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Highest-ranked title
Leonard Schrader has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1980s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.
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A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
Dir. Paul Schrader · With Ken Ogata, Kenji Sawada, Bandō Mitsugorō X

Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
Dir. Paul Schrader · With Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Eiji Okada

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.
Dir. Héctor Babenco · With William Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Sonia Braga