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literally just my japanese movie watchlist


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Movie: Black Cat ( 1968 )
Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.
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Movie: The Twilight Samurai ( 2002 )
As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing 2 young daughters, an aged mother, clan loyalties, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.
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Movie: Perfect Blue ( 1998 )
A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
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Movie: Godzilla ( 1954 )
American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.
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Movie: Seisaku's Wife ( 1965 )
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.
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Movie: First Love ( 2021 )
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 media heads seek an answer in order to sell copy. A psychologist is writing a book about the character and incident. Her research for the subject matter turn the psychologist inward and things come out of the shadows that perhaps are better left buried deep in the shadows of the psyche.
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Movie: The Caged Flower ( 2013 )
Kaisu, an office employee, who was raped-by-mother's-boyfriend many times and "S" a boy, who is sexually abused by his young mother meet in a chat room on the internet. It starts with some innocent flirting, but soon they end up in a master-slave relationship, where the boy gives the assignments and the girl performs them. Some time later they meet each other in real life and the games are no longer so innocent.
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Movie: Ghost in the Shell ( 1996 )
A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
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Movie: The Eel ( 1998 )
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.
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Movie: Affair in the Snow ( 1968 )
In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had platonic feelings.
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Movie: The Wizard of Oz ( 1982 )
Animated version of the classic story of a young farmgirl who is transported to the magic land of Oz.
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Movie: Josee, the Tiger and the Fish ( 2021 )
Tsuneo is a university student and Josee is a young girl who has rarely gone out of the house by herself due to her being unable to walk. The two meet when Tsuneo finds Josee's grandmother taking her out for a evening walk.
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Movie: Fragtime ( 2019 )
What would you do if you could stop time? Moritani for one is using her unusual ability to stop time for three minutes a day to observe the people around her. One day, she chooses to "observe" class idol Murakami's panties-only to find herself in a very compromising situation when her classmate turns out to be immune to her power.
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Movie: Hakubo ( 2019 )
"Hakubo" is a heartwarming love story of a boy and a girl living in Iwaki, Fukushima. A high school girl in Fukushima: Ordinary girl who feels insecure about everything except violin. A high school boy in Fukushima: Ordinary boy who loves simple life and painting, but Tohoku earthquake has cast shadow over his life. Two meets in ordinary landscape of northeast Japan. ...Read all
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Movie: Ride Your Wave ( 2020 )
Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love. Just as they become inseparable, Minato loses his life in an accident at sea. Hinako is so distraught that she can no longer even look at the ocean, but one day she sings a song that reminds her of their time together, and Minato appears in the water. From then on, she can summon him in any watery surface as soon as she sings their song, but can the two really remain together forever? And what is the real reason for Minato's sudden reappearance?
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Movie: The Murder Case of Hana & Alice ( 2015 )
Alice transfers to a new school, where students believe that one student per school year is cursed, whom they call Judas Iscariot. Alice is deemed the new Judas, but what happened to the former Judas?
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Movie: The Moment You Fall in Love ( 2017 )
Based on Vocaloid songs from "Kokuhaku Jikko Iinkai ~Renai Series~" by HoneyWorks, the movie is the second film based on the songs, following Tetsuya Yanagisawa's previous anime, "Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita".
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Movie: The Limit of Sleeping Beauty ( 2017 )
Aki Oria (Yuki Sakurai) came to Tokyo ten years ago to become an actress. She is now 29-years-old and works as a magician's assistant. She has no passion for her work or goals to live for. She pretends to be hypnotized on stage. This leads to a blurred line between reality and illusion. Soon, her mental state drifts between the two mental states.
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Movie: The Inerasable ( 2016 )
An author of mystery-novels helps a student to uncover the tragic story of the people who lived in her apartment before which is filled with anger, hatred, murder and suicide.
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Movie: The Hobbit ( 1977 )
A homebody hobbit in Middle Earth gets talked into joining a quest with a group of dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon.
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Movie: Stay ( 2018 )
After losing his job, a recovering addict struggles to survive and meets a free spirited woman, who changes his world, but cannot stay in his life.
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Movie: Godzilla Raids Again ( 1959 )
Fishing scout-pilots are startled to discover a new monster named Anguirus alongside a second Godzilla. The monsters make their way towards Osaka as Japan can only brace for tragedy and relive the horror of Godzilla once more.
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Movie: I Am Waiting ( 1957 )
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
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Movie: Only on Mondays ( 1964 )
Yuka is a "good-time girl" from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal.
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Movie: Irezumi ( 1966 )
A seductive woman gets kidnapped into prostitution. After getting a spider tattoo made on her back, she grows vengeful, leaving several men in her path.
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Movie: Snake Woman's Curse ( 1968 )
An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory.
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Movie: Blind Woman's Curse ( 1970 )
The head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.
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Movie: Belladonna of Sadness ( 1973 )
An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband's lives. After she's eventually banished from her village, the girl makes a pact with the devil to gain magical ability and take revenge.
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Movie: Empire of Passion ( 1978 )
A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger.
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Movie: Shiki Natsuko ( 1980 )
A 20-year-old woman feels entrapped in her relationship with her current boyfriend - she wants out of her "nowhere" life and into something better. To that end, she hooks up with a photographer for whom she poses in the nude. She then starts a relationship with a well-known actor who is able to introduce her to an acting job. Maybe her life will change to the better after all.
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Movie: House on Fire ( 1986 )
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work. Adapted from autobiographical story by Kazuo Dan, who published it a few months before his death
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Movie: Heat Wave ( 1991 )
A woman follows in her late father's footsteps and becomes a gambler, only to meet her father's murderer at a game.
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Movie: Alone in the Night ( 1994 )
Nami, the widow of a disgraced narcotics officer seeks to clear his name by going undercover.
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Movie: Battle Royale ( 2000 )
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
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Movie: Millennium Actress ( 2002 )
A TV interviewer and his cameraman meet a former actress and travel through her memories and career.
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Movie: Dolls ( 2002 )
Three stories of never-ending love.
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Movie: Last Life in the Universe ( 2003 )
A suicidal, obsessively compulsive Japanese librarian is forced to lie low in Thailand with a pot-smoking woman coping with the recent loss of her sister.
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Movie: Tokyo Godfathers ( 2003 )
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo find a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
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Movie: Hatsukoi ( 2006 )
Writer Misuzu Nakahara confesses her involvement in the 300 Million Yen Affair. In the chaotic days of the 1960s, Misuzu, a lonely high school girl from a troubled family, finds a sanctuary with her nihilistic brother Ryo and his friends, who pass day by day hanging around a shadowy café bar and indulging themselves in sex, drugs and alcohol. As the social unrest seeps in and their relationships gradually fall off, Misuzu gets drawn into a dangerous plot against the society set by one of the rebellious boys, Kishi - robbing a bank car of 300 million yen. The two accomplices set out for numerous rehearsals, and their hearts get closer secretly and quietly. On one rainy day, helped by coincidences, the heist goes successful to give a huge impact on Japan, but it only brings Misuzu a great sense of loss and sadness she had never expected.
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Movie: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time ( 2006 )
A high-school girl named Makoto acquires the power to travel back in time, and decides to use it for her own personal benefits. Little does she know that she is affecting the lives of others just as much as she is her own.
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Movie: Street of Shame ( 1959 )
Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo's Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women's daily dramas play out. Each has dreams and motivations. Hanae is married, her husband unemployed; they have a young child. Yumeko, a widow, uses her earnings to raise and support her son, who's now old enough to work and care for her. The aging Yorie has a man who wants to marry her. Yasumi saves money diligently to pay her debt and get out; she also has a suitor who wants to marry her, but she has other plans for him. Mickey seems the most devil-may-care, until her father comes from Kobe to bring her news of her family and ask her to come home.
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Movie: Sailor Suit and Machine Gun ( 1981 )
A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.