Sixteen years after abandoning the 47 Ronin on the eve of their crucial mission, Senoo Magozaemon (Koji Yakusho) finds his...
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Terasaka Kichiemon
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2010
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A long lost punk rock band hits the comeback trail, whether they like it or not, in this comic mockumentary. Kanna (Aoi...
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2009
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A shocking crime brings together a frightened girl and a battle-hardened cop in this drama from writer and director Ryoichi...
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2009
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A ninja walks away from his life as a warrior only to find he must embrace it again late in life in this action drama based...
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2009
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2008
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When an ambitious underworld thug proves incapable of tracking down a hit-man for his powerful boss as promised, he...
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2008
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Based on the controversial but commercially successful novel Blood and Bones by Japanese-Korean author Yan Sogil,...
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2008
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Set against the backdrop of Japan's scenic countryside, director Nobuhiro Yamashita's tale of adolescent love avoids the...
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2007
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald director Koki Mitani continues to hone his screwball skills with this crowd-pleasing comedy about...
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2006
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2005
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British-born filmmaker John Williams directs this semi-surreal Japanese-language drama that blurs the lines between reality...
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2005
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When the Last Sword Is Drawn opens in Tokyo in 1899, when an elderly man, Saito (Koichi Sato), brings his young grandson 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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Masato Harada, who directed such critically acclaimed fare as Bounce Ko Gal and Kamikaze Taxi, rides the wave of Japanese...
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2001
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Two old friends on opposite sides of the law are brought together under dangerous circumstances in a taut gangland drama from...
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2000
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Junji Sakamoto spins this tale of a socially inept yet indomitable woman searching for freedom and self-respect. Set in Kobe...
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2000
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Veteran director Shinji Somai lensed this heart-warming family drama about a shabby looking coot claiming to be the father of...
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Hiroshi
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1998
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1998
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Get Carter meets Heidegger in this slick, two-fisted gangster epic brimming with furtive sex and shocking violence. The film...
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1995
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The Tokarev, similar to a Magnum 45, is used to hold up a Japanese school bus. The driver's son is kidnapped for ransom....
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Kei Matsumura
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1994
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A samurai and his companions become "ronin" (masterless samurai) when their master is forced to commit suicide after a failed...
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Iemon Tamiya
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1994
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Set in 11th-century China, Silk Road is the story of a young student named Zhao who is travelling with a caravan on "the...
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Zhao Xingde
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1992
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John Lone, the star of the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor (89), portrays a Chinese revolutionary in Shadow of China. Pursued...
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Akira
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1991
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Shuji is a good-looking lad, one of the up-and-coming assassins for the Daito mob of the yakuza, Japan's answer to the mafia....
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Yoshimasa
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1987
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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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Shunichi
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1986
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In a wholly serious, somber argument for euthanasia, director Yoshishige Yoshida focuses on a family with an aged and...
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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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1985
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Mitsuko (Setsuko Karasuma) is a woman who moves from one lover to the next -- some of whom get angry at her willingness to...
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Itaru
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1982
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1964
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