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Criterion Channel
81
79
7.6
/14476/
75
/317/
76
/296/
3.9
/28156/
94
/16/
89
/222/

Drunken Angel (1948)
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
77
8.0
/5296/
79
/117/
79
/122/
4.2
/9665/
100
/16/
93
/93/

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
73
7.7
/4190/
77
/75/
75
/91/
4.0
/7487/
100
/9/
87
/45/
84
/7/

Early Spring (1956)
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
66
7.1
/4380/
67
/74/
69
/82/
3.6
/7212/
100
/6/
72
/45/

No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own path in pre- and post-WWII Japan.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
66
7.2
/4072/
73
/79/
72
/88/
3.8
/7470/
88
/8/
75
/49/

One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase housing, small pleasures, and a little hope.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
63
7.6
/3570/
73
/64/
76
/102/
3.9
/6712/
83
/577/

Floating Clouds (1955)
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
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Criterion Channel
81
62
8.0
/2371/
75
/50/
80
/68/
4.2
/7280/
89
/36/

Yearning (1964)
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.
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Criterion Channel
79
61
7.7
/2336/
73
/40/
73
/62/
4.0
/4174/
94
/445/

Sound of the Mountain (1954)
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
poster
72
61
7.3
/4303/
72
/75/
73
/87/
3.6
/6099/
73
/781/

The Quiet Duel (1949)
A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats himself in secret and breaks off his engagement rather than risk his fiancée’s future, even as he confronts the irresponsible patient who infected him—testing his ethics, pride, and capacity for sacrifice.
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Criterion Channel
76
56
7.6
/1977/
67
/26/
75
/44/
3.9
/2877/
84
/366/

Repast (1951)
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
poster
Criterion Channel
56
54
5.6
/7156/
58
/318/
63
/206/
3.0
/18788/
63
/8/
37
/217/

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.
poster
73
42
7.5
/2356/
76
/37/
72
/44/
3.6
/916/

Chûshingura (1962)
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
poster
75
40
7.5
/924/
66
/21/
71
/25/
4.0
/2167/
83
/21/

Lightning (1952)
The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
39
7.5
/1290/
69
/25/
71
/33/
3.9
/2091/
88
/10/

Flowing (1956)
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
poster
Criterion Channel
48
35
5.6
/2726/
50
/57/
55
/53/
2.7
/5370/
27
/23/

The Most Beautiful (1944)
Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, enduring illness, injury, and personal hardship to “serve the country.” Led by Tsuru Watanabe, they fight fatigue and setbacks to keep their line moving—even when duty collides with grief.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
34
7.2
/635/
63
/17/
68
/25/
3.6
/2736/

Love Letter (1953)
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
31
7.5
/959/
68
/16/
68
/18/
3.9
/1610/

Mother (1952)
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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69
30
7.1
/939/
71
/14/
69
/24/
3.5
/408/
66
/1078/

Incident at Blood Pass (1970)
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the pass. When the Ronin's assignment becomes clear, to help the gang, he's ordered to kill the inn's residents, including a woman he's rescued from an abusive husband. He's reluctant to murder innocent people; then he learns that the gold shipment is a trap and he's part of a double cross. How he sorts through these divided loyalties tests of his samurai honor, and perhaps of his love for a woman.
poster
70
29
7.3
/410/
65
/10/
64
/16/
3.9
/2222/

Girls of the Night (1961)
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.
poster
70
17
7.4
/471/
62
/11/
71
/9/
3.8
/799/

Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960)
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
poster
73
17
7.3
/425/
67
/7/
65
/14/
3.8
/863/
86
/4/

Sudden Rain (1956)
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
poster
69
17
7.4
/523/
55
/6/
73
/13/
3.7
/621/

The Thin Line (1966)
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.
poster
71
16
7.6
/498/
61
/7/
72
/11/
3.8
/606/

A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
16
7.1
/409/
66
/9/
69
/10/
3.7
/713/

Wife (1953)
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.
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69
13
7.3
/263/
64
/5/
68
/11/
3.7
/495/

A Wife's Heart (1956)
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.
poster
62
12
6.4
/421/
65
/12/
53
/13/
3.3
/444/

The Three Treasures (1959)
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.
poster
71
11
7.7
/256/
64
/5/
70
/13/
3.7
/280/

A Woman's Life (1963)
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
poster
63
10
7.4
/204/
48
/5/
59
/14/
3.6
/272/

Little Peach (1958)
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.
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62
10
7.3
/242/
40
/2/
58
/12/
3.6
/348/

Moment of Terror (1966)
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.
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60
9
6.3
/293/
48
/7/
62
/10/
3.4
/256/

The Last War (1961)
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
poster
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10
/1/

A Smell of Money (1965)
Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.
poster
?
7.0
/8/

Joi no shinsatsushitsu (1950)
A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more surprised to discover that he has a wife and child. Will she be able to confess her feelings to him before her worsening heart disease claims her life?
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5.8
/11/
10
/1/

Geisha in the Old City (1957)
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and resilience.
poster
?
8.1
/14/
10
/1/

Garakuta (1964)
1964 Japanese movie
poster
?
7.7
/26/
10
/1/

Will-o'-the-Wisp (1956)
N/A
poster
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10
/1/

Shin kitsune to tanuki (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
?
8.5
/21/
10
/1/

A Dangerous Hero (1957)
A film by Hideo Suzuki.
poster
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10
/1/

Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1 (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
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10
/1/

Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
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10
/1/

A Woman's Identity (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
?
4.8
/30/
10
/1/

Home-Brewed Tatsu (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
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10
/1/

Long Way to Okinawa (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
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10
/1/

Futari dake no hashi (1958)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

Blood on the Sea (1961)
Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.
poster
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7.5
/24/
10
/1/
80
/1/

Irresponsible Rascal of Japan (1962)
Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".
poster
?
10
/1/
80
/1/

Black Comedy - Ah, Fool (1969)
A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
poster
?
6.4
/24/
10
/1/
70
/2/

The Lovable Tramp (1966)
Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time.
poster
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10
/1/

Shimizu Port Salaryman (1962)
N/A


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