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Best Japanese Films Kinema Junpo (1926-2025)

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Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
発禁本「美人乱舞」より 責める！
director: 田中登 actor: 宫下顺子 / 中岛葵 …
other title: 责罚 / 発禁本「美人乱舞」より 責める！ …
A somewhat liberal adaptation of the life of painter Shuu Ito, the film focuses on his sexual torture of two wives and a prostitute. Ito chronicles the sessions in journals, shares his pseudo-Sadean philosophy, and drives women mad with equal hell-bent intensity.
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
男はつらいよ 寅次郎夕焼け小焼け
★ 9.0 (6 ratings) director: 山田洋次 actor: 渥美清 / 倍赏千惠子 …
other title: 寅次郎的故事17：再见夕阳 / 男はつらいよ 寅次郎夕焼け小焼け …
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha.
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Yakuza Graveyard (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
やくざの墓場 くちなしの花
director: 深作欣二 actor: 渡哲也 / 梶芽衣子 …
other title: 黑社会的墓场：腐朽之花 / やくざの墓場 くちなしの花 …
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.
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The Watcher in the Attic (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
江戸川乱歩猟奇館 屋根裏の散歩者
★ 5.9 (12 ratings) director: 田中登 actor: 宫下顺子 / 石桥莲司 …
other title: 江戸川乱歩猟奇館　屋根裏の散歩者 / Der Voyeur …
A shiftless resident in a boarding house spends his days crawling in the attic and spying on the renters below. One day he spies an elegant lady enter a room where a clown awaited her and watched as he pleasured her. But she spotted him watching and it aroused her more. Thus begins a story of two people who find they share similar desires and deadly passions.
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The Sea of Genkai (1976) IMDb TMDB Douban
任侠外伝 玄海灘
director: Juro Kara actor: Noboru Andō / Jinpachi Nezu …
other title: 任侠外传：玄海滩 / 任侠外伝 玄海灘 …
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across the Genkai Sea.
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
新仁義なき戦い 組長最後の日
director: 深作欣二 actor: 菅原文太 / 和田浩治 …
other title: 新仁義なき戦い 組長最後の日 / Nouveau combat sans code d'honneur 3 : les Derniers Jours du boss …
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.
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Temple of the Golden Pavillion (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
金閣寺
director: 高林陽一 actor: 篠田三郎 / 柴俊夫 …
other title: 金阁寺 / 金閣寺 …
The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. When his father dies, he’s sent to the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. Mizoguchi is physically unattractive and becomes, in some way, jealous of the beautiful Temple that he loves so much.
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