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Criterion Channel
83
81
7.8
/12148/
78
/350/
77
/301/
4.2
/54895/
94
/16/
87
/177/
87
/9/

Good Morning (1959)
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
79
7.6
/14464/
75
/315/
76
/296/
3.9
/28156/
94
/16/
89
/222/

Drunken Angel (1948)
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
72
7.8
/5312/
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.
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Criterion Channel
70
68
6.5
/8103/
65
/344/
74
/280/
3.5
/25614/
75
/12/
73
/277/

Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the aid of geneticist Genshiro Shiragami, who's experiments result in a new mutation.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
60
7.1
/6125/
66
/93/
70
/122/
3.6
/8000/
60
/10/
73
/90/

The Idiot (1951)
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.
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Criterion Channel
73
58
6.9
/2758/
69
/37/
65
/67/
3.6
/5697/
100
/7/
66
/32/

Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
poster
73
41
7.4
/1540/
69
/28/
71
/43/
3.8
/2446/
75
/10/

The Woman in the Rumor (1954)
After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.
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69
39
7.3
/1165/
62
/16/
68
/30/
3.7
/1026/
68
/140/

Taira Clan Saga (1955)
Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
34
7.2
/634/
63
/17/
68
/25/
3.6
/2736/

Love Letter (1953)
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
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Criterion Channel
67
26
7.0
/800/
66
/19/
63
/18/
3.6
/1374/
67
/11/

Zero Focus (1961)
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
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66
25
7.1
/686/
60
/7/
66
/27/
3.7
/1578/
62
/1/

Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950)
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.
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66
22
7.0
/873/
70
/17/
74
/22/
3.5
/415/
50
/17/

Samurai Banners (1969)
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?
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66
20
7.3
/543/
60
/8/
62
/18/
3.7
/780/
60
/12/

Brother and Sister (1953)
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.
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10
/1/

Honoo no hada (1951)
N/A
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5.2
/9/
10
/1/

Guntō nanban-sen (1950)
1950 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

The Paths of Two Maidens (1952)
Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.
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10
/1/

Mune yori mune ni (1955)
Japanese drama
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8.5
/36/
10
/1/

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree (1955)
N/A
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6.2
/17/
10
/1/

The Bitch (1951)
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
poster
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6.7
/21/

Rinchi (1949)
Japanese noir.
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7.2
/23/
10
/1/
70
/1/

This Way, That Way (1952)
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly to stay with them. Their mundane lives are sent into disarray by the emotional and energetic Ako.
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20
/1/

As the River Flows (2000)
2000 live-action Japanese film.
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35
/2/

Beyond the Seasonal Wind (1958)
Japanese drama film.
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4.4
/7/
10
/1/

I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki (1952)
A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.
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10
/1/

Umineko ga tonde (1962)
N/A
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10
/1/

Oogonju (1950)
One Sunday morning, Toshio Esaki, a young dentist, wakes up in his clinic. It seems that he was drunk and spent the night in the clinic instead of going home. When he goes into the laboratory to get a drink of water, he finds a woman wearing a green striped Western-style dress lying there.
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10
/1/
60
/1/

Reunion (1953)
If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wished, and the two who cried under the harsh trials of ten years when they fell in love and fell in love, climbed the hill of memories again. Surprisingly, there was an event that turned a moment of joy into tears ...
poster
Criterion Channel
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7.1
/88/
10
/1/
57
/6/

Ballad of a Workman (1962)
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
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6.1
/15/
10
/1/

To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2 (1964)
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent overseas to China as a part of the military dog unit. He's ridiculed by others due to his inability to advance.
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8.0
/63/

Jakoman and Tetsu (1949)
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.
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10
/1/

A Case of Honor (1957)
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.
poster
Criterion Channel
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6.9
/80/
10
/1/
63
/3/

The Eternal Rainbow (1958)
Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
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10
/1/

Haitoku no mesu (1961)
N/A
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Criterion Channel
62
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6.9
/305/
41
/5/
66
/9/
3.6
/234/

The Garden of Women (1954)
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
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10
/1/

Goryokaku (1988)
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country. Survivors of the Shinsengumi were among the followers of Enomoto Takeaki who took them to the northernmost island of Ezo where they fought their final battle at the star shaped fort, Goryokaku. The Japanese Civil Wars fought in the name of the emperor signaled the complete end of the feudal system and Japan’s entry into the modern world as those brave samurai tried to halt progress and learned that the age of modern warfare and weaponry had passed them by. Swords were no match for rifles and cannons, nor was any man a match for the power of the imperial flag. Japanese loyalty to the emperor has long defined the nation and culture despite the changing times.
poster
66
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7.1
/190/
56
/3/
68
/5/
3.5
/325/

Spring Awakens (1947)
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
poster
Criterion Channel
58
?
6.7
/143/
52
/4/
56
/5/

Thus Another Day (1959)
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man...
poster
Criterion Channel
59
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6.8
/175/
52
/4/
58
/6/

Spring Dreams (1960)
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
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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.
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7.0
/10/
10
/1/

Sky Cannot Be This Blue (1993)
Kantarou Kobayashi is an ordinary businessman who has multiple troubles on hand. He's been having an affair with a woman working in the same company, but she does lots of eccentric things. His wife has no interrest in anything but her plan to build a new apartment where their old house is. His son suffers skin eruptions. His mother appears to have senile dementia.
poster
64
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7.0
/251/
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
64
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6.5
/177/
61
/8/
64
/9/

Whirlwind (1964)
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post battle chaos and the persecution of the Shogun's army. Five samurai decide on different fates when it becomes clear that their side is being destroyed. One wants to attack the enemy head on in a final honorable death. Another decides to commit hari-kiri but wants to find a glorious view to do it. His close friend, the "coward", just wants to run and give up the life of a samurai. The final two set their own castle on fire to garner favors from the enemy and therefore avert their own death during the massacre of all defeated soldiers as
poster
65
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6.3
/228/
58
/5/
71
/9/

Daredevil in the Castle (1961)
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei's daredevil skills will be put to severe tests.
poster
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6.9
/21/
10
/2/
10
/1/

Women in Prison (1956)
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed criminals and almost sees them as family. One day at a workshop someone faints while working hard to make money because she has a poor boyfriend. Another inmate is knocked up Another is a mother and has her child with her.
poster
61
?
7.0
/230/
40
/4/
63
/9/
3.6
/222/

Till We Meet Again (1950)
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
poster
Criterion Channel
52
?
6.6
/141/
36
/3/
54
/7/

The Rose on His Arm (1956)
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
poster
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7.3
/22/
10
/1/
65
/4/

Mother Country (1962)
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.
poster
?
8.1
/14/

Delinquent Girl (1949)
A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is presumed to be a lost film.


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