Restaurant from the Sky (2019)

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★ 4.0 7 ratings

Yoshihiro Fukagawa actor: Yo Oizumi / Manami Honjo …

other title: 天空餐厅 / そらのレストラン …

Wataru, his woman Kotoe and daughter Shiori are ranchers and dairy farmers in Hokkaido in northern Japan. He is following in his father's footsteps. A visiting chef cooks an unforgettable meal with his ingredients, which prompts the family to open their own restaurant and reproduce the magic.

The Mad Fox (1962)

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★ 5.9 16 ratings

内田吐梦 actor: 大川桥藏 / 瑳峨三智子 …

other title: 疯狂的狐狸 / 恋や恋なすな恋 …

A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on the horizon after he becomes romantically involved with his dead lover's twin sister, but more complications arise thanks to a chance encounter with a clan of shape-shifters.

Asako I & II (2018)

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★ 7.7 564 ratings

滨口龙介 actor: 东出昌大 / 唐田英里佳 …

other title: 夜以继日 / 寝ても覚めても …

2018 film by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi

And Your Bird Can Sing (2018)

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★ 7.7 363 ratings

三宅唱 actor: 柄本佑 / 染谷将太 …

other title: 너의 새는 노래할 수 있어 / きみの鳥はうたえる …

With a contagious sense of abandon, three young adults' lives become intimately entangled over the course of a long summer in Hakodate, Hokkaido.

Kagemusha (1980)

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★ 9.0 406 ratings

黑泽明 actor: 仲代达矢 / 山崎努 …

other title: 影武者 / 影子武士 …

1980 film directed by Akira Kurosawa

Every Day a Good Day (2018)

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★ 7.5 284 ratings

大森立嗣 actor: 黑木华 / 树木希林 …

other title: 日日是好日 / 每天都是好日子 …

2018 film directed by Tatsushi Ōmori

One Cut of the Dead (2017)

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★ 8.2 1093 ratings

上田慎一郎 actor: 滨津隆之 / 秋山柚稀 …

other title: 카메라를 멈추면 안 돼! / カメラを止めるな！ …

Real zombies arrive and terrorize the crew of a zombie film being shot in an abandoned warehouse, said to be the site of military experiments on humans.

100 Yen's Love (2014)

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★ 8.3 907 ratings

Masaharu Take actor: Sakura Ando / Hirofumi Arai …

other title: 百圆之恋 / 百円の恋 …

早已过了而立之年的一子（安藤樱 饰）整天百无聊赖，她根本无心帮助打理自家的料理店，整日玩游戏虐杀小外甥。她的妹妹二三子（早织 饰）离婚后回到娘家，极度看不惯姐姐的作为，为此两姐妹甚至大打出手。自感不被家人所容的一子搬了出去，并在日常光顾的百元超市谋得收银员的职位。这间小 店云集着许多怪人，患有忧郁症的店长、话唠猥琐的同事、因盗窃被开除却还时常回来拿临过期食品的老太。在这些人中间，一子的心情愈加苦闷。偶然机缘，她和名不见经传的拳击手狩野（新井浩文 饰）走到一起，无奈他们之间甚至连爱情都谈不上。极度压抑之际一子选择学习拳击，她渴望释放心中的委屈和不满，渴望获得哪怕只有一次的认可。 本片荣获2014年日本电影旬报十佳影片第八名。

What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life (2018)

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★ 7.4 145 ratings

山田洋次 actor: 桥爪功 / 吉行和子 …

other title: 家族之苦3 / 妻よ薔薇のように 家族はつらいよIII …

2018 film directed by Yōji Yamada

Harakiri (1962)

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★ 9.4 405 ratings

小林正树 actor: 仲代达矢 / 石滨朗 …

other title: 하라키리 / 切腹 …

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

The Rose in the Mud (1960)

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★ 8.4 97 ratings

黑泽明 actor: 三船敏郎 / 森雅之 …

other title: 恶汉甜梦 / 悪い奴ほどよく眠る …

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.

Ran (1985)

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★ 9.1 553 ratings

Akira Kurosawa actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Akira Terao …

other title: 란 / 乱 …

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.

Dodesukaden (1970)

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★ 7.2 75 ratings

黑泽明 actor: 头师佳孝 / 菅井琴 …

other title: 电车狂 / どですかでん …

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

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★ 7.1 41 ratings

黑泽明 actor: 原节子 / 藤田进 …

other title: 我对青春无悔 / わが青春に悔なし …

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own path in pre- and post-WWII Japan.

Last Letter (2018)

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★ 6.1 585 ratings

岩井俊二 actor: 周迅 / 秦昊 …

other title: 你好，之华 / 之华 …

All Yuan Zhinan has left behind when she passed away is a letter and an invitation to a school reunion. Attending the reunion in lieu of her late elder sister, Zhihua accidentally runs into Yin Chuan, on whom she had a crush in her youth. As old memories are evoked, and correspondences travel through different contexts and times, Zhihua slowly uncovers the intricate story of the trio.

Lu Over the Wall (2017)

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★ 7.6 293 ratings

汤浅政明 actor: Kanon Tani / Shota Shimoda …

other title: 宣告黎明的露之歌 / 夜明け告げるルーのうた …

In a small fishing village, a gloomy middle school student named Kai meets a mermaid named Lu.

Red Beard (1965)

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★ 8.6 132 ratings

黑泽明 actor: 三船敏郎 / 加山雄三 …

other title: 붉은 수염 / 赤ひげ …

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

Sanjuro (1962)

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★ 8.7 261 ratings

黑泽明 actor: 三船敏郎 / 仲代达矢 …

other title: 츠바키 산주로 / 椿三十郎 …

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

Ikiru (1952)

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★ 9.2 360 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.

Shoplifters (2018)

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★ 8.8 2181 ratings

Hirokazu Kore-eda actor: Lily Franky / Sakura Ando …

other title: 小偷家族 / 万引き家族 …

2018 Japanese film