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Kato
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2011
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Two men form an unlikely bond during a long walk through a big city in this independent drama from Japan. Fumiya Takemura...
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Fukuhara
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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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Nobuo, the Father
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2007
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Director and screenwriter Takashi Yamazaki returns to the nostalgic world of Tokyo in the Fifties in this sequel to his...
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2007
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The new kid in town finds his new friends might know something his father doesn't in this playful comedy from Japanese...
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2007
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Director/screenwriter Yoji Yamada (The Twilight Samurai) teams with emerging filmmaking talent Kyoshi Sasabe (Half a...
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2006
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When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case...
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2006
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Nobuhiko Obayashi's Nagori Yuki (The Last Snow) is based on a popular song. Yusaku (Tomokazu Miura) is a middle-aged man...
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2002
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The give and take between the members of a string quartet becomes a metaphor for human relationships in this drama. First...
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2001
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2001
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The second film by Nobuhiro Suwa further explores the improvisational style that he developed in his highly praised debut,...
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Screenwriter, Tetsuro
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1999
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In 1964, an outbreak of the so-called "German" measles in Okinawa struck a U.S. military base and swiftly spread to the...
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1991
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Many may not be aware that during the 1930s a very covert civil war was going on in Japan and no government minister (and...
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Capt. Ando
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1989
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1985
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Director Koji Hashimoto calls the shots for this ambitious Japanese sci-fi epic concerning the colonization of Earth's...
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Dr. Eiji Honda
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1984
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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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Goichi Odajima
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1982
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In 1954, Go Akuzu (Ken Takakura) travels to the Tsuruga Straits that separate Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido from...
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Senta Naruse
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1982
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Pathos and irony nuance this drama by director Tatsumi Kamishiro about the relationship between a young man and an adoptive...
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Akira Tagawa
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1980
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Den Yamanobe
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1980
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Keiichi Abe
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1979
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A cameraman and a cop agree to help a woman who believes her missing father is in danger in this routine adventure story....
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1979
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This romantic melodrama tells the story of the blind daughter of a wealthy pharmacist (Momoe Yamaguchi), in mid-19th-century...
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1977
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