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Moving (お引越し, Shinji Somai, 1993)
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Wait and See (あ、春, Shinji Somai, 1998)
An emotionally distant salaryman faces instability in his professional and personal lives just as his estranged father resurfaces in Somai’s gentle family drama.
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Japan Society Presents Love Letters: Four Films by Shunji Iwai
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New York, New York Omnibus 1
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Society Without Honor And Humanity: Japan’s 1970s Yakuza Films
Kinji Fukasaku’s 1970s gangster movies upended decades of depictions of the yakuza and held up a mirror to Japanese society at the same time.
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