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The Famous Sword Bijomaru (名刀美女丸)

The Famous Sword Bijomaru (名刀美女丸, Meitō Bijomaru) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1945 Shochiku jidaigeki about a swordsmith forging a blade for his beloved's revenge, released 8 February 1945, 67 minutes, black-and-white.

The Fan (1996 film)

The Fan is a 1996 American sports thriller directed by Tony Scott, in which Robert De Niro plays an obsessed fan stalking baseball star Wesley Snipes.

The Fantastic Four (unreleased film)

The Fantastic Four is Roger Corman's 1994 low-budget Marvel adaptation, directed by Oley Sassone, completed and promoted but shelved to retain film rights, never officially released, known through bootlegs and the 2015 documentary Doomed!.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a 2025 Marvel Studios superhero film directed by Matt Shakman, introducing the Fantastic Four to the MCU on alternate Earth-828.

The Fantasticks

The Fantasticks, Off-Broadway musical by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt based on Rostand's Les Romanesques; opened 1960 at Sullivan Street Playhouse, ran 17,162 performances, world's longest-running musical, Broadway premiere 2026.

The Far Country

The Far Country is a 1954/1955 Anthony Mann Western starring James Stewart as cattleman Jeff Webster in the Klondike gold rush, the fourth of five Mann-Stewart Universal-International Westerns, filmed at Jasper National Park, Alberta.

The Far Roaming

The Far Roaming (Yuan You, 远游) is a sao-style poem in the Chu Ci, attributed to Qu Yuan and regarded as the ancestor of Chinese roaming-immortal poetry.

The Far Side

The Far Side is Gary Larson's single-panel newspaper cartoon, syndicated 1980-1995 to over 1,900 papers, with over 4,000 surreal, science-themed panels, 23 books, and an official site from 2019.

The Far Side of the World

The Far Side of the World (1984) is Patrick O'Brian's tenth Aubrey-Maturin novel, set in the War of 1812, following HMS Surprise's Pacific pursuit of the American frigate Norfolk; it is the principal source of the 2003 Peter Weir film.

The Farafir

The Farafir (الفرافير, Al-Farāfīr) is a two-act comedy by the Egyptian writer Yusuf Idris, staged and published in 1964 and considered a watershed of Egyptian theater.

The Faraway Tree

The Faraway Tree is Enid Blyton's children's fantasy series (The Enchanted Wood, 1939, onward) about a giant tree whose rotating magical lands appear at its cloud-top, featuring Moon-Face, Silky, and the Saucepan Man, later adapted into a 2026 film.

The Farewell (别告诉她) (2019 film)

The Farewell (别告诉她) is Lulu Wang's 2019 A24 comedy-drama starring Awkwafina, based on her family's real lie of hiding a grandmother's cancer diagnosis behind a staged wedding in Changchun; it won the Spirit Award for Best Feature and a Golden Globe for Awkwafina.

The Farm (2018 film)

The Farm (2018) is an American horror film written and directed by Hans Stjernswärd, starring Nora Yessayan and Alec Gaylord as a couple kidnapped and farmed as human livestock; premiered at Overlook 2018, released by Red Hound Films.

The Farm (The Office)

The Farm is the unproduced Dwight Schrute spin-off of NBC's The Office, announced January 2012 with Rainn Wilson and Paul Lieberstein. NBC passed; its backdoor pilot was re-edited into a poorly received season 9 episode.

The Farmer in the Dell

The Farmer in the Dell (Roud 6306) is a cumulative children's singing game and nursery rhyme, first recorded in Germany in 1826 as "Es fuhr ein Bau'r ins Holz", reaching New York in 1883, with the cheese standing alone at the end.

The Farmer's Wife

The Farmer's Wife (1928) is Alfred Hitchcock's silent rural romantic comedy, adapted from Eden Phillpotts's play, about widowed farmer Samuel Sweetland's disastrous search for a new wife, restored by the BFI as the first of the Hitchcock 9.

The Farming of Bones

The Farming of Bones is a 1998 historical novel by Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat about the 1937 massacre of Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic, narrated by the servant Amabelle Desir.

The Fast and the Furious (2001 film)

The Fast and the Furious is a 2001 American action film starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker about an undercover cop infiltrating a Los Angeles street racing crew.

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (ワイルド・スピードX3 TOKYO DRIFT), 2006, third Fast & Furious film directed by Justin Lin, starring Lucas Black and Sung Kang's Han; lowest-grossing entry ($62M US) later repositioned in the timeline and reappraised as a cult favorite.

The Fast Show

The Fast Show is a British BBC Two sketch comedy series (1994–2000) created by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson, known for rapid-fire, catchphrase-driven sketches like 'Suit you, sir'; aired in the US as 'Brilliant!'.

The Fat Boys

The Fat Boys, originally Disco 3, were a Brooklyn hip-hop trio (Prince Markie Dee, Kool Rock-Ski, Buff Love the Human Beat Box) who pioneered recorded beatboxing, scored with "Wipeout" with the Beach Boys, and starred in Disorderlies.

The Fat Duck

The Fat Duck is Heston Blumenthal's three-Michelin-star restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, opened 16 August 1995 in a former pub. Known for multi-sensory molecular gastronomy, triple-cooked chips, and 2005 World's Best Restaurant recognition.

The Fat of the Land

The Fat of the Land (1997) is The Prodigy's third studio album, released 30 June 1997 on XL Recordings; produced by Liam Howlett, it hit number 1 in over 20 countries and sparked controversy over "Smack My Bitch Up".

The Fatal Eggs

The Fatal Eggs (Роковые яйца) is a satirical science-fiction novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1924 and published in Nedra in 1925, his only major work issued complete in his lifetime.

The Fatal Shore

The Fatal Shore is a 1987 history by Australian critic Robert Hughes covering Britain's transportation of convicts to Australia from 1788 to 1868, the best-selling history book on Australia.

The Fate of a Cockroach

The Fate of a Cockroach (Arabic: مصير صرصار) is a 1966 three-act play by the Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, combining absurdist symbolism with dark comedy.

The Fate of Georgia

The Fate of Georgia (Georgian: Bedi Kartlisa) is an 1839 romantic poem by Nikoloz Baratashvili, dramatizing King Erekle II's debate over the 1783 treaty with Russia.

The Fate of Lee Khan (迎春阁之风波)

The Fate of Lee Khan (迎春阁之风波) is King Hu's 1973 Hong Kong wuxia film about Han rebels trapping a Yuan-dynasty lord at the Spring Inn to recover a war map, starring Angela Mao, Li Li-hua, Hsu Feng, and Roy Chiao with Sammo Hung action direction.

The Fate of Ophelia

"The Fate of Ophelia" is a 2025 song by Taylor Swift, opening track and lead single of The Life of a Showgirl, co-written with Max Martin and Shellback; it rewrites Hamlet's Ophelia, topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks, and debuted live at the 2026 Academy Museum Gala.

The Fate of the Furious

The Fate of the Furious, the eighth Fast & Furious film, is a 2017 Universal action movie directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Vin Diesel and Charlize Theron as Cipher; it set the $532.5 million global opening record and grossed $1.23 billion.