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Kanopy
81
7.8
/30526/
77
/929/
77
/770/
4.2
/60514/
86
/102/
89
/162/
73
/33/

Like Father, Like Son (2013)
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.
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79
7.6
/18531/
77
/722/
76
/528/
4.1
/47061/
93
/121/
83
/74/
75
/31/

Our Little Sister (2015)
After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.
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Kanopy
71
6.7
/8771/
67
/288/
66
/274/
3.5
/16032/
87
/83/
69
/21/
68
/18/

The Third Murder (2017)
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.
poster
74
48
6.8
/1354/
68
/55/
69
/51/
3.7
/3578/
100
/9/
68
/3/

Love & Peace (2015)
A man, who once dreamed of becoming a punk rocker, is working as a low salaryman at a musical instrument parts company. He's secretly in love with his colleague. One day, he finds a little turtle on the rooftop, naming it Pikadon.
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Kanopy
67
46
6.7
/1270/
61
/23/
63
/30/
3.4
/1151/
86
/14/
53
/24/
75
/7/

Caterpillar (2010)
The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese soldier in the Second Sino-Japanese War who has been decreed a "War God" by the Emperor.
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71
45
7.3
/1455/
69
/40/
69
/43/
3.7
/3362/

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974)
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
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Fandango at Home Free
47
31
3.9
/1303/
50
/54/
61
/69/
2.2
/1204/
41
/90/

Devilman (2004)
A scientific exploration in search of a new energy source unleashes a group of powerful demons who begin possessing human bodies and destroying civilization. Close friends Akira and Ryo wind up on different sides of this epic struggle. Akira’s inner strength allows him to maintain his identity and fight for good, but the weaker Ryo is completely overtaken by Satan himself.
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47
16
5.0
/561/
55
/11/
42
/15/
3.0
/571/
31
/47/

Ju-rei: The Uncanny (2004)
Japanese school girls die violently after seeing a man wearing a black hood.
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59
16
5.7
/234/
58
/12/
56
/12/
3.2
/997/

The Demon Within (1985)
A journalist becomes possessed by a gakidama, a spirit of the dead. Unknown to the man, a demon is now incubating in his stomach, and a mysterious stranger seem to know what afflicts him.
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60
15
6.9
/425/
48
/5/
59
/13/
3.4
/221/
60
/21/

Suicide Bus (1998)
A young girl named Mitsuki receives a ticket for a bus tour from her uncle. The tour appears to be normal (expect that everyone appears to be quite sombre), but Mitsuki learns its true purpose: the other passengers and the tour manager have a suicide pact to send the bus over a cliff so their families can collect the insurance money.
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64
14
5.8
/117/
66
/6/
62
/18/
3.5
/459/

Main Theme (1984)
A kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love.
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60
9
6.4
/229/
56
/10/
53
/13/
3.4
/289/

The Wanderers (1973)
Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls. Though they use the servants' entrance, they still feel themselves bound by the samurai code of Bushido; and this tension leads to tragedy.
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10
/1/

The Black Sheep (1967)
Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like Jiro Yamazaki (the black sheep of the title) who is related to the family hosting them and whom they keep running into, but can't help but to feel sympathy for. Of course, rumours start fast in a small town, but delightfully she doesn't really care at all. This is another very solid Shogoro Nishimura film.
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4.0
/8/
10
/1/
60
/1/

I Go to Tokyo (1985)
A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside.
poster
?
6.7
/16/

Orange Road Express (1978)
A travelling group of young people running a pirate radio station from a small truck encounter an eccentric elderly couple who are on the run from the law.
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?
20
/1/

Socrates (1996)
Based on the story "Gokudō Socrates"
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6.7
/29/

Ikiru (2007)
In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.
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7.5
/35/
30
/1/
70
/2/

Our Highland Hotel (2013)
Ayumi Aizawa is a lonely young man without a family. He works at Forest Hyde Press Hotel as a cleaner. His deceased grandfather Kenzaburo worked at the same hotel. When his grandfather worked at the Forest Hyde Press Hotel, the hotel was well known for its extreme hospitality. Now, the hotel is nothing more than an ordinary hotel. New manager Ryuuya Sawashiro then attempts to bring the hotel back to its glory days.
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6.7
/56/
70
/1/

Truckster Goes to Hokkaido (1976)
Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.
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10
/1/

Sotsugyou -GRADUATION- (1985)
Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers, witnesses a murder in the forest...and she knows the culprit! Unfortunately, she doesn't have it in her to tell anybody about it, and to make matters worse, said aforementioned friend gets accused of the murder.
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5.6
/36/
60
/2/
75
/2/

Love and the Grand Tug-of-war (2020)
Following the 2009 financial crash, Waseda University graduate Takeshi lost his job in Tokyo and retreated to his family home in Sendai. While he resumed his role as heir to the family construction company with a diligent attitude, his hidebound father resents that his son left and that at the age of 35 Takeshi is still single. However, wider events will force father and son to overcome their differences as the Otsunahiki, a great tug-of-war featuring thousands of participants, will pull them together in a family tradition just as Takeshi meets Jiheyun, a beautiful Korean doctor on an exchange programme... The ties of family bind people tightly as characters struggle with the push of their own ambitious urges and the pull of family commitments but the Otsunahiki ropes things together in a family drama rich with events and the culture of Sendai, that will tug and the heartstrings of viewers whilst providing to the desire to visit the beautiful and storied region.
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10
/1/

Super Girl Maria (1991)
Yama, a bloodthirsty demon full of hatred and anger. He who confronts it is selected to have a few supernatural powers. Maria, wages a supernatural war in a school and another dimension with the help of Hiroshi who has the same ability.
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20
/1/

チンピラ仁義 新・極楽とんぼ (1996)
Do you stab? Do you want to exchange?! Gokudo and the brothers reunite.
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7.7
/26/

Dreaming Awake (2008)
Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his students, Daisuke. The brash, headstrong young man is fixated on with the Second World War. He feels a sense of frustration at the irrational sacrifice of young people's lives during the war six decades earlier. Daisuke finds that he can vent his frustrations to Kimuro, who experienced the war firsthand. Kimuro's wife, Emiko, is also troubled by memories of the war. She lost a loved one in the war and has never gotten over it. And Kimuro himself also has something from the past that he has yet to face. He believes that the burden of his unresolved past will eventually be the death of him. When Daisuke's neurosis causes him to quit school, life changes for all three of them.
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10
/1/

Way Out, Way In (1970)
Japanese crime film.
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5.9
/27/
60
/1/
60
/4/

Where The Legend Lives (2008)
Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the ancient country of Yamatai. His obsession sprouted from a day when he discovered ancient ceramics while repairing railroad tracks. Now completely blind, Kohei relies on his wife (Sayuri Yoshinaga) to guide him through the country and read the maps in their pursuit of Yamatai.
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4.3
/21/

Kissho Tennyo (2007)
A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an Indian goddess. Sayoko is a kind of femme fatale, who uses her supernatural power to control people, especially men.
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5.0
/9/
20
/1/

Fallen Angels (1998)
Midori is a university student that finds part-time work at a hostess club, near the end of Japan's "Bubble Economy," in the late 80s. She agrees to become the mistress of one of the wealthy young patrons for two million yen a month, but then the bubble bursts...
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66
?
7.5
/388/
40
/5/
77
/9/
3.7
/275/

My Sons (1991)
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father's acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way.
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?
6.3
/14/

The Man Who Wipes Mirrors (2003)
Tsutomu Minagawa is set to retire; the organized business life, a perfectly normal family living in a two-story house with a garage, the once unstoppable routine is about to close down forever. However, Tsutomu's last day changes him forever, as a car accident leads to his new purpose and sets him on a mission to clean every traffic mirror in Japan in order to save lives.
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Hoopla
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5.6
/42/
78
/7/

Immortal Hero (2019)
Makoto Mioya, a highly successful Japanese author and publisher, has a life-threatening, near-death experience. Powerful spiritual beings with whom he has communicated most of his adult life visit Makoto to remind him he has the power within to heal himself. Reborn, Makoto commits his life to sharing the almighty wisdom he receives from the spiritual realm. As doubters, including some of his own family, challenge and question his new-found ardor, Makoto must find a way to connect with his family and the ‘family of man’ to inspire a better world.
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20
/1/

Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman (1998)
N/A
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3.8
/20/
80
/1/
65
/1/

Ghost Shout (2004)
Yoko Sakaki: 24 years old. Occupation: Ghost Negotiator. With her tomboyish attitude and severely bad mouth, she helps ghosts leave this world by shouting at them. But, that work is almost done - she and her boyfriend Toshio are about to get married, and their dream is to open a tofu shop together. However, she has kept her profession a secret from him, instead telling him she is a flight attendant... While out with him one night, Yoko gets a call from work telling her that a ghost has appeared in Hachioji... She goes to bust the ghost with her unreliable new partner, Yanagida, but can she hold on to her relationship at the same time?
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6.7
/38/
35
/2/
70
/1/

Flames of Blood (1981)
The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's a gambler/bakuto). After he kills someone and gets wound, is saved by a blind woman (Mitsuko Baishô), who took care of him. They has a happy time under the protection of the Tomisaburo Wakayama character, an oybun. But of course, happy time doesn't last long. The story is also related to Okada Izo and the Shinsengumi (w/ Kondo Isami played by Makoto Sato)
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10
/1/

Touch of Love (1974)
N/A
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6.2
/46/
35
/2/
20
/2/

Ready to Shoot (1990)
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza.
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?
4.5
/32/
10
/1/
50
/3/

Summer of Demon (1981)
A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes. When he begins an affair with the daughter of another clan's retainer, her father tries to poison him but the substance instead claims an innocent victim...
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?
6.0
/45/
35
/4/
60
/1/

To Trap a Kidnapper (1982)
Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.
poster
71
?
6.9
/139/
75
/4/
65
/2/

Portrait of the Wind (2005)
Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take over the family business after his father’s fatal heart attack. One day at the family photo studio, he finds a kindred spirit in Ayako and the requisite sparks fly between them. The initial portions of the film deal with their budding romance, and it isn’t long before the two become a serious couple, and Ayako is pregnant with Tamio’s child.
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?
6.6
/10/

Shayô (2009)
After World War II, a small aristocratic family in Japan has lost all of their money.
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62
?
6.5
/205/
65
/2/
56
/13/

The Deep Red (2005)
Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops between two people who find their lives irrevocably changed as a result of a horrible multiple homicide. The first person traumatized is the lone survivor of the terrible family bloodbath, a girl who grows up to be a pretty college student. The second person affected by this heinous crime is the daughter of the murderer, a young girl who ends up becoming a tattooed bartender. A full decade after the crime, the killer is finally going to be executed, and the surviving member of the massacre decides to reach out and befriend the murderer's daughter. A tentative, odd sort of friendship blossoms between these two people, both of whom seem to have little in common personally, and every reason in the world for not wanting to meet. Yet they do, but not without reservations. And really, is this friendship quite what it seems? Or is it all part of some twisted plan for vengeance?
poster
49
?
7.5
/134/
20
/1/

Sunday's Dream (1999)
Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy regarding redundancy. However, Shinobu soon gets remarried to Sakamoto depriving Kazuya of a place to stay. He then meets Sachiko who works in a salon where sexual pleasure is offered to men. They promise to have a date on the next Sunday by the sea.
poster
67
?
6.4
/126/
84
/9/
55
/6/
3.4
/208/

Kamen Rider Hibiki The Movie: Hibiki & The Seven War Oni (2005)
When a powerful new Makamou attacks and defeats Hibiki, Asumu dives into Takeshi’s history and discovers a book that details the ancient Oni and a boy sharing his name. As he reads on, he learns of the tensions between humans and Oni as they struggle to stop the Orochi Makamou, but will he discover the key to defeating the new Orochi in the present?
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10
/1/

Crimes of Sex (1969)
An omnibus comedy in which an unique lawyer teaches about laws regarding sex crimes.
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6.3
/23/

Down with The Big Boss (1979)
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.
poster
?
6.0
/92/
32
/4/
45
/6/

Metamorphosis (1986)
A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.
poster
66
?
7.0
/194/
61
/10/
67
/15/

Amagi Pass (1983)
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the boy, who became a printing shop owner, was visited by a retired policeman who came from Amagi Pass. The truth then started to reveal itself.
poster
?
7.1
/36/

Miracle in Four Days (2005)
Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a prodigious ability to play any piece of music after one hearing. Keisuke Kisaragi whose career was abruptly cut short when he jumped in front of a bullet fired by a crazed gunman. The nerves in one hand were severed but he saved the life of Chiori. The tragic incident takes the lives of Chiori's parents, however, and Keisuke becomes her guardian. Not long after their return to Japan, Keisuke discovers Chiori's musical gift.


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