In this melodramatic romantic tragedy, a beautiful Japanese girl learns that the best kind of love is selfless love. Virginal...
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Old Mr. Kamijoe
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1997
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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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1987
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Himatsuri is based on a real life tragedy, in which a Japanese man inexplicably slaughtered his family and then killed...
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1985
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Nearly ten years after his last screen appearance (in 1975's Terror of Mechagodzilla), the Tokyo Terror stomps again --...
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1984
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The tensions that develop when someone must conceal a truth from a dear friend or relative is the focus of this drama about a...
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Takeichi Kudo
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1983
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Set during World War II, the inhuman side of combat is again emphasized in this film that deals with navy officers and their...
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Isoroku Yamamoto
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1982
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1981
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1976
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This is a badly re-edited and "Americanized" version of a popular Japanese disaster movie, The Submersion of Japan (1973)....
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1975
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In this Japanese sci-fi film based on the prophesies of the French seer Nostradamus, the story begins in 1999, the year the...
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1974
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1973
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The Japanese title of Band of Assassins was Shinsengumi, which pinpointed the assassins in question. The Shinshen was a...
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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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1971
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In this Japanese love story, a young man, the son of deaf-mute parents, is given a job by a factory owner who thinks he...
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1969
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In this dark Japanese drama, a young married man accidentally kills his lover during a passionate moment. Compounding...
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1967
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This star-studded and relatively lavishly produced fact-based war drama, set in 1945 Japan during WW II, chronicles the...
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1967
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The Daphne refers to Hariko Sugimura, a widow with four daughters. Two of the girls still live at home; the other two are...
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1966
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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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Masaya Nihei
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1966
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A ronin seeking to redeem his wandering status by gaining entry into one of the great houses takes part in a plot to...
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Kurihara
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1965
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In this Japanese drama, an attorney is having an affair with his law partner's wife. Things go terribly wrong when during an...
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Ochiai
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1964
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This film biography of Japanese artist Kiyoshi Yamashita follows his rise to international fame, including an incident in...
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1964
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This Japanese comedy is about a hobo who has saved a great deal of money over the years, keeping it taped to his side. After...
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Jumpei
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1963
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This Japanese drama chronicles the trials and joys of five young women struggling to live and love in a modern Tokyo suburb....
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1962
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In this Japanese melodrama, a deaf-mute widow returns to her mother after her husband is killed in the war. At her mother's...
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1962
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This sweeping historical epic has sometimes been labelled the Gone with the Wind of Japan; at any rate, it's almost the same...
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1962
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Set in the mid-19th century when the disintegration of a rigid social structure was turning the once wealthy into paupers, or...
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Spy
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1962
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An unusual topic for a romantic story of love that transcends ordinary barriers, this well-wrought tale by director and...
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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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In this Japanese melodrama, set during the last years of WW II, Tsukasa, a high school student, ends up marrying a...
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1961
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1953
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1953
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1952
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Based on popular Japanese writer Fumiko Hayahi's final novel, a condemning portrait of married life and women's position in...
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1951
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