1985

Tampopo

7.9/347

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tam...

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Tampopo

1949

Island of Horrors

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Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an isolate...

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Island of Horrors

1978

The Beauty of the Black Narcissus

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The Beauty of the Black Narcissus

1961

Police Precinct Part 17

0/0

The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before,...

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Police Precinct Part 17

1968

The Snow Woman

6.5/15

A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding r...

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The Snow Woman

1974

Pastoral: To Die in the Country

7.5/93

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

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Pastoral: To Die in the Country

1970

Apart from Life

5.8/4

A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

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Apart from Life

1981

Distant Thunder

6.8/11

A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to k...

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Distant Thunder

1965

Code of Ruffians

5/1

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the sc...

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Code of Ruffians

1977

Ballad of Orin

6.9/19

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

1962

Me o tsubutte tsuppashire

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1962 Japanese movie

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Me o tsubutte tsuppashire

1969

Second Generation Young Boss

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Takeshi Nanjo, a junior lieutenant in the navy whose father, the head of the Nanjo-gumi yakuza family, was killed, is forced to leave the army and bec...

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Second Generation Young Boss

1959

Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy

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Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.

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Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy

1949

Konna onna ni dare ga shita

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Konna onna ni dare ga shita

1987

Shinran: Path to Purity

5/4

In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex a...

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Shinran: Path to Purity

1986

Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

6.4/7

During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea...

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Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

1981

Island of the Evil Spirits

6/4

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

1961

Happiness of Us Alone

9/5

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

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Happiness of Us Alone

1980

Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers

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The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.

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Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers

1959

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

8.2/183

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 ag...

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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

1983

Village of Doom

7.1/10

An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon...

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Village of Doom

1978

In the Realm of Death and Pleasure

0/0

1978 Japanese film directed by Yoichi Takabayashi.

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In the Realm of Death and Pleasure

1958

Moonlight Mask

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First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

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Moonlight Mask

1958

Moonlight Mask: Duel to the Death in Dangerous Waters

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Second Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

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Moonlight Mask: Duel to the Death in Dangerous Waters

1968

The Time of Reckoning

7/1

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving...

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The Time of Reckoning

1958

Moonlight Mask: Claws of Satan

0/0

The 3rd Moonlight Mask movie from the 50s.

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Moonlight Mask: Claws of Satan

1954

The Garden of Women

6.6/9

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

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The Garden of Women

1974

The Tattered Banner

0/0

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

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The Tattered Banner

1960

Man of the World 2

0/0

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.

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Man of the World 2

1957

Rice

6.4/9

A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community cre...

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Rice

1980

The Sand Boat

0/0

A Young couple find a boad buried under a beach,and are taken to another world where they must face a Deadly cult who want to sacrifice them.

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The Sand Boat

1954

The Street Without Sun

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The Street Without Sun

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 reca...

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Time Within Memory

1966

The Magic Serpent

6.2/6

In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and his wizard friend Oroki-maru. The young prince Ikazuk...

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The Magic Serpent

1980

The Great Tale of the Great Tatami Progenitor

0/0

A young man from Kyushu,Adachi Futoshi had come to Tokyo to make a life. Adachi moved into a small room in a local boarding house, but he was unprepar...

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The Great Tale of the Great Tatami Progenitor

1984

The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel

6/2

In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines,...

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The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel

1977

Sweet Revenge

6.6/5

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, spec...

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Sweet Revenge

1946

The Brick Factory Girl

0/0

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth...

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The Brick Factory Girl

1965

Young Boss

7/1

After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.

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Young Boss

1960

The River Fuefuki

7.5/12

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over...

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The River Fuefuki

1962

Nippon no obaachan

0/0

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

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Nippon no obaachan

1967

Journey

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Journey

1935

Drifting

0/0

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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Drifting

1967

The River - Poem of Wrath

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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

1984

Jugyo Sankan no Onna

0/0

One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised t...

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Jugyo Sankan no Onna

1988

A Taxing Woman's Return

6.2/22

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by...

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A Taxing Woman's Return

1976

The Inugami Family

6.9/31

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pittin...

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The Inugami Family

1954

The Last Women

0/0

The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On Ju...

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The Last Women

1966

The Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devil

10/1

The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player Kôji...

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The Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devil

1953

Tower of Lilies

6.8/8

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situat...

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Tower of Lilies

1949

Jakoman and Tetsu

0/0

In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one o...

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Jakoman and Tetsu

1942

New Snow

0/0

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...

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New Snow

1938

Children of the Sun

0/0

Venice Film Festival 1939

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Children of the Sun

1956

Actress

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

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Actress