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Kanopy
90
8.3
/100839/
82
/1711/
83
/1272/
4.5
/175635/
98
/57/
96
/1465/
92
/20/
cc age 11+

Ikiru (1952)
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
poster
Kanopy
89
8.4
/69832/
84
/1477/
83
/1066/
4.6
/185667/
97
/70/
95
/556/
90
/17/

High and Low (1963)
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.0
/43922/
80
/911/
80
/689/
4.1
/59774/
100
/29/
95
/760/
83
/15/

Sanjuro (1962)
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 helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.8
/4091/
76
/101/
75
/84/
4.0
/7431/
86
/7/
88
/33/

The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
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fuboTV
83
81
7.8
/20539/
76
/368/
75
/339/
4.0
/35861/
100
/21/
91
/405/

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 the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
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Criterion Channel
79
77
7.7
/9598/
77
/334/
74
/245/
3.8
/19182/
85
/13/
90
/221/

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
74
8.0
/7156/
76
/131/
79
/165/
4.1
/8490/
90
/10/
91
/154/
73
/7/

The Burmese Harp (1956)
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.
poster
75
57
7.4
/2701/
69
/39/
73
/57/
3.8
/1917/
83
/44/

Samurai Assassin (1965)
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
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Kanopy
77
54
7.2
/1388/
69
/29/
69
/36/
3.7
/3713/
100
/6/
81
/25/

Giants and Toys (1958)
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
poster
78
45
7.5
/1556/
73
/47/
73
/35/
4.0
/5297/
93
/12/

The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
poster
71
37
7.3
/524/
60
/7/
58
/13/
3.6
/500/
73
/15/
95
/57/

The Human Bullet (1968)
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.
poster
67
37
7.1
/1114/
62
/23/
62
/26/
3.6
/1108/
68
/287/

Ninja, A Band of Assassins (1962)
Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.
poster
66
36
6.3
/993/
66
/59/
67
/45/
3.2
/2780/
71
/10/

Evil of Dracula (1974)
A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret.
poster
74
30
7.7
/1170/
72
/21/
72
/29/
3.7
/782/
79
/11/

Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
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Hoopla
70
30
7.4
/563/
58
/9/
71
/17/
3.9
/1764/

Elegant Beast (1962)
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
26
6.9
/634/
61
/11/
70
/15/
3.6
/1487/

I Will Buy You (1956)
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
poster
60
23
6.8
/464/
38
/6/
63
/10/
3.4
/485/
67
/94/

Kanto Wanderer (1963)
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
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
68
21
6.9
/835/
65
/21/
64
/26/
3.5
/460/
76
/9/

Red Lion (1969)
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.
poster
75
18
7.6
/499/
61
/7/
72
/11/
3.8
/680/
Popcorn
93
/8/

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.
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Criterion Channel
65
14
6.8
/238/
58
/6/
69
/9/
3.5
/783/

Youth in Fury (1960)
A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insoluble feelings of alienation.
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?
10
/1/

Eyes of Mother and Daughter (1959)
Japanese drama film.
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?
10
/1/

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity (1960)
An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company.
poster
?
10
/1/

Ninja in a Business Suit (1963)
An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinuma, believes it was murder, not an accident.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Valley Between Love and Death (1954)
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.
poster
?
10
/1/

Queen of the Treasure Island (1960)
At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten family. When Mino's father, Kyohei Tsuchihashi, is murdered by unknown assailants, Tadakazu is summoned to Akane-ya, the landlord of this area. He promises to ensure the safety of Mino for three days, during which the Benten family must not harm her...
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?
10
/1/

Irohanihoheto (1960)
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out large dividends, making it famous as "Japan's only investment bank for ordinary people." On the other hand, Detective Muneharu Matsumoto of the Metropolitan Police Department's Second Investigative Division has suspicions about this organization, and has been spying on the business association for many years. However, Matsumoto was having a hard time getting any solid proof of the nature of the incident...
poster
?
10
/1/

風雲児 (1951)
Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a man protecting jujitsu in the twilight of Kikyōgahara!
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?
5.2
/9/
10
/1/

Red Flowers of Hell (1961)
1961 gangster film.
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?
5.8
/7/
10
/1/

The Red Water (1963)
Comedy drama film
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?
10
/1/

Chikûho no kodomotachi (1960)
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines
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?
10
/1/

右門捕物帖 片眼狼 (1951)
N/A
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?
10
/1/

Magistrate Ooka’s Legends (1958)
A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.
poster
?
10
/1/

Gakusei geisha koi to kenka (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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?
10
/1/

Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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?
10
/1/

The juvenile (1955)
A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers
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?
10
/1/

Madam of the first class and husband of the third class (1954)
Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.
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?
5.8
/16/

The Sea of Eden (1976)
Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation with a female teacher. It turns out that Nanjo and Shimizu have fallen in love.
poster
?
10
/1/

Hurry on a Sail to Dream (1970)
Yuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the object of his ugly desires. When she falls in love with a young man Jun her long oppressed mind leads her to commit a murder with Jun for Katakura’s enormous fortune.
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?
10
/1/

When the Flowers Bloom (1965)
Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a remote village. However, there is widespread poverty and ignorance beyond her imagination.
poster
?
10
/1/

Kakedashi keiji (1964)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

Chibusa o daku musume tachi (1962)
Japanese drama.
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?
7.1
/33/
10
/1/

Kaachan (1961)
Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
poster
?
10
/1/

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush (1960)
An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.
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?
6.7
/23/
10
/1/

The Woman Who Touched the Legs (1952)
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of course, the detective falls in love with his prey.
poster
?
10
/1/

I Was a Prisoner in Siberia (1952)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues (1961)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind (1961)
The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who had painstakingly graduated from the University of Merchant Marine after six years, was on his way to work for Saikai Kaiun on a tourist ship on the Beppu route. He was in a euphoric mood, teasing a young lady playing golf on the deck, and helping the geisha Umeka who was being harassed by a drunkard, with his natural sense of justice, as the ship arrived at Beppu Port.


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