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Sanshiro Sugata

  Sanshiro Sugata (Susumu Fujita) wants to learn jujitsu. But after he witnesses the power of judo firsthand, he abandons his jujitsu training to study with judo master Shogoro Yano Read More

Snow Country

  It’s a man’s world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it Read More

In the Realm of Passion

  Director Nagisha Oshima’s follow-up to his controversial film In the Realm of the Senses continues to explore the link between sexual obsession and madness. In a small Japanese village, Read More

In the Realm of the Senses

  A former prostitute (Eiko Matsuda), now working as a servant, begins a torrid affair with her married employer (Tatsuya Fuji). In 1936 Tokyo, Sada Abe is a former prostitute Read More

Ohayo

  Two young boys go on a “silence” strike to pressure their parents into buying a TV set in this unusually funny and irreverent look at the middle-class family.  Through Read More

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

  In post-war Tokyo, a little boy wanders the streets. Unfortunately, in this deprived district of the capital, no one wants to take care of the homeless boy. After a Read More

Osaka Elegy

  A telephone operator turns to prostitution after being fired from the Japanese pharmaceutical firm where she was also her boss’s mistress. A critical and popular triumph, Osaka Elegy established Read More

Ran

  At the age of seventy, after years of consolidating his empire, the Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to abdicate and divide his domain amongst his three sons. Read More

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

  Far in the future, after an apocalyptic conflict has devastated much of the world’s ecosystem, the few surviving humans live in scattered semi-hospitable environments within what has become a Read More

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

  During World War II, British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) is captured by Japanese forces and held in a prison camp by the honor-bound Capt. Yanoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto). Yanoi Read More