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see all genres ›Long one of the most sophisticated and self-contained hubs of filmmaking, Japan has claimed numerous genres as its own, from the historical samurai adventure and erotic "pink" eigas to today's influential yakuza thrillers and horror/action/fantasy hybrids.
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Ichi the Killer
Welcome to a world where violence is a virtue and depravity is a way of life. This is the underside of Shinjuku and the home of Kakihara, a sadistic yakuza killer. He relentlessly tears apart the underworld searching for the man who killed his boss. The mastermind behind the plot is Jijii, and ex-cop bent on turning the...Start your free trial to watch
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Id
The id, our unconscious, contains all our selfish drives and desires. Our conscious keeps these instincts in check, repressing them in order to maintain the civility required by society. But what happens when the id takes control and is allowed to run free? The result is a grim, shocking, contemplative and experimental...Start your free trial to watch
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Imagination
Karo comes inside from a rainy day to tell Piyobupt about seeing fish swimming in the air. Piyobupt laughs at his friend’s delusion but his own imagination starts working. There’s no such thing as an ordinary thought bubble in Koji Yamamura’s inventive claymation.Start your free trial to watch
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Imperial Japanese Dance
With the continued popularity of Gilbert and Sullivan's THE MIKADO (which debuted in 1885), Japanese dancing girls enjoyed a certain caché in New York's theatrical world. This film featuring the Sarashe Sisters was shown in Japan as NIPPON MAIKO NUNO SARASHI (JAPANESE DANCING MAIDENS WAVING STREAMERS....Start your free trial to watch
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Japanese-English Pictionary
Quite possibly the best game of Pictionary ever played. Animator Koji Yamamura’s organizing principle is simple: the last letter of one word supplies the first of the next, from “Retake” to “Evolution” to “Nuclear War” to “Rainy.” The linguistic associations become increasingly freewheeling as the...Start your free trial to watch
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Karaoke Terror
From the mind of writer Ryu Murakami comes the satirical tale of two groups of outsiders who make war on each other set to a soundtrack of retro karaoke hits. A gang of young slacker guys (the Gakis) idle away their time just hanging out, their sole passion in life being elaborate karaoke recreations of their favorite...Start your free trial to watch
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Karate Girl
A mysterious high-school girl, Ayaka (Rina Takeda) has a dark secret. She is a martial arts master and must keep her family's martial arts legacy secret to protect her family treasure, the Black Belt. When she accidentally reveals her awesome fighting skills in public, the ruthless karate gang that murdered her family and...Start your free trial to watch
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Kipling Jr.
Like a Yasujuro Ozu film fashioned out of clay, KIPLING JR. relates a young pup’s coming of age with gentle regard for a child’s intimate experience of time and space. Kip Kipling lives with his parents in a little house near a railway line. Outside his window, a wily circus band toots out melodies. Animator Koji Yamamura...Start your free trial to watch
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L'ilya
Meet L'ILYA, a young video artist who documents peoples' suicides and projects their final moments out of context in trendy clubs. Due to the film being a "moyen metrage" (or "medium-length feature," meaning, as the name implies, a film whose running time is too long to be classified as a short yet too short to be presented...Start your free trial to watch
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Live from Tokyo
A vivid look at Tokyo's music culture as a reflection of Japanese society and its relation to international music. LIVE FROM TOKYO takes the viewer through the back streets in Shinjuku, the intersections in Shibuya, the alleys in Koenji and all over Tokyo. Tokyo's reputation for an overwhelming variety of global information,...Start your free trial to watch
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A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn
A young widow, Noriko, lives with her senile father-in-law, Shukichi, on a farm. He believes his favorite cow, long gone, is still alive. Noriko pretends to be the cow and lets him milk her, a satisfying arrangement for them both. Shukichi's daughter discovers their bizarre relationship and tries to put an...Start your free trial to watch
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The Machine Girl
Ami is a typical college girl. She's bright, friendly, popular and athletic, with nothing to set her apart from other girls her age other than the fact that she is an orphan, left to care for her younger brother after her father committed suicide after being falsely accused of murder. But while there is...Start your free trial to watch
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Mazinkaizer SKL
Behind a gravity curtain waits Kikaijima, a colossal island left over from the last world war. It's a lawless wasteland of robot superweapons from a forgotten age of military might. Receiving word that the unstable island's reactors will explode and vaporize the world in just a few days, the Japanese government awakens the...Start your free trial to watch
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Mt. Head
Koji Yamamura’s Oscar-nominated animated short reworks a surreal Rakugo comic monologue concerning a miserly old-timer. Unable to abide waste, he eats the pit of a cherry earlier saved from the trash. In a peculiar turn, the seed begins sprouting out of his head. Hordes of miniature office workers arrive for picnics under the...Start your free trial to watch
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No Love Juice
A passion-fueled examination of the "older woman" scenario. When twenty-eight year old Tomomi is dumped by her boyfriend she seeks solace in the arms of twenty year old student Takao. A relationship develops through which Takao comes of age sexually and Tomomi discovers a side to love she has previously not known. As time...Start your free trial to watch