2006

Babel

7.2/3806

In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the w...

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1987

The Great Department Store Robbery

0/0

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1997

The Eel

6.991/111

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no on...

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The Eel

1996

Shall We Dance?

7.297/155

A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her,...

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Shall We Dance?

1985

Tampopo

7.9/373

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tam...

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Tampopo

1996

Sleeping Man

7.6/8

Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.

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Sleeping Man

2003

Doppelganger

7/43

Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer on the verge o...

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Doppelganger

1997

Bounce Ko Gals

6.6/17

Filmed somewhat in documentary style, it follows three girls over the span of one day and night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Jonko runs a group o...

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Bounce Ko Gals

2001

Pulse

6.6/547

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolati...

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Pulse

2000

Séance

7.1/44

A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by work...

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Séance

2009

Gelatin Silver, Love

6.5/4

The story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the apartment opposite his.

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Gelatin Silver, Love

1997

Cure

7.5/577

A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.

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Cure

2000

Eureka

7.7/93

In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.

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Eureka

2005

Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean

6/20

A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutosh...

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Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean

2004

University of Laughs

7.109/32

In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other...

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University of Laughs

2001

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

6.6/48

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

1979

Hunter in the Dark

6.5/16

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to...

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Hunter in the Dark

2007

Retribution

6.4/90

A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same...

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2008

Paco and the Magical Book

7/20

Onuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder. His only hope is to help Paco survive from her illness.

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Paco and the Magical Book

1997

Lost Paradise

5.8/19

Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. To...

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Lost Paradise

2010

The Last Ronin

6.3/13

16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppu...

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The Last Ronin

2011

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

7.2/180

A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a ten...

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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

2010

13 Assassins

7.3/1145

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord an...

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13 Assassins

2012

The Woodsman and the Rain

6/19

A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.

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The Woodsman and the Rain

2006

Suite Dreams

6.4/28

New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a speci...

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Suite Dreams

2011

Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet

6.5/36

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to o...

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2009

The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity

6/7

In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity

1988

Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho

0/0

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2012

The Terminal Trust

6/22

Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, Shinzo Egi asks his doctor Ayano Orii if she could...

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The Terminal Trust

1990

Aurora Borealis

4.1/7

The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.

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Aurora Borealis

1982

The Law of Hell

0/0

At a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The owner Ikuzo manages the restaurant with his daughter. I...

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The Law of Hell

1998

Yukon

0/0

Takayuki Iwabuchi, a former yakuza member with a tattoo of Kisshoten on his back. Although he has a criminal record, he is currently working as a driv...

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2023

Perfect Days

7.7/1415

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and ta...

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Perfect Days

2014

The World of Kanako

6.4/185

When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his inv...

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The World of Kanako

2013

The Kiyosu Conference

6.6/21

After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki...

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The Kiyosu Conference

2023

Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

7.889/18

This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedo...

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Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

2022

Gratitude

0/0

A man wanders alone, away from his family, in search of a place to die. He runs away from the massage therapist who is supposed to heal him, and drive...

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Gratitude

1995

History of Jirocho Shimizu

0/0

A historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's family, his confrontation with Katsuzo Kurokoma's family,...

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2009

Toad's Oil

7/3

The story of Takuro Yazawa, a day trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one day, and those around him as they attempt to cope w...

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Toad's Oil

2004

The Lakeside Murder Case

6.4/7

Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam...

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The Lakeside Murder Case

2023

Família

5.2/4

One day a young Brazilian man living in Japan crashes his car into the side of the house of a happy family. They take him in after realizing he had be...

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Família

2007

Silk

5.8/209

French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to...

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Silk

1980

Twelve Months

6.7/17

A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she do...

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Twelve Months

1998

Tadon and Chikuwa

0/0

A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations....

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Tadon and Chikuwa

1982

Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

6.3/22

Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. H...

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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

1995

Kamikaze Taxi

6.6/10

A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a ta...

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Kamikaze Taxi

1999

License to Live

6/15

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is no...

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License to Live

1999

Charisma

6.5/45

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action....

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Charisma

2000

Dora-heita

5.1/9

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and...

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Dora-heita

2007

I Just Didn't Do It

7.3/38

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all th...

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I Just Didn't Do It

2012

Chronicle of My Mother

6.6/17

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spir...

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Chronicle of My Mother

2015

The Emperor in August

6.3/13

In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nigh...

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The Emperor in August

2008

Tokyo Sonata

7.4/240

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.

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Tokyo Sonata

2002

The Choice of Hercules

8/5

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of...

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The Choice of Hercules

2019

Whistleblower

8/6

A seemingly lazy salaryman is tasked with managing a company secret.

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Whistleblower

2015

The Boy and the Beast

7.947/1500

Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and,...

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The Boy and the Beast

2023

Father of the Milky Way Railroad

6/5

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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2014

I Am Searching For Myself

0/0

Interview with actress Nana Komatsu on her debut film "The World of Kanako".

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I Am Searching For Myself

1983

The Fir Trees Remain

0/0

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his misbehavior during his short stay in Edo. On the nex...

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The Fir Trees Remain

2009

Ekiro

5/2

An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno (Koji Yakusho), who is set to retire himself, is c...

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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis

0/0

A Music Special episode broadcasted by NHK. This documentary looks back at the great achievements and innovative works of Ryuichi Sakamoto's carreer,...

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2024

Hakkenden

8/5

Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The story...

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Hakkenden

1993

Crimson Lotus

7/1

Sakura and Kenzo are married. Both think they can live a happy marriage, despite the fact that she cannot have children and he does not want to give u...

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Crimson Lotus

1999

Jubaku: Spellbound

6/4

When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal tha...

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Jubaku: Spellbound

2017

Oh Lucy!

6.7/100

A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets out...

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Oh Lucy!

2017

The Third Murder

6.6/259

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

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The Third Murder

1993

Dark Society in the East

6.4/5

A story about the activities of Southeast Asian Mafia gangs in Shinjuku. Ryosuke Kano is an ex French Foreign Legion soldier and is now a cocaine smug...

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Dark Society in the East

2017

Sekigahara

7/42

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the...

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Sekigahara

2004

Fireflies: River of Light

4.5/4

After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through t...

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Fireflies: River of Light

2016

Mifune: The Last Samurai

7.1/46

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.

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Mifune: The Last Samurai

1982

The Legend of Sayo

6.3/3

Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous for...

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The Legend of Sayo

2014

A Samurai Chronicle

7.4/8

A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.

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A Samurai Chronicle

2007

Argentine Hag

0/0

After the death of her dearest mother, her serious-minded father goes missing, leaving their only daughter Mitsuko. Six months later, it turns out tha...

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Argentine Hag

2004

The Hunter and the Hunted

0/0

Jin (Yakusho), a young, widowed police detective who is thinking of leaving the force to better take care of his 8 year old daughter Misaki (Kanno), b...

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The Hunter and the Hunted

2018

The Blood of Wolves

7.1/33

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the y...

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The Blood of Wolves

2007

The Sin

0/0

A housewife was killed by a falling fire extinguisher, which a boy of seven years dropped from the top floor of an apartment. The offender, however, w...

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The Sin

2018

Mirai

7.2/788

Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family's history in their unique house in o...

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Mirai

1982

Eternal Monument

10/1

A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.

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Eternal Monument

1998

Bonds

5.2/4

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. H...

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Bonds

2019

Wings Over Everest

6.2/5

An experienced mountain rescue team is tasked with recovering crucial documents from Everest’s notorious death zone

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Wings Over Everest

2007

Walking My Life

5/1

A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will di...

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Walking My Life

1996

Shabu

0/0

Makabe is a yakuza who is addicted to 'shabu' (a slang refers to stimulant drug). He lives as if he wants to destroy himself. He steals a mistress of...

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Shabu

1981

Willful Murder

7.3/3

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutd...

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Willful Murder

2021

Under the Open Sky

7.7/35

Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his lo...

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Under the Open Sky

2005

Memoirs of a Geisha

7.663/3118

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

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Memoirs of a Geisha

1994

Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare

0/0

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Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare

2004

Tokyo: Level One

0/0

Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.

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Tokyo: Level One

2021

Belle

7.7/763

Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day disco...

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Belle

2022

The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

7.1/7

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2021

The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood

6.7/6

In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who g...

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1990

Megumi no Sekai

0/0

A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is hurt to the core when the truth of an article is qu...

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Megumi no Sekai

Suzume Iro Doki

0/0

The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and only handles divorce settlements. She spends her d...

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Suzume Iro Doki

2025

Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope

9/1

A touching true story which portrays a doctor who selflessly dedicated his personal fortune to spreading the smallpox vaccination for saving people's...

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Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope

1999

Keijitachi no Natsu

0/0

The TV movie follows a detective with a burning sense of justice who risks his life to pursue a corruption case involving the prime minister's office.

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Keijitachi no Natsu

2004

People Without a Fort

0/0

After female high school student Furuya Meiko is found dead in her apartment from an apparent suicide, police investigate and discover that she was in...

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People Without a Fort

2007

Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

0/0

The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges...

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Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

1991

Takeda Shingen

0/0

During the 16th century, Japan was involved in the Sengoku Period, an era of civil wars and the powerful warlords who fought them. One of the earliest...

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Takeda Shingen

2025

The Brightest Sun

0/0

When a private detective is murdered, a former colleague and a trainee detective are sent to investigate. Along the way, they uncover a tragic truth t...

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