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After life
(1998)
Wandâfuru raifu
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Director:
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Hirokazu Koreeda
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| Starring:
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Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima
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After people die, they spend a week with a counselor who helps them pick one memory to take to eternity
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Audition
(1999)
Ôdishon
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Director:
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Takashi Miike
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| Starring:
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Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina
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A widower falls for a ballerina whose sweet, submissive facade hides her psychotic personality.
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Black rain
(1989)
Kuroi ame
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Director:
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Shohei Imamura
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| Starring:
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Kazuo Kitamura, Yoshiko Tanaka
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A couple and and their niece make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb has dropped.
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Destroy all monsters
(1968)
Kaij u soshingeki
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Director:
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Ishiro Honda
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| Starring:
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Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki
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Aliens take control of Earth's monsters and begin using them to destroy the human race.
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Drunken angel
(1948)
Yoidore tenshi
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Director:
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Akira Kurosawa
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| Starring:
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Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura
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A physician tries to be a healer in a world of hoodlums.
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Fires on the plain
(1959)
Nobi
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Director:
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Kon Ichikawa
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| Starring:
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Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa
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Japanese soldiers hiding in Philippine jungles in 1945 face brutal conditions.
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Floating weeds
(1959)
Ukigusa
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Director:
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Yasujiro Ozu
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| Starring:
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Machiko Kyo, Ganjiro Nakamura
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An aging actor's double life leads to jealousy and seduction.
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Godzilla
(1956)
Godzilla, king of the monsters
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Director:
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Ishiro Honda
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| Starring:
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Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura
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A giant monster is awoken off the Japanese coast by atomic tests, and it proceeds to attack Tokyo.
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Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 2
(1999)
Gojira vs Mekagojira
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Director:
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Takao Okawara
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| Starring:
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Ryoko Sano, Masahiro Takashima
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U.N. engineers construct MechaGodzilla as a countermeasure against Godzilla.
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Godzilla's revenge
(1969)
Gojira-Minira-Gabara: Oru kaijû daishingeki
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Director:
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Ishiro Honda
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| Starring:
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Machiko Naka, Kenji Sahara
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A lonely boy travels to Monster Island and is befriended by Minya, Godzilla's son.
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Good morning
(1959)
Ohayô
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Director:
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Yasujiro Ozu
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| Starring:
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Masahiko Shimazu, Koji Shitara
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Two boys beg their parents for a television set, nagging them until all patience is lost.
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Harakiri
(1962)
Seppuku
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Director:
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Masaki Kobayashi
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| Starring:
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Rentaro Mikuni, Tatsuya Nakadai
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Peace in 17th-century Japan throws thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty, forcing some to commit ritual suicide.
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High and low
(1963)
Tengoku to jigoku
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Director:
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Akira Kurosawa
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| Starring:
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Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai
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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.
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Hula girls
(2006)
Hula gâru
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Director:
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Sang-il Lee
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| Starring:
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Toyokawa Etsuchi, Matsuyuki Yasuko
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Young women in a Japanese mining town look to revive their declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
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I was born but--
(1932)
Otona no miru ehon-Umarete wa mita keredo
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Director:
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Yasujiro Ozu
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| Starring:
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Tomio Aoki, Tatsuo Saito
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Two boys, bullied by neighborhood ruffians, lose respect for their father when they see his public submission toward his boss.
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Ikiru
(1952)
To live
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Director:
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Akira Kurosawa
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| Starring:
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Shinichi Himori, Takashi Shimura
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A city bureaucrat finds out he has terminal cancer and decides to live intensively his last months of life.
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Juon: the grudge
(2003)
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Director:
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Takashi Shimizu
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| Starring:
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Misaki Ito, Megumi Okina
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A vengeful spirit pursues anybody who dares to enter the house in which it resides.
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Kagemusha
(1980)
The shadow warrior
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Director:
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Akira Kurosawa
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| Starring:
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Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki
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A powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, and a poor thief is recruited to impersonate him.
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Kikujiro
(1999)
Kikujirô no natsu
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Director:
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Takeshi Kitano
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| Starring:
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Yusuke Sekiguch, iBeat Takeshi
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A little boy undertakes a journey to find the mother he has never met, chaperoned by a surly, middle-aged crook.
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Linda Linda Linda
(2005)
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Director:
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Nobuhiro Yamashita
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| Starring:
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Du-na Bae, Aki Maeda
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A girl group needs to learn to play three songs before their high school's festival rock concert.
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