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2003
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Celebrated Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, at 88, was the world's second-oldest working director when he made this biopic...
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Composer (Music Score)
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2000
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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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Noted filmmaker Kaneto Shindo directs this erotic drama adapted from the autobiographical book by renowned writer Nagai Kafu....
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1993
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"Go" is a complex, brain-racking "game" of military strategy, somewhat resembling chess. Chinese Sun Dao-Lin is sent to Japan...
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1982
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When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit...
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1981
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1980
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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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The quest of a war-widow for the truth about her husband's death during World War II serves as the backbone for this film,...
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1972
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This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she...
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1970
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In this Japanese drama, a young woman blackmails a fellow for two million yen and then tries to lure him away from his wife....
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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 drama is based on Kawabata's Nobel Prize-winning autobiographical novel about the two loves of his father and about the...
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1969
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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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1968
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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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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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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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In this dark Japanese drama, a young married man accidentally kills his lover during a passionate moment. Compounding...
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1967
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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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In this Japanese costume drama set during the 16th-century, a young woman endures many trials after she falls in love with a...
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1965
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A landmark in fantasy cinema, this lyrical ghost story is set in medieval Japan amid a bloody conflict between rival...
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1964
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This Japanese comedy is about a hobo who has saved a great deal of money over the years, keeping it taped to his side. After...
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1963
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Composer (Music Score)
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1963
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In this Japanese melodrama, a deaf-mute widow returns to her mother after her husband is killed in the war. At her mother's...
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1962
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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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An unusual topic for a romantic story of love that transcends ordinary barriers, this well-wrought tale by director and...
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1961
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The titular island in this Japanese domestic drama is an agrarian flyspeck, almost completely cut off from contact with the...
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1961
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