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7.2
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64
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3.6
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94
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77
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Dr. Akagi (1998)
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
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74
7.7
/140840/
76
/3107/
75
/2043/
3.9
/103337/
77
/65/
90
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62
/22/
cc age 14+

Empire of the Sun (1987)
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
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70
6.8
/8389/
64
/130/
65
/117/
3.6
/7790/
71
/21/
71
/193/
75
/17/

Taboo (1999)
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
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63
6.7
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69
/412/
68
/350/
3.3
/3961/
47
/32/
81
/1052/
49
/14/

Azumi (2003)
In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is Azumi, the ultimate assassin.
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73
62
7.3
/3993/
68
/79/
70
/102/
3.6
/3034/
83
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Achilles and the Tortoise (2008)
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.
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The Roku Channel
61
6.3
/10552/
68
/427/
70
/345/
3.4
/22664/
54
/13/
71
/889/

Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive, they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.
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Hoopla
69
60
6.9
/4411/
70
/174/
72
/142/
3.3
/1586/
72
/261/

Cyborg She (2008)
A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future.
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59
6.0
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65
/492/
64
/240/
3.0
/1760/
54
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Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.
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Netflix
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56
6.1
/4444/
64
/527/
65
/268/
2.8
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42
/24/
6.4
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NiNoKuni (2019)
Adapted from the video game series of the same name, NiNoKuni follows high school peers Yuu and Haru who must travel between two separate yet parallel worlds to help save their childhood friend, Kotona, whose life is in danger. In this magical quest complicated by love, the three teens will be tasked with making the ultimate choice.
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Kanopy
56
6.5
/15468/
67
/642/
61
/269/
3.0
/3190/
31
/88/
46
/273/
48
/33/
cc age 14+

Emperor (2012)
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.
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55
6.0
/5195/
63
/243/
66
/206/
2.9
/11531/
60
/5/
47
/180/

Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
In an alternate timeline the original Godzilla is never defeated and repeatedly reemerges to feed on Japan's energy sources. A new inter-dimensional weapon called the Dimension Tide is created with the intent of eliminating Godzilla. However, the new weapon might also serve as a gateway to something far more sinister.
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67
54
6.6
/5641/
68
/161/
69
/126/
3.2
/887/
72
/105/

Goemon (2009)
Follow the infamous ninja bandit named Ishikawa Goemon (Yosuke Eguchi) in an epic story. One night while looting treasure from Nanban (Southern Barbarians), Goemon finds a mysterious box hidden inside a secret grave. A forgotten relic from the past containing untold powers.
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45
6.3
/2323/
63
/35/
63
/57/
3.3
/1927/
52
/81/

Glory to the Filmmaker! (2007)
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
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44
6.6
/581/
63
/26/
70
/75/
3.4
/1014/
70
/158/
6.9
/2450/

Jungle Emperor Leo (1997)
Tezuka Osamu's most famous work "Jungle Emperor Leo" has been made into an animated version a number of times. In this theater version, Tezuka Osamu was able for the first time to depict the theme that "All life is equal" through Leo's self-sacrifice.
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Amazon Prime Video
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42
6.6
/727/
68
/50/
68
/26/
3.7
/5151/
67
/6/

The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985)
A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers, a girl-friendly, silver-jumpsuited, synth-pop sensation. Along with their #1 fan, who herself dreams of a music career, the duo rockets to stardom.
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63
42
6.1
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67
/148/
71
/123/
2.9
/1705/
59
/14/

Black Butler (2014)
Set in the year 2020, following her supposed death, a young woman returns as the son of her noble family to precede the family's prestigious company, with a demon at her side to avenge her parent's murder.
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40
6.2
/2816/
65
/95/
63
/115/
3.2
/1680/
45
/11/
44
/13/
35
/6/

Shield of Straw (2013)
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru. Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.
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The Roku Channel
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38
4.3
/8364/
53
/206/
46
/162/
2.1
/2219/
28
/148/

Into the Sun (2005)
After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherton) for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent (Steven Seagal) that had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza. Using his former ties, he quickly determines that a war is brewing between old-guard Yakuza members and a young, crazed leader (Takao Osawa) with ties to the Chinese Tong.
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37
6.5
/1043/
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/32/
63
/30/
3.6
/3174/

Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers (2005)
Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad for spies. Hoping for some excitement in her life, she decides to give them a call.
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36
6.8
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/42/
72
/36/
3.6
/1375/
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/13/

Scabbard Samurai (2011)
Kanjuro Nomi is an aging samurai who only has a scabbard. Deserting his lord to wander the land with his daughter Tae, Kanjuro is captured and sentenced to an unusual punishment: he has 30 days to bring a smile to the sad prince who has lost his mother — or else he must die.
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34
6.6
/568/
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/27/
65
/26/
3.7
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Love Hotel (1985)
A tale of two broken souls. A call-girl named Yumi, “night-blooming flower,” and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started, they return to the scene of their first macabre passion. With a taste for wicked absurdity while coursing with undercurrents of operatic emotion, at times verging on a musical, Love Hotel is moved by the irrational forces that attract two bodies together.
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33
6.8
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3.4
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Heaven and Earth (1990)
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry. Younger and less brutal, Kagetora must find the strength to be as brutal as his opponent, but at what cost?
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33
6.8
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70
/21/
64
/42/
3.6
/1070/

Agitator (2001)
When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death for a prominent crime boss. Devastated by this turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions.
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33
6.0
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60
/104/
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3.1
/1428/
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40
/3/

Museum (2016)
In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, soon discovers that his own family is connected to the crimes.
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32
7.1
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77
/52/
72
/25/
3.6
/592/
72
/26/

Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II (2010)
Nodame and Chiaki mutually decide that it would be for the best if they parted ways for a while so Nodame can practice for an upcoming competition. However, when things don’t go her way, she gets impatient and depressed. While Nodame is away, Chiaki’s former pianist Rui Son returns to take her place. To make matters worse, Rui and Chiaki are set to play the song Nodame dreams of playing with Chiaki herself: Ravel’s “Concerto in G Minor”.
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7.0
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67
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70
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100
/23/
6.8
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Final Yamato (1983)
The Galman Empire is destroyed but the planet Galmania is not, by a chance collision of galaxies. The Bolar Federation worlds including Planet Bolar are destroyed. The Yamato, back under the command of Captain Okita, encounters the planet Denguil too late to save its humanoid civilization from being flooded by the water planet Aquarius. The surviving Denguil, a warrior race who believe only the strong should survive, plan to use Aquarius to flood Earth and destroy humanity, in order to create a new home for their race.
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28
7.1
/1203/
77
/55/
72
/30/
3.5
/748/
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/6/

Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I (2009)
Chiaki is an aspiring conductor who faces the challenge of leading an orchestra which is made up of substitutes. Nodame gives her support to her beloved as she works hard towards achieving her dream to pass a promotion exam at their music conservatory. Will Chiaki be able to revive a broken down orchestra and launch his musical career? What will become of Nodame and Chiaki's relationship?
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27
6.8
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57
/24/
58
/22/
3.4
/433/
6.5
/2353/

Phoenix 2772 (1980)
Phoenix 2772 starts with twelve minutes without dialogue, much like a silent film, recalling the birth and education of Godo. In this brave new world, children are born in test tubes and are raised by computers and robots. Godo learns the skills that will make him into a great pilot, assisted by the robotic wonder Olga. Everything that Godo needs is provided for him until he eventually goes for training with his automaton companion. He soon realizes that the world is not what he expected...
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27
7.1
/1268/
62
/24/
57
/21/
3.7
/1040/
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/10/

Sway (2006)
A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.
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25
6.8
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60
/13/
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/9/
40
/33/
6.6
/1797/

Be Forever Yamato (1980)
The Black Nebula Empire attacks Earth and threatens to blow up the planet with a bomb they placed on Earth if counter attacked. Earths hopes rest on the Yamato crew as they go to the Black Nebula Planet and try to find a way to difuse the bomb before it's too late.
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25
6.4
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49
/21/
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/17/
3.2
/517/
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/90/

The Handsome Suit (2008)
An overweight cook is given the opportunity to woo the girl of his dreams when he is given a "handsome suit" that transforms him into an idealized human being in this absurd Japanese comedy.
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24
7.1
/1043/
70
/30/
60
/19/
3.7
/1229/
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/3/

The Woodsman and the Rain (2012)
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.
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23
5.0
/578/
55
/47/
70
/32/
3.0
/525/

Kaiji: Final Game (2020)
Kaiji (played by Tatsuya Fujiwara) is about to have his life changed. The thrill is beyond anything he, or most people, have experienced. The adventure is not without risk and danger however. He is given four games, which are challenges, and include life and death situations. The film follows its prequels and things will get both mental and physical.
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65
22
6.9
/139/
60
/7/
65
/10/
6.6
/1167/

Coo of the Far Seas (1993)
After a storm hits their island, Yusuke (driving his jet-ski) finds a baby dinosaur. He show it to his dad, they keep it and call it Coo. But there are other parties interested in a 65 million year old creature...
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22
7.1
/481/
69
/28/
83
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3.4
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100
/1/
6.6
/2138/

Space Battleship Yamato (1977)
When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from Earth's atmosphere.
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20
6.5
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54
/20/
58
/11/
3.3
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/4/
5.7
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Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987)
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.
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56
19
6.5
/57/
51
/7/
51
/12/
5.9
/1242/

One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book (1978)
Bander is a 17-year-old boy from Earth who lives on a distant planet, which is populated by human shape-shifters who feed off of vegetables and animal tails. Violence soon breaks out, as invaders launch an attack on Bander's new planet. This was Japan's first 2-hour animated film for television. The program received high ratings when broadcast as part of a set of 24-hour TV programs called "Ai wa Chikyu wo Sukuu" on Nippon Television. After a long gap since his last animated film for television, this work fully reflects Osamu Tezuka's desire to achieve theatrical quality with this production.
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17
5.1
/516/
61
/9/
56
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3.2
/273/
48
/48/

Kibakichi (2004)
A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who feed on human flesh.
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16
6.6
/206/
56
/10/
54
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3.6
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P. P. Rider (1983)
Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
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16
6.4
/21/
55
/4/
45
/4/
5.9
/1182/

Akuemon (1993)
A fortuneteller tells Hidari Taisho that he must hunt down 1000 foxes in order to conquer the country. So Akuemon, who is disliked by everybody, is hired to do the foxhunting. In response, the foxes send a female fox to Akuemon's house disguised as his wife. A story unfolds between Akuemon, who has never loved anyone, and the female fox, who slowly discovers true love in him even while tormented by sorrow over her comrades' death. This is the 6th work in "The Lion Books" series. It is also the first attempt by visualist Tezuka Makoto, Tezuka's older son, to render an original of his father's into an animated version.
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61
13
6.1
/131/
64
/10/
51
/9/
3.5
/837/

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
6.9
/513/
70
/9/
68
/10/
3.4
/485/

The Negotiator (2003)
After a convenience store robbery, three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital. Inspector Ishida and Captain Tohno handle the negotiations while one of their colleagues, Lt. Ando, tries to find out why the men decided to take the hospital hostage. Through flashbacks, relevant information is revealed to the audience. When the negotiations are finished, most things seem to be fine until they lose track of the criminals. Then, the story unveils from a different perspective, its roots in feelings of love and vengeance.
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13
6.4
/110/
55
/15/
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/18/
3.2
/214/

Detective Conan Drama Special 2: Confrontation With the Men in Black (2007)
Shinichi Kudo returns as the young Conan to investigate a murderous letter sent to a beauty pageant winner who demands affection.
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51
13
5.1
/624/
58
/16/
52
/15/
46
/12/

Samurai Commando Mission 1549 (2005)
An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of civil War'. At the same time an imaginary-number anomaly thought to be caused by interference from the past begins eroding the present.
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65
13
7.0
/439/
54
/9/
66
/11/
3.4
/215/
68
/12/

Villon's Wife (2009)
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival
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46
13
5.2
/791/
55
/17/
60
/20/
20
/4/

Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (2005)
A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.
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67
12
6.7
/216/
65
/11/
66
/7/
3.5
/722/

Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion (1985)
Iori, taken from an orphanage by a family for domestic work, runs away and is adopted and raised by two young men. Ten years later, she crosses paths with her former step-sister, who is soon poisoned to death, Iori being the prime suspect.
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62
11
6.5
/193/
62
/17/
59
/15/
3.2
/280/

Detective Conan Drama Special 1: The Letter of Challenge (2006)
In order to uphold his title of High School Detective, a teen sleuth must protect his classmates from kidnapping after receiving a threatening letter.


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