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Eijanaika (Shohei Inamura) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Midori Kurizaki) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Muddy River (Kohei Oguri) [MORE] [ADD] |
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There Was a War When I was a Child (Sadao Seitoh) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Irezumi – Spirit of Tattoo (Yoichi Takabayashi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Antarctica (Koreyoshi Kurahara) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Inamura) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Children of Nagasaki (Keisuke Kinoshita) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Family Game (Yoshimitsu Morita) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The first Tokyo International Film Festival takes place. Akira Kurosawa’s Ran premieres, but the director does not attend. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Ran, 75-year-old Akira Kurosawa’s first film in five years, is released. An adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear with the action taking place in 16th Century Japan, the $11.5 million Franco-Japanese co-production stars Tatsuya Nakadai, Mieko Harada and a transvestite actor going under the single name of Peter. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Juzo Itami’s gastronomic comedy Tampopo (Dandelion) is released. Nobuko Miyamoto stars in the title role as the proprietress of a fast-food noodle restaurant. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Japan 1985: Films of Note |
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And Then (Yoshimitsu Morita) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Bockuchan’s Battlefield (Yutaka Osawa) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Empty Table (Masaki Kobayashi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Adventures of Chatran (Masanori Hata) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Comic Magazine (Yojiro Takita) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Gonza the Spearman (Masahiro Shinoda) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Promise (Yoshishige Yoshida) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Actress (Kon Ichikawa) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Princess from the Moon (Kon Ichikawa) [MORE] [ADD] |
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A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Katsuhio Ôtomo's $10 million feature-length anime Akira, based on his own comic book series, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Shochiku-Fuji, local distributors of Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor yield to a barrage of protests from Bertolucci and film critics after they cut newsreel footage of Japanese atrocities committed at the Nanking Massacre in China. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Japan 1988: Other Films of Note |
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Marusa No Onna (A Taxing Woman) (Itami Juzo) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Onimaru (Yoshida Yoshishige) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Return of a Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Akira Kurosawa begins shooting his latest film, Dreams, an American-Japanese co-production. American director Martin Scorsese has a small role. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Japan 1989: Other Films of Note |
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Circus Boys (Kaizo Hayashi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Rikyu (Hiroshi Teshigahara) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Door (Banmei Takahashi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Heaven and Earth (Haruki Kadokawa) [MORE] [ADD] |