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2001
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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 Kei Kumai spins this tale about Toyoichi Otomo (Eiji Okuda) who suffers from psychological and spiritual...
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Priestess Chisu
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1990
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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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Tsuruko
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1983
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In Hideo Gosha's tale of organized crime in 18th-century Japan, a group of disenfranchised warriors decide to form an...
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1979
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In order to solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country...
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Hideko Kamio
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1978
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This drama is adapted from a Japanese television mini-series. In the story, an industrialist learns of a medical condition...
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Woman
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1975
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Between making They Way We Were and Three Days of The Condor, Sydney Pollack directed this little-seen thriller from a script...
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1975
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This sad Japanese romantic melodrama tells the brief love story of a very alert young man and an extremely beautiful woman...
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1972
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This hilarious parody pokes fun at Charlie Chan movies and features Zero Mostel as an inscrutable Asian detective, Inspector...
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1969
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French novelist Henri-Francois Rey adapted his novel Les Pianos Mecaniques with director Juan Antonio Bardem for this...
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1965
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In this Japanese costume drama set during the 16th-century, a young woman endures many trials after she falls in love with a...
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1965
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Kwaidan is an impressively mounted anthology horror film based on four stories by Lafcadio Hearn, a Greek-born writer who...
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1964
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Ever since the original Rififi set up the postulate of a spectacular robbery, there have been cinematic "Rififis" in...
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Asami
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1963
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Director Masaki Kobayashi uses the sharpest-edged knife in this cutting indictment of selfishness, greed, and the competition...
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Yasuko
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1962
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This French/Japanese co-production, originally titled Qui Etes Vois, M. Sorge?, is founded on a true wartime tale....
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Baronne Sakuai
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1961
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This comedy of revenge relates the comeuppance of a television producer whose philandering ways come back to haunt him in a...
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1961
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Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family,...
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Gen
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1960
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1959
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This Franco-Japanese production made the American TV rounds as Typhoon Over Nagasaki. Jean Marais heads the cast as Pierre, a...
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Noriko
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1957
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The Japanese Snow Country weaves a simple but deeply involving tale of a painter and the woman he loves. The painter falls...
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1957
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1956
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Like most of director Yasujiro Ozu's work, Early Spring is a deceptively simple family drama: a middle-aged office worker,...
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1956
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Adapted from a story by Mitsuzo Sasaki, The Impostor is set in the feudal Japan of the 1600s. Two aspiring Shogun warriors...
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Kikuji
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1955
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1954
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1953
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