Black River

Black River

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and...

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The Burmese Harp

The Burmese Harp

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as...

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Fires on the Plain

Fires on the Plain

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...

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Fighting Elegy

Fighting Elegy

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and...

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Kagero-za

Kagero-za

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

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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his...

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Cruel Story of Youth

Cruel Story of Youth

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

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May Love Be Restored

May Love Be Restored

A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.

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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military...

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The Thick-Walled Room

The Thick-Walled Room

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

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Cops vs. Thugs

Cops vs. Thugs

When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the...

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The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai

The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly...

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I Hate But Love

I Hate But Love

A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote...

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The Sands of Kurobe

The Sands of Kurobe

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building...

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Girl in the Glass

Girl in the Glass

The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening...

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Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers

Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers

The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.

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Blood Is Dry

Blood Is Dry

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own...

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The Song of the Cart

The Song of the Cart

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

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The Man with a Shotgun

The Man with a Shotgun

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of...

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A Warm Misty Night

A Warm Misty Night

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She...

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