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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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- (2023)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Janus Films
- Release Date: 12/17/2024
- Features: Widescreen, Subtitled, Sign Language
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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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- (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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- (2023)
- Genre: Documentary, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Janus Films
- Release Date: 11/19/2024
- Features: Widescreen, Dolby, Subtitled
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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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- (1997)
- Starring: Anna Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi Ujiki
- Genre: Horror, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/18/2022
- Features: Blu-ray
- A Tokyo detective's (Koji Yakusho) investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders, committed by seemingly average citizens who can't explain their motives, leads him to a mysterious and... 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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- (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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- (2021)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/19/2022
- Features: Blu-ray
- Actor Yūsuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) dearly loved his wife Oto (Reika Kirishima), despite her infidelities-and her abrupt death pushed him to mental collapse. Offered a comeback staging of... more
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- (2023)
- Starring: Min Tanaka, Sayuri Ishikawa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/16/2024
- Features: Full Frame, Subtitled
- Aging yet affable everyman Hirayama (Koji Yakusho) was content with his lot cleaning Tokyo's public toilets, with downtime to spare for his pet intellectual pursuits. There'd be a wrench thrown in... more
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- Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/8/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa. A disgraced samurai and executioner travels the country, hiring himself out as an assassin while seeking personal revenge against the hit squad who killed his... more
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- (1977)
- Starring: Kumiko Oba, Kimiko Ikegami
- Genre: Horror, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/26/2010
- Features: Blu-ray
- How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashis indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? a stream of consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava?... 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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- (1980)
- Starring: Shuji Otake, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/18/2009
- Features: Blu-ray
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Daisuke Ryu. A petty criminal takes the place of a dying warlord in 16th-century Japan to fool those that plan to assassinate the ruler and inspire his followers... more
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- (1998)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/10/2021
- Features: Subtitled
- What one memory of your life would you want to live over and over? In this compelling and heartfelt fantasy from Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda ("Maborosi"), the newly dead are met in a "way... 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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- Starring: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 1/5/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- Meiko Kaji, Tishio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon. Yuki is a Japanese "born-in-prison" female assassin who is trained from birth to avenge the murder of her father and the rape and imprisonment of her... 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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- (1976)
- Starring: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/28/2009
- Features: Blu-ray
- Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda. A controversial piece of Japanese cinema originally banned in the States for its graphic sex scenes and still banned in Japan, this Nagisa Oshima-directed erotica classic... more
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- (1979)
- Starring: Chocho Miyako, Ken Ogata
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/30/2014
- Features: Blu-ray
- A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (MISHIMA's Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura (THE PORNOGRAPHERS) turns this fact-based story-about the... more
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- (1949)
- Starring: Setsuko Hara, Masao Mishima
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/17/2012
- Features: Blu-ray
- One of the most powerful of the family portraits by Yasujiro Ozu (TOKYO STORY), LATE SPRING tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter. Eminent Ozu... more