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7Till We Meet Again
Till We Meet Again
Sonejiro sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another ...
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0Adolescence
Adolescence
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
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0The King
The King
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi ...
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6The Rendezvous
The Rendezvous
The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
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0The Outsiders
The Outsiders
A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Takeda.
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0The Lovers
The Lovers
Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.
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6The Song of the Cart
The Song of the Cart
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
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6The Broken Commandment
The Broken Commandment
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.
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7Boyhood
Boyhood
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
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7Coup d’Etat
Coup d’Etat
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
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7The Catch
The Catch
Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”
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7Captive’s Island
Captive’s Island
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he ...
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8The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea
An old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life.
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8The Burmese Harp
The Burmese Harp
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 POW.
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7Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
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8Kwaidan
Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in ...
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6Zatoichi the Outlaw
Zatoichi the Outlaw
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.