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Kanopy
76
50
7.6
/1558/
73
/61/
74
/40/
4.2
/13984/

Moving (1993)
Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.
poster
67
44
7.0
/1493/
64
/45/
64
/62/
3.8
/8368/

Typhoon Club (1985)
Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.
poster
65
42
6.3
/1138/
63
/58/
69
/56/
3.3
/4751/

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
poster
66
34
6.6
/574/
62
/27/
65
/27/
3.7
/3665/

Love Hotel (1985)
A tale of two broken souls. A call-girl named Yumi, “night-blooming flower,” and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started, they return to the scene of their first macabre passion. With a taste for wicked absurdity while coursing with undercurrents of operatic emotion, at times verging on a musical, Love Hotel is moved by the irrational forces that attract two bodies together.
poster
74
34
7.5
/655/
72
/17/
73
/19/
4.0
/6178/

The Friends (1994)
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.
poster
62
16
6.6
/209/
56
/10/
55
/9/
3.6
/1156/

P. P. Rider (1983)
Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
poster
62
16
6.8
/390/
60
/12/
55
/17/
3.6
/980/
57
/1/

Kaza-hana (2001)
A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.
poster
67
13
6.8
/220/
65
/11/
66
/7/
3.5
/766/

Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion (1985)
Iori, taken from an orphanage by a family for domestic work, runs away and is adopted and raised by two young men. Ten years later, she crosses paths with her former step-sister, who is soon poisoned to death, Iori being the prime suspect.
poster
63
10
6.5
/163/
48
/5/
66
/6/
3.5
/638/

Tokyo Heaven (1990)
A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.
poster
60
10
6.9
/208/
37
/4/
64
/7/
3.6
/542/

The Catch (1983)
A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets.
poster
58
9
7.0
/128/
35
/4/
58
/4/
3.5
/639/

Luminous Woman (1987)
A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer.
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20
/2/

Beloved Woman (1985)
Based on the novel by Tetsuro Miura, this 60-minute PV (Promotional Video) stars Aya Katsuragi.
poster
58
?
6.4
/160/
42
/4/
58
/8/
3.4
/413/

Dreamy Fifteen (1980)
Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader from Kyushu, enrolls in a prestigious high school in Tokyo. Plans are made for him to live in his uncle's house, part of which is rented out while his uncle is abroad on business. A realtor's mistakes leaves Tasiro sharing the house with Kei Yamaba, the most beautiful girl in the school, who is also his classmate. There is the risk that their unexpected 'co-habitation' will be discovered by the school authorities.
poster
61
?
6.5
/177/
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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