1986

Castle in the Sky

8/4002

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

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Castle in the Sky

2003

Dragon Head

5/17

Teru Aoki (青木 輝) is on a train to Tokyo after a school trip. A disaster occurs which partially destroys the train and blocks a tunnel. When Teru awakes, he finds all his classmates and teachers are dead.

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Dragon Head

1995

Maborosi

7/148

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

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Maborosi

1988

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

6/13

The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.

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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

1988

Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice

5/6

A decadent count in 1920′s Japan becomes obsessed with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a theatre to show plays adapted from the notorious writer’s novels and recruits thieves, prostitutes and low lives to act out his fantasies on stage for the delectation of his rich, jaded friends. In search of new sensations the nobleman orders one of the actors, on pain of death, to make love to the nobleman’s wife while he watches. Unfortunately, this incursion of real life into his fantasy world will have dire consequences for the count and his divinely decadent coterie.

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Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice

2005

The Man Behind the Scissors

5/7

The Man Behind the Scissors centers around two serial killers: mastermind Yasunaga and helper Chinatsu. The two risk being found out when the police question them as witnesses to a gruesome murder they themselves may have committed. A quirky and perplexing police thriller centered around two murderers who thrive on slicing up schoolgirls. Calculated serial psycho Yasunaga (Tokokawa) and Chinatsu (Aso), his sweet female sidekick, find themselves being questioned as witnesses to a murder when their next potential victim turns up dead...with their M.O.

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The Man Behind the Scissors

1968

The Human Bullet

6/10

A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.

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The Human Bullet

1970

This Transient Life

7/39

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

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This Transient Life

1973

Tsugaru Folksong

7/9

A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to a couple arriving from Tokyo - the woman returning to her home, the man an escapee from the yakuza. The man doesn't seem to mind when the woman sells her favours to tourists at the local bar, just as she seems to take his attentions to Yuki, a blind girl, with equanimity.

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Tsugaru Folksong

1985

Typhoon Club

7/40

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly-liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.

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Typhoon Club

1981

Station

6/11

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

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Station

1994

The Friends

7/3

A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.

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The Friends

1983

P. P. Rider

5/7

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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P. P. Rider

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

2010

Beautiful Female Panther: Body Sniper

6/1

A popular fashion model, Hikari Fujimi, has more than one identity. To avenge her parents, who were killed by the leader of a crime syndicate, she received training to become an assassin from Nirasaki, her father’s right-hand man. With multiple personalities-- herself; a woman with superhuman skills; and an innocent girl who repents her sins-- she changes at will.

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Beautiful Female Panther: Body Sniper

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

2013

The Burning Buddha Man

3/4

There is a series of Buddha statue thefts in Kyoto. Beniko, a high school girl, gets the Buddha statue at her family's temple stolen and has her parents killed at the same time. She needs to know what caused the death of a parents and dreams of revenge. She goes on a fantastical journey to ultimately face the demon. The entire film is produced by hand drawing all the gods 'manifesto animation' or 'gekimation' based on the amazing hand drawings.

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The Burning Buddha Man

1983

Legend of the Eight Samurai

6/25

The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess Shizu escapes their clutches. She enlists the aid of eight samurai warriors, possessors of powerful magic crystal, led by Dosetsu (Sonny Chiba!) to help rescue the remaining members of her court and revenge her family. Along the way, they must fight undead warriors, evil spirits, poisonous beauties and a giant centipede.

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Legend of the Eight Samurai

2008

All Around Us

7/14

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to life once again.

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All Around Us

2001

Go Heat Man!

9/11

17 year old Tokyo pizza delivery boy Kosuke crashes his bike into photographer Reiko and breaks her expensive camera. He promises to deliver homemade pizza to make up for her broken camera. After discovering that Reiko has moved 1,200 km away to her hometown of Nagasaki things become trickier, but Kosuke decides to fulfill his promise anyways by borrowing a moped from his workplace.

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Go Heat Man!

2005

Rampo Noir

6/24

Mars Canal - Within absolute silence, a naked man wanders through a dark and depressing landscape recalling the excruciating details of his last encounter with his former lover. Mirror Hell - When a series of women are discovered with their faces burnt and skulls charred, a young detective investigates, discovering that a unique hand mirror is always found at the scene. Caterpillar - A war hero returns home with no limbs and only his eyesight remaining. His beautiful wife, tired of taking care of him, turns to torturing her crippled husband for amusement. Crawling Bugs - A sexy actress is returning home from a successful night on stage, until her limo driver decides that she should be coming home with him.

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Rampo Noir

1990

La Valse

3/3

A rape incident has occurred. The victim was a woman named Yumiko Kawamura (Keiko Kaga), a dental hygienist. However, the statements of the victim Yumiko and the suspect Saburo Kubo were completely incompatible. Adachi, a national lawyer who took on the defense of the suspect, will begin a personal investigation of Yumiko to find out the truth of the case.

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La Valse

1994

A Watcher in the Attic

5/5

In 1923, in a cheap Tokyo rooming house, a languid young man named Goda was feeling bored with his life. One day while playing dress up with a woman’s wig and lipstick, he accidentally loosens a ceiling board in his closet. Climbing up, he discovers a dimly lit passageway under the roof leading to the resident’s other rooms. Soon he is scampering about like a ninja, making knotholes and moving ceiling boards for a better view. What he sees are the intimate acts - sadistic, criminal or vaguely mad - that reveal infinitely more about his fellow roomers than the various fronts they present to the world.

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A Watcher in the Attic

1990

Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars

8/1

A series of serial murders occurred in a historic ruins where a TV crew is shooting a documentary.

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Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars

1974

It Was a Faint Dream

6/6

Set in 13th century Kyoto, where the Imperial court is under control of the clergy. Shijo was a peasant girl sold to a powerful daima as a concubine. Bored by her life in seclusion she starts an affair with State Councillor and the brother of a retired Emperor. Realising that she is only a plaything of the court, she becomes a nun and wanders the country.

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It Was a Faint Dream

1985

Love Hotel

7/16

A man incurs a large debt and goes bankrupt. The yakuza come to collect and rape his wife. Racked with guilt he decides to pick up call girl and commit suicide. He fails and years later as a taxi driver he meets the call girl by chance and they begin a complicated relationship.

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Love Hotel

1978

Winter's Flower

6/3

Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno kept sending letters to Youko, disguising as an uncle in Brazil. 15 years later, Kanno is released. He is determined to live legitimately, however the Yakuza has not forgotten his wicked deed!

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Winter's Flower

1997

Gendai ninkyoden

6/1

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Gendai ninkyoden

1981

Why Not?

6/15

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.

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Why Not?

1998

Murder on D Street

8/4

Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.

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Murder on D Street

1991

Scorpion Woman Prisoner: Death Threat

10/1

A woman who, disguised as a beggar, turns out to be a formidable assassin, is charged by a warden to infiltrate a women's prison, to run the one that took his eye with a wooden spoon carved from a knife - a woman named Nami Matsushima, known within the walls under the nickname of Scorpion.

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Scorpion Woman Prisoner: Death Threat

1994

Alone in the Night

7/11

An undercover narcotics officer is killed, and after his funeral some yakuza break into his apartment and rape his wife, Nami, while looking for the drugs they claim he stole from them. Afterwards Nami attempts to commit suicide, but after being rescued by a mysterious yakuza she decides to infiltrate the gang and get revenge.

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Alone in the Night

1979

The Shogun Assassins

5/5

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

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The Shogun Assassins

2007

Dog in a Sidecar

6/7

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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Dog in a Sidecar

1998

Wait and See

6/4

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.

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Wait and See

1981

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

7/43

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

1996

Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland

6/8

Young and beautiful germophobe Ritsuko moves into a picture perfect neighborhood with her parents, being monitored by a research team who want to cure her of her debilitating phobias. Will her new neighbors be able to cure her of her irrational view of the outside world, or will coming face to face with this fairy-tale setting only drive her further inside of her subconsciousness?

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Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland

1988

Labyrinth Romanesque

5/3

A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.

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Labyrinth Romanesque

1965

An Innocent Witch

7/7

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions.

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An Innocent Witch

2016

Desperate Sunflowers

5/2

Natsuko Kotani was born to be a swindler. Meanwhile, Tetsuko Ishida is Natsuko’s distant relative. Unlike Natsuko, Tetsuko is an attorney with an upright disposition. Whenever Natsuko makes trouble, Tetsuko is called to solve her troubles. Believing that Natsuko is using her, Tetsuko, with her boring life, begins to change.

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Desperate Sunflowers

1985

Like a Savage

6/1

Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble.

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Like a Savage

1984

Fine, with Occasional Murders

6/2

Kanako returns from the USA to a troubled mother who witnessed a man leaving a murder scene and is consequently under persistent threat. For the time being.

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Fine, with Occasional Murders

1967

Portrait of Chieko

0/0

Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her family, she finds herself unable to confide in her husband, and the pain she carries within begins to weigh heavily on her sanity...

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Portrait of Chieko

1978

The Fall of Ako Castle

7/18

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.

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The Fall of Ako Castle

1979

The Fixer

6/2

Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight.

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The Fixer

1988

A Tale of Happiness

4/4

A department manager at his company, buys a one-room apartment to have some space to himself. He signs an agreement with a young woman and has an affair with her once a week at the apartment.

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A Tale of Happiness

1983

Karate Cop 2

1/1

Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the robbers' whereabouts.

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Karate Cop 2

2007

Wada Akiko satsujin jiken

9/2

"Don of the entertainment world" Wada Akiko was killed by someone's hand! The Japanese archipelago swaying in shocking news! And the entertainment world .... Those who are "motivated to kill" are field managers, talents, singers, cultural men, program staff, pachinko parlor staff ... more than 1,000 suspects!

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Wada Akiko satsujin jiken

1978

Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

7/1

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

2007

Aoi Hitomi to Nuage

7/2

Erika Ichinose, a clinical psychologist, is recruited by the National Police Agency in an attempt to stay one step ahead of a bomb terrorist.

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Aoi Hitomi to Nuage

1983

Headphone Lullaby

4/1

The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.

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Headphone Lullaby

2016

Kenji no Honkai

0/0

Prosecutor Sakata of the Yonesaki District Public Prosecutors Office and his colleague Shoji are pulled into assisting the Tokyo Office’s Special Investigation Department to investigate influential Diet lawmaker Okouchi and Masumoto of a technical skills foundation. The two men are believed to be involved in a bribery case. But a key witness in this scandal commits suicide, and the next person believed to hold the key to the case, the foundation’s accountant, has disappeared.

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Kenji no Honkai

2016

Fate of a Prosecutor

0/0

Hirotoshi Honda, a teacher of a prestigious private girl’s high school, is arrested on suspicion of violating the nuisance prevention ordinance for molestation on a train and sent to prosecutor Sakata. High school student Reina claims he touched her buttocks in the packed train but Honda denies the crime and calls it a fabrication and claims he was blackmailed by Reina on the train platform. Reina denies his allegation. Even for a misdemeanor, Sakata believes not pursuing the truth is like death as a prosecutor.

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Fate of a Prosecutor

1968

Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair

6/5

The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy & above the law. Kyoshiro the homeless masterless wandering samurai has nothing to lose, & no scruples anyway, so can reproach even the powerful with ease. He is thus, for all that he has broad streaks of villainy all his own, a champion of the people by default.

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Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair

2018

Liverleaf

7/50

The story follows Nozaki Haruka, a middle school student who transfers to a new school in a small town because of her father's work. Unfortunately, she becomes a victim of horrific bullying, but since the school will be closing in 2 months after graduation, no one is willing to help her.

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Liverleaf

1986

Blue Lake Girl

7/4

Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of Blue Lake. Some time later, Nagare follows an invitation by Takigawa, who claims to have forgiven everything. To Nagare’s shock, Takigawa’s new wife, Ameko, looks exactly like Mizue. While staying as Takigawa’s guest, Nagare becomes haunted by Mizue’s ghost, who wants to be reunited with him at the bottom of Blue Lake.

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Blue Lake Girl

1988

The Boss' Wife

5/2

The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge.

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The Boss' Wife

2019

Shiba Park

6/2

While walking their shiba dogs, 3 middle-aged men meet at the park everyday. They do not know each other's names. They keep their distance, but chat about whatever is on their minds.

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Shiba Park

1985

Demon

8/4

Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where he's become an honest fisherman.

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Demon

1981

Blue Jeans Memory

0/0

A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The three decide to help her.

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Blue Jeans Memory

2016

The Rite of Loss

0/0

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The Rite of Loss

1982

The Highest Honour

6/3

After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.

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The Highest Honour

1989

Cherry Blossoms

6/3

A story about love triangle between mother and daughter relation...

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Cherry Blossoms

1999

Danger de mort

0/0

The story of a young man and woman who set out to revenge the death of her mother. The lovers enter a mysterious world where space and time are twisted, where love is more dangerous than death.

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Danger de mort

1988

Korekara monogatari - Shonen tachi no buruusu

0/0

片や会社の社長でデザイナー、片やスポーツマンでモデルという道を歩む生まれも育ちも異なる2人の高校生の友情を描く。 One is a designer and company president, the other an athlete and model. Although on different paths in life and from different backgrounds, in high school these two were once good friends. This movie tells the story of their friendship.

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Korekara monogatari - Shonen tachi no buruusu

1993

Pro Golfer Oribê Kinjirô

0/0

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Pro Golfer Oribê Kinjirô

1977

Utamaro's World

6/7

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.

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Utamaro's World

1995

Last Friends

5/3

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to benefit their loved ones back home, they are unprepared for the hardships of war. Through their shared trials and sacrifices, they grow closer as friends, and hope to return together to better days. This movie was released in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII.

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Last Friends

1985

Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion

6/5

A young girl gets adopted by a family that holds her like a slave and is later freed by a young man working for the family's company. 10 years later, she gets involved in the murder of one of her step-sisters.

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Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion

2004

Translucent Tree

1/1

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.

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Translucent Tree

1992

Investigation of a Typical Love

0/0

The screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of "Tragedy of W" and "Revolver". The man is a detective who doesn't take on anything other than background checks for marriage and looking for cats. One day, a request for a job that belongs to him comes in. It is from Masako, a married woman who suspects her husband of having an affair.

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Investigation of a Typical Love

1991

Goddamn!!

0/0

When yakuza member Okamoto (Hitoshi Ozawa) begins to search for Nami (Reiko Yasuhara), a woman he saw in an underground porn video, he finds himself on a path to his own destruction. Action film based on a manga by Takashi Ishii.

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Goddamn!!

2014

Shadow Warrior Tokugawa Ieyasu

0/0

Tokugawa Ieyasu is killed at the Battle of Sekigahara. Jirosaburo Serada, who travels all over the country, becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu's shadow warrior and runs country….

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Shadow Warrior Tokugawa Ieyasu

1991

Door II: Tôkyô Diary

6/3

Ai is a call girl. If her work involves a great deal of risk, she feels free and like fun situations that may seem dangerous ... Ai likes to play. she met many customers, sometimes violent, sometimes very sweet , but often crazy... Among these clients, Mr.Mamiya, a strange and captivating artist who gradually will initiate her into SM pleasures. Despite everything, her attraction to him is growing and one day she told him " I love you ", Next day Ai receives a letter of invitation sent by Mamiya.

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Door II: Tôkyô Diary

1995

Blue Season: 17-Year-Old Venus.

0/0

Pinku film part of the Nikkatsu Roman Porno collection. A mystery surrounds a school and the investigator in charge tasks a secret teenage prostitute to solve an unsolved suicide/murder.

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Blue Season: 17-Year-Old Venus.

2019

Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody

0/0

Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plant decommissioning work. Kokuhei Kusunoki is transferred from Aizu Wakamatsu City to Naraho Town to take over the Disaster PR Division. Murai takes Kokuhei around Fukushima including areas washed away by the tsunami. They examine the still incomplete railway lines, the unfinished decontamination area and villages in the danger zone, where deadly cesium continues to pile up. One day Kokuhei is told to organize a party to celebrate the professor who has been appointed as deputy director of the Atomic Energy Research Institute.

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Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody

2002

Igyō no koi

1/1

A sensual coming-of-age drama direct — It depicts a precarious relationship between a homosexual woman and a man who was picked up by her and ends up living with her

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Igyō no koi

1991

Baka yarô! 4 You! Omae no koto da yo 3 Sagi naru Japan

0/0

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Baka yarô! 4 You! Omae no koto da yo 3 Sagi naru Japan

1980

Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai

0/0

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Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai

1989

Music Box

0/0

A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.

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Music Box

1988

Kizu

0/0

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Kizu

2010

Two Portraits of MIYAGINO

8/2

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.

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Two Portraits of MIYAGINO

1998

A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage

6/4

A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salaryman with whom she begins a furtive romance...

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A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage

1995

The detective whose path was crossed by a snake

0/0

Starring Ken Takakura, this TV special depicts a detective (Akira Hayasaka) who lives in a harsh life with pride and conviction. Minoru Akiba, Chief of the Investigation Division 1 of the Metropolitan Police Department, is a veteran detective who has passed through the shrine in numerous incidents. His wife was killed by a criminal he caught 13 years ago as revenge. There is a report that his former subordinate, Constable Murasawa, was stabbed to death under Akiba... Suzuki Kyoka plays his daughter.

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The detective whose path was crossed by a snake

1996

Apron Stage

1/1

About a group of itinerant actors.

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Apron Stage

2013

Promise in the Shadows

0/0

Ex-bandit Komakichi has a random encounter with an ex-ally, Matsuzou. Seeing each other for the first time in 35 years, the two drink and talk about their past, without revealing their current lifestyles, Matsuzou then recounts an odd story... The doomed reunion slowly steers the old bandits toward a life-changing event.

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Promise in the Shadows

2018

We Make Antiques!

7/4

Sakai is a city near Osaka by the bay famous for its swords in the old days and kitchen knives today. Norio is an antique dealer in the city. Sasuke is a potter in the city. Seventeenth century tea master Sen No Rikyu appears before them one day.

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We Make Antiques!

1990

ポップコーンLOVE

0/0

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ポップコーンLOVE

2020

Howling Village

6/85

After her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as ‘Howling Village’ to investigate his disappearance and uncover her family’s dark history.

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Howling Village

1992

Red Foliage

0/0

Horror director Toshiharu Ikeda adapts a story by Baku Akae about a high-school student who falls in love with a woman on a school trip.

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Red Foliage

2017

Seventeen, Hokuto Summer

0/0

Ayami Kawaguchi is a 17-year-old high school student. Her family runs a tofu shop where the tofu is made with local spring water. She is a member of her high school's kyudo club, but she doesn't do well there. One day, Ayami delivers tofu to a local sake brewery. There, she finds the owner of the sake brewery, Shozo Sugita, collapsed and he is sent to hospital. Afterwards, Ayami Kawaguchi gets involved in a dispute over the water source succession.

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Seventeen, Hokuto Summer

2018

天才を育てた女房～世界が認めた数学者と妻の愛～

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1987

MacArthur's Children—Part II

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A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed. Two friends meet and decide to look for the beautiful girl with whom they went to school as children.

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MacArthur's Children—Part II

2010

Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate

6/15

Intercepting the transport carrying Foundation X’s new 2nd generation Gaia Memories, the special-ops unit NEVER, led by Daido Katsumi, intend to turn Fuuto into Hell on Earth. With Daido wielding the T2 Eternal Memory and a Lost Driver, granting him power in the form of Kamen Rider Eternal, Fuuto’s Kamen Riders are left powerless as Daido and his allies take control of Fuuto Tower, converting it into a massive laser weapon…

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1991

Harikomi

2/1

When a team of detectives lose the trail of a murderer, they decide to keep an eye on the suspect’s ex-lover, who is trapped in an abusive marriage.

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2020

THE LAST GOZE

0/0

A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a goze due to her blindness at seven-years-old, Haru was strictly trained with a parent's affection by her once kind mother, Tome.

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THE LAST GOZE

2000

Kaza-hana

5/12

An alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he's impulsively made a suicide pact. Though he's now changed his mind, he agrees to travel with her to Hokkaido, her preferred site for ending it all.

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Kaza-hana

2001

A Tender Place

6/4

Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she plans to abandon them to be with Ishiyama. The next morning, her daughter Yuka disappears, which throws Kasumi's life into turmoil. Years later, Yuka remains missing, and Kasumi journeys back to Hokkaido with Utsumi, a terminally-ill former detective, and tries to follow any leads she can.

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A Tender Place

1964

Car Thieves

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Mixed-race children in Japan become involved in the petty theft of car parts.

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Car Thieves

1992

Can You Collect It?

0/0

Two scammers who cross the world without being caught by Satsu and killed

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Can You Collect It?

1993

Can you collect it? 2

0/0

Jin, who has killed is worried about his younger brother Jiro and has returned to the world as a ghost!

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Can you collect it? 2

1990

Beretta M92F Bombshell

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Koichi Iwaki plays a cool hitman!

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Beretta M92F Bombshell

2000

Otoko Michi

0/0

A man falls in love with a man with his spiritual past.

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Otoko Michi

2022

Blue Thermal

6/16

Tamaki becomes a captive of the vast beauty of the skies from the moment Kuramochi takes her under his wing and up for a flight in a glider.

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Blue Thermal

1982

Dear Asuka and My Unborn Child...

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A doctor who died at a young age due to the metastasis of a malignant tumor to the lungs after cutting his right leg below the knee due to osteosarcoma. The title "Asuka" is the name of the eldest daughter, and "Unseen child" is the child whose wife was pregnant at the time of her death.

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第三の時効

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1983

The Catch

6/5

A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets.

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The Catch

1990

Love of Sawako

1/1

Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine Yukio Goto and spent the night with him. Sawako pretends to be the daughter of an upscale hotel owner and has an affair with Yukio.

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Love of Sawako

1995

Business Commando YAMAZAKI

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　Takuro Yamazaki teaches people "true work". He is a business commander and corporate warrior YAMAZAKI with combat ability. When a rival company Business Commander appears, he fights with his fighting ability! !! 　We have succeeded in visualizing the original comic of Jun Tomizawa, which is full of special effects, without damaging the image. In particular, Issey Ogata, who starred in the movie, can only be thought of by this person! The role of the business commander YAMAZAKI.

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Business Commando YAMAZAKI

1991

Two Magical Nights

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This 'Young V-Cinema' film was created for young people, turning from the action of Toei V-cinema. A pop love story featuring a veteran actor and a unique female talent / model.

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Two Magical Nights

2003

Jusei: Last Drop of Blood

6/2

After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However, he is continually harrassed by a police inspector who cannot forgive his past. Meanwhile a major gang war erupts. With his former gang in danger of being exterminated, will his loyalties draw him back in?

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Jusei: Last Drop of Blood

2001

Hush!

7/12

Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious and closeted—but nothing compares to the chaos that arrives when Asako, a troubled woman with a history of psychiatric problems, abortions, and casual sex, asks Katsuhiro to conceive a child with her.

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Hush!

2021

First Gentleman

5/4

Hiyori (Kei Tanaka) is an ornithologist (expert on birds). His wife is Rinko (Miki Nakatani). She is the leader the minority opposition party. One morning, Hiyori is about to travel to an isolated island to watch birds on a 10 day trip. Before he leaves, Rinko asks him if she becomes the prime minister would he be inconvenienced. Hiyori then goes on his bird watching trip. During this time, he is completely isolated from the outside world. When he returns home, his wife Rinko is now the prime minister of the country. She is also the first ever female prime minister of Japan. Suddenly, Hiyori is now the first gentleman of the country. He decides to support his wife, but he finds himself caught up in unexpected circumstances.

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First Gentleman

1969

The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club

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A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by Keiju Kobayashi) and the leader of the gang (played by Norihei Miki) have an interesting wartime backstory together that fuels much of the story.

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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club

2008

Yoriko

0/0

Satoru is a fledgling writer. When his latest manuscript is rejected, his editor, recognizing his talent, offers him a cottage by the beach to work in peace. At first, he struggles, but he is driven to write after meeting a girl, Yoriko, on the beach.

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2020

Onmyouji Takiyasha Hime

7/1

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1992

Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 2

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Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 2

2006

Die Silbermaske

3/1

Sabine is able to transform into a silver superhero through the power of the Ring of Nibelungen. She travels to Japan where she searches for her father and battles the forces of Dr. Caligari.

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Die Silbermaske

1970

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

7/58

With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking enforcer, but Yojimbo is both a spy for the shogunate, trying to find the gold, and in love with the merchant's unwilling mistress, Umeno. Ichi hires on as the merchant's masseur and buys Umeno's freedom with his employer's own money. This embarrasses Yojimbo who withdraws from a pact with Ichi to stir up trouble between father and son and their gangs. As the two sides fight, Ichi finds the gold and sets up a final set of confrontations.

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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

1996

Seduce & Swindle

2/1

Lady-killer Ikki Fujisawa uses his boyish charm and his obvious skill at cunnilingus to habitually seduce and then swindle societal elite women out of millions. Keeping a close eye on Ikki's adventures in the hope of a slip-up is a thick-skinned detective who resorts to collaborating with a renowned retired conman in his pursuit of this libidinous criminal.

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Seduce & Swindle

2003

Karaoke Terror

6/9

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates!

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Karaoke Terror

1995

Zero Woman: Final Mission

4/2

A famous businessman's links with organized crime are looked into by the Zero Division of the Tokyo Police, with the investigation being headed by a highly trained, extremely violent and very beautiful female officer. When not having shoot-outs with the crime syndicate thugs trying to kill her, she spends most of her time in her apartment, wearing lingerie and taking showers. A sub-plot involves the businessman's S&M-obsessed daughter.

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Zero Woman: Final Mission

2007

Unfair: the movie

6/8

When a devoted detective probes the suspicious death of her father, she uncovers massive corruption and finds herself in grave danger.

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Unfair: the movie

2003

Eau de Vie

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Eau de Vie

1975

Someday, Somewhere

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Ken's older sister Yoko, who has raised Ken like a mother, decides to move to Brazil with an older man.

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Someday, Somewhere

2004

ペルソナの微笑

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2015

The Housekeeper Saw!

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Sawagura Nobuko is back housekeeping again in this sequel to the 2014 SP! This time around Nobuko, having been given some pearl earrings as a present sometime before, decides to attend an exhibition for a pearl described as being the world's most expensive one. That pearl is owned by the Iwakura family, who run a large pearl company. While looking at the pearl however, Nobuko is pulled away by a handsome man who seems to have some connection to the family. So when Nobuko finds one of her pearl earrings missing and probably taken by that man, she decides to work as a housekeeper for the Iwakura family until the man shows up again and she can get her earring back. But the Iwakura family that Nobuko is now working for has plenty of secrets beyond just pearls that she'll have to sort out if she wants her earring back...

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The Housekeeper Saw!

2003

金田一耕助ファイルⅡ 獄門島

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2009

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie Wars 2010

6/14

Movie War 2010 is split into three parts. The Kamen Rider Decade portion of the film, written by Shoji Yonemura, is titled Kamen Rider Decade: The Last Story. It follows the series cliffhanger ending at the climax of the Rider War. The film is billed as the "True Ending" and was originally subtitled Decade vs. All Riders. The Kamen Rider W portion of the film, written by Riku Sanjo, is titled Kamen Rider W: Begins Night, taking place between episodes 14 and 15 of Kamen Rider W, investigates the origins of Kamen Rider Double as briefly shown in the cold opening of the series' first episode, referred to in the series as the "Begins Night". The film is described as the "True Beginning" and was originally subtitled Episode Zero. In the final portion of the film entitled Movie War 2010, a convergence of the two films that brings the casts and characters of Decade and W to finish the fight with Super Shocker together.

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2015

Kamen Rider Gaim: Gaiden - Zangetsu And Baron

5/4

Brought on by popularity for the series, this DVD Special feats. two half-hour side stories that take place during the events of the show. Both stories appear to take place just after episode 20, the first episode of the Helheim Saga. The Kamen Rider Zangetsu side story begins with Takatora telling Kota about the truth behind Helheim. While a childhood friend pays Takatora a visit, a mysterious Kamen Rider that has control over cracks begins to hunt down Yggdrasill’s forces. The Kamen Rider Baron side story begins with Kaito seeking out the Overlords for Professor Ryoma. A prince visits Zawame and when he finds out that Kaito looks exactly like him, he decides to forcefully switch lives, resulting in conflict.

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Kamen Rider Gaim: Gaiden - Zangetsu And Baron

1970

Rebel Against Glory

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1998

A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage

6/4

A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salaryman with whom she begins a furtive romance...

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A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage

1991

Rainbow Kids

6/9

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place.

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2021

Nobutora - Samurai Tiger

0/0

Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general Takeda Shingen. Takeda Shingen has proven himself in battle but there’s an even more capable person in his family, his father Nobutora (lit. Samurai Tiger). The son exiles the father and so the old patriarch goes to Suruga to serve the Ashikaga shogun in Kyoto. Decades later, Nobutora, now 80 years old, learns that Shingen is in trouble and the old man returns home to keep the Takeda family alive as a new leader seeks to usurp leadership of the Takeda’s and starts a fight with the great warlord, Oda Nobunaga.

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Nobutora - Samurai Tiger

1997

Akagi the Gambler II

5/2

Akagi appears again one year after the night where he first played mahjong.

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Akagi the Gambler II

1995

Akagi the Gambler

6/2

After a death-defying game of chicken one evening in 1958, Akagi nonchalantly enters a Yakuza Mahjong parlor to shake the cops' trail. Even unfamiliar with the rules of Mahjong, his gambling intuition is enough to save a small time gambler, Nangou, and grant him a seat at the gambling table. As the night progresses, the stakes are raised both within the game and for Akagi, who is under the suspicion of local police. However, Akagi overcomes the situation with his tactics, defiant of both life and chance. When he leaves the gambling house, no one present is in doubt of his genius.

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2021

祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―

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祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―

1970

The Militarists

8/1

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2010

仮面ライダー×仮面ライダー W（ダブル）&ディケイド MOVIE大戦2010 ディレクターズカット版

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1996

XX: Beautiful Prey

6/12

This Japanese thriller finds a sexy policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her investigation has led her to a seductive sadist and his equally appealing masochist victim. Falling prey to her suspects' powerful allure, she struggles to extricate herself from an increasingly torrid affair to solve the mystery she set out to investigate.

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XX: Beautiful Prey

1995

Escape Captivity: Forbidden Humiliation

1/1

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Escape Captivity: Forbidden Humiliation

1992

The River with No Bridge

6/1

A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are continuously harassed by their teachers and classmates through their childhood as a result of their Buraku heritage. In the midst of the 1918 Great Rice Riots in Osaka, Seitaro meets with Asako, the daughter of a rice shop owner, and falls in love with her. She too is of Buraku descent. At the same period, Hideaki, an old friend of the brothers returns to Komori, and he along with Koji and the townspeople create "Zenkoku Suiheisha", the National Levelers Association, an organization pledged to build a bridge over the river of discrimination, making all people equal in every way.

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1987

Don Matsugoro's Big Adventure

10/1

Don Matsugoro and his son Don Jr fight against a disgustingly reach family who tries to take over a kid's playground called Children Land.

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