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Criterion Channel
81
7.7
/7908/
73
/178/
75
/147/
4.0
/12026/
100
/11/
88
/173/
85
/13/

Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
63
7.5
/3294/
72
/64/
74
/71/
3.8
/3373/
89
/44/

Sword of the Beast (1965)
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.
poster
60
38
7.1
/2137/
67
/40/
65
/52/
3.7
/3553/
25
/1/

Graveyard of Honor (1975)
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
poster
74
30
7.7
/1168/
72
/21/
72
/29/
3.7
/782/
79
/11/

Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
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Hoopla
45
30
4.8
/1674/
50
/44/
52
/50/
2.8
/3039/
20
/22/

The X from Outer Space (1967)
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.
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AMC+
56
29
5.9
/1100/
58
/25/
49
/32/
3.2
/1454/
53
/19/

Inugami (2001)
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family.
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Criterion Channel
67
22
7.0
/724/
62
/13/
71
/19/
3.6
/1324/
60
/1/

The Thick-Walled Room (1956)
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
poster
58
22
5.9
/425/
55
/20/
55
/25/
3.1
/1078/

Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71 (1971)
The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.
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Criterion Channel
70
19
7.3
/681/
66
/14/
75
/17/
3.8
/789/
60
/2/

Immortal Love (1961)
A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.
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18
6.9
/630/
64
/23/
60
/24/
3.6
/647/
44
/3/

Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather (1982)
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance.
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Criterion Channel
70
17
6.6
/469/
66
/14/
59
/19/
3.5
/597/
92
/5/

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978)
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.
poster
Hoopla
71
16
7.4
/469/
63
/11/
76
/10/
3.6
/637/

Cash Calls Hell (1966)
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assassinate three strangers given to him on a list. However, upon meeting his first potential victim, Oida has second thoughts. Yet, even as he tries to back out, the body count starts climbing. Oida must now try to alert the people on his list of their impending danger, and find out why they are being targeted in the first place.
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Criterion Channel
68
14
7.0
/287/
70
/9/
60
/12/
3.6
/612/

The Petrified Forest (1973)
Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.
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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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11
6.9
/422/
46
/6/
63
/10/
3.5
/422/
65
/5/

Blackmail Is My Life (1968)
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when he sets his sights on the business partners of a powerful gang boss.
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70
11
7.3
/211/
65
/5/
71
/14/
3.6
/209/

A Trap (1965)
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
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65
10
6.7
/235/
57
/8/
69
/7/
3.4
/537/

Danger Pays (1962)
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling them the idea that they need Sakamoto, the best counterfeiter in Japan. A seesaw game unfolds between the three men as each tries to outdo the other two in handing over Sakamoto for one million yen to Hijikata, the big boss, who intends to make counterfeit money with the stolen paper. A little belatedly, they realize it needs their combined forces to outwit Hijikata and they raid his place together. Outnumbered, however, they are thrown into a basement room and the gas is turned on. Certain death stares them in the face, but the three men are not ones to take things lying down....
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Hoopla
70
9
6.9
/207/
61
/10/
80
/1/
3.5
/665/

By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him (1966)
Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando) can stop them, as long as he gets rid of his silly peace-loving ideals.
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?
10
/1/

Why Are We Young? (1965)
After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional teaching style stirs up the school, but the students gradually accept him.
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?
10
/1/

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 1 - Ghost Story at the Kagamigaike (1971)
First film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
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?
5.2
/7/
10
/1/

River of Forever (1967)
Pure love story
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?
10
/1/

Love at the Fogged Harbor (1962)
A bittersweet love story between yakuza Hiroshi and a married woman Reiko.
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?
10
/1/

悲劇の将軍 山下奉文 (1953)
When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the Malay front and occupied Singapore at once, and was praised as a "Malay tiger." However, the situation in Japan changed steadily by the failure of Sai pan from the GA Talca translation.
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?
10
/1/

The Forest Is Alive (1956)
Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"
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10
/1/

Homicide (1964)
This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Affairs, about the beginning of the incident 2.26 and the execution of young officers.
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10
/1/

Police Precinct: The Woman Without A Face (1959)
A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body is only the torso. Her legs were discovered on the opposite bank. The only clue, a man was trying to throw something in from a car with a license plate number three days ago at Shin-Arakawa Ohashi Bridge...
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?
10
/1/

Police Precinct: Car 108 (1959)
Patrol car 108 is on the prowl in Tokyo when it comes across a suspicious small truck. When the policeman investigates he is shot and the truck makes its getaway.
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?
10
/1/

Pinwheel Hamakichi’s Spell 2 (1982)
Hamakichi, who used to be a detective is now a toy merchant. His former boss has a grudge against the Yakuza family, which leads to the murder of a policeman in Edo. This places Hamakichi between the rock and a hard place.
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?
6.6
/14/
10
/1/

The Bride from Japan (1959)
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
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?
10
/1/

The Spy (1965)
Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.
poster
?
10
/1/

Mirai ni tsunagaru ko ra (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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?
7.2
/31/
30
/2/

Strong Women, Weak Men (1968)
After a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko and becomes a hostess.
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?
4.6
/6/
10
/1/

Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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6.5
/17/
40
/2/
50
/1/

Song of Vengeance (1968)
Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another. It seems obvious that it is a former partner of the company with a long-standing grudge who is responsible, but he died in the first ten minutes of the movie. Or did he? This may aptly be described as a giallo-noir for the unrelenting string of murders by a mystery man and the black-and-white gritty urban setting.
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10
/1/

The Bored Samurai (1983)
Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead with flashy clothes and a handsome face, and is proficient in all the military arts and called Bored Hatamoto. Mikijiro Hira acts as such a hero in history. Mondonosuke is secretly ordered to look into the suspicious movement in Nagoya castle by the Ometsuke, and he found out about the misconduct and sole it. This is a period movie about the hero!
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?
5.0
/22/
10
/1/

Scrap Collectors (1968)
Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.
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?
5.2
/12/
10
/1/

The Resurrection of the Beast (1969)
Crime film released in 1969
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?
10
/1/

Pursuit (1961)
Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.
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10
/1/

Police Precinct: Confession (1964)
The corpse of a debt collector, Sakai, is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo. Kinoshita, a shoe shiner who was in debt to Sakai, was soon apprehended. During interrogation, Kinoshita said that he was the one who killed Sakai. However, after a while, he admitted that he lied, because he thought that in prison he could eat plenty of rice for free. The investigation established that Sakai was a repatriate from Manchuria, and after returning to Japan, he had a wife, Rie Kawai. The investigation begins the search for Rie... The 23rd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.
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?
10
/1/

Night of Sorrow (1966)
A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.
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?
10
/1/

Police Precinct Part 21 (1963)
A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that the criminal strangled the victim with a bandage, smashed his face with an oil canister and burned the body, trying to hide the identity of the victim. But the investigation establishes that the victim is a former criminal named Hisashi Sayama. According to Sayama's daughter-in-law, a man named Kitamura got him a job, so he left home with a copy of the family register. Trying to find the killer, the First Investigation Department is investigating all over the country, including Akita, Yokkaichi and Okinawa.
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?
10
/1/

The Tale of Saikaido (1983)
Set in the Kyushu area of the Edo period. This is a large-length bizarre story that incorporates elements such as mysteries and adventures surrounding hidden gold mines.
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?
5.2
/14/
10
/1/
60
/10/

Main Street in the Underworld (1964)
N/A
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?
10
/1/

The War Without Weapons (1960)
It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amendment of the Peace Preservation Law, and was assassinated by a rightist prior to his opposition speech.
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?
7.0
/6/
10
/1/

Hunting Opium-Eaters (1960)
The Chase after Opium Dealers
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?
5.8
/20/
10
/1/

Rainbow Over Kinmon (1962)
Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising future, until his medical error caused the death of a big-shot politician. He was discharged from the hospital and had since sailed around the world as an on-board doctor. As he was about to reach the Taiwanese piers of Kinmon Island, thoughts of his days in Japan crossed his mind - he reminisced about the Taiwanese girl, Yan, who had scooped him out of his misery during the time of the medical accident. At times of war, the two rekindle an old flame.
poster
?
10
/1/

Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy (1960)
Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.
poster
Criterion Channel
?
7.1
/88/
10
/1/
57
/6/

Ballad of a Workman (1962)
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.


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