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Film · 10 connectionsThe story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions.
Directed byTatsumi Kumashiro
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1991 · 128 min · Drama
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
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1981 · 140 min · Drama · Mystery · Romance
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
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1991 · 119 min · Animation · Drama · Romance
In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
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1974 · 85 min · Drama · Romance
A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.
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1980 · 144 min · Drama · Mystery
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
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1982 · 107 min · Crime · Drama · Romance
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
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1986 · 90 min · Drama · Romance
Ko, a motorbike enthusiast from the city wandering the Japanese countryside, falls for the carefree local Miyo and teaches her how to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy, Ko begins to fear she's destined to crash.
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1979 · 124 min · Fantasy · Romance
When a lone traveller stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants, including lovers Akira and Yuri, in their hands.
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1985 · 134 min · Drama
Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.
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1987 · 107 min · Drama · Family · History
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
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