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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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- (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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- Starring: Kunio Mita, Sugisaku Aoyama
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/21/2010
- Features: DVD
- Years before Akira Kurosawa changed the face of cinema with such iconic works as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Yojimbo, he made his start in the Japanese film industry with four popular and... 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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- (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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- (2023)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Janus Films
- Release Date: 12/17/2024
- Features: Widescreen, Subtitled, Sign Language
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- (2023)
- Genre: Documentary, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Janus Films
- Release Date: 11/19/2024
- Features: Widescreen, Subtitled
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- (1977)
- Starring: Kumiko Oba, Kimiko Ikegami
- Genre: Horror, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/26/2010
- Features: DVD
- 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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- (1948)
- Starring: Reisaburo Yamamoto, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/26/2007
- Features: DVD
- In this classic film noir, set in postwar Japan, ToshirC4 Mifune plays Matsunaga, a tough small- time gangster who takes a bullet during a fight in the slums of Tokyo. He makes his way to the office... 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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- Starring: Keiko Sagowa, Masaomi Kondo
- Genre: Comedy Video, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/21/2010
- Features: DVD
- Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru... more
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- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/21/2015
- Features: DVD
- The great Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu (Late Spring) is best known for the stately, meditative domestic dramas he made after World War II. But during his first decade at Shochiku studios, where he... more
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- Starring: Tomomi Sato, Yuko Kusunoki
- Genre: Horror, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/20/2012
- Features: DVD
- Includes: The X From Outer Space, Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell, The Living Skeleton And Genocide.
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- (1990)
- Starring: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/15/2016
- Features: DVD
- Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi. Eight mythical, dreamlike vignettes thematically united by their concern with man's relationship to nature tell stories of animal weddings, ghosts of... more
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- (1985)
- Starring: Masayuki Shionoya, Toshiyuki Nagashima
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 1/8/2019
- Features: DVD
- In 1970, Yukio Mishima (Ken Ogata)-postwar Japan's most estimable man of letters, and a fervent nationalist-led four members of his personal militia in a raid upon a Tokyo army base in a bid to... more
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- (1985)
- Genre: Comedy Video, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/25/2017
- Features: DVD
- Nobuko Miyamoto. The widow of a ramen shop owner travels Japan looking for the best ramen recipe, encountering crazy food-obsessed characters along the way. In Japanese with English subtitles.... 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: DVD
- 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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- (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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- (1970)
- Starring: Toshiyuki Tonomura, Hideko Okiyama
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/17/2009
- Features: DVD
- By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their... 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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- (1980)
- Starring: Shuji Otake, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/25/2017
- Features: DVD
- 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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- (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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- (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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- (2012)
- Starring: Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/20/2014
- Features: DVD
- Abbas Kiarostami has spent his incomparable movie career exploring the tiny spaces that separate illusion from reality and the simulated from the authentic. At first blush, his extraordinary, sly... more