1954

Dancing Girls of Izu

9/1

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An a...

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Dancing Girls of Izu

1967

The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding

0/0

A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza.

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The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding

1963

Life of Hishakaku

8/2

After eloping with a prostitute named Otoyo, Hishakaku takes refuge in the Kogane family’s turf. Indebted to Boss Kogane for his kindness, Hishakaku s...

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Life of Hishakaku

2023

September 1923

6.5/10

Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.

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September 1923

2006

The Ode to Joy

6/3

Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp a...

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The Ode to Joy

1973

The King

0/0

Based on a popular play from 1947.

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The King

1963

The Insect Woman

7.209/74

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imam...

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The Insect Woman

1964

The Scent of Incense

7.2/10

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life d...

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The Scent of Incense

1957

On This Earth

7/1

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Un...

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On This Earth

1987

Hachiko

7.781/183

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.

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Hachiko

1948

The Grand Master

9/1

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of becomin...

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The Grand Master

1937

The Lights of Asakusa

6/6

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pr...

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The Lights of Asakusa

2023

My Happy Marriage

7.24/48

An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander. But the two learn more about each other, love ma...

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My Happy Marriage

2018

Haikara-san: Here Comes Miss Modern Part 2

5/12

In turn of the 20th Century Japan, a period characterized by widespread innovation and social restructuring, Benio Hanamura endeavors to take moderniz...

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Haikara-san: Here Comes Miss Modern Part 2

1999

One Summer's Day

10/1

Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relatio...

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One Summer's Day

1980

Zigeunerweisen

6.552/48

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculi...

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Zigeunerweisen

1981

Kagero-za

6.583/30

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

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Kagero-za

1991

Yumeji

6.368/34

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

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Yumeji

1962

A Man With Dragon Tattoos

8/1

In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, dreams are instilled into the lives of many across...

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A Man With Dragon Tattoos

2018

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

6.2/9

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called...

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The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine