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7.2
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3.8
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/20/

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
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Hoopla
70
30
7.4
/556/
58
/9/
71
/17/
3.9
/1764/

Elegant Beast (1962)
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
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65
13
6.8
/432/
61
/5/
64
/14/
3.5
/336/

Lullaby to Kill (1977)
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is.
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Criterion Channel
68
13
7.0
/409/
58
/9/
75
/12/
3.6
/385/

The River Fuefuki (1960)
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
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69
12
7.3
/238/
57
/4/
74
/11/
3.7
/396/

A Geisha's Diary (1961)
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.
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64
12
6.7
/243/
60
/7/
68
/12/
3.4
/473/

The Sleeping Beast Within (1960)
A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama's Chinatown.
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57
12
6.2
/376/
53
/8/
53
/17/
3.2
/400/

Nishi Ginza Station (1958)
This short comedy concerns the extramarital affair of a drugstore owner. It is based on a popular song by the star of the film, Frank Nagai.
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10
/1/

Green Fruit (1964)
Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears
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10
/1/

That Wonderful Guy (1958)
Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.
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10
/1/

Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls (1954)
Bored Hatamoto movie #15
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10
/1/

Dawn of a Canvas (1961)
N/A
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10
/1/

Wild Ducks and Green Onions (1968)
The four-member con group, including the intellectual boss Nobukichi Ishiguro (Masayuki Mori), who is called an "aristocrat con man" for his elegant appearance; the amorous Kyuhei Maruki (Tadao Takashima); the inventive Yosuke Mori (Hideo Sunatsuka); and the amorous Mami (Mako Midori), set one bizarre trap after another in their quest for the perfect crime in this wry crime comedy.
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10
/1/

Wakai tsume ato (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

The juvenile (1955)
A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers
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6.0
/18/
10
/1/
60
/1/

When the Cookie Crumbles (1967)
Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.
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10
/1/

The Man of Victory (1967)
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10
/1/

Forever, My Love (1958)
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10
/1/

Kanshō fujin (1956)
Japanese drama film.
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10
/1/

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu (1965)
1965 Nikkatsu youth film.
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10
/1/

The Political Game (1989)
This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. Noritaka Sakamoto was in charge of photography, and Kentaro Haneda was in charge of music direction. It depicts how an honest candidate aiming for a clean election campaign gradually collapses in the face of various realities. Kiyokawa, the mayor of Higurashi City, died at his lover's house. Yoshihiko announces that he will conduct a clean election campaign, but his sponsors and backers are reluctant.
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?
10
/1/

Cell No. 8 (1956)
A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
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10
/1/

Kusa wo karu musume (1961)
1961 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

Aru kankei (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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6.8
/15/

The House of the Sleeping Virgins (1968)
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.
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7.1
/51/
10
/1/

Lost in the Wilderness (1986)
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1970, Uemura also accomplished several "firsts". He was the first man to reach the North Pole solo, climb Denali solo, and float down the Amazon river solo. In the film, Uemura returns to Tokyo after a stint in Siorapaluk in Northern Greenland. In Tokyo, he reconnects with an old friend and, over coffee, shares his life story - from his days as a college dropout to his successful expedition to the top of Everest.
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10
/1/

Streetlights (1957)
A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.
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6.7
/57/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Living by Karate (1961)
Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.
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10
/1/

Forbidden Lips (1958)
A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.
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7.2
/28/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Heat Wave Island (1969)
Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution, and murder in which many poor farmers had found themselves trapped after World War II.
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10
/1/

Night Guy (1968)
Tokyo at night. It has another face, different from the daytime. Gorgeous neon lights and dressed-up women decorate the city at night. And then, there are men who live off of these women. This movie depicts the conflict of sex and desire between a procurer, called a "night arranger," and women who live in the neon city seeking money and pleasure.
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7.6
/9/
10
/1/

Women and Miso Soup (1968)
Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother.
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10
/1/

The President's Son (1962)
N/A
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5.3
/14/
10
/1/

The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night (1960)
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
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5.6
/26/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Phoenix (1956)
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attracting a crowded audience.
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7.1
/37/
10
/1/
60
/5/

Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy (1972)
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.
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10
/1/

Sixteen years old (1960)
Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and lent it to her only Mikayo. Senko was somehow envious of her flashy life... In a tragedy with a girl living in the base as the main character, Katsumi Miki of "Life like a weed" adapted the original story of Muraji Uchiki and directed by Eisuke Takizawa of "Ajisai no Uta".
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6.8
/37/
10
/1/
47
/3/

Crossroad (1956)
Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt to perfect his crime, he drives to a remote quarry to bury his wife’s body, but along the way, he finds another dead body in the back of his car! Given no choice, Ise dumps both bodies. Meanwhile, Yoshie begins her search for her missing brother, Yoshihiko. After surprising twists and turns, Ise faces his fate.
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6.0
/27/
10
/1/
50
/4/

Time Within Memory (1973)
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother.
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6.5
/62/
10
/1/
50
/4/

The Scarlet Camellia (1964)
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
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10
/1/

At the End of the Clouds (1953)
A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.
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3.2
/6/
10
/1/

Kokoro no sanmyaku (1966)
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
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7.0
/9/
10
/1/

Kaei (1961)
N/A
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6.7
/17/
10
/1/

The Story of Jiro (1987)
Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.
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5.6
/6/
10
/2/

Knock Down (1960)
N/A
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10
/1/

Just for You (1970)
Yumi Ishikawa (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen and a popular geisha. Orphaned when a child, Yumi she was raised by Shizuko, the madame of a geisha house. Yumi is impulsive, out-going. And although she cannot claim to be good at Japanese dancing or playing musical instruments so necessary to a geisha, she is a whizz at go-go and will dance the hula at parties. But before becoming a full-fledged geisha, Yumi must go through the ceremony of the "mizuage", when a budding geisha surrenders her virginity to an experienced man who makes her a woman. Takida, a rich money-lender, is chosen for Yumi's mizuage but she offers herself first to Keiichi (Ryo Tamura), who she really loves although she knows that his world and hers are too far apart for a successful marriage.
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6.2
/7/
10
/1/

The Man Who Rode the Typhoon (1958)
This typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture at Hokkaido University, who takes on a conspiracy involving a mysterious accidental death at a construction site.
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5.6
/17/
10
/3/
75
/2/

Free and Easy 7 (1994)
Hama-chan and Su-san meet a charming woman on a fishing trip, but forget to ask her name. Days later, Hama-chan sees her again at a dentist's office.
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10
/1/

Onna no Naka no Kaze (1988)
N/A


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