The Weird Love Makers (1960)

In The Realm Of The Senses (Criterion Collection) (1976)

Category: Foreign | Director: Nagisa Oshima | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima

Banned by U.S. customs upon its arrival, Nagisa Oshima's sexual shocker tells about the bizarre, true-to-life love affair between a gangster and a prostitute in '30s Japan. Highlighted by lush visuals ... more

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Empire Of Passion (In The Realm Of Passion) (1978)

Category: Foreign | Rated: R | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji, Takahiro Tamura

Set in Japan in 1895, this beautifully filmed story focuses on the all-consuming romance between a young soldier and an older woman, the wife of a rickshaw operator. The lovers kill the woman's husband, ... more

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Taboo (2000)

Category: Foreign | Director: Nagisa Oshima | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda

In 19th-century Japan, the arrival of a young samurai trainee whose androgynous beauty stirs feelings of longing and jealousy in his fellow warriors and superiors leads to dramatic consequences. Unusual ... more

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The Ultimate Samurai: Miyamoto Musashi

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Wakaba Irie, Rentaro Mikuni

Though little known in the U.S., Japanese director Tomu Uchida crafted five expert adventure films chronicling the saga of Miyamoto Musashi (Kinnosuke Nakamura), the fabled samurai who pioneered a two-sword ... more

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The Blind Menace (Shiranui Kengyo) (1960)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Shintaro Katsu, Toru Abe, Mieko Kondo

How threatening could a blind masseur be? Plenty, in this bloody and wild Japanese thriller that inspired the "Zatoichi" film series. Abused as a child, the sightless Suginoichi (Shintaro Katsu) ... more

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The Human Condition

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, So Yamamura

A Japanese pacifist strives to preserve his beliefs during World War II, in "The Human Condition, Part 1" (1959), the first part of Masaki Kobayashi's thoughtful film trilogy. Tatsuya Nakadai stars as ... more

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When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (1960)

Category: Foreign | Director: Mikio Naruse | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Keiko Awaji, Yu Fujiki, Tatsuya Nakadai

A harsh and unflinching look at one woman's life, a Ginza barmaid who fears that, as she faces her 30th birthday and the loss of her job, she will have to turn to prostitution to support herself. Compelling ... more

$39.99

The Warped World Of Koreyoshi Kurahara

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White / Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Ruriko Asaoka, Tamio Kawaji, Nobuo Nakamura

Experience some radically entertaining films from Japanese New Wave filmmaker Koreyoshi Kurahara with this five-disc set. First, Kurahara's crisp film noir "Intimidation" (1960) briskly chronicles the ... more

$69.99

Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Jun Hamamura, Shigeru Koyama, Masao Mishima

Four-disc set includes "Sword of the Beast," "Samurai Spy," "Samurai Rebellion," and "Kill!"

$99.99