Japanese films I've watched from the 1990s
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1. Adrenaline Drive (1999)
Unrated | 112 min | Comedy
A bullied employee has a run-in with yakuza, a shy nurse, and a stuffed suitcase. So begins his new life of excitement and adventure with the nurse.
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi | Stars: Masanobu Andô, Hikari Ishida, Chikara Ishikura, Kirina Mano
Votes: 954 | Gross: $0.08M
2. After Life (1998)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Fantasy
After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô
Votes: 13,767 | Gross: $0.80M
3. All Under the Moon (1993)
109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Story of everyday life and romance of a taxi driver who is a Korean resident in Japan.
Director: Yôichi Sai | Stars: Gorô Kishitani, Ruby Moreno, Moeko Ezawa, Masato Furuoya
Votes: 184
4. 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: 4,090
5. 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
6. A Last Note (1995)
110 min | Drama
Yoko is a famous actress who goes to a mountain chalet for a few days rest. There, she learns a secret from her companion Toyoko.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Haruko Sugimura, Nobuko Otowa, Hideo Kanze, Kyôko Asagiri
Votes: 246
7. A Scene at the Sea (1991)
101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The lives of a young, hearing-impaired and gloomy couple are fulfilled after the boy holds interest in surfboarding.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Claude Maki, Hiroko Ôshima, Sabu Kawahara, Toshizo Fujiwara
Votes: 6,690
8. 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: 89,303
9. 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
10. Boiling Point (1990)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two disquieted junior baseball players seek revenge on the local yakuza for attacking their coach.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida, Taka Guadalcanal
Votes: 7,502 | Gross: $0.00M
11. 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
12. Charisma (1999)
104 min | Drama, Mystery
A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without ... See full summary »
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Ren Ôsugi, Yoriko Dôguchi
Votes: 2,053
13. 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: 23,125 | Gross: $0.09M
14. Dead or Alive (1999)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A yakuza of Chinese descent and a Japanese cop each wage their own war against the Japanese mafia. But they are destined to meet. Their encounter will change the world.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Shô Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Renji Ishibashi, Hitoshi Ozawa
Votes: 8,566 | Gross: $0.00M
15. Fireworks (1997)
103 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Ôsugi, Susumu Terajima
Votes: 33,210 | Gross: $0.23M
16. Gamera, the Guardian of the Universe (1994)
Unrated | 96 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
An ornithologist investigates reports of a monstrous new species of bird just as a teenage girl is gifted an amulet found on mysterious atoll. As the creatures begin to attack, an ancient guardian with a bond to the girl emerges.
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko | Stars: Tsuyoshi Ihara, Akira Onodera, Shinobu Nakayama, Ayako Fujitani
Votes: 4,086
17. Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion (1995)
Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
A meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. Gamera shows up to deal with the ever-evolving space adversary but the battle may result in him losing his bond with humanity.
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko | Stars: Toshiyuki Nagashima, Miki Mizuno, Tamotsu Ishibashi, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Votes: 3,103
18. Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1998)
Not Rated | 108 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed as the Gyaos re-emerge. Nagamine and Asagi investigate as an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature. Named Iris, Ayana seeks revenge on Gamera for the death of her family.
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko | Stars: Shinobu Nakayama, Ai Maeda, Yukijirô Hotaru, Ayako Fujitani
Votes: 3,268
19. Kamikaze Taxi (1995)
169 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A revenge-seeking man and his foolish friends plan to rob a yakuza gang.
Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Kazuya Takahashi, Mickey Curtis, Reiko Kataoka
Votes: 723
20. Kids Return (1996)
107 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
Dropping out of high school, two friends at first find success, one as a up-and-coming boxer and one as a low level gangster. Yet, their life decisions still find a way of catching up with them.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Ken Kaneko, Masanobu Andô, Leo Morimoto, Hatsuo Yamaya
Votes: 6,774
21. Kikujiro (1999)
PG-13 | 122 min | Drama, Comedy
A young, naive boy sets out alone on the road to find his wayward mother. Soon he finds an unlikely protector in a crotchety man and the two have a series of unexpected adventures along the way.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Kayoko Kishimoto, The Great Gidayû
Votes: 22,182 | Gross: $0.20M
22. Young Thugs: Innocent Blood (1997)
108 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A group of high school graduates transition into adulthood in a dangerous and violent town in Japan.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Takeshi Caesar, Seiji Chihara, Noriko Eguchi, Moeko Ezawa
Votes: 429
23. Love Letter (1995)
PG | 117 min | Drama, Romance
When exchanging letters two women discover new things about a man they knew.
Director: Shunji Iwai | Stars: Miho Nakayama, Etsushi Toyokawa, Bunjaku Han, Katsuyuki Shinohara
Votes: 11,012
24. Love & Pop (1998)
110 min | Drama
A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.
Director: Hideaki Anno | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Megumi Hayashibara, Akira Ishida
Votes: 1,872
25. 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: 7,332
26. Moving (1993)
125 min | Drama
Renko, a girl in the sixth grade, is at first unperturbed by her parents' decision to separate. With the companionship of her boyfriend, Minoru, and Sally, a classmate in the same boat, ... See full summary »
Director: Shinji Sômai | Stars: Kiichi Nakai, Junko Sakurada, Tomoko Tabata, Mariko Sudo
Votes: 679
27. Posutoman burûsu (1997)
110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A postman is mistaken for a dangerous criminal by the police.
Director: Sabu | Stars: Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Keisuke Horibe, Ren Ôsugi, Kyôko Tôyama
Votes: 1,891
28. Railroad Man (1999)
112 min | Drama
The touching reminiscing of an elderly railroad-station manager is interrupted by the sudden appearance of some good-natured girls.
Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Ken Takakura, Shinobu Ôtake, Ryôko Hirosue, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Votes: 1,326
29. Rebirth of Mothra (1996)
Unrated | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A new Mothra takes to the air and must battle Death Ghidora to save humanity.
Director: Okihiro Yoneda | Stars: Megumi Kobayashi, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Aki Hano, Kazuki Futami
Votes: 1,520
30. Ringu (1998)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Mystery
A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi, Hitomi Satô
Votes: 77,546
31. Sonatine (1993)
R | 94 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war then escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe, Masanobu Katsumura
Votes: 23,297
32. 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
33. Supermarket Woman (1996)
127 min | Comedy
Goro's supermarket is not doing well; the rival "Bargains Galore" threatens his business. A chance encounter with Hanako, an energetic woman he knew in grade school, results in big retail and life changes.
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa, Ryûnosuke Kaneda, Sen Yano
Votes: 902
34. Natsu no niwa: The Friends (1994)
113 min | Comedy, Drama
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. ... See full summary »
Director: Shinji Sômai | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Naoki Sakata, Yasutaka Oh, Ken'ichi Makino
Votes: 180
35. Tomie (1998)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A traumatized young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from.
Director: Ataru Oikawa | Stars: Miho Kanno, Mami Nakamura, Yoriko Dôguchi, Tomorô Taguchi
Votes: 1,973
36. Woman in Witness Protection (1997)
131 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A vain actress who witnessed a serious crime is guarded by 2 cops as she goes about her daily affairs.
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Nishimura, Yuji Murata, Kazuya Takahashi
Votes: 329
37. 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
38. Kin'yû fushoku rettô: Jubaku (1999)
114 min | Drama
When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favors scandal to its core.
Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kippei Shîna, Ikuji Nakamura
Votes: 191
39. Minbo (1992)
123 min | Comedy
A luxury hotel extorted by yakusa assigns an ordinary accountant to handle the situation. The chaotic results cause the hotel to rethink its plan.
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Yasuo Daichi, Takehiro Murata, Akira Takarada
Votes: 1,146
40. Happy-Go-Lucky (1997)
73 min | Drama
Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns them: they have one week to succeed; if ... See full summary »
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima | Stars: Hidaka Yoshitomo, Nagi Noriko, Maki Ishikawa, Hiroko Taguchi
Votes: 230
41. The Last Dance (1993)
116 min | Comedy, Drama
A successful Japanese movie director in his 60s becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. His family, friends, and doctor try to keep the secret of his terminal cancer from... See full summary »
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Masahiko Tsugawa, Nobuko Miyamoto, Yoshiki Arizono
Votes: 300
42. Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990)
114 min | Comedy, Drama
Her childhood was hardly ideal as she was abandoned and grew up without parental love. She finds a home and a profession as a geisha who is particularly popular because she has that lucky ... See full summary »
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa, Hiroshi Ohkôchi, Ryûnosuke Kaneda
Votes: 332
43. Dai yûkai (1991)
TV-PG | 120 min | Comedy, Crime
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place between captors ... See full summary »
Director: Kihachi Okamoto | Stars: Tôru Kazama, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Katsuyasu Uchida, Shigeru Kôyama
Votes: 221
44. Tôkyô yakyoku (1997)
85 min | Drama
Hamanaka Koichi returns to the old ward in eastern Tokyo. No one knows why he disappeared and left his family behind. No one knows why he is back either. His wife is unsure whether she ... See full summary »
Director: Jun Ichikawa | Stars: Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Kaori Momoi, Mitsuko Baishô, Satoko Abe
Votes: 108
45. Donten seikatsu (1999)
84 min | Comedy, Drama
Tsutomu meets Kee outside a Pachinko hall. The two strike up an unlikely friendship.
Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita | Stars: Uda Teppei, Hiroshi Yamamoto
Votes: 148
46. Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Amidst a Chinese and Japanese mafia war, a lawyer for the Chinese mob finds a rift forming between him and his corrupt police office brother.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kippei Shîna, Tomorô Taguchi, Takeshi Caesar, Ren Ôsugi
Votes: 2,463
47. Serpent's Path (1998)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man enlists a friend to help him identify and exact revenge upon his daughter's murderer.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Shô Aikawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûrei Yanagi, Shirô Shimomoto
Votes: 844
48. Isan sôzoku (1990)
109 min
The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family members.
Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Yoshiko Sakuma, Mayumi Ogawa, Morio Kazama, Shigeru Kôyama
Votes: 15
49. Twinkle (1992)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college ... See full summary »
Director: Joji Matsuoka | Stars: Hiroko Yakushimaru, Etsushi Toyokawa, Michitaka Tsutsui, Kai Atô
Votes: 153
50. 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
51. A Quiet Life (1995)
121 min | Drama
Melodrama about the life of a mentally handicapped young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Masayuki Imai, Nobuko Miyamoto, Hinako Saeki, Mihoko Shibata
Votes: 273
52. Like a Rolling Stone (1994)
120 min | Crime, Drama
Tanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him.
Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro | Stars: Eiji Okuda, Eiko Nagashima, Reiko Takashima, Shô Aikawa
Votes: 47
53. Chizuko's Younger Sister (1991)
120 min | Drama, Fantasy
Follows two sisters, one clumsy and ignored, the other a perfect child. After the latter dies in an accident, she returns as a ghost to guide her little sister.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Hikari Ishida, Tomoko Nakajima, Toshinori Omi, Tomoka Shibayama
Votes: 334
54.
La cuisine (1992–1993)
Episode:
Fried Dragon Fish
(1993)
50 min | Drama
A salesman from Delta Works, a London-based computerized database, offers a one month free trial that seems uninteresting until he mentions that an operator, always selected from a group of... See full summary »
Director: Shunji Iwai | Stars: Miyoko Yoshimoto, Tadanobu Asano, Hiroshi Ôguchi, Derrick Holmes
Votes: 324
55. Sunday Drive (1998)
Not Rated | 86 min
A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murders. Borrowing a station wagon, they flee with no particular destination in mind.
Director: Hisashi Saito | Stars: Makiko Ono, Takuji Suzuki, Miako Tadano, Yôji Tanaka
Votes: 30
56. After the Rain (1999)
91 min | Drama
During a downpour, a generous ronin and his supporting wife are stranded at a country inn. The ronin comes to the attention of a lord who wants to hire him as an instructor for his men, who treat the ronin with disrespect.
Director: Takashi Koizumi | Stars: Akira Terao, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Shirô Mifune, Fumi Dan
Votes: 4,464
57. Gakkô II (1996)
122 min | Drama
Two teachers at a special high school must deal with the fact that two of their learning impaired students have just disappeared. After searching for both students everywhere, the teachers are amazed to see them flying over in the balloon.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Toshiyuki Nishida, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Ayumi Hamasaki, Hiroshi Kanbe
Votes: 131
58. A Class to Remember 3: The New Voyage (1998)
133 min | Drama
A widow who has raised her autistic son alone loses her job and begins attending a technical college. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salary-man with whom she begins a furtive romance.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Shinobu Ôtake, Yûki Kuroda, Nenji Kobayashi, Casey Takamine
Votes: 93
59. The Abe Clan (1995 TV Movie)
94 min | Drama
Tadatoshi Hosokawa, feudal lord of the Higo area, dies in the spring of the 18th year of Kanei (1624-1644). Although before he died, Tadatoshi forbade his vassals to follow him in death--... See full summary »
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Yumi Asô, Mariko Fuji, Renji Ishibashi, Keizô Kanie
Votes: 51
60. Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)
148 min | Crime, Drama
The struggles of a group of immigrant outcasts living in an alternative-future, xenophobic Japanese metropolis.
Director: Shunji Iwai | Stars: Hiroshi Mikami, Chara, Ayumi Ito, Yôsuke Eguchi
Votes: 4,423
61. Koi gokudo (1997)
110 min | Crime, Drama
Based on the novel Ukonshi Kujira by author Yamanouchi Yukio, Mochizuki Rokuro's third in his yakuza trilogy depicts a country girl falling in love with a street-level down and dirty thug ... See full summary »
Director: Rokuro Mochizuki | Stars: Yoshio Harada, Shohei Hino, All Kyojin, Shunsuke Matsuoka
Votes: 122
62. Another Lonely Hitman (1995)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tachibana is a mob hit man, just released from 10 years in prison where he kicked his drug habit. He's dismayed to find that the code of conduct he honors no longer counts, and soon gets ... See full summary »
Director: Rokuro Mochizuki | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Kazuhiko Kanayama, Asami Sawaki, Tatsuo Yamada
Votes: 200
63. Tokyo Blood (1993 TV Short)
37 min | Short, Drama
Tokyo Blood is an omnibus film of 4 short stories featuring various characters entrapped in Tokyo landscapes.
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Mai Hosho, Hairi Katagiri, Masashi Kojima, Suzuki Matsuo
Votes: 153
64. Anrakkî monkî (1998)
106 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Yamazaki has spent a lot of time plotting a robbery of a local bank, but when he actually gets to the bank he finds another robber escaping with the money. Through an improbable chain of ... See full summary »
Director: Sabu | Stars: Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroshi Shimizu, Akira Yamamoto, Ikkô Suzuki
Votes: 694
65. The Boy Made in Japan (1995)
105 min | Drama
Yamato Tanaka, who attempted to murder his father in the past, used to work as a janitor in a theme park. Now unemployed, Yamato lives in a very humble apartment room. He lost his family by... See full summary »
Director: Ataru Oikawa | Stars: Kaori Shimada, Mikio Ôsawa
Votes: 28
66. 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
67. Heaven and Earth (1990)
PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 16th century Japan, two samurai engage in massive battles across the countryside, one attempting to conquer and the other attempting to defend his land while repressing his love for a woman after taking a vow of celibacy.
Director: Haruki Kadokawa | Stars: Takaaki Enoki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Atsuko Asano, Naomi Zaizen
Votes: 1,141 | Gross: $0.31M
68. Onibi (1997)
101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A yakuza hitman gets out of jail and decides to start a new life, but soon his old life catches up with him.
Director: Rokuro Mochizuki | Stars: Yoshio Harada, Reiko Kataoka, Shô Aikawa, Kazuki Kitamura
Votes: 253
69. 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: 286
70. Tugumi (1990)
105 min | Drama
Tugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a few people are attracted by her beauty ... See full summary »
Director: Jun Ichikawa | Stars: Riho Makise, Tomoko Nakajima, Yasuyo Shirashima, Hiroyuki Sanada
Votes: 156
71. Down the Drain (1993)
92 min | Comedy
Junco, an agreeable but somewhat clumsy high school student, gets caught for using someone else's subway commuter pass. But that's only the beginning of her long series of increasingly absurd, bleak misadventures.
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi | Stars: Noboru Iguchi, Shigeru Izumiya, Miwako Kaji, Kotaro
Votes: 110
72. August in the Water (1995)
117 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Rena Komine, Shinsuke Aoki, Reiko Matsuo, Masaaki Takarai
Votes: 781
73. Shall We Dance? (1996)
PG | 136 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.
Director: Masayuki Suô | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eri Watanabe
Votes: 11,739 | Gross: $9.68M
74. Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)
98 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Shôsuke Tanihara, Miho Nomoto, Tamaki Kenmochi, Marie Jinno
Votes: 3,835
75. 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: 280
76. Closing Time (1996)
81 min | Drama
A writer grieving the loss of his wife and child wanders the night in Tokyo encountering other lost souls also seeking love.
Director: Masahiro Kobayashi | Stars: Sanshô Shinsui, Takeo Nakahara, Kazuki Kitamura, Mari Natsuki
Votes: 54
77. Focus (1996)
73 min | Crime, Drama
A small and intrusive reporting crew are reporting on the actions of a man who monitors transmissions in a documentary they are filming. When suddenly a weapon is introduced the nerd and ... See full summary »
Director: Satoshi Isaka | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Keiko Unno, Akira Hirai, Tetsuo Sano
Votes: 206
78. Beat (1998)
101 min | Romance
In the 1960s Okinawa was us under American military occupation. Young Takeshi leads a passive go-with-the-flow existence, working as a bartender at a bar called Sekai where his ... See full summary »
Director: Amon Miyamoto | Stars: Mark Bunnell, Claude Maki, Christopher T. Nelson, Dean Stapleton
Votes: 26
79. Zipang (1990)
119 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Jigoku is a samurai outlaw who is on the run with his motley bunch of followers. There's a bounty on his head with a cute female bounty hunter named Yuri The Pistol who's an ace gunslinger ... See full summary »
Director: Kaizô Hayashi | Stars: Masahiro Takashima, Narumi Yasuda, Bengal, Shirô Sano
Votes: 310
80. The Secret Garden (1997)
85 min | Comedy, Crime
Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash their car, cash falling into a nearby river. Sakiko begins a quest to retrieve the money.
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi | Stars: Hikaru Ijûin, Taketoshi Naitô, Naomi Nishida, Gô Rijû
Votes: 510
81. Kyôso tanjô (1993)
95 min | Comedy
A young man, Kazuo, joins a new cult religion even though he sees through the initial recruitment pretense, and participating in the activities of a new social phenomenon, some of whose ... See full summary »
Director: Toshihiro Tenma | Stars: Masato Hagiwara, Kôji Tamaki, Ittoku Kishibe, Takeshi Kitano
Votes: 108
82. Keiho (1999)
133 min | Crime, Drama
Masaki Shibata Sinichi is a theater actor who murders a man and his wife. Masaki confesses the crime and alleges that the reason for it was that the woman, five months pregnant, had ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita | Stars: Kyôka Suzuki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Ittoku Kishibe, Naoki Sugiura
Votes: 216
83. Sensou to seishun (1991)
112 min | Drama, War
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up, and the girl is able to piece together her aunt's tragic story.
Director: Tadashi Imai | Stars: Yûki Kudô, Yumiko Fujita, Hisashi Igawa, Chôichirô Kawarasaki
Votes: 47
84. 2/dyuo (1997)
90 min | Drama
Yu, an employee at a clothing boutique, lives with Kei, an out-of-work actor who lives off of her. When one day he asks her to get married, the balance of their relationship seems to be irremediably disturbed.
Director: Nobuhiro Suwa | Stars: Eri Yu, Miyuki Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Makiko Watanabe
Votes: 195
85. Haunted School (1995)
101 min | Family, Horror
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Hironobu Nomura, Kasumi Toyama, Shiori Yonezawa, Hajime Atsuta
Votes: 271
86. Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995)
80 min | Horror
Misa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. Trying to figure out who's behind the supernatural attack, Misa... See full summary »
Director: Shimako Sato | Stars: Kimika Yoshino, Miho Kanno, Shu-Ma, Naozumi Takahashi
Votes: 839
87. The Five (1995)
Unrated | 109 min | Action, Drama, Crime
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.
Director: Takashi Ishii | Stars: Kôichi Satô, Masahiro Motoki, Jinpachi Nezu, Kippei Shîna
Votes: 2,645
88. Eko Eko Azarak II: Birth of the Wizard (1996)
83 min | Horror
Kimika Yoshino returns in this prequel to 'Wizard of Darkness' to play Misa Kuroi before she was famous, or at least before she realized she was a witch. 'Birth of the Wizard' begins in ... See full summary »
Director: Shimako Sato | Stars: Kimika Yoshino, Wataru Shihôdô, Chieko Shiratori, Akira Otani
Votes: 332
89. Gonin 2 (1996)
108 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Thrown together by chance during the robbery of a jewelry store by a Yakuza gang, five women take advantage of the situation to make off with the heist's loot, while a man hunts the same ... See full summary »
Director: Takashi Ishii | Stars: Ken Ogata, Shinobu Ôtake, Kimiko Yo, Mai Kitajima
Votes: 457
90. Endless Waltz (1995)
102 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Koji Wakamatsu's biopic about a Japanese free jazz/improvisation saxophonist named Kaoru Abe.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Leona Hirota, Kou Machida, Haruko Sagara, Masato Furuoya
Votes: 139
91. Moonlight Serenade (1997)
110 min | Drama
Opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, as he remembers a trip made as a young boy. Then, he and family took a boat trip from Awaji to Beppu in order to bury the ... See full summary »
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Hideyuki Kasahara, Jun Toba, Shima Iwashita
Votes: 127
92. Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle (1990)
116 min | Action, Crime
Two wives of gangsters come together to avenge the deaths of their men.
Director: Kôsaku Yamashita | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Rino Katase, Shô Aikawa, Yuriko Ishida
Votes: 31
93. Yakuza Ladies Revisited (1991)
104 min | Action
The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a succession conflict threatens to break out.
Director: Sadao Nakajima | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Rino Katase, Masahiro Takashima, Hirotarô Honda
Votes: 35
94. Childhood Days (1990)
119 min | Drama
Bombing during World War II resulted in whole urban populations fleeing to the countryside, and this created a meeting of urban and rural cultures. Shinji (a young boy evacuated from Tokyo)... See full summary »
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Horioka, Katsuhisa Yamazaki, Noritake Kobinata
Votes: 225
95. Owls' Castle (1999)
138 min | Action, Drama
As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins, killing every man, woman and child he found in... See full summary »
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Kiichi Nakai, Mayu Tsuruta, Riona Hazuki, Takaya Kamikawa
Votes: 548
96. M/Other (1999)
147 min | Drama
Tetsuro is living with his young girlfriend Aki in a pleasant house in Tokyo. They both spend a lot of time at their jobs. However their routine is upset when Tetsuro brings his 8 year old ... See full summary »
Director: Nobuhiro Suwa | Stars: Tomokazu Miura, Makiko Watanabe, Ryudai Takahashi, Hiroo Fuseya
Votes: 414
97. Ai ni tsuite, Tokyo (1992)
110 min | Drama, Romance
Looks at the lives of Chinese people in Japan.
Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi | Stars: Asuka Okasaka, Hiroshi Fujioka, Qian Po, Gu Xiao Tong
Votes: 59
98. The Outer Way (1998)
99 min | Crime, Drama
Himuro is a policeman fired by his superiors as a scapegoat for his involvement in the Sokaiya racket. This cop catches a train to nowhere - "nowhere" in this case is a small town by the sea -.
Director: Rokuro Mochizuki | Stars: Hakuryû, Amiko Kanaya, Akaji Maro, Atsushi Narasaka
Votes: 27
99. 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
100. Fusa (1993 TV Movie)
92 min | Drama, Mystery
When an amnesiac woman walks into the household of a young samurai no one knows what to make of the mysterious newcomer. However, with her serene beauty and hard working etiquette both the ... See full summary »
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Kiichi Nakai, Yûko Asano, Furankî Sakai, Hisashi Igawa
Votes: 86
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