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Criterion Channel
73
57
7.2
/2884/
69
/67/
69
/72/
3.8
/4659/
82
/33/

The 47 Ronin (1941)
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
35
7.0
/1128/
63
/21/
65
/22/
3.5
/2192/
79
/16/

I Am Waiting (1957)
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
poster
61
16
6.6
/364/
52
/4/
60
/18/
3.4
/644/

Tokyo March (1929)
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual experience set against the background of the title song, "Tokyo March." (Sadly, less than a half hour of the footage has been recovered and restored.)
poster
66
14
6.7
/322/
68
/12/
60
/8/
3.5
/839/

Hungry Soul (1956)
Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.
poster
68
12
6.9
/252/
70
/9/
64
/7/
3.6
/626/

Hungry Soul, Part II (1956)
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.
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7.0
/9/

Yasen gungakutai (1944)
N/A
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10
/1/

G-men of Japan 3: Fearless Counterattack (1951)
A man with two identical faces challenges the wicked and lawless escaped prisoner to an unsuitable battle, intertwining with the chilling image of the emergency line.
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10
/1/

祇園物語 春怨 (1951)
The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the backdrop of the city's dance festival.
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10
/1/

悲劇の将軍 山下奉文 (1953)
When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the Malay front and occupied Singapore at once, and was praised as a "Malay tiger." However, the situation in Japan changed steadily by the failure of Sai pan from the GA Talca translation.
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5.9
/9/

Navy (1943)
Japanese war film.
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5.0
/8/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Night in Hawaii (1953)
N/A
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10
/1/

Zattō ni hikarume (1959)
1959 Japanese movie
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6.0
/8/
10
/1/

The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay (1966)
Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life
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10
/1/

Crazy Jailbreak (1959)
A prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal.
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6.0
/15/
10
/1/

Birth of a Jazz Maiden (1957)
Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a young student, Katō Yutaka, who asks her to let him take her picture. The peddlers also meet a jazz band, and when Midori sings a song, teased by the band's star singer Nanjō Haruo, the band members are enraptured by her beautiful voice. She eventually joins the band and quickly becomes a popular jazz singer.
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69
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7.2
/114/
62
/4/
74
/5/

Earth (1939)
Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.
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5.6
/10/

Theater (1945)
Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.
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10
/1/

A Thousand Standards of Stone (1950)
A film about the rivalry and friendship between firefighter Chоji and sumo wrestler Sokichi Fudoyama.
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10
/1/

Saigo no totsugeki (1957)
A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized by Toyama Tetsu of “Smuggling of the Body”, also directed by Yutaka Abe, and Shigeyoshi Mine of “Densuke's Propaganda” was in charge of the shooting. The main performers are Michitaro Mizushima of “Smuggling of the Body”, Ryoji Hayama of “The Sorrowful Garden”, Shoji Yasui of “The People of Okino”, Shiro Osaka of “Lonely Man”, “Tetsuji Kawakami Story 16” In addition to Hiroshi Nihonyanagi, Shinsuke Maki, Isamu Kosugi of the "Hunger Soul", Ko Mishima, Satoshi Nishimura, Saburo Hiromatsu, Hiroshi Kondo and others.
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5.7
/13/

Island of Horrors (1949)
Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an isolated island in the Seto Inland Sea. Kosuke Kindaichi received a will from his friend Kito, which said, "Go to Gokumon Island to save my three younger sisters," and Kosuke went to Gokumon Island. Upon arriving at the residence of Quito, there were three beautiful sisters, a crazy father, a cousin of Sanae, and Kosuke plunged into a strange atmosphere. The film adaptation of the masterpiece novel of the same name by Seishi Yokomizo. Kyozo Kataoka plays Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, and Ryutaro Otomo plays Inspector Isokawa, who can be called Kindaichi's best partner.
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5.4
/6/
10
/1/

Turbid Youth (1954)
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.
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10
/1/

Zesshou (1958)
N/A
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10
/1/

Oogonju (1950)
One Sunday morning, Toshio Esaki, a young dentist, wakes up in his clinic. It seems that he was drunk and spent the night in the clinic instead of going home. When he goes into the laboratory to get a drink of water, he finds a woman wearing a green striped Western-style dress lying there.
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8.1
/11/
60
/1/

Goblin Courier (1949)
Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
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10
/1/

Jigoku no hatoba (1956)
A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement, witnesses two men shooting each other and collapsing on the quay while his assistant Shinsuke is away.
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6.6
/5/
50
/1/

Explosion! (1939)
"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama which is too bizarre to be serious propaganda. [The plot revolves around a public contribution campaign to buy airplanes.] The mayor's aviator son promises to fly over the village in salute, and much of the narrative concerns the preparations for this great event. Tasaka throws in a few songs, some village humor and satire, and tremendous camera mobility, finally wringing every possible effect from his climax." John Gillett, British Film Institute
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5.4
/71/
52
/4/

Victory Song (1945)
Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
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10
/1/

The Roar of The Lion (1955)
N/A
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66
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7.2
/164/
60
/2/
65
/6/

Police Officer (1933)
Itami, a young policeman, meets his high school friend, Tetsuo, a gangster, at a roadblock. As they rekindled their friendship, a complex relationship is established between them.
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7.7
/87/
46
/3/
80
/3/

Twilight Saloon (1955)
Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in an experimental style, weaving in a variety of music in this ambitious ensemble drama.
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10
/1/

Golden Valley (1955)
A samurai thief fights a gang of ghostly thieves using scorpions for treasure in the unexplored Shinano region, which is guarded by a descendant of the Heike clan.
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7.1
/47/

Mud and Soldiers (1939)
A group of Japanese soldiers land in Chinese territory. They advance on a village ; one soldier, Norimoto, is killed in the attack, but the village is captured. Norimoto’s body is recovered and buried. Over the next two days, the soldiers advance inland. Two more soldiers, Naito and Takahashi, are injured. They remain behind to recover, but vow to catch up. Their comrades march on...
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7.1
/41/

The Grand Master (1948)
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of becoming the Shogi Grand Master Champion, everything is at stake – including his family. What will it cost for Sakata to follow his passion?
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5.8
/80/
70
/1/

Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown (1930)
While returning by boat to Japan, Yoshie Fujiwara meets a rich woman who suggests him to become a singer thanks to an impresario friend of hers.
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8.1
/14/

Delinquent Girl (1949)
A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is presumed to be a lost film.
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8.4
/22/

Unending Advance (1937)
One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian problems of a middle-aged salaryman and his family segues into an idyllic dream of an implausible future. The surviving print, although incomplete, offers an essential glimpse into Uchida’s prewar period, when he was associated more with realist dramas than with the period films that dominated his work after the war.
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6.3
/93/
53
/3/
55
/6/

Five Scouts (1938)
An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A company commander calls on five men. They are to reconnoiter, but on their way they are attacked. Only four of them return. While his companions mourn the fifth straggles back. Soon after comes the order to move out for a general attack. The men know that this time there will be no returning." (Donald Richie)
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6.4
/10/

Theater of Life: Youth Version (1936)
N/A
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6.8
/14/

Metropolitan Symphony (1929)
A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
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6.7
/155/
100
/1/
60
/6/
3.5
/246/

Phoenix (1947)
A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
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56
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5.7
/179/
60
/4/
53
/3/

The Daughter of the Samurai (1937)
Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo has long been promised. But Teruo, who has gotten to know the freedoms of the western world, would rather marry the woman he loves and behaves brusquely to Mitsuko.
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7.4
/71/
10
/1/
55
/6/

A Slope in the Sun (1958)
The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji comes to light.
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Farewell, Innocence (1955)
The story follows privileged college students who secretly work part-time at a beauty salon, amidst emotional and social struggles. It explores love, betrayal, family pressure, and the youth’s conflict between tradition and personal freedom, amid life-changing events.
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大都会の丑満時 (1949)
N/A
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白頭巾現わる (1949)
1949 Japanese movie
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Kokoro tsuki nogotoku (1947)
1947 Japanese movie
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A New Breeze (1945)
1945 Japanese movie
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Sennichimae fukin (1945)
1945 Japanese movie


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