JAPANESE DIRECTORS

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Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

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★ 7.5 33 ratings

成濑巳喜男 actor: 千叶早智子 / 丸山定夫 …

other title: 愿妻如蔷薇 / 妻よ薔薇のやうに …

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.

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Banshun (1949)

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★ 8.5 288 ratings

小津安二郎 actor: 笠智众 / 原节子 …

other title: 晩春 / 处女心(台) …

1949 film by Yasujiro Ozu

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Seisaku's Wife (1965)

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★ 8.2 30 ratings

增村保造 actor: 若尾文子 / 田村高广 …

other title: 清作之妻 / 清作の妻 …

1965 film by Yasuzō Masumura

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Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

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★ 7.9 72 ratings

沟口健二 actor: 田中绢代 / 香川京子 …

other title: 山椒大夫 / Sanshō Dayū …

1954 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

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Ikiru (1952)

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★ 9.2 358 ratings

Akira Kurosawa actor: Takashi Shimura / Haruo Tanaka …

other title: Vivere / 生きる …

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

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A Man Vanishes (1967)

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★ 7.3 15 ratings

今村昌平 actor: 露口茂 / 早川佳江 …

other title: 人间蒸发 / 人間蒸発 …

A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from the list, someone who had seemed to disappear from the face of the earth due to embezzlement from his company, and the filmmakers begin an investigative documentary into the reasons behind and attempt at tracking him down.

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Mr. Thank You (1936)

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★ 8.2 5 ratings

清水宏 actor: 上原谦 / 桑野通子 …

other title: 多谢先生 / 有りがたうさん …

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

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Spirited Away (2001)

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★ 9.3 3077 ratings

Hayao Miyazaki actor: Rumi Hiiragi / Miyu Irino …

other title: 千与千寻 / 千と千尋の神隠し …

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.

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Your Name (2016)

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★ 8.2 2576 ratings

新海诚 actor: 神木隆之介 / 上白石萌音 …

other title: 你的名字。 / 君の名は。 …

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.

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The Ball at the Anjo House (1947)

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★ 7.3 13 ratings

吉村公三郎 actor: 原節子 / 瀧澤修 …

other title: 安城家的舞会 / 安城家の舞踏会 …

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the family holds one last ball before leaving.

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Double Suicide (1969)

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★ 8.0 62 ratings

筱田正浩 actor: 中村吉右卫门 / 岩下志麻 …

other title: 心中天网岛 / 心中天網島 …

1969 film by Masahiro Shinoda

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Eros + Massacre (1970)

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★ 6.6 11 ratings

吉田喜重 actor: 冈田茉莉子 / 细川俊之 …

other title: 情欲与虐杀 / エロス+虐殺 …

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers on two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.

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The End of Evangelion: Episode 25': Love is Destructive/One More Final: I Need You (1997)

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★ 9.3 802 ratings

庵野秀明 / 鹤卷和哉 actor: 绪方惠美 / 林原惠美 …

other title: 新世纪福音战士剧场版：Air/真心为你 / 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン劇場版 Air/まごころを、君に …

1997 anime film directed by Hideaki Anno

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Battle Royale (2000)

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★ 7.8 991 ratings

深作欣二 actor: 藤原龙也 / 前田亚纪 …

other title: 大逃杀 / バトル・ロワイアル …

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.