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My Best Friends Wife 2 2005 Doug is happily married to the beautiful, perfect Jenny, so naturally when he is called away on business, he wants to make sure she is well provided for Who else could he turn to but his best friend, Jeff, whom he charges to satisfy Jennys every desire

Takahata Isao, Kaguyahime no monogatari o tsukuru. Ghibli dai 7 sutajio, 933nichi no densetsu (2014) A documentary about the making of The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Isao Takahata's first feature film for 14 years.

Shubun (1950) Famous singer Miyako Saijo, who is publicity shy, and motorbiking artist Ichirô Aoye, who has minor celebrity, meet by chance in Kappazawa while Ichirô is on a painting expedition, and Miyako is on a retreat. As she has missed her bus to Kaminoyu and as Ichirô is heading there anywa

KT (2002) In 1973, while exiled in Japan, South Korea's Kim Dae-Jung is kidnapped. Five days later he mysteriously reappears in Seoul. He will go on to become president of a democratic South Korea and he will win the Nobel peace prize. See the events leading up to the kidnapping and what happened du

Shakira in Concert: El Dorado World Tour (2019) Shakira is a global superstar who, by the age of 18, had taken Latin America by storm. Now, she celebrates her triumphant return to the stage in 2018 with a thrilling concert film documenting her acclaimed El Dorado World Tour.

April Bride (2009) A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but keeps the information from her boyfriend. When he finds out, he decides to plan a wedding even though she only has one month to live.

High and Low (1963) An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control of the National Shoe Company, with the intent of keeping the company out of the hands of incompetent and greedy executives. He needs the same money, though, to pay the ransom that will possibly save a child's lif

The Crumbles (2012) The Crumbles is an indie rock slice-of-life tragicomedy about Darla and Elisa, two best friends struggling with the ups and downs of being in the world's greatest band - that no one has ever heard of. A talented multi-ethnic cast plays a band of young friends stumbling through an

Our Blood Will Not Forgive (1964) Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza for the death of their father.

The Last War (1961) This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.

Black Tight Killers (1966) A military photographer takes a cute stewardess out to dinner where she is promptly kidnapped. Deciding that he has fallen in love with the girl, our "hero" decides to investigate her kidnapping himself.

Sanjuro (1962) A group of idealistic young men, determined to clean up the corruption in their town, are aided by a scruffy, cynical samurai who does not at all fit their concept of a noble warrior.

Death at an Old Mansion (1976) When a woman and her bridegroom are found dead in a double suicide the day after their wedding, it is up to the detective to figure out what could possibly have motivated them. Carefully ...

Otaki, a member of a small yakuza family, hunts down the people who murdered his boss

Retaliation (1968) Jiro, an ex-convict, comes back to the street after eight years. The gang to which he belonged is nearly disbanded; only the aging boss in his sick bed remains. Still loyal to the ex-boss, Jiro approaches the powerful Hasama family to ask for assistance. Hasama kindly offers him a

Saraba itoshiki hito yo (1987) A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.

A story of the restrictions of family life, the desire to break free, restlessness, helplessness and the fear of becoming an adult

Only on Mondays (1964) Yuka is a "good-time girl" from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal.

After mastering the art of French cuisine, young Jiro Akira Kobayashi returns to Japan and opens a restaurant in the busy streets of Ginza His dashing looks, iconoclastic culinary skills, and charismatic character attracts not only women, but unwanted trouble Things get personal when he finds out th

Hibotan bakuto: Jingi tooshimasu (1972) Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promises she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. When the family is betrayed from within and the rival family becomes violent, Oryu takes things into her own hands.

Matango (1963) A group of pleasure-seeking young people are stranded on a mysterious island when their boat crashes. One by one they succumb to the lure of the deadly mushrooms.

An Adolescent (2001) Tomokawa is a tough guy turned bored cop who spends much of his time sating lonely housewives and looking after retarded teen Sukemasa. One day while hanging out at a bar, he is approached by a 15-year-old enjo kosai named Yoko, offering a round of illicit sex in exchange for ca

Boyhood (1951) When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

The Village (1975) A quasi-docu-drama pertaining to the monumental process to bring a performance troupe to a small Japanese village to perform for one night.

Letter from the Mountain (2002) An urban Japanese couple decide to move to the country.

Its Only Talk (2005) Yuko is 35 years old, single, out of work, and on medication from her psychiatrist to combat her manic depression. Living in Kamata Town, Yuko divides her time between a variety of men friends, each with his own peculiarities. Her university classmate, Homma, suffers from impote

A young man ignores his mothers pleas and becomes drawn to a life of crime

Samurai Saga (1959) Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so ...

Rusty Knife (1958) Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city council member. Evidence a

Picture Bride (1994) The story of 16-year-old Riyo who journeys to Hawaii in 1918 to marry a man she has never met, except through photographs and letters they have exchanged. Hoping to escape a troubled past and to start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her

Tomie: Another Face (1999) Another movie about Tomie, the girl who just won't stay dead. This film is split into three separate stories in which Tomie is at different times in her life, first as a high school student, then as a young woman who falls for a photographer, and finally as a woman engaged

No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) In 1933, in Kyoto, academic freedom is under attack and the spoiled daughter of Professor Yagihara, Yukie Yagihara, is courted by the idealistic student Ruykichi Noge and by the tolerant Itokawa. When the academic freedom movement is crushed by the fascists, Professor

I Live in Fear (1955) Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is so frightened and obsessed with the idea of nuclear extermination that his family decides to have him ruled incompetent. Nakajima's fervent wish is for his family to join him in escaping from Japan to the relative safety of South Am

The Mohican Comes Home (2016) A punk comes back to his family home on a small island when his girlfriend becomes pregnant.

Sleepy Eyes of Death: The Mask of the Princess (1966) Princess Kiku, Shogun's daughter, wants revenge on Nemuri Kyoshiro for embarrassing her.

Nemuri Kyôshirô: Joyôken (1964) This film of the sleepy-eyed ronin series has the quite reluctant hero refuse to come to the assistance of a Japanese Christian in an age of both proselytizing and persecution, but later ...