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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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- (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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- (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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- (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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- (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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- (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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- (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
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- (1954)
- Starring: Machiko Kyo, Kazuo Hasegawa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/9/2013
- Features: DVD
- 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