When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit...
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1981
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Just as many American studio-era directors found acclaim abroad that was denied them in their home country, by 1980...
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1980
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For a brief period during the 16th century, the Portuguese and Dutch were permitted influence in Japan, with the result that...
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Sen Rikyu
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1978
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This speculative drama's original name, Prophecies of Nostradamus is perhaps more descriptive of the subject. Set in the year...
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1975
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In this Japanese actioner, the brave blind swordsman Zatoichi runs across a childhood comrade who has grown up to be a cruel...
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1974
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In this Japanese sci-fi film based on the prophesies of the French seer Nostradamus, the story begins in 1999, the year the...
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1974
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This Japanese action movie is set in Kyoto during the 16th-century. At that time the town was in turmoil over a hefty food...
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1969
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Kakiemon/Tsunemon
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1967
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This star-studded and relatively lavishly produced fact-based war drama, set in 1945 Japan during WW II, chronicles the...
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1967
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1967
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In this Japanese melodrama a youthful physician is loved by his foster sister. Though she has felt this way for years, she...
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1966
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A ronin seeking to redeem his wandering status by gaining entry into one of the great houses takes part in a plot to...
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1965
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In 1820, young Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) completes his medical education in Nagasaki and returns to his native Edo hoping...
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1965
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Kwaidan is an impressively mounted anthology horror film based on four stories by Lafcadio Hearn, a Greek-born writer who...
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1964
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A true "monster rally," this Japanese special-effects smorgasbord stars no fewer than four "A"-list movie monstrosities. Once...
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1964
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Kesuke Sonoda
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1964
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This hilarious monster mess from the makers of the Godzilla series (including director Inoshiro Honda) essentially recruits...
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1964
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In this Japanese adventure, a brave sailor--called Sinbad in the English language version Americans could relate to...
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1963
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Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo,...
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1962
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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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1962
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Set in the mid-19th century when the disintegration of a rigid social structure was turning the once wealthy into paupers, or...
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Kurofuji
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1962
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Mothra was the third major addition to the Toho Studios' giant-monster stable after Godzilla and Rodan, and the first female...
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1961
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The attack on Pearl Harbor is presented from the Japanese point of view in this war drama. The story centers upon Natsuki,...
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1961
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Two war buddies help each other defend their businesses against gangsters in this crime drama. ~ Rovi...
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1961
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Mohei (Toshiro Mifune) is the samurai warrior who battles against the Portuguese arsenal of guns and cannons. With these...
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1961
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Toshiro Mifune portrays a Samurai who finds himself in the middle of a feud-torn Japanese village. Neither side is...
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1961
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In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old...
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1960
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Yasuzo Masumura's yakuza yarn begins with an assassination attempt on Takeo (played by novelist Yukio Mishima), a gangster...
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1960
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This well-wrought, visually stunning tale from Japanese mythology is directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and relates the adventures...
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Elder Kumaso
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1959
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1959
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1958
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This opulent Japanese swashbuckler stars Ryutaro Ohtomo as a naive young Japanese aristocrat. After being habitually taken...
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1958
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A timeless tale of honor and revenge, The Loyal 47 Ronin tells the true story of a loyal group of samurai who plot revenge...
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1958
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Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean...
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Noriyasu Odagura
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1957
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Most famous for his original Godzilla film in 1956, director Inoshiro Honda is primarily a screenwriter and quite seldom a...
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1957
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Samurai 3: Duel At Ganryu Island is the final movie in director Hiroshi Inagacki's trilogy following a samurai played by...
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1956
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Filmed in 1954 as Gojira, this grandaddy of all Japanese giant-reptile epics was picked up for American distribution two...
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Dr. Kyohei Yamane
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1956
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When an elderly, wealthy man decides that nuclear holocaust is eminent in his country, he decides to move his family to...
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1955
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Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. The film...
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Kambei, leader of samurai
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1954
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One of the longest-running series in film history began with Ishiro Honda's grim, black-and-white allegory for the...
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1954
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Life of Oharu features Kinuyo Tanaka in the title role. Oharu is a middle-aged prostitute in 17th century Japan. As she prays...
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1952
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Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru details the existential struggle of one ordinary man in his desperate search for purpose. Upon...
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Kanji Watanabe
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1952
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A former soldier is branded an idiot because of his epileptic seizures caused by wartime experiences. He shows unbridled...
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1951
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This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a...
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Woodcutter
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1951
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This light romance is about a love triangle among an unemployed dancer, a banker she tries to coax into marrying her, and an...
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1951
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In this action melodrama, a young doctor who runs a clinic in the Ginza district of Tokyo promises a local gangster to hide...
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1950
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Released in Japan as Shubun, Scandal was the eleventh film directed by Akira Kurosawa (it was produced just prior to his...
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Hiruta
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1950
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A dedicated army surgeon finds his once-bright future suddenly obscured when he contracts syphilis while performing a...
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Konosuie Fujisaki
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1949
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Akira Kurosawa directs the black-and-white 1949 film noir Nora Inu (released in the U.S. in 1963 as Stray Dog). In his third...
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Sato, the Head Detective
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1949
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Originally titled Yoidore tenshi, Drunken Angel was director Akira Kurosawa's first "auteur" project. "I finally discovered...
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1948
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1946
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Based on the Takikawa incident of 1933, in which a prominent professor was forced out of his position by the government for...
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1946
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Akira Kurosawa's Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail was put together at the last minute when Kurosawa's plan to direct a...
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1945
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Following up on his successful directorial debut, soon-to-be cinematic master Akira Kurosawa helms this war-era melodrama...
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1944
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This first effort by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was originally released as Sanshiro Sugata . The film, made under...
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1943
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1937
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