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Masahiro Motoki

Ryoko Hirosue

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Kimiko Yo

Tetta Sugimoto

Tōru Minegishi

Tatsuo Yamada

Yukiko Tachibana

Yukari Tachibana

Genjitsu Shu

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

Yojiro Takita

Departures

Intrajectory

Angie

Hel Haghenbeck

Departures (2008) HD Trailer

Kundô Koyama

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Yuriy Solomin

Maksim Munzuk

Mikhail Bychkov

B. Khorulev

Vladimir Kremena

Aleksandr Pyatkov

Svetlana Danilchenko

Dmitri Korshikov

Suimenkul Chokmorov

Daniil Netrebin

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

Akira Kurosawa

Dersu Uzala

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Hugo

MösyöErik

Дерсу Узала (Uzala der Kirgise) (Dersu Uzala) (Dersou Ouzala) (Trailer)

Yuriy Nagibin

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Chang Chen

Lisa Yang

Chang Kuo-Chu

Elaine Jin

Chuan Wang

Han Chang

Chiang Hsiu-Chiung

Stephanie Lai

Tan Chih-Kang

Wang Chi-tsan

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

Edward Yang

A Brighter Summer Day

Sam Willwerth

Holly Lee-Phillips 

Reece Beckett

A Brighter Summer Day (1991) Trailer | Bande-annonce | De Edward Yang

A Brighter Summer Day   Trailer

Hung-Ya Yen

Mingtang Lai

Alex Yang

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Machiko Kyō

Mitsuko Mito

Kinuyo Tanaka

Masayuki Mori

Eitarō Ozawa

Sugisaku Aoyama

Mitsusaburō Ramon

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Kichijirô Ueda

Shōzō Nanbu

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.

Kenji Mizoguchi

Ugetsu

Sid Swamy

John

Karl Svenander

Ugetsu (1953) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD]

Masahiro Shinoda on the Blending of Fantasy and Reality in UGETSU

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Yoshikata Yoda

Tatyana Samoylova

Aleksey Batalov

Vasili Merkuryev

Aleksandr Shvorin

Svetlana Kharitonova

Konstantin Kadochnikov

Valentin Zubkov

Antonina Bogdanova

Boris Kokovkin

Ekaterina Kupriyanova

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

Mikhail Kalatozov

The Cranes Are Flying

Connor

Alan John Gerstle

Alberto Mondalban

Film Trailer: Letyat zhuravli / The Cranes Are Flying

The Cranes are Flying (1957)

Viktor Rozov

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Chishū Ryū

Setsuko Hara

Yumeji Tsukioka

Haruko Sugimura

Hohi Aoki

Jun Usami

Kuniko Miyake

Masao Mishima

Yoshiko Tsubouchi

Yôko Katsuragi

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

Yasujirō Ozu

Late Spring

Diego León

Late Spring (1949) - Trailer

Three Reasons: Late Spring

"It's pointless to have a daughter" - Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu)

Kōgo Noda

Henrik Malberg

Birgitte Federspiel

Emil Hass Christensen

Preben Lerdorff Rye

Cay Kristiansen

Ejner Federspiel

Gerda Nielsen

Sylvia Eckhausen

Ann Elisabeth Groth

Susanne Rud

The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, everyone's beliefs are put to the test.

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ordet

Ordet (1955) - trailer

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Jean Renoir

Marcel Dalio

Nora Gregor

Julien Carette

Roland Toutain

Paulette Dubost

Gaston Modot

Mila Parély

Anne Mayen

Eddy Debray

The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all against the backdrop of a looming war.

The Rules of the Game

Jackson Wilburn

Clip

2022 US Re-Release Trailer

Observations on Film Art: THE RULES OF THE GAME

Jean Renoir Introduces The Rules of the Game

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Amir Farrokh Hashemian

Bahare Seddiqi

Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi

Reza Naji

Fereshte Sarabandi

Kamal Mirkarimi

Behzad Rafi

Dariush Mokhtari

Mohammad-Hasan Hosseinian

Masume Dair

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.

Majid Majidi

Children of Heaven

Mr.Blue

Rana

Simone Garcia

Trailer for "Children of Heaven"

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Roy Scheider

Bruno Cremer

Francisco Rabal

Amidou

Ramon Bieri

Peter Capell

Karl John

Friedrich von Ledebur

Chico Martínez

Joe Spinell

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

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