A nebbishy author finds his career is taking an unexpected detour into sex in this comedy from Japan. Ben Makiguri (Hidetoshi...
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2007
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2005
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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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One of the leading voices in the new Japanese cinema, Shinji Aoyama directs this saga about memory, grief, and redemption....
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2001
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Veteran actor turned filmmaker Go Riju spins this love story about the beautiful and doomed. Chloe (Rie Tomosaka) meets...
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2001
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1997
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This charming Japanese drama follows the exploits of a Kanako, a dippy young waitress, who promised her old friend "Chestnut...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1995
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In this Okinawan anthology film, three directors show the tension between native residents of that island and the Japanese,...
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Hideyoshi
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1992
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This Japanese film is completely unrelated to Louis Malle's 1960 film Zazie Dans le Metro. In this story, Zazie (Yoshito...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1989
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In a tongue-in-cheek approach to "how not to shoot a documentary" a young man (Go Riju, the writer and director) cons a truck...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1985
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In Paul Schrader's unusual biopic, Ken Ogata stars as Yukio Mishima, perhaps the most celebrated Japanese novelist of the...
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1985
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