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The Handmaiden

2016 ★ 8.2

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a

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The Japanese Wife

2010 ★ 6.6

Snehmoy and Miyage are pen friends who exchange wedding vows through letters. Fifteen years pass but they never meet. Yet the bond of marriage is strong between

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An Autumn Afternoon

1962 ★ 7.9

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him fo

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Battle of the Japan Sea

1969 ★ 6.4

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian f

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Profound Desires of the Gods

1968 ★ 7.4

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill. Profound Desires o

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The Japanese Belly Button

1977 ★ 4.8

Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss. The Japanese Belly Button is a 1977 Japanese film directed

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A. K.

1985 ★ 6.3

An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. A. K. is a 1985 documentary film direct

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Lovers Are Wet

1973 ★ 6.0

A young man named Katsu comes to a rural town by the sea, and begins to work as a movie reel carrier in a movie theater. Apparently this town is the hometown of

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Sing a Song of Sex

1967 ★ 5.8

Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This en

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The Ghost of Yotsuya

1959 ★ 6.4

In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance. The Ghost of Yotsuya is a 1959 Japanese supernatural horro

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The Funeral

1984 ★ 7.2

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in the

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Battle of Blood Island

1960 ★ 5.4

Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find try

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Untamed Woman

1957 ★ 7.5

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success,

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Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan

1959 ★ 6.5

This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend about a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power. Tokaido Yotsuya K

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Antarctica

1983 ★ 7.2

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Antarctica is a 1983 Japanese drama and adv

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The Bad Sleep Well

1960 ★ 7.7

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

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The Eternal Zero

2013 ★ 7.0

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they get conflic

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Di Desa

1943 ★ 0.0

A propaganda film which tells us about the daily life of Indonesian people under Japanese military occupation. Showing a happy life as a voluntary army, farmer,

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Kingdom 2: Far and Away

2022 ★ 7.3

It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification. Topic: Film "Kingdom 2: Far and Away" (2022). Role: Meticulou

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Madame Aema 4

1990 ★ 10.0

In this entry in the long-running Madame Aema series, Aema's husband becomes romantically involved with a Japanese woman after taking a job at a Japanese compan

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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

1992 ★ 6.3

A Japanese salaryman finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs. Task: Write a factual,

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The Children of Huang Shi

2008 ★ 6.7

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese oc

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Tokyo Twilight

1957 ★ 7.7

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child. Tokyo Twilight is a 1957

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Heroes of the East

1978 ★ 7.3

When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, a Chinese martial arts student struggling to relate to his new Japanese wife

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