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Criterion Channel
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8.3
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79
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81
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4.4
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100
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95
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96
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Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.
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Kanopy
87
7.9
/26225/
80
/1002/
78
/410/
4.3
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100
/58/
93
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87
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Tampopo (1985)
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
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Crunchyroll
79
7.6
/29451/
79
/2324/
79
/1558/
3.9
/69643/
90
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88
/141/
65
/15/
8.2
/237847/
cc age 11+

The Boy and the Beast (2015)
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.
poster
73
7.1
/18410/
70
/910/
70
/529/
3.2
/10143/
80
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83
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Death Note: The Last Name (2006)
In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira follower) and Kiyomi Takada (another Kira follower) but in the end will Light win? or will a Shinigami named Ryuk make all the difference in Light's victory or his ultimate death?
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73
7.5
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72
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70
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3.1
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80
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83
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Death Note (2006)
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.
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Criterion Channel
71
7.3
/2455/
70
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67
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3.8
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75
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87
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A Taxing Woman (1987)
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
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70
7.0
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71
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75
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3.7
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65
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79
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spirits within Godzilla that seek to destroy both the nation and its people for the suffering they inflicted in the Pacific conflict.
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Criterion Channel
65
6.7
/778/
56
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63
/53/
3.5
/1303/
84
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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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Amazon Prime Video
74
65
7.1
/3642/
63
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74
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3.8
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90
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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)
With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.
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Criterion Channel
77
63
7.2
/2460/
64
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69
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3.7
/4297/
100
/6/
82
/48/

Crazed Fruit (1956)
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.
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Criterion Channel
78
61
7.2
/2264/
68
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71
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3.8
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100
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85
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The Funeral (1984)
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
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Netflix
80
50
7.1
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79
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71
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3.5
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97
/70/
95
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HiGH&LOW The Movie 2: End of Sky (2017)
Members of SWORD win against Wangan Rengogun, which is led by Kohaku. The city becomes peaceful again. Nevertheless, the most brutal gangs, Doubt and Prison Gang, appear. They try to dominate the area controlled by SWORD.
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73
46
7.3
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67
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74
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4.0
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0.5 mm (2014)
Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him, which led her to lose her job. Now, she has nowhere to go. Sawa finds elderly people in trouble and gets involved in their lives. Meeting them, Sawa's own wounds start to heal.
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Fandango at Home Free
41
4.6
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51
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49
/519/
2.3
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27
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29
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Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.
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Criterion Channel
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38
7.4
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77
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67
/22/
3.9
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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
73
36
7.3
/1128/
77
/41/
66
/29/
4.1
/10499/
68
/6/

Supermarket Woman (1996)
A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.
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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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33
6.4
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65
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55
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3.3
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67
/6/

Kakera: A Piece of Our Life (2009)
A college student's relationship is going nowhere until she meets a bisexual medical artist who makes prosthetic body parts.
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33
6.8
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62
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3.4
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90
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Heaven and Earth (1990)
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry. Younger and less brutal, Kagetora must find the strength to be as brutal as his opponent, but at what cost?
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66
32
6.7
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64
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66
/27/
3.4
/1840/

The Executioner (1974)
Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuichi Koga, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura work together to take out an infamous drug dealer.
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6.8
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63
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68
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3.5
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91
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Good-for-Nothing (1960)
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.
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30
7.0
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65
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61
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3.7
/841/

Suite Dreams (2006)
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a special dinner planned and yet there is trouble everywhere. An Animal is on the loose, a politician to protect, a prostitute to handle, a bellhop to focus and a few things more.
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Criterion Channel
60
29
6.8
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55
/11/
64
/27/
3.7
/2434/
43
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Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
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6.1
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3.3
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38
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Kaidan (2007)
Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu. They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead
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26
6.4
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64
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67
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3.4
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71

Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment (2015)
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
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18
6.9
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58
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66
/11/
3.7
/1013/

The Last Dance (1993)
A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. Though his family, friends, and doctor try to keep the secret of his terminal cancer from him, Buhei gradually comes to realize the truth of his condition, leading him on a journey of despair, anger, and – ultimately – acceptance.
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Criterion Channel
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17
6.4
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40
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60
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3.3
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Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990)
Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundrels who don’t deserve it.
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7.2
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A Long Walk (2006)
A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a country town. There he forms a relationship with a neglected little neighborhood girl.
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12
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50
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3.5
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Bitter End of a Sweet Night (1961)
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.
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6.2
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3.3
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Lady Maiko (2014)
Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent intrigues a linguistics professor, who undertakes to coach her.
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9
6.8
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40
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70
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86
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A Last Note (1995)
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past
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55
8
6.3
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40
/6/
52
/11/
3.4
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Crest of Betrayal (1994)
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil.
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8.1
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10
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Take the 'A' Train, Someday (2003)
N/A
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5.7
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10
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The Man Who Became The Don (1991)
N/A
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?
100
/1/

Making of Death Note (2009)
Documentary on the first live action Death Note film.
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?
50
/2/

Suzume Iro Doki
The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and only handles divorce settlements. She spends her days in a state of despondency, but when her estranged husband and daughter disappear, she embarks on a search, partly out of ambition.
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?
20
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Nile (1999)
A Japanese journalist in Afghanistan, whose wife dies in an explosion, tries to overcome his sorrows and goes to Egypt on a mission to cover the discovery of a tomb in the Valley of the Kings. As a gang tracks him down for locating the tomb, he falls in love with the girlfriend of the gang's boss who looks like his wife.
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?
10
/1/

With Wife, Children, and Friends (1961)
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes to Tokyo in 1926 from faraway Kagoshima to join the Tokyo police force. His closest friend is Nihei, a farmer's son from Tohoku who becomes the steadying influence on headstrong Henmi.
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10
/1/

Another 47 Ronins: Genroku Taiheiki (1995)
In the 14th year of the Genroku period, Asano, the head carpenter of Edo Castle, attacked Kira, the master of ceremonies, with a sword, leading to Asano's forced suicide and Kira's punishment being overlooked. Over a year later in Edo city, Shimohashi Hyogo, a carefree ronin and the nephew of Yagyu Yoshitaka, is ordered by his uncle to investigate the activities of the Ako Ronin, a group sympathetic to Asano's cause. However, Hyogo, who sympathizes with the Ronin's plight, helps out in times of need, rescuing Oishi Kuranosuke and Horibe Yahei from danger. He also teams up with Yaenosuke, a newspaper publisher, and Otaki, a geisha, to plan an attack on Kira's estate.
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10
/1/

Aruhi watashi wa (1967)
The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between parents and children over two generations, as well as the sisterly love between Yuriko and her sister Kaori.
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?
5.2
/9/
10
/1/

This Day's Life (1957)
N/A
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10
/1/

Marriage of the sky and the sea (1962)
A love comedy directed by Osamu Takahashi based on an original screenplay by Kei Tasaki.
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10
/1/

Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1 (1971)
This is the first volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and Teruo Ishii. Contains films 1 to 4 in the "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
poster
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10
/1/

Ai to kanashimi to (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

San'nin musume kanpai! (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 2 - The Dish Mansion at Hell’s Banchô (1971)
Second film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
poster
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10
/1/

Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho (1971)
N/A
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6.0
/24/

Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2016: Reflections (2016)
This omnibus film brings together three globally acclaimed directors from Asia with a common theme 'Living Together in Asia' to depict the lives of characters who journey between Japan, Cambodia, the Philippines and Malaysia. Brillante Mendoza grapples with the issue of loss of national identity and home, with a story set in the Obihiro area of Hokkaido and Manila in the Philippines. Isao Yukisada directs a story in Malaysia where the Japanese army was once stationed but is now home to many Japanese retirees living out their remaining years. An elderly man has parted from his family in Japan to live alone in Penang, but when a new helper comes to the house, he slowly opens his mind and an unexpected bond forms between the two. Finally director Sotho Kulikar conveys a beautiful but heart-rending love story between a Japanese man and Cambodian woman that unfolds across past and present against the backdrop of Cambodia's civil war.


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