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Kazui Nihonmatsu – Uchû daikaijû Girara AKA The X from Outer Space (1967)
Uchû daikaijû Girara (1967) The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red...
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Jun Fukuda – Densô ningen AKA The Secret of the Telegian (1960)
Densô ningen (1960) PLOT: Men are being murdered by a psycho called “The Telegian,” who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims. Denso Ningen AKA The Secret of the Telegian - 1960 -...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Sûîto Homu AKA Sweet Home (1989)
Sûîto Homu (1989) A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the...
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Kenji Misumi – Ken (1964)
Ken (1964) The second part of the ‘Sword’ trilogy by Kenji Misumi is an interesting story about a young man obsessed by kendo. Kokubu is a university student and has just been made captain of the...
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Takeshi Sato – Chocolate to heitai aka Chocolate and Soldiers (1938)
Chocolate to heitai (1938) Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Sato Takeshi and one of the most effective Japanese propaganda films of the...
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Nakaba Ueda – Jûnen ai aka 10 Years Love (2008)
Jûnen ai (2008) Plot / Synopsis17-year-old soccer team manager roots hard for her high school crush Hiroya Takagi to score the winning goal in the prefectural conference semi-final, but he makes a...
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Yasushi Sasaki – Gekimetsu no uta AKA Song of Destruction (1945)
Gekimetsu no uta (1945) Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again for the first time since...
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Seijun Suzuki – Kawachi Karumen AKA Carmen from Kawachi (1966)
Kawachi Karumen (1966) ‘Carmen from Kawachi brings the nihilist Suzuki universe to a woman’s life in the decidedly unsentimental education of a provincial factory worker, Tsuyuko, whose rape by two...
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Yoshimitsu Morita – No yohna mono AKA Something Like It (1981)
No yohna mono (1981) Quote:Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he gets to date the...
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Masanobu Deme – Kike wadatsumi no koe AKA Last Friends (1995)
Kike wadatsumi no koe (1995) Three college rugby players are drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will benefit their loved ones back home, they are...
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Masato Harada – Kamikaze Takushî AKA Kamikaze Taxi (1995)
Kamikaze Takushî (1995) With everything to lose, the desperate band together. Tatsuo, a young foot soldier in the Yakuza, seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a...
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Mitsuo Yanagimachi – Ai ni tsuite, Tokyo AKA About Love, Tokyo (1992)
Ai ni tsuite, Tokyo (1992) Ho Jun is a student from Beijing who is working in a cattle slaughter house in Tokyo. He lives with other Chinese friends in cheap lodgings. All of them find it difficult to...
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Teinosuke Kinugasa – Yukinojo henge AKA An Actor’s Revenge (1935)
Yukinojo henge (1935) Quote:Here is the 1935/1936 original version of “An Actor’s Revenge”, which was hugely popular at that time and a high point in Kazuo Hasegawa’s career. In fact, he even chose to...
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Michio Koshikawa – Tsukiko (2017)
Tsukiko (2017) Taichi’s father is the only family he has, but his father commits suicide by hanging. People suspect Taichi might have killed his father. Because of this, Taichi loses his job and he...
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Yasujirô Ozu – Ukikusa monogatari AKA A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
Ukikusa monogatari (1934) PLOT: A kabuki actor’s mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover’s son. A.Story.of.Floating.Weeds.1934.Yasujiro.Ozu.576p.BluRay.DD5.1.x264.mkvGeneralContainer:...
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Tomu Uchida – Kiga kaikyô AKA A Fugitive from the Past AKA Straits of Hunger...
Kiga kaikyô (1965) PLOT: Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them shoots the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman’s...
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Akira Daikuhara & Taiji Yabushita – Shônen Sarutobi Sasuke aka The Magic Boy...
Shônen Sarutobi Sasuke (1959) A young Japanese boy climbs a mountain in search of a magic wizard. The youth finds the wizard, and is tutored by him. Reinforced with magic powers, the boy eventually...
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Kô Nakahira – Natsu no arashi AKA Summer Storm (1956)
Natsu no arashi (1956) Ryoko, a young teacher, grew up in a foster family. After the death of her foster father she returns to her origin family. Rejected by her religious mother and not being...
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Isao Takahata – Taiyo no oji: Horusu no daiboken AKA Horus, Prince of the Sun...
Taiyo no oji Horusu no daiboken (1968) Synopsis:Horus, a kid living in an unnamed Scandinavian/Eastern Europe culture of the Iron Age, recovers the Sword of the Sun from the rock giant Moog and learns...
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Shunichi Nagasaki – Romansu AKA Some Kinda Love (1996)
Romansu (1996) Anzai is a town planner; his former classmate Shibata is a developer not averse to bending the rules and paying the odd sweetener. Both men have their lives turned upside down by a...
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