It's the year 2025, and the post-apocalyptic landscape has humanity searching for a strong hero - and they find it in the...
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2010
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Private school drop-out Hiroshi gets caught up in a bloody battle between two rival street gangs after enrolling in a public...
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2009
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Based on the popular manga, Eiga: Kurosagi stars Tomohisa Yamashita as Kurosaki, a con artist who only prays on other...
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2008
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A nebbish father and schoolteacher finds the courage to face both his personal issues and a horde of invading aliens after...
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Shinichi/Zebraman
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2007
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Cult Japanese director Takashi Miike draws inspiration from the popular Playstation 2 title Yakuza for this unhinged tale of...
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2007
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As one of the most cutting-edge Japanese filmmakers, Kiyoshi Kurosawa once again wraps a lowbrow, much-maligned genre -- in...
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2005
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Two dim-witted garage employees do battle with the legions of the undead after a massive trash dump in Tokyo starts spawning...
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2005
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Ozaki
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2003
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Despite being diagnosed with a terminal brain-tumor, a young musician determines to live life to its absolute fullest during...
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2003
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2002
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Prolific cult director Takashi Miike adapts Yuji Aoki's popular comic book into this black comedy about the life of a humble...
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2002
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Noboru Ando is a cinematic icon in Japanese film -- a real-life crime boss who became a wildly popular star of yakuza flicks....
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2002
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Mizuki
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2000
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Two old friends on opposite sides of the law are brought together under dangerous circumstances in a taut gangland drama from...
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2000
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Takashi Miike takes a dime-a-dozen yakuza script and turns it inside out in this high-octane surrealist crime action...
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Detective Jojima
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2000
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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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Niijima
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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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Niijima
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1999
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Veteran filmmaker and perennial iconoclast Shohei Imamura directs this darkly comic tale about love, redemption, and a man's...
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1998
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1998
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Veteran actor Yoshio Harada stars as world-weary gangster Noriyasu Kunihiro in this shaded character study by way of a...
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1997
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