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Criterion Channel
73
57
7.2
/2880/
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.
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Fandor
73
45
7.1
/886/
65
/27/
68
/26/
3.8
/1883/
85
/102/

The Masseurs and a Woman (1938)
A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains. With delicate and surprising humor, Hiroshi Shimizu paints a timeless portrait of loneliness and the human need to connect.
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Criterion Channel
73
44
7.2
/1561/
70
/14/
68
/31/
3.6
/1951/
85
/25/

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.
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70
41
7.1
/1337/
68
/28/
69
/36/
3.7
/1853/

The Inugami Family (1976)
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.
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Criterion Channel
64
21
6.8
/353/
54
/7/
69
/10/
3.5
/1467/

Love Under the Crucifix (1962)
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.
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Criterion Channel
70
16
7.1
/408/
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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64
8
6.7
/177/
57
/4/
63
/10/
3.5
/229/

Dancing Girl (1951)
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.
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10
/1/

Aruhi watashi wa (1967)
The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between parents and children over two generations, as well as the sisterly love between Yuriko and her sister Kaori.
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10
/1/

Minami kaze (1951)
1951 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

Love's Family Tree (1961)
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10
/1/

Dreaming People (1953)
Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is marrying Toshio (Toshio Hosokawa), the son of Zenpei Hamaguchi (Yoshito Yamaji), for her obligation. He encouraged the unhappy Yuriko and taught her how to make her marriage with Toshio a happy one. He makes a fresh start as an architect under the care of Ryosuke Shibata (Jiro Yanagi), who had taken care of his father, but Ryosuke's daughter Sumiko (Yoko Katsuragi) has feelings for him. Fujie Kakimoto's (Sadako Sawamura) son Koichi (Eiji Wakasugi) came to know about Sumiko and asked her to marry him after coming to Shinya to ask for her design. Knowing that Shinya's love for Yuriko would not be easily wiped away, Sumiko decided to marry Koichi, who had a bad leg. Shinya watches the beautiful bond between Koichi and Sumiko and decides to forget his past and move forward on the path to self-perfection.
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10
/1/

Naite waratta hanayome (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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6.3
/11/
10
/1/

Freedom School (1951)
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house. Confused by his sudden freedom, Iosuke ends up living as a vagrant under a bridge. His wife, Komako, also finds herself freed and is unable to ignore her confusion.
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10
/1/

At the Side of the Bridge 2 (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

治郎吉格子 (1952)
Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked like a merchant retrieved the wallet for her. Osan was a woman being sold off for the sake of her yakuza-like brother, Nin'kichi. The man in the guise of a merchant turned out to be the Rat Thief, Jirokichi, the infamous thief of Edo. Due to this chance encounter, the two ended up staying at the same hot spring inn. However, one morning, as Jirokichi was about to leave alone, Osan, with the intuition of a smitten woman, confessed she knew he was the famed Rat Thief.
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10
/1/

San'nin musume kanpai! (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

Fantasy of Youth (1955)
Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.
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10
/1/

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu (1953)
Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
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10
/1/

Utau yajikita kogane dōchū (1957)
1957 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

Song of Farewell (1965)
After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part ways with him forever. However, in Yuriko's heart... Pure love duo Yoshinaga and Hamada rigorously pursue a life of sincerity and love of the younger generation, and love but parting, in this lyrical and melancholy touching story of Ishizaka literature.
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10
/1/

Lover's Duet (1967)
A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.
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5.6
/14/
10
/1/

Bright Sea (1963)
On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would always come out on top, and she did. With a victorious graduation behind her, she plans out the next chapter of her life: become a successful novelist and go out with a classmate she's been secretly eyeing for the past couple of years.
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7.0
/25/
25
/2/

Marriageable Age (1961)
The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional father’s roof. As they balance their personal desires against the family's obsession with status, their search for "marriageable age" stability is complicated by secret affairs and the cold reality of arranged matches. They must ultimately decide whether to conform to the rigid expectations of their upper-class upbringing or break away to pursue their own independence.
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6.9
/70/
70
/1/

So Goes My Love (1938)
Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with the situation and neither is his family who do not approve of Minako. Especially his uncle tries to convince him to leave Minako, even using his influence behind the scenes. Things start to change when Shigeo's sister pays the young couple a visit, being the first member of Shigeo's family to actually get to know Minako in person.
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10
/1/

Futari no Koibito (1969)
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10
/1/

Flower Season (1990)
Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of the Kitamori family, Hana entrusts everything to Yuki, but wants her entire family to come see her on her birthday. At that time, her second son Keisuke's daughter Megumi, who is her private taxi driver, made a mistake, and she was overwhelmed and approached Yuki for advice. Eventually, her mother Kayo of Megumi learned about this, but a period was quietly struck by her women coming to a conclusion that should be the food for Megumi's growth.
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10
/1/

Rebellion Reward (1973)
The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a photographer who uses his camera as a blackmail weapon. He is on the trail of a narcotics smuggler (Mikio Narita) and his beautiful contact (Haruko Wanibuchi). Watari meets a former gangster (Yujiro Ishihara) who is seeking revenge against Narita, his former partner. Watari and Ishihara become allies and hijack the dope shipment. But Narita threatens the life of Haruko, who turns out to be Ishihara's sister, and demands the dope in return for the girl.
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10
/1/

Kono ni uruwashi (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu (1952)
Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
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10
/1/

Yume de aritai (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail (1980)
Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.
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7.9
/19/
10
/1/

Escape from Prison (1950)
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10
/1/

彼を殺すな (1952)
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10
/1/

憧れの星座  (1953)
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10
/1/

旗本退屈男 謎の怪人屋敷 (1954)
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6.8
/5/
45
/1/

The Flower is not False (1941)
Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu Hiroshi and penned films for Shimazu Yasujiro. In this early effort, he is not stylistically very far from either, but then again all Shochiku directors resemble each other to a point. The film is an everyday romance for younger audiences, full of clean, ideal human beings.
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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/

Pomegranate Time (1967)
Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
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10
/1/

一本刀土俵入  (1954)
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10
/1/

Tokyo Omnibus (1959)
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.
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6.2
/11/

Hotaru no hikari (1938)
Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their student life.
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10
/1/

When We Came Back (1950)
Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
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6.0
/230/
56
/8/

The Phoenix (1978)
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and elderly advisor Sumuke, hire Yumihiko of Matsuro to hunt the phoenix so that Queen Himiko, sister of Susano-O can have eteranal life.
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10
/1/

Homecoming (1964)
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, during the revolution in Cuba, but is now living in Japan. Tomoko's mother has remarried a strict, narrow-minded university professor, whose only worry is protecting his family name from the slightest blemish.
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10
/1/

The Wanderer (1957)
After killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and the landowner Tamegoro, plans to steal the proceeds from the sale. Tamegoro steals money and blames the Masa for this crime. Masa has to go on the run, because now he is wanted for a crime that he did not commit...
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10
/1/

A Samurai's Honor at Pawn (1956)
A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves.
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6.8
/13/
10
/1/

Red Bud and White Flower (1962)
A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.
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4.8
/6/
10
/1/

Omatsuri hanjiro (1953)
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather toward the port town.


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