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Japan - 162 Titles Found
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Godzilla vs Mothra : Battle for Earth
(1992) [PG]
The Earth is headed for disaster and when an archeological research team visits Infant Island to find out why, they discover two tiny women who reveal that the Earth is fighting back for all the harm humans have done here and sends out the evil Battra to destroy us. The Cosmos, as the girls are... More
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Only Yesterday (Studio Ghibli)
(1991) [PG]
Only Yesterday revolves around Taeko, a single woman working a desk job in Tokyo in 1982, taking a vacation in the countryside with the family of her sister in-law. During her vacation, Taeko finds herself looking back at her time as a young schoolgirl growing up in 1966. The film flips back and... More
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Tony Takitani
(2004) [PG]
Tony Takitani is an adaptation of a Haruki Marakumi story. Alienated by his English name and from his own feelings of neglect of his father, a jazz trumpter, Tony Takitani becomes a skilled engineering draughtsman. One day he falls for Eiko, courts and marries her and knows happiness for the... More
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Premonition
(2004) [MA]
Premonition sees director Norio Tsuruta (Ring 0) weave a chilling tale of a man who can foresee the future. When Hideki picks up a newspaper he knows what he will see... death. Foreseeing the fate of everything from slayings to train crashes, there is nothing Hideki can do to stop the event... or... More
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Sanshiro Sugata
(1943) [PG]
The Directorial debut from one of the screen's greatest ever Directors - Akira Kurosawa. SANSHIRO SUGATA is the tale of the emergence of the fighting art of Judo in old Japan. Set in the late 19th century, the film follows a wayward young man Sugata and his quest for knowledge. After witnessing... More
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Branded to Kill
(1967) [M]
Hanada is the 'Number 3' killer in the Japanese underworld. Hired by a mysterious woman, the scheduled hit goes very wrong and Handa is launched into a deadly cat and mouse game with the sexually perverse rice sniffing 'Number 1' killer. Filled with bizarre imagery, eroticism and brutal violence... More
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Takeshis'
(2006) [MA]
Beat Takeshi lives the busy, and sometimes surreal, life of a show biz celebrity. But his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, is still an unknown actor waiting for his big break. After crossing paths with Beat and a series of frustrating auditions, Kitano seems to... More
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Daredevil in the Castle
(1961) [M]
With his family killed, the Samurai Mohei (Toshiro Mifune) is lost in despair. After arriving in the city of Osaka, the ruling Toyotomi clan enlist Mohei for his superior samurai skills in battle. Soon, his skills will be put to the ultimate test as as Osaka Castle is besieged by a powerful rival... More
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The 47 Ronin
(1962) [M]
In 18th century Japan, society is ruled by the etiquette set by the Imperial Shogun. When a young lord refuses to become involved with a corrupt chancellor, his lands are forfeited and his samurai disbanded. The samurai are torn between orders from the Shogun and loyalty to their lord. Featuring... More
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The Quiet Duel
(1949) [PG]
While operating on a patient during the war, army surgeon Fujisaki (Toshiro Mifune) contracts syphilis, a disease virtually incurable in 1940s Japan. Returning to the Tokyo hospital run by his obstetrician father (Takashi Shimura), he agonises over the threat the disease poses to his impending... More
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