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Gonin
Overview: Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-23
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The Beasts' Carnival
Overview: A hit man working for the Yakuza double crosses his employers and flees with a cache of diamonds from the latest heist. Injured and hiding in the mountain regions of Spain, with Japanese assassins in hot pursuit, he takes refuge in the home of a local doctor and his two daughters who nurse him back to health and hide him from his pursuers, taking drastic and murderous measures to protect him... for they have plans of their own in store for their current guest.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-12-03
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Hôseki no bijo: Edogawa Ranpo Hakuhatsuki yori
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-02
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Looking for
Overview: Natsuko's mother is hospitalized and only has six months to live. Her last wish is to see her father, who left her 20 years ago. Natsuko sets out to find him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-03-14
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Ryuji
Overview: Ryuji tries quitting the yakuza to actively support his wife and daughter; as he's used to easy money, it's a difficult transition.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-29
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Lullaby to Kill
Overview: Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-04-02
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An Obsession
Overview: Police detective Sosuke is shot down while chasing down a suspect. While he is unconscious, his gun is stolen. He recovers, but loses his wife and resigns from the police force. All of a sudden, his lost gun used in a series of crimes.
Genres: Drama Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-20
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Yojōhan seishun garasu-bari
Overview: A film that portrays the youth and fragile love of a transportation worker in Tokyo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-08-21
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Battle Anthem
Overview: The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.
Genres: War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-06-04
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Mr. Lady Cinderella at Dawn
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-10
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Isana no umi
Overview: Renji grew up in a family that runs a pelagic fishing business and vaguely thinks about becoming a fisherman in the future. He is attracted to Kyoko, a new transfer student to his fisheries school who is knowledgeable about whales, but there is a big difference of opinion between Renji, who thinks whaling is wrong, and Kyoko, who advocates whale protection.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-07-05
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Misuzu
Overview: Tells the life story of Teru Kaneko, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a book shop, Teru starts writing her own verses to get away from the worries of a disgraceful marriage. Under the pseudonym Misuzu, her works arrive to an important editor in Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-27
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Present for You
Overview: Shigeru Kajiwara (Joe Odagiri) works part-time at a company that sells mysterious health food. One day, the other employees run off with the company's money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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Yamazakura, The Cherry Tree in the Hills
Overview: Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor), the film depicts the uneasy life of Noe Isomura (Rena Tanaka) with the difficult family she has married into after her former husband passed away. One day as she tries to brake off a branch of a cherry tree, she is aided by a samurai who she does not recognize but who recognizes her. He turns out to be a former suitor that she never met named Yaichiro Tezuka (Noriyuki Higashiyama) and who teaches swordsmanship to the local samurai. Meanwhile, the powerful new chief retainer of the village enacts land policies that threaten the survival of the local farmers.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-31
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Ningen no sabaku
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-28
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Tetsugen
Overview: Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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White Love
Overview: Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language teacher Ken. Finally she found her father in Madrid and she also met Ken's ex-girl friend Taeko there. Ken came to Madrid and learned of their meeting. He wanted her to help to look for Taeko. Ken was caught in between the past and the present.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-03
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Love in the Mud
Overview: This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off, as her father is the ambassador of Japan in Spain. One day when she is out driving, she is attacked by a group of yakuza, but is saved by the honorable yakuza Jiro. This will change her life forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-07-30
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Cursed Village in Yudono Mountains
Overview: Awaji, the president of a famous food company, is found murdered in a locked bathroom. with mummified human hands found all over the body. Taki, a Young bonze, begins to privately investigate.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-05-26
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Female Teacher
Overview: A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, blackmail and murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-29
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Desperate Sunflowers
Overview: Natsuko Kotani was born to be a swindler. Meanwhile, Tetsuko Ishida is Natsuko’s distant relative. Unlike Natsuko, Tetsuko is an attorney with an upright disposition. Whenever Natsuko makes trouble, Tetsuko is called to solve her troubles. Believing that Natsuko is using her, Tetsuko, with her boring life, begins to change.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-25
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Like a Rolling Stone
Overview: Tanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him. Tanaka is not an archetypal yakuza; he travels by public transport. But he does have two mistresses: Ayumi, who runs a nightclub, and Yoshie, a brothel-keeper. When Tanaka's boss ends up in hospital, second man Kurauchi exerts increasing pressure on Tanaka. Tanaka deliberately has himself wounded by a fighter to dodge several of Kurauchi's demands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-01
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The Seburi Story
Overview: The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-05-11
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Crazed Fruit
Overview: A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time, but love survives despite the problems.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-24
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Sachiko no sachi
Overview: Based on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Yakuza Warfare
Overview: Two childhood friends find themselves caught in the midst of an all-out turf war between rival factions in the yakuza-stained region of Kyushu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-09
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Moon Angel
Overview: Two female truck drivers detest each other, and try to steal each other's business. Their rigs are both painted with elaborate large pictures of beautiful naked women. One day, whilst hauling loads of fish in Hokkaido, they are separately stopped by traffic police, who impound their trucks for various violations. About this time, one of the women meets a handsome man, with whom romance is a possibility. Then, the women discover they have been tricked. The cops were connected with the Russian mafia, who intend to ship their trucks offshore and sell them.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-18
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Body and Soul
Overview: Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share a past in several senses. It was Ryosuke who walked off with Yoshihiko’s girlfriend Aya. In doing so, he broke up with his own girlfriend, Reiko. Now they are all back together again and old feelings begin to surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-18
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Pink Tush Girl: Proposal Strategy
Overview: Two high school girls graduate and one of them goes off to a rural town to join an underground dance troupe. The other decides to visit and she stays with a troubled family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-26
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The Man with Two Hearts
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-11
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Piecing Me Back Together
Overview: A young woman named Izumi suffers the loss of her boyfriend Junichi, who died from a fatal motorcycle accident. The shock from her boyfriend's sudden death causes Izumi to lose her memory from the time of the accident. A lawyer named Makiko then helps Izumi to remember the final moments of her boyfriend's life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-19
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Wild Life
Overview: An ex-boxer working for a game parlor owner gets caught up in a complex blackmail operation he doesn't understand. Before long he's caught between two yakuza bosses and a mysterious thief who motivation is unknown. Add in the boss' daughter who has a crush on him and watch him struggle to make sense of it all and come out alive.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-04-05
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Kimi no tame ni dekiru koto
Overview: Takase, a fledgling recording engineer, visits Miyakojima Island in Okinawa for a documentary program. There he meets violinist Yohko and is attracted to her. She participates in the filming as a reporter despite the fact that she has a boyfriend with whom she communicates via e-mail. However, she has an unusual relationship with the artist Kijima. This coming-of-age film delicately depicts the protagonist's personal growth with a documentary touch, incorporating descriptions of the climate of Miyako Island and the actual people who weave the Miyako Kamifu cloth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Music Box
Overview: A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-11
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Haruka, Nostalgia
Overview: Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author's real name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-02-20
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Grudge Girls Academy: Serial Murder of Fear!
Overview: There are two bizarre rumors spreading about a girls' high school called “Seiwa Joshi Gakuen.” The first is a “Hanako-san in the Toilet”-like story about a painting that hangs in the principal's office = young twin sisters who escape from the painting at night and promenade around the school. The other is about Ryoko Mizumura, an art teacher who is too beautiful to be true and the object of the students' admiration, but who may actually be two people.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-13
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