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overview : Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow …

overview : Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company.

overview : Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he …

overview : A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, …

overview : Nakadai Tatsuya, Japan’s greatest living actor, gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji Sanosuke, and elderly samurai forced to …

overview : Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from …

overview : A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are …

overview : Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among …

overview : Kinuko was married to her husband for many years, but her husband passed away. Since then, Kinuko has lived in …

overview : The story of a would-be actor, his larger-than-life classmate and their friends. Unfolding their past and present, Sasaki in My …

overview : A Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well …

overview : On his 18th birthday, Goku receives a mystical Dragonball as a gift from his grandfather. There are only six others …

overview : A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life …

overview : Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they …

overview : Shiino one day finds out that her best friend Mariko has committed suicide. After snatching Mariko's urn from her abusive …

overview : A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking …

overview : Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's family. Neighbors …

overview : With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic …