Shall We Dance? (1995) more movies like this

directed by Masayuki Suo
featuring Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eriko Watanabe, Hideko Hara, Akira Emoto

Reminiscent of the Australian hit Strictly Ballroom (1992), this romantic comedy from Japan was a hit in its country of origin, despite (or perhaps because of) its tacit criticisms of the restrictive aspects of Japanese culture. Shohei Sugiyama (Koji Yakusho) is a typically strait-laced Japanese businessmen who, passing by in his commuter train ...

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Young Thugs: Nostalgia (1998) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Naoto Takenaka

Nostalgia deals with the home and school life of a young boy whose world is a mesh of the lovably comic and the brutally violent. Focusing on the emergence of an adult perception in a boy who until now has lived largely in fantasy, the film is a coming-of-age tale that director Takashi Miike professes to be his favorite among his works. Cammila ...

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The Mystery of Rampo (1994) more movies like this

directed by Kazuyoshi Okuyama, Mayazumi Rintaro
featuring Masahiro Motoki, Naoto Takenaka, Michiko Hada, Teruyuki Kagawa, Mikijiro Hira

Edogawa Rampo -- a pen name that is also a homonym in Japanese for Edgar Allen Poe -- amassed a major cult following after writing a series of short stories that masterly meld the erotic and the grotesque. Unlike previous films about of his work -- such as Noboru Tanaka's masterful Stroller in the Attic -- this piece is not so much an adaptation ...

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