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Scandal (醜聞, Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
The battle for the soul of the post-war society is fought in the body of a conflicted lawyer in Akira Kurosawa’s seasonal morality tale.
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Rashomon (羅生門, Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
A series of witnesses give conflicting accounts of a death in the forest in Akira Kurosawa’s exploration of the limits of objective truth.


The Most Beautiful (一番美しく, Akira Kurosawa, 1944)
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The Angry Street (怒りの街, Mikio Naruse, 1950)
A sociopathic student takes revenge on a changing society by seducing wealthy women in Mikio Naruse’s brooding noir.


The Munekata Sisters (宗方姉妹, Yasujiro Ozu, 1950)
Two sisters with contrasting outlooks clash in their responses to failed marriage and potential romance in an unusually bitter Ozu melodrama
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What's a Production Committee? #shorts
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Happy Thanksgiving with a Non-Thanksgiving themed cartoon: “Land of the Lost Jewels” (1950)
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