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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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- (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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- (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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- (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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- (1951)
- 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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- (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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- (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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- (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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- (1958)
- Starring: Michitaro Mizushima, Mari Shiraki
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Radiance
- Release Date: 1/28/2025
- Features: Blu-ray
- After being released from prison, gangster Miyamoto (Michitaro Mizushima) tries to retrieve a hidden stash of diamonds and use them to repay friend Mihara (Toru Abe), crippled by a bullet meant for... 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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- (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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- (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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- (1959)
- Starring: Kojiro Hongo
- Genre: Horror, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Radiance
- Release Date: 10/29/2024
- Features: Blu-ray
- Three-disc set includes: The Ghost Of Yotsuya (Yotsuya Kaidan) (1959)Unusual take on the oft-told kabuki kaidan tale from director Kenji Misumi offers a strikingly sympathetic spin on protagonist... 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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- (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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- (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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- (1951)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/6/2012
- Features: DVD
- 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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- (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
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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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- (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)
- Genre: Comedy Video, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Arrow Video
- Release Date: 5/11/2021
- Features: Blu-ray
- Giants and Toys is a sharp and snappy corporate satire that revolves around the ruthless machinations of a group of admen working in the confectionary industry. Its absurdist and acidly cynical take... 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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- (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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- (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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- (1955)
- Starring: Chiezo Kataoka, Daisuke Kato
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Arrow Video
- Release Date: 9/4/2018
- Features: Blu-ray
- As they journeyed to Edo, the two fiercely loyal retainers (Chiezō Kataoka, Daisuke Katō) of a minor samurai (Eijirō Kataoka) had to stay mindful of their master's weakness for strong drink. Their... more