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- (1961)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/23/2010
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai. In order to free a village from the clutches of a corrupt government, a clever samurai pits two warring gangs against each other. Directed by Akira... more
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- (1964)
- Starring: Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre: Horror, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/20/2015
- Features: Blu-ray
- Blu-ray. After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi (The Human Condition) shifted gears dramatically for this... more
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- (1965)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/16/2002
- Features: DVD
- Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama. The patients at a poor medical clinic and a sharp but overbearing doctor teach an enthusiastic young intern hard lessons about the true meaning of practicing medicine. In... more
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- (1963)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre: Mystery / Suspense, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/26/2011
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa. An affluent urban industrialist is targeted by a mysterious kidnapper, and the police investigation into the crime reveals things about the society of... more
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- (1968)
- Starring: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa
- Genre: Horror, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/18/2011
- Features: Blu-ray
- In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to... more
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- (1966)
- Starring: Tamio Kawachi, Hideaki Esumi
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 12/13/2011
- Features: Blu-ray
- Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Tamio Kawachi. A longtime Japanese gangster refuses to give up antiquated codes of honor, much to the distress of his Mob bosses and other gangs.... more
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- (1966)
- Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/28/2014
- Features: Blu-ray
- Tatsuya Nakadai (Harakiri) and Toshiro Mifune (Yojimbo) star in the story of a wandering samurai who exists in a maelstrom of violence. A gifted swordsman plying his craft during the turbulent final... more
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- (1960)
- Starring: Ko (Isao) Kimura, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 1/10/2006
- Features: DVD
- Toshiro Mifune. His father's mysterious death on the job prompts a man to seek revenge against the powerful construction company that employed him. In Japanese with english subtitles. 1960/b&w/151... more
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- (1964)
- Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/23/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida, Hiroko Ito. An entomologist misses his bus in the middle of a desert to get home to Tokyo. After descending into a sand-pit hut to lie with a mysterious desert woman, he... more
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- (1964)
- Starring: Chisako Hara, Koji Nakahara
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/17/2011
- Features: Blu-ray
- In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict; what at first seems a redemptive relationship... more
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- (1964)
- Starring: Tetsuro Tamba, Briana Banks
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/14/2012
- Features: Blu-ray
- Tetsuro Tamba, Isamu Nagato. This first film by Hideo Gosha is among the most canonized chambara (sword-fighting) films. An origin-story offshoot of a Japanese television series of the same name,... more
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- (1967)
- Starring: Mari Annu, Mariko Ogawa
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/9/2023
- Features: 4K Mastering, With Blu-ray, Mono Sound
- At once a brutal action film and a parody of the genre and it's critics, this bullet-riddled saga of the Japanese mob's "No. 3 Killer"-and how a mishap on a job turns him into the target of the "No.... more
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- (1963)
- Starring: Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/17/2015
- Features: Blu-ray
- The final film from Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story) was also his last masterpiece, a gently heartbreaking story about a man's dignified resignation to life's shifting currents and society's modernization.... more
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- (1967)
- Starring: Mari Annu, Mariko Ogawa
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 12/13/2011
- Features: Blu-ray
- Joe Shishido, Mariko Ogawa, Annu Mari, Koji Nanbara. One of the top Japanese mobsters finds his romantic and professional life in a shambles when he bungles a job—and winds up with a contract on his... more
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- (1967)
- Starring: Go Kato, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/4/2005
- Features: DVD
- Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai. Isaburo, an aging samurai, takes issue with his lord when the lord wants back the mistress he initially ordered Isaburo's son to marry. Now the son is in love with... more
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- (1968)
- Starring: Nagisa Oshima, Kei Sato
- Genre: Comedy Video, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/16/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- Genius provocateur Nagisa Oshima, an influential figure in the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s, made one of his most startling political statements with the compelling pitch-black satire Death by... more
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- (1963)
- Starring: Tamio Kawachi, Masao Shimizu
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 1/11/2005
- Features: DVD
- When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence. Youth of the Beast was a breakthrough for director Seijun Suzuki, introducing the flamboyant... more
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- (1963)
- Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/20/2018
- Features: Blu-ray
- While touring 19th-century Japan, kabuki performer/female impersonator Yukinojo Nakamura (Kazuo Hasegawa) tracked down the three prosperous merchants who had disgraced and driven his parents to... more
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- (1962)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/23/2010
- Features: Blu-ray
- Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai. Yojimbo sequel in which a samurai leads a group of inexperienced warriors trying to expose corruption among the clan elders. Directed by Akira Kurasawa. In Japanese... more
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- (1968)
- Starring: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa
- Genre: Horror, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/18/2011
- Features: DVD
- In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to... more
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- (1960)
- Starring: Nobuko Otowa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/17/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka. In a totally dialogue-less examination of a Japanese's family's isolated life, island-dwellers struggle with even daily tasks, such as the boat trip... more
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- (1963)
- Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/20/2018
- Features: DVD
- While touring 19th-century Japan, kabuki performer/female impersonator Yukinojo Nakamura (Kazuo Hasegawa) tracked down the three prosperous merchants who had disgraced and driven his parents to... more
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- (1964)
- Starring: Chisako Hara, Koji Nakahara
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/17/2011
- Features: DVD
- In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict; what at first seems a redemptive relationship... more
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- (1964)
- Starring: Satoko Kasai, Misako Tominaga
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/26/2005
- Features: DVD
- In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post, World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in... more
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- (1966)
- Starring: Hideki Takahashi, Isao Tamagawa
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 1/11/2005
- Features: DVD
- High schooler Nanbu Kiroku yearns for the prim, Catholic Michiko, but her only desire is to reform Kiroku's sinful tendencies. Direction: Seijun Suzuki Actors: Hideki Takahashi, Isao Takanawa, Kayo... more