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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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- (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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- (1970)
- Starring: Mari Atsumi, Akemi Negishi
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Arrow Video
- Release Date: 3/4/2025
- Features: Limited Edition, Booklet
- College girl Yumi (Mari Atsumi) was pushed by her geisha mother Tomi (Akemi Negishi), who wanted better for her daughter. Those plans ended after Yumi's stepfather forced himself on her... and Tomi... 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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- (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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- (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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- (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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- (1997)
- Starring: Etsuko Ichihara, Mitsuko Baisho
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Radiance
- Release Date: 4/15/2025
- Features: Blu-ray
- Released from prison eight years after killing his unfaithful wife, Japanese salaryman Yamashita (Koji Yakusho), accompanied by the pet eel ("He listens to what I say") he kept behind bars, tries to... more
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- (1977)
- Starring: Masumi Okada, Shuji Sano
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Radiance
- Release Date: 4/29/2025
- Features: Blu-ray
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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
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- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/7/2024
- Features: Full Frame, Subtitled
- The original silent drama from Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, "A Story of Floating Weeds," follows a travelling theatre troupe's visit to a seaside town and the group's leader's emotional reunion... more
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- (2008)
- Starring: Shohei Tanaka, Hotaru Nomoto
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/8/2011
- Features: Blu-ray
- The lyrical, profoundly moving STILL WALKING is the most personal work to date from contemporary Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda (MABOROSI, AFTER LIFE, NOBODY KNOWS). Fashioned as a tribute to his... 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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- (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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- (1985)
- Starring: Masayuki Shionoya, Toshiyuki Nagashima
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/22/2018
- Features: Blu-ray
- Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of the acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio MISHIMA (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man... 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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- (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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- (1964)
- Starring: Ken Takakura
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: 88 Films
- Release Date: 4/22/2025
- Features: Blu-ray
- In 1947, Hokkaido herring fisherman Kyubei (Isao Yamagata) was already girding for a tough season when his operations were threatened by one-eyed, embittered ex-colleague Jakoman (Tetsurō Tamba), on... 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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- (2008)
- Starring: Sakura Ando, Takahiro Nishijima
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Olive
- Release Date: 9/18/2012
- Features: Blu-ray
- Having grown in a devout Christian family and desperate to please his sin-obsessed Catholic priest father, young Yu (Takahiro Nishijima) a fairly normal kid who has no legitimate sins to confess... more
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- (1964)
- Starring: Mikijiro Hira, Bunta Sugawara
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Radiance
- Release Date: 4/30/2024
- Features: Blu-ray
- Having left her countryside home to find success in the city, lovely part-time bartender Yoshie (Miyuki Kuwano) was readily charmed by the swagger of customer Eiji (Mikijirô Hira). As they move in... more
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- (1985)
- Starring: Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 6/14/2011
- Features: Blu-ray
- This lyrical adaptation of the beloved Japanese novel by Junichiro Tanizaki was a late-career triumph for world-class director Kon Ichikawa (THE BURMESE HARP, FIRES ON THE PLAIN). Revolving around... more
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- (1953)
- Starring: Mitsuko Mito, Kikue Mouri
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 6/6/2017
- Features: Blu-ray
- Machiko Kyo, Mitsuko Mito, Kinuyo Tanaka. Two peasants in war-torn 16th-century Japan abandon their families to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. In attaining his goal, each man destroys his... more