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- (1964)
- Starring: Ken Takakura
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: 88 Films
- Release Date: 4/22/2025
- Features: Blu-ray
- In 1947, Hokkaido herring fisherman Kyubei (Isao Yamagata) was already girding for a tough season when his operations were threatened by one-eyed, embittered ex-colleague Jakoman (Tetsurō Tamba), on... 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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- (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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- (2023)
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Janus Films
- Release Date: 12/17/2024
- Features: Widescreen, Subtitled, Sign Language
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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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- (2011)
- Starring: Satoshi Nikaido, Miki Mizuno
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Olive
- Release Date: 10/14/2014
- Features: Special Edition, Subtitled
- An abused housewife works as a nude model in order to satisfy her desires. Under the influence of a depraved English professor, she eventually turns to prostitution. Elsewhere, a female cop... 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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- (1953)
- Starring: Mitsuko Mito, Kikue Mouri
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 4/1/2025
- Features: 4K Mastering, With Blu-ray, Sign Language, Subtitled
- In rural Japan during the civil upheavals of the 16th century, two impoverished friends-a resentful potter (Masayuki Mori) and a farmer (Sakae Ozawa) who craved to be a samurai-dreamed of profit and... more
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- Starring: Masayuki Shionoya, Toshiyuki Nagashima
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 6/3/2025
- Features: 4K Mastering, With Blu-ray, Widescreen, Subtitled
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- (1997)
- Starring: Etsuko Ichihara, Mitsuko Baisho
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Radiance
- Release Date: 4/15/2025
- Features: Blu-ray
- Released from prison eight years after killing his unfaithful wife, Japanese salaryman Yamashita (Koji Yakusho), accompanied by the pet eel ("He listens to what I say") he kept behind bars, tries to... 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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- (1977)
- Starring: Masumi Okada, Shuji Sano
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Radiance
- Release Date: 4/29/2025
- Features: Blu-ray
- The pitfalls of fame are explored in this erotic-themed drama about a sexy young model (Yoko Shiraki) who has been groomed by the editor (Yoshio Harada) of a golfing fashion magazine to become a... 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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- (1977)
- Starring: Tsunehiko Watase
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: 88 Films
- Release Date: 5/27/2025
- Features: Blu-ray
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- (2008)
- Starring: Sakura Ando, Takahiro Nishijima
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Olive
- Release Date: 9/18/2012
- Features: Blu-ray
- Having grown in a devout Christian family and desperate to please his sin-obsessed Catholic priest father, young Yu (Takahiro Nishijima) a fairly normal kid who has no legitimate sins to confess... more
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- (1970)
- Starring: Mari Atsumi, Akemi Negishi
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Arrow Video
- Release Date: 3/4/2025
- Features: Limited Edition, Booklet
- College girl Yumi (Mari Atsumi) was pushed by her geisha mother Tomi (Akemi Negishi), who wanted better for her daughter. Those plans ended after Yumi's stepfather forced himself on her... and Tomi... more
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- (1954)
- Starring: Kyoko Kagawa, Kinuyo Tanaka
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/26/2013
- Features: Blu-ray
- When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually separated by vicious slave traders. Under the... 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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- 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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- (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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- (1963)
- Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 2/20/2018
- Features: Blu-ray
- While touring 19th-century Japan, kabuki performer/female impersonator Yukinojo Nakamura (Kazuo Hasegawa) tracked down the three prosperous merchants who had disgraced and driven his parents to... more
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- (1974)
- Starring: Moeko Ezawa
- Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
- Studio: Film Movement
- Release Date: 4/29/2025
- Features: Booklet, Subtitled, Digital Theater System
- Stunningly squalid opus from Nikkatsu follows a week in the life of teenage Osaka prostitute Tome (Meika Seri), as her rough and endless trade in a brothel and on the streets is callously... 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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- 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