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Kanopy
84
7.9
/16256/
79
/487/
78
/330/
4.4
/98678/
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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HBO Max Amazon Channel
82
8.2
/501971/
84
/18507/
83
/10681/
4.3
/2131217/
88
/185/
93
/14664/
82
/40/
8.6
/1005585/
cc age 8+

Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
80
7.8
/184118/
80
/8481/
78
/4402/
4.1
/1017149/
85
/15/
8.2
/420513/
cc age 5+

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
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Criterion Channel
65
6.7
/774/
56
/13/
63
/53/
3.5
/1241/
84
/6/

A Taxing Woman's Return (1988)
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath.
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64
49
6.3
/1585/
58
/23/
60
/22/
3.5
/2189/
78
/18/
49
/93/
75
/8/

Pistol Opera (2001)
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
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65
40
6.4
/999/
61
/57/
67
/50/
3.4
/1944/

A Thousand and One Nights (1969)
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
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68
20
7.0
/877/
69
/20/
63
/17/
3.5
/340/
69
/16/

About Her Brother (2010)
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.
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Criterion Channel
71
16
7.0
/472/
75
/4/
70
/16/
3.6
/476/

Gonza the Spearman (1986)
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appearances are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.
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10
/1/

Green Fruit (1964)
Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears
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10
/1/

First Love (1972)
A 1970s Toho coming-of-age film.
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10
/1/

Kaze no Sumu Ie (1989)
A human drama that rethinks what it means to be a family through the images of a couple, parent and child whose paths have crossed.
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10
/1/

Kaze to Ki to Sora to (1964)
A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in this charming coming-of-age blockbuster.
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10
/1/

Ghost Story: Flower House (1991)
An eerie statue of the Kannon shedding tears in an old Western-style house. Fifty years of the strange lives of the mothers and daughters who protect the statue of the Kannon.
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10
/1/

The Scent of Honey between a Man and a Woman (1987)
The film depicts the counterattack by Haimis, who was swindled out of a large sum of money by a marriage swindler. Shizue (Tomoko Hoshino) goes to visit her parents' grave and meets Yamakawa (Ryo Tamura), who works for an airline company. Shizue is unwittingly captivated by his stylish manner and charming manner of speaking. However, Yamakawa is a marriage swindler. Shizue is lured by his clever words, and is forced to pay him over 5 million yen in tribute.
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10
/1/

Fūryū onsen bantō nikki (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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6.6
/49/
10
/1/
60
/4/

The Dancer (1989)
Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Berlin to study in the 1880s and falls in love with a German ballet dancer.
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25
/2/

Sword and Flower (1972)
Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori).
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6.8
/30/

Shinibana (2004)
After the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled "Shinibana" containing a plan to tunnel into and steal 1.7 billion yen from a bank.
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6.1
/18/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Beyond the Shining Sea (1986)
Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.
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10
/1/

Till Tomorow Comes (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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6.4
/8/
10
/1/

The Gambling Nun (1971)
A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game.
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10
/1/

Tabiji: ofukuro-san yori (1971)
Based on Shinichi Mori song
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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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5.5
/14/
10
/1/

Caribe: Symphony of Love (1985)
The love story of an architect and a fashion designer in Mexico.
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5.6
/7/
10
/1/

East China Sea (1968)
Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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7.6
/14/
10
/1/

Secret Liaisons (1995)
Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.
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7.5
/57/
40
/3/

The Girl I Abandoned (1969)
Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a former friend, persuades Yoshioka to meet with Mitsu while she plots to blackmail Yoshioka by photographing the meeting to break up Mariko and Yoshioka.
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5.0
/19/
10
/1/
90
/1/

Tasmania Story (1990)
Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by the island's immense natural beauty, and he is conscience-bound to oppose his former employer's ecologically unsound practices. He is also estranged from his grown son, who still resides in Japan. When his son comes to Tasmania for a visit, he must face the challenge of renewing their relationship.
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6.5
/24/

Flower Picking Diary (1939)
Based on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different family backgrounds in Osaka.
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4.6
/60/

It's On Me (2009)
News comes out that several people found 1 kg of solid gold in their mail boxes. Maya Yamabuki moves back to her hometown and surprises the movers by the amount of money she gives them.
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4.6
/8/
10
/1/

Kizu (1988)
Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new type of yakuza film that stylishly depicts the short but vibrant life of legendary urban yakuza Takashi Hanagata.
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5.8
/7/
10
/1/

Young Girls Are Everywhere (1966)
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50
/1/

Hobo General (1976)
N/A
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10
/1/

Onna no Naka no Kaze (1988)
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5.6
/30/
20
/1/
10
/2/

Body and Soul (1997)
A group of four friends and lovers in their forties recall their past intimacies while trying to build new ones.
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56
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6.7
/146/
37
/5/
63
/3/
3.5
/347/

Deaths in Tokimeki (1984)
Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of a religious cult.
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5.3
/7/

Life Begins at 61 (1941)
Japanese war-era film
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6.8
/12/
10
/1/
52
/4/

Lanterns on Blue Waters (1983)
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.
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6.7
/28/
60
/1/
66
/4/

Love in the Mud (1977)
This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off, as her father is the ambassador of Japan in Spain. One day when she is out driving, she is attacked by a group of yakuza, but is saved by the honorable yakuza Jiro. This will change her life forever.
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6.8
/55/
60
/1/
57
/3/

The Crying Wind (2004)
Seikichi, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his 12-year-old grandson Akira live in a small, tree-lined village in the northern part of the island which is surrounded by a white-sand beach and plots of pine and flowering bushes. On the cliff that skirts the shore sits an open-air burial ground containing the skull of a kamikaze pilot who was shot down during the last days of World War II. When the wind blows through the bullet hole in the skull, it produces a whistling sound. The locals call it the "Crying Head."
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6.4
/69/
20
/1/
44
/5/

Bonds (1998)
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.
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6.9
/79/
65
/2/
66
/5/

Sweet Revenge (1977)
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
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70
/2/

Majutsu wa Sasayaku (2011)
A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly begin to die one by one. Kazuko learns that one of those deaths is somehow connected to Mamoru (Nakamura Aoi), her younger brother from whom she has been separated ever since their father disappeared 15 years earlier. Although Mamoru knows nothing of his sister, Kazuko is determined to find the killer in order to protect Mamoru and herself.
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7.5
/19/

Wedding Day (1940)
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.
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60
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6.6
/215/
55
/7/
61
/7/

Sharaku (1995)
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicipation of a man who refuses to let himself become the plaything of power and money.
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53
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5.6
/163/
50
/1/
55
/6/

Tokyo Blackout (1987)
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the world. The temperature inside the cloud is slowly increasing. The Soviet Pacific fleet is getting closer. The U.S. is forcing Japan to form a new government. Scientists and research workers outside Tokyo have to race against time to find out how to get through the cloud in order to rescue the 12,000,000+ lives in Tokyo and the fate of the country.
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6.3
/36/
10
/1/
60
/2/

The Wild Daisy (1981)
Born in affluent families among the Japanese mountains, two close cousins fall in love and have to suffer through the social constraints of their time.
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5.0
/56/
30
/4/
32
/4/

Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement (2003)
A shy, nerdy man, Takeru finds a schoolgirl hooker Lily is unconscious in a Tokyo park, so he decides to bring her home and lock her up in a secret basement. Although Lily is afraid of him, in fact, Takeru didn't do anything to hurt her. After Lily begins to uncover a shocking episode


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