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Best Japanese Films Kinema Junpo (1926-2025)

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Tokyo Heaven (1990)
東京上空いらっしゃいませ WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 6.8 16 ratings
相米慎二 actor: 中井贵一 / 牧濑里穗 …
other title: 欢迎来到东京上空 / 東京上空いらっしゃいませ …
A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.
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Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990)
あげまん WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.5 8 ratings
伊丹十三 actor: 宫本信子 / 加藤昌彦 …
other title: 아게망 / あげまん …
The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships with the man she loves and the men who employ her, it satirizes corruption and the influence of money in Japanese politics.
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Beijing Watermelon (1989)
北京的西瓜 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.2 22 ratings
大林宣彦 actor: 柳原晴郎 / 本格尔 …
other title: 北京的西瓜 / Pekin no suika …
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters Li, a poor college student from China.
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A Un (1989)
あ･うん WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.5 8 ratings
降旗康男 actor: 高仓健 / 板东英二 …
other title: 情义知多少 / あ･うん …
Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.
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Darkness Is His Ally (1989)
座頭市 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 9.0 6 ratings
胜新太郎 actor: 胜新太郎 / 樋口可南子 …
other title: 座头市 / 座頭市 …
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
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No Life King (1989)
ノーライフキング IMDb TMDB Douban
市川准 actor: 高山良 / 原田慎也 …
other title: 失去童年的时代 / ノーライフキング …
The story of a group of boys who become transfixed with the latest video game, the Legend Of Life King IV.
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The Boy's Own Book of the 20th Century (1989)
二十世紀少年読本 IMDb TMDB Douban
林海象 actor: 三上博史 / 修健 …
other title: 20世纪少年读本 / 二十世紀少年読本 …
Brothers Jinta and Wataru are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave and wanders the countryside working as a con-man. After a run-in with local yakuza, he's invited to join their ranks, where he makes the mistake of falling for a boss's mistress. Meanwhile, Wataru stays with the circus and works hard to regain its former glory
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