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Criterion Channel
91
8.6
/89040/
85
/1910/
84
/1155/
4.7
/203384/
100
/10/
97
/416/
85
/9/

Harakiri (1962)
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
81
8.5
/10884/
82
/306/
81
/273/
4.6
/37381/
73
/15/
95
/56/

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
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Hoopla
72
39
7.3
/1243/
73
/41/
69
/27/
3.8
/4358/

The Snow Woman (1968)
Two sculptors spend the night in a mountain lodge after being caught in a snowstorm. A female spirit appears and takes the life of one of the men. She spares the other man's life on the condition that he never tell anyone what happened that night.
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59
28
6.1
/650/
55
/40/
58
/25/
3.2
/1758/

Orgies of Edo (1969)
Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.
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61
22
5.8
/320/
64
/15/
62
/18/
3.0
/1641/

Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue (1992)
Doctors Kazamatsuri and Onizuka are geneticists researching cures on diseases such as AIDS and cancer by performing experiments to strengthen the human body. The test subject is Shin Kazamatsuri, motorcycle racer son of Doctor Kazamatsuri. Unknown to them, their operation is funded by a syndicate group, who plan to use this research to have the bodies of men strengthened for their own gain—they have already been experimenting in the field of cyborg soldiers, to a less-than-successful attempt. However, they did not count on Onizuka's own secret ambitions; the mad Onizuka wanted to create a new species, by fusing a grasshopper's DNA with the test subject's, in order to start a new civilization and be their god. He has tested on himself, but seems to be having greater success with Shin.
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Criterion Channel
70
19
7.3
/684/
66
/14/
75
/17/
3.8
/810/
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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Cultpix
55
12
6.1
/310/
41
/8/
52
/16/
3.4
/453/

Day-Dream (1964)
While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.
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Criterion Channel
63
12
7.0
/277/
52
/7/
63
/9/
3.5
/706/

Sincere Heart (1953)
A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.
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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/

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 8 - The Mysterious Cat Beauty Mansion (1971)
Eighth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
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10
/1/

Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

Onna no naka no akuma (1982)
N/A
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10
/1/

Bridge (1959)
A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
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20
/1/

Ayamariya Business (1997)
1997 V-Cinema film.
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10
/1/

Next Door to Happiness (1955)
The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the father leaves with another woman, returns after he is rejected, and leaves again with the family's money.
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10
/1/

Young Lovers (1957)
The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding them, they find it very difficult to achieve happiness.
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10
/1/

Kaze no uchi so to (1959)
N/A
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10
/1/

Flower Shop Curtain (1959)
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.
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10
/1/

Tears (1956)
A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.
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6.4
/14/
10
/1/
10
/1/

Towering Waves (1960)
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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10
/1/

Aozora yoitsu mademo (1958)
N/A
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10
/1/

Henshin Mou Hitori No Watashi (1993)
A suspense drama based on Miyuki Miyabe. In contrast to herself, she and two women lived a free-spirited life, forcing a restaurant owner to raise funds because of the Shinjuku incident. An office lady who impulsively jumps out of the company because she can't stand the sarcasm of girls at the company witnesses a motorboat accident. However, the accident was treated as suicide...
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6.9
/15/
10
/1/

Drunkard's Paradise (1962)
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol.
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7.0
/6/
36
/3/
50
/3/

The Waves (1952)
Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.
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?
35
/2/

Christ in Bronze (1955)
Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan.
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6.8
/24/
10
/1/

Dancing Girls of Izu (1954)
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story.
poster
Criterion Channel
63
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6.7
/140/
58
/5/
64
/7/

The Tattered Wings (1955)
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.
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Criterion Channel
55
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6.5
/159/
40
/2/
62
/8/

Farewell to Spring (1959)
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
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6.6
/52/
20
/1/

Abduction (1997)
The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wizened executive from another company haul large bags of money through downtown Tokyo as the media documents his every move. When the first old man almost dies from exhaustion, a second, and eventually a third elderly corporate fat cat is ordered to do the same. The police detective assigned to the case (Tetsuya Watari) and his younger partner (Masatoshi Nagase) are livid with indignation at this sorry spectacle. They learn that these four men were involved in a massive industrial spill that poisoned an entire rural hamlet 20 years previous. Suddenly, the detective -- who studied in the States and apparently absorbed some John Wayne-like mannerisms in the process -- isn't sure who are the victims and who are the villains.
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64
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7.0
/254/
58
/6/
60
/5/
3.5
/372/

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (1954)
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
poster
Criterion Channel
52
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6.6
/141/
36
/3/
54
/7/

The Rose on His Arm (1956)
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
poster
?
6.6
/13/

Suddenly, Like a Storm (1977)
21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver's license and a car belonging to the junkyard. But unfortunately, things go wrong and after a collision with another car, the seriously injured Hideo is taken to the hospital. Here he meets the nurse Yuki Kobayashi. Yuki is the opposite of Hideo. During the day she works as a nurse and in the evening she studies hard. However, Hideo's behavior leaves an unforgettable impression on Yuki and the two soon develop an intimate friendship ...
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?
7.3
/22/
10
/1/
65
/4/

Mother Country (1962)
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.
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?
5.8
/57/
60
/1/

Case of the Disjointed Murder (1977)
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...
poster
Criterion Channel
61
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6.8
/149/
50
/5/
67
/9/

Boyhood (1951)
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
poster
?
3
/3/

Deluxe Salon Car Engagement Tour Murders (1987)
Fukami, a secretary engaged to company president Kaido, her employer, is invited by his close friends, the Nogis, to a three-day-two-night tour. The tour group is traveling in a luxurious coach to Lake Megami in the Tateshina Plains. On the way, they are disturbed to hear that Shirai, a hostess who was supposed to come along on the tour, has been murdered. And the next day, the body of Hasegawa, another tour member, is floating in Lake Megami...
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10
/1/

Hanzaki Daimyojin, Gorosuke no uta (1972)
1972 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.
poster
Criterion Channel
?
5.9
/96/
10
/1/
50
/5/

Fireworks Over the Sea (1951)
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
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6.3
/12/
10
/1/

The Unbalanced Wheel (1957)
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
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10
/1/

Danchizuma no sakebi (1983)
A man she was once in a relationship with has been killed. A wife keeping a secret from her husband gets involved in a strange case.
poster
57
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5.8
/102/
42
/4/
72
/5/
3.4
/229/

Kamen Rider Black: Terror! Demon Mansion at Devil's Pass (1988)
The city of Yūbari in the Hokkaido prefecture has become a ghost town following the presence of Shadow Moon and his minions of Gorgom. Makino, a scientist working on Gorgom's top-secret robot experiment, escapes from the evil organization and returns to Tokyo, only to find out that his wife and daughter have been abducted. As Kamen Rider Black, Kotaro travels to Yubari to save Makino's family and liberate the town from Shadow Moon's evil grasp.
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7.4
/22/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Woman Unveiled (1958)
Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.
poster
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10
/1/

Storm on the Silvery Peaks (1960)
N/A
poster
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4.6
/34/
10
/1/

Hold Me and Kiss Me (1992)
Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist the infection, she finds new friendship and companionship with a journalist named Miyuki and a man named Akira.
poster
44
?
6.9
/137/
10
/1/
54
/7/

Elegy of the North (1957)
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.
poster
59
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6.2
/258/
44
/5/
66
/8/
3.3
/614/

Youth of the Son (1952)
The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.
poster
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6.1
/67/
70
/1/
62
/4/

Devil's Flute (1979)
Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the backdrop of wealth, this film is loaded with twists and turns and surprises at every corner.
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沖縄健児隊 (1953)
N/A


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