Based on actual events that served as the inspiration for the 1963 film of the same name, Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins...
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Asakawa (Naritsugu's Henchman)
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2010
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2009
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As the rain falls gently on the streets of Tokyo, Death emerges from the supernatural realm to decide whether or not a...
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2008
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A prim and proper woman in search of serenity at a seaside inn finds her relaxing getaway interrupted in the most unlikely of...
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2008
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A violent and outrageous revenge comedy with a thoughtful undercurrent, director Lee Sang-il's Scrap Heaven opens with three...
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2007
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Noriko's Dinner Table (2005) constitutes a follow-up with thematic similarities and loose narrative connections (though not a...
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Tetsuzo Shimabara
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2007
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Chiaki Kuriyama (Kill Bill, Vol. 1) and prolific character actor Ren Osugi (Nightmare Detective) star in Suicide Club...
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2007
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A damaged man experiences a series of odd coincidences that send his life careening down a path he never anticipated in...
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2007
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Japanese writer-director Kaori Momoi's feature Faces of a Fig Tree (AKA Ichijiku No Kao) observes the tragedies that begin to...
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2006
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Imagine the world and age that you live in unfolding under slightly different circumstances -- what would life be like if our...
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2005
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A hit man takes a vacation and finds both danger and faulty workmanship follow him wherever he goes in this offbeat comedy...
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2005
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Directed by Lee Sang-II, Border Line chronicles the lives of convenience-store clerk Aikawa (Yumi Asou), as she struggles to...
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2002
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Junji Sakamoto directs this taut spy thriller about the real-life abduction of Kim Dae Jung -- who would later be elected...
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2002
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Fujiro Mitsuishi's Ogya is about a pregnant teenager who is forced to confront her mother. Hana (Aya Okamoto) is a...
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2002
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One of the leading voices in the new Japanese cinema, Shinji Aoyama directs this saga about memory, grief, and redemption....
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2001
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A boy is torn between his desire to please his father and his need to rebel against him in this drama from Japan. Sadatomo...
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Sadatomo's father
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2001
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Following up on her Camera d'Or-winning feature-film debut Suzaku and her understated documentary Somaudo Monogatari,...
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2000
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Former assistant director to Sogo Ishii, Akira Ogata makes his debut with this complex coming of age drama about a pair of...
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Michio's Uncle
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2000
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1998
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Following up on his acclaimed Helpless and Chimpura, Shinji Aoyama directs this bizarre reworking of a yakuza flick. Hiroki...
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1997
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A courageous but naive boy from one of Japan's smaller islands goes to seek his fortune in Tokyo and ends up involved in...
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1997
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Peter Greenaway directed this elliptical and visually intricate tale of the far side of erotic and intellectual attraction....
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1996
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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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1985
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