changes, however, when he crosses...
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1958
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With one of the busiest film industries in the world, Japan was able to submit several films into competition at the 1957...
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1957
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As Yasujiro Ozu's final black-and-white picture, the 1957 Tokyo Twilight explores the emotional landscapes and nuances within...
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1957
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A Full-Up Train follows a young "salary man" as he struggles to adjust to Japan's hectic postwar economy while his personal...
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1957
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Like most of director Yasujiro Ozu's work, Early Spring is a deceptively simple family drama: a middle-aged office worker,...
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1956
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1955
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This gentle, sensitive Japanese drama features Hideko Takamine as a schoolteacher who begins her long career in 1927. The...
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1954
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As with much of director Yasujiro Ozu's work, a plot summary of this film does not do justice to the emotional power that...
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Shukishi Hirayama
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1953
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1952
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Re-released in 1972, Ochazuke No Aji, or The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice, is one of those films whose transcendent...
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1952
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Writer/director Yasujiro Ozu combines two of his favorite themes--the culture clashes in modern Japan and the emergence of...
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Koichi
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1951
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1951
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As in most of his films, noted Japanese director Keisuke Kinoshita also wrote the screenplay for this humorous-serious story...
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1951
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1951
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1951
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Veteran Japanese writer/director Yasujiro Ozu's second postwar production was 1949's Late Spring or Banshun. Chisu Ryu plays...
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1949
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1948
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In this classic shomin-geki ("story of middle-class life"), Ozu relates the slightly comic tale of a boy abandoned by his...
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1947
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1944
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1944
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1943
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1942
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This early-'40s effort from legendary director Yasujiro Ozu prefigures not only the filmmaker's own masterpiece Tokyo Story...
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1941
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Filmed during the war with China, when all films were subject to military censorship, The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi...
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1940
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1936
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This early talkie feature from Yasujiro Ozu deals with the difficult transition from the end of adolescence to adulthood. A...
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1936
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1934
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1933
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1933
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In this melodrama of sibling love, an older sister must struggle to raise her younger brother on her own. Wanting only the...
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1933
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1932
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