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Best Japanese Films Kinema Junpo (1926-2025)

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Tora-san's Runaway (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
男はつらいよ 望郷篇
★ 8.5 (8 ratings) director: Yoji Yamada actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho …
other title: 寅次郎的故事5：望乡篇 / 男はつらいよ 望郷篇 …
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
裸の十九才
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Daijirō Harada / Nobuko Otowa
other title: 赤贫的19岁 / 裸の十九才 …
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman. As a boy Yamada, experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.
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The Man Who Put His Will on Film (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
東京戦争戦後秘話
★ 7.8 (8 ratings) director: 大岛渚 actor: 后藤和夫 / 岩崎惠美子
other title: 东京战争战后秘史 / 東京戦争戦後秘話 …
When a man chases down his stolen movie camera, the thief commits suicide by jumping off a building. But after the police take the camera as evidence, it becomes unclear if there was ever a thief in the first place.
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Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB
緋牡丹博徒　お竜参上
director: 加藤泰 actor: 富士澄子 / 安部彻 …
other title: 緋牡丹博徒　お竜参上 / Lady Yakuza 6 - Le retour d'Oryu …
Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.
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Bakumatsu (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
幕末
director: 伊藤大辅 actor: 中村锦之助 / 三船敏郎 …
other title: 幕末 / The Ambitious …
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.
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Play It Cool (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
でんきくらげ
director: 增村保造 actor: 渥美真理 / 川津祐介 …
other title: 海蛰传记 / でんきくらげ …
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.
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Heroic Purgatory (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
煉獄エロイカ
★ 7.4 (11 ratings) director: 吉田喜重 actor: 冈田茉莉子 / 鴉田貝造 …
other title: 연옥 에로이카 / 煉獄エロイカ …
Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. Through this disruption, Rikiya suddenly starts remembering his youth as a revolutionary.
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Kagerou (1969) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
かげろう
director: 新藤兼人 actor: 乙羽信子 / 富山真沙子 …
other title: 蜉蝣 / かげろう …
Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution, and murder in which many poor farmers had found themselves trapped after World War II.
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Red Lion (1969) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
赤毛
★ 8.5 (6 ratings) director: 冈本喜八 actor: 三船敏郎 / 岩下志麻 …
other title: 赤毛 / 적모 …
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.
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Cuban Lover (1969) IMDb TMDB Douban
キューバの恋人
director: Kazuo Kuroki actor: Masahiko Tsugawa / Obdulia Plasencia …
other title: 古巴恋人 / キューバの恋人 …
Japanese fishery instructor Akira is attracted to beautiful Cuban young girl Martia. Though initially rejected, Akira still returns with Martia to her homeland. On the way he sees a post-revolution Cuba, cultivating fields, relics from the revolution, armies in training, and Castro in a political rally.
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