Best Japanese Films Kinema Junpo (1926-2025)
1279 movies 1 tv show
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Shoplifters (2018) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban Bangumi +2
万引き家族
director:
Hirokazu Kore-eda
actor:
Lily Franky
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Sakura Ando
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other title:
小偷家族
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万引き家族
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2018 Japanese film
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My Friend "A" (2018) IMDb TMDB Douban
友罪
director:
Takahisa Zeze
actor:
Toma Ikuta
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Eita Nagayama
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other title:
友罪
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My Friend 'A'
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Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psychopathic murderer according to Masuda.
Movie
The Chaplain (2018) IMDb TMDB
教誨師
director:
Dai Sako
actor:
Ren Osugi
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Reo Tamaoki
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other title:
教誨師
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教诲师
Saeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with a sense of morality and help them become a better person. He is a good communicator with the death-row convicts assigned to solitary cells. Saeki agonizes over whether his words really touches the prisoners and whether he is doing the right thing. Saeki also faces his past which he wants to forget. --asianwiki
Movie
Wilderness: Part 2 (2017) IMDb TMDB Douban
あゝ、荒野 後篇
other title:
啊，荒野 后篇
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あゝ、荒野 後篇
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Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
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Dear Etranger (2017) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
幼な子われらに生まれ
other title:
生在幼子
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幼な子われらに生まれ
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Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an ordinary family. Nanae then becomes pregnant. Afterwards, things begin to change among the family members.
Movie
Before We Vanish (2017) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban Eggplant.place Skybridge +3
散歩する侵略者
director:
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
actor:
Masami Nagasawa
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Ryuhei Matsuda
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other title:
散步的侵略者
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散歩する侵略者
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Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally different person, and he is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered, when an unexplained phenomenon takes place. Shinji Kase tells his wife that he came to Earth to invade.
Movie
Bangkok Nites (2016) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
バンコクナイツ
director:
富田克也
actor:
Subenja Pongkorn
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Sunun Phuwiset
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other title:
曼谷之夜
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バンコクナイツ
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Bangkok, 2015. Ozawa, a Japanese man who had nowhere to go, meets Luck, a woman has reached the height of her glory on Thaniya Street, a place that flourishes by servicing only Japanese men. Through a trip to trace the scars of colonialism, they look for paradise that we had lost.
