![]() | Nobody Knows
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $1.95 Yuya Yagira was named Best Actor at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival for his moving portrayal of the older brother trying desperately to support his three younger siblings in writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda's masterful work NOBODY KNOWS.
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![]() | Zatoichi - The Blind Swordsman DVD Collector's Edition Box
Buy new: $98.99 / Used from: $68.85 With ZATOICHI, Takeshi Kitano, best known for such gangster films as VIOLENT COP, BOILING POINT, and BROTHER, makes his first period drama, an updating of the classic Japanese character portrayed by Shintaro Katsu in movies and television from 1962 to 1989.
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![]() | Howl's Moving Castle
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $18.75 Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away") takes moviegoers on an amazing new animated adventure that celebrates the power of love to transform and the resiliency of the human spirit in the face of adversity.
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![]() | Battle Royale: Director's Cut (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $6.96 A sensation in its native Japan and nigh unreleasable in the U.S., Battle Royale is one of the year's most amazing movies-a vicious take-off on reality TV that turns a high-school milieu dominated by cliques and childish relationships into a war zone.
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![]() | The Twilight Samurai
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $7.49 THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI, which was nominated for a 2004 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, is a special kind of movie, loaded with heart and humanity, a very different samurai film that breaks movingly from the traditions of the genre.
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![]() | Tokyo Godfathers
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $6.99 Thoroughly modern in its story, its characters, its urban Tokyo setting, its absurdly funny action sequences, and its understated and ironic self-mockery, TOKYO GODFATHERS is an anime gem from director Satoshi Kon (MILLENNIUM ACTRESS).
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![]() | Cure
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $13.03 A stunningly original take on the traditional serial killer film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CURE follows the determined and tortured trail of detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) as he races against time and logic to solve a baffling string of gruesome, unexplained murders.
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![]() | Pulse
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.82 "Would you like to meet a ghost?" This foreboding question is posed to a young man by his own computer, suddenly able to dial up to the Internet--by itself. Unfortunately for the characters in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's PULSE, inquisitive PCs are the least of their problems.
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![]() | Tony Takitani
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $4.50 TONY TAKITANI is an eloquent, deftly told tale based on a short story published in The New Yorker, written by Japanese bestselling author Haruki Murakami (NORWEGIAN WOOD, KAFKA ON THE SHORE).
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![]() | Dolls
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $8.94 Takeshi Kitano continues alternating between introspective drama and violent films with DOLLS, which he wrote, directed, and edited in between the bloody gangster picture BROTHER (2000) and the samurai update THE BLIND SWORDSMAN.
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![]() | Cafe Lumiere
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.50 Hou Hsiao-Hsien, one of China's greatest filmmakers, honors the memory of the great Yasujiro Ozu in the beautiful CAFÉ LUMIERE.
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![]() | Pistol Opera
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $3.90 Seijun Suzuki, the legendary Japanese director probably best known for the cult hit BRANDED TO KILL, returns with this movie about a league of killers of hire.
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![]() | The Great Yokai War
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $8.95 After being crowned the "Kirin Rider," a young boy takes the lead in the battle between the ancient Japanese Yokai spirits and the enemy monsters. An extravagant epic, GREAT YOKAI WAR is a remake of the 1968 film YOKAI DAISENSO. The film is directed by Takashi Miike and features a cast including Chiaki Kuriyama
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![]() | Ping Pong [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]
Buy used from: $30.99 "Ping Pong" is based on a Japanese manga, or comic, about two best friends and longtime table tennis players who wind up competing against each other in a tournament.
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![]() | 2LDK
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.99 Anyone who's ever had a difficult roommate will relate to this outrageous and violent Japanese comedy. Small town girl Kimi and her glamorous, big city roommate, Lana, share a Tokyo apartment (2 bedroom, living room, dining room, and kitchen, hence the titular abbreviation).
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![]() | Who's Camus Anyway?
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.20 On the surface, Mitsuo Yanagimachi's Who's Camus Anywayis a breezy, playfully cineliterate account of a group of Tokyo university students making a movie.
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