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69
52
6.9
/2480/
66
/70/
62
/56/
3.7
/3401/
75
/33/

Graveyard of Honor (2002)
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
36
7.3
/1110/
77
/41/
66
/29/
4.1
/10090/
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.
poster
61
32
6.3
/1280/
58
/33/
58
/34/
3.4
/907/
58
/28/

G.I. Samurai (1979)
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
poster
72
24
6.9
/648/
71
/14/
81
/20/
3.5
/807/

It's Tough Being a Man (1969)
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sakura's chance to marry someone, as well as just being a real pain to those around him. There is a sentimental side to him also, and the best way to describe him is that he grows on you.
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68
20
7.0
/877/
69
/20/
63
/17/
3.5
/340/
69
/16/

About Her Brother (2010)
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.
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Amazon Prime Video
57
18
5.8
/677/
51
/17/
55
/24/
3.2
/572/

Ninja Wars (1982)
A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with those vying for power, particularly the insatiably greedy Lord Donjo. Only the ninja Jotaro can stop Donjo's plan, but to do so, he must first battle the deadly team of "Devil Monks" serving the lord. Will Jotaro succeed in his mission? And if so, will Ukio marry him, thus making him the ruler of the world?
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65
15
6.2
/241/
61
/6/
74
/9/
3.3
/860/

The Killing Game (1978)
The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes back he bumps into two women that he has spared five years ago. Two rival yakuza bosses hire Narumi to kill the other. Will Narumi's sense of chivalry entrap him again?
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70
15
6.6
/511/
73
/10/
76
/16/
3.4
/346/

Proof of the Man (1977)
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
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61
14
6.1
/140/
64
/10/
51
/10/
3.5
/893/

Rex: A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her paleontologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
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68
13
6.7
/707/
70
/10/
70
/11/
3.4
/292/

The Voice of Sin (2020)
Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago. The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.
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55
11
6.1
/447/
54
/12/
58
/14/
3.3
/444/
40
/5/

Dragon Princess (1976)
A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He trains his daughter with the intention of her avenging not only himself but a murdered friend.
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5.8
/12/
10
/1/

The Detective Journey (1980)
A comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they become involved in by chance. Shosuke Ikashima and Ryuji Kabaya, who repeatedly screw things up, encounter a real robbery during a bank robbery simulation training...
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10
/1/

Big, Big Fellow (1969)
The golden duo of Yoshitaro Mura and Kiyoshi Atsumi brings you a full-on comedy filled with laughter and melancholy set in Kitakyushu. Matsujiro Minamida (Atsumi) plays an uneducated and uncouth local troublemaker who becomes the talk of the town following an unexpected incident.
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10
/1/

Bullying is Costly (1986)
An office worker who releases his frustrations by maliciously bullying his good-natured boss has a bizarre experience in a mountain hut.
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6.4
/18/
10
/1/

Charming Men (1970)
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko Baisho) also returns from the juvenile classification center on the same day. However, at a welcome party held by Goro for Haruko, a drunk friend crashes into Haruko's house with a dump truck and is forced to leave. Goro plans to marry Haruko to a rich man and force her to pay dowry, but...
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10
/1/

大安旅行 (1968)
N/A
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10
/1/

Japan Beauty Story (1974)
N/A
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8.2
/9/
10
/1/

Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu (1971)
Comedy centered on a stripper agency
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10
/1/

It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition) (1968)
This is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first and last episodes of the tv show bridged by an edit recapping the major events of the lost middle episodes.
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10
/1/

Reformatory Buddies (1974)
Third film in the series.
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6.1
/24/
10
/1/

In Broad Daylight (1968)
After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindler buddies. However, one by one, his friends start getting caught. Katsuji decides to play a high stakes game of robbing the proceeds of a department store.
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6.6
/7/
20
/1/

Steel & Lead (1997)
A hard-boiled film that follows a detective who will be killed the next morning should he fail his mission, the yakuza assigned to watch over him, and the friendship that develops as they work together.
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5.5
/8/
25
/2/

Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case (1991)
A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhile, girls are disappearing and the friend of one girl is searching for her. It turns out the girls are being kidnapped and sold into bizarre kinky sex games to rich industrialists by a megalomaniacal corporation. One of the young deputies becomes involved and finds a friend of his (the boyfriend of the searching woman) is involved.
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6.5
/10/
10
/1/
65
/4/

Code Between Brothers 6 (1967)
Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern Japan.
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10
/1/

The Incident at Takanodai (1973)
N/A
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20
/1/

Shura ga Yuku 6 (1997)
Set in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the gangster action series that depicts the battle between the eastern and western gangsters aiming for national domination.
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5.6
/27/
10
/1/
50
/2/

The Four Roughnecks (1974)
Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.
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6.5
/9/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Quarreling with Yakuza (1973)
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.
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5.7
/33/
20
/1/

Prey (1979)
A rock singer who has returned to the U.S. approaches his former musician friends with the soulful sound of reggae that he encountered during his stay in the U.S. However, his friends lost their old energy and were busy chasing only the songs that would sell, and did not pay attention to reggae. Eventually, the lonely and violent rock singer turns to mass indiscriminate murder out of repugnance to the blurred times and humanity.
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20
/1/

The King of Minami: Dark Judgment (2002)
#41 in the series, following "Special Ver.40"
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5.5
/74/
50
/2/
70
/4/

Hamon: Yakuza Boogie (2017)
Keisuke Ninomiya (Yu Yokoyama) works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acquainted with yakuza Yasuhiko Kuwabara (Kuranosuke Sasaki). One day, film producer Koshimizu brings a movie investment proposal to yakuza leader Shimada. Shimada decide to invest in the film and he assigns Yasuhiko Kuwabara to oversee his investment in the film. Film producer Koshimizu though runs away with their investment money. Keisuke and Yasuhiko struggle to get Shimada’s money back from Koshimizu.
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10
/1/

Fallen Leaves and Sweet Memories (1969)
Nobuko and five male friends graduate from a high school, promising to remain friends forever. One year later, Nobuko is working as a mediocre actress for TV commercials, and the five men are wearing beards and have formed a psychedelic rock band. One day, Nobuko meets Jun, who draws cartoons based on his experiences.
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10
/1/

Oh Wonderful Utamaro! (1974)
N/A
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4.2
/76/
20
/1/
30
/1/

The Peking Man (1997)
In 1929 the fossil of a 500,000 year old man is discovered in China. In 1941 the Japanese army confiscates this find, but during the war the remains disappear. Based on these factual events, this movie takes off with a science fiction story involving a space rocket which places a satellite in orbit containing a secret cargo. The satellite crashes on a remote island and footprints are found in the sand leading away from the crash site. A story of how an ancient primitive cave-dwelling family contends with the scientists who want to study them.
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?
6.0
/9/

The Viper Brothers and the Young General (1975)
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in need as his naivety prevents him from seeing their true nature.
poster
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6.1
/59/
60
/2/

The Classroom of Terror (1976)
Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by Hiroshi Tachi.
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67
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7.0
/281/
63
/3/
68
/7/
3.5
/271/

Tora-san's Cherished Mother (1969)
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
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65
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6.3
/296/
59
/10/
74
/5/
3.3
/363/

Osaka Tough Guys (1995)
Osaka Tough Guys stars Kentaro Nakakura and Yoshiyuki Ohmori. It tells the story of two hoods forced to take on paid work when they run out of money for booze, who end up being drawn into the spiderweb of the yakuza. Gaijiro Saito and Sei Hiraizumi co-star. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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51
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7.5
/270/
10
/1/
70
/5/

Stray Dog (1973)
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
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6.2
/43/
20
/1/
80
/1/

Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version (1997)
Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.
poster
?
5.8
/27/
70
/1/

Short and Fat (1977)
A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga "Dokaben".
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6.6
/76/
54
/5/
68
/6/

Watch Out, Crimson Bat! (1969)
A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.
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6.9
/60/
70
/1/

Dead Angle (1979)
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
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6.8
/27/
25
/2/

Women Can't Be Beaten (1969)
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.
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76
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6.8
/108/
76
/3/
85
/2/

Tora-san's Pure Love (1976)
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.
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81
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7.1
/140/
83
/3/
90
/3/

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset (1976)
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha.
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78
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6.5
/105/
80
/3/
90
/2/

Talk of the Town Tora-san (1978)
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya.
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63
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6.8
/135/
62
/4/
73
/3/

Tora-san's Lovesick (1974)
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow.


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