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Criterion Channel
78
59
8.0
/3167/
74
/47/
76
/90/
4.1
/4391/

Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
58
6.9
/2760/
69
/37/
65
/67/
3.6
/5697/
100
/7/
66
/32/

Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
poster
79
45
6.9
/746/
70
/21/
67
/27/
3.8
/2707/
100
/5/
93
/10/

Black Lizard (1968)
A detective tries to outwit an art loving thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
25
7.5
/526/
61
/9/
69
/15/
3.9
/1327/

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
poster
Criterion Channel
55
23
6.5
/764/
53
/9/
60
/23/
3.4
/1169/
30
/18/

Carmen Comes Home (1951)
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
22
7.0
/724/
62
/13/
71
/19/
3.6
/1324/
60
/1/

The Thick-Walled Room (1956)
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
13
7.0
/408/
58
/9/
75
/12/
3.6
/385/

The River Fuefuki (1960)
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
poster
Criterion Channel
54
9
6.2
/246/
30
/2/
51
/13/
3.4
/313/

Carmen's Innocent Love (1952)
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.
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10
/1/

Kaze no uchi so to (1959)
N/A
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10
/1/

High Teen (1959)
Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when put in charge of the third year class C, reputed to be the most incorrigible in the whole school, he is faced with surly opposition from the start. However, Terasaki perseveres. His greatest headaches are three students ... Sanae, who develops a "crush" on him, Nakanishi, who seeks to forget his unhappy home life in rugby, and Nire his pal.
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6.9
/12/
10
/1/

New Tokyo March (1953)
Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose romantic lives intersect. (MoMA)
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50
?
6.2
/184/
10
/1/
60
/4/
3.4
/211/

Summer Soldiers (1972)
During the Vietnam War, an American G.I. deserts his base in Japan and escapes to Tokyo with the help of his Japanese bar hostess girlfriend. In the capital he gets involved with an anti-war organization while dodging the military police.
poster
Criterion Channel
?
6.9
/80/
10
/1/
63
/3/

The Eternal Rainbow (1958)
Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
poster
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7.2
/25/
57
/4/
20
/3/

Modern People (1952)
A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subordinate skillfully conceals the corruption and joins the corrupt, shady relationship.
poster
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3.8
/6/
10
/1/

The Refugee (1955)
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite his difficult circumstances, he finds love in the form of Sachiko and the two marry. They later travel to Nanjing to live a new life together where Sachiko and Shaochang cooperate with the Japanese-backed government. Their ultimate hope is to secure peace but their idealism is not enough to keep them together through brutal times and with the end of the war the two find themselves facing a divorce... --Osaka Asian Film Festival
poster
Criterion Channel
63
?
6.7
/140/
58
/5/
64
/7/

The Tattered Wings (1955)
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.
poster
Criterion Channel
58
?
6.7
/143/
52
/4/
56
/5/

Thus Another Day (1959)
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man...
poster
Criterion Channel
54
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6.4
/113/
45
/2/
55
/6/

The Good Fairy (1951)
The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.
poster
64
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7.0
/252/
58
/6/
60
/5/
3.5
/298/

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (1954)
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
poster
Criterion Channel
59
?
6.5
/195/
50
/5/
58
/8/
3.3
/316/

Fountainhead (1956)
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
poster
Criterion Channel
65
?
7.0
/135/
60
/1/
67
/6/

Broken Drum (1949)
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
poster
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7.9
/25/
10
/1/

The Den of Beasts (1951)
N/A
poster
Criterion Channel
61
?
6.8
/148/
50
/5/
67
/9/

Boyhood (1951)
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
poster
Criterion Channel
?
5.9
/96/
10
/1/
50
/5/

Fireworks Over the Sea (1951)
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
poster
Criterion Channel
59
?
6.4
/152/
51
/5/
52
/8/
3.4
/200/

Danger Stalks Near (1957)
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
poster
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10
/1/

A Woman's Life (1955)
The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan.
poster
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6.7
/25/
10
/1/
70
/1/

Always in My Heart Part 3 (1954)
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.
poster
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6.8
/57/
50
/3/
68
/4/

Always in My Heart (1953)
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
poster
?
6.5
/30/
40
/2/
65
/4/

Always in My Heart Part 2 (1953)
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
poster
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7.1
/89/
10
/1/
78
/5/

Bad Girl (1963)
Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights at a rundown bar, sharing drinks and cigarettes with the lowlife drunks. She has nowhere to turn and no one to talk to, until she is reunited with her childhood friend, Saburo, who brings warmth to her heart.
poster
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7.3
/79/
45
/4/
68
/5/

The Story of Pure Love (1957)
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.
poster
Criterion Channel
61
?
6.8
/231/
52
/4/
67
/6/
3.5
/391/

Beautiful Days (1955)
Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.
poster
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Hibi no haishin (1958)
Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. The two arrange to meet at a hot spring, but Hiroyuki becomes torn between his love for Ikuko and his duty towards his sick wife.
poster
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処女雪 (1953)
Minako, Sadae, and Momoyo were all in love with their filial art teacher, Sasaki Shinya, but when Momoyo realized that Shinya loved Minako, she gave up and devoted herself to painting, and Sadae was so frustrated that she even staged a fake suicide. As a result, Minako's parents misunderstood Shinya, and in anger, he went to Tokyo, where he worked as an illustrator for his friend Sunaga's publishing company, and was introduced to the artist Hotta, and coincidentally, it was at one of these meetings that he met Sadae, who had become a waitress at a bar.
poster
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Midori naru hito: zenpen wakare no yogisha (1956)
1956 Japanese movie
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Midori naru hito: kōhen ai no honryū (1956)
1956 Japanese movie
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集金旅行 (1957)
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