好きな邦画 Favorite Japanese Movies
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1. Time Leap (1997)
91 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi
Tues. Shoka dreams that classmate Hoshino kisses her. A girl has been killed, but Shoka has no memory of what happened Mon. She finds a note "rely on Hoshino," so she talks him into helping her to unravel the mystery of her time leaps.
Director: Akiyoshi Imazeki | Stars: Aiko Satô, Daijirô Kawaoka, Kensô Katô, Tomorô Taguchi
2. Seven Samurai (1954)
Not Rated | 207 min | Action, Drama
Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki
Votes: 366,964 | Gross: $0.27M
3. Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Not Rated | 147 min | Drama, Thriller
An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Kôji Mitsui, Hiroko Itô
Votes: 22,717
4. High and Low (1963)
Not Rated | 143 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 53,242
5. Yojimbo (1961)
Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa
Votes: 131,402
6. Tampopo (1985)
Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy
A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Koji Yakusho
Votes: 22,579 | Gross: $0.22M
7. Wood Job! (2014)
116 min | Adventure, Comedy
After failing to get into university, a soft city boy randomly picks a job in forestry.
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi | Stars: Hideaki Itô, Masami Nagasawa, Shôta Sometani, Nana Seino
Votes: 3,792
8. Tokimeki Memorial (1997)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Akihiko's pal lures him into the girl's locker room where he overhears four beauties' plans to work at a beach-side stand. He gets a job there. At first, the girls balk, but over the summer, they get to know each other, and become friends.
Director: Hiroshi Sugawara | Stars: Kanako Enomoto, Kazue Fukiishi, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
Votes: 31
9. Samurai Fiction (1998)
111 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A noble young samurai searches for a thief who has stolen a precious treasure and killed one of his clansmen and meets an older samurai who tries to deter him from the violence of revenge.
Director: Hiroyuki Nakano | Stars: Morio Kazama, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Tomoyasu Hotei, Tamaki Ogawa
Votes: 2,760
10. The Family Game (1983)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
Japanese parents hire a tutor for their foolish son and get a critic of their lifestyle.
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita | Stars: Yûsaku Matsuda, Jûzô Itami, Saori Yuki, Ichirôta Miyakawa
Votes: 1,117
11. Messengers (1999)
118 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Naomi Shimizu is a young career woman working for Enrico Dandolo, an Italian fashion house. That is until one day the company declares bankruptcy. Accustomed to living in luxury she tries ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuo Baba | Stars: Naoko Iijima, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Hiroyuki Yabe, Kotomi Kyôno
Votes: 257
12. Godzilla Minus One (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.
Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Sakura Andô, Minami Hamabe, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yuki Yamada
Votes: 51,706
13. Rashomon (1950)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 180,555 | Gross: $0.10M
14. Sanjuro (1962)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûnosuke Itô
Votes: 41,147
15. Bang! (1991)
111 min | Comedy
A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast ... See full summary »
Director: Sadaaki Haginiwa | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi, Nagare Hagiwara, Daijirô Harada
Votes: 58
16. Dr. Akagi (1998)
Not Rated | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, History
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Akira Emoto, Kumiko Asô, Jacques Gamblin, Tomorô Taguchi
Votes: 1,616 | Gross: $0.07M
17. Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? (1995)
45 min | Drama, Family
On the day when a fireworks display is planned, Norimichi, Yusuke, and their friends at school in a Japanese seaside town cannot agree whether or not fireworks are "flat" or "round" when ... See full summary »
Director: Shunji Iwai | Stars: Yûta Yamazaki, Megumi Okina, Takayuki Sorita, Randy Havens
Votes: 745
18. Oppai barê (2009)
102 min | Comedy, Sport
A female teacher takes charge of a high school volleyball club and promises to show the students her breasts if they can win the next game.
Director: Eiichirô Hasumi | Stars: Haruka Ayase, Munetaka Aoki, Tôru Nakamura, Seiji Fukushi
Votes: 724
19. Kôshônin: Mashita Masayoshi (2005)
127 min | Action
Japan's #1 negotiator Mashita Masayoshi is called into action again as a mysterious train terrorizes Tokyo's underground railway network. But this time his opponent is gunning for him personally.
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro | Stars: Yûsuke Santamaria, Susumu Terajima, Yusuke Hirayama, Masanori Ishii
Votes: 235
20. Kyojin to gangu (1958)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
In the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while simultaneously trying to uncover the rival companies' plans.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Hideo Takamatsu, Michiko Ono
Votes: 1,239
21. Ran (1985)
R | 160 min | Action, Drama, War
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû
Votes: 136,260 | Gross: $4.14M
22. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Not Rated | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Votes: 42,262
23. Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)
103 min | Comedy
Just before the live airing of a radio play, an actress decides to change the name of her character. This cascades into a battle of egos by all involved that causes continual script changes while the play is on-air live.
Director: Kôki Mitani | Stars: Toshiaki Karasawa, Kyôka Suzuki, Masahiko Nishimura, Keiko Toda
Votes: 2,095 | Gross: $0.01M
24. A Distant Cry from Spring (1980)
95 min | Drama
A mysterious stranger appears at door of a farmhouse on a stormy night and asks for shelter.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baishô, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tetsuya Takeda
Votes: 683
25. Our Little Sister (2015)
PG | 127 min | Drama, Family
Three sisters who live in their grandmother's home invite their thirteen-year-old half sister, whom they have just met, to join them.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose
Votes: 16,903 | Gross: $0.46M
26. Kamikaze Girls (2004)
102 min | Comedy
Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima | Stars: Kyôko Fukada, Anna Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Sadao Abe
Votes: 8,091
27. Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Chronicling the turmoil and pandemonium that ensues at a derelict university sumo club, and the rise of some unlikely heroes.
Director: Masayuki Suô | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka, Akira Emoto
Votes: 1,005
28. Chihayafuru Part III (2018)
128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The third part of the "Chihayafuru" trilogy that takes place 2 years after "Chihayafuru Part II". Chihaya is now a high school senior who is ready to enter another national competition alongside her friends.
Director: Norihiro Koizumi | Stars: Suzu Hirose, Shûhei Nomura, Mackenyu, Mone Kamishiraishi
Votes: 679
29. I Are You, You Am Me (1982)
113 min | Comedy
9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result... See full summary »
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Toshinori Omi, Makoto Satô, Sayuri Ishibashi
Votes: 528
30. April Story (1998)
67 min | Drama, Romance
In spring, a young girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo.
Director: Shunji Iwai | Stars: Takako Matsu, Seiichi Tanabe, Kazuhiko Kato, Kaori Fujii
Votes: 4,088
31. Onsen mimizu geisha (1971)
89 min
Many persons visit the hot springs resort to try out Reiko's famous vagina with quivering walls, "the sensation of worms wiggling about"... that won her her nickname (Mimizu = earthworm).
Director: Norifumi Suzuki | Stars: Reiko Ike, Yasuko Matsui, Miki Sugimoto, Mitsuko Aoi
Votes: 48
32. Pinpon (2002)
114 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The film traces the growth and friendship of two very different high-school ping-pong players. "Peco" Hoshino is a brash, arrogant player, determined to turn pro. He taught his quiet, nerdy... See full summary »
Director: Fumihiko Sori | Stars: Yôsuke Kubozuka, Arata Iura, Sam Lee, Shidô Nakamura
Votes: 3,487
33. Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973)
81 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A ronin Shino Asu (I die Tomorrow) gets rescued by the Bohachi clan. Their leader Shirobei Daimon, charged by the Shogun with running Edo's brothels enlists him to kill clients of tea-house whores who are stealing his business.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Gorô Ibuki, Tatsuo Endô, Ryôhei Uchida
Votes: 683
34. Fancy Dance (1989)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Yohei, a punk rocker, has to become a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Yohei though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline learns to adjust. Then his ... See full summary »
Director: Masayuki Suô | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Honami Suzuki, Ken Ohsawa, Hikomaro
Votes: 317
35. Bôhachi bushidô: Sa burai (1974)
83 min | Action
A ronin desperado who turns into a criminal is condemned to death sentence. However, he is saved by the notorious Bohachi clan who contemplate to use his sword skills against their rivals. ... See full summary »
Director: Takashi Harada | Stars: Gorô Ibuki, Reiko Ike, Bin Amatsu, Keiko Aikawa
Votes: 79
36. Onsen ponbiki jochu (1969)
87 min | Comedy
Director: Misao Arai | Stars: Tôru Abe, Mitsuko Aoi, Shinrichiro Hayashi, Yumiko Katayama
Votes: 6
37. Gantz (2010)
Not Rated | 130 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
Director: Shinsuke Sato | Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya, Kanata Hongô, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Natsuna
Votes: 8,309
38. Love's Whirlpool (2014)
123 min | Drama, Romance
From midnight to 5 AM, people gather at a high-end apartment in Roppongi to engage in promiscuous sexual activity. Story depicts the process of the men and women who meet for the first time there to have loveless sex.
Director: Daisuke Miura | Stars: Sôsuke Ikematsu, Mugi Kadowaki, Ken'ichi Takitô, Eriko Nakamura
Votes: 482
39. Onsen suppon geisha (1972)
84 min | Comedy, Drama
Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can "service" guys to death. In the end, she's pitted against a sexual superman and a showdown ensues. There's also a ... See full summary »
Director: Norifumi Suzuki | Stars: Miki Sugimoto, Yôko Mihara, Emi Jô, Yasuko Matsui
Votes: 58
40. The Lustful Shogun and His 21 Concubines (1972)
95 min
The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replaces the Shogun with a double, while he learns about love. But the double finds pleasure not only in women, but in his new status.
Director: Norifumi Suzuki | Stars: Shin'ichirô Hayashi, Reiko Ike, Yayoi Watanabe, Miki Sugimoto
Votes: 81
41. My Sons (1991)
121 min | Drama, Romance
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college- educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and ... See full summary »
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Masatoshi Nagase, Emi Wakui, Mieko Harada
Votes: 351
42. Rhapsody in August (1991)
PG | 98 min | Drama, War
Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa, Narumi Kayashima
Votes: 7,554 | Gross: $0.52M
43. Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
In the last days of the Shogunate, a resourceful grifter seeks to outwit competing prostitutes, rebellious samurai and other inhabitants of a brothel in order to survive the hardened times.
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida, Yûjirô Ishihara
Votes: 1,326
44. Summer Time Machine Blues (2005)
107 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A sci-fi club concocts a plan to repair a remote by using a time machine that suddenly appears.
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro | Stars: Eita Nagayama, Yoshiaki Yoza, Daijirô Kawaoka, Munenori Nagano
Votes: 1,687
45. The Gentle Twelve (1991)
116 min | Comedy
In a jury room, jurors deliberate on the guilt or innocence of a bar hostess accused of pushing her ex-husband into the path of an oncoming truck. Most of the jurors are nice folks ... See full summary »
Director: Shun Nakahara | Stars: Kazuyuki Aijima, Michiko Hayashi, Zen Kajihara, Yoshihiro Katô
Votes: 281
46. Pîkan fûfu (2005)
76 min | Comedy, Romance
The man who is the director of record company has a poorly developed sense of communication. Many feel odd around him. He tries to improve. He sets up a baseball team called Frustrations ... See full summary »
Director: Takashi Motoki | Stars: Takeshi Yamamoto, Ayumu Nohara, Hotaru Hazuki, Sayaka Kitagawa
Votes: 18
47. Sex Machine (2005)
64 min | Comedy
Near Kawahara, a young man on a bus connives to meet a single mother by knocking over her son's box of crickets. He's Hiroshi, she's Haruka, the boy is Yuichiro. Hiroshi pursues Haruka, and... See full summary »
Director: Yûji Tajiri | Stars: Rinako Hirasawa, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Minami Aiyama, Akino Hirasawa
Votes: 347
48. Lesbians in Uniforms (1983)
69 min | Drama, Romance
Two high school girls discover the pleasure of sex with each other until one of them chooses to be with a boy.
Director: Hiroyuki Nasu | Stars: Natsuko Yamamoto, Kaoru Oda, Koji Mizukami, Asako Kurayoshi
Votes: 149
49. Recently, My Sister Is Unusual (2014)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Mitsuki and Yuya become stepsister and stepbrother because of their parents' marriage. Mitsuki can't get along with her new family and Yuya doesn't know how to approach his new stepsister. ... See full summary »
Directors: Yûki Aoyama, Iggy Coen | Stars: Tenka Hashimoto, Yukichi Kobayashi, Mayu Mitsui, Mika Yano
Votes: 524
50. Onna no ana (2014)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
Sachiko Suzuki (Naoho Ichihashi) is a female high school student. She claims that she is an alien and her mission on Earth is to conceive a child with a human man. Sachicko seduces her class teacher Mr. Fukuda (Yukichi Kobayashi)..
Director: Kôta Yoshida | Stars: Kate Aoki, Noriyuki Fuse, Naoho Ichihashi, Yumi Ishikawa
Votes: 126
51. A Class to Remember (1993)
128 min | Drama
At a night school a diverse group of students ranging from teenagers to elderly, smart to under-developed and of different races have been assembled to study and finally hopefully graduate.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Toshiyuki Nishida, Eiko Shinya, Keiko Takeshita, Nae
Votes: 262
52. Chihayafuru Part I (2016)
111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The first part of the "Chihayafuru" trilogy. Chihaya is a high school student who loves Karuta, a traditional card game from Japan. Chihaya and her friends start a Karuta club at high school to become the greatest Karuta player in Japan.
Director: Norihiro Koizumi | Stars: Suzu Hirose, Shûhei Nomura, Mackenyu, Mone Kamishiraishi
Votes: 1,208
53. Chihayafuru Part II (2016)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The second part of the "Chihayafuru" trilogy following the Karuta tournament in Tokyo. Chihaya's team is ready for the national competition. However, she is disappointed to hear that her childhood best friend has quit the game.
Director: Norihiro Koizumi | Stars: Suzu Hirose, Shûhei Nomura, Mackenyu, Mone Kamishiraishi
Votes: 939
54. July 7th, Sunny Day (1996)
109 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro | Stars: Alisa Mizuki, Masato Hagiwara, Ritsuko Tanaka, Masatô Ibu
Votes: 32
55. Jam Films (2002)
122 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
"The Messenger" is a mysterious woman who appears to a mobster hiding underground to tell him about his ultimate fate. A bag with a "Kendama" ball and string toy gets mixed up with a bag of... See full summary »
Directors: Daizaburo Hanada, Jôji Iida, Shunji Iwai, Ryûhei Kitamura, Rokuro Mochizuki, Tetsuo Shinohara, Yukihiko Tsutsumi, Isao Yukisada | Stars: Morio Agata, Natsuko Akiyama, Samuel Pop Aning, Hirofumi Arai
Votes: 570
56. Let's Go Jets (2017)
121 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Led by a demanding coach, an unlikely squad of small town girls vie for victory in a major US cheer dance championship. Based on true events.
Director: Hayato Kawai | Stars: Suzu Hirose, Yûki Amami, Ayami Nakajô, Miu Tomita
Votes: 846
57. Space Travelers (2000)
125 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
What happens when ambitious robbery - to clear out a futuristic bank outside Tokyo in 5 minutes - gone wrong.
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro | Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Eri Fukatsu, Masanobu Andô, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
Votes: 522
58. Stereo Future (2001)
111 min | Comedy, Romance
Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who continually fawns over the film's ... See full summary »
Director: Hiroyuki Nakano | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Akiko Monô, Tamaki Ogawa, Kumiko Asô
Votes: 333
59. Bayside Shakedown (1998)
119 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the ... See full summary »
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro | Stars: Yûji Oda, Toshirô Yanagiba, Eri Fukatsu, Miki Mizuno
Votes: 950
60. Passion (2013)
95 min | Drama
Francesco is a woman with no relatives who lives a solitary life after having grown up in a convent. One day while inspecting her genital area with a hand mirror, she notices a "growth with a human face".
Director: Ryôko Yoshida | Stars: Yasushi Fuchikami, Kanji Furutachi, Kumiko Itô, Mayuko Iwasa
Votes: 38
61. Love Exposure (2008)
Unrated | 237 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Yutaka Shimizu
Votes: 15,916
62. Chûgoku no chôjin (1998)
TV-PG | 118 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A salaryman and yakuza are each sent by their bosses to a remote Chinese village but discover more than they expected.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi, Mako, Michiko Kichise
Votes: 4,921
63. Cold Fever (1995)
Unrated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.
Director: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens, Gísli Halldórsson
Votes: 1,895 | Gross: $0.34M
64. Cyborg She (2008)
115 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future.
Director: Jae-young Kwak | Stars: Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Koide, Risa Ai, Nya Daigo
Votes: 4,249
65. 50-kai-me no fâsuto kisu: 50 First Kisses (2017)
114 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Meeting the woman of your dreams in Hawaii is a blessing until you discover she has short-term memory loss and forgets everything the very next day.
Director: Yûichi Fukuda | Stars: Takayuki Yamada, Masami Nagasawa, Tsuyoshi Muro, Jirô Satô
Votes: 819
66. Yattâman (2009)
111 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A toy shop owner/hero and his assistant/heroine battle a leather-clad vixen and her minions to prevent them from acquiring the pieces of a mystical skull.
Directors: Takashi Miike, Eisuke Naitô, Hatsuki Yokoo | Stars: Shô Sakurai, Saki Fukuda, Kyôko Fukada, Kendô Kobayashi
Votes: 2,035
67. Odoru daisosasen the movie 2: Rainbow Bridge wo fuusa seyo! (2003)
138 min | Crime, Action, Comedy
A special investigative team takes on a strange murder case. As they trace the killer, another murder happens and a witness shows up, making things even more confusing.
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro | Stars: Yûji Oda, Toshirô Yanagiba, Eri Fukatsu, Miki Mizuno
Votes: 624
68. Sukimasuki (2015)
82 min | Comedy, Romance
University student Heisaku has a guilty pleasure. He spies on his cute neighbor Fumio from the outside any chance he gets. Fumio comes to know that Heisaku likes her and is a peeping tom, ... See full summary »
Director: Kôta Yoshida | Stars: Keita Machida, Kokone Sasaki, Ep Cho, Shunpei Kawagoishi
Votes: 47
69. Pantsu no ana (1984)
113 min | Comedy
A boy transfers into a new high school in the big city. He gets bullied, but meets a pretty girl. He tries to win her heart, but rivals abound.
Director: Norifumi Suzuki | Stars: Momoko Kikuchi, Yôichi Yamamoto, Yumi Yano
Votes: 19
70. 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: 9,997
71. The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
Three complete strangers embark on a road-trip to Hokkaido.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baishô, Kaori Momoi, Tetsuya Takeda
Votes: 1,297
72. Hura gâru (2006)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
Director: Sang-il Lee | Stars: Yasuko Matsuyuki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yû Aoi, Shizuyo Yamasaki
Votes: 2,270
73. Ganbatte ikimasshoi (1998)
120 min | Drama, Sport
Etsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the view of a boat gliding gracefully in the ... See full summary »
Director: Itsumichi Isomura | Stars: Rena Tanaka, Mami Shimizu, Wakana Chizaki, Kirina Mano
Votes: 287
74. Mirai no omoide: Last Christmas (1992)
118 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
Based on the 'not quite Sci-Fi, not quite a Romance' manga by the Fujiko F. Fujio. Yuko dreams of being a best selling children's author, but as an adult she has made little progress. In ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita | Stars: Shizuka Kudô, Misa Shimizu, Fujio Akatsuka, Fujio F. Fujiko
Votes: 62
75. Rampo (1994)
R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts... See full summary »
Directors: Rintarô Mayuzumi, Kazuyoshi Okuyama | Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Michiko Hada, Masahiro Motoki, Teruyuki Kagawa
Votes: 611 | Gross: $0.31M
76. Bijitâ Q (2001)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A troubled and perverted family find their lives intruded by a mysterious stranger who seems to help find a balance in their disturbing natures.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ken'ichi Endô, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe, Jun Mutô
Votes: 17,058
77. Happy Flight (2008)
103 min | Comedy
A great variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol crew all support a single flight. They... See full summary »
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi | Stars: Seiichi Tanabe, Saburô Tokitô, Haruka Ayase, Kazue Fukiishi
Votes: 1,040
78. Howaitoauto (2000)
129 min | Action, Thriller
A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded JPY$5 billion from the government with a 24 hour deadline in ... See full summary »
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu | Stars: Yûji Oda, Nanako Matsushima, Kôichi Satô, Ken Ishiguro
Votes: 450
79. Kyôkasho ni nai! (2016)
Comedy, Romance
The romantic comedy and drama follows the manga of the same name and follows the adventures of cute and coquettish schoolgirl Shirabaka Aya and nerd of a man Tairaku Arihiko. There is a ... See full summary »
Director: Shota Sasaki | Stars: Ayaka Morikawa, Ryôma Baba, Moemi Katayama, Yurisa
Votes: 40
80. Bayside Shakedown the Final (2012)
126 min | Action, Crime
Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police organization. For the next 3 days Shunsaku ... See full summary »
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro | Stars: Miki Maya, Shun Oguri, Ren Ôsugi, Yuki Uchida
Votes: 263
81. 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: 23,094 | Gross: $0.09M
82. Bounce Ko Gals (1997)
110 min | Drama
The film follows three modern Japanese schoolgirls in Tokyo as they flirt with lecherous old men and dodge the yakuza in the lucrative and sometimes dangerous practice of "enjo kosai" or "date clubs".
Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Hitomi Satô, Yasue Satô, Yukiko Okamoto, Jun Murakami
Votes: 790
83. Urutoraman Zeasu (1996)
51 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Inept hero Ultraman Zearth must overcome his fear of germs and grime, if he wishes to save Earth from the evil Alien Benzene and his Kaiju pet Cotton-Poppe
Director: Shinya Nakajima | Stars: Masaharu Sekiguchi, Takaaki Ishibashi, Noritake Kinashi, Yuka Takaoka
Votes: 108
84. Onna no ko kirai (2015)
73 min | Comedy
Kiriko is popular, but when she tries to use her feminine wiles on a client and the guy she likes, they balk. When she realizes she has lost her lover, she lashes out, wrecking other people's lives, while pursuing her client.
Director: Ayaka Katô | Stars: Saki Inoue, Kenta Kiguchi, Kayano Masuyama, Takumi Matsuzawa
Votes: 40
85. Getting Any? (1994)
108 min | Comedy
Obsessed with the idea of owning his first car so he can have sex in it, a young man takes any job he can find and ends up in an escalating series of crazy situations.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Duncan, Tokie Hidari, Akiji Kobayashi, Shinsuke Yamane
Votes: 3,207
86. Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
TV-14 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 2199, the crew of the space battleship Yamato embark on a dangerous journey to the planet Iskandar to acquire a device that will rejuvenate the war-ravaged Earth.
Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Takuya Kimura, Meisa Kuroki, Toshirô Yanagiba, Naoto Ogata
Votes: 6,383
87. Sundome 2 (2008)
95 min | Drama, Romance
A teenage girl transfers to a new high school. She and a boy in the class join the same school club and during one of the activities she confides in him that she was previously a male. ... See full summary »
Director: Daigo Udagawa | Stars: Takatsugu Iwama, Atsushi Ninomiya, Akane Suzuki, Kana Tsugihara
Votes: 46
88. Video Girl Ai (1991)
100 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
A live action film based on the manga series.
Director: Ryu Kaneda | Stars: Hiromi Hiraguchi, Naoki Hosaka, Ken Ohsawa, Kaori Sakagami
Votes: 20
89. 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
90. Yarukkya naito (2015)
Comedy
Schoolboy Gousuke has erotic will and power and loves his hentai, but he is in for a rude awakening when his news school is anti-fun and bans nature and natural reactions like erections and... See full summary »
Director: Katsutoshi Hirabayashi | Stars: Tomoya Nakamura, Nina Endô, Elisa Yanagi, Reiya Masaki
Votes: 48
91. Big Man Japan (2007)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
An eccentric man living alone in a decrepit house in Tokyo periodically transforms into a 100-foot tall giant in order to defend Japan against similarly sized monsters.
Director: Hitoshi Matsumoto | Stars: Hitoshi Matsumoto, Riki Takeuchi, Ua, Ryunosuke Kamiki
Votes: 3,999 | Gross: $0.04M
92. Sundome 3 (2008 Video)
Drama
The high school boy and girl from Sundome 2 continue their sexless relationship in which she is sadistic and he is masochistic, but one day there is a rumour at school about her having a ... See full summary »
Director: Daigo Udagawa | Stars: Mayuko Irie, Takatsugu Iwama, Tenji Iwama, Aki Kawamura
Votes: 28
93. Sundome 2 (2008)
95 min | Drama, Romance
A teenage girl transfers to a new high school. She and a boy in the class join the same school club and during one of the activities she confides in him that she was previously a male. ... See full summary »
Director: Daigo Udagawa | Stars: Takatsugu Iwama, Atsushi Ninomiya, Akane Suzuki, Kana Tsugihara
Votes: 46
94. 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: 1,090
95. Odoru daisousasen the movie 3: Yatsura o kaihou seyo! (2010)
141 min | Drama
It's business as usual for detective Aoshima as he tries to solve three peculiar crime cases at the same time in this third feature length episode of popular Japanese drama.
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro | Stars: Yûji Oda, Eri Fukatsu, Yûsuke Santamaria, Atsushi Itô
Votes: 325
96. Time Trip App (2014)
Action
In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo. Katsu Kaishu (Hiroshi Tamaki) wants to avoid useless bloodshed and sends a peace envoy ... See full summary »
Director: Toshio Lee | Stars: Hiroshi Tamaki, Satomi Ishihara, Yûdai Chiba, Akira Emoto
Votes: 142
97. Moumantai (1999)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
After Reiko moves from Japan to Hong Kong to start working for Jackie Chan, her boyfriend Daijiro, in a fit of jealousy, hops on a plane and heads for Hong Kong himself. He manages to land ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Cheung | Stars: Takashi Okamura, Yasue Satô, Jessica Sung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
Votes: 139
98. Sundome (2007)
81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Hideo Aiba is a virgin at high school. He has never had a girlfriend, is awe of women and mostly involved in his studies, school club and activities and his male friends. Kurumi Sahana has ... See full summary »
Director: Daigo Udagawa | Stars: Kazuki Hiro'oka, Mayuko Irie, Takatsugu Iwama, Takuma Matsuno
Votes: 95
99. Step Up Love Story (2011)
73 min | Comedy, Romance
In the adaptation of the comic gravure idol Morishita Yuuri is the female of the couple of newlywed virgins, who came together through a traditional arranged marriage, who foster their love... See full summary »
Director: Kazuhiro Yokoyama | Stars: Hidehiko Emi, Shôgo Fukushima, Mika Kubota, Riki Miura
Votes: 75
100. Yôgisha: Muroi Shinji (2005)
117 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Metropolitan PD Superintendent Muroi is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro and Okita, only exacerbate the situation when they try to help clear his name.
Director: Ryôichi Kimizuka | Stars: Toshirô Yanagiba, Rena Tanaka, Shô Aikawa, Norito Yashima
Votes: 167
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