Movies: Kindai Eiga Kyokai
- 1964
Onibaba (1964)
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While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins ...
- 1960
The Naked Island (1960)
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A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops....
- 1968
Kuroneko (1968)
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In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The gover...
- 1952
Children of Hiroshima (1952)
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Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath....
- 2000
By Player (2000)
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The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on ...
- 2003
Owl (2003)
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A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to stray to their cabin with sex, and kill them. All goes well until a local cop shows up and, then, an o...
- 1959
Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)
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An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the cre...
- 1999
Will to Live (1999)
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It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2...
- 1999
Osaka Story (1999)
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Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana set...
- 1968
Strong Women, Weak Men (1968)
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After a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko and becomes a hostess....
- 1999
Adrenaline Drive (1999)
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A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues....
- 1978
Horror of the Giant Vortex (1978)
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Japanese horror move from 1978....
- 1954
The Ditch (1954)
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Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house....
- 1972
The Iron Crown (1972)
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A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night....
- 1955
The Wolves (1955)
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A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families....
- 2004
River of First Love (2004)
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8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, on...
- 1992
The Strange Tale of Oyuki (1992)
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A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous and smartly dressed, Nagai patiently wrote in his diary his thoughts during many...
- 1956
Actress (1956)
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Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness....
- 1973
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby (1973)
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Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica could be considered a bit of an expert on reform schools, having spent most ...
- 1974
My Way (1974)
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Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way....