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- (1959)
- Starring: Kuniko Miyake, Chishu Ryu
- Genre: Comedy Video, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/16/2017
- Features: Blu-ray
- A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu's perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning (Ohayo) tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking as an act... more
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- (1954)
- Starring: Ko (Isao) Kimura, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/29/2023
- Features: DVD
- The residents of an impoverished farming village in 16th-century Japan, anticipating an attack by bandits after harvest, hire seven rōnin to defend them. Upon arrival, the warriors set about to... more
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- (1950)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/6/2012
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo. One of Akira Kurosawa's classic screen achievements takes form in this compelling tale of the murder of a samurai and the rape of his wife in medieval Japan. The crimes... more
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- (1954)
- Starring: Ko (Isao) Kimura, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/19/2010
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Daisuke Kato. This epic action classic is considered one of the greatest films of all time. In the 16th century, desperate farmers hire a band of samurai warriors to... more
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- (1956)
- Starring: Shoji Yasui, Tatsuya Mihashi
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/12/2007
- Features: DVD
- Shoji Yasui, Rentaro Mikuni. After persuading a group of Japanese mountain fighters to surrender to British forces at the end of WWII, a soldier undergoes a spiritual transformation and becomes... more
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- (1953)
- Starring: Mitsuko Mito, Kikue Mouri
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/1/2025
- Features: 4K Mastering, With Blu-ray, Sign Language, Subtitled
- In rural Japan during the civil upheavals of the 16th century, two impoverished friends-a resentful potter (Masayuki Mori) and a farmer (Sakae Ozawa) who craved to be a samurai-dreamed of profit and... more
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- (1952)
- Starring: Takashi Shimura
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/24/2015
- Features: Blu-ray
- Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko. The renowned director, Akira Kurosawa, combines poetic imagery and complex flashbacks to tell the story of a man who vows to make his final days meaningful after he... more
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- (1953)
- Starring: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/22/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara. Ozu's moving masterpiece finds generational conflict within a post-WWII Japanese family. An elderly couple travels to Tokyo from their small fishing village to visit their... more
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- (1958)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/29/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura. This great samurai epic tells the story of a princess under the protection of a brave and resourceful general who is pursued by enemies of her clan. In Japanese with... more
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- (1957)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/25/2015
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki. In this feudal Japan-set adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a vicious samurai warrior rises to power he cannot fully wield, and the curses of ancient... more
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- (1954)
- Starring: Kyoko Kagawa, Kinuyo Tanaka
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/26/2013
- Features: Blu-ray
- When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually separated by vicious slave traders. Under the... more
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- (1958)
- Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/5/2013
- Features: Blu-ray
- This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year... more
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- (1952)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/27/2019
- Features: Blu-ray
- One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a subtly piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone.... more
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- (1952)
- Starring: Daisuke Kato, Kikue Mori
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/9/2013
- Features: Blu-ray
- A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout it's history, Kenji Mizoguchi had... more
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- (1952)
- Starring: Takashi Shimura
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/24/2015
- Features: DVD
- Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko. The renowned director, Akira Kurosawa, combines poetic imagery and complex flashbacks to tell the story of a man who vows to make his final days meaningful after he... more
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- (1957)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/25/2015
- Features: DVD
- Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki. In this feudal Japan-set adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a vicious samurai warrior rises to power he cannot fully wield, and the curses of ancient... more
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- (1953)
- Starring: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/22/2016
- Features: DVD
- Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara. Ozu's moving masterpiece finds generational conflict within a post-WWII Japanese family. An elderly couple travels to Tokyo from their small fishing village to visit their... more
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- (1951)
- Starring: Chikage Awashima, Setsuko Hara
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/20/2004
- Features: DVD
- Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu. A young girl's parents are intent on picking out a husband for her but Norika wants to do it herself and she picks her childhood friend. In Japanese with English subtitles.... more
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- (1952)
- Starring: Daisuke Kato, Kikue Mori
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/9/2013
- Features: DVD
- A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout it's history, Kenji Mizoguchi had... more
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- (1950)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/6/2012
- Features: DVD
- Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo. One of Akira Kurosawa's classic screen achievements takes form in this compelling tale of the murder of a samurai and the rape of his wife in medieval Japan. The crimes... more
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- (1954)
- Starring: Machiko Kyo, Kazuo Hasegawa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/9/2013
- Features: Blu-ray
- Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyo, Yataro Kurokawa. As payment for providing an escape for a Japanese lord under attack, an 11th-century samurai warrior asks for the hand of a lady-in-waiting. Although the... more
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- (1959)
- Starring: Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Eiji Funakoshi
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/12/2007
- Features: DVD
- Kon Ichikawa's powerful film centers on the terrifying brutality of war. As World War II comes to a close, Japanese troops in retreat in the Philippines run out of supplies and discipline crumbles,... more
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- (1954)
- Starring: Kyoko Kagawa, Kazuo Hasegawa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/13/2018
- Features: DVD
- One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the early 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling... more
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- (1958)
- Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/5/2013
- Features: DVD
- This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year... more
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- (1954)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/14/2015
- Features: DVD
- When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave drivers. Under... more