American fans of maverick Japanese director Takashi Miike may lament the fact that they have never had the privilege of...
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2005
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Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike directed this characteristically offbeat and hard-hitting crime drama. Seiji and Yoshifumi...
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2003
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2000
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1990
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In his current life, Okamoto (Tetsuro Tamba) didn't commit the murder he is sentenced to die for. However, in a previous life...
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Executive Producer, Tsuyoshi Okamoto
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1990
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This comedy satire is the sequel to the third biggest box office draw in Japan during the 1987 season. Ryoko (Nobuko...
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1989
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The boy who is the Shogun's Shadow, or heir, is in considerable danger. Personal bodyguard Igo Gyobu (Ken Igata), accompanied...
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Hotta Masamori
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1989
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A young New York City rock singer decides to try her hand at fame in Japan so makes the journey. Upon her arrival she meets...
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Dota
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1988
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A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa....
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1986
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This film chronicles the creation of the deadly Japanese fighter plane, the Mitsubishi Zero, that was used in the World War...
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1984
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Director Hideo Gosha goes behind the doors of one of Japan's most popular Geisha houses on a mission to demystify one of the...
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1983
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Set during World War II, the inhuman side of combat is again emphasized in this film that deals with navy officers and their...
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Jisaburo Osawa
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1982
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Thirteen months and ten million dollars were lavished upon this ten-hour, four-part TV miniseries about legendary...
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1982
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In this brutal Japanese melodrama, the gangster boss of the town of Shikoku had been in charge since 1921. Though he is...
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The Big Boss
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1982
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In this heroic portrait of Japanese soldiers during World War II, young men of all stripes (from a barber to a graduate of a...
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Hideki Tojo
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1982
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Yukai Hodo is a melodrama about a kidnapper spiriting away a young boy from his distraught, partially hysterical, tragically...
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1982
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1980
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The Bushido Blade is set in 19th century Japan, at the time of American Commodore Matthew Perry's opening up of the ancient...
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1980
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In Hideo Gosha's tale of organized crime in 18th-century Japan, a group of disenfranchised warriors decide to form an...
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1979
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Message from Space, a bargain-rack Japanese Star Wars clone, stars Vic Morrow as the token American. Responding to a plea for...
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1978
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You've seen him as the bone-cracking anti-hero of the Street Fighter films, now watch Sonny Chiba team with Japanese screen...
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1978
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This is a badly re-edited and "Americanized" version of a popular Japanese disaster movie, The Submersion of Japan (1973)....
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1975
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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 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-made film is basically a religious tract for the Nichiren Shoshu Association. The NSA is an atypically...
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1974
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This new entry in the popular Zero Woman film series, Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs, begins with Agent Zero being imprisoned...
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Nagumo
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1974
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1973
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The quest of a war-widow for the truth about her husband's death during World War II serves as the backbone for this film,...
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1972
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Based on the Chinese novel All Men Are Brothers, Seven Blows of the Dragon revolves around a series of violent martial arts...
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1972
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Wolves is set in Japan in the 1920s. The disintegration of the ancient samurai traditions is paralleled with the rise of the...
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1972
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Chinmoku or Silence is a story about the suppression of Christianity in Japan, as seen from the point of view of a fugitive...
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1971
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Samurai Assassin and Japan's Longest Day director Kihachi Okamoto offers a vivid dramatization of the bloodiest battle ever...
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1971
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Masahiro Shinoda directed this sexy, darkly humorous look at Tokyo's red-light Edo district in 1842, focusing on three...
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Soshun
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1970
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Samurai
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1970
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In this samurai movie, an evil warrior violates his samurai codes of ethics by stealing some gold to pay an unfair...
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Rokugo Tatewaki
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1969
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Tetsuro Tamba portrays Kotaro Takamura, one of Japan's most celebrated artists. A poet and sculptor, Takamura is married to...
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1968
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James Bond heads East to save the world (and to learn how to serve saki properly) in this action-packed espionage adventure....
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Tiger Tanaka
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1967
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Based on the popular novel by Eirijo Ariyoshi, this plodding drama tells the life story of a young bride from her wedding...
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1966
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One-eyed, one-armed ronin Samanosuke (Kinnosuke Nakamura) takes the name Tange Sazen after following a bitter betrayal, and...
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1966
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A seemingly simple assignment sends a warrior for hire into a labyrinth of danger and intrigue in this intelligent and...
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1965
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1964
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In this drama, William Holden plays Ferris, an American soldier who led troops in Malaya during World War II. After the end...
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Ng
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1964
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Gunjuro Ohba
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1964
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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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Michi
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1964
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An illegal duel leads to tragic results for an impoverished samurai in this Japanese classic from director Tadashi Imai...
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1964
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Tetsuro Tamba, Haruko Wanibuchi star in the Japanese One-Eyed Swordsman. The Samurai hero unfortunately pays no heed to the...
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1963
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This well-regarded Japanese drama follows an aging samurai as he attempts to regain his family's honor. In 17th century...
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Hikokuro Omodaka
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1963
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Diplomat's Mansion was originally released in Japan as Tokyo Yawa. The protagonist, played by Hiroshi Akutagawa, is an...
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1961
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Tetsu
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1961
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This combination romance and wartime drama by Etienne Perier was unusual at the time it was released because it portrayed...
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Jiro
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1960
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1952
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