Giants & Toys (1958)

Revenge Of A Kabuki Actor (Yukinojo Henge) (1963)

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

Format: | Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao

Kon Ichikawa's powerful story focuses on a female impersonator in a 19th-century kabuki troupe who takes the matter of revenge in his own hands when he attempts to murder three men responsible for the ... more

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The Makioka Sisters (Criterion Collection) (1985)

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

Format: | Starring: Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga

Acclaimed Japanese drama traces the lives of four sisters, heiresses of a well-to-do merchant family, in 1930s Osaka and focuses on the older women's attempts to find "respectable" husbands for their ... more

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Crazed Fruit (Kurutta Kajitsu) (1956)

Category: Foreign | Director: Ko Nakahira | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Masumi Okada, Yujiro Ishihara, Harold Conway

Hollywood wasn't the only place where movies about rebellious teens seeking fun were made in the '50s and '60s. This Japanese drama about two beach-loving brothers who spend the summer boating, drinking, ... more

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The Loyal 47 Ronin (Chushingura) (1958)

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

Format: | Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Shintaro Katsu, Koji Tsuruta

Known as ronin after the death of their leader left them without a guiding master, a group of samurai carefully plots its revenge. Striking in this fashion will result in an obligation to commit suicide ... more

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The Ballad Of Narayama (1958)

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

Format: | Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yuko Mochizuki

Long before "Logan's Run" depicted a dystopian society where the young are terminated by societal decree, this haunting Japanese film based on a folk tale dramatizes, using stylistic flourishes from ... more

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Afraid To Die (1960)

Category: Foreign | Director: Yasuzo Masumura | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Takashi Shimura, Eiji Funakoshi, Ayako Wakao

Popular Japanese writer Yukio Mishima turned in a rare and surprising performance in this Yasuzo Masumura film about a Yakuza hood who finds it impossible to stay out of trouble after getting out of ... more

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Black Test Car (Kuro No Tesuto Kaa) (1962)

Category: Foreign | Director: Yasuzo Masumura | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Eiji Funakoshi, Kichijiro Ueda, Ichiro Sugai

From Japanese new wave cinema legend Yasuzo Masumura comes this dark satire following a pair of rival car companies as they prepare to release their latest test vehicles. While industrial spies from ... more

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Red Angel (Akai Tenshi) (1966)

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

Format: | Starring: Ayako Wakao, Yusuke Kawazu, Shinsuke Ashida

War, madness, sex, and body horror are explored in this brutal drama from Japan, set in the late 1930s during the Sino-Japanese War. While enduring horrifying physical and emotional trauma as she works ... more

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Blind Beast (1969)

Category: Foreign | Director: Yasuzo Masumura | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Eiji Funakoshi, Noriko Sengoku

This disturbing tale of sexual horror from director Yasuzo Masumura stars Eiji Funakoshi as a deranged blind sculptor who is obsessed with the female form. He kidnaps a young model (Mako Midori) to help ... more

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