Harakiri (1962)

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

Format: | Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama

Compelling Japanese costume drama from director Masaki Kobayashi ("Kwaidan"), about a 17th-century samurai in search of a lord to serve. When one ruler turns him down, he is compelled by the society's ... more

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Kwaidan (Criterion Collection) (1964)

Category: Foreign | Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Keiko Kishi

A classic film of the supernatural, Masaki Kobayashi's tetralogy of ghost tales depicts a woman whose love for her samurai husband lasts beyond death, a love-starved snow spirit, a demon-fighting priest ... more

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Masaki Kobayashi: Against The System (Criterion Collection)

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

Format: | Starring: Keiko Kishi, Misako Watanabe, So Yamamura

Deemed controversial enough for director Masaki Kobayashi to voluntarily shelve for years, the Japanese helmer's "The Thick-Walled Room" (1953)--his first major film--crafts a blistering narrative from ... more

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Samurai Vendetta (Hakuoki) (1959)

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

Format: | Starring: Raizo Ichikawa, Shintaro Katsu, Chitose Maki

Two noble samurai maintain their honor even though they are surrounded by the corruption of their clan members. Will their swords come unsheathed against each other, though, when a blood feud is unleashed ... more

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Oshima's Outlaw Sixties

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

Format: | Starring: Katsuo Nakamura, Mariko Kaga, Yumiko Nogawa

Sample the provocative works of Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima with this collection of bold films from the "Godard of the East." In "Japanese Summer: Double Suicide" (1965), a sex-crazed ... 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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