JAPANESE DIRECTORS
65 movies
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Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
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other title:
愿妻如蔷薇
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妻よ薔薇のやうに
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Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.
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Ikiru (1952)
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Akira Kurosawa
actor:
Takashi Shimura
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Haruo Tanaka
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other title:
Vivere
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生きる
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Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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Spirited Away (2001)
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Hayao Miyazaki
actor:
Rumi Hiiragi
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Miyu Irino
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other title:
千与千寻
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千と千尋の神隠し
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A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
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In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
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Nagisa Ōshima
actor:
Eiko Matsuda
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藤 竜也
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other title:
感官世界
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愛のコリーダ
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A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
Movie
Tombstone for Fireflies (1988)
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other title:
萤火虫之墓
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火垂るの墓
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In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
Movie
The Four Chimneys (1953)
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Heinosuke Gosho
actor:
Hideko Takamine
other title:
看得见烟囱的地方
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煙突の見える場所
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Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
