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Akira Kurosawa – Tsubaki Sanjûrô AKA Sanjuro (1962) (HD)
Quote: Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In this companion piece and sequel to “Yojimbo,” jaded samurai Sanjuro...
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Shirô Toyoda – Kaze futatabi AKA The Wind Blows Twice (1952)
Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle’s house, meets two men when her father, a university professor, collapses. Michihara, a wealthy man and Miyashita, a youth scholar. Kanae is...
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Yutaka Abe – Sasameyuki AKA The Makioka Sisters (1950)
This is the first of three major film adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki’s famous novel from the 1940s, the second one being the 11959 version directed by Koji Shima, the third one being Kon Ichikawa’s...
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Heinosuke Gosho – Kiiroi karasu aka Yellow Crow (1957)
This is the story of Kiyoshi Yoshida, who feels estranged from both parents after his father returns from war. How the boy adapts to life with the virtual stranger his father has become is the film’s...
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Kinuyo Tanaka – Chibusa yo eien nare AKA The Eternal Breasts AKA Forever a...
PLOT: Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful literary...
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Yôji Yamada – Baka marudashi AKA The Honest Fool (1964)
Quote: Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest’s daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is married, but he goes on a mission to please her,...
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Seijun Suzuki – Ankokugai no bijo AKA Underworld Beauty (1958)
Quote: The moment he’s released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who...
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Akira Kurosawa – Nora inu AKA Stray Dog (1949)
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for...
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Isao Takahata – Hôhokekyo tonari no Yamada-kun aka My Neighbors the Yamadas...
Plot / Synopsis My Neighbors the Yamadas uses a distinctive animation style to tell a series of vignettes about the title family. These vignettes vary from leaving the young girl behind at the mall to...
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Shunji Iwai – Shigatsu monogatari AKA April Story (1998)
Synopsis: Uzuki (Takako Matsu) leaves her hometown to study at Tokyo university. The shy, young girl is very busy with moving into her new home and is still quite insecure in her new environment. But...
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Jun’ya Satô – Jitsuroku: Shisetsu Ginza keisatsu AKA A True Story of the...
Quote: Jitsuroku is usually translated as “true story,” which in the yakuza movies of the seventies meant not so much historical accuracy as it did fights and blood of a new kind. The most famous of...
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Masaki Dômoto & Yukio Mishima – Yûkoku AKA Patriotism AKA Rite of Love &...
Quote: After participating in the Ni Ni Roku Incident of February 1936, Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama has been given orders to execute some of his fellow mutineers. He decides to commit seppuku, and his...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Dramadas: Yorokobi no uzumaki AKA Whirlpool of Joy (1992)
An early TV film by Kurosawa, one of two for the Dramada (1990-1993) series. IMDb lists runtime as 47 minutes – this is only 23 Whirlpool.of.Joy.1992.DVDrip.x264.AC3.mkvGeneralContainer:...
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Tsugunobu Kotani – Kôru garu AKA Call Girl (1982)
Quote: A beautiful heroine who develops a call girl for the political world, the financial world, star athletes, singers and entertainers, provides entertainment to large company executives and...
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Yasuzô Masumura – Onna no issho AKA A Woman’s Life (1962)
Synopsis: Kei, a house servant, is kicked out after an altercation and is then adopted by a nearby family. One of many adaptations of “Onna no isshō”, this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Kuraudo AKA Cloud (2024) (HD)
Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk....
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Akira Kurosawa – Tengoku to jigoku AKA High and Low (1963)
Quote: In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped by mistake....
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Tai Katô – Tange Sazen: Kenun Unkon no maki aka Tange Sazen: Scroll of Dragon...
Tange Sazen was at first, the character in Fubo Hayashi’s novel. Director Ito Daisuke made this one-armed, one-eyed man an nihilistic, alienated hero, representing the anarchic energy and rebellious...
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Ryosuke Hashiguchi – Hatachi no binetsu AKA A Touch of Fever (1993)
Quote: An audacious teen movie from Japan, concentrating on a bored middle-class quartet: two hustlers, Tatsuro and Shin, and their two female best friends. Tatsuro is the better hustler. He spends...
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Hisayasu Satô – Wakaoku-sama: Futomono-biraki AKA Young Wife: Opening Juicy...
Synopsis Cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato’s second comedy of the year, this silly softcore effort stars pretty Nao Kikuchi as a young married woman who takes a job at a call-girl agency with the mistaken...
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