Veteran Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo was 82 when he directed this meditation on life, death, and loss. Following the...
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1998
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This Japanese-Swiss documentary is a lyrical meditation on the similarities between geishas and the male Kabuki dancers who...
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1995
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This drama is adapted from a Japanese television mini-series. In the story, an industrialist learns of a medical condition...
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Stepmother
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1975
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1973
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The Daphne refers to Hariko Sugimura, a widow with four daughters. Two of the girls still live at home; the other two are...
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Daphne
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1966
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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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A ronin seeking to redeem his wandering status by gaining entry into one of the great houses takes part in a plot to...
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1965
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1964
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In this Japanese melodrama set in 1941, a baby girl is born blind just as her father is sent off to fight for his country....
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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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Director Yasujiro Ozu's final film, and a rare outing in color for him, continues his quietly observed explorations of...
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1962
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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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An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual...
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1961
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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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Oyoshi
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1959
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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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1955
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This carefully rendered adaptation of three short stories by Fumiko Hayashi was lovingly directed by Mikio Naruse. Four...
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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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1953
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Based on popular Japanese writer Fumiko Hayahi's final novel, a condemning portrait of married life and women's position in...
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1951
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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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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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1949
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1946
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Based on the Takikawa incident of 1933, in which a prominent professor was forced out of his position by the government for...
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1946
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1944
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1944
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