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Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
妻よ薔薇のやうに
★ 7.5 (33 ratings) director: 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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A Man Vanishes (1967) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
人間蒸発
★ 7.3 (15 ratings) director: 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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Spirited Away (2001)
千と千尋の神隠し
★ 9.3 (3065 ratings) director: 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)
君の名は。
★ 8.2 (2566 ratings) director: 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) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
安城家の舞踏会
★ 7.3 (13 ratings) director: 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.
Anharten: KÔZABURÔ YOSHIMURA (16/46)
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Eros + Massacre (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
エロス+虐殺
★ 6.6 (11 ratings) director: 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)
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン劇場版 Air/まごころを、君に
★ 9.3 (796 ratings) director: 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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Genpin (2010) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
玄牝
director: 河濑直美 actor: 吉村正
other title: 玄牝 / Genpin, la maternité dans les bois
About Tadashi Yoshimura's maternity clinic where he practice "natural births" deep in the forest of Okazaki (Japan).
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