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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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- (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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- (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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- 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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- (1956)
- Starring: Shoji Yasui, Tatsuya Mihashi
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/12/2007
- Features: DVD
- Shoji Yasui, Rentaro Mikuni. After persuading a group of Japanese mountain fighters to surrender to British forces at the end of WWII, a soldier undergoes a spiritual transformation and becomes... more
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- (2023)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Janus Films
- Release Date: 12/17/2024
- Features: Widescreen, Subtitled, Sign Language
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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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- (1985)
- Starring: Masayuki Shionoya, Toshiyuki Nagashima
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 1/8/2019
- Features: DVD
- In 1970, Yukio Mishima (Ken Ogata)-postwar Japan's most estimable man of letters, and a fervent nationalist-led four members of his personal militia in a raid upon a Tokyo army base in a bid to... 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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- (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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- 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: 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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- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 12/16/2014
- Features: DVD
- Hugely popular in his home country of Japan, Keisuke Kinoshita (TWENTY-FOUR EYES) worked tirelessly as a director for nearly half a century making lyrical, sentimental films that often center on the... more
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- (2023)
- Genre: Documentary, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Janus Films
- Release Date: 11/19/2024
- Features: Widescreen, Subtitled
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- (2012)
- Starring: Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/20/2014
- Features: DVD
- Abbas Kiarostami has spent his incomparable movie career exploring the tiny spaces that separate illusion from reality and the simulated from the authentic. At first blush, his extraordinary, sly... 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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- (1968)
- Starring: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa
- Genre: Horror, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/18/2011
- Features: DVD
- In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to... more
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- (1951)
- Starring: Chikage Awashima, Setsuko Hara
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/20/2004
- Features: DVD
- Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu. A young girl's parents are intent on picking out a husband for her but Norika wants to do it herself and she picks her childhood friend. In Japanese with English subtitles.... more
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- (1984)
- Genre: Comedy Video, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/17/2022
- Features: Subtitled
- When a crotchety Izu oldster (Hideji Otaki) abruptly dies, his daughter (Nobuko Miyamoto) and son-in-law (Tsutomu Yamazaki)-both TV actors-drop everything to ensure he receives a proper Buddhist... 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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- (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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- (1954)
- Starring: Machiko Kyo, Kazuo Hasegawa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/9/2013
- Features: DVD
- Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyo, Yataro Kurokawa. As payment for providing an escape for a Japanese lord under attack, an 11th-century samurai warrior asks for the hand of a lady-in-waiting. Although the... more
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- Starring: Mutsuhiro Toura, Minoru Hodaka
- Genre: Action / Adventure, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 10/4/2005
- Features: DVD
- Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Koriyama defects from the... more
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- Genre: Comedy Video, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/22/2008
- Features: DVD
- Director Yasujiro Ozu is often revered for his poignant observations of family life. These early silent films showcase all the themes of familial struggle that would show up in his later work, along... 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