1966

Zatoichi's Vengeance

7/33

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.

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Zatoichi's Vengeance

1965

Gamera, the Giant Monster

6/114

A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.

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Gamera, the Giant Monster

1965

Kwaidan

8/361

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

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Kwaidan

1996

Sleeping Man

8/7

Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.

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Sleeping Man

1963

High and Low

8/842

A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted over whether he should pay the ransom.

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High and Low

1956

The Burmese Harp

8/148

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.

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The Burmese Harp

1963

An Actor's Revenge

7/59

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

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An Actor's Revenge

1965

Samurai Spy

7/43

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sasuke is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Tatewaki, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. By tale’s end, no one is who they seemed to be, and the truth is far more personal than anyone suspected. Director Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, filled with clan intrigue, ninja spies, and multiple double crosses, marks a bold stylistic departure from swordplay film convention.

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Samurai Spy

1992

Mr. Baseball

6/129

Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?

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Mr. Baseball

1961

The Catch

6/11

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”

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The Catch

1968

Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

7/23

A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back. But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 100 Ghost Stories ceremony without the closing cleansing ritual, opening the door for the Yokai Monsters to punish the wicked.

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Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

1974

Himiko

7/20

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.

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Himiko

1960

Intimidation

7/18

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.

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Intimidation

1958

Conflagration

7/28

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.

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Conflagration

1960

Cruel Story of Youth

7/54

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

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Cruel Story of Youth

1960

Her Brother

7/13

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.

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Her Brother

1962

The Broken Commandment

6/8

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.

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The Broken Commandment

1977

Mount Hakkoda

7/13

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.

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Mount Hakkoda

1975

Preparation for the Festival

6/6

Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.

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Preparation for the Festival

1969

Watch Out, Crimson Bat!

7/6

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.

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Watch Out, Crimson Bat!

1963

A Legend, or Was It?

6/10

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.

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A Legend, or Was It?

1962

Being Two Isn't Easy

7/13

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

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Being Two Isn't Easy

1978

Lost Love

5/3

At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Nogami, a reporter, begins to investigate.

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Lost Love

1977

Ballad of Orin

7/19

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

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Ballad of Orin

1984

For Kayako

6/3

A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.

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For Kayako

1957

Hole in One

6/1

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

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Hole in One

1974

Evening Primrose

6/1

The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam Group is a small anarchist organization lead by Daijiro, a silver tongued "Benshi", a performer who provides narratives for silent films, playing multiple roles. In other words, he was a master at the art of deception, a handy talent when it came to 'doing jobs' for his group. His revolutionary ideals attracted many to his squadron, but among them was a young girl who was oblivious to his group's activities. Her name was Shino.

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Evening Primrose

1975

Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip

3/4

Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who work at a pachinko parlour. Hiroshi is a ladies' man but always loses at pachinko. Akira is a virgin at 25 but always wins. Hiroshi tries to get Akira laid with little success but things change when Akira is informed of a 88 million yen inheritance. But only if he can get married.

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Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip

1979

The Inferno

7/7

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.

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The Inferno

1963

Bad Girl

8/5

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights at a rundown bar, sharing drinks and cigarettes with the lowlife drunks. She has nowhere to turn and no one to talk to, until she is reunited with her childhood friend, Saburo, who brings warmth to her heart.

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Bad Girl

1957

The Temptress and the Monk

0/0

Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.

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The Temptress and the Monk

1963

Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp

8/1

Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him any more, attempts to kill him, but without success. Saburouta is rescued by his niece, Keisuke at the last moment. Keisuke is a a good-for-nothing. Since that event, he always turns to his uncle when he needs money. Recently Keisuke feels his uncle isn't as generous as he used to be, he suspects that Saburouta has found out the illicit relation between Keisuke and his uncle's young mistress, Ohasu.

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Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp

1984

Main Theme

6/9

A kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love.

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Main Theme

1966

Koto—The Lake of Tears

7/4

A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings, only to find her peaceful life turned upside down when a master musician takes personal interest in her.

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Koto—The Lake of Tears

1981

Island of the Evil Spirits

6/3

Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.

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Island of the Evil Spirits

1983

Dark Room

6/4

A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers uses his affairs for the subjects of his novels.

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Dark Room

1962

A Flame at the Pier

6/8

A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar.

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A Flame at the Pier

1962

The Inheritance

7/24

On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown to his family and colleagues. A bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to procure the money for themselves, enlisting the aid of impostors and blackmail.

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The Inheritance

1962

Stolen Pleasure

7/3

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe (and renowned director in his own right) Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women for the affections and commitment of the same man, a handsome car salesman. Masuko (Ayako Wakao) is the number one hostess at a cabaret, living with her lover, ... but finds out that he has a wife. When Masuko’s niece arrives the competition further ratchets up. (Also occasionally known in English as “Inflamation”)

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Stolen Pleasure

1955

The Wolves

7/7

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.

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The Wolves

1965

Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

6/5

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

1981

Play it, Boogie-Woogie

6/1

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.

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Play it, Boogie-Woogie

1959

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

8/176

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

1981

Tetsugen

0/0

Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.

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Tetsugen

1964

The Glamorous Ghost

6/1

Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife, then embarks on a crusade to extort all the wealthy men whom she had affairs with.

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The Glamorous Ghost

1963

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

8/11

Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.

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Bamboo Doll of Echizen

1959

Odd Obsession

6/24

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.

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Odd Obsession

1959

Fires on the Plain

8/106

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.

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Fires on the Plain

1963

Beyond the Green Hills

0/0

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.

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Beyond the Green Hills

1974

The Tattered Banner

0/0

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

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The Tattered Banner

1963

Interpol Code 8

0/0

Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.

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Interpol Code 8

1967

Green Light to Joy

0/0

Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.

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Green Light to Joy

1961

Ten Dark Women

6/9

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.

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Ten Dark Women

1972

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

7/132

In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

1960

Volunteering for Villainy

0/0

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

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Volunteering for Villainy

1977

Case of the Disjointed Murder

0/0

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...

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Case of the Disjointed Murder

1961

Blood-Red Water in the Channel

0/0

Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten. He became the new "teen star." And Suzuki: "the director to watch."

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Blood-Red Water in the Channel

1962

Our Marriage

7/6

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

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Our Marriage

1962

Season of Farewell

0/0

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

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Season of Farewell

1977

Ame no meguri ai

0/0

Japanese drama film.

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Ame no meguri ai

1962

Tokyo Bay

7/1

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling investigation through Tokyo's underworld.

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Tokyo Bay

1973

Time Within Memory

5/4

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother.

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Time Within Memory

1973

Deeper Than Blue

0/0

About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her son.

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Deeper Than Blue

1964

The Money Dance

0/0

Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him for his "forceful personality," and assigns him to kill evil people, a president of a loan company and a drug baron.

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The Money Dance

1984

Ohan

0/0

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.

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Ohan

1981

Samurai Reincarnation

6/30

After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.

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Samurai Reincarnation

1977

Village of Eight Gravestones

6/7

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo

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Village of Eight Gravestones

1954

The Black Current

0/0

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Akiyama JNR president was found dead.

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The Black Current

1961

The Man with a Shotgun

7/13

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.

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The Man with a Shotgun

1978

New - No Longer Human

4/1

Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title) and goes down the stairs to self-destruction step by step.

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New - No Longer Human

1970

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

7/9

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

1975

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

7/34

A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.

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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

1968

Lone Wolf Isazo

7/10

Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his brilliant talent in gambling. One late fall at an inn in Kiso Fukushima, Isazo befriends a young boy whose mother turns out to be his old love Yoshino, with whom he was not unable to consummate a marriage due to the class differences between them.

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Lone Wolf Isazo

1959

Woman from the Sea

8/2

While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a nearby village think she is a monster, the female of a shark killed many years before, responsible for many disappearances.

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Woman from the Sea

1974

Love Is in the Green Wind

10/1

A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his heartbreaking romance during the summer holidays with a young sprightly girl.

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Love Is in the Green Wind

1961

A Killer Without a Grave

6/1

Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that he knows he won't be able to afford, a former marksman-turned-bad, Ishioka approaches him. Ishioka is looking for an unaffiliated hit-man who is willing to handle some business. Nakata is just the right man for the job.

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A Killer Without a Grave

1964

Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction

6/12

A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthless smugglers also want him dead is the least of his problems!

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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction

1981

Lonely Heart

6/1

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

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Lonely Heart

1957

The Naked Woman and the Gun

0/0

A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed for a murder he didn't commit.

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The Naked Woman and the Gun

1969

Double Suicide

7/48

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.

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Double Suicide

1962

Glory on the Summit

0/0

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.

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Glory on the Summit

1961

The Storm over Arabia

0/0

Japanese action film set in Arabia.

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The Storm over Arabia

1979

Faraway Tomorrow

2/1

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Faraway Tomorrow

1961

Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm

0/0

The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.

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Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm

1967

Samurai Rebellion

8/212

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.

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Samurai Rebellion

1970

The Vampire Doll

7/49

A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history.

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The Vampire Doll

1961

That Guy and I

10/1

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.

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That Guy and I

1964

Samurai from Nowhere

7/8

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. Into the mix comes Oba Gunjuro (Tetsurō Tamba), a mysterious ronin who will do anything for money. This leads to a fitting climax as the forces of hate and love converge while the couple attempt to break through the border!

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Samurai from Nowhere

1958

Night Drum

6/11

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially greeted by the effusive welcome of his family, spiteful whispers also reach his ear about an adulterous affair carried on, in his long absence, between his wife and a famous drummer. With Hikokuro’s honor imperiled by rumor, his family insists on a formal investigation into the veracity of the gossip. Through the combined testimony of many witnesses, a tale unwinds around the visits of a traveling musician hired to tutor the family heir, the spurned attentions of the man who started the rumor, and the ultimate truth behind the accusations. The conclusion of events prove as much an indictment of bushidō as it is of the reluctant parties involved. Adapted from a 1706 play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon and based on a true case.

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Night Drum

1962

Foundry Town

7/8

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

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Foundry Town

1963

The Black Trademark

0/0

Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.

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The Black Trademark

1975

Without Complaint

0/0

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

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Without Complaint

1967

The River - Poem of Wrath

0/0

A man sets out to search for his brother among the survivors of Hiroshima after an anonymous letter.

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The River - Poem of Wrath

1991

Traffic Jam

5/4

A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two children to visit his parents in his hometown for the 1991 new year holidays. He decides that they will go by car to save on expenses. Unfortunately, the long drive from Tokyo to his hometown becomes a much longer journey than expected due to traffic, sickness and other misfortunes and by the time they arrive three days later, they only have time for a short but happy visit.

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Traffic Jam

1966

Fighting Elegy

7/33

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

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Fighting Elegy

1967

The Black Sheep

0/0

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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The Black Sheep

1967

Burning Nature

0/0

Film from 1967.

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Burning Nature

1980

Koto: The Ancient City

6/1

Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned that her parents are not her biological parents. Cheiko's mother told her that she was stolen while sleeping under a cherry tree in Gion, Kyoto, Japan, but Chieko doesn't believe that. Her relationship with her parents is very close. Chieko only tells her childhood friend Shinichi, but...

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Koto: The Ancient City

1980

Child of the Sun

0/0

A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm interaction between her and adults that grew up with the rough history of Okinawa and discrimination from the mainland. Shots partly on location at beach of Itoman, Yogi Park and Hateruma Island. This is the movie version of the well-known novel by Kenjiro Haitani.

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Child of the Sun

1975

The Gate of Youth

9/1

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a kind Korean and a Harley-riding yakuza.

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The Gate of Youth

1960

The Angry Sea

0/0

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

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The Angry Sea

1983

Lanterns on Blue Waters

5/4

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.

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Lanterns on Blue Waters

1970

Tora-san's Grand Scheme

7/4

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.

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Tora-san's Grand Scheme

1978

August without Emperor

6/2

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.

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August without Emperor

1961

Bitter End of a Sweet Night

6/15

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

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Bitter End of a Sweet Night

1983

The Makioka Sisters

7/41

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.

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The Makioka Sisters

1978

The Demon

6/31

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.

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The Demon

1988

Sakura-tai Chiru

6/3

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.

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Sakura-tai Chiru

1992

The Strange Tale of Oyuki

8/3

A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous and smartly dressed, Nagai patiently wrote in his diary his thoughts during many years. A melancholy reflection on the passage of time and a brilliant interpretive exercise.

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The Strange Tale of Oyuki

1954

The Street Without Sun

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The Street Without Sun

1962

Woman of Design

7/2

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

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Woman of Design

1995

Sharaku

6/7

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicipation of a man who refuses to let himself become the plaything of power and money.

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Sharaku

1957

Temptation

9/3

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.

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Temptation

1979

Demon Pond

6/20

Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their story is of revenge, tragedy, and the power of real love. A classical tale which translates wonderfully to film.

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Demon Pond

1991

Crossroads in Tokyo

0/0

A three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of expelling part of its individuals.

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Crossroads in Tokyo

1982

Lovers Lost

7/7

A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.

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Lovers Lost

1974

The Castle of Sand

7/41

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

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The Castle of Sand

1959

The Stream of Youth

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The Stream of Youth

1959

Gun Number Zero

0/0

Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was Kudaira, a beggar, who discovered it, and immediately sold it to Matsuko - another pauper. Soon, the weapon that moves from hand to hand, becomes a tool of many crimes.

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Gun Number Zero

1956

The Shadow of Fear

0/0

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors about the murder.

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The Shadow of Fear

1986

The Hall of the Crying Deer

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The Hall of the Crying Deer

1965

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi

0/0

Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been commemorated in kabuki theatre, folk songs, jidaigeki, and modern pop culture.

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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi

1976

Yoake no hata matsumoto jiichirō Den

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Yoake no hata matsumoto jiichirō Den

1964

Zoku Haikei Tenno Heika Sama

0/0

Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent overseas to China as a part of the military dog unit. He's ridiculed by others due to his inability to advance.

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Zoku Haikei Tenno Heika Sama

1964

Could I But Live

0/0

Could I But Live

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Could I But Live

1968

Profound Desires of the Gods

7/59

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.

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Profound Desires of the Gods

1967

Japan's Longest Day

7/25

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.

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Japan's Longest Day

1960

Afraid to Die

6/10

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan. But their exit proves more difficult than planned when their rival clan steps in to exact revenge.

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Afraid to Die

1959

Across the Darkness

0/0

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

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Across the Darkness

1961

Love and Life

0/0

Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.

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Love and Life

1962

A Woman's Life

0/0

One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.

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A Woman's Life

1985

Yume-Chiyo

8/1

Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Through her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in providing a man innocent of a false murder charge and in the process discovers love for the first time in his arms.

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Yume-Chiyo

1956

Actress

0/0

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

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Actress

1968

Women's Prison

0/0

A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortured. The real murderer will be discovered - and the girl will take revenge.

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Women's Prison

1962

The Lucky General

0/0

The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was running his business and hitting him with a taxi turned out to be a trifle for him. A unique work, filled with tears and laughter, praising the beautiful human love that blooms at the bottom of life, focused on the genius “General” who lives in the troubled city of Kamagasaki.

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The Lucky General

1960

Jungle Block

7/1

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.

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Jungle Block

1961

Epitaph to My Love

7/3

Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. A romance movie whose original work by Ayako Sono was made into a melodrama by a combination of Shinoda Masahiro and Terayama Shuji.

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Epitaph to My Love

1966

The Pornographers

7/41

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.

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The Pornographers

1962

Ken ni kakeru

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Ken ni kakeru

1966

Dynamite Doctor

0/0

Film by director Kenji Misumi

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Dynamite Doctor

1961

Gunman's Alley

0/0

Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but also helps one of the more decent hoodlums find the killer of the hood's brother.

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Gunman's Alley

1959

Break Down that Wall

0/0

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

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Break Down that Wall

1957

Who's The Real Killer

0/0

Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

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Who's The Real Killer

1960

The Sun's Burial

7/22

In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.

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The Sun's Burial

1965

The Forest of No Escape

0/0

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

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The Forest of No Escape

1959

The Wild Reporter

0/0

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suicide, though Toshio was able to save the lives of their two children. Just transferred from Shimizu to Tokyo, Toshio hopes to produce a program that will expose the drug trade in Tokyo. One day, Toshio stops into a noodle shop where he is mistaken for a drug dealer and passed a bagful of drugs. The real dealer arrives in time to follow Toshio home. That night Toshio is attacked by the dealer, who turns out to be Kenji, one of the children Toshio had saved. Kenji can't bring himself to kill Toshio, so he runs away and goes into hiding from the mafia. While continuing to investigate the drug trade, Toshio searches for Kenji to get Kenji's testimony for his program.

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The Wild Reporter

1960

Bonchi

7/2

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.

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Bonchi

1963

Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou

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Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou

1958

Fangs of Night

5/1

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and uncover a shady group of criminals with a sinister plot.

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Fangs of Night

1960

He's the Witness

0/0

Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association, and he disguises himself.

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He's the Witness

1962

Hitotsu no inochi

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Hitotsu no inochi

1962

Otoko no Uta

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Otoko no Uta

1965

The Abalone Gals

0/0

South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playland and the girls, who had been abalone divers, now become geisha, and the old ways of the island are all topsy-turvy. One of the girls, more sensitive than the rest, sees that here, too, people are motivated only by greed and decides to leave and try to find a better life elsewhere.

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The Abalone Gals

1960

Sixteen years old

0/0

Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and lent it to her only Mikayo. Senko was somehow envious of her flashy life... In a tragedy with a girl living in the base as the main character, Katsumi Miki of "Life like a weed" adapted the original story of Muraji Uchiki and directed by Eisuke Takizawa of "Ajisai no Uta".

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Sixteen years old

1970

Kigeki: Ohi Kaenasutte!

0/0

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Kigeki: Ohi Kaenasutte!

1994

Edogawa Rampo Theater: The Man Who Travels With Prints

0/0

At the beginning of the Showa era, a man who was captivated by a girl he saw through a telescope locked her in a "painting". Visualization based on Rampo's "Oshie and Traveling Man". Released in 1994 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Rampo's birth.

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Edogawa Rampo Theater: The Man Who Travels With Prints

1962

The Body

7/1

The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.

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The Body

1986

Gonza the Spearman

7/16

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.

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Gonza the Spearman

1969

Your Favourite

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Your Favourite

1960

Black Sea of Trees

0/0

Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu. Sachiko begins to trace her sister's friendships to unravel the mystery of her mysterious death...

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Black Sea of Trees

1962

Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun

1962

Ai to kanashimi to

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Ai to kanashimi to

1962

New Bad Reputation Continues

0/0

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New Bad Reputation Continues

1971

Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1

0/0

This is the first volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and Teruo Ishii. Contains films 1 to 4 in the "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

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Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1

1962

Fūshinraishin

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Fūshinraishin

1969

Red Lion

6/24

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.

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Red Lion

1964

Punishment of a Lawless Villian

0/0

In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many obstacles. Adapted from Shugoro Yamamoto novel.

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Punishment of a Lawless Villian

1962

Gekkyū dorobō

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Gekkyū dorobō

1984

MacArthur's Children

5/7

In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur and his troops.

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MacArthur's Children

1971

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 4 - The Yokai Blood-stained Comb

0/0

Fourth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 4 - The Yokai Blood-stained Comb

1960

俺の故郷は大西部

0/0

George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,000 check to Matsuyama, a Japanese soldier who had helped Tom around the time of World War I, and to perform some act of kindness in Japan using $300 pocket money. This was to test whether George was a suitable boy to inherit Tom's YES Ranch.

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俺の故郷は大西部

1961

Dai shusse monogatari

0/0

1961 Japanese movie

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Dai shusse monogatari

1970

Charming Men

0/0

One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko Baisho) also returns from the juvenile classification center on the same day. However, at a welcome party held by Goro for Haruko, a drunk friend crashes into Haruko's house with a dump truck and is forced to leave. Goro plans to marry Haruko to a rich man and force her to pay dowry, but...

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Charming Men

1978

Horror of the Giant Vortex

0/0

Japanese horror move from 1978.

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Horror of the Giant Vortex

1971

The Battle of Okinawa

7/12

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.

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