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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: 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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- (2011)
- Starring: Satoshi Nikaido, Miki Mizuno
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Olive
- Release Date: 10/14/2014
- Features: Special Edition, Subtitled
- An abused housewife works as a nude model in order to satisfy her desires. Under the influence of a depraved English professor, she eventually turns to prostitution. Elsewhere, a female cop... 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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- (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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- 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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- (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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- (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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- (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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- (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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- (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
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- Starring: Keiko Awaji, Reiko Dan
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/19/2007
- Features: DVD
- A stunning drama about a ginza bar hostess as she approaches the perilous age of 30. Director Mikio Naruse Star Hideko Taka mine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori Special Features: Widescreen,... 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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- Starring: Yukio Mishima
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/1/2008
- Features: DVD
- Yukio Mishima's only film tells the story of a naval officer's ritual suicide-eerily presaging the novelist's own death by seppuku years later. If such parallels weren't enough, the officer is played... more
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- (2021)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/19/2022
- Features: 2 Pack
- 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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- (1953)
- Starring: Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/28/2017
- Features: DVD
- 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
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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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- (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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- (2008)
- Starring: Sakura Ando, Takahiro Nishijima
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Olive
- Release Date: 12/20/2011
- Features: Subtitled
- Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima. Yuu, the son of a Catholic priest, become obsessed with sin like his father. But his perverted behavior includes using his martial arts skills to take photos... 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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- (2020)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Film Movement
- Release Date: 3/12/2024
- Features: Subtitled
- Investigative filmmaker Yuko (Kumi Takiuchi) is putting together a piece about the bereaved families connected with a bullied schoolgirlʼs suicide. Determined to shed light on the truth, Yukoʼs... more