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Tomo yo shizukani nemure (1985)

Summary: A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman, and busts a few heads.

Release Date: June 15, 1985

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Yôichi Sai

Writers: Kenzo Kitakata

, Shoichi Maruyama

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

Production: Kadokawa Haruki Jimusho

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Onibaba (1964)

Summary: Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.

Release Date: February 04, 1965

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Kaneto Shindô

Writer: Kaneto Shindô

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Kindai Eiga Kyokai, Tokyo Eiga Co Ltd.

Distributor: Toho Company, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: English

Nihon no yoru to kiri (1960)

Summary: Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.

Release Date: October 09, 1960

Genre: Drama

Director: Nagisa Ôshima

Writers: Toshirô Ishidô

, Nagisa Ôshima

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

Production: Shochiku

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

The Sword of Doom (1966)

Summary: Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.

Release Date: July 01, 1966

Genres: Action, Drama

Director: Kihachi Okamoto

Writers: Shinobu Hashimoto

, Kaizan Nakazato

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Takarazuka Eiga Company Ltd., Toho Company

Distributor: The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)

Summary: A high school science teacher builds an atomic bomb and uses it to extort the nation, but cannot decide what he wants. Meanwhile, a determined cop is catching up to him, as is radiation poisoning.

Release Date: October 09, 1980

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Writers: Leonard Schrader

, Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Runtime: 2 h 27 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Kitty Films, Tristone Entertainment Inc.

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Taboo (1999)

Summary: The new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him, threatening to disturb the rigid code of their squad.

Release Date: December 18, 1999

Genres: Drama, Thriller, History

Director: Nagisa Ôshima

Writers: Ryôtarô Shiba

, Nagisa Ôshima

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Oshima Productions, Shochiku, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Eisei Gekijo, Bac Films, Le Studio Canal+, Recorded Picture Company (RPC)

Distributor: New Yorker Films, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Japan, France, United Kingdom

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 114,425

International: $ 13,949

Godzilla 1985

Summary: Thirty years after the original monster's rampage, a new Godzilla emerges and attacks Japan.

Release Date: August 23, 1985

Genres: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Directors: Koji Hashimoto

, R.J. Kizer

, Ishirô Honda

Writers: Reuben Bercovitch

, Fred Dekker

, Akira Murao

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Toho Company, Toho Eizo Co.

Distributor: R&G Video, Starmaker Entertainment, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Warner Bros., Section 23 Films, New World Video

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: Japanese

Franchise: Godzilla

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,116,395

Harakiri (1962)

Summary: When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.

Release Date: August 04, 1964

Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Writers: Yasuhiko Takiguchi

, Shinobu Hashimoto

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Shochiku

Distributor: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Kwaidan (1964)

Summary: A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

Release Date: November 22, 1965

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Writers: Yôko Mizuki

, Lafcadio Hearn

Runtime: 3 h 03 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bungei Production Ninjin Club, Toho Company, Toyo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Distributor: Continental Distributing, HBO Max, Home Vision Cinema, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 350,000,000

Death by Hanging (1968)

Summary: A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.

Release Date: February 03, 1968

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Nagisa Ôshima

Writers: Michinori Fukao

, Mamoru Sasaki

, Tsutomu Tamura

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Art Theatre Guild (ATG), Sozosha

Distributor: The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Kuroneko (1968)

Summary: Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.

Release Date: February 24, 1968

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Kaneto Shindô

Writer: Kaneto Shindô

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Toho Company, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection, Something Weird Video (SWV)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

The Return of Godzilla (1984)

Summary: The Japanese government suppresses news of Godzilla's resurrection as political tensions increase between the US and USSR, both of whom willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.

Release Date: December 15, 1984

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Koji Hashimoto