As the Japanese studios were declining in 1969, four legendary directors from that country's "golden age" of cinema --...
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Screenwriter
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2000
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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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1994
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Set in the late 19th century, a shipwrecked trio of African-American Dixieland jazz musicians find themselves in war-torn...
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Producer
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1987
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One of the major documentaries on a specific chapter in modern Japanese history, this look at the trial of Japanese...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1985
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This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames...
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Director
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1985
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Glowing Autumn starts out like a dark-hued Rembrandt, loses some focus like an Impressionist painting by Monet, and finally...
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Director
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1981
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This drama is adapted from a Japanese television mini-series. In the story, an industrialist learns of a medical condition...
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Director
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1975
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This black-and-white crime drama takes place in a remote rural inn located on an island in a river. It is the headquarters...
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Director
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1971
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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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Producer
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1970
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Zensaku (Makoto Fujita) is middle-aged patent consultant and inventor, living a sedate life as a married father of two grown...
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Director
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1969
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A father and son prepare to die for their beliefs in this historical drama set in 18th century Japan. While Isaburo Sasahara...
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Director
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1967
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Kwaidan is an impressively mounted anthology horror film based on four stories by Lafcadio Hearn, a Greek-born writer who...
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Director
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1964
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This well-regarded Japanese drama follows an aging samurai as he attempts to regain his family's honor. In 17th century...
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Director
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1963
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Director Masaki Kobayashi uses the sharpest-edged knife in this cutting indictment of selfishness, greed, and the competition...
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Director
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1962
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1961
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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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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1960
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Director, Screenwriter
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1958
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Director
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1957
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Director
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1956
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Director
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1956
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Director
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1955
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Director
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1954
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Director, Screenwriter
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1954
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Director
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1953
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Director
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1953
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Having lost her husband in the war, Haruko Inoue (wonderfully played by Yuko Mochizuki) struggles to raise her children....
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First Assistant Director
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1953
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Director
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1952
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First Assistant Director
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1952
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As in most of his films, noted Japanese director Keisuke Kinoshita also wrote the screenplay for this humorous-serious story...
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First Assistant Director
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1951
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First Assistant Director
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1949
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First Assistant Director
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1949
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First Assistant Director, Screenwriter
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1949
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First Assistant Director
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1948
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First Assistant Director
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1948
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First Assistant Director
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1948
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First Assistant Director
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1947
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