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Five Points, 1863, and the nativist butcher who runs it.

The Osage murders of the 1920s, told as a marriage.

One of Shinto’s holiest shrines, said to house the sacred sword of the imperial regalia, set in a 1,000-year-old camphor forest.

Buddhist temple where three million people come at New Year to ward off bad luck — and where the incense-smoke ritual is part of the visit.

Shrine to the god of learning where students pray before exams, reached along a lane of plum-blossom mochi shops.

Scorsese's electric rise-and-fall mob saga (1990).

De Niro's insomniac cabbie and the most quoted mirror scene in cinema.

Jake LaMotta destroys everyone around him, in black and white.