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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2008
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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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Director and screenwriter Takeshi Kitano charts the strange career arc of a struggling artist in this offbeat comedy-drama....
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2008
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Chiaki Kuriyama (Kill Bill, Vol. 1) and prolific character actor Ren Osugi (Nightmare Detective) star in Suicide Club...
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Sound/Sound Designer
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2007
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A charismatic high school girl with a decidedly rainy day approach to friendship finds just how important connections can be...
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2007
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The echoes of a broken marriage return to haunt its survivors in The Dark Corners of the Shelves, Hajime Kadoi's sensitive...
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2007
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A socially-challenged otaku (Japanese slang for "geek") saves an attractive female from the unwanted advances of a lecherous...
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2006
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2005
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Veteran filmmaker Yoji Yamada -- who is perhaps most famous for cranking out most of the 48 films of the Tora-san series --...
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Toyotaro Koda
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2004
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2004
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A murder investigation takes a number of unexpected and unsettling turns in this suspense thriller from Japan. Nango...
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2003
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2002
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In Sabu's Drive, a group of bank robbers ends up in a panic when their driver, Mickey (Toshio Kakei), double-crosses them,...
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2002
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2001
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Japanese cult director Sabu spins this masterfully-constructed black comedy in which an ordinary salary man finds himself the...
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2000
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The fantastically prolific Takashi Miike directs this dizzyingly stylish thriller -- one of four in the year 2000 alone --...
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2000
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Yojiro Takita directs this witty, understated comedy about the clash between generations and the different facets of love....
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2000
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Based on the phenomenally popular horror manga by Junji Ito, Uzumaki is the debut feature of Japanese music video director...
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Toshio Saito
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2000
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Takashi Miike directs this made-for-television adaptation of a manga by Eiji Ootsuka. The story involves a homicide detective...
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2000
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Japanese horror auteur Takashi Miike directed this television miniseries which blends crime with terror. Kobayashi Yosuke...
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2000
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Brimming with elegance, this sophisticated romantic comedy of manners was directed by Kentaro Otani -- who spent five...
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Makkun Nakazaki
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1999
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Fresh off the international success of such Japanese supernatural flicks as Ring (1996) and Cure (1998) comes this bizarre...
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1999
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When oddball auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa received an eccentric offer to make two films in two weeks, on a low budget and using...
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1999
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Idiosyncratic auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa directed this bizarre allegorical tale about a tree named Charisma. Goro Yabuike...
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Satoshi Nakasone
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1999
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In this supernatural thriller from Japan, Hinako (Yui Natsukawa) is a young woman with a successful career as a fashion...
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1999
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Acclaimed Japanese filmmaker, comedian, television star, author, and all-around renaissance man Takeshi "Beat" Kitano stars...
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1998
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TV documentary and drama director Yoichero Takahashi made his theatrical feature-film directorial debut with this Japanese...
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1998
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Naoe Gozu made her feature directorial debut with this Japanese romantic triangle drama. Schoolteacher Rica (Tomoyo Harada)...
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Hanako's father
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1998
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Horibe
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1997
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Japanese documentarian Hirokazu Kore-eda made his first dramatic feature with this austere drama, which recalls the visual...
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1995
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Takeshi Kitano made an international name for himself for directing films of great emotional subtlety and technical...
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Head Yakuza #3
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1994
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Japanese horror icon Kiyoshi Kurosawa pays homage to the gruesome slasher flicks of the 1980s with the cutting tale of a...
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1992
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Bawdy but not explicit, this lusty Japanese farce tells the tale of teenage Shinohara who longs to join the well-muscled...
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1983
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