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All my Japanese movies collection

by nevzad-02943 • Created 1 year ago • Modified 2 weeks ago
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  • A Geisha (1953)

    1. A Geisha

    19531h 25mNot Rated
    7.6 (2.6K)
    A seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients' sexual advances to survive.
    DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsMichiyo KogureAyako WakaoSeizaburô Kawazu
  • Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, and Yôko Minamida in A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)

    2. A Story from Chikamatsu

    19541h 42mNot Rated
    8.0 (5.3K)
    Ishun is a wealthy but unsympathetic master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.
    DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsKazuo HasegawaKyôko KagawaYôko Minamida
  • A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)

    3. A Story of Floating Weeds

    19341h 26mNot Rated
    7.6 (3.7K)
    A kabuki actor's mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover's son.
    DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsTakeshi SakamotoChôko IidaKôji Mitsui
  • A Taxing Woman (1987)

    4. A Taxing Woman

    19872h 7m
    7.2 (2.4K)
    If tax evasion is an art, wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo is Rembrandt. And so, a determined taxing woman gets the tough assignment of trying to catch him.
    DirectorJûzô ItamiStarsNobuko MiyamotoTsutomu YamazakiMasahiko Tsugawa
  • An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

    5. An Autumn Afternoon

    19621h 53mNot Rated91Metascore
    8.0 (11K)
    An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.
    DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûShima IwashitaKeiji Sada
  • Children of Hiroshima (1952)

    6. Children of Hiroshima

    19521h 37mNot Rated86Metascore
    7.6 (1.5K)
    Post war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.
    DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaOsamu TakizawaMasao Shimizu
  • Dolls (2002)

    7. Dolls

    20021h 54mNot Rated71Metascore
    7.5 (18K)
    Three stories of never-ending love.
    DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsMiho KannoHidetoshi NishijimaTatsuya Mihashi
  • Early Summer (1951)

    8. Early Summer

    19512h 5mNot Rated94Metascore
    8.0 (10K)
    A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.
    DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsSetsuko HaraChishû RyûChikage Awashima
  • Takeshi Kitano in Fireworks (1997)

    9. Fireworks

    19971h 43m83Metascore
    7.7 (35K)
    Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.
    DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeshi KitanoKayoko KishimotoRen Ôsugi
  • Floating Clouds (1955)

    10. Floating Clouds

    19552h 3m
    7.6 (3.4K)
    A tragic social drama set in post war Japan about a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.
    DirectorMikio NaruseStarsHideko TakamineMasayuki MoriMariko Okada
  • Takashi Shimura in Ikiru (1952)

    11. Ikiru

    19522h 23mNot Rated92Metascore
    8.3 (98K)
    A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTakashi ShimuraNobuo KanekoShin'ichi Himori
  • Hideko Takamine in Lightning (1952)

    12. Lightning

    19521h 27m
    7.5 (893)
    Poor, pathetic mother Ose has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men.
    DirectorMikio NaruseStarsHideko TakamineMitsuko MiuraKyôko Kagawa
  • Machiko Kyô and Masayuki Mori in Ugetsu (1953)

    13. Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

    19752h 12m
    7.2 (341)
    A documentary film on the life and works of director Kenji Mizoguchi.
    DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsTakako IrieDaisuke ItôKyôko Kagawa
  • Takeshi Kitano and Yusuke Sekiguchi in Kikujiro (1999)

    14. Kikujiro

    19992h 2mPG-1344Metascore
    7.7 (23K)
    A young, naive boy sets out alone on the road to find his wayward mother. Soon he finds an unlikely protector in a crotchety man and the two have a series of unexpected adventures along the way.
    DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeshi KitanoYusuke SekiguchiKayoko Kishimoto
  • Setsuko Hara and Chishû Ryû in Late Spring (1949)

    15. Late Spring

    19491h 50mNot Rated93Metascore
    8.2 (21K)
    Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.
    DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûSetsuko HaraYumeji Tsukioka
  • Madadayo (1993)

    16. Madadayo

    19932h 14m79Metascore
    7.3 (6.5K)
    Following World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students.
    DirectorsAkira KurosawaIshirô HondaStarsTatsuo MatsumuraHisashi IgawaGeorge Tokoro
  • Repast (1951)

    17. Repast

    19511h 37m
    7.6 (1.9K)
    Michiyo lives in a small home in Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
    DirectorMikio NaruseStarsKen UeharaSetsuko HaraYukiko Shimazaki
  • Onibaba (1964)

    18. Onibaba

    19641h 43mNot Rated
    7.9 (24K)
    Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.
    DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaJitsuko YoshimuraKei Satô
  • Ran (1985)

    19. Ran

    19852h 40mR97Metascore
    8.2 (146K)
    In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi Nezu
  • Toshirô Mifune and Machiko Kyô in Rashomon (1950)

    20. Rashomon

    19501h 28mNot Rated98Metascore
    8.1 (191K)
    The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMachiko KyôMasayuki Mori
  • Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, and Kinuyo Tanaka in Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

    21. Sansho the Bailiff

    19542h 4mNot Rated96Metascore
    8.3 (19K)
    In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.
    DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsKinuyo TanakaYoshiaki HanayagiKyôko Kagawa
  • Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Yoshio Inaba, Daisuke Katô, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, and Keiko Tsushima in Seven Samurai (1954)

    22. Seven Samurai

    19543h 27mNot Rated98Metascore
    8.6 (388K)
    Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraKeiko Tsushima
  • A Quiet Life (1995)

    23. A Quiet Life

    19952h 1m
    6.9 (296)
    Melodrama about the life of a mentally handicapped young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
    DirectorJûzô ItamiStarsMasayuki ImaiNobuko MiyamotoHinako Saeki
  • Sonatine (1993)

    24. Sonatine

    19931h 34mR73Metascore
    7.5 (25K)
    Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war then escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach.
    DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeshi KitanoAya KokumaiTetsu Watanabe
  • Street of Shame (1956)

    25. Street of Shame

    19561h 26mNot Rated
    7.8 (5.2K)
    The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.
    DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsMachiko KyôAiko MimasuAyako Wakao

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