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4.2
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93
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Memories of Matsuko (2006)
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
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80
75
7.5
/5530/
79
/218/
74
/134/
4.2
/50571/
87
/15/
87
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74
/6/

Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three songs for the festival's rock concert—including a classic '80s song by the Japanese punk rock band The Blue Hearts called "Linda Linda".
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MUBI
71
6.7
/8803/
67
/294/
66
/275/
3.5
/16198/
87
/83/
69
/21/
68
/18/

The Third Murder (2017)
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.
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Hulu
70
69
6.4
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71
/493/
69
/301/
3.4
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75
/70/
7.3
/76851/

Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai (2007)
Ash and friends (this time accompanied by newcomer Dawn) arrive at an idyllic village on their way to their next Pokemon contest, where chaos will soon erupt with the prophecy of two Pokemon Gods (Dialga and Palkia) and the arrival of a mysterious, seemingly deadly Pokemon named Darkrai, which has the power to distort space and time.
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Kanopy
76
68
7.2
/5228/
69
/81/
67
/82/
3.7
/7792/
88
/57/
82
/271/
80
/22/

Tony Takitani (2004)
A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.
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Kanopy
68
7.0
/12573/
68
/288/
68
/251/
3.6
/18815/
76
/66/
71
/501/
63
/18/

Tokyo! (2008)
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
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70
57
6.7
/2271/
70
/79/
64
/66/
3.6
/3438/
73
/11/
75
/249/

Sakuran (2006)
Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics while trying to cling to the man she loves.
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Kanopy
75
52
7.0
/2234/
70
/68/
73
/83/
3.6
/4762/
91
/45/
88
/3/
64
/11/

True Mothers (2020)
After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child. Six years after adopting a boy they named Asato, Satoko has quit her job to concentrate fully on her husband and son. The family lives a peaceful existence until the arrival of a stranger.
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7.6
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/31/
73
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3.7
/1091/
91
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I Just Didn't Do It (2007)
A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.
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AMC+
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51
6.3
/3655/
62
/119/
59
/115/
3.3
/6628/
52
/115/

Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)
An aspiring hair dresser becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the corpse of a girl whose dead body continues to grow beautiful, voluminous, black hair that comes alive, driving those who use the extensions insane or killing them.
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41
7.1
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61
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68
/22/
3.5
/804/
67
/12/
80
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Funuke: Show Some Love, You Losers! (2007)
Traumatic incidents, conflicts, and bloody quarrels awaiting the Wago family members who return home to bury their parents.
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57
41
5.9
/2156/
56
/68/
54
/47/
3.1
/1344/
58
/193/

Tokyo Zombie (2005)
Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the chemicals of the landfill mix with the corpse (and many other corpses) to give rise to a zombie infestation in Tokyo.
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Amazon Prime Video
71
40
6.7
/965/
68
/28/
63
/41/
3.6
/1882/
88
/8/
71
/1/

Fires on the Plain (2015)
In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from the local population and the American offensive. The dwindling Japanese soldiers attempt to survive through the horrors of war.
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33
5.8
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60
/28/
58
/30/
3.4
/3279/

Seventh Code (2013)
Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. Akiko finally finds Matsunaga. However, he leaves her again, warning her not to trust strangers in a foreign country. She tries to follow him, but she is attacked by thugs and dumped on the outskirts of town.
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32
5.7
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61
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3.3
/1724/
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Kiki's Delivery Service (2014)
A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her friends and family. Kiki then begins her new life with her trusted cat Jiji.
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3.4
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Unlock Your Heart (2021)
Ai has had a crush forever on her classmate Tatoe. When she finds out that Tatoe is in a secret relationship with another girl, she sets out to sabotage their plans for the future.
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Hoopla
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25
6.3
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/14/
3.3
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/14/

Ten Nights of Dreams (2007)
Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.
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22
6.7
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71
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78
/6/
3.4
/716/

Sunset Sunrise (2025)
In 2020, the world is forced into lockdown by the COVID pandemic. As remote work is popularized in order to keep the infection rate under control, a young man employed by a company in Tokyo moves to a country town on the Sanriku Coast in Miyagi Prefecture, where he could enjoy fishing, in search of a new lifestyle. But gradually, we found that there were problems such as "empty houses" in the local area.
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61
17
6.2
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44
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76
/14/
3.2
/754/

(Ab)normal Desire (2023)
Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's prize-winning novel. A sensitive drama about the aberrant in a society without regard for diversity, the story unites characters trying to hide abnormalities: a prosecutor who is worried that his pubescent son is a shut-in, an introverted saleswoman with a peculiar habit, and a student tortured by feelings she can’t express. In a world fill with abnormalities, what if it’s actually normal to be abnormal?
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7.0
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3.6
/607/

Ramblers (2003)
Two young men arrive at a deserted countryside train station. They are Tsuboi and Kinoshita, amateur filmmakers on their way to a meeting with a genuine film star who might be interested in appearing in their next production.
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6.3
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Dare to Stop Us (2018)
In Spring 1969, 21-year-old Megumi Yoshizumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes films popular with young people. Pink film director Koji Wakamatsu gathers there with young talented people who are all fascinated with movie making. When they are not making movies, they spend their time smoking, drinking alcohol, scouting for actresses and looking for material for their next film. When filming begins, everybody immerses themselves into the production and will do everything on the filming set from running, shouting to acting.
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6.5
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/19/
3.3
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The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky (2012)
Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to provide for himself and his senile grandmother — whose intersecting lives yield both sorrow and a fragile, yet enduring, hope for a brighter future. (TIFF)
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6.8
/23/

Sato and Sato (2025)
It’s easy to promise ‘for better or worse’ in a wedding vow, but how many marriages can truly weather every storm? Sachi decides to study for the bar exam with her boyfriend Tamotsu as an act of solidarity. However, Sachi ends up becoming a lawyer, while Tamotsu, who fails the exam repeatedly, is relegated to stay-at-home dad.
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?
6.6
/11/

原宿デニール (2015)
There are many things happening in Harajuku. A policewoman is the local metre maid. She is consistently thinking about her relationship with her seniors. A man is Korean and works at a stockings' shop. He is an expert in the thickness and girth of the women's stockings. The two meet coincidentally one day. A teenager is walking around hoping to be scouted. The film focuses on the different people of different ages, genders and backgrounds in the area. One day the stories begin to merge into one,
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6.9
/13/
10
/2/
57
/3/

Corpo a Corpo (2023)
In the heart of Osaka's old neighborhoods lies a run-down apartment building known as "Copo." Its thin walls and lack of privacy are home to a group of residents, each struggling with their own pasts and uncertainties. Yuri, a part-time worker, has fled her family, while her neighbors—an aloof man who lives off women, a shy laborer with clumsy affections, and an older resident running a mysterious business—navigate their complex lives. The discovery of a fellow tenant’s death forces them all to confront their personal dilemmas and the fragile nature of life in the "Copo."
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4.3
/53/
13
/3/
53
/3/

A Chain of Cursed Murders (2006)
Some high school girls receive an mail in they are told about a girl who was raped, became pregnant, and murdered by a group of men. Mail asks them to resend the mail to 9 other people in next 12 hours or they will be killed and treated as one of the wrongdoers to the murdered girl, some girls delete the mail and thus have to face gruesome truth
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20
/1/

Tokyo Shameless Paradise Good-bye Blues (2001)
Kurokawa has successfully completed his first mission as an assassin. But when he returns to his boss' office, he is scolded for not having disposed of the body and is ordered back to the scene of the crime. The members of the group "The Donkeys" are trying to make some money by stealing a precious purse from some gangsters. The two stories unfold on parallel tracks but at a certain point they intersect and, as the rhythm accelerates, come to a surprise ending…
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6.2
/27/
20
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Zero Man vs. The Half-Virgin (2011)
Sakuragi realizes that, when he becomes aroused, he can see how many sex partners someone has had.
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?
5.6
/42/

Christmas in August (2005)
A Japanese remake of the South Korean film of the same name.
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?
80
/3/

CHAIN/チェイン (2021)
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?
6.1
/23/

My Brother, The Android And Me (2022)
A lonely researcher doubting his own existence builds an android which looks exactly like himself.
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6.6
/8/
40
/1/
70
/1/

Virgin Wandering (2009)
Jun Kanai is a lecturer at the University of Tokyo who despite being in his thirties is still a virgin. One day he reunites with an old student of his and decides that she will be the one to take his virginity but finds out that she will soon be studying abroad.
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?
4.2
/7/
70
/1/

Stop the Bitch Campaign Reboot (2020)
Based on the legenday cult Japanese comic “Stop The Bitch Campaign” by Hideo Yamamoto (“Ichi the Killer”) and Tetsuya Koshiba (“Remote”), a fierce battle between the beautiful high-school girls and the middle-aged man erupts once again.
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?
70
/1/

Radio (2013)
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71
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6.9
/129/
65
/2/
70
/1/
83
/1/

Accidental Kidnapper (2010)
Yuukai Rhapsody follows a man who is stuck in a rut, no personal life and no cash lead him to the drastic decision of kidnapping a rich boy, unbeknownst to him the boy's father is a yakuza boss! With the yakuza and the police hot on his tail he is forced to take the boy and go on the run, somehow during the journey kidnapper and kidnappee begin to develop a friendship with one another.
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?
5.4
/14/

KING GAME (2010)
5 girls and 5 guys find themselves mysteriously trapped in a room and are forced to play a psychological game of dare.
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4.4
/29/
40
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10
/1/

Pussycat Great Mission! (2005)
Three curvaceous go-go dancers (Kei Mizutani, Nao Eguchi and Yukari Nunokawa) on a rampage, looking for a big bag of cash that might be hidden in the kitchen of wheelchair-bound gangster. Director Ryuichi Honda keeps it flush with 60s flavors, mood-indigo music, paisley-print fashions in dayglo colors, outrageous zooms and dizzying pans, and best of all, it looks like it was made on a budget of 10 dollars - and when the money ran out the film ended.
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6.3
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36
/2/

April Bride (2009)
On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live. A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but keeps the information from her boyfriend. When he finds out, he decides to plan a wedding even though she only has one month to live. Based on the true story of Chie Nagashima, a women afflicted with breast cancer and her husband Taro Akasu.
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50
/1/
65
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Maison Ikkoku Kanketsuhen (2008)
In this direct continuation of the earlier special, Godai tries to figure out what to do with his life after college while competing with Kyoko's impossibly perfect tennis coach for her affection.
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?
5.2
/19/
40
/1/

Lost Girl (2009)
Ryoko hides herself in a closet after a patron in her restaurant becomes ill from food poisoning & she is held responsible. Her husband and co-owner Daichi attempts to lure her out of the closet. After a violent argument with Daichi, Ryoko seeks out old friend Yuka...
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61
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6.1
/142/
63
/3/
60
/1/

Train Brain Express (2012)
Real estate company employee Komachi and steelworks heir Kodama are both train aficionados. Their hobby proves useful for their burgeoning careers, but their romantic fortunes do not go as smoothly. Will the awkward Kodama and the indecisive Komachi find the loves of their lives?
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68
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6.3
/37/
77
/6/
3.3
/254/

My Favorite Girl (2020)
Kato, a scriptwriter, is in love with Miho—but he can never manage to muster up enough courage to make the relationship anything more than a platonic friendship. Seemingly oblivious to Kato's feelings for her, Miho is always calling him up and spilling her guts about her own love problems. She's in love with someone else, it turns out, but Kato swallows his pride—hearing about it all is almost too much to bear, but he wants to be with Miho as much as he can.
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7.0
/15/
60
/1/
40
/2/

The First Train Runs in Hiroshima (2015)
Only 3 days after A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a streetcar started running through the town burned to the ground. The drivers were teenage girls working for the train company in place of men. The drama is based on a true story of people who strived for the restoration.
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68
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6.9
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68
/7/
65
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3.5
/304/

Permanent Nobara (2010)
Naoko returns home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako runs the only beauty parlor in town. The local women go there to pass the time lamenting their bad luck with men and laughing over dirty jokes. Unbeknownst to them, Naoko has been secretly seeing her former teacher, Kashima.
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55
/2/

Kamen Rider Ghost: Final Stage (2017)
A stage show for Kamen Rider Ghost recorded live at Nakano Sun Plaza Hall on October 15th and 16th, 2016.
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7.3
/38/
55
/10/
68
/4/

Kamen Rider Ghost RE:BIRTH - Kamen Rider Specter (2017)
A continuation from the Kamen Rider Ghost TV series, this is the story of Makoto, Alain, and Kanon who have traveled back to the Ganma World. It will explain the connection between Makoto and the Makoto doppelganger. Kanon’s secret will be revealed as well.
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7.0
/23/
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/3/
70
/1/

Rubbers (2010)
This psychological film follows for several days a very shy young adult woman, a loner with a good heart, who has the misfortune of growing up with obsessional attraction to rubber clothing, the attraction that potentially could make her a target for social rejection. She carefully conceals from her co-workers in a food factory the fact she wears such undergarments. One day an attractive male co-worker befriends her. When they get close in her apartment he indeed reacts to her rubber fetish with rejection. But they resume dating and now strive to meet each other's need for an intimate friendship.
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6.4
/68/
50
/2/
50
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Prisoner/Terrorist (2007)
During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leaving him captured. Exposed to maltreatment in prison, he slowly loses his grip on reality as he is forced to confront his ideological convictions.


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