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After life (1998)
Wandâfuru raifu
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima
After people die, they spend a week with a counselor who helps them pick one memory to take to eternity
[VHS ]

      
Audition (1999)
Ôdishon
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina
A widower falls for a ballerina whose sweet, submissive facade hides her psychotic personality.
[DVD]

      
Black rain (1989)
Kuroi ame
Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Kazuo Kitamura, Yoshiko Tanaka
A couple and and their niece make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb has dropped.
[VHS ]

      
Destroy all monsters (1968)
Kaij u soshingeki
Director: Ishiro Honda
Starring: Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki
Aliens take control of Earth's monsters and begin using them to destroy the human race.
[VHS ]

      
Drunken angel (1948)
Yoidore tenshi
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura
A physician tries to be a healer in a world of hoodlums.
[VHS ]

      
Fires on the plain (1959)
Nobi
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Starring: Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa
Japanese soldiers hiding in Philippine jungles in 1945 face brutal conditions.
[VHS ]

      
Floating weeds (1959)
Ukigusa
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Machiko Kyo, Ganjiro Nakamura
An aging actor's double life leads to jealousy and seduction.
[VHS ]

      
Godzilla (1956)
Godzilla, king of the monsters
Director: Ishiro Honda
Starring: Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura
A giant monster is awoken off the Japanese coast by atomic tests, and it proceeds to attack Tokyo.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 2 (1999)
Gojira vs Mekagojira
Director: Takao Okawara
Starring: Ryoko Sano, Masahiro Takashima
U.N. engineers construct MechaGodzilla as a countermeasure against Godzilla.
[VHS ]

      
Godzilla's revenge (1969)
Gojira-Minira-Gabara: Oru kaijû daishingeki
Director: Ishiro Honda
Starring: Machiko Naka, Kenji Sahara
A lonely boy travels to Monster Island and is befriended by Minya, Godzilla's son.
[VHS ]

      
Good morning (1959)
Ohayô
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Masahiko Shimazu, Koji Shitara
Two boys beg their parents for a television set, nagging them until all patience is lost.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Harakiri (1962)
Seppuku
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Starring: Rentaro Mikuni, Tatsuya Nakadai
Peace in 17th-century Japan throws thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty, forcing some to commit ritual suicide.
[DVD]

      
High and low (1963)
Tengoku to jigoku
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai
A business executive learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom is the amount he has raised for a critical business deal.
[VHS ]

      
Hula girls (2006)
Hula gâru
Director: Sang-il Lee
Starring: Toyokawa Etsuchi, Matsuyuki Yasuko
Young women in a Japanese mining town look to revive their declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
[DVD]

      
I was born but-- (1932)
Otona no miru ehon-Umarete wa mita keredo
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Tomio Aoki, Tatsuo Saito
Two boys, bullied by neighborhood ruffians, lose respect for their father when they see his public submission toward his boss.
[VHS ]

      
Ikiru (1952)
To live
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Shinichi Himori, Takashi Shimura
A city bureaucrat finds out he has terminal cancer and decides to live intensively his last months of life.
[DVD]

      
Juon: the grudge (2003)
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Starring: Misaki Ito, Megumi Okina
A vengeful spirit pursues anybody who dares to enter the house in which it resides.
[DVD]

      
Kagemusha (1980)
The shadow warrior
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki
A powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, and a poor thief is recruited to impersonate him.
[DVD]

      
Kikujiro (1999)
Kikujirô no natsu
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Yusuke Sekiguch, iBeat Takeshi
A little boy undertakes a journey to find the mother he has never met, chaperoned by a surly, middle-aged crook.
[VHS ]

      
Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita
Starring: Du-na Bae, Aki Maeda
A girl group needs to learn to play three songs before their high school's festival rock concert.
[DVD]



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