The oft-filmed life story of Sada Abe -- a courtesan who killed her lover during lovemaking and then cut off her favorite...
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Takuzo
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1998
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The title refers to the radioactive fallout which descended upon ruined city of Hiroshima after the dropping of the first...
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Kotaro
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1989
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The award-winning director of such esteemed films as Black Rain and The Ballad of Narayama has chosen here to tell the...
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Tomenaga (Bizenya)
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1987
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Himatsuri is based on a real life tragedy, in which a Japanese man inexplicably slaughtered his family and then killed...
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Yamakawa
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1985
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In this second, award-winning interpretation of a novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, director Shohei Imamura has inserted some...
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1983
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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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1980
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This Japanese biopic chronicles reminiscences of renowned poet Hideo Yoshino as he speaks to the young Swedish student who...
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1970
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In this Japanese crime drama, members of two rival gangs fight to gain control of a northern town by the sea. It does not...
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1970
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1965
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This Japanese comedy is about a hobo who has saved a great deal of money over the years, keeping it taped to his side. After...
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Takeo
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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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