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1. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
PG-13 | 181 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe.
Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth
Votes: 1,268,310 | Gross: $858.37M
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: 529,920 | Gross: $206.46M
3. Cars 2 (2011)
G | 106 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.
Directors: John Lasseter, Bradford Lewis | Stars: Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer
Votes: 218,499 | Gross: $191.45M
4. Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Upon learning that his father has been kidnapped, Austin Powers must travel to 1975 and defeat the aptly named villain Goldmember, who is working with Dr. Evil.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Mike Myers, Beyoncé, Seth Green, Michael York
Votes: 223,072 | Gross: $213.31M
5. Snake Eyes (2021)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A G.I. Joe spin-off centered around the character of Snake Eyes.
Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Henry Golding, Andrew Koji, Haruka Abe, Takehiro Hira
Votes: 44,544
6. Lust, Caution (2007)
NC-17 | 157 min | Drama, History, Romance
During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen, Leehom Wang
Votes: 45,562 | Gross: $4.60M
7. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
TV-MA | 83 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
Directors: Mizuho Nishikubo, Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka, Kôichi Yamadera
Votes: 157,155 | Gross: $0.52M
8. Ghost in the Shell (2017)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Director: Rupert Sanders | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche
Votes: 228,110 | Gross: $40.56M
9. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer.
Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Votes: 215,106 | Gross: $152.27M
10. You Only Live Twice (1967)
PG | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 117,653 | Gross: $43.08M
11. The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)
R | 94 min | Biography, Drama, War
Former Major League Baseball player Moe Berg goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services.
Director: Ben Lewin | Stars: Paul Rudd, Pierfrancesco Favino, Tom Wilkinson, Connie Nielsen
Votes: 11,919 | Gross: $0.71M
12. The Promised Neverland (2019–2021)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When three gifted kids at an isolated idyllic orphanage discover the secret and sinister purpose they were raised for, they look for a way to escape from their evil caretaker and lead the other children in a risky escape plan.
Stars: Sumire Morohoshi, Mariya Ise, Shinei Ueki, Lynn
Votes: 47,035
13. Until the End of the World (1991)
R | 158 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In 1999, Claire Tourneur's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and travels the world with him. Writer Eugene Fitzpatrick follows and writes their story as a method of recording dreams is being developed.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Pietro Falcone, Enzo Turrin
Votes: 11,359 | Gross: $0.75M
14. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
R | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryô Kase
Votes: 170,189 | Gross: $13.76M
15. Sonic X (2003–2006)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A slight malfunction causes Chaos Control, and sends Sonic the Hedgehog to Earth. While there, Sonic meets Chris Thorndyke, who aids at collecting the Chaos Emeralds, so Sonic and friends can go home.
Stars: Gabriella Lewis, Jun'ichi Kanemaru, Sanae Kobayashi, Jason Griffith
Votes: 5,555
16. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When journalist April O'Neil discovers an ancient scepter with magical powers, the Turtles must cow-a-bunga their way back to 17th century Japan to rescue her from the evil clutches of Lord Norinaga.
Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Elias Koteas, Paige Turco, Stuart Wilson, Sab Shimono
Votes: 36,474 | Gross: $42.66M
17. Ninja Scroll (1993)
Not Rated | 94 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A vagabond swordsman is aided by a kunoichi and a spy in battling a demonic clan of killers - led by a ghost from his past - who are bent on overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Stars: Kôichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara, Takeshi Aono, Osamu Saka
Votes: 40,777
18. Sekigahara (2017)
150 min | Drama, History, War
A depiction of Japan's 17th Century Battle of Sekigahara where the Army of the East takes up arms against the Army of the West.
Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Jun'ichi Okada, Koji Yakusho, Kasumi Arimura, Takehiro Hira
Votes: 878
19. Kite (1998)
TV-MA | 50 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A young girl, orphaned at an early age, carries out assassinations at the behest of her mentor.
Stars: Konami Yoshida, Kinryû Arimoto, Kôsuke Okano, Tatsuo Matoba
Votes: 5,332
20. Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
PG | 104 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Desolate by the loss of his daughter, a geneticist creates a monstrous new mutation.
Directors: Kazuki Ômori, Koji Hashimoto, Kenjirô Ohmori | Stars: Kunihiko Mitamura, Yoshiko Tanaka, Masanobu Takashima, Kôji Takahashi
Votes: 6,801
21. Batman (1943)
Approved | 260 min | Action, Crime, Family
The very first serial to adapt the comic book character of the Batman. In it, the Batman is a secret U.S. government agent, attempting to defeat the schemes of Japanese agent Dr. Daka operating in Los Angeles at the height of World War II.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J. Carrol Naish, Shirley Patterson
Votes: 2,476
22. What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
PG | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A Japanese James Bond -esque spy flick reused and redubbed into the plot of a secret agent searching to uncover a recipe for the world's greatest egg salad in Woody Allen's directorial debut.
Directors: Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi | Stars: Woody Allen, The Lovin' Spoonful, Frank Buxton, Louise Lasser
Votes: 10,001
23. Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
TV-14 | 83 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A hacker known as the Puppet Master is hunted by a female cyborg cop and her partner. This film is a revised version of Ghost in the Shell (1995).
Director: Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Ôtsuka, Kôichi Yamadera, Tesshô Genda
Votes: 15,261
24. Morituri (1965)
Approved | 123 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on a freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.
Director: Bernhard Wicki | Stars: Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard
Votes: 4,504
25. Samurai Marathon (2019)
TV-14 | 103 min | Action, Adventure, History
In 1855, a daimyo sends his men on a grueling marathon to discover if they're tough enough to face the newly arrived Americans. Misunderstanding his intent, the Shogun dispatches assassins.
Director: Bernard Rose | Stars: Takeru Satoh, Nana Komatsu, Mirai Moriyama, Shôta Sometani
Votes: 1,191
26. Back to Bataan (1945)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, War
In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli
Votes: 4,374
27. Space Amoeba (1970)
G | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A space probe is infiltrated by alien beings and then crashes on a remote Pacific atoll. A group of people discover it to be inhabited by giant mutant monsters, created by the aliens in an attempt to conquer the world.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Yukiko Kobayashi, Kenji Sahara
Votes: 1,499
28. Heroic Purgatory (1970)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy
An engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Kaizo Kamoda, Kazumi Tsutsui, Naho Kimura
Votes: 837
29. Azumi 2: Death or Love (2005)
Not Rated | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, ... See full summary »
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko | Stars: Aya Ueto, Yûma Ishigaki, Chiaki Kuriyama, Shun Oguri
Votes: 5,721
30. Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (2002 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Mystery
Just when Agent 47, a former high-target hitman for an international contractor, has decided to reform himself and retire, he becomes engulfed in an elaborate conspiracy as an anonymous organization kidnaps his friend, the resident priest.
Stars: Massimo Agostinelli, Anilla Akbar, Usman Akbar, David Bateson
Votes: 3,470
31. Bloody Monday (2008–2010)
Drama
A genius high school student and also a hacker uses his sophisticated hacking techniques to fights against "Bloody Monday", the worst and most evil form of viral terrorism, in order to save his family, friends, and the entire world.
Stars: Haruma Miura, Takeru Satoh, Michiko Kichise, Umika Kawashima
Votes: 589
32. Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117 (1966)
100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming responsibility, and threatening the US with another attack, if they don't pay.
Director: Michel Boisrond | Stars: Frederick Stafford, Marina Vlady, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Jacques Legras
Votes: 330
33. December 7th (1943)
Unrated | 82 min | Documentary, Action, Drama
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.
Directors: John Ford, Gregg Toland | Stars: Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews, Paul Hurst
Votes: 1,009
34. Koroshi (1968 TV Movie)
104 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Secret agent John Drake (aka Danger Man) goes to Japan to infiltrate a secret society that specializes in murder.
Directors: Michael Truman, Peter Yates | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Yôko Tani, Amanda Barrie, Ronald Howard
Votes: 124
35. 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
36. Cheon gun (2005)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
In a historically altered Korea, by 2005 the North and South Korean governments have secretly joined forces to create a nuclear warhead.
Director: Joon-ki Min | Stars: Kim Byeong-chun, Ma Dong-seok, Kil Eun-sung, Kong Hyo-jin
Votes: 616
37. Cars 2: The Video Game (2011 Video Game)
E10+ | Family
Spies Wanted! Race as Lightning McQueen and all your favorite characters from Cars 2 with many races and minigames and race in 5 locations! The oil rig, Tokyo, Porto Corsa, London, and Radiator Springs!
Stars: Hira Ambrosino, David Boat, Bruce Campbell, Michael Donovan
Votes: 373
38. Purple Butterfly (2003)
R | 127 min | Drama, History, War
Cynthia is a young Chinese woman in love with Itami, a Japanese man about to be sent home for military service.
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Tôru Nakamura, Ye Liu, Yuanzheng Feng
Votes: 1,345 | Gross: $0.02M
39. Stopover Tokyo (1957)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring.
Director: Richard L. Breen | Stars: Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O'Brien, Ken Scott
Votes: 326
40. Syphon Filter 3 (2001 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Mystery
"The Agency" has put Lian and Gabe on trial for crimes they did not commit while they secretly plot to distribute Syphon Filter, a deadly virus, throughout the population. And with Gabe and Lian on trial there would be no one to stop them.
Stars: John Chacon, Zoe Galvez, Shannon Tilton, Bryan Session
Votes: 390
41. Red Shadow: Akakage (2001)
108 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A love triangle blooms between a team of three ninjas before tragedy strikes and forces them to reassess their clan's principles.
Director: Hiroyuki Nakano | Stars: Masanobu Andô, Megumi Okina, Kumiko Asô, Jun Murakami
Votes: 967
42. Remember Pearl Harbor (1942)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance, War
On 16 November, 1941 at the La Dessa U. S. army post in the Philippines, a Japanese carrier ship off the coast transmits a coded message to the contraband radio of Nazi spies. The spies ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Alan Curtis, Fay McKenzie, Sig Ruman
Votes: 73
43. The Typhoon (1914)
Drama
Japanese diplomat Tokoramo ( Sessue Hayakawa ), on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with chorus girl, Helene ( Gladys Brockwell ), who subsequently rejects her American fiance, ... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Gladys Brockwell, Frank Borzage, Henry Kotani
Votes: 34
44. The Red Machine (2009)
Not Rated | 84 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Washington, DC, 1935: At the height of the Great Depression, a charming and irrepressible young thief is forced to help an icy and mysterious United States Navy spy steal a brand new device... See full summary »
Directors: Stephanie Argy, Alec Boehm | Stars: Lee Perkins, Donal Thoms-Cappello, Meg Brogan, Maureen Byrnes
Votes: 273
45. Shadow Hearts (2001 Video Game)
M | Fantasy, Horror
Yuri Hyuga is a young harmonixer: a man who possesses the power of transforming into demons. He meets Alice Elliot, a young British girl whose father was brutally murdered, and who is ... See full summary »
Stars: Hiroki Takahashi, Chie Ishibashi, Ken'ichirô Sanada, Mie Sonozaki
Votes: 153
46. Secret Agent of Japan (1942)
Passed | 72 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen, and is referred to Roy Bonnell (Preston ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Noel Madison, Victor Sen Yung
Votes: 121
47. Bombay Clipper (1941)
Passed | 54 min | Mystery
An American foreign correspondent, Jim Wilson, and his wife Frankie, who wishes he would give up his traveling job and settle down in one location, get involved with some foreign spies of ... See full summary »
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Charles Lang, Maria Montez
Votes: 89
48. Lark Super Lights Timothy Dalton James Bond Television Commercial (1989 Video)
1 min | Short, Action, Adventure
Star: Timothy Dalton
Votes: 12
49. You Only Live Twice: The Radio Play (1990 Video)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A dramatisation for radio by Michael Bakewell of Ian Fleming's classic story. James Bond 's wife Tracey has been murdered by his deadly enemy, Blofeld. He has gone completely to pieces and ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Bakewell, Gordon House | Stars: Michael Jayston, Ronald Herdman, Sayo Inaba, Maxine Audley
Votes: 10
50. Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943)
Approved | 245 min | Action, Drama, War
A Coast Guard officer is assigned to protect the coastline from spies, saboteurs and enemy agents.
Directors: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Stars: Don Terry, Walter Sande, Elyse Knox, Philip Ahn
Votes: 60