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1. Inception (2010)

PG-13 | 148 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe

Votes: 2,554,608 | Gross: $292.58M

2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

PG | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Charlie, a young boy from an impoverished family, and four other kids win a tour of an amazing chocolate factory run by an imaginative chocolatier, Willy Wonka, and his staff of Oompa-Loompas.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter

Votes: 529,879 | Gross: $206.46M

3. Your Name. (2016)

PG | 106 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person.

Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita, Aoi Yûki

Votes: 321,343 | Gross: $5.02M

4. Audition (1999)

R | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura

Votes: 89,341

5. Babel (I) (2006)

R | 143 min | Drama

Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Mohamed Akhzam

Votes: 317,313 | Gross: $34.30M

6. Cure (1997)

Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Masato Hagiwara, Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa

Votes: 23,217 | Gross: $0.09M

7. Battle Royale (2000)

Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama

Votes: 194,634

8. Shoplifters (2018)

R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.

Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Kirin Kiki, Mayu Matsuoka

Votes: 86,596 | Gross: $3.31M

9. Thank You for Smoking (2005)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama

Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his 12-year old son.

Director: Jason Reitman | Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Cameron Bright, Maria Bello, Joan Lunden

Votes: 229,080 | Gross: $24.79M

10. All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

Unrated | 146 min | Crime, Drama, Music

The problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou's dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society.

Director: Shunji Iwai | Stars: Hayato Ichihara, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayumi Ito, Takao Osawa

Votes: 11,231 | Gross: $0.02M

11. Departures (2008)

PG-13 | 130 min | Drama

Soon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo learns that his orchestra is disbanding. He moves back to his hometown with his wife, where he answers an ad for what Daigo thinks is a travel agency but is, in actuality, a mortuary.

Director: Yôjirô Takita | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Votes: 55,020 | Gross: $1.50M

12. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama

A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda

Votes: 13,816 | Gross: $0.44M

13. Happy Hour (2015)

Not Rated | 317 min | Drama

A slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe.

Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura

Votes: 2,959

14. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)

121 min | Drama, Romance

An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.

Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Votes: 9,853

15. The Pillow Book (1995)

Not Rated | 126 min | Drama

A woman with a body-writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata

Votes: 13,657 | Gross: $2.29M

16. Maborosi (1995)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama

A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.

Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Makiko Esumi, Takashi Naitô, Tadanobu Asano, Gohki Kashiyama

Votes: 7,341

17. Good Morning (1959)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake

Votes: 11,069

18. Come See the Paradise (1990)

R | 138 min | Drama, Romance, War

The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi

Votes: 3,061 | Gross: $0.85M

19. Early Summer (1951)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance

A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Chishû Ryû, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake

Votes: 9,694

20. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010)

Not Rated | 162 min | Animation, Drama, Family

A week before Christmas, Kyon wakes up in a world where the SOS Brigade doesn't exist. Mikuru and Yuki don't recognize him, and Haruhi and Itsuki seem to have vanished.

Directors: Noriyuki Kitanohara, Kazuya Sakamoto, Noriko Takao, Yasuhiro Takemoto, Hiroko Utsumi, Naoko Yamada, Mitsuyoshi Yoneda, Tatsuya Ishihara | Stars: Aya Hirano, Tomokazu Sugita, Minori Chihara, Yûko Gotô

Votes: 8,023

21. In My Skin (2002)

Unrated | 93 min | Drama, Horror

A woman grows increasingly fascinated with her body after suffering a disfiguring accident.

Director: Marina de Van | Stars: Marina de Van, Laurent Lucas, Léa Drucker, Thibault de Montalembert

Votes: 5,731 | Gross: $0.03M

22. Cat's Eye (1983–1985)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

In the search for their missing father, a trio of sisters lead a double life as owners of a cafe and as highly skilled art thieves.

Stars: Keiko Toda, Toshiko Fujita, Chika Sakamoto, Yoshito Yasuhara

Votes: 1,041

23. Before We Vanish (2017)

R | 129 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Three aliens travel to Earth in preparation for a mass invasion, taking possession of human bodies.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Masami Nagasawa, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hiroki Hasegawa, Masahiro Higashide

Votes: 2,828 | Gross: $0.05M

24. Samurai Gourmet (2017)

TV-PG | 20 min | Adventure, Comedy

A 60 year old retired salary-man finds new purpose in exploring the food of his neighborhood. Aided by his fantasy companion, a samurai who inspires him to boldly experience this new chapter of his life.

Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Tetsuji Tamayama, Honami Suzuki, Hiroki Hayashi

Votes: 2,365

25. Flight from Ashiya (1964)

Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Romance, Drama

A flight crew tries to save the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Japan during a raging typhoon.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris, Suzy Parker

Votes: 716

26. Flying Colors (2015)

117 min | Comedy, Drama

Fact-based tale of a slacker high-school girl, years behind in her studies, who decides to start working hard and pass the entrance exams to a prestigious university in Japan.

Director: Nobuhiro Doi | Stars: Kasumi Arimura, Nanami Abe, Morio Agata, Atsushi Itô

Votes: 4,010

27. Voices in the Wind (2020)

139 min | Drama

Inspired by an actual occurrence in Japan Haru who has relocated to Hiroshima in southern Japan comes across a rogue telephone booth in the middle of nowhere when she returns to Iwate ... See full summary »

Director: Nobuhiro Suwa | Stars: Shoko Ikezu, Shinsuke Kato, Tomokazu Miura, Serena Motola

Votes: 480

28. Café Lumière (2003)

108 min | Drama

The story revolves around Yoko Inoue, a pregnant woman in search of a cafe that was frequented by a Taiwanese composer whose life she is researching.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo

Votes: 3,332

29. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance

During a Sunday trip into war-ravaged Tokyo, despairing Yuzo and optimistic Masako look for work and lodging, as well as affordable entertainments to pass the time.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe, Zekô Nakamura

Votes: 3,684

30. A Story of Yonosuke (2012)

160 min | Drama

Were people's lives changed by having known Yonosuke?

Director: Shûichi Okita | Stars: Ayumi Ito, Kengo Kôra, Gô Ayano, Jun Kunimura

Votes: 2,312

31. Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill (1998 Video)

Unrated | 115 min | Documentary, Comedy

Executive transvestite Eddie Izzard takes his show to San Francisco to give a brief history of pagan and Christian religions, the building of Stonehenge, the birth of the Church of England ... See full summary »

Director: Lawrence Jordan | Star: Eddie Izzard

Votes: 7,521

32. Tamako Market (2013)

TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Romance

Tamako's life becomes complicated with friendships, rivalries and the arrival of a peculiar bird.

Stars: Aya Suzaki, Yûki Kaneko, Juri Nagatsuma, Takumi Yamazaki

Votes: 1,117

33. Everyone Is Psychic!: The Movie (2015)

114 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

After receiving a cosmic blast while masturbating, a virginal teenager gains psychic powers and joins a group of ESP virgins in order to defend the world from evil psychics.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Mika Akizuki, Tokio Emoto, Motoki Fukami, Mizuki Hoshina

Votes: 1,093

34. Hatsujô kateikyôshi: Sensei no aijiru (2003)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Sachiko Hanai is a call girl. One day she is caught up in a gunfight and is shot in the forehead. Instead of killing her, the bullet in her head gives her psychic powers. She also ... See full summary »

Director: Mitsuru Meike | Stars: Kyôko Hayami, Kikujirô Honda, Yukijirô Hotaru, Yûichi Ishikawa

Votes: 769 | Gross: $0.00M

35. We Without Wings: Under the Innocent Sky (2011)

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

In the big city of Yanagihara, the masses of people and buildings make it a bustling place to exist, and yet, people will meet and fall in love here in this city.

Stars: Brandon Potter, Felecia Angelle, Jason Liebrecht, Ricco Fajardo

Votes: 107

36. Tokyo Fiancée (2014)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young Japanophile Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student.

Director: Stefan Liberski | Stars: Pauline Etienne, Taichi Inoue, Julie LeBreton, Alice de Lencquesaing

Votes: 2,222

37. I Was an American Spy (1951)

Approved | 85 min | Biography, Drama, War

During World War II, an American woman posing as an Italian cabaret owner spies on the Japanese in Manila but becomes the target of a suspicious Japanese intelligence officer.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Ann Dvorak, Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy, Richard Loo

Votes: 280

38. Au Revoir L'Ete (2013)

125 min | Drama

After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to know the people of the town, including Takashi, a shy relative of her childhood friend.

Director: Kôji Fukada | Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Mayu Tsuruta, Taiga Nakano, Kanji Furutachi

Votes: 457

39. Himeanole (2016)

99 min | Crime, Thriller

Getting two stories in one, Himeanôru depicts the story of co-workers where one of them is gunning to make a cafe's waitress his. When the co-worker visits the said cafe to see the waitress... See full summary »

Director: Keisuke Yoshida | Stars: Gô Morita, Gaku Hamada, Aimi Satsukawa, Tsuyoshi Muro

Votes: 777

40. Junk Food (1997)

Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, Drama

Blending widescreen cinematography with digital video, JUNK FOOD casts an unblinking but painterly eye over the darkest, most brutal fringes of contemporary Japanese society. JUNK FOOD ... See full summary »

Director: Masashi Yamamoto | Stars: Ali Ahmed, Arata Furuta, Mika Kumagai, Miki Mia

Votes: 186

41. Trip for Tat (1960)

6 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Tweety Bird goes on a world tour with his mistress, Granny. And a hungry Sylvester Cat follows them everywhere they go (France, Japan, Switzerland, and Italy).

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, June Foray

Votes: 177

42. A Beautiful Star (2017)

127 min | Drama, Family, Sci-Fi

It portrays a family on Earth who come to believe that they are actually from other planets all of a sudden. They try so hard to save the endangered planet Earth but things get crazy on the way.

Director: Daihachi Yoshida | Stars: Lily Franky, Kazuya Kamenashi, Ai Hashimoto, Tomoko Nakajima

Votes: 257

43. About the Pink Sky (2011)

PG-13 | 113 min | Drama

Izumi finds a wallet full of money and loans the cash to an older fishing buddy.

Director: Keiichi Kobayashi | Stars: Ai Ikeda, Ena Koshino, Reiko Fujiwara, Tsubasa Takayama

Votes: 200

44. One Off (2012)

Animation

Haruno Shiozaki is a young high school student living in a small town. After sixteen years stuck there, she wants to leave her hometown, but is uneasy about the future. She then meets ... See full summary »

Stars: Saori Gotô, Saori Hayami, Sayuri Yahagi, Eri Kitamura

Votes: 31

45. Kako: My Sullen Past (2016)

120 min | Drama, Mystery

Who does not want to finally see a movie about the Japanese female bomb makers out there? Mikiko (Koizumi, Kyoko) disappeared a long time ago and is considered dead by her family, that is ... See full summary »

Director: Shirô Maeda | Stars: Ahmad Ali, Kumi Hyôdô, Itsuji Itao, Kitarô

Votes: 64

46. Out of Context (2007)

8 min | Short, Thriller

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Director: Darryl Knickrehm | Stars: Damien Donovan, Kay Fujita, Marcus Payne

47. Ride with Norman Reedus (2016– )
Episode: Japan with Milo Ventimiglia (2020)

TV-14 | 43 min | Reality-TV

Norman Reedus and Milo Ventimiglia travel from Kyoto to Osaka Japan, taking in its cultural traditions and meeting some creative locals along the way.

Stars: Norman Reedus, Milo Ventimiglia

Votes: 37

48. Begin Japanology (2007– )
Episode: Cafes (2012)

Documentary

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Director: Hajime Ohsumi | Stars: Peter Barakan, Stuart Varnam-Atkin

49. Mozart in the Jungle (2014–2018)
Episode: We're Not Robots (2018)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

The conducting competition comes to its finale, whilst Gloria's and Thomas' secrets from each other come to a head.

Director: Azazel Jacobs | Stars: Lola Kirke, Bernadette Peters, Malcolm McDowell, Gael García Bernal

Votes: 243

50. Ieuru onna (2016– )
Episode: Episode #2.8 (2019)

Drama

Two sets of customers come to the real-estate agency hoping to sell their houses, but each has one member of the family against the idea. Sangenya is adamant however. She will sell their ... See full summary »

Stars: Keiko Kitagawa, Tôru Nakamura, Ayako Imoto, Yûdai Chiba