Saki Takaoka

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Like a Dragon: Yakuza
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Like a Dragon: Yakuza

Oct. 25, 2024

Like a Dragon: Yakuza

Set in the fictional town of Kamurocho, the story unfolds across two intersecting timelines—1995 and 2005. In 1995, four friends eager to escape ...
Young Thugs: Nostalgia
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Young Thugs: Nostalgia

Sep. 26, 1998

Young Thugs: Nostalgia

Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the ...
A Courtesan with Flowered Skin
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A Courtesan with Flowered Skin

Japan around 1860: popular courtesan Asagiri will be freed soon from her service, yet she cannot imagine any other existence. Until one day at a ...
First Love
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First Love

Feb. 21, 2021

First Love

A university student has the usual dreams and aspirations. It turns out to be a pipe dream and so she murders her own flesh and blood. The usual ...
Last Words
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Last Words

Jun. 08, 2007

Last Words

Nagisa, a high school girl who has been given three months to live. Without telling her widowed father where she is going, she sets out from the ...
The River with No Bridge
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The River with No Bridge

May. 23, 1992

The River with No Bridge

THE RIVER WITH NO BRIDGE begins in 1908 and tells the story of a widow, Fude HATANAKA and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, who live in the small ...
The Harimaya Bridge
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The Harimaya Bridge

Jun. 13, 2009

The Harimaya Bridge

The Harimaya Bridge is a drama about an American man who must travel to rural Japan to claim some important items belonging to his late son, from ...
Nagai sanpo
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Nagai sanpo

Dec. 16, 2006

Nagai sanpo

Matsutaro Yasuda, a retired girl’s High School Principal who has lost his wife to alcoholism and is forsaken by his Daughter, moves to an ...
Masquerade Night
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Masquerade Night

Sep. 17, 2021

Masquerade Night

An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder case will appear at ...
Crest of Betrayal
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Crest of Betrayal

Oct. 22, 1994

Crest of Betrayal

Iuemon is left master less after his master, Lord Asano, attempts to kill the treacherous Lord Kira and out of desperation and due to the extreme ...
Desire
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Desire

Nov. 19, 2005

Desire

Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort ...
The Lowlife
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The Lowlife

Nov. 25, 2017

The Lowlife

Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry . ...
Midnight Diner
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Midnight Diner

Nov. 01, 2014

Midnight Diner

Every night, Master (Kaoru Kobayashi) is busy with customers at the restaurant he runs. He has a worried face, looking at the funerary urn which ...
Detective Katherine
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Detective Katherine

Sep. 05, 2015

Detective Katherine

Katherine Turner initially accompanied her father, Vice President of the United States, on his official trip to Japan but decided to stay longer ...