A simple Chinese immigrant wages a perilous war against one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the planet in this...
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Kitano
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2009
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2009
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This fantasy feature from Japan tells the story of Yohei, a blind man with a quiet obsession for finding the mythical land...
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Yohei
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2008
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A group of grotesque supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore enlist the aid of a young boy recently bestowed with the...
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2006
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Japan's renegade horror filmmaker Takashi Miike reveals a more subtle (but no less adventurous) side to his cinematic...
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2004
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Anime legend Mamoru Oshii wrote and directed this eagerly awaited sequel to his groundbreaking sci-fi drama...
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2004
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A group of scheming Japanese schoolgirls attempt to get out of summer math class by delivering bento boxes to the school's...
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Ozawa
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2004
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This erotic drama from director Masahiro Kobayashi was filmed almost entirely alongside the austere, snow-filled landscape of...
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2003
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Japanese filmmaker Satoshi Isaka directs the baseball comedy Mr. Rookie, adapted from the novel by Dankan. By day, family man...
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2002
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Ikuo Sekimoto's O-Yo is an erotically charged drama about artists and a model. Yumeji Takehisa (Naoto Takenaka) and Seiun Ito...
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2002
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One of an amazing seven features directed in 2001 by Japan's prolific shock auteur Takashi Miike, The Happiness of the...
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2001
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Can five teenage boys overcome clumsiness, inexperience, and the taunts of their classmates to become a champion team of...
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2001
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Character actor and occasional director Naoto Takenaka spins this farce on gender roles and contemporary mores. Thoughtful,...
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Director, Shotaro Sasaki
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2001
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Celebrated Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, at 88, was the world's second-oldest working director when he made this biopic...
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Taiji Tonoyama
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2000
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Takashi Ishii directs this jet-black erotic thriller about a woman's past coming back to haunt her. Chihiro (played by model...
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2000
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Veteran television director Ben Wada spins this bizarre romance of sorts based on a script written by acclaimed filmmaker...
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Iwazono
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1999
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Shinya Tsukamoto's latest work is a bit of a departure for the director of such over-the-top cult films as Tetsuo: Iron Man...
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1999
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Nostalgia deals with the home and school life of a young boy whose world is a mesh of the lovably comic and the brutally...
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1998
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Following up on his critically acclaimed 119, Naoto Takenaka directs this portrait of a very passionate, though strange...
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Director
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1997
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Get Carter meets Heidegger in this slick, two-fisted gangster epic brimming with furtive sex and shocking violence. The film...
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1995
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Tsuda (played by Shinya Tsukamoto) is a frustrated insurance salesman who lives a life of quiet desperation with his...
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1995
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Reminiscent of the Australian hit Strictly Ballroom (1992), this romantic comedy from Japan was a hit in its country of...
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Tomio Aoki
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1995
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Edogawa Rampo -- a pen name that is also a homonym in Japanese for Edgar Allen Poe -- amassed a major cult following after...
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Edogawa Rampo
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1994
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Continuing his penchant for directing films in the characteristically Japanese genre he virtually created, director...
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1992
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Wim Wenders' sprawling cyberpunk noir epic -- shot in no less than nine different countries -- is set in 1999 and stars...
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1991
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Best-known in the west for his scene-stealing performance as a obsessive cha-cha enthusiast in the 1996 hit film...
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Director, Sukezo Sukegawa
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1991
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Many may not be aware that during the 1930s a very covert civil war was going on in Japan and no government minister (and...
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Asaichi Isobe
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1989
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1989
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American parents would be glad if their children's desire to join rock and roll bands could have the kind of outcome the...
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1989
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