The very long but very worthwhile Sandakan No. 8 is set in mid-20th-century Japan. A crusading female journalist makes the...
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1974
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In this Japanese romance, made in Western style and set in Europe, a college skier travels to the Swiss Alps with his...
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1966
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In 1820, young Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) completes his medical education in Nagasaki and returns to his native Edo hoping...
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1965
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In this Japanese costume drama set during the 16th-century, a young woman endures many trials after she falls in love with a...
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Director
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1965
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1964
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1963
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What might have been a banal TV "movie of the week" in American hands is transformed into a work of art by Japanese director...
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1963
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This Japanese drama presents the biography of popular Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi. The story begins as she is born to her...
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1962
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In this Japanese melodrama, set during the last years of WW II, Tsukasa, a high school student, ends up marrying a...
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1961
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Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family,...
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Stepmother
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1960
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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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Orin
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1958
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1958
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Equinox Flower (Higanbana) is one of the most lighthearted of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu's "home dramas." Motivating the...
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1958
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With one of the busiest film industries in the world, Japan was able to submit several films into competition at the 1957...
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1957
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Women in Prison is a Japanese spin on the traditional Hollywood "babes behind bars" opus. Filmed in semi-documentary fashion,...
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1957
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1955
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Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece opens in 11th-century Japan with an aristocratic woman Tamaki traveling through the woods with...
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Tamaki
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1954
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Like much of his work, Kenji Mizoguchi directs this film about an aging geisha in Kyoto's Shimabara district longing for...
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1954
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Presented in a manner as eerie as it is heartbreaking, this film is a gorgeous supernatural fable about the folly of men with...
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Miyagi, Genjuro's Wife
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1953
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1953
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1953
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Life of Oharu features Kinuyo Tanaka in the title role. Oharu is a middle-aged prostitute in 17th century Japan. As she prays...
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Oharu
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1952
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Mother is a story of contemporary Japan. The film is predicated on an annual nationwide contest at Tokyo schools, wherein the...
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Masako Fukuhara, Mother
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1952
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Avarice and courage provide the underlying themes of this exceptional Japanese drama that centers upon a family of...
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1952
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1951
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1950
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1949
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This groundbreaking study in social criticism was made by one of the earliest revolutionaries in Japanese filmmaking, Kenji...
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Eiko Hirayama
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1949
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Yoru no Onnatachi (Women of the Night) was one of three Kenji Mizoguchi films entered into competition at the 1957 Venice...
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1948
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1948
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1947
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1947
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The central character in this Kenji Mizoguchi film is Utamaro, the famed 18th-century Edo artist. Somewhat inarticulate,...
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1946
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1946
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1944
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1933
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1933
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In this melodrama of sibling love, an older sister must struggle to raise her younger brother on her own. Wanting only the...
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1933
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1932
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1930
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