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FILMS OF JAPAN

• "47 RONIN- PART I & II, THE"  1941-42  Kenji Mizoguchi
• "ADRENALINE DRIVE"  1999  Shinobu Yaguchi  DVD AVAILABLE
• "AFRAID TO DIE"  1960  Yasuzo Masumura  DVD AVAILABLE
• "AKIRA"  1988  Katsuhiro Otomo     1-World Review  DVD AVAILABLE
• "ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU"  2001  Shunji Iwai  DVD AVAILABLE
• "AN ACTOR'S REVENGE"  1963   Kon Ichikawa
• "AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON"   1962  Yasujiro Ozu
• "ANGEL DUST"  1996  Sogo Ishii   1-World Review
• "BAD SLEEP WELL, THE"  1959   Akira Kurosawa   1-World Review
• "BALLAD OF NARAYAMA, THE"   1983  Shohei Imamura
• "BANDITS VS. SAMURAI SQUADRON"  1978  Hideo Gosha  DVD AVAILABLE
• "BATTLE ROYALE"  2000  Kinji Fukasaku  DVD AVAILABLE
• "BATTLE ROYALE 2 - REQUIEM"  2003  Kinji Fukasaku  DVD AVAILABLE
• "BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY"  1993   Nakamura Genji 
• "BEING TWO ISN'T EASY"   1962  Kon Ichikawa
• "BLACK LIZARD, THE"  1968  Kinji Fukasaku
• "BLACK RAIN"  1988  Shohei Imamura
• "BLACK ROSE MANSION"  1969  Kinji Fukasaku  DVD AVAILABLE
• "BLACKMAIL IS MY LIFE"  1968  Kinji Fukasaku  DVD AVAILABLE
• "BLIND BEAST"  1969  Yasuzo Masumura  DVD AVAILABLE
• "BLOOD"  1998  Kosuke Suzuki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "BOY'S CHOIR"  1999  Akira Ogata  DVD AVAILABLE
• "BRANDED TO KILL"  1967     Seijun Suzuki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "BROTHER"  2000  Takeshi Kitano  DVD AVAILABLE
• "BURMESE HARP, THE"  1956   Kon Ichikawa
• "BURST CITY"  1982  Sogo Ishii  DVD AVAILABLE
• "CAFE LUMIERE"  2004  Hou Hsiao-hsien  DVD AVAILABLE
• "CARNIVAL IN THE NIGHT"  1982  Masashi Yamamoto  DVD AVAILABLE
• "CHAOS"  1999  Hideo Nakata  DVD AVAILABLE
• "CHIKAMATSU MONOGATARI"   1954  Kenji Mizoguchi
• "CHUSHINGURA  (The Loyal 47 Retainers)"  1962    Hiroshi Inagaki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "COPS VS. THUGS"  1975  Kinji Fukasaku  DVD AVAILABLE
• "CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH"   1960  Nagisa Oshima
• "CURSE, DEATH & SPIRIT"  2006  Hideo Nakata  DVD AVAILABLE
• "DEDICATED LIFE, A"  1994  Kazuo Hara  DVD AVAILABLE
• "DERSU UZALA"  1975  Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "DODES 'KA-DEN"  1970  Akira Kurosawa
• "DOPPELGANGER"  2003  Kiyoshi Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "DOUBLE SUICIDE"  1969   Masahiro Shinoda  DVD AVAILABLE
• "DR. AKAGI (Kanzo Sensei)"  1998  Shohei Imamura  DVD AVAILABLE
• "DRAGON BLUE"  1996  Takuya Wada
• "DREAMS"  1990  Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "DRIFTING WEEDS"  1959   Yasujiro Ozu
• "DRUNKEN ANGEL"  1948  Akira Kurosawa
• "EARLY SUMMER"  1951   Yasujiro Ozu  DVD AVAILABLE
• "EEL, THE"  1997  Shohei Imamura  DVD AVAILABLE
• "EIJANAIKA"  1981  Shohei Imamura  DVD AVAILABLE
• "EMPEROR'S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON, THE"  1987  Kazuo Hara  DVD AVAILABLE
• "ENJO"  1958  Kon Ichikawa
• "EQUINOX FLOWER"  1958   Yasujiro Ozu
• "FALL GUY"  1982  Kinji Fukasaku  DVD AVAILABLE
• "FIGHTING ELEGY"  1966 Seijun Suzuki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "FIREFLY DREAMS"  2001  John Williams  DVD AVAILABLE
• "FIRES ON THE PLAIN"  1959   Kon Ichikawa
• "FIREWORKS (Hana-Bi)"  1997   Takeshi Kitano  1-World Review  DVD AVAILABLE
• "FUNERAL, THE"  1986  Juzo Itami  DVD AVAILABLE
• "GATE OF FLESH"  1964  Seijun Suzuki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "GATE OF HELL"  1954   Teinosuke Kinugasa
• "GEISHA, A"  1953  Kenji Mizoguchi
• "GO, GO SECOND TIME VIRGIN"  1969  Koji Wakamatsu
• "GONIN"  1995  Takashi Ishii
• "GONZA THE SPEARMAN"  1986   Masahiro Shinoda
• "GOOD MORNING (Ohayo)"  1959   Yasujiro Ozu  DVD AVAILABLE
• "GOODBYE CP"  1972  Kazuo Hara  DVD AVAILABLE
• "GOZU"  2003  Takashi Miike  DVD AVAILABLE
• "GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES"   1988  Isao Takahata  DVD AVAILABLE
• "GRAVEYARD OF HONOR"  1976  Kinji Fukasaku  DVD AVAILABLE
• "HANZO THE RAZOR: THE LONGEST ARM OF THE LAW"  1972-1974  Various Directors  BOX SET  DVD AVAILABLE
• "HARAKIRI"  1962  Masaki Kobayashi  DVD AVAILABLE
• "HARP OF BURMA PART 1&2, THE"  Animated   Michio Takiyama
• "HIDDEN FORTRESS, THE"  1958   Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "HIGH AND LOW"  1962  Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "HIMATSURI"  1985  Mitsuo Yanagimachi
• "HOSTEL IN TOKYO, A"  1935  Yasujiro Ozu
• "HUMAN CONDITION PT.1, THE (No Greater Love)"  1958  Masaki Kobayashi
• "HUMAN CONDITION PT.2, THE (Road to Eternity)"  1959  Masaki Kobayashi
• "HUMAN CONDITION PT.3, THE (A Soldier's Prayer)"  1961  Masaki Kobayashi
• "HUNTER IN THE DARK"  1979   Hideo Gosha
• "I BOMBED PEARL HARBOR"   1960  Shue Matsubayashi
• "I LIKE YOU...I LIKE YOU VERY MUCH"  1994  Oki Hiroyuki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "I LIVE IN FEAR"  1955   Akira Kurosawa
• "I WAS BORN BUT..."  1932  Yasujiro Ozu
• "IDIOT, THE"  1951  Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "IF YOU WERE YOUNG: RAGE"  1970  Kinji Fukasaku  DVD AVAILABLE
• "IKIRU"  1952  Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "INLAND SEA, THE"  1991    Lucille Carra  DVD AVAILABLE
• "IN THE REALM OF PASSION" (Empire of Passion)  1978  Nagisa Oshima 
• "IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES"  1976  Nagasi Oshima    1-World Review  DVD AVAILABLE 
• "ISLAND"  1960  Kaneto Shindo
• "KAGEMUSHA"  1980  Akira Kurosawa   1-World Review  DVD AVAILABLE
• "KAGERO-ZA"  1981  Seijun Suzuki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "KIDS RETURN"  1996  Takeshi Kitano  DVD AVAILABLE
• "KIKUJIRO"  1999  Takeshi Kitano  DVD AVAILABLE
• "KILL!"  1968  Kihachi Okamoto  DVD AVAILABLE
• "KWAIDAN"  1964  Masaki Kobayashi  DVD AVAILABLE
• "LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS"   1954  Mikio Naruse
• "LATE SPRING"  1949   Yasujiro Ozu
• "LIFE OF OHARU, THE"  1952   Kenji Mizoguchi
• "LONE WOLF & CUB-BABY CART AT THE RIVER STYX"  1972  Misumi Kenji  DVD AVAILABLE
• "LOWER DEPTHS, THE"  1957  Akira Kurosawa
• "LOWER DEPTHS, THE"  1957/1936  Akira Kurosawa/Jean Renoir  DVD AVAILABLE
• "MABOROSI"  1995  Hirokazu Kore-eda  DVD AVAILABLE
• "MADADAYO"  1993  Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "MAKAI TENSHO: SAMURAI REINCARNATION"  1981  Kinji Fukasaku  DVD AVAILABLE
• "MAREBITO"  2004  Takashi Shimizu  DVD AVAILABLE
• "MEN WHO TREAD ON TIGER'S TAIL"   1945  Akira Kurosawa
• "MINBO..Or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion"  1994  Juzo Itami
• "MISTRESS"  1953  Shiro Toyoda
• "MOON OVER TAO-MAKARAGA" Keita Amamiya  DVD AVAILABLE
• "MOONLIGHT WHISPERS"  1999  Akihiko Shiota  DVD AVAILABLE
• "MYSTERY OF RAMPO, THE"  1994   Kazuyoshi Okuyama    1-World Review  DVD AVAILABLE
• "NANAMI, FIRST LOVE"  1968   Susumu Hani
• "NAOYUKI TSUJI ANIMATION COLLECTION, THE"  1992-2005  Naoyuki Tsuji  DVD AVAILABLE
• "NARAYAMA BUSHI-KO"  1958   Keisuke Kinoshita
• "NO REGRETS FOR OUR YOUTH"  1946   Akira Kurosawa
• "ODD OBSESSION"  1960  Kon Ichikawa
• "OKOGE"  1992  Takehiro Nakajima  DVD AVAILABLE
• "ONE WONDERFUL SUNDAY"  1947  Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "ONIBABA"  1964  Kaneto Shindo
• "OSAKA ELEGY"  1936  Kenji Mizoguchi
• "PALE FLOWER"  1964  Masahiro Shinoda  DVD AVAILABLE
• "PEEP TV SHOW"  2004  Yutaka Tsuchiya  DVD AVAILABLE
• "PHONE"  2002  Byeong-ki Ahn  DVD AVAILABLE
• "PORNOGRAPHERS, THE"  1966  Shohei Imamura  DVD AVAILABLE
• "PRINCESS YANG KWEI FEI"  1955   Kenji Mizoguchi
• "PRISONER MARIA"  1995  Siuji Kataoka  DVD AVAILABLE
• "QUIET DUEL"  1949  Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "RAN"  1985  Akira Kurosawa     1-World Review  DVD AVAILABLE
• "RASHOMON"  1951  Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "RAZOR-SWORD OF JUSTICE, THE"   1972  Kenji Misumi
• "REBEL SAMURAI: SIXTIES SWORDPLAY CLASSICS"  1965-1968  Box Set  DVD AVAILABLE
• "RECORD OF A LIVING BEING"  1955  Akira Kurosawa
• "RECORD OF A TENEMENT GENTLEMAN"  1947  Yasujiro Ozu
• "RED BEARD"  1965  Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "RED LION"  1969  Okamoto Kihachi
• "RHAPSODY IN AUGUST"  1991   Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "RIKYU"  1990  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• "RIKISHA MAN"  1958  Hiroshi Inagaki
• "ROBINSON'S GARDEN"  1987  Masashi Yamamoto  DVD AVAILABLE
• "RONIN-GAI"  1990  Kazuko Kuroki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SABU"  2002  Takishi Miike  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SAMURAI TRILOGY, THE"  1956   Hiroshi Inagaki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SAMURAI 1 - MUSASHI MIYAMOTO"   1955  Hiroshi Inagaki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SAMURAI 2 - DUEL AT ICHIJOJI TEMPLE"   1955  Hiroshi Inagaki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SAMURAI 3 - DUEL AT GANRYU ISLAND"   1956  Hiroshi Inagaki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SAMURAI ASSASSIN"  1965  Okamoto Kihachi  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SAMURAI BANNERS"  1969   Hiroshi Inagaki
• "SAMURAI REBELLION"  1967   Masaki Kobayashi
• "SAMURAI SPY"  1965  Masahiro Shinoda  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SANJURO"  1962  Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SANSHIRO SUGATA"  1943   Akira Kurosawa
• "SANSHO THE BAILIFF"  1954   Kenji Mizoguchi
• "SCANDAL"  1950  Akira Kurosawa
• "SCORE"  1995  Atsushi Muroga
• "SEA IS WATCHING, THE"  2003  Kei Kumai  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SEIJUN SUZUKI: THE TAISHO TRILOGY"  1980-1991  Seijun Suzuki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SEVEN SAMURAI, THE"  1954   Akira Kurosawa    1-World Review  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SHALL WE DANCE?"  1996   Masayuki Suo  1-World Review  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SHINTARO KATSU'S ZATOICHI"  1989  Shintaro Katsu  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SISTERS OF THE GION"  1936   Kenji Mizoguchi
• "SLEEPY EYES OF DEATH - THE CHINESE JADE"  1966  Tokuzo Tanaka
• "SLEEPY EYES OF DEATH - FULL CIRCLE KILLING"  1967  Kimiyoshi Yasuda
• "SLEEPY EYES OF DEATH - SWORD OF ADVENTURE"  1966  Kenji Misumi
• "SLEEPY EYES OF DEATH - SWORD OF FIRE"  1967 Kenji Misumi
• "SNOW COUNTRY"  1967  Shiro Toyoda
• "ST. JOHN'S WORT"  2001  Shimoyama Ten  DVD AVAILABLE
• "STORIES OF FLOATING WEEDS: TWO FILMS BY YASUJIRO OZU"  1934/1959  Yasujiro Ozu  DVD AVAILABLE
• "STORY OF A PROSTITUTE"  1965  Seijun Suzuki
• "STORY OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM, THE"  1939  Kenji Mizoguchi
• "STRAY DOG"  1949  Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "STREET MOBSTER"  1972  Kinji Fukasaku  DVD AVAILABLE
• "STREET OF SHAME"  1956   Kenji Mizoguchi
• "SUICIDE CLUB"  2002  Sion Sono  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SUMMER VACATION - 1999"   1988  Shusuke Kaneko
• "SUN'S BURIAL, THE"  1960   Nagisa Oshima
• "SURE DEATH REVENGE"  1984  Kinji Fukasaku  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SWORD OF DOOM"  1967   Okamoto Kihachi
• "SWORD OF THE BEAST"  1965  Hideo Gosha  DVD AVAILABLE
• "SWORDS OF VENGEANCE: FALL OF AKO CASTLE"  1978  Kinji Fukasaku  DVD AVAILABLE
• "TABOO (GO HATTO)"  1999  Nagisa Oshima   DVD AVAILABLE
• "TAMPOPO"  1987  Juzo Itami     1-World Review
• "TAXING WOMAN, A"  1988   Juzo Itami
• "TAXING WOMAN'S RETURN, A"   1990  Juzo Itami
• "TETSUO - THE IRON MAN"  1988   Shinya Tsukamoto
• "THRONE OF BLOOD"  1957   Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "TOKYO DECADENCE"  1992  Ryu Murakami
• "TOKYO DRIFTER"  1966  Seijun Suzuki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "TOKYO OLYMPIAD"  1965  Kon Ichikawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "TOKYO STORY"  1953  Yasujiro Ozu  DVD AVAILABLE
• "TOKYO, THE LAST MEGALOPOLIS"  1989
• "TRAFFIC JAM"  1991  Mitsuo Kurotsuchi
• "TWILIGHT SAMURAI"  2002  Yoji Yamada  DVD AVAILABLE
• "UGETSU"   1953  Kenji Mizoguchi  DVD AVAILABLE
• "UTAMARO AND HIS FIVE WOMEN"  1946  Kenji Mizoguchi
• "VELVET HUSTLER" 1967  Toshio Masuda
• "VENGEANCE IS MINE"  1979  Shohei Imamura  DVD AVAILABLE
• "VILLAGE OF DREAMS"  1995  Yoichi Higashi  DVD AVAILABLE
• "VIOLENCE AT NOON"  1966  Nagisa Oshima
• "VISAS THAT SAVED LIVES, THE"
• "WARM WATER UNDER A RED BRIDGE"  2001  Shohei Imamura  DVD AVAILABLE
• "WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS"  1960  Mikio Naruse
• "WIFE TO BE SACRIFICED"  1974  Masaru Konuma  DVD AVAILABLE
• "WOMAN CALLED SADA ABE: BEYOND THE REALM OF THE SENSES, A"  1975  Noboru Tanaka
• "WOMAN IN THE DUNES"  1964  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• "YAKUZA DEMON"  2003  Takashi Miike  DVD AVAILABLE
• "YOJIMBO"   1962  Akira Kurosawa  DVD AVAILABLE
• "YOUTH OF THE BEAST"  1963  Seijun Suzuki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "YUMEJI"  1991  Seijun Suzuki  DVD AVAILABLE
• "ZATOICHI - THE BLIND SWORDSMAN'S VENGEANCE  1966  Tokuzo Tanaka
• "ZATOICHI CHALLENGED"  1967  Kenji Misumi
• "ZATOICHI - MASSEUR ICHI AND A CHEST OF GOLD"  1964  Kazuo Ikehiro
• "ZATOICHI MEETS YOJIMBO"  1970  Kihachi Okamoto  DVD AVAILABLE
• "ZATOICHI: THE BLIND SWORDSMAN'S REVENGE"  1965  Akira Inouye
• "ZATOICHI THE OUTLAW"  1967  Satsuo Yamamoto  DVD AVAILABLE
• "ZIGEUNERWEISEN"  1980  Seijun Suzuki  DVD AVAILABLE

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