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2011
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An offbeat school project teaches a handful of children some unexpected lessons in this comedy-drama from director Tetsu...
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2008
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A fierce woman warrior joins a wandering demon hunter on his quest to recover the missing body parts and regain his natural...
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2007
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald director Koki Mitani continues to hone his screwball skills with this crowd-pleasing comedy about...
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2006
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A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan...
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2005
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Hisako Matsui follows up on her 1997 opus Yukie -- about an elderly Japanese woman living in America stricken with...
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2002
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This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka (Japanese teen idol Rene Tanaka) has gotten dumped by...
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2000
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Shortly before his death in 1998, Akira Kurosawa completed a screenplay entitled Ame Agaru, based on a short story by...
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Okin
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1999
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Yoichi Higashi directs this blissful look at the magic and terror of childhood. Based on the autobiography of Seizo Tashima...
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1996
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Makoto Wada directs this Twilight Zone-like portmanteau film about the grotesque, the bizarre, and the just plain weird. The...
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1994
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Following up on his critically acclaimed, blood-splattered epic Ran, master director Akira Kurosawa looks inward with this...
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The Snow Fairy [The Blizzard]
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1990
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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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Terue Otomo
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1990
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This drama is based on the experiences of celebrated novelist Kazuo Dan. Kazuo Katsura (Ken Ogata) is a writer, with a wife...
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Keiko Yajima
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1986
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Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an...
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Lady Kaede
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1985
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Akiko
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1983
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The tensions that develop when someone must conceal a truth from a dear friend or relative is the focus of this drama about a...
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Young Wife
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1983
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The story of a young woman in the early 1900s who is abused and living in poverty while being overworked in a silk mill in...
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1979
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1979
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