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Kanopy
92
8.6
/396772/
84
/5657/
85
/4042/
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.
poster
Kanopy
90
8.3
/100177/
82
/1668/
83
/1260/
4.5
/169556/
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.
poster
Kanopy
89
8.4
/68966/
84
/1431/
83
/1052/
4.6
/179215/
97
/69/
95
/554/
90
/17/

High and Low (1963)
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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Criterion Channel
85
8.0
/59337/
78
/1058/
79
/940/
4.3
/103590/
96
/49/
93
/1068/

Throne of Blood (1957)
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
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fuboTV
83
81
7.8
/20429/
76
/366/
75
/336/
4.0
/35861/
100
/21/
91
/405/

Stray Dog (1949)
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
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80
65
7.7
/2747/
74
/88/
74
/103/
4.2
/15160/
90
/201/

Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
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Criterion Channel
70
52
7.3
/4641/
74
/158/
71
/121/
3.7
/7250/
62
/6/

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member of the Yagyu clan.
poster
79
45
6.9
/743/
70
/21/
67
/27/
3.8
/2492/
100
/5/
93
/10/

Black Lizard (1968)
A detective tries to outwit an art loving thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
37
7.1
/1051/
62
/17/
70
/37/
3.7
/1458/

Assassination (1964)
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.
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75
33
7.4
/413/
56
/6/
75
/14/
3.7
/572/
100
/201/

Summer Clouds (1958)
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
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71
22
7.4
/587/
66
/22/
68
/26/
3.8
/780/
71
/3/

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (1963)
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
poster
68
21
7.3
/471/
58
/7/
64
/20/
3.7
/831/

The Affair (1967)
As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds herself in an unhappy, loveless marriage and begins to understand her mother’s actions.
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Hoopla
68
20
7.4
/318/
57
/7/
66
/5/
3.8
/1490/

The Shape of Night (1964)
Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing demeanor and constant demands for money lead Yoshie down a dark path.
poster
69
16
6.9
/345/
70
/4/
66
/14/
3.6
/649/

Affair in the Snow (1968)
In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had platonic feelings.
poster
65
15
6.9
/283/
57
/7/
57
/12/
3.7
/726/

Confessions Among Actresses (1971)
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them has experienced a traumatic event which contributes to their particular enjoyment of becoming someone else in dramatic roles.
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57
12
6.8
/265/
26
/3/
64
/13/
3.6
/400/

Impasse (1967)
Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by artificial insemination.
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74
12
7.6
/342/
65
/6/
86
/10/
3.6
/270/

Hero of the Red Light District (1960)
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.
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68
11
7.2
/261/
61
/5/
65
/14/
3.6
/350/

The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satoko's utter dependence on the man. Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satoko's interest in him; he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness. The story unfolds in a dreamlike manner—a flashback inspired by a now-infamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the so-called Temple of the Wild Geese.
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63
10
7.4
/201/
48
/5/
59
/14/
3.6
/272/

Little Peach (1958)
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.
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69
10
7.1
/300/
64
/7/
73
/11/
3.5
/245/

Miyamoto Musashi (1961)
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicious. He sides with the Toyotomi at Sekigahara, and as a result finds himself on the losing side of the historic battle. He and his friend Matahachi manage to escape the slaughter although the latter is wounded in his leg. They stumble across the young Akemi who makes her living with her mother Oko by robbing corpses of their armor and anything else they can sell. Oko takes it into her head to seduce Matahachi, which she does first by skillfully sucking the gangrene from his blood, and then just by sucking.
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64
8
6.7
/177/
57
/4/
63
/10/
3.5
/207/

Dancing Girl (1951)
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.
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?
10
/1/

The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado (1961)
Japanese comedy film.
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?
10
/1/

Student Double Suicide (1954)
N/A
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?
10
/1/

Violence (1952)
N/A
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?
10
/1/

The Valley Between Love and Death (1954)
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.
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?
10
/1/

Hokkaido, My Love (1962)
A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido
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?
10
/1/

Hahakogusa (1959)
Based on the Nobu Koito story
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?
10
/1/

Avalanche (1956)
N/A
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?
8.5
/36/
10
/1/

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree (1955)
N/A
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?
5.4
/13/
10
/1/

女と海賊 (1959)
In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known as Misaki Shogoro, who was infamous for his devilish cruelty. Shogoro had a rule: he would kill all the men from the ships he raided, while the women would be distributed among the crew for their pleasure. However, he himself never touched any woman. Aboard the ship was a young girl named Kogane, who had been raised on the ship since she was a child and dressed as a boy. Unbeknownst to others, she had grown to secretly adore Shogoro.
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?
6.9
/19/
10
/1/

I Saw the Killer (1956)
N/A
poster
?
7.4
/13/
10
/1/

Cape Ashizuri (1954)
Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student activist disenchanted by the increasingly hawkish state of Japanese society.
poster
?
6.2
/11/
10
/1/

Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song (1970)
The story depicts the sorrows and joys of women in Shinjuku, centering on a daughter who became a hostess burdened with a large compensation payment after her father was imprisoned for causing a traffic accident while driving under the influence.
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?
6.5
/9/
10
/1/
83
/3/

Young Lord Yakuza (1961)
Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the disguise of a ronin.
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?
10
/1/

Price of Beauty (1957)
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
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?
10
/1/

Keishichō monogatari iryū-hin nashi (1959)
N/A
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65
?
6.9
/391/
59
/14/
66
/14/
3.5
/330/

Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn (1966)
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to his clan. But Tange Sazen has his own reasons for seeking the urn.
poster
?
10
/1/

Tokyo Detective Girl (1959)
Woman private eye Emiko goes undercover to reveal the truth of a murder case.
poster
?
10
/1/

Where did Sharaku go? (1968)
Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out the true identity of Sharaku, who disappeared after about 150 portraits of actors he created came out.
poster
?
10
/1/

Tengoku wa doko da (1956)
Japanese drama.
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?
45
/2/

Sky Scraper! (1969)
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
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?
10
/1/

Ofukuro (1955)
Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by Shizuka's desire to live together in familiar Tokyo. Mineko is the exact opposite of Eiichiro. A literary masterpiece depicting the fateful sorrow and humor of a mother and child
poster
?
35
/2/

Beyond the Seasonal Wind (1958)
Japanese drama film.
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?
10
/1/

Showdown in Blood (1957)
Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to join Tamura's boxing club, but Tamura fell in love with Ushijima's punch. Then Hayata decides to become Ushijima's manager and make good money on his friend's talent. Ushijima himself is a peaceful, kind guy who doesn't really like boxing, but under the wise guidance of Hayata, he starts to defeat one opponent after another...
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?
6.8
/9/
10
/1/

Secret Information (1968)
A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to find out who squealed on him.
poster
?
10
/1/

Yukiko (1955)
N/A
poster
?
7.9
/19/
10
/1/

Nippon no obaachan (1962)
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.
poster
?
10
/1/

Sekidô matsuri (1951)
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki. Very little information availabe. Listed at the JMDB


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