100 Japanese Directors Ranked
31 movies
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Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
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other title:
愿妻如蔷薇
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妻よ薔薇のやうに
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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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Ikiru (1952)
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Akira Kurosawa
actor:
Takashi Shimura
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Haruo Tanaka
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other title:
Vivere
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生きる
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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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other title:
人间蒸发
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人間蒸発
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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)
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Hayao Miyazaki
actor:
Rumi Hiiragi
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Miyu Irino
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other title:
千与千寻
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千と千尋の神隠し
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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.
Movie
M/OTHER (1999)
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other title:
家庭私小说
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母/亲
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Tetsuro is living with his young girlfriend Aki in a pleasant house in Tokyo. They both spend a lot of time at their jobs. However their routine is upset when Tetsuro brings his 8-year-old son Shun to live with them, while his ex-wife recovers from a car accident.
Movie
Underworld Beauty (1958)
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other title:
暗黑街美女
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暗黒街の美女
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The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane and his insatiable taste for Miyamoto's precious stones.
Movie
The Long Darkness (1972)
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other title:
忍川之恋
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忍ぶ川
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The relationship between Tetsuro, a university student from a disgraced, burdened family, and Shino, a waitress supporting her impoverished relatives. The couple decides to marry despite the significant emotional and social hardships each faces, viewing their love as a means to overcome the shame and despair inherited from their pasts.
Movie
Tombstone for Fireflies (1988)
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other title:
萤火虫之墓
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火垂るの墓
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In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
