As the Japanese studios were declining in 1969, four legendary directors from that country's "golden age" of cinema --...
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Screenwriter
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2000
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The Japanese title for this drama about human relationships, "(new) times of joys and sorrows," is descriptive of the story....
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1986
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Based on an originally banned book by the surgeon Takashi Nagai, who died of radiation sickness in 1951 after witnessing the...
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1983
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Director, Screenwriter
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1976
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Dodes'ka-Den (aka Dodesukaden) was Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's first project since Red Beard (1965), and his first...
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Producer
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1970
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In this Japanese drama, two childhood friends meet and reminisce about their youth. The man and woman had been great friends...
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1968
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An inspirational teacher is the focus of this Japanese drama. After his friend kills himself, Natsuki takes a teaching job...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1967
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1966
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1964
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1963
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1963
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1962
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1962
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1962
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Slow-paced but endowed with understanding, characters of some depth and complexity, and good direction, this slice-of-drama...
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1961
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1960
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1960
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1959
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1959
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1959
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Adapted from a novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, The Ballad of Narayama is built around an ancient Japanese custom. Centuries ago,...
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1958
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1958
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1957
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Also known as Times of Joy and Sorrow, The Lighthouse was directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, one of the Japanese cinema's...
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1957
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1956
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1956
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1955
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1955
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1954
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This gentle, sensitive Japanese drama features Hideko Takamine as a schoolteacher who begins her long career in 1927. The...
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1954
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Having lost her husband in the war, Haruko Inoue (wonderfully played by Yuko Mochizuki) struggles to raise her children....
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1953
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1953
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1952
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1951
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1951
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1951
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As in most of his films, noted Japanese director Keisuke Kinoshita also wrote the screenplay for this humorous-serious story...
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1951
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1950
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1949
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1949
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1949
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1948
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1948
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1948
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1947
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1947
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1946
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1946
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1944
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1944
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1943
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1943
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