Based on a true-life 18th century tale, this fantasy epic tells a dramatic tale of clan warfare and revenge surrounding a...
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2013
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Thor (Chris Hemsworth) returns to do battle with Malekith, the vengeful leader of a primordial race that seeks to destroy the...
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2013
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Milton Bradley's enduringly popular strategic board game makes the leap to the big screen in Hancock director Peter Berg's...
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Captain Yugi Nagata
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2012
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A pair of fearless speed demons compete in an intense underground auto race in which the only rule is to win at all costs,...
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2012
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Exiled to Earth after his arrogance fans the flames of an ancient conflict, The Mighty Thor (Chris Hemsworth) of Asgard...
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2011
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Otani
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2010
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Veteran Japanese filmmaker Yoji Yamada's 80th feature film concerns a mother living in 1940s-era Tokyo who is forced to care...
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Toru Yamasaki
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2009
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The word "eatrip" is actually an amalgam of "eating" and "trip"; the Japanese perceive existence itself as an "eating trip"...
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2009
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Based on the controversial writings of Russian historian Lev Gumilyov, director Sergei Bodrov's look at the early years in...
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Temudgin/Genghis Khan
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2008
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Filmmaker Katsuhito Ishii takes a break from the post-Tarantino excess of such highly-stylized outings as Shark Skin Man and...
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Ayano, the Uncle
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2007
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A damaged man experiences a series of odd coincidences that send his life careening down a path he never anticipated in...
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Kenji
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2007
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Director Hirokazu Koreeda turns the popularly held conventions of the typical samurai evenge tale on their head with this...
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2006
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Taste of Tea director Katsuhito Ishii collaborates with filmmakers Shinichiro Miki and Hajime Ishimine) for this outrageous...
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2006
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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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Directors Suguru Takeuchi, Akio Jissoji, Hisayasu Sato, and Atsushi Kaneko team to adapt four stories by acclaimed early-20th...
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2005
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A hit man takes a vacation and finds both danger and faulty workmanship follow him wherever he goes in this offbeat comedy...
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Kyoji
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2005
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2005
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San-chan
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2005
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2005
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Acclaimed Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa departs from the horror genre for this mystical story of urban ennui. Friends...
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Mamoru
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2004
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A story of two very different people coming together in the wake of personal tragedies, Last Life in the Universe stars...
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Kenji
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2004
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Beat Takeshi Kitano directs and plays the title role in this tribute to the wildly popular "blind swordsman" of Japanese...
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Gennosuke Hattori
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2004
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Director Gen Sekiguchi and screenwriter Taku Tada, phenomenally successful award winners in Japan's advertising industry,...
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2004
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Japanese body horror auteur Shinya Tsukamoto, still best known in the U.S. for Tetsuo, teams with hipster icon...
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Hiroshi Takagi
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2004
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A freelance writer living in Tokyo defies social taboo by choosing life as a single mother in director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's...
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Hajime
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2004
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Maverick auteur Takashi Miike spins this unsettling, blood-soaked yakuza yarn adapted from Hideo Yamamoto's cult manga...
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Kakihara
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2003
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2003
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Woman of Water is set in and around a public bathhouse in rural Japan run by Ryo (UA), whose name means "cool, clear water,"...
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Yusaku
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2002
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Four people whose lives are connected by a common tragedy discuss the paths their lives have taken in this drama from Japan....
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Koichi Sakata
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2001
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After a 13-year absence, partially due to a life-threatening stroke, master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima returns to the silver...
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Samurai Hyozo Tashiro
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2000
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Veteran filmmaker Shinji Somai spins this melodrama about an unlikely couple blithely courting their own destruction. Famed...
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2000
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Maverick Japanese director Sogo Ishii takes an unexpectedly conventional approach in this screen adaptation of a well-known...
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2000
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Okita Souji
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2000
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Based on the cult Garo comic by famed manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge, this film -- directed by veteran yakuza flick auteur...
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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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Director Macoto Tezka's harrowing drama is set in an alternate version of the 1990s in which World War II never ended and the...
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Izawa
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1999
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Drawing equally from Quentin Tarantino, Hong Kong action spectaculars, Japanese anime, and the over-the-top fashion...
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Samehada
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1998
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Asano
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1998
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1998
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Satoshi Isaka makes his directorial debut with this psychological thriller and expose on Japan's voracious media. Iwai (Akira...
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1997
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Veteran indie filmmaker Sogo Ishii spins this dream-like pulpy yarn about death and buses. Tomiko Tomonari (Rena Komine)...
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1997
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Gen-X auteur Shinji Aoyama directs this brooding gangster flick about alienation, sudden violence, and high school...
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Kenji
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1996
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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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Ikuo
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1995
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Director Shunji Iwai follows up on the wild success of his star-crossed romantic drama Love Letter with this slick, brooding...
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1994
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1993
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Hikaru is truly an odd duck. He completely expects a flood of the sort described in the Christian Bible to sweep everyone...
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1992
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