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Best Japanese Films Kinema Junpo (1926-2025)

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Tokyo Heaven (1990) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
東京上空いらっしゃいませ
★ 6.8 (16 ratings) director: 相米慎二 actor: 中井贵一 / 牧濑里穗 …
other title: 欢迎来到东京上空 / 東京上空いらっしゃいませ …
A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.
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Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
あげまん
★ 7.5 (8 ratings) director: 伊丹十三 actor: 宫本信子 / 加藤昌彦 …
other title: 아게망 / あげまん …
The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships with the man she loves and the men who employ her, it satirizes corruption and the influence of money in Japanese politics.
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Bicycle Sighs (1990) IMDb TMDB Douban
自転車吐息
director: 园子温 actor: 園子温 / 杉山正弘 …
other title: 自行车叹息 / 自転車吐息 …
Shiro and Keita didn’t manage to enter university and are stuck in their hometown delivering newspapers. Shiro persists on finishing a film they started, but Keita is not very enthusiastic.
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Untamagiru (1989) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
ウンタマギルー
director: Gō Takamine actor: Kaoru Kobayashi / Jun Togawa …
other title: 冲绳草莽英雄 / ウンタマギルー …
A magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form an independent Okinawa before the island was returned to Japan in 1972.
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Beijing Watermelon (1989) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
北京的西瓜
★ 7.2 (22 ratings) director: 大林宣彦 actor: 柳原晴郎 / 本格尔 …
other title: 北京的西瓜 / Pekin no suika …
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters Li, a poor college student from China.
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A Un (1989) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
あ･うん
★ 7.5 (8 ratings) director: 降旗康男 actor: 高仓健 / 板东英二 …
other title: 情义知多少 / あ･うん …
Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.
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Darkness Is His Ally (1989) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
座頭市
★ 9.0 (6 ratings) director: 胜新太郎 actor: 胜新太郎 / 樋口可南子 …
other title: 座头市 / 座頭市 …
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
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No Life King (1989) IMDb TMDB Douban
ノーライフキング
director: 市川准 actor: 高山良 / 原田慎也 …
other title: 失去童年的时代 / ノーライフキング …
The story of a group of boys who become transfixed with the latest video game, the Legend Of Life King IV.
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The Enchantment (1989) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
誘惑者
★ 6.8 (8 ratings) director: 长崎俊一 actor: 秋吉久美子 / 草刈正雄 …
other title: 诱惑者 / 誘惑者 …
A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation...
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The Boy's Own Book of the 20th Century (1989) IMDb TMDB Douban
二十世紀少年読本
director: 林海象 actor: 三上博史 / 修健 …
other title: 20世纪少年读本 / 二十世紀少年読本 …
Brothers Jinta and Wataru are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave and wanders the countryside working as a con-man. After a run-in with local yakuza, he's invited to join their ranks, where he makes the mistake of falling for a boss's mistress. Meanwhile, Wataru stays with the circus and works hard to regain its former glory
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