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1. Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Godzilla's fiftieth Anniversary project, in which Godzilla travels around the world to fight his old foes and his allies plus a new, mysterious monster named Monster X.
Directors: Ryûhei Kitamura, Koji Hashimoto, Shûsuke Kaneko, Toshio Masuda, Takao Okawara, Masaaki Tezuka, Kenshô Yamashita, Kazuki Ômori | Stars: Masahiro Matsuoka, Rei Kikukawa, Don Frye, Maki Mizuno
Votes: 9,661
2. Pom Poko (1994)
PG | 119 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A community of magical shape-shifting raccoon dogs struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development.
Director: Isao Takahata | Stars: Shinchô Kokontei, Makoto Nonomura, Yuriko Ishida, Norihei Miki
Votes: 34,653
3. Hachi-ko (1987)
107 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The true story about a dog's loyalty to its master, even after his death.
Director: Seijirô Kôyama | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa, Toshinori Omi, Toshirô Yanagiba
Votes: 5,845
4. Fukushima 50 (2020)
TV-PG | 122 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu | Stars: Ken Watanabe, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Riho Yoshioka, Takumi Saitô
Votes: 3,379
5. Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey (2004)
TV-Y7 | 89 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Nobita find a place for abandoned cats and dogs to live in 3 million years ago. He and his friends go to the kingdom of cats and dogs again after a thousand years.
Director: Tsutomu Shibayama | Stars: Nobuyo Ôyama, Noriko Ohara, Michiko Nomura, Kaneta Kimotsuki
Votes: 606
6. High & Low: The Worst Episode.0 (2019)
22 min | Action, Comedy
After a fight, Fujio leaves Oya High to live with his grandfather. At the institute, new students vie for control while Tsukasa continues his studies.
Stars: Kazuma Kawamura, Hokuto Yoshino, Yuki Yamada, Gôki Maeda
Votes: 58
7. Gakkô no kaidan (2015– )
54 min | Drama
High-school student Haruna Tsubame becomes the student council president after being persuaded by her peers. With the help of a talented speechwriter, she aims to transform her school using the power of words.
Stars: Suzu Hirose, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Anna Ishibashi, Hana Sugisaki
Votes: 59
8. Aibou: Tokyo Detective Duo (2000–2023)
110 min | Drama
Detective Ukyo Sugishita and his partner solve cases by just the two of them as "Special Task Unit" of MPD where demoted people belong.
Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Atsushi Yamanishi, Kazuhisa Kawahara, Ryo Ono
Votes: 136
9. Kanzen-naru shiiku (1999)
G | 96 min | Drama
A middle-aged man kidnaps a high-school girl with the intention of training her to be the perfect partner.
Director: Ben Wada | Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Hijiri Kojima, Kazuki Kitamura, Asami Sawaki
Votes: 323
10. Burst City (1982)
115 min | Action, Drama, Music
Punk rock gangs and music groups clash with one another and the brutal police force in a futuristic Tokyo setting.
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Takanori Jinnai, Shinya Ohe, Yuto Iseta, Hitomi Tsurukawa
Votes: 900
11. His Motorbike, Her Island (1986)
90 min | Drama, Romance
After a failed romance, a temperamental young biker meets a carefree rural girl while riding through her island hometown and gets her obsessed about riding a motorcycle.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Kiwako Harada, Noriko Watanabe, Riki Takeuchi, Ryôichi Takayanagi
Votes: 685
12. Yakuza 3 (2009 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
Politicians are conspiring to take away Kazuma's land. A person whom Kazuma believed dead has returned, and Kazuma finds himself in the middle of a battle between organized crime divisions.
Director: Daisuke Sato | Stars: Takaya Kuroda, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Shidô Nakamura, Hiroyuki Miyasako
Votes: 717
13. Doctor X (2012– )
Not Rated | 54 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Daimon Michiko is a freelance surgeon who wanders from hospital to hospital because the harsh environment led many doctors to retire. However, Michiko doesn't look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude.
Stars: Ryôko Yonekura, Ittoku Kishibe, Yuki Uchida, Toshiyuki Nishida
Votes: 793
14. Crazy Thunder Road (1980)
97 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
When the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo falls in love with a barmaid and quickly loses his rebellious ideals, the rest of the gang feels betrayed. Especially the reputedly... See full summary »
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Tatsuo Yamada, Masamitsu Ohike, Kôji Nanjô, Nenji Kobayashi
Votes: 608
15. Train Man (2005–2006)
45 min | Comedy, Drama
With the help of an online community, a nerdy and socially awkward man gathers the courage to start dating an attractive lady he met on a train.
Stars: Misaki Itô, Atsushi Itô, Miho Shiraishi, Risa Sudou
Votes: 1,199
16. Mare (2015)
15 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Mare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before her father goes bankrupt, they run away and settle down at a fishing village in Noto. The ... See full summary »
Stars: Tao Tsuchiya, Takako Tokiwa, Kento Yamazaki, Yûko Tanaka
Votes: 87
17. The Queen's Classroom (2005–2006)
45 min | Drama
Maya Akutsu, a new teacher who strives for perfection and punishes students in unorthodox manners. A 12-year-old Kazumi has been able to withstand her strange punishments so far but the other 23 students begin to fold under the pressure.
Stars: Kaho, Mirai Shida, Yûki Amami, Sairi Itô
Votes: 379
18. BraveStorm (2017)
84 min | Action, Sci-Fi
This remake of the 1970s TV series "Silver Mask" and "Super Robot Red Baron" pits two families (one with an armored bionic superhero, and the other a red giant robot) against evil aliens to save Earth and prevent the extinction of mankind.
Director: Junya Okabe | Stars: Shunsuke Daitô, Shu Watanabe, Mitsu Dan, Tom Fujita
Votes: 324
19. Fighting Girl (2001)
Sayoko is a junior college student whom everyone thinks is too aggressive: she gets fired from a boutique job for slapping around shoplifters, then fired from a gas station job for beating ... See full summary »
Stars: Kyôko Fukada, Yoon Son-ha, Kenji Sakaguchi, Yûki Amami
Votes: 21
20. Why Not? (1981)
151 min | Drama
Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Masao Kusakari, Ken Ogata
Votes: 690
21. Channeru wa sono mama! (2019)
Comedy
Meet Yukimaru Hanako, a 22-year-old and a fresh young reporter from Hokkaido. She's just been hired by a local television station to do field reporting, and we are here to watch the launching of her career.
Stars: Ken Yasuda, Yô Ôizumi, Kyôko Yoshine, Akihiro Kakuta
Votes: 426
22. Koko dai panikku (1978)
94 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A high school student rallies his classmates into rebelling violently when the administration refuses to take responsibility for the suicide of one of the students.
Directors: Gakuryû Ishii, Yukihiro Sawada | Stars: Shigeru Yamamoto, Atsuko Asano, Miyoko Akaza, Yoshirô Aoki
Votes: 189
23. Kurosagi (2006)
45 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Kurosaki, aka Kurosagi (Yamashita Tomohisa), is a swindler who cheats other professional con artists to help their victims and avenge the death of his own family. Kurosaki buys information ... See full summary »
Stars: Tomohisa Yamashita, Maki Horikita, Yui Ichikawa, Kôji Katô
Votes: 1,451
24. Emergency Interrogation Room (2014– )
54 min | Mystery
Stars: Yûki Amami, Tetsushi Tanaka, Mokomichi Hayami, Kôsuke Suzuki
Votes: 105
25. First Penguin! (2022)
Biography, Drama
Nodoka Iwasaki is a young single mother with no money, no house, and no work. While Nodoka decides that she will do anything to eat, she meets a fisherman, Hiroshi Kataoka, who offers her "... See full summary »
Stars: Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Wakana Matsumoto, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Votes: 13
26. Yajû shisubeshi (1980)
119 min | Drama, Crime, Action
A journalist steals a gun from a cop after killing him and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.
Director: Tôru Murakawa | Stars: Yûsaku Matsuda, Mako Midori, Akemi Mari, Toshio Kurosawa
Votes: 313
27. Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (1986)
135 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Summer 1937 Japan begins a war with China. Militaristic moods are growing in the country. A group of Japanese schoolchildren do not understand the militaristic hysteria of adults.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Saburô Bôya, Izumi Hara, Yasufumi Hayashi, Wakaba Irie
Votes: 236
28. Seigi no Tenbin (2021–2023)
Drama, Mystery
Kazuya Takano is a lawyer who previously worked as a surgeon. He is a thorough rationalist and is a genius when it comes to thinking and reasoning. Takano was invited to join the ... See full summary »
Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Kazuya Kamenashi, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Nao Honda
Votes: 11
29. Baruto no gakuen (2006)
130 min | Drama, History, Music
German soldiers are transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan after the First World War.
Director: Masanobu Deme | Stars: Ken Matsudaira, Bruno Ganz, Hiroshi Abe, Jun Kunimura
Votes: 740
30. Kaseifu no Mitazono (2016– )
54 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Meet Kaoru Mitazono. A professional housekeeper who is the best at the field and loves to pry into dirty secrets of every household. But Mitazono has secrets, too. One of them is, obviously, that he is a cross dresser.
Stars: Masahiro Matsuoka, Kimiko Yo, Atsuko Hirata, Kei Inoo
Votes: 41
31. Hakuchi: The Innocent (1999)
146 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media Station, a broadcasting center responsible for all of Japan's entertainment.
Director: Macoto Tezuka | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Miyako Koda, Reika Hashimoto, Masao Kusakari
Votes: 269
32. Dr. Coto's Clinic (2003– )
53 min | Drama
After making a serious mistake in his work in Tokyo, talented surgeon Goto Kensuke is invited to take charge of the only clinic on the small island of Yonaguni, Okinawa. It is difficult to ... See full summary »
Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Kô Shibasaki, Saburô Tokitô
Votes: 63
33. Dokuritsu shônen gasshô-dan (2000)
129 min | Drama, Music
The lives of two orphan boys begin to intertwine when the choir and the feelings they share bring them closer to one another.
Director: Akira Ogata | Stars: Atsushi Itô, Sora Tôma, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryôko Takizawa
Votes: 255
34. Enjin (2005– )
Drama
Kanzaki Jiro (Takuya Kimura) (who used to be a star driver back in Japan) is a backup F3000 driver in Europe. During a practice run, he accidentally crashes into his first driver and loses ... See full summary »
Stars: Koyuki, Takuya Kimura, Kaho, Yoshio Harada
Votes: 418
35. Desu pawuda (1986)
63 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Two people, a man and a woman enters a warehouse that will change their life and minds forever.
Director: Shigeru Izumiya | Stars: Shigeru Izumiya, Takichi Inukai, Rikako Murakami, Mari Natsuki
Votes: 365
36. Two Homelands (2019 TV Movie)
History
Kenji Amo is a 2nd generation Japanese-American. He was born in America but went to school in Japan. He returned to America to study at UCLA. Now, Kenji Amo works as a reporter for a newspaper in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles.
Director: Hideta Takahata | Stars: Robert Anderson, Antonio Angelov, Yumi Asô, Thane Camus
Votes: 72
37. Tattoo (1982)
107 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
Director: Banmei Takahashi | Stars: Ryûdô Uzaki, Keiko Takahashi, Misako Watanabe, Kazuko Aoki
Votes: 82
38. Blood Is Sex (1982)
50 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: Shigeru Izumiya | Stars: Izumi Asuka, Tetsuto Hijikata, Sachiko Itô, Banmei Takahashi
Votes: 26
39. The Island Closest to Heaven (1984)
102 min | Drama
A high school girl travels to the island of New Caledonia and has magical adventures.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Miyoko Akaza, Tomoyo Harada, Wakaba Irie, Shigeru Izumiya
Votes: 181
40. Garo: Fang of God (2017)
98 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Ryuga Dogai returns to investigate a new mystery - the theft of Makai Knights Armour. Among the victims are Ryuga's old comrades from the Volcity crisis, Takeru and Aguri. The three will ... See full summary »
Director: Keita Amemiya | Stars: Wataru Kuriyama, Tsunenori Aoki, Junya Ikeda, Masahiro Inoue
Votes: 99
41. Woman with the Red Hat (1982)
104 min | Drama
Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro | Stars: Toshiyuki Nagashima, Kristina van Eyck, Shigeru Izumiya, Alexander Stephan
Votes: 49
42. Shigatsu no sakana (1986)
109 min | Comedy
A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Miyoko Akaza, Nao Asuka, Wakaba Irie, Shigeru Izumiya
Votes: 50
43. Hiru no Sento Zake (2016– )
30 min | Comedy
42-year-old Utsumi Takayuki works for Second Division of Hinode Advertising's Planning and Sales Department. He was transferred from the General Affairs Department one year ago, but he ... See full summary »
Stars: Shigeyuki Totsugi, Akiko Yagi, Tokio Emoto, Aika Hirota
Votes: 112
44. Shiritsu tantei Hama Maiku (2002– )
54 min | Mystery
Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Mika Nakashima, Miwako Ichikawa, Jun Murakami
Votes: 48
45. The Quiz Show (2008–2009)
Action, Drama, Thriller
The Quiz Show features tormented characters in twelve episodes, with one common thread - the mysterious relationship between the deviant Producer and enigmatic Host of The Quiz Show. The ... See full summary »
Stars: Shigeyuki Totsugi, Jin Katagiri, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Reika Kirishima
Votes: 60
46. Smap×Smap (1996–2016)
Comedy, Game-Show, Music
SMAP×SMAP is a Japanese iconic television show hosted by boy band SMAP. Debuting on April 15, 1996(produced by Kansai TV and Fuji TV, aired on Fuji TV) until it ended on December 26, 2016. ... See full summary »
Stars: Masahiro Nakai, SMAP, Takuya Kimura, Gorô Inagaki
Votes: 191
47. Byoshitsu de Nembutsu o Tonaenaide Kudasai (2020)
Drama
An emergency room physician in a hospital is also a Buddhist monk who, as the hospital's chaplain, provides both medical and spiritual healing to its patients.
Stars: Hideaki Itô, Kimiko Yo, Miki Nakatani, Masato Hagiwara
Votes: 8
48. Lady Joker (2013– )
Mystery
The criminal organization has an odd name, but there is nothing lighthearted about their deeds and its consequences. A CD with incriminating material hints at troubles to come and the ... See full summary »
Stars: Takaya Kamikawa, Kyôhei Shibata, Ryo Ishibashi, Satomi Tezuka
Votes: 16
49. Chuzai Keiji (2018– )
Mystery
Police Officer Atsushi Enami was a capable detective with MPD's First Investigation Division. For a certain reason, he was demoted to Okutama Police Station's Mizune Police Substation and ... See full summary »
Stars: Susumu Terajima, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Kanta Satô, Seiran Kobayashi
50. Heat After Dark (1996)
50 min | Action, Crime
Gotou convinces his friend Kanzaki to help him bury the corpse of a man he claims to have killed in self-defense. Kanzaki reluctantly agrees, but when they bring the corpse out to the country they discover he's not actually dead at all.
Director: Ryûhei Kitamura | Stars: Shigeru Izumiya, Toshiyuki Kitami, Masami Miyata, Shun Sugata
Votes: 198