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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
Criterion Channel
90
8.2
/141034/
80
/2326/
81
/1605/
4.3
/162000/
96
/51/
96
/2271/
93
/17/

Yojimbo (1961)
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
poster
Kanopy
89
8.1
/193687/
79
/3134/
80
/2417/
4.2
/259677/
98
/64/
93
/2665/
98
/18/
cc age 15+

Rashomon (1950)
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
86
8.3
/22963/
81
/376/
81
/389/
4.4
/29613/
73
/15/
95
/388/
90
/10/

Red Beard (1965)
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
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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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Kanopy
78
7.7
/31889/
77
/658/
77
/523/
4.2
/89237/
67
/30/
86
/799/

Dreams (1990)
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.
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Criterion Channel
77
7.3
/6601/
73
/110/
73
/127/
3.8
/6640/
88
/16/
81
/112/
79
/11/

Madadayo (1993)
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.
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Criterion Channel
86
77
8.0
/5252/
79
/114/
79
/121/
4.2
/9665/
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
71
7.2
/8098/
74
/123/
72
/144/
3.7
/7644/
60
/15/
73
/111/

Rhapsody in August (1991)
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.
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Criterion Channel
73
65
7.3
/6022/
71
/101/
73
/116/
3.7
/9090/
73
/11/
76
/59/

I Live in Fear (1955)
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared incompetent, a family-court counselor witnesses his obsession slide into ruin—and asks whether ignoring the atomic threat is any saner.
poster
Criterion Channel
56
54
5.6
/7117/
58
/318/
63
/205/
3.0
/18788/
63
/8/
37
/217/

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.
poster
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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61
32
6.4
/1273/
58
/32/
58
/34/
3.4
/844/
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
Criterion Channel
72
31
7.5
/953/
68
/16/
68
/18/
3.9
/1610/

Mother (1952)
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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Criterion Channel
52
30
5.3
/1061/
50
/53/
57
/32/
2.6
/3160/

Varan (1958)
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, who decides to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.
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Hoopla
40
21
4.4
/931/
40
/44/
43
/31/
2.3
/1310/
27
/29/

Varan the Unbelievable (1962)
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
poster
66
20
7.3
/542/
60
/8/
62
/18/
3.7
/780/
60
/12/

Brother and Sister (1953)
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.
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Criterion Channel
70
16
7.1
/403/
66
/9/
69
/10/
3.7
/713/

Wife (1953)
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.
poster
64
14
7.5
/358/
44
/5/
64
/12/
3.7
/547/

Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953)
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
poster
69
13
7.3
/263/
64
/5/
68
/11/
3.7
/495/

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.
poster
62
8
7.2
/210/
40
/2/
66
/8/
3.6
/261/

Husband and Wife (1953)
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
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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.
poster
?
6.5
/11/
10
/1/

Gekkyū dorobō (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
?
10
/1/

Kiriko no unmei (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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?
6.2
/7/
10
/1/

Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen (1957)
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Lone Journey (1955)
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too. The handwritten text on the bottom here announces the film will play at Hassen for 3 days.
poster
?
7.1
/36/
10
/1/
60

The Homely Sister (1967)
In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka falls in love, but can’t accept a marriage proposal since her older sister needs to marry first. When Oshizu learns of this decision, she takes matters in her own hands.
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?
7.3
/20/
10
/1/
80
/1/

Snow-Flake (1950)
N/A
poster
?
6.1
/14/
25
/2/

Girls in the Orchard (1953)
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking care of the land)-- and the modernity and lure of a life in the city.
poster
59
?
7.1
/133/
55
/4/
52
/6/

Marital Relations (1955)
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.
poster
?
6.5
/18/
10
/1/

Nightshade Flower (1951)
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.
poster
?
7.5
/12/
10
/1/

People of Tokyo, Goodbye (1956)
N/A
poster
?
7.2
/37/
10
/1/
65
/2/

Street of Violence (1950)
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
poster
?
5.1
/23/
10
/1/

Life of a Country Doctor (1960)
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, however, his wife's addiction to gambling is of such a magnitude that he is down to selling his underwear to make money. The image sticks and he becomes known as the 'underwear doctor.' On the other hand, his successful surgery's patient is so grateful he himself wants to become a physician.
poster
?
8.0
/26/
10
/2/

The Blue Pearl (1951)
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life.
poster
?
10
/1/
55
/1/

The Ataka Family (1952)
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to her husband and together the couple runs the family farm. Their happy family life comes to an abrupt halt when Soichi's half-brother, Joji returns with his wife Masako after failing in a business.
poster
58
?
6.4
/308/
53
/9/
60
/7/

Battle of the Japan Sea (1969)
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians, with results which stun both nations. Meanwhile, Major Genjiro Akashi makes secret negotiations with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, negotiations that have repercussions far beyond the conflict at hand.
poster
62
?
6.6
/191/
53
/3/
62
/6/
3.4
/202/

The Whole Family Works (1939)
Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and contribute to the family expenses.
poster
58
?
6.5
/131/
43
/6/
63
/3/

The Big Boss (1959)
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.
poster
?
7.5
/51/
10
/1/

All About Marriage (1958)
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
poster
?
4.7
/17/
10
/1/

Someday I'll Know (1959)
A modern love story involving different affairs.
poster
65
?
7.1
/183/
45
/6/
77
/7/

Oh, Bomb! (1964)
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.
poster
70
?
7.4
/317/
62
/7/
74
/10/
3.7
/399/

Untamed Woman (1957)
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
poster
?
10
/1/

Their Father's Wife (1953)
N/A
poster
51
?
7.3
/142/
25
/2/
70
/3/

Ditch (1954)
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
poster
?
6.9
/40/
10
/1/

The Surf (1954)
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.
poster
?
7.4
/9/
10
/1/

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2 (1957)
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.


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