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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

  After being sent to a training camp near the end of World War II, a man (Tatsuya Nakadai) struggles to remain a pacifist. Conscientious objector Kaji, now forced to Read More

LoRes Hidden Fortress

  During Japan’s medieval ages, an era of civil war, Lady Yukihime, heiress to the defeated Akizuki family, brought along hundreds of pounds of gold and under the protection of Read More

Criterion Collection: High and Low

  Toshirō Mifune stars as a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a ruthless kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa’s exemplary film noir. Based on Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Read More

Criterion Collection: The Hidden Fortress

  A General and a Princess must dodge enemy clans while smuggling the royal treasure out of hostile territory with two bumbling, conniving peasants at their sides; it’s a spirited Read More

Godzilla 2000

  Godzilla erupts from the sea for reasons that are never made clear, proceeds to wreak havoc amongst the buildings of a model city, and meets and beats a monster Read More

Gonin

  Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but not everything goes as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract Read More

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

  Time-travelers’ efforts to prevent a dinosaur’s mutation result in the creation of a three-headed dragon that terrorizes Japan. Time traveling from the 23rd century, a group calling themselves the Read More

Gate of Hell

  In this lauded Japanese drama, the samurai Moritoh Enda performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Lady Kesa from a violent uprising. The warrior falls in love with Read More

Fires on the Plain

  This Japanese film follows a soldier, Tamura (Eiji Funakoshi), who, along with hordes of other men, has been stranded in the jungles of the Philippines during the waning days Read More

Floating Weeds

  The head of a Japanese theater troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up Read More