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Japan Films

Displaying 47 films

100 Yen Love

100 Yen Love

Each day Ichiko passes a gym where she watches a boxer silently practicing. The two make plans to see each other, and suddenly her life changes.

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A Girl Missing

A Girl Missing

A private home nurse has her life shattered when the teenage daughter of her employer is kidnapped and it is revealed that her nephew is responsible.

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After The Storm

After The Storm

When a typhoon strikes, a failed writer unexpectedly winds up spending the night together with his 11-year-old son, ex-wife and aging mother.

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All About Lily Chou-Chou

All About Lily Chou-Chou

Shunji Iwai’s observant and mesmerizing teen saga, ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU, is a timeless coming-of-age story.

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Bent

Bent

In 1930s Berlin, homosexual Max (Clive Owen) flees but is sent to the Dachau concentration camp.

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Boiling Point

Boiling Point

Ono Masahiko is an unlucky gas station attendant who belongs to a losing junior baseball team. When the local yakuza threaten and capture his coach, he and a friend get more than they bargained for wh...

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Bushido

Bushido

Acclaimed director Kazuya Shiraishi (Twisted Justice and The Blood of Wolves) goes full samurai in Bushido, an epic yet elegiac jidaigek.

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By A Man's Face Shall You Know Him

By A Man's Face Shall You Know Him

In postwar Japan a neighborhood is nearly torn apart when a Korean gang tries to take over the local market until a tough doctor gets in their way.

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Cash Calls Hell

Cash Calls Hell

Facing the final days of his prison sentence, Oida accepts a job to kill three men, only to find himself on a treacherous path of cold-blooded fate.

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Complicity

Complicity

Cheng Liang works illegally in Japan at a soba restaurant and lives in constant fear of his real identity being discovered.

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Fancy Dance

Fancy Dance

Yohei, a punk rocker, has to become a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Then his girlfriend shows up.

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Far Western

Far Western

The phenomenal story of the transplant of American country music to post-World War II Japan.

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Harmonium

Harmonium

Toshio sees his seemingly ordinary life take an ominous turn when a mysterious friend from his past arrives and slowly begins to disrupt his family.

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Hospitalite

Hospitalite

A Tokyo family’s unassuming lifestyle is turned upside down by the increasingly bizarre antics of their strange new tenant.

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I, The Executioner

I, The Executioner

Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a young man who committed suicide under murky circumstances.

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Ju Dou

Ju Dou

The young bride of the owner of a silk-dyeing business finds solace in the arms of her husband's nephew, but problems arise when she becomes pregnant.

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Key of Life

Key of Life

A case of stolen identity and one determined bride-to-be intersect in this comedic escapade from famed Japanese filmmaker Kenji Uchida.

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Love's Whirlpool

Love's Whirlpool

Six strangers meet at a Japanese sex club. As first-timers and regulars collide, their attitudes towards sex and satisfaction are challenged.

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Mad Tiger

Mad Tiger

Two best friends have spent the last fifteen years touring the country in their performance art punk band. When one of them decides to quit, they both face deeper challenges than expected.

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My Sunshine

My Sunshine

Two young skaters team up to train for a figure skating duo, their growing bond blurring the lines between partners and more as winter unfolds.

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Oh Lucy!

Oh Lucy!

When her English instructor John suddenly disappears from class, Setsuko follows his trail to California, where family ties and past lives are tested.

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Onimasa

Onimasa

A yakuza melodrama, covering decades in the lives of Boss Onimasa, his adopted daughter Matsue, and his biological daughter Hanako.

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Outrage Coda

Outrage Coda

Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang....

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Passion

Passion

When Kaho and Tomoya announce their engagement at a celebratory dinner with friends, they are unprepared for the emotional turmoil that is unleashed.

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Radiance

Radiance

A passionate writer for the visually impaired sees the world in a different light after meeting an older photographer who is losing his eyesight.

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Red Peony Gambler

Red Peony Gambler

Wandering female gambler Oryu the Red Peony (Junko Fuji) rambles into town searching for her father’s killer on a blood-soaked quest for vengeance.

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Red Peony Gambler 2: Gambler's Obligation

Red Peony Gambler 2: Gambler's Obligation

When Oryu is taken under the arm of the gang boss of a silk farming town and treachery leads to murder, it becomes her sworn duty to exact justice.

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Red Peony Gambler 3: The Flower Cards Game

Red Peony Gambler 3: The Flower Cards Game

Oryu, the Red Peony Gambler, steps in on the side of righteousness when a rival gang tries to sabotage the Nishinomaru family's gambling competition.

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Samurai Wolf

Samurai Wolf

Isao Natsuyagi stars as Kiba, a charismatic ronin who wanders into a small town and ends up ensnared in a local conflict that turns treacherous.

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Samurai Wolf 1 & 2

Samurai Wolf 1 & 2

Hideo Gosha's two Samurai Wolf films in one complete set.

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Samurai Wolf 2: Hell Cut

Samurai Wolf 2: Hell Cut

Kiba becomes entangled in a complex web of intrigue, involving a crooked goldmine owner, a cynical swordsman, and an arrogant dojo master.

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Sexual Drive

Sexual Drive

Part thriller, sex comedy and gastronomy, this triptych follows follows three people, each possessing an irresistible culinary and carnal appetite.

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Shall We Dance?

Shall We Dance?

A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.

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Still the Water

Still the Water

After discovering a dead body floating in the sea, a sixteen-year-old and his girlfriend experience the interwoven cycles of life, death and love.

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Sumo Do, Sumo Don't

Sumo Do, Sumo Don't

Chronicling the turmoil and pandemonium that ensues at a derelict university sumo club, and the rise of some unlikely heroes.

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The Oldest Profession

The Oldest Profession

A rough, uncompromising film about a washed-up prostitute going through the hardships of life on the margins of society.

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The Real Thing

The Real Thing

A man falls for a woman he saves at the train station and slowly becomes involved in a very dangerous relationship.

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The Third Murder

The Third Murder

A high-powered attorney struggles to find the truth behind the enigmatic testimony of a murder suspect while questioning his own faith in the law.

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They Say Nothing Stays the Same

They Say Nothing Stays the Same

An aging ferryman finds his peaceful, cyclical existence transformed in the name of progress when news arrives that a bridge is being built upstream.

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Tokyo Bordello

Tokyo Bordello

Sold into prostitution to pay her father's debts, a Japanese courtesan goes on to run a Tokyo bordello.

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True Mothers

True Mothers

A couple decide to adopt a baby after battling infertility. When the birth mother confronts them, they are forced to question their own parenthood.

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Violent Cop

Violent Cop

After a cop (Beat Takeshi) is fired and his sister is kidnapped, he goes on a mission to get the kidnapper and his boss.

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Violent Panic: The Big Crash

Violent Panic: The Big Crash

Trailed by the police, his lover, and many others, Takashi becomes the target of a manhunt filled with twists, double-crosses and explosive action.

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Violent Streets

Violent Streets

A retired yakuza underboss is pulled back into a life of crime after getting caught in the middle of a conflict between two rival clans.

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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

Seeking a rumored treasure, Yosuke travels to a remote seaside village where he becomes enamored with an unusual woman with a unique sexual condition.

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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Acclaimed director Ryusuke Hamaguchi returns with an enchanting triptych that spins mundane encounters into a world of infinite possibilities.

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Wolves, Pigs and Men

Wolves, Pigs and Men

Three brothers find themselves pitted against each other in the Yakuza underworld as rival gangs unleash a nightmare of unbridled violence.

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