A band of outsiders takes to the highways in this touching independent drama. Brett (William Hurt) is a petty criminal who is...
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2010
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The events surrounding Japanese emperor Hirohito's August 1945 call for a complete cease fire among his troops serves as the...
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Empress
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2009
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2008
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Yoji Yamada's torchy Japanese drama Love and Honor (aka Bushi no Ichibun) follows the heartbreaking plight of Shinnojo...
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Aunt Ine
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2007
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Japanese writer-director Kaori Momoi's feature Faces of a Fig Tree (AKA Ichijiku No Kao) observes the tragedies that begin to...
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Director, Screenwriter, Maasa Kadowaki
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2006
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This film, based on the novel by Arthur Golden, unfolds from the perspective of Chiyo (Zhang Ziyi), a girl who, at the age of...
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2005
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Yoshimitsu Morita's comedy drama Ashura No Gotoku (Like Ashura) tells the story of what happens to four sisters when they...
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2003
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An unwitting superheroine has an unusual way of dealing with those who have earned her wrath in a sci-fi tinged action drama...
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2000
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Renowned director Stanley Kwan spins this parable about post-handover Hong Kong, the second in a trilogy about the former...
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Marianne
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2000
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Ripped straight from the headlines of 1990s Japan, this film directed by Masato Harada explores the ticklish issue of...
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1998
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Following up on his 1995 Ozu-like work Tokyo Kyodai with this restrained look at lost love, Ichikawa centers his film on...
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Tami Osawa
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1997
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Following up on the fantastic success of Love Letter, pop phenom Shunji Iwai directs this phantasmagoric sprawling sci-fi...
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1996
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This unfortunately titled work is a critically acclaimed look at sexual abuse, based on the real-life experiences of comic...
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1995
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Director
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1991
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1989
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Historians and humanitarians still argue over whether it was truly necessary to drop a second atomic bomb on the Japanese...
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1989
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Hajime has big dreams for his small family and has organized his wife and two children into a corporation. He runs a...
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Noriko Kimura
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1988
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A producer of softcore videos is a family man who suffers from sexual dysfunction in this often disturbing erotic drama. He...
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Chikako Koga
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1988
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In this run-of-the-mill romantic drama, Shibuki Ogasawara (Hiroko Yakushimaru) is a young kindergarten teacher who develops a...
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1984
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In a slow-paced narrative interspersed with close-ups of tomatoes, a bottle, and similar animate or inanimate artifacts,...
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Little girl's mother
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1982
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Eijanaika is a dramatization of a brief but critical moment in Japanese history when Japan emerges from two centuries of...
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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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Just as many American studio-era directors found acclaim abroad that was denied them in their home country, by 1980...
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1980
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The various factions opposing the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1860s Japan did not always work in tandem, as is made clear in this...
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1974
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