Many may not be aware that during the 1930s a very covert civil war was going on in Japan and no government minister (and...
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Director
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1989
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Veteran director (Hideo Gosha) adapts this psychological drama based on a play by the great Japanese playwright Chikamatsu...
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Director
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1989
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This drama is taken from the best-selling novel by Sojiro Tamura. Prostitutes in post-World War II occupied Japan peddle...
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Director
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1988
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In their unremitting worldwide quest to ensure that puritan values are observed wherever they have influence, the Americans...
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1987
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1986
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Director
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1986
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Director Hideo Gosha goes behind the doors of one of Japan's most popular Geisha houses on a mission to demystify one of the...
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Director
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1983
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In this brutal Japanese melodrama, the gangster boss of the town of Shikoku had been in charge since 1921. Though he is...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1982
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In Hideo Gosha's tale of organized crime in 18th-century Japan, a group of disenfranchised warriors decide to form an...
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Director
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1979
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Goyokin director Hideo Gosha makes his triumphant return to the samurai genre with this plot twisting, nerve shredding tale...
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Director
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1978
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Wolves is set in Japan in the 1920s. The disintegration of the ancient samurai traditions is paralleled with the rise of the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1972
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This Japanese historical drama set during the mid-19th century chronicles the attempts of a brave group to restore their...
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Director
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1970
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In this samurai movie, an evil warrior violates his samurai codes of ethics by stealing some gold to pay an unfair...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1969
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One-eyed, one-armed ronin Samanosuke (Kinnosuke Nakamura) takes the name Tange Sazen after following a bitter betrayal, and...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1966
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A man of honor struggles to regain his good name after being exiled to the wrong side of the law in this period drama from...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1965
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A battle-scarred ronin (Tetsuro Tamba) gets caught up in a murderous plot involving a pair of samurais (Mikijiro Hira and...
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Director
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1964
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