Following the release of his Minbo No Onna -- less a film than a textbook on how to extricate oneself from yakuza harassment...
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Director
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1997
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Following up on the critical and box-office failure of his 1995 Shizukana Seikatsu, veteran director Juzo Itami made this...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1996
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Veteran director Juzo Itami who -- shot to fame with his sharply satirical Ososhiki and Tampopo -- turns to decidedly sweeter...
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Director
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1995
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Juzo Itami's Minbo no Onna -- a virtual textbook on how to beat yakuza harassment -- was a big hit and almost got its...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1995
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Veteran filmmaker Juzo Itami spins this biting satire cum do-it-yourself video about the do's and don'ts of dealing with...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1992
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In Japanese society, geisha still have a role to play as exemplars of gracefulness and cultivation, despite the near...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1990
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This comedy satire is the sequel to the third biggest box office draw in Japan during the 1987 season. Ryoko (Nobuko...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1989
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The directorial debut of Juzo Itami, this irreverent black comedy satirizes death and burial customs in a surprising manner...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1987
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The sophomore directorial effort from ill-fated Japanese filmmaker Juzo Itami, Tampopo is an off-beat comedy featuring...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1987
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The taxing woman of the title is Nobuko Miyamoto (the wife of director Juzo Itami), who works for the Japanese version of the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1987
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1985
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The title of MacArthur's Children refers to the generation growing up in Japan since the end of World War II. A tiny Japanese...
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1984
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Co-produced by the Art Theatre of Japan, The Family Game explores the coming-of-age (so to speak) of a traditional Japanese...
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Mr. Numata, the father
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1983
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In this 40-minute avant-garde film based on a story by the surrealist writer Kyoka Izumi, director Shuji Terayama uses the...
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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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Tatsuo
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1983
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1981
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In this melodrama, a young Japanese student juggles two different lovers with the usual consequences. She is actually in...
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1980
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Three short films are gathered together in Collections Privées. The first is L'Ile Aux Sirenes (Island of the Sirens),...
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1979
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Kushami (Tatsuya Nakadai) is a teacher given to flights of philosophy as he mulls over life and its meanings, unaware that...
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1975
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The young man working as a motorcycle repairman is too busy with his inner life to get involved in the kind of social...
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1972
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A wandering beggar narrates this erotic and violent saga of a region in China that slipped into decadence, eventually...
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Hsi-Men-Ching
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1969
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