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The Twilight Samurai 2002 (7.8)

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?


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The Hidden Blade 2004 (7.4)

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.


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Love and Honor 2006 (7.471)

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.


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The Viper's Hex 2017

Lonely hostess Kiyo spends her days propositioning men on the cold streets of Tokyo and being beaten by her violent pimp, Tetsuya. One day her luck seems to change when she meets a charming foreigner named Anchin and a romance blossoms but soon everything falls apart when she becomes pregnant. Upon hearing the news Anchin flees Tokyo. With nowhere left to go she turns to The Viper, a scorned spirit that has been with her since birth.


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Sensu obu Shin 2018

Funaki leads a bleak life in the south of Tōkyō. What keeps him in this place? Is it memories of his childhood? Something haunts him, won't let him go in his thoughts, in the depths of his soul. One night, he suddenly meets a mysterious woman and helps her in her time of need. But after his good deed, Funaki has no idea: he has awakened his old demon - a battle between life, death and forgiveness is about to begin.


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When You Wish Upon a Star 2019

There is no room for dreams in a world formed by male violence. The young sex worker Eve's everyday life is slowly breaking her apart. Trapped in a maelstrom of loathing, drugs, and blind rage, she tumbles towards her impending doom. One night she meets the naive Kimi at a bar, who got into the clutches of a group of unscrupulous pimps. A fatal concatenation of events ensues and Eve has to learn that you can't smite memories with spades.


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Millennium Mambo 2001 (6.973)

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.


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Café Lumière 2004 (6.7)

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.


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Supermarket Woman 1996 (6.552)

A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.


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