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Kanopy
92
8.6
/397555/
84
/5714/
84
/4061/
4.6
/383477/
100
/103/
97
/6724/
98
/7/
cc age 13+

Seven Samurai (1954)
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
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Kanopy
90
8.3
/100530/
82
/1682/
83
/1263/
4.5
/171593/
98
/57/
96
/1465/
92
/20/
cc age 11+

Ikiru (1952)
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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Criterion Channel
64
60
6.2
/6596/
62
/226/
65
/180/
3.2
/13592/
75
/12/
56
/147/

Rodan (1956)
Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.
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Criterion Channel
56
40
5.8
/1742/
57
/76/
66
/54/
2.9
/3435/
44
/33/

Atragon (1963)
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World War II Captain has created the greatest warship ever seen, and possibly the surface world's only defense.
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53
25
5.7
/996/
55
/36/
64
/25/
2.9
/1689/
32
/10/

Gorath (1962)
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
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69
13
7.0
/416/
66
/3/
70
/7/
3.5
/704/

Hideko the Bus Conductress (1941)
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake.
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4.8
/8/

Nippon ichi no yakuza otoko (1970)
The eighth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.
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6.9
/16/
10
/1/

Ôban (1957)
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
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6.7
/32/
60
/2/

Brother and Sister (1936)
Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a student, Obata whereas her sister San remains a “good girl.” The mother is very supportive of her daughters, but, the father, Akaza, who is the stonecutter foreman on the damn, lacks control of his family.
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4.9
/23/
50
/1/

Shanghai Landing Party (1939)
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan's military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.
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10
/1/

Chihō kisha (1962)
N/A
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6.0
/11/
40
/1/

Song of the White Orchid (1939)
Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the Kazuo Hasegawa/Shirley Yamaguchi (Ri Koran) “Continental Trilogy.” Handsome Hasegawa (representing Japan) runs up against an impertinent Yamaguchi (representing the continent); not surprisingly, in the course of the film the woman comes around and realizes the benevolent intentions of the Japanese. In Song of the White Orchid Yamaguchi leaves Hasegawa, who plays an expatriate working for the railway, because of a misunderstanding. She joins a communist guerilla group plotting to blow up the Manchurian railway. Learning of the subterfuge that led to the misunderstanding, she renews her faith in Hasegawa—and by extension Japan—and tries to undermine the plot.
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7.0
/22/
10
/1/

Judge and Jeopardy (1968)
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a suspect to death during the Pacific War.
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5.8
/13/

Nightingale (1938)
An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.
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7.3
/100/
50
/2/
70
/3/

Tokyo Sweetheart (1952)
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
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7.4
/69/
10
/1/
100
/1/

I Want to Be a Shellfish (1959)
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.
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6.7
/27/
10
/1/
54
/5/

Duel at Fort Ezo (1970)
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.
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7.5
/12/
10
/1/

People of Tokyo, Goodbye (1956)
N/A
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6.4
/16/
60
/1/

The Giant (1938)
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be found by a monk. The criminal decides to turn a new leaf based on their conversation and goes on to become a town's mayor. He hears news of a mistaken arrest and identity. The revelation of truth is the start of a series of miseries.
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61
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7.0
/230/
40
/4/
63
/9/
3.6
/222/

Till We Meet Again (1950)
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
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65
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6.9
/239/
60
/3/
61
/7/
3.5
/311/

Travelling Actors (1940)
This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
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6.8
/20/

World of Love (1943)
A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for themselves, and are taught language, music, and sewing. While there the young girl slowly begins to form friendships and come out of her shell.
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5.3
/7/

Life Begins at 61 (1941)
Japanese war-era film
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57
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6.7
/160/
41
/5/
65
/8/

Rise Against the Sword (1966)
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.
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7.5
/36/
50
/2/
70
/2/

The Blossom and the Sword (1973)
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.
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7.0
/9/
10
/1/

Forbidden Path (1952)
MAZAKI Shintaro is a teacher at a mission school, in a relationship with the English teacher Sumi HASHIMOTO. Young, single and handsome MAZAKI is popular among the women, One day, after reading somethiing unusual in the essay of a third...v
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67
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6.8
/150/
50
/3/
76
/9/

The Eagle of the Pacific (1953)
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
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60
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5.9
/189/
51
/5/
64
/7/
3.3
/266/

Invisible Man (1954)
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
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Elephant from "Zoo Story" (1957)
The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of "Zoo Story" by author Fukuda Saburo. During the Tokyo air raids of World War II, Zen-san, an elephant keeper at Ueno Zoo, is faced with the heartbreaking task of euthanizing Tonki, a beloved elephant, due to food shortages and wartime pressures. Unable to carry out the order, Zen-san secretly feeds Tonki, but the elephant is ultimately shot by the military police. The film poignantly captures Zen-san’s despair and the devastation of war, as he reflects on his powerlessness amid the chaos.
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Who's The Informant? (1958)
Keiichi, a man on the run after being implicated in a detective’s death, struggles to evade the police. As the investigation intensifies, Keiichi’s personal life unravels, revealing complex relationships with his family and mistresses. Meanwhile, the police, reporters, and those close to Keiichi desperately try to track him down. As the search intensifies, the lines between truth and deception blur, leading to a heart-pounding conclusion where family ties and past actions collide.
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Bellflower (1940)
Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a poor young girl, trying to become a teacher on her quest to become independent to be able to look after her younger brother. But then tragedy strikes...
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Keshô yuki (1940)
N/A
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7.7
/8/

The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia (1932)
Propaganda film, presumed lost.
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Sun over the River (1934)
Father, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their love for each other after family discord and separation. The film is considered lost.
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A Living Puppet (1929)
N/A
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Kodakara fūfu (1941)
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