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One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, it is a subtly piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle-aged couple, as the wife₂s city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband₂s small-town simplicity, and a generational sea change, in the form of their headstrong, modern niece, sweeps over their...
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Criterion collection volume 446
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日本語
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After living alone with his daughter for years, a widower must learn how to let her go, letting her be free to move on with her life, by arranging a marriage for her.
4) Ugetsu
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Criterion collection volume 309
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日本語
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In sixteenth century Japan a village potter and his brother-in-law set out for the city to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. Their neglected wives suffer the bitter consequences of their husbands' ambition as one is murdered by soldiers and the other is raped and becomes a prostitute.
5) Sōshun
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日本語
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A salaryman in postwar Tokyo has an illicit affair with an officemate in this moving portrait of a fragile marriage.
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日本語
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Politics makes for strange bedfellows, especially when you're a Princess, where bedding some strange fellow may be your duty to your country. Which is how Nike, fourth Princess of the Rain Dukedom, finds herself being shipped off to marry the King of the Sun Kingdom after losing a game of chance with her older sisters.
7) Ugetsu
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Criterion collection volume 309
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日本語
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"Having refined his craft in the silent era, Kenji Mizoguchi was an elder statesman of Japanese cinema fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other younger directors by the time he made Ugetsu. And with this exquisite ghost story, a fatalistic wartime tragedy derived from stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, he created a touchstone of his art, his long takes and sweeping camera guiding the viewer through a delirious narrative about two villagers...
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Criterion collection volume 446
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日本語
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A gently heartbreaking story about a man's dignifed resignation to life's shifting currents and society's modernization. Though widower Shuhei has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure from their home.
9) Sasameyuki
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Criterion collection volume 567
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日本語
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Japan, 1938. War is looming on the horizon, but the Makioka sisters are far more concerned with their domestic troubles. The sisters live in Osaka, and are well off, traveling together to view the changing of the seasons--cherry blossoms in Kyoto, brilliant leaves in the fall. Tsuruko and Sachiko, the older two, have been married for quite some time. Tradition demands that they marry in order of their birth, but marrying off the shy, conservative...
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日本語
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Tetsuo: A mild-mannered salaryman, out for a drive with his girlfriend, accidentally hits a deranged metal fetishist, and in the process becomes infected by a mysterious disease that slowly transforms his body into scrap metal.
Tetsuo II: Young couple Tomoo and Kana's lives are turned upside down when skinheads kidnap their young son, in the process of which the enraged Tomoo spontaneously grows a gun from his arm--and ends up accidentally killing...