Sixteen years after abandoning the 47 Ronin on the eve of their crucial mission, Senoo Magozaemon (Koji Yakusho) finds his...
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2010
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1994
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The island of Hokkaido, in Japan, is located near the Arctic Circle and is famous for its cold, snowy winters. In this...
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Hachizo
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1992
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Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he...
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Eiji Kawano
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1991
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1990
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Kazuo Kuroki's Ronin-Gai transpires during the final years of the time when samurais figured prominently in Japanese society....
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1990
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The demands of his scientific work require Kazuya to live most of the time at his laboratory, visiting home only...
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Kazuya
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1987
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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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1985
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There is mayhem at every turn in this unevenly scripted melodrama that highlights the violent activities of truck driver Koji...
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1983
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A group of old men take over an empty house and proclaim it to be a new "country" they have founded, called Yama. ("Yamato"...
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1982
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1982
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The antics and adventures of Waka Daisho (Yuzo Kayama) and Ao Daisho (Kunio Tanaka) started out in a series of 17 movies made...
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Shinjiro Ishiyama
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1981
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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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1981
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Kosuke Kindaichi is a popular detective found in Seishi Yokomizo's novels, and this is one of several movies that have been...
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Deective Todoroki
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1980
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1976
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Japan's most famous animated anti-hero comes to life in director Takashi Tsuboshima's live action adaptation of Japanese...
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1974
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Wolves is set in Japan in the 1920s. The disintegration of the ancient samurai traditions is paralleled with the rise of the...
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1972
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This fascinating Japanese drama takes an objective look at the relationship between American GIs and deserters in Japan...
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1972
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This Japanese allegory comments upon societal values in modern urban Asia. It begins as a small boy catches a rare butterfly...
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1971
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In this adventure, set in Japan, a Shogun warrior sets off to save the daughter of a Russian count. She is being held...
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1970
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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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When 4 boys and their sister are orphaned, they work hard to care for each other and grow up in this Japanese drama. ~ Rovi...
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1970
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In this samurai movie, an evil warrior violates his samurai codes of ethics by stealing some gold to pay an unfair...
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1969
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In this Japanese drama, recent university graduate Young Guy makes a bad impression when he is late on his very first day at...
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1969
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In this sequel to Young Guy Graduates, Young Guy has become a sales engineer for a Japanese auto company and lives in...
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1969
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In this Japanese melodrama, a youthful truck driver does all he can to keep away from hospitals and physicians. Then he...
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1967
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1967
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In this Japanese WW II drama set in northern China near the war's end, a youthful officer disregards advice and launches an...
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1963
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Mysterious goings-on twist and turn this effective but slightly uneven drama of murder and intrigue into a Gordian knot,...
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Murderer
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1962
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Set in the mid-19th century when the disintegration of a rigid social structure was turning the once wealthy into paupers, or...
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1962
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The second of Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi's Human Condition trilogy was titled The Road to Eternity (originally Zoku...
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1960
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The epidemic of juvenile delinquency in the mean streets of a Tokyo slum is depicted in this sordid story of sex and...
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1960
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