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One Wonderful Sunday

  On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, a laborer, Yuzo (Isao Numasaki), and his fiancée, Masako (Chieko Nakakita), have only 35 yen at their disposal — hardly anything at all for Read More

Metropolis

    The film takes place in a future society, where humans and robots co-exist. Amidst the chaos created by anti-robot factions, detective Shunsaku Ban and his sidekick Ken-ichi are Read More

Madadayo

  In 1943, as the tide of war shifts against Japan, Professor Hyakken Uchida leaves his teaching position to begin his career as a writer. With the warm wishes of Read More

Manji

  Sonoko, a bored and childless housewife entering middle age, meets a young girl, Mitsuko, at a private art school. Sonoko paints a portrait of her, and when she invites Read More

Chushingura

  A young lord attempts to combat the corruption endemic to the Shogunate bureaucracy, only to be placed in an impossible conflict of duties. He refuses to pay the “customary” Read More

Cure

  A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer Read More

The Eel

  In a jealous rage, Takuro Yamashita brutally murdered his beautiful wife after watching her making love to another man. Without hesitating, he delicately covered her lifeless body and turned Read More

Dersu Uzala

  Dersu Uzala: The Hunter is a 1975 Soviet-Japanese co-production film directed by Akira Kurosawa, his first and only non-Japanese-language 70mm film. The film is based on the 1923 memoir Read More

Freeze Me

  Chihiro is a Tokyo professional about to marry her long time colleague, Yusuke. However, Chihiro has a chilling past that threatens to destroy her promising future. Three men who Read More

Fireworks

  Nishi (Beat Takeshi) is a beleaguered Japanese police officer. His wife, Miyuki (Kayoko Kishimoto), is suffering from leukemia, and his partner, Horibe (Ren Ôsugi), is paralyzed after gangsters violently Read More