1965

Kwaidan

7.7/397

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...

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Kwaidan

1964

Homecoming

0/0

Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, du...

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Homecoming

1966

Tokyo Drifter

7.1/189

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo...

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Tokyo Drifter

1967

Branded to Kill

7.2/233

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

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Branded to Kill

1980

Zigeunerweisen

6.6/43

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

1977

Mount Hakkoda

6.429/14

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

1968

The Sands of Kurobe

6.2/5

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

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The Sands of Kurobe

1992

A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School

4/1

A semi-autobiographical film about a young man from Tokyo who moves to Hirosaki in the early Shōwa era. A straight-to-video production made for the Hi...

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A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School

1970

The Militarists

8/1

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The Militarists

1971

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

5.8/6

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...

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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

1968

若い川の流れ

0/0

The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and friendship...

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若い川の流れ

1969

Safari 5000

7.3/3

A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enl...

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Safari 5000

1965

Seishun no Sabaki

0/0

University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family...

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Seishun no Sabaki

1966

Fighting Elegy

6.9/36

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

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Fighting Elegy

1964

The Flower and the Angry Waves

6.9/9

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity o...

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The Flower and the Angry Waves

1964

Profit from Killing

0/0

The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Bin Tsuzuki retur...

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Profit from Killing

1968

Outlaw: Heartless

6.6/8

Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This...

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Outlaw: Heartless

1976

Cobra 2

0/0

Japanese crime film.

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Cobra 2

1965

Story of a Prostitute

6.6/34

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal...

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Story of a Prostitute

1963

To Your Majesty, The Emperor

0/0

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.

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To Your Majesty, The Emperor

1984

Nezumi Kozō kaitō den

0/0

Japanese comedy film.

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Nezumi Kozō kaitō den

1962

Tokyo Bay

7/1

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...

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Tokyo Bay

1977

Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye

5.5/4

Komori Chiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day while training, her coach hits a ball into her eye on accident. At the hospital, the news...

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Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye

1975

Graveyard of Honor

6.723/47

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

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Graveyard of Honor

1964

Pale Flower

7.4/105

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young wo...

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Pale Flower

1972

Shadow Hunters

6.5/4

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hun...

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Shadow Hunters

1970

Hazardous Graduation

4/2

Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.

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Hazardous Graduation

1969

Penitentiary Brothers

0/0

Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.

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Penitentiary Brothers

1977

Sweet Revenge

6.6/5

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, spec...

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Sweet Revenge

1965

House of Terrors

5.7/13

A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant...

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House of Terrors

1963

Tale of Army Brutality

10/1

Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World...

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Tale of Army Brutality

1969

The Rough One

0/0

A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the...

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The Rough One

1972

Cross-Currents

6/1

A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.

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Cross-Currents

1965

The Stars and I Decided...

0/0

The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat.

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The Stars and I Decided...

1978

Take Me Away!

6/1

Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in Toky...

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Take Me Away!

1964

The Flower and the Sword

0/0

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gan...

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The Flower and the Sword

1980

Port Arthur

7.5/11

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

1979

The Fall of Teenager

2/1

High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaotic home life, ultimately succumbing to alcohol, mar...

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The Fall of Teenager

1964

Gate of Flesh

6.6/58

In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining...

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Gate of Flesh

1981

Kagero-za

6.7/25

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

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Kagero-za

1977

Utamaro's World

5.6/7

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-...

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Utamaro's World

1966

Zero Fighter

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Zero Fighter

1956

Twice on a Certain Night

0/0

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notic...

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Twice on a Certain Night

1954

The Street Without Sun

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The Street Without Sun

1977

A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness

5.6/13

A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.

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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness

1966

Kokoro no sanmyaku

0/0

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.

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Kokoro no sanmyaku

1967

Japan's Longest Day

7.1/28

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies...

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Japan's Longest Day

1956

Actress

0/0

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

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Actress

1965

Gambling is My Destiny

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Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, he hides his identity and saves his girlfriend's s...

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Gambling is My Destiny

1970

The Summit of Mt. Fuji

0/0

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese archipel...

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The Summit of Mt. Fuji