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7.5From Up on Poppy Hill
From Up on Poppy Hill
Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young ...
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7.4Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
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7I Will Buy You
I Will Buy You
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
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6The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Teahouse of the August Moon
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
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6.1Tokyo Joe
Tokyo Joe
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
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6.6Sayonara
Sayonara
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded ...
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7The Idiot
The Idiot
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. ...
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6.6Gate of Flesh
Gate of Flesh
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance ...
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6.3A Certain Killer
A Certain Killer
A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.
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6.9Shadow of Fire
Shadow of Fire
In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.
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5.7The International Gang of Kobe
The International Gang of Kobe
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs.
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6.1House of Bamboo
House of Bamboo
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
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7Three Stripes in the Sun
Three Stripes in the Sun
A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.
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7.4Repast
Repast
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
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7.3Madadayo
Madadayo
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in ...
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7Pigs and Battleships
Pigs and Battleships
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
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6.6Cruel Story of Youth
Cruel Story of Youth
A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
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7.7Good Morning
Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in ...
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7.5Tokyo Twilight
Tokyo Twilight
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.
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7.6Street of Shame
Street of Shame
The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
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7.2I Live in Fear
I Live in Fear
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides ...
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7.4Stray Dog
Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering ...
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7.1The Thick-Walled Room
The Thick-Walled Room
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.