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Not Forgotten
(2002)
DVD
Release Date: 11/03/2009
Makoto Shinozaki's NOT FORGOTTEN is an entertaining, ambitious motion picture that defies easy categorization. The story concerns three...
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Warriors of Heaven and Earth
(2004)
Blu-ray Disc
Release Date: 04/03/2007
He Ping, the director of the cult classic SWORDSMAN IN DOUBLE FLAG TOWN and the better-known RED FIRECRACKER, GREEN FIRECRACKER, enters...
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Warriors of Heaven and Earth
(2004)
DVD
Release Date: 12/07/2004
He Ping, the director of the cult classic SWORDSMAN IN DOUBLE FLAG TOWN and the better-known RED FIRECRACKER, GREEN FIRECRACKER, enters...
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Wasabi
(2002)
DVD
Release Date: 02/11/2003
This boisterous crime-cop dramedy is written and produced by Luc Besson and stars Jean Reno. Like THE PROFESSIONAL (the 1994 Besson-Reno...
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In the Realm of the Senses
(1976)
Blu-ray Disc
Release Date: 04/28/2009
In 1936, in the midst of rising Japanese militarism, a former prostitute, Sada, goes to work as a maid in a brothel. The house's...
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In the Realm of the Senses
(1976)
DVD
Release Date: 04/28/2009
In 1936, in the midst of rising Japanese militarism, a former prostitute, Sada, goes to work as a maid in a brothel. The house's...
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Ran
(1985)
DVD
Release Date: 11/22/2005
For his 27th film, the "sensei" of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which...
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Ran
(1985)
Blu-ray Disc
(Deluxe Edition)
Release Date: 09/29/2009
For his 27th film, the "sensei" of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which...
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Blood and Bones
(2004)
DVD
Release Date: 11/11/2008
Starring legendary actor/director Beat Takeshi Kitano, this award-winning Japanese feature tells the based-on-a-real-life story of Kim...
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Midnight Eagle
(2007)
DVD
Release Date: 09/23/2008
Takao Osawa (ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU) plays a man who has the opportunity to save his entire country from destruction in this Japanese...
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Shinobi No Mono 2: Vengeance
(1963)
DVD
Release Date: 05/13/2008
VENGEANCE is the 1963 sequel to SHINOBI NO MONO, which takes place one year after the events of the first film. Nobunaga Oda incurs the...
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Story of a Prostitute
(1965)
DVD
(Criterion Collection)
Release Date: 07/26/2005
This 1965 Japanese feature was startling for its use of a female point of view. Set during WWII, it is the story of Harumi, one of a...
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Ringu O / Rasen
(2000)
DVD
(Widescreen; Sensormatic)
Release Date: 09/25/2007
The petrifying Japanese horror flick that inspired its American counterpart, THE RING, is included here, along with RASEN, a sequel that...
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Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles
(2006)
DVD
Release Date: 02/06/2007
Ken Takakura (THE YAKUZA) gives a career-redefining performance as an old fisherman in RIDING ALONE FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES. Estranged...
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Tokyo Godfathers
(2004)
DVD
Release Date: 04/13/2004
Thoroughly modern in its story, its characters, its urban Tokyo setting, its absurdly funny action sequences, and its understated and...
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Love and Honor
(2007)
DVD
Release Date: 11/11/2008
After THE HIDDEN BLADE and THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI, Yoji Yamada concludes his samurai trilogy with LOVE AND HONOR. This Japanese drama...
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Yellow Fangs
(1990)
DVD
Release Date: 01/13/2009
As Japanese legend has it, in 1915 a small town in the mountains was terrorized by 10-foot, 900-pound bear who killed men and carried...
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Bastoni: Stick Handlers
(2002)
DVD
Release Date: 07/15/2003
Director Kazuhiko Nakamura's offbeat and sexually graphic tragicomedy focuses on a young woman's (Amiko Kanetani) misguided efforts to...
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Japan Noir
(2009)
DVD
(3-Disc Set)
Release Date: 02/24/2009
Post-WWII America may have invented film noir, but Japan shows its talent for tarnished heroes and shadow-streaked streets with this...
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Japan's Longest Day
(1967)
DVD
Release Date: 09/05/2006
Set as World War II was drawing to a close, JAPAN'S LONGEST DAY is a drama that takes place as the country finally surrendered.
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