Sukiyaki Western Django star Shum Oguri wields a wicked sword in this martial arts adventure about a young nobleman...
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2009
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Satoshi Isaka follows up on his taut media thriller Hasen no Marisu with this comic thriller about the perfect crime gone...
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Key
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2001
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Following up on his epic masterpiece Eureka, director Shinji Aoyama creates this mediation on spiritual and economic malaise...
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2001
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During 1980s, at the height of Japan's economic power, the furasato (or hometown) boom struck. White-collar workers slaving...
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Father
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1991
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Many may not be aware that during the 1930s a very covert civil war was going on in Japan and no government minister (and...
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Capt. Nonaka
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1989
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Fans of Japanese history films will be particularly interested in this samurai drama, which is set in the 19th century...
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Tedasaburo Sasaki
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1987
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In this romantic and erotic drama, Oda has achieved a place in the world which makes him think that it would be appropriate...
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Shoichi
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1985
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The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the...
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Hajime Kinoshita
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1985
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In this thriller, the authorities must try to find the murderer of a body found in a lake. Unfortunately, there is a problem...
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1984
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Yukai Hodo is a melodrama about a kidnapper spiriting away a young boy from his distraught, partially hysterical, tragically...
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Kazuo Furuya
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1982
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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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Katsuyori Takeda
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1980
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When Tatsuya Terada (Kenichi Hagiwara) is finally found, he is informed by his family that he is the heir to the family's...
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1977
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1973
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Japanese society's labyrinthine complexity offers yet another surprise in Matatabi, a film that follows the adventures of a...
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1973
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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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Akira
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1972
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