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- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsTatsuya FujiwaraAki MaedaTarô YamamotoIn 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.Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, and Thriller
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsYoshiko TanakaKazuo KitamuraEtsuko IchiharaThe story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.Genre: Drama
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsNanako MatsushimaMiki NakataniYûko TakeuchiA reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.Genres: Horror and Mystery
- DirectorSion SonoStarsRyo IshibashiMasatoshi NagaseMai HoshoA detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.
- DirectorMasafumi YamadaStarsRyôsuke IkeokaRina IkomaJunFacing goodbyes and graduation, Naomi Nakashima, her childhood friend Satoshi Mochida, and their classmates, are clearing up after their last ever cultural festival, when horror buff class representative Ayumi Shinozaki decides to perform Sachiko Ever After so they will stay friends forever. Instead, they were whisked away to a haunted graduation ceremony for Heavenly Host Elementary School, forced to close after a series of gruesome murders. What fate awaits Naomi and her friends at the cursed school...?
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsMegumi OkinaMisaki ItôMisa UeharaA mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsDaveigh ChaseSuzanne PleshetteMiyu IrinoDuring her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsCate BlanchettMatt DamonLiam NeesonA five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to become a human after falling in love with him.
- DirectorKôzaburô YoshimuraStarsKazuo HasegawaMichiyo KogureMachiko KyôBased on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the one object of desire he must never obtain: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic consequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another, always seeking some sort of resolution to his life.
- DirectorKon IchikawaTetsuji TakechiStarsKotobuki HananomotoRuriko AsaokaIzumi AshikawaThe son of an emperor pursues his father's new bride, leading to tragic consequences. Genji then engages in affairs, searching for fulfillment amidst desires he cannot obtain.
- StarsMao InoueShigeru IzumiyaKeisuke KoideAt age 16, a tomboy princess, Princess Anmitsu, has no love interest in her life and worries her parents. Despite their concern, Anmitsu runs away from the castle to venture into the commoners' life. During her daring adventure, she befriends a group of children who make a living by pick-pocketing. At the same time, she finally meets her prince charming Senbei, the leader of the group. However, she soon finds herself in an awkward position when she learns of the children's new plot: they are planning to steal the treasures from her own castle. Will she be able to put a stop to it without revealing her true identity?
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsChieko BaishôTakuya KimuraTatsuya GashûinWhen an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.
- DirectorHiromasa YonebayashiStarsBridgit MendlerAmy PoehlerWill ArnettThe Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter Arrietty is discovered.
- DirectorNaoto KumazawaStarsTomohisa YamashitaNana KomatsuMika AkizukiA smart high school student falls in love with her new handsome English teacher after she begins to receive one-on-one tutoring from him.
- DirectorRyûichi HirokiStarsKasumi ArimuraSôta FukushiYuki YamadaNinako confesses her love to Ren. But get rejected because he is already have a girlfriend. They promise to stay as a friend. Some other guy confess their love to her but she rejects them. Is it because she still wants to be with Ren?
- DirectorKeisuke ToyoshimaStarsAkiko KikuchiAzusa MineYukichi KobayashiAfter leaving her career as a stage designer, Mari (Akiko Kikuchi) returns to her hometown to open an ice flakes store with Hajime-chan (Azusa Mine) who has a large burn scar on her face.
- DirectorIsao TakahataStarsChloë Grace MoretzJames CaanMary SteenburgenKaguya is a beautiful young woman coveted by five nobles. To try to avoid marrying a stranger she doesn't love, she sends her suitors on seemingly impossible tasks. But she will have to face her fate and punishment for her choices.
- DirectorHisaaki NagaokaStarsKyoko KawaiMaisakura KawanishiChiharuA girl named Hikiko Mori was taunted and bullied relentlessly by her classmates, eventually resulting in her accidental death. Holding a grudge against all bullies, Hikiko's spirit now haunts her former school, slowly gathering the strength to exact vengeance on the living. A group of frightened school girls decide to investigate the rumors further and what they find convinces them that they have to stop the spirit of "Hikiko-san" before it's too late...
- DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsTakako MatsuYoshino KimuraMasaki OkadaA psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.
- DirectorKunihiko YuyamaStarsSarah NatochennyMichele KnotzKayzie RogersOur heroes must protect the Prince of the Sea, Manaphy, from the evil pirate Phantom, and return the young Pokémon to the Sea Temple with the help of the the People of the Water and Jackie the Pokémon Ranger.
- DirectorKunihiko YuyamaStarsVeronica TaylorEric StuartAmy BirnbaumWhen Pikachu is taken to the Tree of Beginnings by the playful Mew, Ash Ketchum and friends are guided to the tree by Lucario, a time-displaced Pokémon who seeks answers regarding the betrayal of his master.
- DirectorKunihiko YuyamaStarsVeronica TaylorEric StuartAmy BirnbaumA comet bearing a deadly Pokemon creature crash-lands onto Earth, terrorising a nearby high-tech city, where Ash, Pikachu and friends are currently visiting...
- DirectorKunihiko YuyamaEric StuartStarsRica MatsumotoVeronica TaylorEric StuartA magician attempts to use the power of the Millennium Comet to awaken the legendary Pokémon Groudon.
- DirectorKunihiko YuyamaStarsVeronica TaylorEric StuartRica MatsumotoIn the town of Greenfield, a young, lonely girl's dreams and wishes are brought into reality by a collective of reality-warping Pokémon.
- DirectorKunihiko YuyamaStarsVeronica TaylorRica MatsumotoIkue ÔtaniAsh Ketchum must gather the three spheres of fire, ice and lightning in order to restore balance to the Orange Islands.
- DirectorKunihiko YuyamaStarsVeronica TaylorRachael LillisEric StuartScientists genetically create a new Pokémon, Mewtwo, but the results are horrific and disastrous.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsHitomi KurokiRio KannoMirei OguchiA mother and her 6-year-old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.
- DirectorTsutomu HanabusaStarsJunpei MizobataIto OnoMasaki SudaHaruna who devoted herself to softball decide to find a boyfriend in high school by instruction from Yoh, who is willingly to teach her how to get a boyfriend but with only one condition, don't fall in love with him at all.
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsTakako MatsuHaru KurokiIsao HashizumeA woman looks back on her family's life in Tokyo before and during WWII. A maid arrives from the countryside to work for an upper middle class family. She fits in well, but everyone's emotions are stirred up with the arrival of a student.
- DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsTsubasa HondaMasahiro HigashideYua ShinkawaFutaba lost her first love, Kou, in middle school when he suddenly moved. In high school, she met a guy who resembled Kou, but has a different last name. She needs to know if he is the same guy, and why he moved without letting her know.
- DirectorShunji IwaiStarsAnne SuzukiYû AoiTomohiro KakuWhen two best friends develop a crush on the same boy, they develop a plan to trick him into dating them.
- DirectorHiromasa YonebayashiStarsSara TakatsukiKasumi ArimuraNanako MatsushimaAnna, a shy 12-year-old girl, is sent to spend time with her aunt and uncle who live in the countryside, where she meets Marnie. The two become best friends. But Anna gradually discovers that Marnie is not quite who she appears to be.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsKirsten DunstMinami TakayamaRei SakumaA young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
- DirectorIsao TakahataStarsTsutomu TatsumiAyano ShiraishiAkemi YamaguchiA young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
- StarsTakehito KoyasuIkue ÔtaniMinami TakayamaA series about a tomboyish junior high school student that is given a magic ribbon that she is to keep for one year, allowing her to temporarily transform into anyone she wishes.
- StarsRie KugimiyaMiyuki SawashiroMitsuki SaigaAbout a girl who has wings and is cute she loves to hang out with her human friend who loves to play all day and laugh all night they are all fine and they love to play he give me but by her sometimes but he enjoys her around wherever she goes she goes there the best friends ever they have a friend who was the cook with a spoon but what every problem we have there was going to have it this is a laughing funny story good episodes this is the best show ever watch that is the best come on it's really fun and it has wings angel wings and a half angel wings in it this is voters are the top 10 on honey top 10 of wings anime angel animes this is the best angel I mean honey you're the best thanks
- CreatorKazunori ItôStarsTakako ÔtaYû MizushimaKaneta KimotsukiYuu Morisawa, an ordinary schoolgirl, leads a double life as the magical singer Creamy Mami.
- StarsGabriella LewisJun'ichi KanemaruSanae KobayashiA 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.
- StarsSarah HauserRie TanakaCrispin FreemanHideki finds the discarded and malfunctioning Persocom Chi, a personal computer that looks like a girl. While trying to fix and care for Chi, Hideki discovers that she might be a Chobits, a robot of urban legend that has free will.
- StarsMamoru MiyanoBrad SwaileVincent TongAn intelligent high school student goes on a secret crusade to eliminate criminals from the world after discovering a notebook capable of killing anyone whose name is written into it.
- CreatorKeiichi AraiStarsShizuka FuruyaHiromi KonnoMariko HondaFollow the adventures of three ordinary girls as they learn their most important lessons the hard way. Meanwhile, a pocket-sized professor makes life difficult for a robot who just wants to be normal.
- CreatorShin'ichirô WatanabeStarsJun'ichi SuwabeUki SatakeHiroyuki YoshinoThe cosmic and comic adventures of Space Dandy, a handsome space explorer tasked to tour the universe and discover new alien beings.
- StarsJessie James GrelleBryce PapenbrookTrina NishimuraAfter his hometown is destroyed and is traumatized, young Eren Jaeger vows to cleanse the earth of the giant humanoid Titans that have brought humanity to the brink of extinction.
- DirectorIsao TakahataStarsMiki ImaiToshirô YanagibaYoko HonnaA twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko ÔbaA schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
- DirectorHideyuki HirayamaStarsHironobu NomuraKasumi ToyamaShiori YonezawaA young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is rumored to be haunted. When she doesn't come back, a group of her classmates go looking for her, only to find that they, too, are trapped inside. They must somehow find their way to safety, and quickly, because the rumors of ghosts are turning out to be true...
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsYûko ÔshimaMami YamasakiMai NishidaA young girl learns of the urban legend of Teke Teke after her friend is killed in a gruesome way. The legend tells of a female ghost that has no legs. When she visits the spot where her friend died she comes into contact with it .
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsSayuri IwataMiu NakamuraYôko ChôsokabeThe story of TekeTeke, the ghost woman with no legs, continues. Conflict arises between a group of high school classmates, and TekeTeke starts hunting them down one by one.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsEriko SatôHaruhiko KatôChiharu KawaiA suburban town in Japan is the victim of what is supposedly just an urban legend, a woman's spirit with a horribly disfigured face who is intent on kidnapping children for unknown reasons.
- DirectorTakeshi FurusawaStarsErika SawajiriChinatsu WakatsukiShun OguriOn her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. One day, Nana's younger sister is lost, and the only possibility seems to be that she had been taken by these spirits. The missing tracks. The predictions that a mysterious woman makes.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsReina TriendlMariko ShinodaErina ManoA girl's life cascades into chaos as everyone around her suffers a gruesome fate while she becomes less certain of who she is and her once-once normal life.
- DirectorSaiji YakumoStarsFumika ShimizuMarie IitoyoRiria BabaMembers of a High School literature club discover there is more to the club members than their weekly meetings would lead them to believe.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKô ShibasakiShin'ichi TsutsumiKazue FukiishiPeople mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.
- DirectorSatoshi TakemotoStarsYûma NakayamaHaruka ShimazakiMaryjun TakahashiSet at a university where a series of bizarre and unexplained phenomena are occurring the movie is the plot of the popular Haunted Campus novel put to film. Members of the 'occult study group 'Oka Ken' spring into action investigating and countering the haunting, disturbances and incidents where students are targeted.
- DirectorRyûta MiyakeStarsHiroki SuzukiIchirôta MiyakawaNatsuki KasaAkane begins seeing visions of a female ghost wearing the same yellow hat and red satchel she wore as a school child.
- DirectorNatsuki ImaiStarsYui AragakiHaruma MiuraYûko AsanoMika is a fresh high school student who starts texting a mysterious boy. She is shocked when he reveals who he is - Hiro, a delinquent attending her school. What she doesn't know is that Hiro isn't as bad as he seems.
- DirectorYôjirô TakitaStarsMansai NomuraHideaki ItôHiroyuki SanadaWhen samurai Hiromasa comes to Seimei, Kyoto's court Onmyoji (a fortune teller in commune with the spirits), to warn of a plot against the government, the two discover that the court's formidable magician, Doson, is indeed planning a coup.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsKazue FukiishiTsugumiYuriko YoshitakaA teenager called Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Tokoyama, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsMiki NakataniEtsushi ToyokawaHidetoshi NishijimaReiko, a prize-winning writer, moves to a quiet isolated house to finish up her new novel. One night she sees the man next door transporting an object wrapped in cloth. She finds out he is an archaeologist researching an ancient mummy that was recently found.
- DirectorManabu AsôStarsMaki HorikitaMeisa KurokiJang Keun-sukThe timid, young Asuka is bullied by her classmates. When they embark on a class field trip to Korea, Asuka plans revenge by sending them a cursed phone message they can either pass on or die.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsJin MurakiRio KannoTomono KugaA documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."
- DirectorRenpei TsukamotoStarsRie MimuraHisashi YoshizawaChisunA Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well and dying painfully. It happened in Taiwan as well. Can the police stop it if it's a ghost?
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsBryan CranstonKoyu RankinEdward NortonSet in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsHitoshi TakagiNoriko HidakaChika SakamotoWhen two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.
- DirectorIsao TakahataStarsShinchô KokonteiMakoto NonomuraYuriko IshidaA community of magical shape-shifting raccoon dogs struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development.
- StarsKyôko KoizumiHazuki KimuraManatsu KimuraThe murder of a young girl is never solved. Her mother who is torn by grief puts a curse on the four of the girl's classmates. These four girls are forced into adulthood which eventually triggers a tragic chain of events.
- DirectorShinju FunabikiStarsUmika KawashimaAki AsakuraMaki AizawaHigh school student Ayumi kills herself and leaves behind a cryptic message that says "will be killed by boyfriend." Ayumi's classmates Satomi and Yuka investigate her suicide and quickly links her death to a popular cellphone dating simulation game called Keitai Kareshi. The main features of the game include a 'love gauge' that determines how well the player is faring and the ability to chat with other players. Satomi, Yuka download the game to their phones and begin interacting with their new virtual boyfriends. Soon after, Satomi shares the game with her co-worker who -- not long after the love gauge on her cellphone hit zero -- dies from electrocution. Meanwhile, Yuka sends the game to her manager who turns up dead the following day following a mysterious accident. The mystery deepens as Satomi discovers the image of Naoto, a senior student whom Satomi secretly admired, on her friend Hisami's cellphone.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsMika AzumaHorikenKôen KondôKoji Shiraishi is interested in strange indiscriminate murder at a sightseeing resort. He goes behind the camera to investigate the circumstances surrounding strange occurrences and interview the survivors.
- DirectorTatsuya HagishimaStarsRiko NarumiKeisuke KoideMika HadaRyou is a girl isolated by everyone else in her class, she doesn't even have a cell phone because no one would call her anyway. One day, she suddenly starts hearing voices of Shinya, who lives in a different prefecture.
- DirectorHayato KawaiShô TsukikawaStarsNana KomatsuYûdai ChibaRimo HasegawaYu believes that she's in-love with the White Prince "Shirakawa". But every encounter with the abusive Black Devil "Kurosaki" who she hates, she gets one step closer to loving him.
- DirectorNorio TsurutaStarsYurina KumaiAiri SuzukiMai HagiwaraThe students think of it as a silly joke when the mobile telephones ring with instructions for the classmates. The texts keep coming and the demands escalate under punishment of erasure however. The class is alone in having to obey or fend off the increasingly demanding texts and, in the meantime, the rank of the class-mates is dwindling one by one.
- DirectorYoshifumi KondôStarsYoko HonnaIssei TakahashiTakashi TachibanaA love story between a girl who loves reading books, and a boy who has previously checked out all of the library books she chooses.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsMayumi TanakaKeiko YokozawaKotoe HatsuiA young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
- DirectorHiroyuki MoritaStarsChizuru IkewakiYoshihiko HakamadaAki MaedaAfter helping a cat, a seventeen-year-old girl finds herself involuntarily engaged to a cat Prince in a magical world where her only hope of freedom lies with a dapper cat statuette come to life.
- DirectorKeiichi HaraStephanie ShehMichael SinterniklaasStarsYutaka MatsushigeAnne WatanabeErica LindbeckThe life and works of Japanese artist and ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai, as seen from the eyes of his daughter, Katsushika O-Ei.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsAtsuko MaedaHiroki NarimiyaRyô IwamatsuNursing student Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu (Hiroki Narimiya), the handyman cleaning up the old man's apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted. When the late night scratching returns, Asuka ventures back into her neighbor's home and comes face to face with an apparition of the old man! Panicked by the discovery of her apartment emptied and her family gone, Asuka seeks help from Shinobu, who brings in a spiritualist to exorcise Asuka of the evil surrounding her. However, as she delves into the girl's predicament, the spiritualist discovers that signs points not to the old man but to a small boy living in the complex with a past as tragic as the one Asuka herself lives in denial of.
- DirectorToshiharu IkedaStarsKozue AyuseHyôe EnokiMakiko FujiiA two part horror film. The first segment deals with a teenage girl who leaves her body to torment the lovers of classmate Ryoji - whom she loves. The second segment deals with a girl's new haunted apartment.
- DirectorTakafumi OhtaStarsAimi SatsukawaMitsuki TanimuraYuria HagaThe setting is the town of Tanabe in the central prefecture of Wakayama. Four schoolgirls are fast friends. However, when Risa, Mika and Maki die in a car accident Natsumi is alone, isolated and listless both at school and socially. When the three friends return, however, Natsumi is alone no longer.
- DirectorIsao TakahataStarsYukiji AsaokaTôru MasuokaMasako ArakiThe life and misadventures of a family in contemporary Japan.
- DirectorGen TakahashiStarsKanata HongôRin TakanashiKunihiko IdaMorino and Kamiyama share a morbid fascination with cruelty and murder in this horror. Together they track down a brutal serial killer to find the latest two victims - not necessarily to bring the killer to justice but to inspect their handiwork...
- DirectorGorô MiyazakiStarsSarah BolgerChris NothAnton YelchinA group of Yokohama teens look to save their school's clubhouse from the wrecking ball in preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
- DirectorYôichi SaiStarsMiho TsumikiYôko KikuchiKumiko TakedaIn this flower of the bird group action film, according to the high mouth pure title for the comic book "Flower of the bird group" adaptation, and violent flooding of the 199X Shinjuku Kabukicho, there is a girl like the wind, her name Called birds. With the streets of rogue and bad police officers filled the city together, but in front of her is the Hibari Corps.
- DirectorJirô NagaeStarsMariya SuzukiShizuka UmemotoAsuka KataokaAfter her mother's death, Eri receives a strange visit from a man who may be connected to a program her mother watched on TV the day before her death.
- DirectorAtaru OikawaStarsRio MatsumotoAsami ImajukuKenji MizuhashiWhen a beautiful young girl transfers to a new high school, the students become possessed and soon realize that behind this beauty is an unexplainable evil.
- DirectorHiroshi TakahashiStarsRie KitaharaFujiko KojimaNana AsakawaSet in entertainment venue Toshimaen, the story takes us to young obsessed women who are handy and active with their mobile telephones, which is normal enough. Except the photographs and the videos are taking a toll and having an impact to the point of changing lives. There is a surprise or two at hand.