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Criterion Channel
84
7.7
/5123/
76
/116/
73
/110/
4.0
/14904/
92
/12/
92
/45/

Pale Flower (1964)
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
73
7.7
/4189/
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
81
72
7.8
/5316/
76
/92/
74
/161/
4.0
/10755/
89
/9/
87
/49/
83
/6/

Equinox Flower (1958)
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
poster
Criterion Channel
63
25
6.6
/380/
58
/10/
62
/13/
3.6
/1869/

Killers on Parade (1961)
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.
poster
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10
/1/

Seven Detectives: Find the Woman (1963)
This is the second installment in the Shichinin no Keiji police procedural series.
poster
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5.9
/9/

Navy (1943)
Japanese war film.
poster
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10
/1/

The Dawn of Judo (1955)
N/A
poster
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10
/1/

Confronting Fear (1958)
Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his opponent because he could not stand the fight. He is being released from prison, where he was imprisoned on charges of causing bodily harm. He meets his younger brother Fumio, who is going to become a boxer and dreams of owning his own car repair shop. Goro tries to help Fumio, but is refused. At this time, the boss of the underworld, whom Goro met in prison, is released, and this escalates into a confrontation involving Goro and Fumio.
poster
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10
/1/

悪魔の顔 (1957)
N/A
poster
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10
/1/

White Blaze (1958)
A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.
poster
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7.3
/52/
40
/2/
60
/3/

Doctor's Day Off (1952)
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...
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3.8
/6/
10
/1/

The Refugee (1955)
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite his difficult circumstances, he finds love in the form of Sachiko and the two marry. They later travel to Nanjing to live a new life together where Sachiko and Shaochang cooperate with the Japanese-backed government. Their ultimate hope is to secure peace but their idealism is not enough to keep them together through brutal times and with the end of the war the two find themselves facing a divorce... --Osaka Asian Film Festival
poster
Criterion Channel
70
?
7.1
/272/
68
/10/
69
/8/
3.6
/433/

Farewell to Dream (1956)
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
poster
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10
/1/

Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement (1970)
Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy.
poster
64
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7.0
/252/
58
/6/
60
/5/
3.5
/298/

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (1954)
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
poster
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6.3
/53/
10
/1/
70
/3/

Epitaph to My Love (1961)
Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. A romance movie whose original work by Ayako Sono was made into a melodrama by a combination of Shinoda Masahiro and Terayama Shuji.
poster
Criterion Channel
59
?
6.4
/152/
51
/5/
52
/8/
3.4
/200/

Danger Stalks Near (1957)
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
poster
?
10
/1/

Enraptured (1961)
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a classical theatre student in the hope that the latter will marry Senya..
poster
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6.8
/57/
50
/3/
68
/4/

Always in My Heart (1953)
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
poster
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7.0
/63/
30
/2/
60
/6/

Men and War III: The Final Chapter (1973)
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war.
poster
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6.9
/67/
10
/1/

Rebellion of Japan (1967)
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultimately becoming a right-wing fundamentalist revolutionary. She marries another man, one totally dedicated to the rigorous practices of Noh theatre, in an arranged marriage, but the bond that connects her with Tate is too strong.
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10
/1/

The Big Ambition (1955)
N/A


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