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Sabu (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, bleak, rough ...
Plot: prison life, friendship, false accusation, culture clash, dishonesty, prison, isolation, survival, introspection, fall in love, life is a bitch, frame up ...
Place: japan
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The Scarlet Camellia (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 163 min.
Story: In this Japanese drama, a young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. First she torches her parents' villa, and then slaughters all her lascivious mother's lovers. Because the girl is so ...
Style: detective, jidai geki
Plot: multiple murder, attempted rape, presumed dead, biological father, mother daughter relationship, adultery, revenge, suicide, woman, girl, scissors, set on fire ...
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 7.4
 3K
Kill! (1968)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In this pitch-black action comedy by Kihachi Okamoto, a pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, ...
Style: dark comedy, serious, realistic, jidai geki, spoof ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, martial arts, medieval, exploitation, swordplay, clan, ancient, ronin, betrayal, yakuza, dark humor, righting the wronged ...
Time: year 1968, 19th century, 60s, 1830s
Place: japan
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Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead.
Style: splatter, captivating, realistic, serious, offbeat ...
Plot: samurai, female nudity, martial arts, medieval, sexploitation, buried alive, edo period, violent, rape, nudity, violent content, fighting the system ...
Time: middle ages
Place: japan, asia
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 6.5
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Edo Porn (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai, a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
Style: manga, jidai geki, erotic
Plot: nude model, female nudity, painter, art, single father, master apprentice relationship, suicide by hanging, obsession, father daughter relationship, biopic, fetish, samurai ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s
Place: japan, mount fuji
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 8.3
 19K
Dororo (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones ...
Style: anime, disturbing, captivating, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: samurai, danger, demon, friendship, society, uncover truth, violence, fight, human versus monster, supernatural, poverty, losing-it hero ...
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 7.5
 51K
Zatoichi (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Zatôichi is a 19th century blind nomad who makes his living as a gambler and masseur. However, behind this humble facade, he is a master swordsman gifted with a lightning-fast draw and breathtaking precision. While wandering, Zatôichi discovers a ...
Style: atmospheric, humorous, exciting, harsh, stylized ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, sword fight, master warrior, fencing, zatoichi, violence, gang, good versus evil, protector, blind character, swordsman ...
Time: 19th century, year 2003, 1800s, 2000s
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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Torn Priestess (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min.
Story: A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulant (trainee nun), she catches her fellow sisters engaging in lesbianism, fighting over nothing, ...
Style: erotic, jidai geki, sexploitation film
Plot: cannibal, nunsploitation, erotica, nun, cannibalism, sexploitation, rape, flesh eating, female homosexuality, lesbian nun, woman, lesbian sex ...
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