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Series
Criterion collection volume 138
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
The story of a widower and his daughter who through devotion to him is getting past a marriageable age. The father pretends to marry a young wife so his daughter will feel less obligated to stay with him. She marries and he prepares to live the remainder of his life alone.
22) Nobody Knows
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
日本語
Description
Four young siblings are forced to rely solely on each other when they are left alone by their loving yet immature mother. This film was the official Japanese entry for the 2004 Academy Awards.
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
日本語
Description
An extended farming family faces the cultural tradition of abandoning their aged mother on a mountain as she reaches her seventieth year. Imamura's documentary-style filmmaking delves into the complex dynamics of Japanese society and its timeless traditions.
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
日本語
Description
When you’re a bored teenager looking for thrills, sometimes the only thing you can turn to is rock ‘n roll. Having no skill, money, or even a full set of drums, a feared trio of high school delinquents nevertheless decide they are destined for musical glory in a quest to impress their only friend Aya, avoid a rival gang, and – most importantly – jam out. Animated almost entirely by director Kenji Iwaisawa, and featuring a lead performance...
26) Dreams on Fire
Publisher
Buffalo 8 Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
日本語
Description
After running away from home to become a dancer in Tokyo, Yume (Bambi Naka) struggles against the harsh realities of what it takes to achieve success. She works as a hostess in the red-light district while taking dance lessons, and refuses to abandon her ambitions.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
日本語
Description
Known to everyone in their idyllic Japanese village as “the brats,” twin brothers Yukihiko and Seizo wrestle with catfish in the river, chase birds through the woods, and cause general mischief in the name of high adventure. Their tale is told from the perspective of their older selves, reflecting on their childhood right after World War II and reinspecting the lives of their mother, father, landlord, bully, and three mysterious elderly neighbors...
28) 13 Assassins
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
日本語
Description
A group of elite samurai are secretly enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord.
30) R100
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
日本語
Description
**WARNING**: This film contains disturbing content that may be upsetting and/or offensive to some viewers. A mild-mannered family man with a secret taste for S&M finds himself pursued by a gang of ruthless dominatrices each with a unique talent in this hilarious and bizarre take on the sex comedy from Japanese comedy giant Hitoshi Matsumoto (Big Man Japan, Symbol, Scabbard Samurai).
31) Kanzô sensei
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
日本語
Description
In a tense war-torn climate, on the eve of the Japanese surrender in 1945, Doctor Akagi, the local doctor of a seaside village on one of Japan's islands, takes a stand to save his professional integrity. He is concerned by the growing number of people coming down with hepatitis the main cause of death in an undernourished country. He bands together with his old buddies, a dissolute monk and a nihilistic morphine-addicted surgeon. They're all on the...
32) Tokyo!
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
日本語
Description
Three short films set in TOKYO chronicle the metamorphosis of a woman, the trial of a man who emerges from a manhole, and a reclusive man's first experience with human contact during an earthquake. Cannes Film Festival: Un Certain Regard Award - Nominee (Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry); Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival: Special Mention - Winner (Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry), Titra Fild Award - Winner (Bong Joon...
33) Tony Takitani
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
日本語
Description
Tony Takitani is an illustrator who has been alone all his life, until he meets a beautiful woman who transforms his world. The only problem is that she has a secret, she is a compulsive shopper with a penchant for high end couture fashion that leads to darkly satiric consequences. Based on the short story by Haruki Murakami.
34) Bean Cake
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
日本語
Description
The year is 1933 and a young boy in Tokyo named Uchido has recently moved from the country and attends his first day of school. The class is run in a traditional and strict manner that is designed to teach the children to conform to a strict code of social behavior that includes expressing loyalty to the Emperor. Uchido runs afoul of this intention when he answers the teacher’s question by expressing his love for bean cakes instead of the emperor....
35) Ghost Master
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
日本語
Description
While shooting the horror film GHOST MASTER, an untalented assistant director is sent into a rage that awakens an evil spirt. Now possessed, he wreaks revenge on set, killing the cast and crew one by one.
36) A Matter of Size
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
日本語
Description
A MATTER OF SIZE is an Israeli comedy (yes, comedy!) like nothing you've seen before, a hilarious and heart-warming tale about about a coming out of a different kind: four overweight guys who learn to love themselves through the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling!
37) Ronin gai
Publisher
Homevision
Pub. Date
2005
Language
日本語
Description
Story of ronin on the outskirts of Edo in the last of the samurai era. These masterless samurai have taken to drunkeness and debauchery with the local prostitutes. They can regain their honor when renegade samurai invade the area to kill the prostitutes. This project was undertaken in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the death of Shozo Makino, the 'father of the Japanese cinema.
39) Napping Princess
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
日本語
Description
An action-packed sci-fi fantasy that shows that following your dreams is sometimes the best way to discover your past.The year is 2020, three days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. While she should be studying for her exams, Kokone Morikawa often dozes off, entering a dream-world called Heartland full of fantastic motorized contraptions. But when her father, a talented but mysterious mechanic, is kidnapped for stealing technology from a powerful...
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