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4.0

age 11+

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

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8.1

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80

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81

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100

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93

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100

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4.0

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

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90

8.2

/141257/

80

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80

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4.3

/162000/

96

/51/

96

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93

/17/

4.0

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

poster

90

8.5

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85

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84

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100

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8.5

/443809/

4.0

age 15+

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

poster

89

8.2

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80

/450/

80

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4.3

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100

/25/

92

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93

/18/

4.0

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

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89

8.4

/69297/

84

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83

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4.6

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97

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95

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90

/17/

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

poster

88

8.1

/27855/

78

/561/

80

/623/

4.3

/55624/

100

/34/

93

/412/

4.0

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.

poster

88

7.9

/25891/

80

/974/

78

/404/

4.3

/130129/

100

/58/

93

/724/

87

/18/

4.0

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

poster

87

8.3

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84

/15371/

83

/8645/

4.4

/1429953/

93

/123/

94

/12007/

78

/31/

8.6

/871132/

4.0

age 12+

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.

poster

87

8.4

/378439/

86

/18545/

84

/12165/

4.2

/1276393/

98

/118/

94

/1177/

81

/26/

8.8

/2041412/

3.5

age 12+

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.

poster

86

8.3

/23001/

81

/379/

81

/390/

4.4

/29613/

73

/15/

95

/388/

90

/10/

4.0

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

poster

86

8.0

/8267/

76

/136/

77

/186/

4.2

/11874/

100

/14/

89

/66/

4.0

In 17th century Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

poster

85

8.0

/59417/

78

/1065/

79

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4.3

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Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

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7.8

/175812/

76

/3473/

75

/2190/

3.9

/64287/

91

/201/

86

/10114/

89

/37/

4.0

age 16+

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

poster

82

7.8

/25100/

76

/619/

77

/455/

4.1

/84706/

90

/20/

90

/378/

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

poster

82

8.2

/1283143/

81

/33922/

79

/18368/

4.2

/2587540/

85

/238/

81

/1050705/

69

/43/

4.0

age 18+

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

poster

86

82

8.0

/10495/

78

/204/

78

/199/

4.2

/20005/

100

/11/

92

/97/

94

/5/

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

poster

82

7.9

/22377/

76

/514/

77

/431/

4.2

/50771/

91

/46/

89

/336/

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

poster

82

7.7

/35143/

77

/806/

77

/742/

4.2

/67082/

96

/24/

92

/611/

83

/17/

3.0

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.

poster

81

7.8

/13654/

77

/813/

79

/606/

4.1

/38259/

97

/74/

87

/21/

73

/21/

8.2

/83304/

3.0

age 10+

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

poster

81

7.5

/71172/

75

/2516/

73

/1216/

3.9

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95

/129/

88

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84

/33/

3.5

age 18+

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

poster

81

7.7

/109085/

78

/5337/

78

/2703/

4.1

/492293/

87

/93/

88

/4297/

81

/26/

8.0

/298289/

age 16+

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.

poster

80

7.3

/14106/

72

/171/

66

/161/

3.9

/11771/

90

/88/

79

/233/

90

/31/

4.0

After their latest production, "Princess Ida", meets with less-than-stunning reception, Gilbert and Sullivan's relationship is strained to the breaking point. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which bares the path to "The Mikado", one of the duo's greatest successes.

poster

80

7.5

/71665/

75

/2161/

68

/625/

3.9

/129815/

93

/116/

88

/3495/

78

/33/

3.5

age 15+

The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.

poster

80

7.8

/110338/

78

/4664/

77

/3229/

4.1

/447480/

88

/182/

85

/911/

83

/41/

8.1

/215480/

3.0

age 10+

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

poster

78

7.7

/31960/

77

/667/

77

/524/

4.2

/89237/

67

/30/

86

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Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

poster

78

7.1

/155999/

69

/5752/

70

/2517/

3.5

/734791/

90

/326/

65

/548/

90

/55/

4.0

age 15+

The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

poster

78

7.4

/53010/

74

/1276/

72

/918/

3.7

/25062/

87

/123/

88

/1672/

75

/33/

3.5

age 17+

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

poster

78

7.5

/234443/

75

/4744/

71

/2314/

3.6

/103457/

86

/183/

87

/13171/

71

/36/

3.5

age 16+

Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.

poster

86

77

8.0

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79

/117/

79

/121/

4.2

/9665/

100

/16/

93

/93/

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

poster

81

77

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73

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4.1

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In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.

poster

77

7.1

/11863/

73

/593/

72

/354/

3.7

/14436/

100

/49/

73

/44/

78

/14/

3.0

Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.

poster

76

7.8

/207136/

78

/9347/

78

/5207/

4.0

/1039128/

90

/368/

87

/1150/

82

/55/

1.5

age 11+

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.

poster

76

7.1

/2561/

75

/236/

72

/114/

3.5

/4796/

100

/15/

82

/27/

70

/5/

7.5

/10178/

3.0

age 9+

12-year-old Oriko Seki, who lost her parents in a car accident, ended up living in her grandmother's Onsen Ryokan "Haru no Ya." With the ghost "Uribou" cohabitating with her and all the other odds, she ended up training to be a young female innkeeper. At first, she didn't like the training, but gradually felt her admiration for her title and began to train seriously. Thus, the growth of the young warrior Oriko begins.

poster

83

76

7.8

/6654/

74

/108/

75

/140/

4.0

/13526/

100

/27/

89

/57/

91

/4/

Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of childhood as well as the tragedy of maturity.

poster

76

7.4

/33612/

77

/2103/

74

/994/

3.8

/57773/

81

/26/

87

/571/

63

/12/

8.0

/304833/

age 13+

Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.

poster

76

7.6

/53819/

77

/2856/

79

/1899/

3.9

/281463/

71

/14/

72

/22/

8.0

/179675/

3.0

age 9+

Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.

poster

83

75

7.8

/6832/

76

/126/

75

/145/

4.2

/15061/

100

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90

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The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987.

poster

75

7.4

/30854/

75

/1986/

75

/870/

3.5

/21085/

85

/231/

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

poster

79

73

7.7

/10348/

73

/156/

69

/153/

3.7

/8812/

100

/17/

84

/183/

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

poster

73

7.2

/73512/

72

/2157/

71

/1517/

3.6

/76910/

89

/46/

78

/826/

62

/7/

3.0

age 12+

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

poster

84

71

8.0

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76

/103/

77

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4.2

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100

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92

/24/

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.

poster

71

7.2

/8111/

74

/125/

72

/144/

3.7

/7644/

60

/15/

73

/111/

3.0

An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.

poster

70

7.0

/22299/

70

/554/

71

/596/

3.5

/26494/

81

/54/

79

/555/

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age 10+

In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is now alone, and sets up Ethel with neighbor Victor. Inappropriate behavior on a double date causes conflict, and the young couple considers divorce.

poster

70

6.5

/14136/

62

/184/

63

/179/

3.5

/10761/

68

/56/

80

/623/

64

/20/

3.5

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

poster

81

68

7.6

/4205/

74

/77/

76

/97/

4.0

/10299/

93

/15/

89

/30/

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

poster

67

7.0

/672/

44

/5/

64

/9/

3.4

/220/

70

/10/

78

/31/

3.0

Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.

poster

79

67

7.6

/2808/

67

/49/

69

/56/

4.0

/4957/

100

/7/

86

/54/

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.

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