This $20 million animated adventure/fantasy quickly became the highest grossing Japanese film in Japanese film history...
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1999
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In honor of the 100th anniversary of the invention of film, Toho studios produced this remake of Chushingura, a paean of...
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1994
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In 1954, Go Akuzu (Ken Takakura) travels to the Tsuruga Straits that separate Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido from...
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1982
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In this Japanese WW II drama, several inductable youths decide to avoid combat by playing in an army band. Unfortunately,...
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Kiyoshi Kodama
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1966
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Hisataro Iwato
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1965
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In this interesting Japanese drama, a journalist travels to a tiny fishing village outside Tokyo to learn more about...
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1964
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In this Japanese war drama, a regiment stationed in New Guinea begins to get depressed. To boost their flagging morale, a...
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1963
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In this Japanese drama, a business executive begins a harmless flirtation with his deceased friend's younger sister. His...
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Katayuki
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1963
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A simple country doctor faithfully takes care of residents in his small village. He feels his lifetime of devotion to his...
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Keisai Koyama
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1963
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The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a...
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1962
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In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands...
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1961
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A new younger assistant questions the traditional methods of a doctor in Japan in the late 1800s and a typhus epidemic opens...
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1961
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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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Diplomat's Mansion was originally released in Japan as Tokyo Yawa. The protagonist, played by Hiroshi Akutagawa, is an...
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1961
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The Japanese Snow Country weaves a simple but deeply involving tale of a painter and the woman he loves. The painter falls...
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1957
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This romantic drama set in wartime Java depicts a doomed love story between a Japanese army deserter and a Javanese villager....
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1951
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