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Wim Wenders in Tokyo

Wim Wenders in Tokyo

Wim Wenders in Tokyo
IMDb: 7.1
62

A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, in Tokyo, and details the creation of the film’s groundbreaking…

Genre: Documentary
Twenty-Four Eyes

Twenty-Four Eyes

Twenty-Four Eyes
IMDb: 8
156

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.

Genre: Drama
It’s Tough Being a Man

It’s Tough Being a Man

It’s Tough Being a Man
IMDb: 6.9
91

Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father’s house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their…

Genre: Comedy
Dragnet Girl

Dragnet Girl

Dragnet Girl
IMDb: 7
100

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
The Moon Has Risen

The Moon Has Risen

The Moon Has Risen
IMDb: 7.2
102

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Love Under the Crucifix

Love Under the Crucifix

Love Under the Crucifix
IMDb: 6.7
101

The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a feudal…

Tora-san Makes Excuses

Tora-san Makes Excuses

Tora-san Makes Excuses
IMDb: 6.4
101

Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto as his love interest or “Madonna”.

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san Confesses

Tora-san Confesses

Tora-san Confesses
IMDb: 6.4
104

When Izumi can’t stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But Izumi unexpectedly meets…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Tora-san Takes a Vacation

Tora-san Takes a Vacation

Tora-san Takes a Vacation
IMDb: 6.8
106

Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in Oita. Meanwhile, Izumi’s mother…

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san, My Uncle

Tora-san, My Uncle

Tora-san, My Uncle
IMDb: 6.9
109

Tora-san’s nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.

Genre: Comedy
Tora-san’s Love Call

Tora-san’s Love Call

Tora-san’s Love Call
IMDb: 7.2
114

Taking a message from Hiroshi’s father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.

Genre: Comedy
An Autumn Afternoon

An Autumn Afternoon

An Autumn Afternoon
IMDb: 8
114

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life,…

Genre: Drama
The Munekata Sisters

The Munekata Sisters

The Munekata Sisters
IMDb: 7.4
112

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to…

Genre: Drama
There Was a Father

There Was a Father

There Was a Father
IMDb: 7.6
88

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Genre: Drama
The Only Son

The Only Son

The Only Son
IMDb: 7.7
87

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son’s education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.

Genre: Drama
Satan’s Sword

Satan’s Sword

Satan’s Sword
IMDb: 6.5
106

The 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,…

Genre: Action
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
IMDb: 6.9
135

The environment and the movie stars at a Japanese film studio in the early ’30s are recreated in this drama that looks back on a distinctive period in cinematic history….

Genre: Drama
Always in My Heart Part 3

Always in My Heart Part 3

Always in My Heart Part 3
IMDb: 6
125

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

Genre: Drama
Always in My Heart Part 2

Always in My Heart Part 2

Always in My Heart Part 2
IMDb: 6
120

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Genre: Drama
Dreams

Dreams

Dreams
IMDb: 7.8
120

A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer

The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer

The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer
IMDb: 8.8
190

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Floating Weeds

Floating Weeds

Floating Weeds
IMDb: 8
115

A 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…

Genre: Drama
Late Autumn

Late Autumn

Late Autumn
IMDb: 8
128

A mother gets help from her late husband’s three friends in order to get her daughter married to a well-settled man.

Genre: Drama
Tokyo Twilight

Tokyo Twilight

Tokyo Twilight
IMDb: 8.1
141

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

Genre: Drama
Good Morning

Good Morning

Good Morning
IMDb: 7.9
94

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Equinox Flower

Equinox Flower

Equinox Flower
IMDb: 7.9
118

Later in his career, Ozu started becoming increasingly sympathetic with the younger generation, a shift that was cemented in Equinox Flower, his gorgeously detailed first color film, about an old-fashioned…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Early Spring

Early Spring

Early Spring
IMDb: 7.8
144

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Genre: Drama
Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story
IMDb: 8.2
137

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and…

Genre: Drama
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
IMDb: 7.7
115

A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis of sorts.

Genre: Drama
Early Summer

Early Summer

Early Summer
IMDb: 8.2
135

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko, still single at the advanced age of 28, lives contentedly in an extended family household that includes her parents and her brother’s family. An uncle’s visit…

Genre: Drama
Late Spring

Late Spring

Late Spring
IMDb: 8.3
110

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry — that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he…

Genre: Drama
Tokyo-Ga

Tokyo-Ga

Tokyo-Ga
IMDb: 7.4
92

German director Wim Wenders made this documentary in which he tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu. When Wenders visits Tokyo for the…

Genre: Documentary
Japan’s Longest Day

Japan’s Longest Day

Japan’s Longest Day
IMDb: 7.7
157

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Fireworks Over the Sea

Fireworks Over the Sea

Fireworks Over the Sea
IMDb: 5.9
122

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Genre: Drama
Boyhood

Boyhood

Boyhood
IMDb: 6.8
110

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

Genre: Drama, War