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The Human Vapor
Tokyo PrefectureA librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks to fund the career of his girlfriend, a beautiful dancer. The Human Vapour is ruthless in his quest for money and kills anyone who stands in his way, especially police. He soon becomes Tokyo's most wanted criminal. Can he be stopped before he kills again?
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The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond
🇯🇵 JapanTwo lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not want to let them go. Once upon a time, over a century ago, there had been a crime, whose shadow still hovers over these places.
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Trip for Tat
🇯🇵 JapanTweety Bird goes on a world tour with his mistress, Granny. And a hungry Sylvester Cat follows them everywhere they go (France, Japan, Switzerland, and Italy).
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Satan's Sword
🇯🇵 Japan The 19th CenturyThe Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazatos unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Tsuke Ryunosuke, a nihilistic swordmaster who doesn't hesitate to kill anyone, bad or good.
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sFrom the measureless depths of a woman's emotions... — The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
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The Manster
🇯🇵 JapanHalf-Man, Half-Monster! — A reporter is sent to interview a scientist working in his mountain laboratory.
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Odd Obsession
🇯🇵 JapanA middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.
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Floating Weeds
Mie PrefectureA troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame Oyoshi and their son Kiyoshi, even though Kiyoshi believes Komajuro is his uncle. The leading actress Sumiko is jealous and so, in order to humiliate the master, persuades the younger actress Kayo to seduce Kiyoshi.
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Battle in Outer Space
Tokyo Prefecture The 1960sWill the Earth be reduced to space dust? A giant battle unfolds on the other side of the moon! — In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and control the minds of men. In response, a global council meeting is held to determine the source of the attacks and prepare a rocket ship armada for a counter-attack, a true battle in outer space. . . The film is a sequel of sorts to Toho's THE MYSTERIANS in the reprise of the Etsuko Shiraishi character of that film as its heroine. It was edited to 74 minutes for its American release.
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Tokyo After Dark
Tokyo PrefectureAn American serviceman stationed in Tokyo, who's engaged to a local singer, faces both a military court-martial and a trial in the Japanese courts after an accidental shooting in which a teenager is killed.
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The Song of the Cart
Hiroshima PrefectureA lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
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The Geisha Boy
🇯🇵 JapanMORE THAN GREAT COMEDY HERE'S GREAT ENTERTAINMENT — Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
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The H-Man
Tokyo PrefecturePeople are dissolving! The horror of a flowing radioactive liquid! — Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.
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The Barbarian and the Geisha
🇯🇵 Japan The 1850sThe geisha girl they sent to love and to destroy the barbarian from the west! — Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love of a young geisha.
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Torpedo Run
🇯🇵 JapanThe greatest submarine picture of them all! — A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.
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Black Cat Mansion
🇯🇵 Japan The 20th Century The 16th Century The 15th CenturyThe descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.
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The Lady Takes a Flyer
🇯🇵 JapanChange of pace comedy casts Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler as competing pilots who fall in love.
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Varan
Tokyo PrefectureA giant monster greater than Godzilla or Rodan! Exercising its power over the whole of Japan! — When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. However, when they get there they find an uncharted lake and as they are observing it they are caught in a landslide and killed. A reporter named Yuriko, the sister of one of the men decides to go to the area to find out what exactly happened. She is accompanied by another entomologist named Kenji and a reporter named Horiguchi. When they get to the village where the men were last seen alive they find out about a legend regarding a giant monster. They soon find out that it is not a legend and the monster named Varan is very much alive. Soon Varan leaves the valley where he has lived for millions of years and is heading for Tokyo.
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Sayonara
🇯🇵 Japan The 1950s"I am not allowed to love. But I will love you if that is your desire..." — 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 because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
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The Mysterians
Yamanashi Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Tochigi Prefecture Shizuoka PrefectureSpace weapons mobilize! — In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
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The Teahouse of the August Moon
Okinawa Prefecture The 1940sAll The Riotous Fun Of The Prize-Winning Stage Comedy! — An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.
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Tokyo Twilight
Tokyo PrefectureTwo sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.
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Stopover Tokyo
Tokyo PrefectureAn American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring.
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Escapade In Japan
🇯🇵 JapanThe exciting adventures of two little runaway boys in Japan! — A plane on its way to Japan is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A small American boy survives the ditching but is separated from the rest of the passengers and crew and is picked up by a Japanese fisherman, who takes the boy back to his village. The boy is befriended by the fisherman's son, but when they see Japanese police swarming over the village, they are afraid that they've done something wrong and run away, although the police are only searching for the missing boy. Together the two boys travel through the Japanese countryside, trying to avoid the police who are searching for them and meeting up with many different kinds of people along the way.
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Joe Butterfly
Tokyo Prefecture The 1940sThe Uproarious Saga of Those Hilarious Heroes Who Took Tokyo in a Storm of Laughter with their Riotous Operation Kimono! — The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender. Their mission: produce an issue of the magazine...in three days. To accomplish the seeming impossible, they reluctantly enlist the aid of black marketeer and arch-conniver Joe Butterfly, who sets them up in a palatial private mansion, complete with lovely daughter -- strictly against regulations. How much trouble can our heroes talk their way out of?
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
Mie Prefecture Hokkaido Prefecture The 1980s The 1940sThe story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
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Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
🇯🇵 JapanA remake of Kaidan Saga yashiki (1953).
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Typhoon Over Nagasaki
🇯🇵 JapanPierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named Noriko. But Françoise Fabre, a French journalist and Pierre's former lover, contacts him while visiting the Land of the Rising Sun. They meet again, find out their love might not be dead. Meanwhile, Pierre gradually becomes estranged from sweet, humble Noriko. One day, a typhoon strikes Nagasaki...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Tokyo PrefectureIncredible, unstoppable titan of terror! — During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.
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Rodan
Nagasaki Prefecture Kumamoto Prefecture Fukuoka PrefectureBorn from a volcanic crater, the crimson monster bird Rodan tramples the Earth — Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.
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Early Spring
Tokyo PrefectureA young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
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Street of Shame
Tokyo PrefectureMen were their prey! Beauty was their lure! — The personal tales of various sex workers who occupy a Japanese brothel.
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Warning From Space
Tokyo PrefectureThe citizens of Tokyo panic when they see UFOs in the sky. The aliens are benign, however, and have come to warn of a runaway planetoid known as Planet R that's on a collision course with Earth. As Planet R approaches, the Earth's atmosphere begins to heat up, and mankind must race to construct a weapon to destroy it.
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Farewell to Dream
Tokyo PrefectureA coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
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Navy Wife
🇯🇵 JapanJapanese women, seeng how well American soldiers stationed in their country treat their wives, demand the same from their husbands.
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Godzilla Raids Again
Osaka PrefectureThe great story of the terrifying spirits that rampage through Japan! — Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon that killed the original, authorities attempt to lure Godzilla away from the mainland. But Anguirus soon arrives and the two monsters make their way towards Osaka as Japan braces for tragedy.
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House of Bamboo
Tokyo PrefectureTokyo Post-War Underworld! — Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan), a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Kyoto PrefectureAfter years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers. While Otsu waits, Akemi also seeks him, expressing her desires directly. Meanwhile, Takezo is observed by Sasaki Kojiro, a brilliant young fighter, confident he can dethrone Takezo. After leaving Kyoto in triumph, Takezo declares his love for Otsu, but in a way that dishonors her and shames him. Once again, he leaves alone.
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The Night My Number Came Up
🇯🇵 JapanAt a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a Royal Navy officer is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshal Hardie who is due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as Hardie arrives at the airport he discovers that the Liberator has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the dream may be coming true and he is destined to die.
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Three Stripes in the Sun
Osaka PrefectureThe Amazing Story of the Fighting Sergeant... and a Girl in a Pink Kimono! — A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.
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Godzilla
Tokyo PrefectureGodzilla, a weapon of science, a great battle of wonder and terror! — Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
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Hell and High Water
Tokyo PrefectureA privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
🇯🇵 Japan The 1950sJets Dare Danger Over Korea! — A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.
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The Crucified Lovers
Kyoto Prefecture The 17th CenturyThe tortured heart behind the cultivated image. — In 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the best worker, Mohei, the pair flee the city and declare their love for each other. Ishun orders his men to find them, and separate them to avoid public humiliation.
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Late Chrysanthemums
🇯🇵 JapanWhat is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days cold-heartedly collecting debts. Even her best friends, Tomi, Nobu, and Tamae, who were her fellow Geisha, are now indebted to her. For all of them, the glamor of their young lives has passed; Tomi and Tamae have children, but their children have disappointed them. Kin has two former lovers who still pursue her; one she wants to see, and the other she doesn't. But even the one she remembers fondly, when he shows up, proves to be a disappointment.
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Twenty-Four Eyes
🇯🇵 Japan The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sSchoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world despite the fact that war is looming.
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Ditch
Kanagawa PrefectureToku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his friend Pin-chan. The two men try to get rid of her but then let her stay when she gives them money. Tsuru tells the people of the village that she lost her job due to a strike, then was robbed of her severance pay, then sold to a brothel in Tsuchiura. She ran away with a friend from Kawasaki. Toku and Pin-chan sell her to a geisha house and spend the money. She is thrown out. The owner demands his money back. Tsuru earns the money to pay their debt by working as a prostitute outside the station. The other prostitutes beat her. She fends them off with a policeman's revolver and is then shot dead by the police.
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