1955

Sisters

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1998

Samurai Fiction

6.6/55

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

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Samurai Fiction

1981

Fifth Movement

0/0

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinis...

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Fifth Movement

1969

Kanto Woman Fortitude

0/0

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Kanto Woman Fortitude

1989

Death of a Tea Master

5.3/8

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.

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Death of a Tea Master

1956

The Burmese Harp

7.9/150

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...

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The Burmese Harp

1961

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

8.4/178

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life,...

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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

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

1973

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

7.229/118

In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth...

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

1974

The Last Samurai

7.8/18

The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child....

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The Last Samurai

1963

Itsudemo yume o

0/0

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

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Itsudemo yume o

1963

Beautiful Calendar

0/0

Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just...

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Beautiful Calendar

1962

Hana no saigetsu

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Hana no saigetsu

1987

Sukeban Deka: The Movie

5.4/5

After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki Asamiya name to return to her normal life, and is n...

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Sukeban Deka: The Movie

1985

Godzilla 1985

6.7/174

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of...

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Godzilla 1985

1993

Marriage

0/0

An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers.

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Marriage

1988

The Farming of the old times

0/0

A documentary made at the very end of the Showa era, looking back at traditional agricultural models as they still existed at the beginning of this sa...

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The Farming of the old times

1969

前科・仮釈放

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前科・仮釈放

1976

Manhunt

6.4/19

A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

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Manhunt

1965

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu

0/0

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

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Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu

1989

Green Boy

0/0

In order to encourage his son who became paralyzed due to a traffic accident, he depicts a former boxer aiming for aiming to win.

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Green Boy

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

1971

君は海を見たか

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君は海を見たか

1971

若き日の講道館

0/0

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若き日の講道館

1973

Coup d'Etat

6.6/19

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

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Coup d'Etat

1998

My Sky (Detective Edition)

0/0

Ippei Yasuda, the scion of the Yasuda Zaibatsu who has continued his wandering journey, becomes a detective and corrects evil! Recognized for outstand...

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My Sky (Detective Edition)

1983

The Shogun's Vault IV: The Gold Mines of Sado

0/0

Account magistrate Wakisaka Bizen Mamoru asks Yoshibei, the chief priest of Iriya and Myohoji Temple to explore the Sado Gold Mine. They suspect that...

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The Shogun's Vault IV: The Gold Mines of Sado

1954

Cape Ashizuri

0/0

1950s Japanese drama.

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Cape Ashizuri

1962

Kiriko no unmei

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Kiriko no unmei

1992

Luminous Moss

5.5/4

A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.

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Luminous Moss

1962

Sun and stars

0/0

It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and pass...

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Sun and stars

1961

Dawn of a Canvas

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Dawn of a Canvas

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 suici...

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The Wild Reporter

1985

Gray Sunset

6.1/6

Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer's disease, but his afflic...

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Gray Sunset

1997

My Secret Cache

6.5/9

Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash t...

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My Secret Cache

1993

Summer of the Moonlight Sonata

0/0

Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years...

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Summer of the Moonlight Sonata

1972

Eight Men to Kill

7/2

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine thr...

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Eight Men to Kill

1960

Teenage Wolf

0/0

In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl! A gloomy portrait of youth, in which di...

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Teenage Wolf

1969

Safari 5000

7.3/3

A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enl...

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Safari 5000

1962

Ano hashi no hotori de dai 2-bu

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Ano hashi no hotori de dai 2-bu

1955

Mune yori mune ni

0/0

Japanese drama

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Mune yori mune ni

1995

Kamikaze Taxi

6.6/10

A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a ta...

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Kamikaze Taxi

1984

MacArthur's Children

5.4/7

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 su...

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MacArthur's Children

1971

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 1 - Ghost Story at the Kagamigaike

0/0

First film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 1 - Ghost Story at the Kagamigaike

1983

The Fir Trees Remain

0/0

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his misbehavior during his short stay in Edo. On the nex...

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The Fir Trees Remain

1975

Doterai Man

9/0

Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Teruhiko Saigo. Set in a wholesaler town in Osaka, i...

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Doterai Man

1965

A Trap

7.2/13

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in K...

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A Trap

1968

The Sands of Kurobe

6.2/5

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of t...

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The Sands of Kurobe

1983

Shadow Hunters

10/1

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the collapse of small hans (prefectures). "Kagekari" are pe...

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Shadow Hunters

1967

Rebellion of Japan

0/0

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair wit...

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Rebellion of Japan

1976

The Possessed

0/0

Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and do...

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The Possessed

1956

How Sorrowful

0/0

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

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How Sorrowful

1987

The Orphaned Geisha

0/0

Geisha Yaeko is approached by a samurai who has just returned to Edo while she is painting a picture of camellia flowers in a temple. The samurai, who...

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The Orphaned Geisha

1964

The Long Death

0/0

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amoun...

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The Long Death

2000

Riot in Gujo

5/2

Naoto Ogata plays Sadajiro, a young farmer fighting out the battle of the riot through to the end. Sadajiro's wife is played by Hiromi Iwasaki, his fa...

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Riot in Gujo

1972

The Fearless Avenger

6.8/3

Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss Juzabu...

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The Fearless Avenger

1980

Shogun Assassin

6.876/161

A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to...

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Shogun Assassin

1984

The Return of Godzilla

7.2/254

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the...

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The Return of Godzilla

1987

The West Tako Cheerleaders

0/0

A boy seeks manhood in joining his school’s militaristic cheer squad.

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The West Tako Cheerleaders

1990

Shingo's Ten Duels

0/0

The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his fa...

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Shingo's Ten Duels

1965

Snow Country

4/1

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.

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Snow Country

1958

Voice Without a Shadow

5.8/6

Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss...

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Voice Without a Shadow

1961

Yabure Kabure

0/0

Ambitious action drama about a young man living a carefree life of women and money, struggling to crawl out of the mire, and his lover who tries to sa...

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Yabure Kabure

1966

Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies

6.4/9

[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to...

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Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies

1972

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

7.417/216

In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Og...

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

1988

A Step

6.3/4

Romantic love story of Russian physician Gusev and Japanese woman Keiko takes place in time of fighting of Russian and Japanese scientists against pol...

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A Step

1972

Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy

6/5

Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.

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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy

1982

Suspicion

6.7/7

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes...

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Suspicion

1953

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land

0/0

Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second feature film directed by Kamei Fumio, who is know...

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A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land

1975

Solar Eclipse

6.8/6

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

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Solar Eclipse

1970

Live My Share, Mother

0/0

At school, Fumio is good in everything. His cheerful, out-going personality makes him a great favorite with teachers and classmates alike. He is in pe...

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Live My Share, Mother

1968

The Woman Champion

0/0

Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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The Woman Champion

1968

The Woman Dicer

0/0

Seventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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The Woman Dicer

1968

The Woman Gambler's Revenge

0/0

Tenth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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The Woman Gambler's Revenge

1972

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

7.5/26

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been dest...

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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

1977

Island of Hell

7/2

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

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Island of Hell

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 fami...

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Portrait of Chieko

2004

New Shadow Warriors IV: Jiraika 2

7/1

Shippuu (Hayate) appeared suddenly dead. However, he fell into the hands of Sarutobi for due to his loss of memory.

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New Shadow Warriors IV: Jiraika 2

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

1968

The Night before Pearl Harbor

10/1

The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy Sc...

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The Night before Pearl Harbor

1956

Darkness at Noon

6.6/4

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

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Darkness at Noon

1978

August without Emperor

7/3

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-wa...

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August without Emperor

1968

The Saga of Tanegashima

5/3

Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka helped...

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The Saga of Tanegashima

1968

Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint

5.7/3

It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who may be...

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Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint

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 abou...

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The Shadow of Fear

1988

Michinoku Reunion Tour Murders

0/0

Suspense.

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Michinoku Reunion Tour Murders

1970

Mission: Iron Castle

6.6/5

The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen...

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Mission: Iron Castle

1982

Dojo Breaker

7/1

Tomisaburo Wakayama is back with a new take on the classic Yamamoto Shugoro masterpiece “Ame Agaru” as a samurai on the run with his bride who makes a...

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Dojo Breaker

1969

The Magoichi Saga

5.8/5

Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.

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The Magoichi Saga

1965

A Chain of Islands

6.4/5

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncov...

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A Chain of Islands

1998

Bonds

5.2/4

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. H...

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Bonds

1966

The Betrayal

6.4/14

A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a v...

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The Betrayal

1980

Port Arthur

7.6/10

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (...

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Port Arthur

1964

Gazing at Love and Death

7/1

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital...

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Gazing at Love and Death

1965

Taking the Castle

0/0

The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to stand...

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Taking the Castle

1953

Miniature

8/3

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope i...

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Miniature

1961

A Design for Dying

6/1

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shre...

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A Design for Dying

1974

Prophecies of Nostradamus

5.7/13

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobo...

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Prophecies of Nostradamus

1978

Third Base

6.1/7

Third and Shinbunbu embark on a plan to make money by Third becoming a pimp and Shinbunbu a prostitute.

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Third Base

1998

After Life

7.2/224

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased,...

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After Life

1987

The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma

6/1

The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma is a movie about a haunted blood-thirsty Bakufu officer who might have killed Ryoma Sakamoto.

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The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma

1984

Make-Up

0/0

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Make-Up

1985

Congratulatory Speech

0/0

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Congratulatory Speech

1955

Ai Sureba Koso

0/0

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Ai Sureba Koso

1967

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

6.9/8

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined t...

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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

1959

Umi wa kurutte iru

0/0

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Umi wa kurutte iru

1974

The Castle of Sand

7.3/43

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

1954

Tomoshibi

0/0

Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr Matsukuma although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and is...

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Tomoshibi

1982

Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 2

0/0

Brings Shingo face to face against Yagyu Tajima, the Shogun’s fencing instructor in a match that could save a domain near Osaka.  Meanwhile Shogun Yos...

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Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 2

1966

The Thieves' Who's Who

7/1

In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.

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The Thieves' Who's Who

1958

I Want to Be a Shellfish

10/1

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husba...

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I Want to Be a Shellfish

1966

Young Boss: Invitation to Fight

0/0

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Young Boss: Invitation to Fight

1959

Lucky Dragon No. 5

7.3/3

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacif...

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Lucky Dragon No. 5

1955

Ishigassen

0/0

Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a...

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Ishigassen

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

1967

Spy on the Masked Car

0/0

An industrial espionage film.

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Spy on the Masked Car

1987

Paper Lantern

0/0

A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer who has very little left to live. This film is bas...

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Paper Lantern

1989

長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 長七郎 大奥まかり通る

0/0

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長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 長七郎 大奥まかり通る

1983

張り子の虎

0/0

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張り子の虎