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Director
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2003
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This satirical spin on the ninja genre from veteran director Masahiro Shinoda opens in 1581 with the invasion of Iga, a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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2000
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Continuing the Setouchi trilogy -- which began with 1984's MacArthur's Children -- this film looks at Japan just after World...
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Director
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1997
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The ukiyo-e (woodblock print) artist Sharaku is an enigmatic puzzle in the world of Japanese art. Working at an age when such...
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Director, Editor
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1995
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This documentary profiles the creative aspects of innovative Japanese film music composer Toru Takemitsu. Takemitsu has been...
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Interviewee
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1994
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Director
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1991
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Takeshi (Yuji Horioka) is the son of a fisherman, and is the undisputed king of his grammar school class. Despite his great...
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Director
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1990
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After Commodore Perry forcibly opened Japan to trade in 1853, the Japanese responded as if they had been waiting for this...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1990
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This drama of love and tragedy is based on a story by the early 18th-century writer Chikamatsu Monzaemon and hinges on an...
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Director
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1986
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The title of MacArthur's Children refers to the generation growing up in Japan since the end of World War II. A tiny Japanese...
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Director
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1984
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Director
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1981
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In the 1930s, a schoolteacher named Gakuen (Tsutomo Yamazaki), while searching for his missing friend Akira (Go Kato), comes...
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Director
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1980
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This unsentimental Japanese tragedy chronicles the lonely life and quiet death of a blind Geisha girl whose desire for...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1978
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Director, Screenwriter
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1975
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Using modern scientific biases to strip away the mystery behind ancient legends is an activity not confined to Europe or the...
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Director
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1974
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Director
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1973
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This well-received Japanese documentary covers the 11th Winter Olympics held in Sapporo Japan in February of 1972. The film...
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Director
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1972
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Chinmoku or Silence is a story about the suppression of Christianity in Japan, as seen from the point of view of a fugitive...
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Director
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1971
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Masahiro Shinoda directed this sexy, darkly humorous look at Tokyo's red-light Edo district in 1842, focusing on three...
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Director
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1970
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A masterpiece of Japanese New Wave cinema, renowned filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda directs this brilliant modernist reworking of...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1969
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A Japanese soldier Tsutomu Yamazki deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over in this...
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Director
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1967
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A young man returns to the island where he was held prisoner as a child in this action thriller from Japanese director...
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Director
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1966
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A seemingly simple assignment sends a warrior for hire into a labyrinth of danger and intrigue in this intelligent and...
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Director
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1965
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Director
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1965
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Director
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1964
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Masahiro Shinoda's brilliant film opens with mobster Murakami just getting released from prison for murdering a member of a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1963
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1962
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Director
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1962
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Director, Screenwriter
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1962
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Director
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1961
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Director
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1961
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Director, Screenwriter
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1961
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In this Japanese drama, Mikami, a radical student, idolizes several of Western civilization's most nefarious modern...
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Director
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1960
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Director
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1960
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