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Sabu AKA Hiroyuki Tanaka – Dangan ranna aka Dangan Runner (1996)
review:Yassuda is on the run. In truth, he should be in his car, with money that was to havebeen robbed from a bank, with a gun bought from Yakuza. He could have come offwell had he not forgotten the...
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Keisuke Yoshida – Himeanôru (2016)
Quote:Okada works part-time at a cleaning company. Recently he has been feeling frustrated about his go-nowhere life. One day co-worker Mr. Ando asks Okada to help him in his quest to win the love of...
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Masayuki Suo – Fanshî dansu AKA Fancy Dance (1989)
Quote:Yohei, a punk rocker, has to become a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Yohei though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline learns to adjust. Then his...
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Yasuzo Masumura – Kuro no chôtokkyu (1964)
Quote:Basically the plot revolves around an endebted entreprenor who sell his fields to a business-man who plan to build an car-factory. Instead of this factory, the fields will prove to be used for...
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Shinsuke Ogawa – Nippon-koku Furuyashiki-mura aka A Japanese Village (1982)
Synopsis:This is Ogawa Productions’ first major film from their Yamagata period. They had already started photography on Magino Village-A Tale but they were drawn to this village deep in the high...
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Sadao Nakajima – Poruno no joô: Nippon sex ryokô aka The Pornstar Travels...
Quote:A voice from IMDB My continuing quest to see every film that Sweden’s stunningly beautiful Christina Lindberg ever made has brought me here to this extremely rare film… The plot: Christina, on...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Riyû AKA The Reason AKA The Motive (2004)
Quote:A storm rages over Tokyo. Meanwhile, inside a high-rise apartment block, the bodies of four people are discovered – apparently the victims of a brutal crime. At first, the victims are all...
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Katsuhito Ishii – Samehada otoko to momojiri onna AKA Shark Skin Man And...
While escaping from the clutches of her sexually warped uncle, Toshiko meets Samehada who pos up in front of her in his underpants. The dude is also escaping from the gangsters he has stolen a pile of...
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Hideyuki Hirayama – Warau kaeru AKA The Laughing Frog (2002)
SynopsisA woman has a fine life with rewarding work, a nice house, and a serious boyfriend in the lowlands of Japan. In walks her long lost husband who years ago disappeared and abandoned her. The...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Karisuma AKA Charisma [+Extras] (1999)
Quote:A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without...
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Yasuharu Hasebe – Ryuketsu No Koso AKA Blood For Blood / Bloody Feud (1971)
Late Nikkatsu Action – One of Hasebe’s last for the studio before the Roman Porno films genre became their mainstay. Nikkatsu Classic Library wrote:The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets...
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Makoto Satô – Agano ni ikiru AKA Living on the River Agano (1992)
Quote:In 1964, a chemical factory in Niigata Prefecture dumped mercury into the Agano River, the beginning of a manmade tragedy that would affect locals for years to come. Mercury poisoning led to...
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Eizô Sugawa – Kimi mo shusse ga dekiru AKA You Can Succeed, Too (1964)
Japan Society wrote:The closest Japanese cinema ever came to the full-blown Broadway style musical, with singing and dancing on the streets of Tokyo, music by avant-garde composer and jazzman Toshiro...
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Naomi Kawase – Genpin (2010)
Quote:About Tadashi Yoshimura’s maternity clinic where he practice “natural births” deep in the forest of Okazaki (Japan). The Japan Times wrote:The pain of childbirth, Genesis says, is God’s...
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Kazuo Kuroki – Rônin-gai aka Street of Masterless Samurai (1990)
Kazuo Kuroki’s international award-winning period drama was produced in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the death of Shozo Makino, “the father of Japanese films.” Set in the 1830s near the...
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Akira Kurosawa – Ikiru (1952)
Synopsis:Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing. He learns he is dying of cancer and wants to...
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Keita Amemiya – Zeiram AKA Zeiramu [+Extras] (1991)
Quote:“When two hapless electricians go out on a job, they have every reason to believe that it’ll be a job like any other. But the bumbling twosome soon find themselves zapped into a virtual reality...
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Motohiro Torii – Sanbiki no mesubachi AKA Three Pretty Devils (1970)
Quote:A trio of teenaged tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into trouble deep. Hilarious scenes where the girls try to pick up gaijin at Osaka’s World Expo 70....
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Takashi Ishii – Hito ga hito o ai suru koto no dôshiyô mo nasa AKA The Brutal...
Nami (Mai Kitajima) is a popular actress, but in her personal life, her marriage is at a crisis point as her husband, Yosuke (Toshiyuki Nagashima), a fellow actor, keeps having affairs. The new film...
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Tatsumi Kumashiro – Yoi-machi-gusa AKA Evening Primrose (1974)
The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam Group is a small anarchist organization lead by...
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