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Criterion Channel
86
8.0
/8316/
76
/138/
77
/188/
4.2
/12854/
100
/14/
89
/66/

The Life of Oharu (1952)
In 17th century Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
81
7.8
/12216/
78
/350/
77
/305/
4.2
/57870/
94
/16/
87
/177/
87
/9/

Good Morning (1959)
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
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Criterion Channel
86
77
8.0
/5311/
80
/121/
79
/123/
4.2
/10801/
100
/16/
93
/93/

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
76
7.9
/6654/
77
/139/
77
/171/
4.1
/12463/
100
/16/
86
/47/

Late Autumn (1960)
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
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Criterion Channel
79
67
7.8
/5341/
77
/88/
76
/146/
4.1
/11921/
80
/10/
82
/31/

Street of Shame (1956)
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
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80
57
7.9
/1506/
70
/22/
73
/47/
4.1
/2302/
96
/166/

A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.
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Criterion Channel
75
42
7.4
/1314/
66
/27/
73
/35/
3.8
/2036/
87
/15/

Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.
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73
42
7.5
/2362/
76
/37/
72
/44/
3.6
/948/

Chûshingura (1962)
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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Criterion Channel
68
34
7.2
/644/
63
/17/
68
/25/
3.6
/2898/

Love Letter (1953)
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
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34
7.2
/615/
68
/21/
68
/22/
3.8
/3705/

The Blue Sky Maiden (1957)
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.
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Criterion Channel
72
33
7.5
/960/
68
/17/
68
/18/
3.9
/1801/

Mother (1952)
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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70
30
7.3
/413/
65
/10/
64
/16/
3.9
/2752/

Girls of the Night (1961)
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.
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Criterion Channel
67
26
7.0
/806/
66
/19/
63
/18/
3.6
/1408/
67
/11/

Zero Focus (1961)
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
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Criterion Channel
64
16
6.6
/281/
54
/5/
67
/7/
3.4
/1210/

The Wandering Princess (1960)
Pu Zhe, the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko the daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love between Pu Zhe and Ryuko develops and is put to the test when Japan loses the war.
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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
67
15
6.8
/240/
61
/7/
69
/9/
3.5
/822/

Youth in Fury (1960)
A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insoluble feelings of alienation.
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65
15
7.3
/526/
65
/6/
51
/10/
3.7
/824/

Flame of My Love (1949)
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.
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69
13
7.3
/266/
64
/5/
68
/11/
3.7
/523/

A Wife's Heart (1956)
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.
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74
12
7.6
/349/
65
/6/
86
/10/
3.6
/277/

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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63
10
7.4
/204/
48
/5/
59
/14/
3.6
/288/

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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64
8
6.7
/177/
57
/4/
63
/10/
3.5
/232/

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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6.6
/10/

Miyamoto Musashi - Battle at Han'nya Hill (1943)
Miyamoto Musashi is challenged by a series of opponents in this follow up to Miyamoto Musashi's Kongoin Ketto (1942, also called Nitoryu Kaigen) also directed by Ito Daisuke.
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10
/1/

Love on the Rainbow (1965)
A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.
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10
/1/

The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness (1954)
In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister and music lover Keiko (Misora), Keiko's classmate Sachiko (Ota Chieko) and her brother Shoji (Yamada) meet enthusiastically to brighten the town and help themselves grow. Ichiro's family lives with his father and Keiko in a milk shop, but Keiko's desire to go to music school is unlikely to be fulfilled. Meanwhile, Shoji's father is trying to get Shoji and Keiko married.
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10
/1/

Morning Whistling (1957)
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10
/1/

Ripe and Marriageable (1959)
1959 youth comedy.
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10
/1/

Fearless Opposition (1958)
This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.
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10
/1/

First Love Questions and Answers (1950)
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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/

The Foster Mother (1951)
A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in Kyoto, who divorced her father, but her father in Tokyo, who has another family, takes her to himself out of guilt for breaking up with her. How does the daughter feel?
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5.8
/8/
10
/1/

Love on Rainbow Island (1956)
Japanese counterpart to Romeo and Juliet
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10
/1/

I'm a Bodyguard (1964)
Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a writer living in the area while working at a police box. His dream is to become a bodyguard (BG) for the Prime Minister, just like his senior, Detective Inspector Takagi (Ryu Chishu). Kita Ippei is very successful in both work and love, getting attacked while guarding a female minister, getting some perks as a BG for a foreign princess, and becoming friends with a woman at his favorite bar.
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10
/1/

Salaryman's Medal (1965)
Japanese horror movie from 1973.
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10
/1/

The End of the Night (1953)
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision will lead to a long, dark night of the soul, while his lady love, a bar hostess, tries to cope with her sudden change of fortune.
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10
/1/

乾杯!女学生 (1954)
N/A
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5.2
/9/
10
/1/

Guntō nanban-sen (1950)
1950 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

Wakai yatsura no kaidan (1961)
1961 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

When Winter Comes (1985)
An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his deathbed and develops a faint affection for an elegant old woman, but the purpose of his journey is actually to find a place to die. He gives a large sum of money to a young couple, who are poor but have a dream for the future, and tries to throw himself into the sea. The movie depicts the loneliness of an old man who has lost his wife.
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10
/1/

Life's Simple Pleasures (1955)
A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos, focusing on the daily life of Sanpei Mejiro, a salaryman for over twenty years who finds a little happiness in life in his poor but joyful home.
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10
/1/

Dreaming People (1953)
Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is marrying Toshio (Toshio Hosokawa), the son of Zenpei Hamaguchi (Yoshito Yamaji), for her obligation. He encouraged the unhappy Yuriko and taught her how to make her marriage with Toshio a happy one. He makes a fresh start as an architect under the care of Ryosuke Shibata (Jiro Yanagi), who had taken care of his father, but Ryosuke's daughter Sumiko (Yoko Katsuragi) has feelings for him. Fujie Kakimoto's (Sadako Sawamura) son Koichi (Eiji Wakasugi) came to know about Sumiko and asked her to marry him after coming to Shinya to ask for her design. Knowing that Shinya's love for Yuriko would not be easily wiped away, Sumiko decided to marry Koichi, who had a bad leg. Shinya watches the beautiful bond between Koichi and Sumiko and decides to forget his past and move forward on the path to self-perfection.
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10
/1/

Naite waratta hanayome (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

Boss Takes to the Road (1961)
Japanese comedy film.
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10
/1/

Geisha Hidekoma (1954)
As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the politicians.
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10
/1/

Curry Rice (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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7.5
/8/
10
/1/

Youth Season (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

Door of Flowers (1961)
Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now fallen on hard times. Tamiko wants to marry her boyfriend Sanpei, an aspiring composer, but her father wants her to marry a young company president.
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10
/1/

Avalanche (1956)
N/A
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10
/1/

At the Side of the Bridge 2 (1962)
1962 Japanese movie


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