Ichiro Kure (Yoji Matsuda) emerges from a coma to find himself in a psychiatric hospital. One doctor tells Ichiro that he is...
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1989
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A young Japanese woman in search of her missing mother discovers a sinister secret deep within the Sacred Heart Convent in...
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Priest Kakinuma
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1974
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Satori is the name of the demon in this Japanese film. Ironically, it's name sounds the same as the word used for...
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1973
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The second in a series of exploitation films based on a Japanese adult manga magazine, this over-the-top jailbreak movie pits...
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Inspector Goda
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1972
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This Japanese allegory comments upon societal values in modern urban Asia. It begins as a small boy catches a rare butterfly...
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1971
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Masahiro Shinoda directed this sexy, darkly humorous look at Tokyo's red-light Edo district in 1842, focusing on three...
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Moritaya
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1970
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A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the...
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1969
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This sad tale, based on a true story of a Japanese-born Korean student who raped and killed two girls in 1958 and was then...
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Minister of Education
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1968
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After students prankishly steal the clothes of two people swimming nude in the ocean, the swimmers return to land and wander...
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1968
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Director Nagisa Oshima teams with comic-strip artist Shirato Sampei in this feature. Still pictures are used as some of...
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1967
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The unstable social milieu of postwar Japan is brought into play in Violence at Noon. Two young women, whose lives are far...
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1966
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Director Nagisa Oshima's film uses the "pink" genre to mask an allegory about the materialism of post-war Japan (the original...
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1965
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1961
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1961
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The epidemic of juvenile delinquency in the mean streets of a Tokyo slum is depicted in this sordid story of sex and...
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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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Nagisa Oshima's groundbreaking film opens with young, attractive Mako and her friend hitching a ride from an old man. After...
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Akimoto
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1960
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Widely regarded as the most personal of director Nagisa Oshima's three 1960 films, Night and Fog in Japan centers around a...
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1960
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1959
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An essentially religious film about a young, self-sacrificing Catholic devotee, this true story by director Heinosuke Gosho...
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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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1957
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