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Kuroneko
(藪の中の黒猫)
Beware the haunted women who lurk in the bamboo forest as black cats craving the blood of samurai!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1968
- Director Kaneto Shindō
- Cast Kichiemon Nakamura II, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi, Kei Satō, Taiji Tonoyama, Rokkō Toura
- Genre Horror, Fantasy
- Available on Criterion Channel
Intentions of Murder
(赤い殺意)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1964
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Masumi Harukawa, Kō Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yûko Kusunoki, Ranko Akagi, Tomio Aoki
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Only Son
(一人息子)
A poor factory worker finds even her son's college degree doesn't make a difference in Depression era Japan.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1936
- Director Yasujirō Ozu
- Cast Chôko Iida, Shinichi Himori, Masao Hayama, Yoshiko Tsubouchi, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Chishū Ryū
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Plex
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
(お茶漬けの味)
A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis of sorts.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1952
- Director Yasujirō Ozu
- Cast Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Koji Tsuruta, Chikage Awashima, Keiko Tsushima, Eijirô Yanagi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Pale Flower
(乾いた花)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1964
- Director Masahiro Shinoda
- Cast Ryō Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki, Chisako Hara, Koji Nakahara, Eijirō Tōno
- Genre Drama, Crime, Romance, Action
- Available on Criterion Channel
Drunken Angel
(酔いどれ天使)
A doctor and a gangster make the most unlikely of friendships.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1948
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita, Noriko Sengoku
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Plex
There Was a Father
(父ありき)
Widower and father Shuhei Horikawa grapples with raising his son amidst financial strife and personal failings of honor.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1942
- Director Yasujirō Ozu
- Cast Chishū Ryū, Shûji Sano, Haruhiko Tsuda, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Mitsuko Mito
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Plex
Mother
(おかあさん)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1952
- Director Mikio Naruse
- Cast Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyōko Kagawa, Eiji Okada, Akihiko Katayama, Daisuke Katō, Yônosuke Toba
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Ju Dou
(菊豆)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Japan • 1990
- Director Zhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang
- Cast Gong Li, Li Wei, Li Baotian, Niu Xingli, Jia Zhaoji, Zhang Yi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV
The Rickshaw Man
(無法松の一生)
A poor but optimistic rickshaw driver becomes a surrogate father to the young son of a widow.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1958
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshiro Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Chōko Iida, Chishū Ryū, Haruo Tanaka
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Double Suicide
(心中天網島)
Jihei's schemes to buy a courtesan's freedom yield ruinous consequences for his business, family life, and reputation.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1969
- Director Masahiro Shinoda
- Cast Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Hōsei Komatsu, Yûsuke Takita, Kamatari Fujiwara, Yoshi Katō
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
Three Outlaw Samurai
(三匹の侍)
One...two...three Samurai filling the giant screen with flashing swordplay
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1964
- Director Hideo Gosha
- Cast Tetsurō Tamba, Isamu Nagato, Mikijirō Hira, Miyuki Kuwano, Yoshiko Kayama, Kyoko Aoi
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Sandakan No. 8
(サンダカン八番娼館 望郷)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1974
- Director Kei Kumai
- Cast Komaki Kurihara, Yoko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Tanaka, Masayo Umezawa, Takiko Mizunoe
- Genre Drama, War, History
- Available on Criterion Channel
Pigs and Battleships
(豚と軍艦)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1961
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima, Tetsurō Tamba, Shirō Ōsaka, Takeshi Katō
- Genre Crime, Drama, Comedy
- Available on Criterion Channel
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
(宮本武蔵完結編 決闘巌流島)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1956
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Kurôemon Onoe, Michiko Saga
- Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, IndieFlix, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Sword of the Beast
(獣の剣)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1965
- Director Hideo Gosha
- Cast Mikijirō Hira, Gō Katō, Shima Iwashita, Kunie Tanaka, Eijirō Tōno, Toshie Kimura
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Pitfall
(おとし穴)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1962
- Director Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Cast Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano, Hideo Kanze, Kunie Tanaka, Kei Satō
- Genre Fantasy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Criterion Channel
Death by Hanging
(絞死刑)
A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1968
- Director Nagisa Ōshima
- Cast Kei Satō, Fumio Watanabe, Toshirô Ishidô, Masao Adachi, Rokkō Toura, Hōsei Komatsu
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
An Actor's Revenge
(雪之丞変化)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1963
- Director Kon Ichikawa
- Cast Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi, Narutoshi Hayashi, Eijirō Yanagi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
(宮本武蔵)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1954
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Mariko Okada, Kurôemon Onoe, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mitsuko Mito
- Genre Drama, Action, Adventure
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Suzaku
(萌の朱雀)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1997
- Director Naomi Kawase
- Cast Jun Kunimura, Machiko Ono, Kotaro Shibata, Yasuyo Kamimura, Sachiko Izumi, Kazufumi Mukohira
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Insect Woman
(にっぽん昆虫記)
She lives by instinct with no sense of right or wrong.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1963
- Director Shōhei Imamura
- Cast Emiko Aizawa, Masumi Harukawa, Sachiko Hidari, Emiko Higashi, Daizaburo Hirata, Seizaburō Kawazu
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Bushido, Samurai Saga
(武士道残酷物語)
A man recounts his gruesome family history after his fiancée attempts suicide.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1963
- Director Tadashi Imai
- Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura, Ineko Arima, Satomi Oka, Kyôko Kishida, Misako Watanabe, Yoshiko Mita
- Genre History, Action, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Patriotism
(憂國)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1966
- Director Yukio Mishima, Masaki Dômoto
- Cast Yukio Mishima, Yoshiko Tsuruoka
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
House
(ハウス)
A group of Japanese schoolgirls discover there is more to their vacation house than meets the eye.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1977
- Director Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
- Cast Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Ai Matsubara, Mieko Satoh
- Genre Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
(続宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決闘)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1955
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Michiyo Kogure, Akihiko Hirata
- Genre Drama, Action, Adventure
- Available on Criterion Channel, IndieFlix, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Dodes'ka-den
(どですかでん)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1970
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami, Yûko Kusunoki, Junzaburō Ban
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
Youth of the Beast
(野獣の青春)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1963
- Director Seijun Suzuki
- Cast Jō Shishido, Misako Watanabe, Tamio Kawachi, Minako Katsuki, Daizaburo Hirata, Eimei Esumi
- Genre Action, Crime, Mystery
- Available on Criterion Channel
Story of a Prostitute
(春婦伝)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1965
- Director Seijun Suzuki
- Cast Tamio Kawachi, Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa, Shoichi Ozawa, Toshio Sugiyama, Daizaburo Hirata
- Genre Drama, Romance, War
- Available on Criterion Channel
Crazed Fruit
(狂った果実)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1956
- Director Kō Nakahira
- Cast Masahiko Tsugawa, Yûjirô Ishihara, Mie Kitahara, Shinsuke Ashida, Harold Conway, Masumi Okada
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Tubi TV
Immortal Love
(永遠の人)
While her fiancée is away fighting, a woman is raped by a landowner's son and forced into marriage.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1961
- Director Keisuke Kinoshita
- Cast Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Nobuko Otowa, Akira Ishihama, Masakazu Tamura
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
Shara
(沙羅双樹)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2003
- Director Naomi Kawase
- Cast Kohei Fukungaga, Yuka Hyyoudo, Naomi Kawase, Katsuhisa Namase, Kanako Higuchi
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Man Who Skied Down Everest
A Japanese skier tries to fulfill his dream of skiing down Mount Everest.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, Japan, United States • 1975
- Director Bruce Nyznik
- Cast Yuichiro Miura, Douglas Rain
- Genre Adventure, Documentary
- Available on Fandor, GuideDoc, Fandor Amazon Channel, Peacock, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Freevee, DistroTV, GlewedTV, Kanopy, Plex
Branded to Kill
(殺しの烙印)
A rice-obsessed hit-man botches an assignment and is forced to play a cruel game of kill or be killed.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1967
- Director Seijun Suzuki
- Cast Jō Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Isao Tamagawa, Annu Mari, Mariko Ogawa, Hiroshi Minami
- Genre Action, Crime
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Dr. Akagi
(カンゾー先生)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, France • 1998
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Akira Emoto, Kumiko Aso, Juro Kara, Masanori Sera, Jacques Gamblin, Keiko Matsuzaka
- Genre Comedy, Drama, History
- Available on Kanopy
Antonio Gaudí
(アントニー・ガウディー)
In this documentary, filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara profiles Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1984
- Director Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Cast Isidro Puig Boada, Seiji Miyaguchi
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel, Amazon Video
The Makioka Sisters
(細雪)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1983
- Director Kon Ichikawa
- Cast Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yûko Kotegawa, Koji Ishizaka, Toshiyuki Hosokawa
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Pornographers
(「エロ事師たち」より 人類学入門)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1966
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Shoichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Keiko Sagawa, Masaomi Kondo, Haruo Tanaka, Ganjirô Nakamura II
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Story of Pure Love
(純愛物語)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1957
- Director Tadashi Imai
- Cast Shinjirô Ehara, Hitomi Nakahara, Eiji Okada, Isao Kimura, Yoshi Katō, Seiji Miyaguchi
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Gate of Flesh
(肉体の門)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1964
- Director Seijun Suzuki
- Cast Jō Shishido, Kōji Wada, Yumiko Nogawa, Tamiko Ishii, Kayo Matsuo, Satoko Kasai
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Goodbye South, Goodbye
(南國再見,南國)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Taiwan, Japan • 1996
- Director Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Cast Jack Kao, Lim Giong, Vicky Wei, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Hsu Kuei-ying, Lien Pi-tung
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Gate of Hell
(地獄門)
The most honored screen import in a decade!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1953
- Director Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Cast Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyō, Isao Yamagata, Yataro Kurokawa, Kōtarō Bandō, Jun Tazaki
- Genre Drama, History, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Tokyo Drifter
(東京流れ者)
A former yakuza enforcer is looking forward to a normal life when his gang disbands, but soon finds himself an assassination target.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1966
- Director Seijun Suzuki
- Cast Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawachi, Hideaki Nitani, Eiji Gō, Tochiko Hamakawa
- Genre Action, Crime
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Princess Yang Kwei Fei
(楊貴妃)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, Hong Kong • 1955
- Director Kenji Mizoguchi
- Cast Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Sō Yamamura, Eitarō Shindō, Eitarō Ozawa, Haruko Sugimura
- Genre Romance, Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Tubi TV
Samurai Spy
(異聞猿飛佐助)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1965
- Director Masahiro Shinoda
- Cast Kōji Takahashi, Shintarō Ishihara, Eitarō Ozawa, Kei Satō, Rokkō Toura, Tetsurō Tamba
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Empire of Passion
(愛の亡霊)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, France • 1978
- Director Nagisa Ōshima
- Cast Takahiro Tamura, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji, Takuzō Kawatani, Akiko Koyama, Taiji Tonoyama
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on Criterion Channel
Death of a Tea Master
(千利休 本覺坊遺文)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1989
- Director Kei Kumai
- Cast Eiji Okuda, Toshiro Mifune, Gō Katō, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Shinsuke Ashida, Eijirō Tōno
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Fighting Elegy
(けんかえれじい)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1966
- Director Seijun Suzuki
- Cast Hideki Takahashi, Yūsuke Kawazu, Takeshi Katō, Isao Tamagawa, Kayo Matsuo, Junko Asano
- Genre Action, Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV
Odd Obsession
(鍵)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1959
- Director Kon Ichikawa
- Cast Machiko Kyō, Ganjiro Nakamura, Junko Kano, Tatsuya Nakadai, Saburo Date, Jun Hamamura
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Sting of Death
(死の棘)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1990
- Director Kôhei Oguri
- Cast Keiko Matsuzaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Midori Kiuchi, Akira Yamanouchi, Miyoko Nakamura
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Jigoku
(地獄)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1960
- Director Nobuo Nakagawa
- Cast Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yôichi Numata, Hiroshi Hayashi, Kanjūrō Arashi, Jun Ôtomo
- Genre Horror, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Kotoko
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2011
- Director Shinya Tsukamoto
- Cast Cocco, Shinya Tsukamoto, Yuko Nakamura, Eiichi Takahashi, Ryugo Nakamura
- Genre Drama, Thriller, Horror
- Available on MUBI, ARROW, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
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