Is bad love better than no love at all? A woman finds herself pondering that question in this dark comedy from filmmaker...
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2008
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When an ambitious underworld thug proves incapable of tracking down a hit-man for his powerful boss as promised, he...
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2008
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Abandoned by her boyfriend after following him to Tokyo, an American slacker adrift in a foreign culture witnesses the...
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Maezumi
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2008
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald director Koki Mitani continues to hone his screwball skills with this crowd-pleasing comedy about...
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2006
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Kuroi
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1994
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Set in 11th-century China, Silk Road is the story of a young student named Zhao who is travelling with a caravan on "the...
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Zhu Wangli
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1992
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This crime and adventure drama was clearly made for local Japanese consumption, because its Japanese hero faces as dastardly...
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Huang Fung Foo
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1992
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Junya Sato directs this historical epic about an Japanese sailor shipwrecked in Russia. Set during the Edo period (1600-1868,...
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1992
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In this good-natured comedy, Densuke (Toshiyuki Nishidin), the clerk to a Japanese construction company living in southern...
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Densuke
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1989
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Mountain-climbers may be the most appreciative audience for this long (2 1/2 hour) film by Junya Sato on Japanese sportsman...
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Naomi Uemura
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1986
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A Japanese science teacher (Kenji Sawada) creates a homemade atomic bomb, and threatens to use it unless his strange demands...
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1980
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