Based on actual events that served as the inspiration for the 1963 film of the same name, Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins...
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2010
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Comedy and suspense take turns in this crowd-pleasing picture from popular Japanese director Shinobu Yaguchi. Flight 1980 is...
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2008
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A Japanese teenager finds his life is becoming a tragedy of Shakespearian proportions in this drama from director Fujiro...
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2008
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Two men form an unlikely bond during a long walk through a big city in this independent drama from Japan. Fumiya Takemura...
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2008
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A bout of terminal cancer alters the course of a man's life in completely unexpected ways in Walking My Life (AKA Zo No...
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2007
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Bayside Shakedown producer Chihiro Kameyama returns with this crowd-pleasing comedy drama spawned by the hit television...
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2007
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Two cops come to know one another better while investigating a murder that proves to be more complicated than it seems in...
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Keisuke Okishima
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2006
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As the Korean War draws to a close and the pressing demand for copious amounts of coal takes a sudden plunge, the remote...
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Yoshimoto
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2006
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Masahiko Makino's willfully offensive comedy Nezu No Ban concerns a beloved comedian (Hiroyuki Nagato) who from his deathbed...
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2005
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2005
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2005
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Beat Takeshi Kitano directs and plays the title role in this tribute to the wildly popular "blind swordsman" of Japanese...
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2004
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Director Gen Sekiguchi and screenwriter Taku Tada, phenomenally successful award winners in Japan's advertising industry,...
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2004
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Veteran filmmaker Kihachi Okamoto revives his similarly named 1960s television series about happy-go-lucky avenger-for-hire...
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2002
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In a time when demons and ghosts threaten to bring total devastation to a powerful kingdom, betrayal from within the powerful...
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2001
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Two brothers learn about the ups and downs of talking dirty and influencing people in this offbeat comedy from Japan. Ikuo...
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2001
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Junji Sakamoto spins this tale of a socially inept yet indomitable woman searching for freedom and self-respect. Set in Kobe...
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2000
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The Sixth Sense and A Simple Plan by way of Martin Heidegger, this genre-bending thriller is directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa....
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2000
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Two old friends on opposite sides of the law are brought together under dangerous circumstances in a taut gangland drama from...
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2000
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Yoshimitsu Morita's long filmography includes everything from art-house hits to romantic drama by way of porno comedies, but...
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1999
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Hogs and hookers play an unexpected role in a young man's introduction to the adult world in this comedy-drama from Japanese...
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1999
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Drawing equally from Quentin Tarantino, Hong Kong action spectaculars, Japanese anime, and the over-the-top fashion...
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Tanuki
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1998
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Yoichi Sai spins this grim and gory crime drama about a serial killer and a lone cop looking to catch him. The film centers...
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1995
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Edogawa Rampo -- a pen name that is also a homonym in Japanese for Edgar Allen Poe -- amassed a major cult following after...
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1994
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Noted filmmaker Jun Ichikawa directs this elegiac semi-documentary look at cancer and death. The film focuses on five...
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1993
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Yojiro Takita directs this comedy-drama about a quartet of Japanese salarymen engaging in wacky hijinks in a squalid,...
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1993
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Kazuo (Masato Hagiwara) is not taken in the by phony miracles put on by the religious group he encounters during one of its...
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Go
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1993
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Hikaru is truly an odd duck. He completely expects a flood of the sort described in the Christian Bible to sweep everyone...
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Hikaru's father
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1992
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In this at times comic detective thriller, the head of a lineage of Noh performers is about to step down, and someone cares...
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1991
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Veteran director Kohei Oguri helms this stylized look at marital discord based on a book written by Toshio Shimao. The film...
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Toshio
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1990
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This nostalgic backward glance at the earliest days of Japanese talking pictures was originally titled Kinema no Tenchi. The...
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1987
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The environment and the movie stars at a Japanese film studio in the early '30s are recreated in this drama that looks back...
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1986
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This story starts out to be about a romantic 16-year-old in love with the stars and flowers and a classmate who seems...
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Fukushima
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1983
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The Makioka Sisters will probably best be appreciated by those with an intimate knowledge of 20th century Japanese culture....
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1983
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