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Departures (2008)
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.
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Peacock Premium
80
7.4
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76
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74
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3.6
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93
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92
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74
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Touch (2024)
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
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79
7.7
/12314/
75
/193/
74
/170/
3.9
/11724/
90
/51/
89
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66
/17/

Shall We Dance? (1996)
A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
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76
7.5
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75
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73
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4.1
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77
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88
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65
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7.9
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Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.
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75
65
7.4
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73
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71
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3.8
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85
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The Bird People in China (1998)
Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza, who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China. Led on their long and disastrous journey to the mine by Shen, the three men come across something even more magical and enticing.
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73
63
6.7
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66
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64
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100
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Gemini (1999)
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
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54
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68
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65
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83
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Gonin (1995)
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.
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40
7.2
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68
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65
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100
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The Long Excuse (2016)
A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.
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33
7.1
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68
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3.6
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80
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Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must team together to defeat their rivals or face disgrace and the disbandment of the sumo club.
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Criterion Channel
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6.6
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62
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56
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3.5
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Heat Wave (1991)
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
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13
6.6
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62
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64
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3.4
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90
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The Emperor in August (2015)
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nights, but a decision cannot be made. The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. General Korechika Anami is torn over making the proper decision and the Emperor of Japan worries about his people. Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki leads the cabinet meeting, while Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu can't do anything, but watch the meeting. At this time, Major Kenji Hatanaka and other young commissioned officers, who are against Japan surrendering, move to occupy the palace and a radio broadcasting station. The radio station is set to broadcast Emperor Hirohito reading out the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War.
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11
6.8
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60
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68
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3.5
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69
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Fancy Dance (1989)
Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots.
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8.6
/34/

Prince Shōtoku (2001)
In the late 6th century, the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of a unified state. Battles still raged among various warrior clans. Prince Shotoku, second son of Emperor Yomei, strived to create a new nation out of this chaos. NHK captures this great man from a time in history rarely depicted on screen, in a story of epic proportions.
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7.0
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Saiyūki (1993)
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45
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85
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Silence of the Sea (2024)
The day before his exhibition, world-renowned painter Tamura discovers that his own work contains a forgery. Meanwhile, the body of a woman with countless ukiyo-e tattoos is discovered at the sea. From the two incidents, the name of Ryuji emerges.
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Takashi Miike : The V-Emperor (2024)
Takashi Miike is a cinema monster. Let's return to his filmography, his main themes, the framework of his monumental universe.
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10
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Balloon (1990)
Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.
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6.9
/19/
10
/1/

Last Song (1994)
A drama that depicts the trajectory of four years in the life of two young musicians and one woman who dreamed of becoming a star, leaving Hakata to pursue fame in Tokyo.
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35
/2/

My Santa Boy (1992)
This suave lad triple books himself for christmas dates.
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6.8
/46/
20
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65
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Black Jack (2000)
Matsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a church where it is rumored that miracles happen. There, they find strange twins named Pinoko. With Pinoko's guidance, Matsuzaki is saved by a genius surgeon, BJ, in exchange for exorbitant fees. However, Matsuzaki is captured by the police. Meanwhile, Reiko, a female detective who pursues Matsuzaki and other organizations, tries to solve a mystery by conducting an independent investigation. It turns out Matsuzaki was found dead.
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5.5
/24/
10
/1/
60
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Come On Girls! (1982)
Three high school boys leave their dormitory and go to a resort and fall in love.
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59
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6.7
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48
/8/
62
/11/

The Longest Night in Shanghai (2007)
A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this romantic dramedy that twists traditional roles by making the beauty expert a male and the cab driver a feisty female. Although he works in a glamorous industry, Naoki Mizushima can't help but notice that his life is anything but beautiful. Can the uncouth Lin Xi help him make over his life for the better?
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5.8
/75/
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48
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Raffles Hotel (1989)
Actress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles Hotel and finds out that he lives in a big house with his wife and children. In the darkness, Moeko suddenly stands in front of Kariya with a camera in her hands. The shutter's sound resounds through the room. When it fades away, Moeko has vanished...
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73
/3/

Ryuukou Kanbou (2021)
The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paranoid about Saeko’s health, making her wear heavy clothes even in summer in order to prevent her from catching a cold. Their child before Saeko died due to an epidemic, and he believes thorough enforcement is a natural consequence. In 1918, the Spanish flu reaches Japan. As the number of infected people grows, Shiga starts to suspect their servant Ishi might have gone to watch a travelling entertainment troupe’s performance which drew a great number of villagers. It is something Ishi is likely to do. But when Shiga questions her, she says that she did not go. However, she makes him have misgivings on a regular basis and he decides to take this opportunity to make her quit. An uproar ensues. Shiga feels that he has become a tyrant and refrains from kicking her out but he loses all reason and faith in humanity amid the pandemic…
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4.2
/10/
10
/1/

Barrow Gang BC (1985)
Film about a pirate radio station.
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5.5
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10
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Beppin Town (1989)
An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murder case. A mystery drawn with a hard-boiled touch set in Kobe (some locations in Ashiya and Yokohama ). The scenery of Kobe before the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake is included in various background scenes, and you can see the buildings and scenery that can not be seen now.
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Headphone Lullaby (1983)
The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.
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7.2
/69/
54
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70
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Playtime Never Ends (1991)
A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for the runaway robber and police grows desperate to arrest him to save their face. However the robber remains at large.
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60
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6.6
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55
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60
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Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment (1996)
There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived, worked, and shared experiences.
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10
/1/

Tales of the Bizarre: Vol. 2 (1991)
N/A
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59
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5.8
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65
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57
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The Big Bee (2015)
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline the helicopter will be dropped. 8 hours is given as the deadline. Making the situation even more dire, a young child is in the helicopter.
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5.6
/44/
35
/2/

Making of Gemini (2000)
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".
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4.2
/25/
45
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MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming (2010)
Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.
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6.3
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60
/8/
67
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3.4
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Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989)
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
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6.1
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65
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75
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Spy Sorge (2003)
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted with a sympathetic communist who like he is attached to the ideals of freedom and rule of the masses. Sorge is able to feed the Soviet Union useful information regarding the Axis allies and their movements in Asia and beyond.
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54
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6.7
/125/
43
/3/
52
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Nowhere Man (1991)
Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.
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6.4
/41/
40
/2/

Dioxin from Fish! (1992)
A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.
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10
/1/

Highschool Scramble (1982)
N/A
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5.6
/20/
50
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Ganryujima (2003)
The legendary duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island is brought to life in a way never before seen. The vile Musashi has raped a farm girl and commandeered a boat for his trip to the island.
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60
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7.4
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20
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81
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4.0
/878/

The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2022)
An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.
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64
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6.6
/630/
54
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70
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3.4
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The Mystery of Rampo (1995)
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.
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The Man Who Carries the Voice of August (2025)
This is the story of a strange encounter brought about by the atomic bomb, based on the true story of Akihiko Ito, a journalist who lived in Nagasaki and traveled throughout Japan to collect the stories of atomic bomb survivors.
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Making of "Departures" (2009)
A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)
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小泉今日子40周年スペシャル (2022)
N/A


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