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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

Eureka

  One hot summer morning, a bus is hijacked. In the carnage only three people survive: the driver, Makoto, a school girl, Kozue, and her brother, Naoki. Suffering from trauma, Read More

Equinox Flower

  Loving father Wataru (Shin Saburi) is devastated when his daughter Setsuko (Ineko Arima) upends both familial and social conventions by foregoing arranged marriage and choosing her own spouse. Wataru, Read More

Why Not?

  In 1867 Japan at the end of the shogunate, the samurai and nobles struggle to retain dominance, while the peasants begin a rise to power.  Near the turbulent end of Read More