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	Title	Author	Year	Subtitles	Length	Rating
He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while... 1	2046	Kar Wai Wong	2004	English	129 mins	Like (0 likes)
Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor... 2	Ai no korîda	Arte	1976	French	109 mins	Like (0 likes)
3	Ai no mukidashi (Love Exposure )	Film 4	2008	English	237 mins	Like (0 likes)
Still Walking is a family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day... 4	Aruitemo aruitemo (Still Walking)	Hirokazu Koreeda	2008	English	115 mins	Like (0 likes)
Noriko is 27 years old and still living with her widowed father. Everybody tries to talk her into marrying, but Noriko wants to stay taking care of her father. 5	Banshun	Yasujirô Ozu	1949		108 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act. 6	Batoru rowaiaru	Kinji Fukasaku	2000	English	114 mins	Like (0 likes)
Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students are sent to an island with one objective: kill international terrorist Shuya Nanahara. 7	Batoru rowaiaru II: Chinkonka	Kenta Fukasaku	2003	English	134 mins	Like (0 likes)
Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey", set in the deep south during the 1930's. In it, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. 8	Brother	Takeshi Kitano	2000	English	114 mins	Like (0 likes)
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths. 9	Chakushin ari	Takashi Miike	2003	English	112 mins	Like (0 likes)
The first chapter of a two-part story centered on a battle fought in China's Three Kingdoms period (220-280 A.D.). 10	Chi bi (Red Cliff )	John Woo	2008		150 mins	Like (0 likes)
After thirteen and half years in prison for kidnapping and murdering the boy Park Won-mo, Geum-ja Lee is released and tries to fix her life... 11	Chinjeolhan geumjassi	Chan-wook Park	2005	English	112 mins	Like (0 likes)
12	Desu nôto (Death Note)	Shusuke Kaneko	2006	English	126 mins	Like (0 likes)
13	Desu nôto: The last name (Death Note : The Last Name)	Shusuke Kaneko	2006	English	141 mins	Like (0 likes)
14	Gedo senki (Tales from Earthsea)	Goro Miyazaki	2006		115 mins	Like (0 likes)
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting... 15	Gohatto	Nagisa Oshima	1999	English	104 mins	Like (0 likes)
16	Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu	Takashi Miike	2003	English	130 mins	Like (0 likes)
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers. 17	Gonin	Takashi Ishii	1995	English	110 mins	Like (0 likes)
A community of magical shapeshifting raccoons desperately struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development. 18	Heisei tanuki gassen ponpoko (Pom Poko)	Isao Takahata	1994		119 mins	Like (0 likes)
A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister's struggle to survive in Japan during World War II. 19	Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies)	Isao Takahata	1988	English	89 mins	Like (0 likes)
The blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda. 20	Ichi	Fumihiko Sori	2008	French	120 mins	Like (0 likes)
The film follows three characters on a tour of the remote Yunman province of China where they travel with a horse to deal with legal disputes in mountain villages... 21	Ju-on	Takashi Shimizu	2000	English	89 mins	Like (0 likes)
22	Kagemusha	Akira Kurosawa	1980	English	179 mins	Like (0 likes)
During the time of change of the mid-19th Century, Yaichiro is bid farewell by his fellow samurai friends... 23	Kakushi ken oni no tsume	Yôji Yamada	2004	English	132 mins	Like (0 likes)
24	Kaze no tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind)	Hayao Miyazaki	1984		117 mins	Like (0 likes)
Shou's father Norio finds his son in a rather meaningless existence in Tokyo dominated by alcohol and porn videos... 25	Kiraware Matsuko no isshô (Memories of Matsuko)	Tetsuya Nakashima	2006	English	130 mins	Like (0 likes)
Takeda (Shun Sugata) is an honest police officer, father and husband, but after he's promoted to detective he quickly becomes embroiled in dirty back room dealings... 26	Kokuhaku (Confessions)	Tetsuya Nakashima	2010		106 mins	Like (0 likes)
Forth film in the Lone Wolf and Cub series. Ogami is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin. Gunbei Yagyu, an enemy samurai, happens upon Ogami's son, and sees his chance for revenge. 27	Kozure Ôkami: Oya no kokoro ko no kokoro	Buichi Saito	2010	French	81 mins	Like (0 likes)
Forth film in the Lone Wolf and Cub series. Ogami is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin. Gunbei Yagyu, an enemy samurai, happens upon Ogami's son, and sees his chance for revenge. 28	Kozure Ôkami: Oya no kokoro ko no kokoro	Buichi Saito	1972	French	81 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain. 29	Kozure Ôkami: Shinikazeni mukau ubaguruma	Buichi Saito	1972	French	89 mins	Like (0 likes)
The adventures of a 1920's bush pilot who just happens to look like a humanoid pig. 30	Kurenai no buta (Porco Rosso)	Hayao Miyazaki	1992		94 mins	Like (0 likes)
31	Kuroi Ame (Black Rain)	Shohei Imamura	1989	English	123 mins	Like (0 likes)
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it. 32	Letters from Iwo Jima	Clint Eastwood	2006	English	141 mins	Like (0 likes)
33	Majo no takkyûbin (Kiki's Delivery Service )	Hayao Miyazaki	1989		103 mins	Like (0 likes)
34	Metoroporisu (Metropolis)	Film 4	2001	English	108 mins	Like (0 likes)
35	Mimi wo sumaseba (Whisper of the Heart )	Yoshifumi Kondô	1995		111 mins	Like (0 likes)
36	Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke)	Hayao Miyazaki	1997		134 mins	Like (0 likes)
Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori. 37	Noruwei No Mori	Tran Anh Hung	2010		133 mins	Like (0 likes)
Two boys go into a silence strike to pressurize their parents into buying them a TV set. 38	Ohayô	Yasujirô Ozu	1959		94 mins	Like (0 likes)
39	Okuribito (Departures)	Yôjirô Takita	2008	English	130 mins	Like (0 likes)
40	Omohide poro poro (Only Yesterday)	Isao Takahata	1991		118 mins	Like (0 likes)
An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent. 41	Only Yesterday	Isao Takahata	1991	English	118 mins	Like (0 likes)
42	Ososhiki (The Funeral)	Juzo Itami	1984	English	124 mins	Like (0 likes)
An animated adventure centered on a 5-year-old boy and his relationship with a goldfish princess who longs to become human. 43	Ponyo (Gake no ue no Ponyo )	Hayao Miyazaki	2008		101 mins	Like (0 likes)
A flamboyant thief and his gang struggle to free a princess from an evil count's clutches and to learn the hidden secret to a fabulous treasure that she holds part of a key to. 44	Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (The Castle of Cagliostro)	Hayao Miyazaki	1979		110 mins	Like (0 likes)
45	SanshÃ´ DayÃ»	Kenji Mizoguchi	1954	English	120 mins	Like (0 likes)
46	Semishigure	Mitsuo Kurotsuchi	2005		131 mins	Like (0 likes)
In the middle of her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters; where humans are changed into animals; and a bathhouse for these creatures. 47	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi	Hayao Miyazaki	2001	English	125 mins	Like (0 likes)
Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate Lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France... 48	Shimotsuma monogatari (Kamikaze Girls)	Tetsuya Nakashima	2004	English	102 mins	Like (0 likes)
49	Taiyo no oji: Horusu no daiboken	Isao Takahata	1968	English	82 mins	Like (0 likes)
In Treasure Town, life can be both peaceful and violent. This is never truer than for our heroes, Black and White... 50	Tekkon kinkurîto	Michael Arias	2006		103 mins	Like (0 likes)
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle. 51	Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (Castle in the Sky)	Hayao Miyazaki	1986		124 mins	Like (0 likes)
52	The Black Angel (Original DVD)	Takashi Ishii	1997	English	95 mins	Like (0 likes)
After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him. 53	Tôkyô Nagaremono	Seijun Suzuki	1966	French	89 mins	Like (0 likes)
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company. 54	Tôkyô sonata	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	2008	English	120 mins	Like (0 likes)
When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wonderous forest spirits who live nearby. 55	Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbour Totoro )	Hayao Miyazaki	1988	English	86 mins	Like (0 likes)
When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic. 56	Tony Takitani	Jun Ichikawa	2004	English	76 mins	Like (0 likes)
As a young man returns home after his first year away at college he recalls his senior year of high school and the iron-willed, big city girl that turned his world upside down. 57	Umi ga kikoeru (Ocean Waves )	Tomomi Mochizuki	1993		72 mins	Like (0 likes)
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering paparazzo journalist living in Rome. 58	Vital	Shinya Tsukamoto	2004	English	86 mins	Like (0 likes)
A young man is initiated into a Yakuza band. 59	Young Yakuza	Jean-Pierre Limosin	2007	French	90 mins	Like (0 likes)
The blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda. 60	Zatôichi	Takeshi Kitano	2003	English	116 mins	Like (0 likes)

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