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Ozu's widowed father persuading his daughter to marry, told in tatami-level stillness.

A family of petty thieves in Tokyo takes in an abused girl; Kore-eda's Palme d'Or.

Watch the movie Lost in Translation, a film about two Americans forming a connection in Tokyo

A Tokyo toilet cleaner's days, cassettes and trees; Wenders and Koji Yakusho.

Godzilla attacks a defeated Japan in 1947; the $15 million film that beat Hollywood's effects.

Three homeless people find a baby on Christmas Eve in Tokyo; Kon's warm one.

Four children abandoned in a Tokyo flat, based on a true case; the boy won Best Actor at Cannes at 14.

A tiny Shinjuku diner open from midnight and the regulars' dishes; the calmest series on Netflix.