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1) Tampopo
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日本語
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A young widow Tanpopo runs a small ramen noodle shop. Gorō, a cowboy-hat-wearing truck driver who happens to drop by her ramen noodle shop, helps her to make the perfect bowl of top ramen.
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Criterion collection volume 377
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日本語
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A young widow with family obligations, Keiko is the madam of an upstairs bar in the exclusive Ginza district of Tokyo in 1960. As she approaches 30, she realizes that her life is at a crossroads: she must either go into business and open her own bar or marry.
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日本語
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Filmed on location in Osaka, Women of the night concerns two sisters, Fusako, a war widow, and Natsuko, in an affair with a narcotics smuggler, who, along with their younger friend Kumiko, descend into prostitution and moral chaos amid the postwar devastation surrounding them.
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日本語
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Okuyama, after being burned and disfigured in an industrial accident and estranged from his family and friends, agrees to his psychiatrist's radical experiment: a face transplant, created from the mold of a stranger. As Okuyama is thus further alienated from the world around him, he finds himself giving in to his darker temptations.
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Criterion collection volume 442
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日本語
Description
An elegant, emotional chronicle of a teacher's unwavering commitment to her students, her profession, and her sense of morality. It takes a simultaneously sober and sentimental look at the epic themes of aging, war, and death.
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日本語
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"After a terrorist attack transforms the sky into a psychedelic mirror, society struggles to rebuild itself, and two powerful forces wage a secret, terrifying war. Trying to restore order is Orga, a tiny group of mutants with amazing powers. Controlled by a wealthy and powerful widow known only as 'The Countess, ' they wait for their enemy to stir--Gilgamesh. A black leather-clad army of beautiful, mysterious beings, Gilgamesh bows only to Enkidu,...
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日本語
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A collection of five films by Japanese director Koreyoshi Kurahara.
Intimidation: Sinister blackmail, a daring heist, and two bank coworkers at odds; Kurahara's noir seethes with tension.
The warped ones: Akira, possibly the most reckless youth in film history, tears up Tokyo in this frenetically shot and edited jazz-scored trip to hell.
I hate but love: Tired of life in the public eye, a celebrity leaves the city for a faraway village, but the...
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日本語
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An amateur entomologist is left in Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in a vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema's most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean struggle of everyday life.
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日本語
Description
[v. 1]. Osaka elegy. Switchboard operator Ayako agrees to enter into an affair with her married boss after he promises to support her and her father - setting her off on a seemingly irreversible downward spiral.
[v. 2]. Sisters of the Gion. Two geisha sisters - one modern-minded, the other staunchly traditional - disagree over how to deal with the men controlling their lives and livelihoods.
[v. 3]. Women of the night. The story of two sisters,...
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