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Criterion Channel
80
7.5
/35581/
76
/1633/
75
/709/
4.3
/295724/
94
/66/
85
/255/
70
/13/

Cure (1997)
A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.2
/84719/
72
/2713/
71
/1570/
3.6
/212731/
98
/46/
81
/2285/

Ring (1998)
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
7.3
/2448/
70
/53/
67
/38/
3.8
/4754/
75
/12/
87
/33/

A Taxing Woman (1987)
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
poster
52
6.1
/12753/
63
/334/
57
/139/
2.9
/5754/
12
/17/
41
/265/
cc age 13+

Mr. Baseball (1992)
Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?
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Hoopla
78
46
7.3
/1020/
79
/66/
79
/35/
4.1
/16574/

His Motorbike, Her Island (1986)
Ko, a motorbike enthusiast from the city wandering the Japanese countryside, falls for the carefree local Miyo and teaches her how to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy, Ko begins to fear she's destined to crash.
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33
6.7
/396/
55
/12/
64
/21/
3.7
/2074/
50
/41/

March Comes In Like a Lion (1991)
The film begins with some Polaroids of a young boy and a young girl. A female voice over tells us who these people are. They are brother and sister, she is seven and he is eight. She goes on to say that when she was seven and he was eight, she told her brother that she would marry him.
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AMC+
52
28
5.6
/950/
55
/21/
51
/17/
3.1
/1814/
40
/41/

Shikoku (1999)
Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayori, died several years ago and that Sayori's mother, who used to perform seances and exorcisms, has gone almost insane with grief. After seeing Sayori's ghost several times during the night, Hinako consults with some local experts on the paranormal and discovers that Sayori's mother has something planned for her daughter...
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20
/1/

Kaerenai san'nin: Kaikan wa owaranai (2015)
Shiho (Ayane Ryogawa), a nurse, gets into an argument with her boyfriend Kenji (Takuya Sakurai) about having abnormal sex, and Kenji leaves the room. Cabaret girl Tomoyo (Minami Natsuki) is on her way to work when she is approached by a homeless man and stops to see her father, Takayuki (Tadashi Naito), who left his family ten years ago, leaving them in debt; office worker Yuko (Shoko Kudo) is at a loss in a park after her boss, Kondo (Yuya Takayama), with whom she had an affair, abducts her infant son. These three women with a history of their own meet by chance and hit it off. The girls, feeling burnt out, are at Tomoyo's behest.
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10
/1/
20
/1/

Agony!! Virgin Fountain (1988)
Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.
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10
/1/

Mystery Experience Zone: Really Scary Stories: Ghost Photos sent to you & Ghost Detectives (1992)
Story teller Kinya Aikawa serves as a guide in this horror drama series, which is presented in an omnibus format with two stories each based on the stories of people who have experienced horror. Kanako (Yasuko Sawaguchi) looks through the viewfinder of a second-hand camera she bought and sees a boy with a look of hatred on his face staring back at her. When she looks up, the boy is gone, and when she looks through the viewfinder again, she sees the boy staring back at her. Kanako is now haunted by the spirit of the boy and the adults who are close to him....
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40
/2/

My Sister Is a Female Teacher (2000)
High school teacher Miyoko and her younger brother Seiichi are living together. However, with the death of their mother, both sister and younger brother came to love each other as a man and a woman.
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?
6.8
/34/
60
/1/
80
/1/

Box: The Hakamada Case (2010)
Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested for the June 10, 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka . Iwao Hakamada has always insisted on his innocence and many others also believe Iwao Hakamada has been falsely accused ...
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?
70
/1/

Goku-Oni (2011)
The legend of Yokudo Gokuki
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?
10
/1/
20
/1/

Seiko's Juicy Thighs: Public Bath Beauty (1982)
N/A
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?
6.3
/64/

4 / Cat-Nekobun no Yon (2015)
A short omnibus created by four young creators on the theme of "drawing the people of Ichii who use a certain station where a cat lives".
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3.9
/12/
40
/2/
50
/5/

Eve's Flower Petal (1984)
A young woman wanders aimlessly around a beach resort and has sex with various men.
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?
4.0
/10/
20
/1/

Moon Angel (1996)
Two female truck drivers detest each other, and try to steal each other's business. Their rigs are both painted with elaborate large pictures of beautiful naked women. One day, whilst hauling loads of fish in Hokkaido, they are separately stopped by traffic police, who impound their trucks for various violations. About this time, one of the women meets a handsome man, with whom romance is a possibility. Then, the women discover they have been tricked. The cops were connected with the Russian mafia, who intend to ship their trucks offshore and sell them.
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7.0
/29/
20
/1/
60
/2/

The Outer Way (1998)
The cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in sokaiya gangster practices.
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6.7
/22/
57
/3/

Remembrance (1988)
The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio.
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71
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6.9
/108/
80
/1/
65
/6/

A Lone Scalpel (2010)
Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something that normally would not be done at this hospital, he quickly gains a very good reputation amongst the town’s people. Some of his colleagues become so jealous they are resentful and waiting patiently for the perfect opportunity to crucify him. Soon they get their chance as Dr Toma considers performing a controversial operation…
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?
6.2
/23/
20
/1/
35
/2/

The Wicked Reporter 3: The One That Got Away (1996)
A couple years have passed, Matsuzaki is divorced and has a daughter and is still up to his old compulsive gambling, boozing and womanizing even as he stares middle age in the face. At his daughter's school he meets a teacher who's similarily obsessed with horserace betting and who's also frigid - something he does his best to therapize. He also reconnects with his ex-wife, who just so happens to be the literary agent and love interest of another writer of the gambling genre. An epic gambling battle between the two ensues.
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?
10
/1/

Showa Tetsufuden - Sea of Japan (1991)
A young Yakuza member is doomed as he swings between two organizations in the Tohoku region, during the late Showa period.
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73
?
6.9
/140/
60
/4/
90
/3/

Station to Heaven (1984)
From a true incident that happened in 1960's Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on a tangled web of murder and deceit encountered by a beautiful woman, Kayo after her abusive husband is murdered.
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?
4.6
/12/
30
/2/
40
/3/

Wakaoku-sama: Futomono-biraki (1994)
Cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato's second comedy of the year, this silly softcore effort stars pretty Nao Kikuchi as a young married woman who takes a job at a call-girl agency with the mistaken belief that it is a maid service. After she is raped on her first assignment, Kikuchi is understandably shocked, but quickly warms to her new career and becomes quite the professional. Unfortunately, her husband soon discovers the true nature of her work.
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?
6.4
/93/
40
/2/
70
/2/

Battle Anthem (1983)
The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.
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75
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6.8
/221/
80
/4/
78
/6/

A Boy Called H (2013)
Told from the viewpoint of the father Morio, "A Boy Called H" follows a young boy named Hajime Senoh, nicknamed "H". His father, Morio runs a tailor shop. With the onset of World War II, their family must endure difficult times. Nevertheless, H is filled with curiosity and a sense of justice. Based on the autobiographical novel "Shonen H" by Kappa Senoh (published by Kodansha, July 9, 1999).
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61
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6.5
/178/
43
/6/
68
/6/
3.5
/377/

Wait and See (1998)
A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.
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?
7.2
/68/
30
/4/
63
/3/

Runin: Banished (2004)
In 1838, the prisoners on Hachijo Island represent the furthest extreme of Japanese society. Instead of execution, they have been forced to eke out a dismal existence on the island, without help or support of any kind from those back on the main four islands.
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?
6.1
/73/
40
/1/

Then Summer Came (2008)
A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his son Tamio, are unable to mature, unable to break the parent-child roles, have no sense of responsibility, and keep holding on to the past. The pair is overwhelmed by all the colorful characters around them telling them what to do. They go to strenuous and humorous efforts to make Tamio’s wedding an event to remember.
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5.6
/21/
30
/2/

Umi e, See You (1988)
Team DANKAI are a group of drivers set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousands of miles and multiple continents. Prior to the event, team leader Mizuki (Nenji Kobayashi) is ordered by their sponsor to add popular celebrity Ryuichi Yoshii (Goro Ohashi) to the roster for publicity. This exacerbates DANKAI's resentments and baggage. Needing a steady hand to mediate dispute and navigate their support vehicle, Mizuki recruits legendary, retired mechanic and driver Eiji Honma (Ken Takakura) to the team. Honma soon discovers his ex-wife Kei (Ayumi Ishida) is also participating in the rally, alongside her current husband, the bullfighter Antonio Vázquez (Tomas Arana). He is also accompanied by Yuko Takei (Junko Sakurada), a singer who followed Yoshii from Japan.
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Straight to Heaven (2008)
Koji and Tatsuya, both from the Nerima Juvenile Classification Home, make money by committing bank transfer fraud. However, their lives are put in danger when the boss of a larger organization takes out an insurance policy on them. The duo flee to Tatsuya's hometown of Nagasaki, but there, they also get caught up in trouble with the local yakuza.


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