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MUBI
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6.8
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70
/127/
68
/115/
3.4
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/42/
71
/14/
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/11/

Ramen Shop (2018)
Masato is a young ramen chef in Japan. When he finds his late mother's journal after the sudden death of his emotionally distant father, he takes it with him to her native country, Singapore, hoping to piece together the story of his family and his life.
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70
7.6
/3256/
76
/132/
77
/102/
4.0
/6745/
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Little Forest: Winter/Spring (2015)
Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
6.3
/8565/
62
/141/
62
/52/
3.3
/4367/
67
/18/
98
/71/
59
/7/

Hidden Blade (2023)
Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor when the Wang Jingwei regime declared war on Britain and the U.S.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
77
59
7.4
/2442/
74
/118/
77
/84/
4.1
/31284/
81
/27/

Love & Pop (1998)
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
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80
57
7.6
/3956/
80
/159/
77
/117/
4.0
/10529/
88
/7/

Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014)
Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.
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80
55
7.4
/2669/
77
/92/
73
/58/
3.9
/4469/
100
/5/
78
/3/

Her Love Boils Bathwater (2016)
After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Futaba resolves to spend her remaining time reuniting her broken family, reopening the long-closed bathhouse, and helping her shy daughter Azumi learn to stand on her own.
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The Roku Channel
65
51
5.7
/1950/
63
/108/
56
/80/
3.1
/3104/
100
/6/
52
/28/

Dead Sushi (2012)
A disgruntled researcher injects his former employers' meal with a serum that turns their sushi into flesh-eating monsters.
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78
44
6.9
/645/
62
/18/
59
/24/
3.5
/401/
64
/11/
75
/19/

Fine, Totally Fine (2008)
Two listless friends and a clumsy girl try to make sense of their lives, and perhaps find love along the way.
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74
43
7.2
/486/
77
/80/
73
/23/
3.5
/1643/
7.8
/148939/

AnoHana: The Flower We Saw That Day (2015)
Friends grow apart after a tragic accident claims one of their number. Years later, the dead girl appears to them to ask for their help in crossing over to the afterlife.
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64
40
6.5
/1782/
65
/81/
61
/60/
3.4
/5240/
62
/12/

Blind Woman's Curse (1970)
Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
39
6.2
/1383/
67
/89/
60
/54/
3.2
/1500/
70
/10/
69
/5/

Samurai Marathon (2019)
When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his independent-minded daughter Yuki secretly joins the race.
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61
37
6.4
/2307/
65
/115/
62
/103/
3.2
/1648/
50
/5/

Tokyo Fiancée (2014)
A Japanophile young Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student, in this charming and tender tale of young love and cultural discovery.
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64
29
6.4
/994/
62
/31/
65
/26/
3.2
/282/
65
/76/

Virgin Snow (2007)
Min, a Korean boy, moves to Japan with his father who is a potter. One day at a local shrine, he meets Nanae, a beautiful Japanese girl with stunning eyes who is aspiring to be a painter. Min falls in love at first sight and finds out that Nanae attends the school to which he has just transferred. Their friendship develops fast despite their cultural and language difference. When Min's grandmother falls ill, Min returns to Korea and Nanae is nowhere to be found. Had his true feelings for Nanae not been apparent to her? Why has Nanae disappeared without a word?
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69
29
7.0
/967/
73
/60/
68
/30/
3.4
/731/

The Last Recipe (2017)
A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe.
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69
27
6.7
/585/
68
/10/
72
/20/
3.4
/269/
80
/5/
62
/8/

A Tale of Samurai Cooking (2013)
In this love story set in the Edo period, 27-year-old Oharu is a genius in the kitchen. Oharu attracts the attention of the master chef of the Kaga Domain, who arranges for her to marry his son and heir, 24-year-old Yasunobu. But, Yasunobu is cold to his new wife, and he's more interested in swordplay than cookery.
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68
26
6.2
/539/
74
/30/
70
/40/
3.3
/556/

Evergreen Love (2016)
Sayaka works at a office. She's not very good at her job or with love. One night, she finds a man, Itsuki, collapsed in front of her home. She takes him inside and they begin to live together. Itsuki teaches Sayaka about cooking wild herbs and collecting wild herbs, but he has a secret.
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74
15
7.3
/255/
76
/24/
76
/5/
3.7
/896/

Come Back Anytime (2021)
Without heir or apprentice, Masamoto Ueda's recipes will die with him, which is perhaps the secret to his vitality and hunger for new ingredients and experiences even after 40 years—he is able to invent new techniques and flavours without the burden of tradition.
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Hoopla
62
13
6.7
/306/
65
/11/
51
/17/
3.4
/496/

Shady (2012)
Because of her last name "Kumada" (bear + rice paddy) and her appearance, Misa's high school classmates call her "Pooh" disparagingly. She obviously has no friends and can only let down her guard around her pet parrot and the goldfish in the science room at school. But, then she finds herself quickly becoming best friends with Izumi who is a cute and popular classmates. Although somewhat puzzled by Izumi's interest in her, Misa is excited about having a friend for the first time ever. But, Izumi's initial angelic demeanor gradually transforms into a demonic one.
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?
70
/1/

Rudy Maxa's World Exotic Places: Japan (2017)
Travel journalist Rudy Maxa and Washington, D.C. restaurateur Daisuke Utagawa present three distinct regions of Japan, focusing on the nation's food and food producers. From the ramen of the northern island of Hokkaido, to the sushi of Tokyo, to the Wagyu beef raised on the southern island of Kyushu, food is a window on the soul of Japan.
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?
6.3
/71/

True Confessions of a Sushi Addict (1999)
A raw fish addict pays the price when she cannot see an end to her satisfying her habit.
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?
6.1
/18/
60
/1/

Penguin Fufu (2012)
When Ayumi Mastuda (Eiko Koike) worked as a freelance writer she met Chinese cameraman Gyoukou (Kingone Wang), who worked at the same publishing company in Tokyo. They married 5 years ago. After his employer's went bankrupt, Gyoukou and Ayumi Matsuda moved to Ishigaki Island. Gyoukou also decided to apply for naturalization as a Japanese citizen. In order to prove they are real married couple they have an interview at a local Bureau of Judicial Affiars branch. As the interview goes along, they find it more difficult than expected ...
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64
?
6.6
/220/
71
/5/
55
/10/

Thicker than Water (2018)
Hard-working Yuria runs a small printing company. Despite her best efforts, she can’t seem to attract the attention of Kazunari, a polite yet aloof client who is more interested in flirting with Mako, Yuria’s ditzy younger sister and employee. Meanwhile, Kazunari has his hands full with Takuji, his rough-hewn brother who was recently released from prison and is crashing at his apartment.
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54
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6.3
/320/
42
/8/
58
/4/

Big Dreams Little Tokyo (2006)
Big Dreams Little Tokyo is the story of Boyd, an American with an uncanny ability to speak Japanese. Boyd aspires to succeed in the world of Japanese business but finds himself mostly on the outside looking in. Meanwhile, his roommate Jerome, is a Japanese American who has always felt too American to be Japanese but too Japanese to be American. He aspires to be a sumo wrestler but finds his weight and blood pressure are thwarting his dreams. Together they struggle to find their place in a world where cultural identity is seldom what it seems.
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70
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6.4
/212/
73
/10/
73
/19/

Asahinagu (2017)
Asahi Tojima (Nanase Nishino) is a first grade high school student. She is small and weak physically. Asahi Tojima decides to change herself. She enrolls in the naginata (Japanese blade) club at her school. She works hard with the other club members and targets the national competition.
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?
4.2
/12/
30
/1/
50
/1/

Waiting for the Moon (2017)
Yumi is a victim when the triple disaster of an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown occur in Japan of 2011. She is a guest of her aunt now. She finds a job at a local bar and works under the owner Sugiya, a man who has amnesia and barely recalls anything except his recipes. The two begin to develop feelings for one another.
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61
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5.6
/146/
54
/7/
74
/5/

Eating Women (2018)
Follows the daily lives of 8 women with different backgrounds through what they eat and whom they date.
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Kanopy
67
?
6.6
/287/
70
/6/
64
/5/
3.5
/284/

Complicity (2020)
A Chinese man who is living illegally in Japan bluffs his way into a job preparing traditional Japanese soba noodles.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
?
6.8
/339/
61
/5/
58
/10/
78
/8/

Dog in a Sidecar (2007)
The film begins in the present, with its heroine, Kaoru, a grown-up woman working as a real-estate agent, while helping out the folksy proprietor of a neighborhood fishing pond. There she meets a shy girl who needs her help baiting a hook and reminds her of herself in the fourth grade.
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Kakehashi: A Portrait of Chef Nobuo Fukuda (2017)
A profile of Nobuo Fukuda, a chef blending Japanese and western styles.


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