1976

Cruel Bondage Picture Legend

2/1

It was a tumultuous time. In the early Meiji period, there was the first photographer in Japan who lived a heroic life. What fascinated him with photo...

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Cruel Bondage Picture Legend

2018

Laughing Under the Clouds

5.8/4

In the dawn of the Meiji period, the Gokumonjou, an inescapable prison, has been established in the middle of an enormous lake to counter the soaring...

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Laughing Under the Clouds

1973

Lady Snowblood

7.527/413

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother b...

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Lady Snowblood

2019

They Say Nothing Stays the Same

6.8/6

Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he barel...

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They Say Nothing Stays the Same

1974

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

6.436/140

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who of...

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Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

1985

Kinbakuka: Biniku no Mori

2/2

At the beginning of the Meiji era, Sayoko, the daughter of a large banker in Tokyo, comes to Sotobo's villa for the first time in eight years, guided...

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Kinbakuka: Biniku no Mori

2002

Millennium Actress

7.845/1038

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career....

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Millennium Actress

1999

Gemini

6.55/90

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.

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Gemini

1981

Why Not?

6.222/18

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...

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Why Not?

1978

Empire of Passion

6.866/134

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

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Empire of Passion

1958

The Rickshaw Man

7.179/39

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

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The Rickshaw Man

2011

Tsugaru

0/0

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Tsugaru

1989

Ryoma Sakamoto: Samurai Gunslinger

0/0

After more than 200 years of Isolation, Japan is ready for a modern samurai who isn't afraid to use guns and embrace the outside world.

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Ryoma Sakamoto: Samurai Gunslinger

2014

Snow on The Blades

6.7/15

At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility and shame...

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Snow on The Blades

1980

Port Arthur

7.385/13

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (...

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Port Arthur

2022

The Broken Commandment

7.2/8

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class “untouchables,” leaving his hometown t...

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The Broken Commandment

2014

Oiesan

0/0

Traces the rise of the company Suzuki Shoten from the 1880's to 1919. After the death of her husband, Yoni Suzuki and her general manager built the co...

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Oiesan

2015

Gassoh

7.8/10

In the year 1868, three young men join the elite Shogitai division of the Shogunate. The Shogitai fights to the end and opposes the dismantling of the...

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Gassoh

2023

Father of the Milky Way Railroad

6.1/10

Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and becomes obsessed with farming, jewelry and religi...

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Father of the Milky Way Railroad

1977

Mount Hakkoda

6.625/16

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.

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Mount Hakkoda