Produced to commemorate the release of acclaimed Japanese director Kon Ichikawa's 2006 mystery Inukamike no Ichizoku, All...
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2006
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Eleven Japanese filmmakers (including one duo) from all genres and backgrounds gather together under the Nikkatsu banner in...
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2006
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Precisely thirty-years after first bringing star detective Kosuke Kindaichi to the screen in The Inugami Family, acclaimed...
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2006
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Akira Kurosawa was arguably the most important Japanese filmmaker who ever lived; he was certainly among the most revered and...
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2001
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2001
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As the Japanese studios were declining in 1969, four legendary directors from that country's "golden age" of cinema --...
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2000
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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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1994
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Plans have long been set to enable Seishiro to marry the daughter of the castle warden. He is from too humble a background...
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1993
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In this at times comic detective thriller, the head of a lineage of Noh performers is about to step down, and someone cares...
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1991
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Princess From the Moon (Taketori Monogatari) is based on an ancient Japanese legend. Toshiro Mifune plays a 9th century...
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1987
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The Japanese actress and film director Kinuyo Tanaka had a career as significant to that country's movie industry as...
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1987
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1986
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1985
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1984
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The Makioka Sisters will probably best be appreciated by those with an intimate knowledge of 20th century Japanese culture....
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Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter
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1983
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Based on a novel, Lady, Lady, I Did It by Ed McBain, this story begins with three people murdered by a gunman while in a...
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1982
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1982
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1979
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The battle for good and against evil never ends in this long series of episodes about attempts to capture the phoenix, a...
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1978
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In order to solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country...
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1978
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1977
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1977
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1976
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1976
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Kushami (Tatsuya Nakadai) is a teacher given to flights of philosophy as he mulls over life and its meanings, unaware that...
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1975
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This documentary of the 1972 Summer Olympics, held in Munich, is remarkable for bringing eight of the world's most notable...
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1973
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Japanese society's labyrinthine complexity offers yet another surprise in Matatabi, a film that follows the adventures of a...
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1973
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Director Kon Ichikawa (b. 1915) has been responsible for some extraordinary Japanese statements about our common humanity and...
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1972
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Dodes'ka-Den (aka Dodesukaden) was Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's first project since Red Beard (1965), and his first...
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1970
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1970
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1969
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1968
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Noted director Kon Ichikawa combines animation with live action scenes in this spy comedy starring the beloved Italian mouse...
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1967
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The 18th Olympiad was the first Games event held in Asia; Tokyo had been scheduled to host in 1940, but that Olympiad was...
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1965
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In this Yakuza spoof, Hapyaku (Shintaru Katsu), a put-upon taxi driver, wrecks his cab chasing down a hit-and-run driver and...
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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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The world is seen through the eyes of a two year old Japanese child in this feature entered in the San Francisco Film...
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1962
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In this fascinating Japanese social drama, a school teacher tries to hide the fact that he belongs to the outcast class....
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1962
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This comedy of revenge relates the comeuppance of a television producer whose philandering ways come back to haunt him in a...
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1961
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Although shown at Japan House in 1981, Bonchi was first released in Japan in 1960 as an attack, with and without humor, on...
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1960
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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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1960
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1960
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Several cinematic variations on Junichiro Tanizaki's novel about jealousy, voyeurism, and sexual arousal began with this...
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1959
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1959
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1959
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Kon Ichikawa's adaptation of Shohei Ooka's novel Nobi takes place in the Philippines at the end of World War II. The Japanese...
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1959
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This docudrama by Kon Ichikawa is based on a real-life incident that took place in 1950. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion...
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1958
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1957
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A Full-Up Train follows a young "salary man" as he struggles to adjust to Japan's hectic postwar economy while his personal...
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1957
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1957
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1956
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Set against the final days of World War II, The Burmese Harp portrays the experiences of a group of exhausted, war-scarred...
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1956
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Based on a popular "sun tribe" novel, Punishment Room hues close to the genre's traits in depicting the violent and sexually...
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1956
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1955
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1955
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In this fast-paced satire by master Kon Ichikawa, various comtemporary stereotypes descend on a hapless new income tax...
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1954
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1954
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1954
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1953
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1953
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This biting comedy established Kon Ichikawa as one of Japan's premier post-war satirists. It centers on a luckless teacher...
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1953
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1953
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1952
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This romantic drama set in wartime Java depicts a doomed love story between a Japanese army deserter and a Javanese villager....
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1951
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1951
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The day before her wedding, a young woman goes out one last time with an old boyfriend. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi...
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1951
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In this melodrama, an ailing former army doctor discovers that the girl he loves is selling her body in Tokyo's post-war...
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1951
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1951
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This light romance is about a love triangle among an unemployed dancer, a banker she tries to coax into marrying her, and an...
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1951
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In this action film, a man steals a million yen and flees to Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, with a bar girl. ~...
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1950
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This documentary-style police drama depicts life in the back alleys of Tokyo's Shimbashi district. The film's camera work...
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1950
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In this action melodrama, a young doctor who runs a clinic in the Ginza district of Tokyo promises a local gangster to hide...
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1950
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This early lost Kon Ichikawa film marks the first time that he and noted scenarist Natto Wada worked together. The film is...
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1949
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In this melodrama, a composer discovers that his wife is married to another man. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi...
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1949
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1948
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This melodrama is about a girl from Osaka and a girl from Tokyo who are in love with the same boy. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi...
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1948
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This first film of Japanese master director Kon Ichikawa is a ghost story performed by puppets. Unfortunately, this work was...
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1946
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