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Ikuei Sasaki
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2009
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A handful of journalists scramble when a big story literally crashes into their territory in this drama inspired by a true...
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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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2008
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Based on the popular manga, Eiga: Kurosagi stars Tomohisa Yamashita as Kurosaki, a con artist who only prays on other...
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2008
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With his enigmatic, cerebral drama Koorogi (aka Crickets), Japanese writer/director Shinji Aoyama pays openly declared homage...
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2006
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2005
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A murder investigation takes a number of unexpected and unsettling turns in this suspense thriller from Japan. Nango...
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Shoji Nango
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2003
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2002
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Hideyoshi
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2002
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2002
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A former mob boss' past returns to haunt him as he tries to walk the straight and narrow in director Takashi Miike's...
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2000
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Veteran director Shinji Somai lensed this heart-warming family drama about a shabby looking coot claiming to be the father of...
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Sassaichi
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1998
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Veteran director Juzo Itami who -- shot to fame with his sharply satirical Ososhiki and Tampopo -- turns to decidedly sweeter...
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1995
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Yojiro Takita directs this comedy-drama about a quartet of Japanese salarymen engaging in wacky hijinks in a squalid,...
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1993
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Acclaimed director and headmaster of the Sogestsu school of flower arranging Hiroshi Teshigahara helms this elegant...
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Hideyoshi Toyotomi
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1990
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The directorial debut of Juzo Itami, this irreverent black comedy satirizes death and burial customs in a surprising manner...
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Wabisuke Inoue
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1987
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The sophomore directorial effort from ill-fated Japanese filmmaker Juzo Itami, Tampopo is an off-beat comedy featuring...
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Goro
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1987
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The taxing woman of the title is Nobuko Miyamoto (the wife of director Juzo Itami), who works for the Japanese version of the...
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Hideki Gondo
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1987
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In a tale that is visually stunning in certain segments, director Shuji Terayama (who died before this movie was released)...
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Sutekichi
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1982
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Sachine (Atsuko Asano) is a young woman working in a bar who is caught between two lovers: one a jazzy biker and the other,...
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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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Nobukado Takeda
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1980
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Tora-san returns in this the sequel to Otokowa Tsuraiyo. Once again the film's gruff but kind-hearted protagonist ventures...
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1969
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A Japanese soldier Tsutomu Yamazki deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over in this...
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1967
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In this Japanese romance, a middle-aged divorcee eases her loneliness with a much-younger male prostitute and falls in love...
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Senkichi
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1966
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In this crime drama, Hong Kong morphine smugglers successfully ply their trade until an intrepid detective begins...
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Shirio Matsumoto
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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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Sahachi
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1965
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In this Japanese adventure, a man is kidnapped by the wealthy president of a wartime trading company. He is taken because he...
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1964
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Nobuko (Hideko Takamine) is a gentle Japanese woman who endures several ordeals during her adult life in this somber,...
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1963
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In this Japanese melodrama set in 1941, a baby girl is born blind just as her father is sent off to fight for his country....
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1962
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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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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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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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