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7.7
Tokyo Olympiad
Tokyo Olympiad
This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive events. Highlights include an epic ...
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0
The Money Dance
The Money Dance
Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him for his "forceful personality," and ...
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6.9
Alone Across the Pacific
Alone Across the Pacific
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will ...
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6.2
The Broken Commandment
The Broken Commandment
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.
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6.8
Being Two Isn’t Easy
Being Two Isn’t Easy
The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.
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5.9
Ten Dark Women
Ten Dark Women
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.
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7
Bonchi
Bonchi
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family ...
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5.8
A Woman’s Testament
A Woman’s Testament
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young ...
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7
Her Brother
Her Brother
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
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6.2
Odd Obsession
Odd Obsession
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.
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7.5
Fires on the Plain
Fires on the Plain
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
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7.0
Conflagration
Conflagration
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.
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6
Hole in One
Hole in One
A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.
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6
The Crowded Train
The Crowded Train
Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical ...
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6.9
Punishment Room
Punishment Room
Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.
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7.3
Bridge of Japan
Bridge of Japan
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha ...
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7.9
The Burmese Harp
The Burmese Harp
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
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6.7
The Heart
The Heart
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident ...
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5.7
A Billionaire
A Billionaire
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
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The Lovers
The Lovers
Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.
