Japan

Anatahan

NEW RESTORATION!  Inspired by an actual event during WWII, Josef von Sternberg's Anat...

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Apartment 1303

After moving into her first apartment, Sayaka invites her friends to come over and celebrate. During...

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Arakimentari

Caterpillar

Caterpillar tells the story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfill...

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Maborosi

After the mysterious death of her husband, a young mother remarries and moves with her son to a remo...

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Mountains May Depart

Mainland master Jia Zhangke scales new heights with Mountains May Depart. At once an intimate drama ...

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Pray

Down on their luck and desperate for money to buy drugs, Mitsuru (Tetsuji Tamayama) and Maki (Asami ...

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Ramen Heads

Ramen Heads follows Osamu Tomita, Japan’s reigning king of ramen, as he reveals every single s...

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Hard Romanticker

Based on director Gu Su-yeon's autobiographical novel, Hard Romanticker is a spectacularly violent g...

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3 Seconds Before Explosion

A lightning-paced 60's crime film from Japan's Nikkatsu Studios, Three Seconds to Explosion packs en...

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Sweet Bean

A lonely baker has his life (and business) reinvigorated when he hires an elderly woman with an unca...

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Sushi: The Global Catch

Blue Fin Tuna is a valuable commodity that faces potential extinction due to the explosion in the po...

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George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

A feature documentary as mercurial as its subject: the impresario of the international avant-garde a...

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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!

Assigned a standard Yakuza film in the hardboiled vein pioneered at Japan's famed Nikkatsu Studios, ...

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The Stairway to the Distant Past

"I get 50,000 Yen a day, plus expenses," growls tough-talking detective Maiku "Mike" Hama (Masatoshi...

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The Trap

In love for the first time, cases booked solidly for months and a brand new fax machine prodding hi...

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United Red Army

This epic docudrama by Koji Wakamatsu depicts the rise, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, of the fa...

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Village of Dreams

Known to everyone in their idyllic Japanese village as “the brats,” twin brothers Yukihi...

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Vital

Hiroshi Takagi (played by the fantastic Tadanobu Asano - Zatoichi, Ichi the Killer), a young man in ...

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Cops vs. Thugs

In his 1975 masterpiece COPS VS. THUGS, director Kinji Fukasaku (BATTLE ROYALE) paints a dynamic por...

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Wife of a Spy

Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Tokyo Sonata) won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the V...

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Zen for Nothing

Swiss novice Sabine arrives at Antaiji and, after a brief welcome, she begins to learn the monastery...

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