After a 13-year absence, partially due to a life-threatening stroke, master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima returns to the silver...
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2000
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2000
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This Canadian-Japanese co-production uses both vintage historical footage (including armed forces films and period newsreels)...
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1995
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In the remote island of Honshu, far from the bright lights of Kyoto and Tokyo, the boys Yuzo and Chiyo are rivals in love,...
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1989
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A man who lives on the wrong side of the law shows he can do good and bad with equal enthusiasm in this action drama from...
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1985
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In this drama a woman learns that her husband helped steal a priceless Picasso. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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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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With a story that many could readily understand, this film is about a divorced policeman whose salary does not expand far...
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1983
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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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1977
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In this Japanese actioner, the brave blind swordsman Zatoichi runs across a childhood comrade who has grown up to be a cruel...
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1974
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Satori is the name of the demon in this Japanese film. Ironically, it's name sounds the same as the word used for...
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1973
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Dear Summer Sister (alternate English title: Summer Sister), released in the US in 1985, was completed in 1972 by Japanese...
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1972
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This well-known film by auteur director Nagisa Oshima offers a humorous and trenchant commentary on trends in Japanese...
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1971
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This black-and-white crime drama takes place in a remote rural inn located on an island in a river. It is the headquarters...
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1971
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Zensaku (Makoto Fujita) is middle-aged patent consultant and inventor, living a sedate life as a married father of two grown...
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Suzuki
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1969
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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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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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Raiko
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1968
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This sad tale, based on a true story of a Japanese-born Korean student who raped and killed two girls in 1958 and was then...
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Prison warden
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1968
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After students prankishly steal the clothes of two people swimming nude in the ocean, the swimmers return to land and wander...
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1968
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Director Nagisa Oshima teams with comic-strip artist Shirato Sampei in this feature. Still pictures are used as some of...
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1967
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In this epic Japanese samurai adventure, a bloodthirsty young fighter (Tatsuya Nakadai) kills a man in competition and is...
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1967
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A Japanese soldier Tsutomu Yamazki deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over in this...
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1967
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This is the 13th feature in the popular film series about the blind, sword-slashing masseur Zatoichi. He enters a town...
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1966
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A young man returns to the island where he was held prisoner as a child in this action thriller from Japanese director...
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1966
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The unstable social milieu of postwar Japan is brought into play in Violence at Noon. Two young women, whose lives are far...
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Eisuke Oyamada
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1966
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Director Nagisa Oshima's film uses the "pink" genre to mask an allegory about the materialism of post-war Japan (the original...
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1965
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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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Hachi Farmer
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1964
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This well-regarded Japanese drama follows an aging samurai as he attempts to regain his family's honor. In 17th century...
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1963
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The epidemic of juvenile delinquency in the mean streets of a Tokyo slum is depicted in this sordid story of sex and...
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1960
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The second of Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi's Human Condition trilogy was titled The Road to Eternity (originally Zoku...
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Shinjo
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1960
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Nagisa Oshima's groundbreaking film opens with young, attractive Mako and her friend hitching a ride from an old man. After...
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1960
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