Best Japanese Films Kinema Junpo (1926-2025)
1279 movies 1 tv show
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Chieko-sho (1967)
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智恵子抄
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Portrait of Chieko
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Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her family, she finds herself unable to confide in her husband, and the pain she carries within begins to weigh heavily on her sanity...
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Band of Ninja (1967)
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other title:
忍者武艺帐
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忍者武芸帳
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The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
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Topo Gigio and the Missile War (1967)
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other title:
돗보 지죠의 단추전쟁
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トッポ・ジージョのボタン戦争
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Film mixing live action with the famous animated Italian rubber mouse, Topo Gigio.
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The Great White Tower (1966)
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other title:
白い巨塔
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白色巨塔
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The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
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silence has no wings (1966)
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other title:
飞不了的沉默
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とべない沈黙
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After a young boy captures a rare butterfly in Nagasaki, a caterpillar begins a relay-trip toward the northern tip of Hokkaido, serving as a silent witness to a series of vignettes featuring people struggling with the psychological and social scars of post-war Japan.
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Hikinige (1966)
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other title:
撞车逃逸
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ひき逃げ
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When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victim's mother changes her identity and infiltrates the couple's home to work as their maid, plotting to murder their similarly-aged son.
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Punishment Island (1966)
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筱田正浩
actor:
新田昌
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三國連太郎
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other title:
处刑之岛
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処刑の島
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Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman
