This Japanese-made film is basically a religious tract for the Nichiren Shoshu Association. The NSA is an atypically...
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1974
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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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Yoshiko
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1969
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This Japanese costume drama is set within a ruined Buddhist temple. A thief is living there with a domineering partner. His...
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1969
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In this Japanese drama, two childhood friends meet and reminisce about their youth. The man and woman had been great friends...
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1968
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In this dark Japanese drama, a young married man accidentally kills his lover during a passionate moment. Compounding...
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1967
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In this epic Japanese samurai adventure, a bloodthirsty young fighter (Tatsuya Nakadai) kills a man in competition and is...
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Ohama
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1967
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When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon...
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1967
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This star-studded and relatively lavishly produced fact-based war drama, set in 1945 Japan during WW II, chronicles the...
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1967
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In this martial arts film, a Japanese Samurai warrior returns to his home village after being gone for two years. He is...
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1966
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A ronin seeking to redeem his wandering status by gaining entry into one of the great houses takes part in a plot to...
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Okiko Kukuhime
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1965
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1965
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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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First Wife
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1964
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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 drama, a business executive begins a harmless flirtation with his deceased friend's younger sister. His...
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Misako
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1963
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This sweeping historical epic has sometimes been labelled the Gone with the Wind of Japan; at any rate, it's almost the same...
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1962
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Michiko
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1961
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The highly accomplished Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu demonstrates his stylistic touch for deceptive simplicity, rapier wit,...
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Fumiko
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1961
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In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets...
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1961
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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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Machiko
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1960
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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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Machiko
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1958
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The Japanese The Man Called Demon illustrates explicitly the corrupting influence of money and power. The "hero" is a poor...
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1957
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1955
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