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Blindness
2008
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital. There is, however, one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine....
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Soshite Chichi Ni Naru
2013
Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work, and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life and living as a winner. Then one day, he and his wife, Midori, get an unexpected phone call from the hospital. Their six-year-old son, Keita, is not their son - the hospital gave...
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Freedom Station
2013
Mario Kubo is a quiet man. For many, he seems lost. Disconnected from the world around him, he is not doing well. On the days where we follow his life, he seems to undergo a fundamental transformation. Mario receives a letter from Japan with undecipherable content, since he doesn’t speak...
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Equinox Flower
1958
At the wedding reception of an old friend’s daughter, Hirayama wonders why Mikam, one of his old friends, didn’t show up. Actually, Mikami was worried about his daughter Fumiko who had run away from home with her boyfriend, and did not wish to attend the ceremony. Mikami asks Hirayama to go and...
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An Autumn Afertoon
1962
Widower Shuhei Hirayama, a man who fought in World War II as a naval officer, has a 24-year-old daughter and a married son. He has friends his own age, the majority of them being comrades from the war. One of them actually believes Japan was victorious. Shuhei begins to feel the weight of the years...
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Tokyo Story
1953
Shukishi and Tomi Hirayama live in a small village facing the Inland Sea. An elderly couple, they both decide to visit their children, now adults, living in the city of Tokyo. Once there, they realize their children are too busy with their daily routines to pay any attention to them, treating...
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Tokyo Family
2013
Shukichi and Tomiko, an ageing couple, decide to leave their quiet lives in the country and pay a visit to their children and grandchildren in Tokyo. Once there, they discover that neither their oldest son, a doctor named Koichi, nor their eldest daughter, beauty parlour owner Shigeko, have time...
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Shield of Straw
2013
"Kill Kunihide Kiyomaru, and I will pay you 1 billion yen". This is the ad placed in all the main newspapers in Japan. In placing the ad, the powerful multi-billionnaire Ninagawa puts an irresistible price on the head of the man he believes to be his granddaughter`s killer. Realizing he has become...
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The Wind Rises
2013
A fictionalized biography of aircraft designer Jiro Horikoshi, the film chronicles his life and depicts key historical events that affected his trajectory. Young Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a...
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20, 30, 40
2004
The film follows the lives of three women who are traveling from Malaysia to Taiwan in the same plane. Xiao Jie is a 20 year old girl, who abandons her hometown and goes to Taiwan for the first time to accomplish her dream: to become a pop music star. Shi Ge, who is musician and manager, seems...
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Battle of Okinawa
1971
A collection of episodes that depict the enormous number of victims of the battle of Okinawa, based on true stories. The fates of various kinds of people... military leadership, frontline troops, and citizens among others... are thrown into sharp relief through judicious direction and speedy...
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The Age of Killers
1967
This screenplay, based one of the pioneer of Japanese modern mystery writer Michio Tsuzukis novel, was wrote for Nikkatsu studio by Ei Ogawa and Tadashi Yamazaki firstly. Kihachi Okamoto gat this screenplay, he made some minor changes and directed strange, full of black humor action movie. But,...
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The Sword of Doom
1966
The fourth film adaptation of a swordsman saga. Through speedy editing, a gloomy, monochromatic image and a splendid, ensemble cast, the precise direction is on display in this tension-filled masterpiece. The overwhelming intensity of lead actor, Tatsuya Nakadai, is startling.
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The Road
2001
Anara Kobessov sends a letter to her husband, filmmaker Amir Kobessov. This is a love letter in which Anara describes a nightmare that is also to bring Amir sleepless nights: in a crowded movie hall, during the premiere of his film, a projectionist mixes up the roles of his film and begins to show...
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The Road
2006
In the seventies, Li Chunfen is living in a small rural town in China, working as a bus conductor. She seduces the passengers with her beauty and enthusiasm for life. The bus driver, Cui, secretly in love with her, has also succumbed to her charm. On the bus, Li meets Liu Fendou, a doctor from...
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A Evaporação Do Homem
1967
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The Tiger Factory
2010
Ping Ping is 19, lives in Malaysia and wants to go to Japan to work in a car parts company. She’s under the guardian of her aunt, Madame Tien, who shuffles her between two jobs: working in a pig farm and cleaning dishes in a rundown restaurant. Tien is also involved in a “baby factory”...
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The Mourning Forest
2007
Old Shigeki, suffering from senile dementia, lives in a small retirement home filled with light and tranquility that sits on the edge of a mighty forest. He holds on to a special relationship with his dead wife, Mako, his long letters to her the silent testimony of his undying love. But now the...
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Celia the Queen
2008
Celia the Queen artfully depicts the full array of emotions that accented Celia’s long and beautiful journey in music. From her humble beginnings in Cuba to her meteoric rise during the Salsa era, Celia the Queen blends the iconic performances of her lengthy career with heartfelt testimonials...
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Sen to Chihiro No Kamikakushi
2001
Ogino’ family is moving to another town. Akio and Yuko, the parents of the young girl Chihiro, are excited about the trip, as opposed to their daughter, who is reluctant to leave her friends behind. As they arrive in the new town, her father takes a short cut and ends up entering a tunnel. Even...
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
1963
Based on the novel of the same name by Hitomi Yamaguchi, this comedy portrays the everyday life of an ordinary salaryman who uses himself as a model to write a novella. Audacious editing and animated sequences are among the original techniques incorporated into this single masterpiece that display...
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The Cat Returns
2002
Animation film narrating the adventures and misfortunes of Haru, a Japanese teenager who saves a cat from being ran over by a truck. The cat expresses his gratitude talking like a human being and leaves. Later, a group of cats, followed by the King of the Cats, show up to thank her for saving the...
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Abong: Small Home
2003
Lamont is of Japanese descent. He makes a living as a taxi driver in the mountain town of Baguio in the Philippines. In spite of all of his efforts to earn more money, his day-to-day life is hard and restricted. His wife, Isabelle, who has worked as a maid in a great house, dreams of a life of...
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Aconteceu No Fim de Tokugawa
1981
Encontrando seu caminho através da anarquia e absurdo de uma sociedade em violenta transformação, o diretor Imamura traz novos ares às raízes da história japonesa, retratando o caos político que precedeu a restauração imperial de Meiji. Diversas facções políticas e figuras mercenárias...