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Kanopy
85
7.7
/8219/
78
/256/
75
/229/
4.3
/67200/
100
/22/
84
/49/

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware of another kind of history between them.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.6
/18450/
76
/660/
75
/402/
4.1
/72346/
100
/10/
86
/416/
80
/6/

Lady Snowblood (1973)
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
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Criterion Channel
84
81
8.5
/10886/
82
/306/
81
/273/
4.6
/37381/
73
/15/
95
/56/

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
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Criterion Channel
79
67
7.6
/2818/
67
/49/
69
/56/
4.0
/5196/
100
/7/
86
/54/

Double Suicide (1969)
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
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Criterion Channel
65
6.7
/778/
56
/13/
63
/53/
3.5
/1303/
84
/6/

A Taxing Woman's Return (1988)
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath.
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74
64
7.1
/3735/
70
/115/
70
/101/
3.9
/9616/
83
/101/

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
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Criterion Channel
79
62
7.5
/3762/
73
/97/
73
/106/
4.1
/14107/
86
/7/
85
/18/

Death by Hanging (1968)
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
poster
76
57
7.4
/2171/
72
/65/
72
/67/
3.8
/5561/
88
/34/

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
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Criterion Channel
78
51
7.5
/2140/
73
/46/
73
/66/
4.0
/3597/
91
/18/

Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.
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Criterion Channel
74
50
7.0
/1307/
60
/20/
61
/37/
3.7
/2443/
100
/10/
79
/17/

Violence at Noon (1966)
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
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Criterion Channel
73
49
7.3
/1416/
71
/49/
70
/36/
3.6
/1665/
83
/721/

Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968)
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
poster
74
47
7.2
/1085/
70
/22/
59
/28/
3.7
/2156/
95
/107/

Cops vs. Thugs (1975)
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kuno to help him hijack the deal. With relations between the rival gangs at breaking point, it's not long before all-out war breaks out as the gangsters, police and local politicians battle for control of the city.
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78
45
7.5
/1559/
73
/47/
73
/35/
4.0
/5454/
93
/12/

The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
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71
42
6.9
/1055/
70
/80/
65
/63/
3.5
/2484/
80
/2/
7.3
/6288/

Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus (1995)
A simple diamond heist leads Lupin into the machinations of a bizarre cult based around the prophecies of Nostradamus. They kidnap Julia, the daughter of Douglas, a wealthy American who is seeking the presidency, along with Lupin's diamond. At stake is the lost book of prophecy Douglas holds in the vault at the top of his skyscraper.
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Criterion Channel
61
38
6.1
/946/
61
/14/
45
/27/
3.4
/2731/
71
/79/

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
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Criterion Channel
74
38
7.4
/1284/
77
/31/
67
/22/
3.9
/3700/

Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992)
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.
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Criterion Channel
63
38
6.9
/1821/
60
/23/
56
/28/
3.6
/2211/
62
/20/

Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.
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Criterion Channel
73
38
7.2
/1440/
69
/22/
67
/40/
3.9
/2530/
79
/7/

The Ceremony (1971)
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
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Criterion Channel
67
37
6.9
/1439/
61
/31/
62
/34/
3.3
/1397/
78
/21/

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead.
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Criterion Channel
60
36
6.7
/974/
50
/16/
54
/21/
3.6
/1839/
61
/62/

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.
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Criterion Channel
67
34
6.9
/1085/
62
/17/
64
/28/
3.6
/1660/
60
/5/
78
/4/

The Sun's Burial (1960)
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.
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Hoopla
71
34
7.1
/1236/
60
/15/
70
/20/
3.6
/2104/
84
/12/

Tattooed Life (1965)
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.
poster
71
27
7.2
/704/
62
/15/
68
/24/
3.9
/1800/
80
/1/

Farewell to the Ark (1984)
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.
poster
65
26
6.6
/678/
58
/11/
66
/18/
3.5
/1426/

The Man Without a Map (1968)
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.
poster
76
26
7.3
/534/
60
/11/
68
/18/
4.0
/2228/
100
/1/

Silence Has No Wings (1966)
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
poster
60
25
6.1
/297/
57
/20/
66
/18/
3.1
/790/
5.6
/831/

The Monster Of Frankenstein (1981)
"Mary Shelley's bizarre creature comes to colorful life in this fabulous animated feature of the gruesome monster who tries to live in the human world. In an ill-fated attempt to harness the forces of nature, Dr. Frankenstein creates the FRANKENSTEIN monster. The gentle giant roams the countryside in search of a peaceful life, but is finally overcome with loneliness and despair as his fearsome visage strikes terror in the minds of young and old alike. A horrible monster, pitted against a prejudiced populace - this is the timeless horror and classic struggle of FRANKENSTEIN!" - US VHS Back Cover Write Up
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Criterion Channel
61
23
6.4
/762/
54
/12/
54
/17/
3.5
/1582/
63
/8/

Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.
poster
64
18
6.6
/525/
62
/14/
53
/8/
3.4
/346/
72
/24/

The Killing Machine (1975)
Mr. Soh, a righteous man with a cold stare and fists of steel, returns to a lawless post-war Japan in 1946. He protects the weak, defends the poor and knocks some good sense into friends and enemies alike. Rapists and gangsters get the worst of it, as Mr. Soh builds up his school on the island of Shikoku.
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65
17
6.9
/577/
58
/6/
66
/17/
3.5
/514/

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973)
Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a swank nightclub. Failing to kill him she ends up in prison, where she befriends a crew of other malcontents (including Yumiko Katayama and Chiyoko Kazama) and meets the Yakuza boss's girlfriend (Miki Sugimoto). Upon release Reiko reassembles her mob and launches a Machiavellian scheme to engineer a gang war between Hayama's Oba Industries and the formerly dominant Hamayasu Clan. The rival gangs begin killing each other off and Reiko works her way closer to her ultimate vengeance.
poster
65
16
6.8
/366/
61
/12/
63
/13/
3.5
/734/

The Catch (1961)
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'.
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Criterion Channel
66
14
6.6
/258/
64
/9/
65
/8/
3.6
/823/

Diary of Yunbogi (1965)
This ethereal montage of still images with darkly somber undertones, Yunbogi’s Diary is based on photographs that Oshima took during his two-month research trip to South Korea in 1965 during which he was haunted by his encounters with impoverished street children in Seoul. The voice-over comprises diary entries from a six-year-old Korean boy and Oshima’s own reflections on Japanese-Korean relations, a controversial subject that he revisited in his later films Sing a Song of Sex and Death by Hanging.
poster
69
14
7.0
/301/
67
/11/
67
/15/
3.5
/319/
71
/9/

Ohyaku: The Female Demon (1968)
Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment of government gold. When this plan goes wrong and Ohyaku ends up in prison, she resolves to do anything to escape and claim revenge on the ones who betrayed her and her lover.
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63
12
7.0
/297/
44
/7/
64
/16/
3.6
/343/

Captive's Island (1966)
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman
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Plex
55
11
6.1
/448/
54
/12/
58
/14/
3.3
/458/
40
/5/

Dragon Princess (1976)
A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He trains his daughter with the intention of her avenging not only himself but a murdered friend.
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?
10
/1/

Emergency Special! I saw a Paranormal Phenomenon!! (1992)
Horror TV-Special broadcast at the 21th August, 1992.
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?
10
/1/

A Diary of a Woman Doctor (1973)
1973 Toei movie.
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?
10
/1/

Story of Japanese Bad Men (1971)
Toei yakuza film.
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?
10
/1/

Punishment of a Lawless Villian (1964)
In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many obstacles. Adapted from Shugoro Yamamoto novel.
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?
10
/1/

Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 3 (1983)
After three consecutive days of heavy rain, the water level at Sumida River rises and the newly built Eitai Bridge collapses just two years after its completion. Among the 20 victims is Okou, the lover of Yokichi, a member of the theatrical entertainment district controlled by Samon Kamiyama. A body of a bridge carpenter is also found in the debris causing Samon to suspect the construction, which prompts him to launch an investigation. The superintendent, Horitome Tamba rules that the bridge collapse is due to a natural disaster and cleared the wrongdoing of master carpenter Jinbe, who was responsible for building the bridge. Yotaro, who is filled with grief and anger surrenders his jitte and joins forces with his former gambling buddies Juzaburo and Onami to abduct Tamb’s Daughter O-Sono to extract revenge…
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?
10
/1/

Break Town Story (1985)
Japanese drama film.
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?
10
/1/

The Cross of Vengeance (1969)
Film with Junko Miyazono.
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?
10
/1/

Downtown Blues (1968)
The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
poster
?
6.5
/10/
30
/2/
60
/1/

Seven Gamblers (1966)
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.
poster
?
6.2
/32/
10
/1/
60
/1/

New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2 (1969)
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the dock operator.
poster
?
6.4
/10/
10
/1/

A Young Man's Stronghold (1970)
A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.
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?
5.4
/12/
46
/3/

Serial Killer: Coldblooded (1984)
Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.
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?
7.4
/7/
10
/1/

Lullaby for a Tough Guy (1972)
A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.
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?
10
/1/
60
/1/

"Guys Who Never Learn" Part 2 (1987)
Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".


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