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Nagisa Oshima – Amakusa shiro tokisada aka The Rebel (1962)
In 1637, the Tokugawa Shogunate mandated religious orders to severely restrict and contain the spread of Christianity. In Kyushu, Shimabara and Amakusa, the Christian population was particularly...
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Yôji Yamada – Kiri no hata AKA Flag in the Mist (1965)
Synopsis: When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko (Chieko Baisho) travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get...
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Kenji Misumi – Goyôkiba aka Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972)
Hanzo Itami is an incorruptible Edo officer who learns that an infamous killer has fled from his island prison. Hanzo begins tracking him down using his unorthodox interrogation techniques....
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Seijun Suzuki – Tokyo naito AKA Tokyo Knights (1961)
東京騎士隊 After the sudden death of his father, high school kid Koji is elevated to company president of the Matsudara Syndicate. The old guard thinks they got themselves an easy stooge, but Koji has some...
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Seijun Suzuki – Kemono no nemuri AKA The Sleeping Beast Within (1960)
けものの眠り A man never returns from an office party, sending his wife and daughter in to a frenzied search for clues. They acquire the help of a journalist friend, who goes on a chase down the seedy...
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Shuji Terayama & Shuntaro Tanikawa – Video Letters 1982-1983 (1982)
Shuji Terayama (December 10, 1935—May 4, 1983) was an avant-garde Japanese dramatist, writer, director, and photographer, noted for such films as Emperor Tomato Ketchup and Fruits of Passion. In 1967,...
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L. Krishnan – Raden mas (1960)
Quote: Between the end of the Second World War and the early 1960s, the Cathay Organization and Shaw Brothers produced a string of films in Singapore, that were made for the Malay-speaking audience in...
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Tomu Uchida – Chiyari Fuji AKA A Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji (1955)
A young samurai, Shojuro Sako, travels on the Tokaido to Edo with his two servants, Genta and Gonpachi. Gonpachi has been told by Shojuro’s mother to prevent his Master from drinking.. The road is not...
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Edward Yang – Kong bu fen zi aka The Terrorizers (1986)
Quote: It’s been a couple of decades since it was released, and more than 10 years since I saw it at the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s landmark retrospective of Taiwanese cinema, but Edward Yang’s The...
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Yôji Yamada – Kiri no hata AKA Flag in the Mist (1965)
Synopsis: When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko (Chieko Baisho) travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get...
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Momoko Andô – 0.5 miri AKA 0.5 mm (2014)
From japansociety.org Sawa, a home helper for a middle class family with an elderly infirm grandfather, is forced to stretch her morals to keep her job. As a result, she finds herself broke and out on...
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Yuuji Makiguchi – Tokugawa onna keibatsu-emaki: Ushi-zaki no kei aka Shogun’s...
a review by Ian Jane I don’t know what it is with Japanese cinema and it’s affinity for violence and cruelty, but man, when they pull out all the stops they sure do a damn good job of grossing me out....
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Mikio Naruse – Shiroi yajuu aka White Beast (1950)
Quote: The third film that Naruse made in 1950, White Beast (Shiroi yaji, 1950), was described by Kinema Junpo critic Tsumura Hideo three years later as “so indescribably miserable as to haunt me even...
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Shôhei Imamura – Narayama-bushi kô AKA Ballad of Narayama [+Extras] (1983)
Plot Summary In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse he/she would disgrace their...
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Yasmin Ahmad – Sepet AKA Chinese Eye (2004)
Plot: Because of their shared love for Wong Kar-Wai’s movies, a 19-year-old Chinese VCD seller dude and a 16-year-old Malay schoolgirl in Ipoh fall in love. She doesn’t try to convert him. Instead,...
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Yasujirô Ozu – Ochazuke no aji AKA Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis of sorts. Quote: Taeko (Michiyo Kogure) despises and regularly deceives her quiet, saturnine husband, Mokichi (Shin Saburi), who works as a...
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Satsuo Yamamoto – Shiroi Kyotô AKA The Great White Tower AKA The Ivory Tower...
Synopsis: Zaizen Goro may only be an assistant professor but he has already made a name for himself. His superior, however, does not approve of his attitude towards their profession, and is at odds...
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Yong-sik Yu – Anakiseuteu Anarchists aka The Anarchists (2000)
Plot Outline: A groups of Korean anarchists in 1920s China are determined to overthrow the military and government. http://nitroflare.com/view/415844DE4E4404D/The_Anarchists.avi...
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Yutaka Yamasaki – Toruso AKA Torso (2010)
Longtime Koreeda cinematographer (Nobody Knows, After Life) Yutaka Yamazaki’s first directorial effort, Torso, plows some similar ground to Koreeda’s Air Doll, but to much different effect. Torso...
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Yimou Zhang – Yi ge dou bu neng shao AKA Not One Less (1999)
Plot Summary: “In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month, and the mayor can find only a 13-year old girl, Wei Minzhi, to substitute. The teacher leaves one stick of chalk for...
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