Acclaimed director Tatsumi Kumashiro, who made a career out of elevating the high-budget, soft-core-porn genre...
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Tanaka
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1994
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The unlucky private detective, Mike Hama, again treads the gray streets of Yokohama in this sequel to...
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1994
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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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Nishikawa
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1992
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During 1980s, at the height of Japan's economic power, the furasato (or hometown) boom struck. White-collar workers slaving...
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Son
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1991
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For those unfamiliar with its deep meaning, the Japanese tea ceremony appears to be a long, incredibly boring, basically...
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Honkakubo
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1989
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Two rival surgical teams at a Japanese hospital perform gruesome experimental operations on healthy patients in this macabre...
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1986
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1986
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1984
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Akio Kitano (Masao Kusakari) is a road racer who has nightmares about going up in flames, but these fears are alleviated by a...
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1983
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Moe (Junko Mihara) is a teenager who has left her family's country home to share an apartment in Tokyo with her older brother...
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Jun
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1982
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1981
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Whatever eccentricities elephants may have, they do not inform this lumbering documentary on the calm, easy-going mammals....
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1980
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For a brief period during the 16th century, the Portuguese and Dutch were permitted influence in Japan, with the result that...
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1978
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Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film,...
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1977
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Between making They Way We Were and Three Days of The Condor, Sydney Pollack directed this little-seen thriller from a script...
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1975
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In this Japanese-made sci-fi/action thriller, Interpol has nothing on ESPY, an elite international law-enforcement agency....
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1975
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In this Japanese actioner, the brave blind swordsman Zatoichi runs across a childhood comrade who has grown up to be a cruel...
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1974
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Chinmoku or Silence is a story about the suppression of Christianity in Japan, as seen from the point of view of a fugitive...
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1971
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In this Japanese melodrama, a young painter struggles in all things to remain true to his art and to his friends, a...
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1971
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In this Japanese drama, a young woman blackmails a fellow for two million yen and then tries to lure him away from his wife....
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1970
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The building of a dam provides the framework for this Japanese drama. The trouble is that the dam is to be built along a...
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1968
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Tetsuro Tamba portrays Kotaro Takamura, one of Japan's most celebrated artists. A poet and sculptor, Takamura is married to...
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Tsubaki
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1968
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In this Japanese film, a deadly alien spore is transported to Earth by astronauts returning from Mars, and it grows into the...
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1967
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In this sci-fi horror movie, a parasitic space monster attaches itself to a spaceship and begins absorbing the energy of the...
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1967
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The Director
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1966
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In this Japanese drama, a young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. First she...
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1965
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In this drama, a student takes up judo to earn his peers' respect. As he studies and practices under the expert tutelage of...
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1965
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When entomologist Jumpei (Eiji Okada) travels to sand dunes on an expedition, he is met by a group of people who offer him a...
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Niki Jumpei
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1964
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1964
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A true "monster rally," this Japanese special-effects smorgasbord stars no fewer than four "A"-list movie monstrosities. Once...
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1964
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Ever since the original Rififi set up the postulate of a spectacular robbery, there have been cinematic "Rififis" in...
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1963
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Directed by Susumu Hani, this is the story of class barriers more than anything else. When the shacks next to a comfortable...
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Eiichi
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1963
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Taken from a best-selling book, this is an uneven, politically tinged drama by George Englund that does not really follow the...
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Deong
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1963
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Alain Resnais's multi-award-winning Hiroshima, Mon Amour is neither an easy film to watch nor to synopsize, but it remains...
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He
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1959
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Set in Japan during the 17th century, this conventional costume drama tells of the persecution of Christian converts in the...
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Yusa Hagiwara
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1956
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It is altogether fitting that the first major film about the bombing of Hiroshima should emerge from a Japanese studio. The...
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Kitagawa
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1955
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In this fast-paced satire by master Kon Ichikawa, various comtemporary stereotypes descend on a hapless new income tax...
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1954
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A fiercely independent thinker, director Satsuo Yamamoto's films questioned many of Japan's closely held postwar beliefs....
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1952
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Mother is a story of contemporary Japan. The film is predicated on an annual nationwide contest at Tokyo schools, wherein the...
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Shinjiro, Baker
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1952
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