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本能 (1966)
Character: The Master
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring, the sympathetic housekeeper suggests that the Master observe the Yobai , a custom in which the young men of a village steal into the bedrooms of susceptible women to have sex.
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冒険者たち (1975)
Character: N/A
A group of young men go treasure hunting in the sea.
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眠れる美女 (1995)
Character: N/A
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.
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毛沢東--その生涯と文化大革命-- (1969)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Nagisa Oshima's documentary details the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and shows the Communist Party's struggle and cultural upheaval. Made in 1969 for NTV station, this TV documentary also questions Mao's dictator tendency during the cultural revolution.
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湾岸道路 (1984)
Character: N/A
Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.
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忍者武芸帳 (1967)
Character: Kamiizumi Nobutsuna
A young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
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西陣 (1961)
Character: Nô player
The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.
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絞殺 (1979)
Character: N/A
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.
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無理心中 日本の夏 (1967)
Character: N/A
A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.
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竹山ひとり旅 (1977)
Character: Tokura
A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.
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修羅 (1971)
Character: Takubei
Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.
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宴 (1967)
Character: N/A
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultimately becoming a right-wing fundamentalist revolutionary. She marries another man, one totally dedicated to the rigorous practices of Noh theatre, in an arranged marriage, but the bond that connects her with Tate is too strong.
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日本の悪霊 (1970)
Character: Gotô
Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical they look.
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桜の森の満開の下 (1975)
Character: Dainagon
A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
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生きたい (1999)
Character: Director of a hospital
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
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サマー・ソルジャー (1972)
Character: Shimezu
During the Vietnam War, an American G.I. deserts his base in Japan and escapes to Tokyo with the help of his Japanese bar hostess girlfriend. In the capital he gets involved with an anti-war organization while dodging the military police.
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他人の顔 (1966)
Character: Male Patient
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
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午後の遺言状 (1995)
Character: Fujihachiro Ushiguni
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past
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利休 (1989)
Character: Rikyu's Brother-in-Law
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord, unifying the country.
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強虫女と弱虫男 (1968)
Character: Gonbee
After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become hostesses at a cabaret.
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鍵 (1974)
Character: N/A
A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law to sleep with her because the idea arouses him, while also making him insanely jealous. The professor keeps a journal of his fantasies in a locked cupboard and hopes that his wife will find the key and read it.
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藪の中の黒猫 (1968)
Character: Mikado
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
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人間 (1962)
Character: N/A
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
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アジアの曙 (1964)
Character: N/A
The Dawn of Asia (アジアの曙) is a TV drama consisting of thirteen episodes about the trans-China/Japan collaboration of revolutionaries in the early twentieth century. It was Nagisa Oshima’s rare attempt to direct a TV drama in a social atmosphere in which Japan was embracing postwar prosperity as well as the effects of permeating mass media. Making an effort to reach out to the mass audience through a seemingly conventional method of filmic representation, Dawn of Asia takes up the epic of trans-Asiatic solidarity while challenging nationalism on both sides.
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おとし穴 (1962)
Character: Policeman
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
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白昼の通り魔 (1966)
Character: Inagaki, husband of the raped woman
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
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鉄輪 (1972)
Character: Man
A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.
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北斎漫画 (1981)
Character: Karino
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
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