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Based on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the one

A young man struggles to come to terms with his true identity in a remote caste based village in early 20th century Japan

The life of Kinuyo Tanaka, who has played in many Kenji Mizoguchis films

Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three wanderers who travel through feudal Japan selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls

The cat of the title roams around the house of a poor schoolteacher in the late 19th century, observing the goings on of the teacher and his neighbors

A dark satire of a contemporary Japan still exhausted from the aftermath of war, hunger, poverty and unemployment And just as its people are recovering, there is a threat during these Cold War years of renewed militarism and rear

Kon Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, creating a record of observations that range from the expansive to the intimate

A man has a wife and nine girlfriends, all ten of whom are fed up with his shameless polygamy and plot to kill him However, this is easier said than done

In a remake of a well known Japanese mystery, a man in Kobe does not have a family He receives a visitor who is a researcher one day who has noticed that the man has a well off family in Okayama This village is called Yatsuhakam

Private detective Kindaichi investigates a series of murders in scenic rural Japan

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946

Based on a centuries old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter Not the same as the original tale, though, in which the girl was a fairy from the mo

Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Sosekis same titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache Representing the combined effo

Kosuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder Then some murders happen Kindaichi must find out about the past in o

A web of deceit, adultery and greed manifests in Kon Ichikawas remake of his own 1976 hit about a murder investigation that reveals years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret

In the Wars closing days, when a conscience driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk

Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabatas story The Old Capital

For his 1st color film, Ichikawa did an Edo era story of two geishas scheming against each other for control of the Nihonbashi bridge area, and vying for the affections of a young doctor

The orphaned Makioka sisters look for a husband for their third sister, Yukiko, as the rebellious youngest sister, Taeko, is kept waiting her turn

Eight film artists from different countries are given carte blanche to make a collection of short documentaries on the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, offering unexpected, original and often humorous perspectives

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination

Evil Queen Himiko and her army invade a small rural province in order to kill a Phoenix in order to achieve immortality, a young boy survives and goes on an adventure to amend the injustices

A group of disgraced samurai plan a decade long revenge against a corrupt lord

In the closing days of WWII, remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain death by starvation

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood