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7.2
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71
/16/
64
/25/
3.6
/793/
94
/18/
77
/14/

Dr. Akagi (1998)
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
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Criterion Channel
75
7.4
/722/
74
/12/
71
/21/
3.8
/944/
83

Ballad of Orin (1977)
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
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81
75
7.4
/7239/
75
/171/
69
/329/
4.0
/16474/
100
/5/
89
/99/

Kids Return (1996)
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.
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Criterion Channel
73
7.5
/844/
62
/17/
77
/17/
3.6
/602/
80
/82/

Sandakan No. 8 (1974)
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.
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82
69
7.9
/3389/
74
/108/
76
/84/
4.2
/12720/
100
/278/

Demons (1971)
Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.
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Criterion Channel
75
69
7.5
/6031/
73
/201/
70
/156/
3.7
/9754/
87
/3266/

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
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66
50
6.4
/3095/
70
/156/
70
/144/
3.2
/856/
65
/274/

Dororo (2007)
Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge the death of her parents.
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Criterion Channel
76
46
7.4
/1108/
71
/22/
64
/37/
3.8
/1065/
96
/70/

The Demon (1978)
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.
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Criterion Channel
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44
7.3
/1740/
73
/36/
73
/51/
3.8
/2352/
60
/15/

The Castle of Sand (1974)
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
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66
40
6.9
/974/
56
/17/
59
/37/
3.6
/1283/
74
/112/

The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966)
A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade.
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40
6.9
/1628/
70
/29/
65
/46/
3.8
/3924/
81
/9/

Zigeunerweisen (1980)
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
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Criterion Channel
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38
7.0
/1134/
60
/29/
62
/32/
3.7
/6154/

Demon Pond (1979)
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants, including lovers Akira and Yuri, in their hands.
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35
7.0
/553/
53
/6/
62
/10/
3.6
/610/
88
/8/
75
/34/

Who's Camus Anyway? (2005)
A group of eccentric students decide to make a movie. But, when their star suddenly quits, this witty ensemble cast begins to live the film, including murder, deception and true love.
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Kanopy
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27
5.8
/594/
56
/25/
51
/24/
3.3
/1896/

Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (1967)
A wealthy real estate investor is forced to watch the rape of his girlfriend and then is sent a film showing the fact. He hires a hitman, Sho, and shows him the film, so that the detective can get rid of the criminals. But the boss of the criminal band is Ko, Sho's archnemesis, who raped and murdered his girlfriend.
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67
27
7.2
/2148/
65
/17/
60
/19/
3.6
/696/

Inn of Evil (1971)
The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of smugglers, with stolen money intended to ransom his loved one who is forced to work in a brothel.
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68
24
6.8
/837/
70
/25/
68
/31/
3.4
/398/

Secret (1999)
A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his wife died, but her mind somehow got transfered into their daughter's body.
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59
19
6.1
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54
/10/
69
/10/
45
/4/
6.6
/2600/

The Boy Who Saw the Wind (2000)
Amon is a boy who can control the wind. Branik, ruler of the Empire of the Golden Snake, wants Amon's power to complete the ultimate weapon and sends his troops to capture the boy. Amon, using his talents, manages to runs away with Maria, one of the People of the Sea. Together, they try to stop the Empire of the Golden Snake from destroying and conquering everything.
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17
5.9
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42
/18/
51
/11/
3.2
/291/
5.5
/1833/

The Night of Taneyamagahara (2006)
Four farmers spend the night at a campfire. Three of them talk about work, nature and weather, while one of them has dreams about buying his own plot.
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15
5.9
/222/
57
/13/
54
/21/
3.4
/581/

The Limit of Sleeping Beauty (2017)
Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only beautiful memory she has was the time spent with her lover Kaito.
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Hoopla
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15
6.6
/284/
64
/13/
66
/15/
3.5
/584/

Village of Doom (1983)
An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.
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54
12
5.6
/238/
48
/7/
50
/9/
3.4
/743/

Woods Are Wet (1973)
Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other choice but to obey them.
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11
7.0
/541/
30
/3/
56
/6/
3.5
/547/

Running in Madness, Dying in Love (1969)
During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her.
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11
5.6
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44
/10/
58
/16/
3.3
/305/
53
/5/

The Woman with Red Hair (1979)
Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.
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59
10
5.2
/219/
56
/8/
55
/15/
3.3
/299/

Ecstasy of the Black Rose (1975)
After his leading actress becomes pregnant and wants to quit, Juzo, an adult film director, becomes obsessed with finding the woman whose moaning he captured secretly at a dentist’s office to star in the film instead.
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4.0
/8/
10
/1/
60
/1/

I Go to Tokyo (1985)
A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside.
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6.3
/53/
35
/2/
33
/3/

Sex Zone (1968)
Inspired by the true story of a Geisha murdered in a city famous for its baths, Adachi forged here his favorite style, a kind of conceptual documentary recounting the incident in monotone. The same event that at the beginning of Violated Angels escaped every principle of causality, is portrayed here as a singular anti-spectacle.
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20
/1/

Looking for (1998)
Natsuko's mother is hospitalized and only has six months to live. Her last wish is to see her father, who left her 20 years ago. Natsuko sets out to find him.
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10
/1/

Nikutai no yokkyu (1968)
Pinku from 1968
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10
/1/
27
/3/

The First Catch (1980)
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
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?
7.7
/10/

Caesium and the Girl (2015)
Mimi-chan is a 17-year-old high school student and she lives with her parents in Asagaya, Tokyo. While walking home from school, Mimi-chan is hit by a lightning and meets Raijin Ra San (God of Lightning). Through Raijin Ra San, she also meets 7 other Gods. Mimi-chan soon undertakes an adventure to find something lost by her grandmother.
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45
/2/
56
/10/

Sex Education Mistresses (1973)
An erotic comedy depicting the sex adventures of young wives living in an apartment complex, that are not satisfied with just having sex with their husbands.
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6.7
/11/
10
/1/
20
/1/

Impactual Performance (1986)
A female teacher falls in love with her student
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49
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6.2
/180/
52
/8/
30
/4/

Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977)
A somewhat liberal adaptation of the life of painter Shuu Ito, the film focuses on his sexual torture of two wives and a prostitute. Ito chronicles the sessions in journals, shares his pseudo-Sadean philosophy, and drives women mad with equal hell-bent intensity.
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6.3
/27/
40
/2/
20
/1/

Sosuke Loses His Lover (1992)
Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.
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53
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6.0
/120/
47
/7/
53
/3/

Wet Sand in August (1971)
Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.
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6.1
/27/
10
/1/

The Great Tale of the Great Tatami Progenitor (1980)
A young man from Kyushu,Adachi Futoshi had come to Tokyo to make a life. Adachi moved into a small room in a local boarding house, but he was unprepared for what life will throw at him. The room next to him boards a local gangster whose gang is a menace to the neighborhood, a bit further down lives a boy who dresses like a woman. And the old people managing the boarding house are quite peculiar too. Based on the manga by Leiji Matsumoto.
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6.5
/32/
50
/3/
70
/2/

Farewell to Rock'n Roll (1973)
There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yukiko, the "Bankaku," or chief bodyguard of the Akabane, is released from reform school and sets about to finish an ongoing one-on-one grudge match with the Arab Falcon and the whole Cavalry gang. With a theme song by 1970s Japanese "Group Sounds" band Carol, and live performance. Rock and Sukeban unite for an extraordinary and cool piece of filmmaking.
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36
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4.5
/154/
25
/5/
35
/2/

The Notorious Concubines (1968)
Dark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak. Still, this gory, sexy epic is made with style and interesting for to compare to "Yojimbo" and other masterworks of the form.
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67
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6.0
/203/
60
/6/
81
/7/

The Hovering Blade (2009)
Following the brutal rape and murder of his teenage daughter, a single father seeks revenge against the responsible youths. His pursuit for justice becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse game with both the perpetrators and the police.
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?
6.8
/12/
100
/1/

Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma (1986)
N/A
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?
5.6
/98/
50
/2/
60
/4/

Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82 (1979)
Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch.” When an executive board member of a trading company is accused of being involved in a bribery, Mika is assigned to keep watch over him. A few nights later her target is found dead outside of his 30 floor office building. With an apparent suicide note as evidence, local police conclude the case as a suicide. Mika’s assignment may have ended in failure, but her mission has just begun...
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6.1
/61/
33
/3/
50
/6/

Sex Play (1969)
A masterpiece of militant cinema of 1968, filmed on the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon University during the period of social struggles. The film begins in a lengthy free-love session taking the form of a 'play' rape being enacted by a group of aimless, listless and political apathetic students. The subtext intended by Adachi informs the rest of the film – that there is a world of difference between direct action politics, and merely talking the talk.
poster
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6.2
/22/
36
/3/

The Pistol That Sprouted Hair (1968)
Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the organization hires two killers to get rid of Shirō. The duo begin to develop a strange kinship with their target...
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57
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6.3
/167/
54
/9/
43
/7/
3.4
/257/

Twinkle (1992)
Shoko and Mutsuki’s marriage is a facade to appease their families, but as Mutsuki falls for a college student, their lives become a quest for love beyond societal norms.
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71
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6.9
/176/
80
/2/
65
/8/

The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map (1979)
A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.
poster
?
7.3
/12/
10
/1/

Drive for the Future (1980)
N/A
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5.6
/8/
45
/2/
80
/1/

The Chaser (1989)
N/A
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?
5.9
/18/
25
/2/
20
/1/

Birth Control Revolution (1967)
The insane gynecologist, Dr. Marukido Sadao (Marquis de Sade), theorizes that a woman is unable to become pregnant if she is writhing in intense pain during intercourse. He sets about testing this new method of birth control by torturing women during sex.


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