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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Acclaimed director and headmaster of the Sogestsu school of flower arranging Hiroshi Teshigahara helms this elegant...
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1990
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After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s the rough-hewn blind shamisien player and folk-song...
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1977
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1975
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This fascinating Japanese drama takes an objective look at the relationship between American GIs and deserters in Japan...
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1972
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Set in feudal Japan, this atmospheric and violent ghost story (whose title literally translates as The Black Cat in the Bush)...
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Mikado
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1968
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This Japanese drama, the first to deal with some of the after-effects of the Hiroshima bomb, chronicles the quest of a...
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The Master
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1968
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A mother leaves her husband and small village and travels to Kyoto with her teenage daughter. Their quaint country ways are...
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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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