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Gou-ichi Takata
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2005
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Japanese '60s icon Ken Takakura stars in this beautifully photographed film about an aging railroad conductor. Sato Otomatsu...
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Otomatsu Sato
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1999
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In honor of the 100th anniversary of the invention of film, Toho studios produced this remake of Chushingura, a paean of...
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Kuranosuke Oishi
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1994
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When has-been baseball player Jack Elliot (Tom Selleck) is signed by a Japanese team, he is initially reluctant to take the...
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Uchiyama
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1992
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Under scrutiny by his superiors for allegedly dipping into confiscated drug money, New York vice cop Michael Douglas can...
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Mashahiro Matsumoto
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1989
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In an emotional and dramatic -- if not melodramatic accounting of a former Japanese gang member, some of the traits of the...
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Shuji
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1985
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Ushioda
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1984
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In 1954, Go Akuzu (Ken Takakura) travels to the Tsuruga Straits that separate Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido from...
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Go Akuzu
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1982
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The infamous "Criminal 22" is at large in Tokyo. This is a vicious, sadistic murderer who takes special delight in "offing"...
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Eiji Mikami
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1981
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Most viewers will recognize the tear-jerking techniques used in this transparent, sometimes understated melodrama, but they...
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Kosaku Tajuma
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1980
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Ajisawa (Ken Takakura) is a mysterious warrior in a secret Japanese paramilitary group who, while on a training exercise in...
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Ajisawa
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1978
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When he gets a "Dear John" letter from his girlfriend, the disappointed young man in this story quits his job, takes his...
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Yusaku Sima
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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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Capt. Tokushima
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1977
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1976
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Motivated by their very real grievances, a group of bombers announce that they have placed speed-triggered bombs aboard a...
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Tetsuo Okita
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1975
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Between making They Way We Were and Three Days of The Condor, Sydney Pollack directed this little-seen thriller from a script...
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Ken Tanaka
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1975
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Filmed on location in the Philippines Robert Aldrich's Too Late the Hero is set in the last months of World War II....
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1970
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One of the better films from veteran director Masahiro Makino's long running Nihon Kyodakuden series. As usual,...
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1967
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1965
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1965
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1965
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