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A Long Goodbye / Nagai owakare (2019)

Family

A seventy-year-old retired school headmaster informs his wife and daughters that he has Alzheimer's disease. They are all concerned, but react differently due to their individual situations. The family watches as the husband and father regresses due to the disease and loses his memory. Interestingly, there are sparkling moments of his life of which the man will not let go.

Starring: Yû Aoi, Yûko Takeuchi, Chieko Matsubara, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yuito Kamata
Director: Ryôta Nakano

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Tags: Chieko Matsubara, Ryôta Nakano, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yû Aoi, Yuito Kamata, Yûko Takeuchi

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Mori, The Artist's Habitat / Mori no iru basho (2018)

Drama

Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu's garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for his paintings, including numerous bugs and cats. A sweet and heartwarming day begins for Morikazu, who gazed at these garden creatures on a daily basis for over three decades, and those who love him.

Starring: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kirin Kiki, Yû Fukuda
Director: Shûichi Okita

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Tags: Kirin Kiki, Shûichi Okita, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yû Fukuda

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The Crimes That Bind / Inori no maku ga oriru toki (2018)

Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Michiko came to Toronto to visit Hiromi, but is instead found murdered. The renter of Michiko's place is missing. The police is having a hard time finding clues and solving the case. There are not any clues and a connection between the dead and absent is not forthcoming. The only hint is an item found near the corpse, but it complicated the matters because it makes the file personal to one of the detectives assigned to the murder.

Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Nanako Matsushima, Junpei Mizobata, Rena Tanaka, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ran Itô, Fumiyo Kohinata
Director: Katsuo Fukuzawa

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Tags: Fumiyo Kohinata, Hiroshi Abe, Junpei Mizobata, Katsuo Fukuzawa, Nanako Matsushima, Ran Ito, Rena Tanaka, Tsutomu Yamazaki

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The Magnificent Nine / Tono, risoku de gozaru! (2016)

Comedy | History

It is eighteenth century Japan and the residents of a poor town lead a typically meagre life. Then nine residents, which include Juzaburo, hatch a scheme to improve their lots by running a pawn and loan business with the proceeds being distributed among the townfolk. However, the plan is risky with such commerce and profiteering being frowned upon in a society with a caste system. Based on a novel by Isoda Michifumi, The Magnificient Nine features a cast of well-known Japanese cinema familiars.

Starring: Sadao Abe, Eita, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yûko Takeuchi, Ryûhei Matsuda, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura

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Tags: Eita, Ryûhei Matsuda, Sadao Abe, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yoshihiro Nakamura, Yûko Takeuchi

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The Emperor in August / Japan's Longest Day / Nihon no ichiban nagai hi ketteiban (2015)

Drama | History | War

On August 14th, 1945, at an Imperial conference, the Showa Emperor, Hirohito (Masahiro Motoki), finally decided to accept the Potsdam Declaration. However, some young firebrand Army officers insisted on continuing the war and conspired to launch a coup. Anami (Koji Yakusho), the Minister of War, was pressed to make an extremely difficult decision.

Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Tôri Matsuzaka
Director: Masato Harada

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Tags: Koji Yakusho, Masahiro Motoki, Masato Harada, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Tôri Matsuzaka, Tsutomu Yamazaki

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Farewell to the Ark / Saraba hakobune (1984)

Fantasy | Mystery | Romance

Su-e and her cousin Sutekich, a descendant of one of the village clans, live together but have been forbidden by her father to have sexual contact. Like other villagers, he believes that if cousins have children together, the children will suffer serious birth defects. His remedy is to make Su-e wear a large, ugly chastity belt. Unable to take the ridicule of his fellow villagers, Sutekichi stabs the head of the clan to death and then runs away with Su-e. After some time elapses, the two make their way back to the village, but by then Sutekichi is suffering the effects of his actions.

Starring: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Mayumi Ogawa, Yoshio Harada, Yôko Takahashi
Director: Shûji Terayama

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Tags: Mayumi Ogawa, Shûji Terayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yôko Takahashi, Yoshio Harada

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Village of the Eight Tombs / Village of Eight Gravestones / Yatsuhaka-mura (1977)

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors.

Starring: Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yôko Yamamoto, Etsuko Ichihara, Ninako Yamaguchi
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura

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Tags: Etsuko Ichihara, Kenichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Ninako Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yôko Yamamoto, Yoshitaro Nomura

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Shield of Straw / Wara no tate (2013)

Action | Thriller

Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru (Tatsuya Fujiwara). Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing. Three months after the murder of his granddaughter, Ninagawa places a whole page ad in the 3 big Japanese newspapers. The ad states "Please kill this man Kunihide Kiyomaru and I will pay you 1,000,000,000 yen as a reward." Meanwhile, Kunihide Kiyomaru sees the ad and begins to fear for his life. Kunihide Kiyomaru then turns himself in at the Fukuoka Police Station. Five detectives from the security section (SP) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department travel to Fukuoka to escort Kunihide Kiyomaru back to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The distance between Fukuoka and Tokyo is apprixmately 1,200 km. During their fateful trip, a significant portion of the Japanese population plot to kill Kunihide Kiyomaru. Many of those people, actually pursue Kunihide Kiyomaru while he goes back to Tokyo to get the 1 billion yen reward. The lonely fight of the five detectives to protect this man begins…

Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takao Ohsawa, Gorô Kishitani, Masatô Ibu, Kento Nagayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo, Hirotarô Honda
Director: Takashi Miike

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Tags: Gorô Kishitani, Hirotarô Honda, Kento Nagayama, Kimiko Yo, Masatô Ibu, Nanako Matsushima, Takao Ohsawa, Takashi Miike, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Tsutomu Yamazaki

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Play it, Boogie-Woogie / Slow na boogie ni shitekure (1981)

Drama

Slow na boogie ni shitekure (also known as "Play it, Boogie-Woogie") is 1981 Drama film directed by Toshiya Fujita, and written by Yoshio Kataoka and Eiichi Uchida , starring Atsuko Asano, Masato Furuoya, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yûko Asano, Renji Ishibashi and Kahori Takeda.

Starring: Atsuko Asano, Masato Furuoya, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Hiroko Asano
Director: Toshiya Fujita

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Tags: Atsuko Asano, Hiroko Asano, Masato Furuoya, Toshiya Fujita, Tsutomu Yamazaki

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Tampopo / Dandelion (1985)

Comedy

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect fast-food noodle restaurant. Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food to an old lady terrorizing a shopkeeper by compulsive squeezing of his wares.

Starring: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kôji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka
Director: Jûzô Itami

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Tags: Jûzô Itami, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Nobuko Miyamoto, Rikiya Yasuoka, Tsutomu Yamazaki

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Departures / Okuribito (2008)

Drama | Music

Daigo Kobayashi is a young married cellist who played in an orchestra that has just been disbanded. Suddenly on the street without a job, Daigo decides to move back to his hometown with his wife. There he gets a job as an undertaker. He sees himself as a sort of gatekeeper between life and death. However, Daigo's work is despised by all the people around him. But it is through his relationship with death on a daily basis that Daigo begins to understand what life is really about.

Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Director: Yôjirô Takita

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Tags: Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yôjirô Takita

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Red Beard / Akahige (1965)

Drama

In 19th century Japan, a rough tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan, Miyuki Kuwano
Director: Akira Kurosawa

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Tags: Akira Kurosawa, Miyuki Kuwano, Reiko Dan, Toshirô Mifune, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yûzô Kayama

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Kagemusha / The Shadow Warrior (1980)

Drama | History | War

On the death of a clan chief his place is taken by the lookalike hired to overlook the battlefields while the chief is really busy elsewhere.

Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara
Director: Akira Kurosawa

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Tags: Akira Kurosawa, Kenichi Hagiwara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki