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7.9
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78
/334/
4.4
/103049/
79
/72/
90
/267/
84
/15/

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
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64
7.0
/4598/
72
/256/
72
/132/
3.8
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75
/8/
89
/17/
cc age 13+

Call Me Chihiro (2023)
An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.
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78
61
7.4
/1656/
75
/115/
72
/154/
3.9
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93

The Asadas! (2020)
Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.
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59
7.4
/2445/
74
/118/
77
/84/
4.1
/31284/
81
/27/

Love & Pop (1998)
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
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56
6.8
/2344/
71
/103/
67
/80/
3.4
/1650/
87

Memoirs of a Murderer (2017)
The movie begins in the year 1995 where there were 5 peculiar murder cases. The murderer would always get someone close to the victim to witness how he would strangle the victim from behind with a rope but he would let the witnesses go and speak to the media on how the murders happened. Ito plays the role of Makimura, the police detective who was in charge of investigating the serial murders but failed to catch the cunning murderer and his respected superior ended up being killed as well. 22 years later in 2017 when the case is nearing its statute of limitations, a man named Sonezaki claims to be the culprit for the 1995 murders and even publishes a book titled "Watashi ga satsujinhan desu" to talk about the cases. Despite the disgust towards Sonezaki's actions, the intensive attention showered on him via the media and SNS makes him become the talk of town.
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53
6.1
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64
/346/
65
/184/
3.0
/2471/
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/9/
69
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cc age 13+

Fukushima 50 (2020)
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
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38
7.1
/1511/
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/35/
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/43/
3.5
/1411/
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Railroad Man (1999)
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.
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26
6.9
/848/
65
/16/
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/25/
3.6
/1183/
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Fall Guy (1982)
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a stuntman to make ends meet.
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6.7
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/30/
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/33/
3.5
/1072/
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/1/

Traces of Sin (2017)
Tanaka is going through a tough time trying to support his younger sister Mitsuko, recently arrested and hold up in jail. As an investigative reporter, he immerses himself into a story about a shocking murder case gone cold; a family was brutally murdered a year ago and the case remains unsolved.
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26
7.1
/743/
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/18/
67
/25/
3.5
/496/
68
/21/

Welcome to the Quiet Room (2007)
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide. Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki, who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.
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7.1
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/31/
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/19/
3.7
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The Woodsman and the Rain (2012)
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.
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21
6.5
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54
/21/
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/4/
5.8
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Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987)
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.
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20
7.2
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/11/
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/25/
3.5
/456/
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/4/

Rebirth (2011)
After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was having an affair with. Raising the child as her own, it is four years before the authorities catch up with her and the young child.
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17
6.9
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/10/
64
/17/
3.5
/606/

The Buried Forest (2005)
Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest.
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6.1
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/10/
3.6
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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her paleontologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
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6.3
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/8/
70
/10/
3.3
/430/

Listen to the Universe (2019)
Four pianists take part in the preliminary round of an international piano playing competition. Each has a story that is different and unique. One is a former child prodigy who stopped playing when her mother died. One is a Julliard student. One is a new face and yet comes recommended.
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6.6
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/11/
3.5
/225/
60
/1/

Flowers (2010)
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.
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5.8
/78/
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/3/
70
/2/

Kaidan Horror Classics (2010)
Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.
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10
/1/

Tsurumoku Dokushinryô (1991)
Based on the comic by Eisaku Kubonouchi
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/7/
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/15/

SHOWTIME 7 (2025)
Orimoto Shinnosuke, a former popular news anchor, was forced to leave the nationwide news program “Showtime 7” for a certain reason. Orimoto, now a negotiator, forcefully goes live on air to negotiate with a bomber. Based on the 2013 Korean film “Terror, Live.”
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5.7
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/11/
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/8/
3.1
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Under Ninja (2025)
The once-proud Japanese Ninja disappeared after the war when GHQ disbanded their organization.However, in reality ninjas still exist secretly and it is said that there are 200 thousand of them.And some elite ninjas are secretly operating behind the scenes in national-level struggles.On the other hand, grassroots ninjas often cannot find jobs, and one of them, Yun Yin Jiu Lang, also lives a life similar to that of the NEET generation.However, there is finally a major "endurance" around Ninomaru!
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/67/
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/1/

Love Letter (1998)
A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.
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10
/1/

Pro Golfer Oribe 2: Par is Fine (1994)
The second film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro.
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10
/1/

愛しのチィパッパ (1986)
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10
/1/

Kigeki kazoku dōmei (1983)
N/A
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/6/

The Women in the Lakes (2024)
A 100-year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him alive suddenly malfunction, or was he murdered? A young detective on the case meets a female caregiver. The investigation runs into a dead end, but the two fall into a passionate but forbidden relationship. Terrifying memories emerge from the vast, deep lake to ensnare the detectives on the case, the caregivers, and a reporter trying to uncover a hidden past.
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65
/2/

Kienai Akari (2023)
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10
/1/

Pinwheel Hamakichi’s Spell 2 (1982)
Hamakichi, who used to be a detective is now a toy merchant. His former boss has a grudge against the Yakuza family, which leads to the murder of a policeman in Edo. This places Hamakichi between the rock and a hard place.
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20
/1/
100
/1/

Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: Murder of the Killer (1998)
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6.0
/33/
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/2/
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/5/

One Who Died in Vain (1986)
After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.
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6.3
/44/
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/2/
100
/1/

Tales of the Bizarre: 2014 Fall Special (2014)
An omnibus special comprised of five segments.
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20
/1/

Quiet Don 9 (1996)
Shouldn't gangsters love stubborn people? To protect true love, the Shinsen-gumi gather at night in Tokyo!
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7.4
/22/
10
/1/

The Great Department Store Robbery (1987)
Katsuyo plans her last gang robbery.
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10
/1/

The Man from Shimizu (1982)
On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a gambling den, where he bets the condolence money for his mother's funeral. No surprise to learn he loses the lot. Not the hard-boiled yakuza story it seems, this is a comedy featuring many new artists who were making a name for themselves at the time.
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60
/1/

Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 36 (2014)
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10
/1/
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/1/

Thriller CRT (1991)
A creepy anthology about a homicidal little girl, a woman being stalked, a dentist and a man struggling to keep his eyes open on the road.
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10
/1/

Mr. Hacchaki's Tokyo Game (1987)
A movie starring Meijin Takahashi, the God of Famicom. Based on the Hacchaki Sensei manga.
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6.9
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80
/2/

Dreaming of the Meridian Arc (2022)
In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga drama about its famous historical figure Tadataka Ino, who is known for being the first person to make a map of Japan in 1821. During the process of of making the drama series, a surprising fact is discovered about the first map. That fact is that Tadataka Ino was not the person who made the first Japanese map.
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20
/1/

Friendship (1998)
Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when they all shave their heads for her.
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6.7
/10/
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/2/

Zutaboro (2015)
When friends graduate from junior high school and are enrolled in high school Koichi and Yakko join a motorcycle gang. They make new friends, have fights and flirt with girls. Yakko, however, is not having an easy time of it. Koichi stands up for his friend and joins the yakuza, which brings its own problems with it.
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6.2
/19/
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/1/
35
/2/

Spectacle of Buds (1986)
A weak willed man teams up with a stripper after her stage show partner runs off with another dancer. He is obsessed with her unique inverted nipples and they soon develop a successful stage show around them. But then the old partner returns…
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20
/1/

Yurika-chan (1997)
An exciting 'psychic movie' starring Kanako Enomoto, adapted from the manga series by Yukio Tamai. Police detectives searching for clues related to a serial murder case seek out help from high schooler Yurika, who possesses latent split personality psychic abilities. The mystery deepens once Yurika is brought face-to-face with the crime scenes.
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6.9
/356/
71
/7/
64
/7/
3.4
/241/

The Man in White (2003)
After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge.
poster
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6.1
/47/
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/2/

Fly Boys, Fly! (1995)
Six young pilots who all volunteered to be Kami-kaze or suicide pilots.
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6.3
/12/
10
/1/

The Politicians (1983)
Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue. And the existence of secret love letters changes the situation.
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4.7
/69/
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/3/
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/2/

And Then There Was Light (2017)
On Mihama, one of Tokyo's outlying islands, Shinji witnesses the rape of his girlfriend and middle-school classmate, Haruka, then commits an irreversible crime. But the following day, the island is besieged by a tidal wave which wipes out everything. Twenty-five years later, Shinji has a wife and daughter. A childhood friend, Tasuku, presents himself to Shinji and discloses the real truth of his hidden past. Shinji will have to try and protect Haruka again.
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5.1
/11/

Piano in a Storeroom (2014)
Two sisters living on a peach farm in Koori town, Fukushima Prefecture,are opposites. Haruka Miyamoto feels less beautiful than her sister Akiba Miyamoto and hates being compared to her. She finds comfort in playing a piano in a barn. A year after the Great East Japan Earthquake, she decides she wants to be a pianist. Akiba, for her part, moved to Tokyo to attend college. When she moves back to Koori, Haruka is unsettled and memories connected to the disaster she has tried to forget resurface.
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6.2
/230/
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/16/
54
/9/

Tokyo Boy (2008)
Minato is a young girl who was traumatized at a young age by being abandoned by her parents and left with her senile grandmother. She frequently corresponds with a pen-pal named Night, a boy about the same age as her that she's never actually seen in person. Although Minato and Night are very different - Minato is upbeat while Night is brooding, they get along anyway and she regularly updates him on the happenings in her daily life. Minato is even willing to confide in Night that she's falling in love with a boy she's recently met named Sho.


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