Like his previous drama Maborosi (1995), Hirokazu Kore-eda's After Life is a brilliant meditation on death and memory. The...
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1999
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Akira Kurosawa's swansong is a delicate, sentimental portrait of his long avowed hero, educator and literary figure Hyakken...
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Professor's Wife
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1993
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Veteran director Kei Kumai spins this tale about Toyoichi Otomo (Eiji Okuda) who suffers from psychological and spiritual...
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Isa Otomo
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1990
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1986
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In this Japanese film, the Shimoda police station gets a new judo instructor who soon finds himself in love with the...
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1969
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In this sequel to the Japanese epic, Secret Scrolls, Part 1 (1957), the Samurai wizard and his brother finally find one of...
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1968
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In this Japanese costumer set in the 17th century, three powerful families endeavor to keep three sacred scrolls from ever...
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Oki
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1968
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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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Mad Woman
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1965
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In this Japanese moral tale set in the 18th-century, a man becomes obsessed with winning the love a geisha girl. His...
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1964
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In this Japanese melodrama set in 1941, a baby girl is born blind just as her father is sent off to fight for his country....
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1962
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Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo,...
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Reiko, Gondo's Wife
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1962
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Mothra was the third major addition to the Toho Studios' giant-monster stable after Godzilla and Rodan, and the first female...
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1961
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Mohei (Toshiro Mifune) is the samurai warrior who battles against the Portuguese arsenal of guns and cannons. With these...
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Ai
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1961
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Rugged Japanese mountains provide the setting for this grim drama that begins as three young men embark upon a climb....
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1961
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In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old...
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1960
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This well-wrought, visually stunning tale from Japanese mythology is directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and relates the adventures...
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Princess Miyazu
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1959
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Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths from Imperial Russia to his...
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Okayo, her sister
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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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Set in Japan during the 17th century, this conventional costume drama tells of the persecution of Christian converts in the...
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Monica
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1956
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One of a series of Japanese films shown at Japan House in New York in 1981, the Dancer and the Warrior, filmed in 1956, is...
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1956
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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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Anju
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1954
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Osan
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1954
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As with much of director Yasujiro Ozu's work, a plot summary of this film does not do justice to the emotional power that...
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Kyoko
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1953
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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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Toshiko Fukuhara, Daughter
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1952
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