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- (2023)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Premieres
- Release Date: 12/17/2024
- Features: Widescreen, Subtitled, Sign Language
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- (1954)
- Starring: Ko (Isao) Kimura, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/29/2023
- Features: DVD
- The residents of an impoverished farming village in 16th-century Japan, anticipating an attack by bandits after harvest, hire seven rōnin to defend them. Upon arrival, the warriors set about to... more
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- Starring: Keiko Sagowa, Masaomi Kondo
- Genre: Comedy Video, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/21/2010
- Features: DVD
- Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru... more
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- Starring: Kunio Mita, Sugisaku Aoyama
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/21/2010
- Features: DVD
- Years before Akira Kurosawa changed the face of cinema with such iconic works as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Yojimbo, he made his start in the Japanese film industry with four popular and... more
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- (2023)
- Starring: Min Tanaka, Sayuri Ishikawa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/16/2024
- Features: Full Frame, Subtitled
- Aging yet affable everyman Hirayama (Koji Yakusho) was content with his lot cleaning Tokyo's public toilets, with downtime to spare for his pet intellectual pursuits. There'd be a wrench thrown in... more
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- (1977)
- Starring: Kumiko Oba, Kimiko Ikegami
- Genre: Horror, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/26/2010
- Features: DVD
- How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashis indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? a stream of consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava?... more
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- (1958)
- Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/29/2016
- Features: DVD
- Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura. This great samurai epic tells the story of a princess under the protection of a brave and resourceful general who is pursued by enemies of her clan. In Japanese with... more
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- (1960)
- Starring: Ko (Isao) Kimura, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 1/10/2006
- Features: DVD
- Toshiro Mifune. His father's mysterious death on the job prompts a man to seek revenge against the powerful construction company that employed him. In Japanese with english subtitles. 1960/b&w/151... more
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- (1948)
- Starring: Reisaburo Yamamoto, Toshiro Mifune
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/26/2007
- Features: DVD
- In this classic film noir, set in postwar Japan, ToshirC4 Mifune plays Matsunaga, a tough small- time gangster who takes a bullet during a fight in the slums of Tokyo. He makes his way to the office... more
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- Starring: Tomomi Sato, Yuko Kusunoki
- Genre: Horror, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/20/2012
- Features: DVD
- Includes: The X From Outer Space, Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell, The Living Skeleton And Genocide.
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- Starring: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 1/5/2016
- Features: DVD
- Meiko Kaji, Tishio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon. Yuki is a Japanese "born-in-prison" female assassin who is trained from birth to avenge the murder of her father and the rape and imprisonment of her... more
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- (1967)
- Starring: Go Kato, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/4/2005
- Features: DVD
- Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai. Isaburo, an aging samurai, takes issue with his lord when the lord wants back the mistress he initially ordered Isaburo's son to marry. Now the son is in love with... more
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- (1985)
- Genre: Comedy Video, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/25/2017
- Features: DVD
- Nobuko Miyamoto. The widow of a ramen shop owner travels Japan looking for the best ramen recipe, encountering crazy food-obsessed characters along the way. In Japanese with English subtitles.... more
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- Starring: Jerry Fujio, Akira Kobayashi
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/25/2009
- Features: DVD
- From the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, wild, idiosyncratic crime movies were the brutal and boisterous business of Nikkatsu, the oldest film studio in Japan. In an effort to attract youthful... more
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- Starring: Masaki Kobayashi, Keiko Kishi
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/16/2013
- Features: DVD
- Includes the Thick-Walled Room, I Will Buy You, Black River and The Inheritance.
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- (1952)
- Starring: Takashi Shimura
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/24/2015
- Features: DVD
- Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko. The renowned director, Akira Kurosawa, combines poetic imagery and complex flashbacks to tell the story of a man who vows to make his final days meaningful after he... more
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- (1970)
- Starring: Toshiyuki Tonomura, Hideko Okiyama
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/17/2009
- Features: DVD
- By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their... more
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- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/21/2015
- Features: DVD
- The great Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu (Late Spring) is best known for the stately, meditative domestic dramas he made after World War II. But during his first decade at Shochiku studios, where he... more
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- Starring: Ruriko Asaoka, Tamio Kawaji
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/23/2011
- Features: DVD
- ECLIPSE SERIES 28: THE WARPED WORLD OF KOREYOSHI KURAHARA features the films INDIMIDATION (1960), THE WARPED ONES (1960), I HATE BUT LOVE (1962), BLACK SUN (1964) and THIRST FOR LOVE (1967).
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- (1959)
- Starring: Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Eiji Funakoshi
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/12/2007
- Features: DVD
- Kon Ichikawa's powerful film centers on the terrifying brutality of war. As World War II comes to a close, Japanese troops in retreat in the Philippines run out of supplies and discipline crumbles,... more
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- (1998)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/10/2021
- Features: Subtitled
- What one memory of your life would you want to live over and over? In this compelling and heartfelt fantasy from Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda ("Maborosi"), the newly dead are met in a "way... more
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- (1953)
- Starring: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/22/2016
- Features: DVD
- Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara. Ozu's moving masterpiece finds generational conflict within a post-WWII Japanese family. An elderly couple travels to Tokyo from their small fishing village to visit their... more
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- (1980)
- Starring: Shuji Otake, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/25/2017
- Features: DVD
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Daisuke Ryu. A petty criminal takes the place of a dying warlord in 16th-century Japan to fool those that plan to assassinate the ruler and inspire his followers... more
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- (1990)
- Starring: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/15/2016
- Features: DVD
- Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi. Eight mythical, dreamlike vignettes thematically united by their concern with man's relationship to nature tell stories of animal weddings, ghosts of... more
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- (2021)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/19/2022
- Features: 2 Pack
- Actor Yūsuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) dearly loved his wife Oto (Reika Kirishima), despite her infidelities-and her abrupt death pushed him to mental collapse. Offered a comeback staging of... more