Yoji Yamada's torchy Japanese drama Love and Honor (aka Bushi no Ichibun) follows the heartbreaking plight of Shinnojo...
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Samurai Teacher
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2007
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A retired school principal estranged from his grown daughter and still grieving the recent death of his alcoholic wife finds...
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Matsutaro Yasuda
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2006
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A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan...
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2005
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The Hidden Blade concerns Yaichiro, a warrior who must leave his family in the care of two other samurai after he answers a...
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2004
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An aging man in a dying town tries to sort out the loose ends of his life, with tragic results, in this drama. Nobuo (Ken...
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Nobuo
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2001
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2000
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Hiromitsu Yamanaka debuts with this deft, witty comedy about an old man and his unprofitable passion for the racetrack that...
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Kikujiro
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2000
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An exotic flower fuels two men's personal obsessions and private disappointments in this subtle comedy-drama. 60-year-old...
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Mokuhei Mano
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1999
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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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The Father
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1996
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Following up on his 1995 violent crime-thriller Gonin, Tadashi Ishii adds sex into two-fisted mix of action and bloodlust:...
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1996
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1995
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Junya Sato directs this historical epic about an Japanese sailor shipwrecked in Russia. Set during the Edo period (1600-1868,...
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1992
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Kihachi Okamoto directs his 37th film with this sweet-natured satire about bungling cops and tax scams. The story opens with...
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1991
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Kumiko Goto and Toru Nakamura co-star in this sentimental tearjerker. Yumi is an academically and musically gifted junior...
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1989
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The boy who is the Shogun's Shadow, or heir, is in considerable danger. Personal bodyguard Igo Gyobu (Ken Igata), accompanied...
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Igo Gyobu
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1989
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The award-winning director of such esteemed films as Black Rain and The Ballad of Narayama has chosen here to tell the...
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Iheiji Muraoka ("Zegen")
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1987
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1986
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This drama is based on the experiences of celebrated novelist Kazuo Dan. Kazuo Katsura (Ken Ogata) is a writer, with a wife...
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Kazuo Katsura
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1986
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In this drama, Fusajiro (Ken Ogata) is a tuna fisherman who lives alone with his grown daughter Tokiko (Masako Natsume), his...
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Fusajiro Kohama
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1986
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In Paul Schrader's unusual biopic, Ken Ogata stars as Yukio Mishima, perhaps the most celebrated Japanese novelist of the...
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Yukio Mishima
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1985
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In this second, award-winning interpretation of a novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, director Shohei Imamura has inserted some...
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Tatsuhei
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1983
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Detective Seiji Otaki (Ken Ogata) is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student...
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Seiji Otaki
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1983
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In this Japanese animated fantasy, the beautiful alien Lum, Princess of the Oni, comes with her minions to take back Earth....
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1983
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Director Hideo Gosha goes behind the doors of one of Japan's most popular Geisha houses on a mission to demystify one of the...
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1983
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In a melodrama with a familiar storyline, a young boy's life growing up in American-occupied Okinawa in the late 1950s is...
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Ishigaki
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1983
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A double disaster film with both an American and a Japanese cast, Virus presents some pretty wild probabilities to viewers....
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1982
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Eijanaika is a dramatization of a brief but critical moment in Japanese history when Japan emerges from two centuries of...
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1981
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1980
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A gut-wrenching, violent psychological crime drama from start to finish, this award-winning film by noted Japanese director...
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Iwao Enokizu
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1979
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Consumed by the jealousy and power struggles of their own relationships, a man, his mistress and his wife involve three...
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Sokichi Takeshita
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1978
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Set in 1901, this movie depicts the fate of two military training companies sent on war exercises to Mount Hakkoda in the...
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1977
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This Japanese biopic chronicles reminiscences of renowned poet Hideo Yoshino as he speaks to the young Swedish student who...
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1970
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An aging master swordsman becomes the advisor of a powerful 16th-century warlord. Trouble erupts when the proud leader...
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1969
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In this Japanese melodrama, set during WW II, a student falls for a naval officer's widow. Unfortunately, the widow is...
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1969
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