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- (1985)
- Starring: Masayuki Shionoya, Toshiyuki Nagashima
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/22/2018
- Features: Blu-ray
- Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of the acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio MISHIMA (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man... more
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- (2023)
- Starring: Min Tanaka, Sayuri Ishikawa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/16/2024
- Features: 4K Mastering, With Blu-ray, Widescreen
- 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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- (2021)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/19/2022
- Features: Blu-ray
- 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
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- (1953)
- Starring: Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/28/2017
- Features: DVD
- Machiko Kyo, Mitsuko Mito, Kinuyo Tanaka. Two peasants in war-torn 16th-century Japan abandon their families to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. In attaining his goal, each man destroys his... more
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- (1964)
- Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/23/2016
- Features: DVD
- Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida, Hiroko Ito. An entomologist misses his bus in the middle of a desert to get home to Tokyo. After descending into a sand-pit hut to lie with a mysterious desert woman, he... more
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- (1976)
- Starring: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/28/2009
- Features: Blu-ray
- Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda. A controversial piece of Japanese cinema originally banned in the States for its graphic sex scenes and still banned in Japan, this Nagisa Oshima-directed erotica classic... 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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- (1952)
- Starring: Takashi Shimura
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/24/2015
- Features: Blu-ray
- 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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- (2008)
- Starring: Shohei Tanaka, Hotaru Nomoto
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/8/2011
- Features: Blu-ray
- The lyrical, profoundly moving STILL WALKING is the most personal work to date from contemporary Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda (MABOROSI, AFTER LIFE, NOBODY KNOWS). Fashioned as a tribute to his... more
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- (1953)
- Starring: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 3/22/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- 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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- (1952)
- Starring: Daisuke Kato, Kikue Mori
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 7/9/2013
- Features: Blu-ray
- A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout it's history, Kenji Mizoguchi had... 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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- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/7/2024
- Features: Full Frame, Subtitled
- The original silent drama from Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, "A Story of Floating Weeds," follows a travelling theatre troupe's visit to a seaside town and the group's leader's emotional reunion... more
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- (1990)
- Starring: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/15/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- 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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- (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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- (1985)
- Starring: Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 6/14/2011
- Features: Blu-ray
- This lyrical adaptation of the beloved Japanese novel by Junichiro Tanizaki was a late-career triumph for world-class director Kon Ichikawa (THE BURMESE HARP, FIRES ON THE PLAIN). Revolving around... more
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- (1958)
- Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/5/2013
- Features: Blu-ray
- This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year... more
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- (1959)
- Starring: Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Eiji Funakoshi
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 8/5/2025
- Features: 4K Mastering, With Blu-ray, Widescreen, Subtitled
- The Criterion CollectionThe French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun 2021 ~ A salute to writers and expatriates, Wes Andersons tenth feature takes the form of the final edition of The... 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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- (2012)
- Starring: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/22/2018
- Features: Blu-ray
- With this arresting drama based on notorious real-life events, Cristian Mungiu mounts a complex inquiry into faith, fanaticism, and indifference. At a desolate Romanian monastery, a young novice nun,... more
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- (1954)
- Starring: Machiko Kyo, Kazuo Hasegawa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/9/2013
- Features: Blu-ray
- 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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- (1954)
- Starring: Kyoko Kagawa, Kazuo Hasegawa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 11/13/2018
- Features: Blu-ray
- One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the early 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling... more
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- (1960)
- Starring: Nobuko Otowa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 5/17/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka. In a totally dialogue-less examination of a Japanese's family's isolated life, island-dwellers struggle with even daily tasks, such as the boat trip... more
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- (1982)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/22/2022
- Features: 2 Pack
- Three years after Saigon's fall, Japanese journalist George Lam (Shiomi Akutagawa)-who'd been evenhanded in his coverage of the Viet Cong-was invited back to chronicle the improvements under the new... more
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- (1949)
- Starring: Setsuko Hara, Masao Mishima
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/17/2012
- Features: Blu-ray
- One of the most powerful of the family portraits by Yasujiro Ozu (TOKYO STORY), LATE SPRING tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter. Eminent Ozu... more

























