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Director, Screenwriter
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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2000
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Veteran filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, who was 86 at the time of making this film, tackles the graying of Japan's population. The...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1999
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Veteran television director Ben Wada spins this bizarre romance of sorts based on a script written by acclaimed filmmaker...
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Screenwriter
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1999
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1998
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This extremely uneven biography will be of particular interest to those familiar with notable scientific figures in recent...
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Book Author, Screenwriter
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1993
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1993
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The Japanese actress and film director Kinuyo Tanaka had a career as significant to that country's movie industry as...
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Screenwriter
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1987
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Screenwriter
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1987
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Director
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1986
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Based on the experiences of director Kaneto Shindo's sister, this docudrama follows the life of a young Japanese woman given...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1984
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If Western nations had the juvenile delinquency depicted in this Japanese film about a delinquent teen, they would be...
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Screenwriter
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1983
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Screenwriter
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1981
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Director
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1979
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In this courtroom drama, a murdered woman's former schoolteacher and various local merchants contribute vital evidence...
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Screenwriter
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1979
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1977
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Director
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1975
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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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Screenwriter
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1972
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Director
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1971
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Samurai Assassin and Japan's Longest Day director Kihachi Okamoto offers a vivid dramatization of the bloodiest battle ever...
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Screenwriter
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1971
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In this Japanese melodrama, a young painter struggles in all things to remain true to his art and to his friends, a...
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Screenwriter
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1971
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This Japanese costume drama is set within a ruined Buddhist temple. A thief is living there with a domineering partner. His...
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1968
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In this Japanese drama, a housewife falls in love with a female model and embarks upon a lesbian relationship. When she must...
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Screenwriter
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1968
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An aging writer recalls the sexual escapades of a lifetime. He frequents a club where virgins entertain the elderly,...
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Screenwriter
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1968
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Screenwriter
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1967
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During his final hospital stay before the end of his life, an older man is extremely infatuated by the girl in the bed next...
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Director
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1967
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Screenwriter
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1966
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In this martial arts film, a Japanese Samurai warrior returns to his home village after being gone for two years. He is...
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Screenwriter
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1966
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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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Screenwriter
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1964
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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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Art Director, Director, Screenwriter
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1964
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Based on a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this tongue-in-cheek melodrama by Japanese director Yasuzo Masumura tells the story...
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Screenwriter
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1964
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Director, Screenwriter
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1963
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Director
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1963
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In this uneven but still challenging drama, director Eizo Sugawa tackles the problem of the effects of killing on the human...
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Screenwriter
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1962
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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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Screenwriter
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1962
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The intrigue inside the usual overcrowded apartment of an atypical Japanese family recalls the court intrigues of the...
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Screenwriter
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1962
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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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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1961
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A slight though effective slice-of-life story, this drama by Miyoji Ieki focuses on a young, struggling couple. They are...
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Screenwriter
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1959
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Director
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1959
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In keeping with his other films, Yasuzo Masumura's Precipice explores the problems facing young people in an increasingly...
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Screenwriter
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1958
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Tadashi Imai's Yoru no Tsuzani was released in English-speaking countries as The Adulteress Set in 18th century Japan, the...
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Screenwriter
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1958
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Director
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1956
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Genji Monogatori (A Tale of Genji) was another copacetic collaboration between Japanese director Kosaburo Yoshimura and...
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Screenwriter
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1952
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Avarice and courage provide the underlying themes of this exceptional Japanese drama that centers upon a family of...
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Screenwriter
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1952
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In this Japanese semi-documentary, a teacher and her ex-students offer their view of the horrible aftermath of the A-bomb in...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1952
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This documentary-style police drama depicts life in the back alleys of Tokyo's Shimbashi district. The film's camera work...
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Screenwriter
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1950
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This groundbreaking study in social criticism was made by one of the earliest revolutionaries in Japanese filmmaking, Kenji...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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Screenwriter
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1949
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Screenwriter
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1947
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Screenwriter
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1946
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