Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "remake-of-japanese-film"

1. Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)

PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

The epic next chapter in the cinematic Monsterverse pits two of the greatest icons in motion picture history against each other--the fearsome Godzilla and the mighty Kong--with humanity caught in the balance.

Director: Adam Wingard | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry

Votes: 241,561 | Gross: $100.92M

2. Godzilla (2014)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The world is beset by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity.

Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe

Votes: 440,935 | Gross: $200.68M

3. Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali

Votes: 293,787 | Gross: $85.71M

4. The Ring (2002)

PG-13 | 115 min | Horror, Mystery

A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.

Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox, David Dorfman

Votes: 375,076 | Gross: $129.13M

5. Godzilla (I) (1998)

PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that heads off to New York City. The American military must chase the monster across the city to stop it before it reproduces.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria

Votes: 203,582 | Gross: $136.31M

6. 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: 227,906 | Gross: $40.56M

7. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Western

A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.

Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy

Votes: 232,724 | Gross: $14.50M

8. The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Approved | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach

Votes: 102,540 | Gross: $4.91M

9. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

In the Far East, Alex O'Connell, the son of famed mummy fighters Rick and Evy O'Connell, unearths the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin -- a shape-shifting entity cursed by a witch centuries ago.

Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, Michelle Yeoh

Votes: 170,683 | Gross: $102.49M

10. Living (2022)

PG-13 | 102 min | Drama

In 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.

Director: Oliver Hermanus | Stars: Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Adrian Rawlins

Votes: 32,693

11. The Grudge (2004)

PG-13 | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Clea DuVall, William Mapother

Votes: 150,873 | Gross: $110.36M

12. Death Note (I) (2017)

TV-MA | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A high school student named Light Turner discovers a mysterious notebook that has the power to kill anyone whose name is written within its pages, and launches a secret crusade to rid the world of criminals.

Director: Adam Wingard | Stars: Nat Wolff, LaKeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley, Shea Whigham

Votes: 90,480

13. The Grudge (2019)

R | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror

A house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death.

Director: Nicolas Pesce | Stars: Tara Westwood, Junko Bailey, David Lawrence Brown, Zoe Fish

Votes: 29,264

14. The Guyver (1991)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

Young man merges with mechanical device, becoming cyborg superhero. Strange creatures emerge, seeking to reclaim device. He uncovers plot to genetically engineer monstrous creatures.

Directors: Screaming Mad George, Steve Wang | Stars: Greg Joung Paik, Jimmie 'JJ' Walker, Peter Spellos, Michael Berryman

Votes: 5,940

15. Midnight Sun (2018)

PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Romance

A 17-year-old girl suffers from a condition that prevents her from being out in the sunlight.

Director: Scott Speer | Stars: Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle, Quinn Shephard

Votes: 36,104 | Gross: $9.56M

16. Voltron: Legendary Defender (2016–2018)

TV-Y7-FV | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Five teenagers become the last line of defense for the galaxy in an intergalactic battle against the evil alien force led by King Zarkon.

Stars: Jeremy Shada, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Tyler Labine, Kimberly Brooks

Votes: 9,769

17. Eight Below (2006)

PG | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Brutal cold forces two Antarctic explorers to leave their team of sled dogs behind as they fend for their survival.

Director: Frank Marshall | Stars: Paul Walker, Jason Biggs, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood

Votes: 68,370 | Gross: $81.61M

18. Shall We Dance? (2004)

PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A romantic comedy where a bored, overworked Estate Lawyer, upon first sight of a beautiful instructor, signs up for ballroom dancing lessons.

Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci

Votes: 49,597 | Gross: $57.89M

19. Dark Water (2005)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A mother and daughter, still wounded from a bitter custody dispute, hole up in a run-down apartment building, where they are targeted by the ghost of a former resident.

Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Ariel Gade, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth

Votes: 65,381 | Gross: $25.47M

20. One Missed Call (2008)

PG-13 | 87 min | Horror, Mystery

Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves - messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.

Director: Eric Valette | Stars: Edward Burns, Shannyn Sossamon, Ana Claudia Talancón, Ray Wise

Votes: 34,013 | Gross: $26.88M

21. Last Man Standing (1996)

R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson, Christopher Walken

Votes: 61,003 | Gross: $17.60M

22. The Eye (2008)

PG-13 | 98 min | Horror, Mystery

Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.

Directors: David Moreau, Xavier Palud | Stars: Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey, Rade Serbedzija

Votes: 56,130 | Gross: $31.42M

23. Pulse (I) (2006)

PG-13 | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.

Director: Jim Sonzero | Stars: Kristen Bell, Rick Gonzalez, Christina Milian, Ian Somerhalder

Votes: 30,695 | Gross: $20.26M

24. Blind Fury (1989)

R | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.

Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Terry O'Quinn, Brandon Call, Noble Willingham

Votes: 18,737 | Gross: $2.69M

25. Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956)

Not Rated | 80 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.

Directors: Ishirô Honda, Terry O. Morse | Stars: Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kôchi, Akira Takarada

Votes: 8,829

26. The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)

R | 81 min | Adventure, Fantasy

A fearsome swordsman, Kain, crosses the barren wastelands and comes upon a town where two arch enemies fight incessantly for control of the town's only well.

Director: John C. Broderick | Stars: David Carradine, Luke Askew, María Socas, Anthony De Longis

Votes: 2,530 | Gross: $2.89M

27. Josée (2020)

117 min | Drama, Romance

A story that depicts the brightest moments of Josee and Young-Seok. Josee has a physical disability and lives in her own world. Young-Seok enters her world.

Director: Jong-kwan Kim | Stars: Jo Bok-rae, Hwang Do-Yun, Yoon Hye-ri, Han Ji-min

Votes: 921

28. Don't Look Up (2009)

R | 85 min | Horror

Evil spirits released from old celluloid cause a film crew to slowly go insane while in production on a new project.

Director: Fruit Chan | Stars: Rachael Murphy, Eli Roth, Ben DiGregorio, Reshad Strik

Votes: 1,743

29. The Secret (2007)

R | 93 min | Drama, Romance

A wife and mother passes away, and her spirit returns in her daughter's body.

Director: Vincent Perez | Stars: David Duchovny, Lili Taylor, Olivia Thirlby, Brendan Sexton III

Votes: 3,983

30. Your Name

Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Announced

A live-action adaptation of the 2016 anime film about two strangers who mysteriously swap bodies.

Director: Carlos López Estrada

31. Apartment 1303 3D (2012)

R | 85 min | Horror

A modern ghost story which turns a love/hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror. Some rentals are too good to be true.

Director: Michael Taverna | Stars: Mischa Barton, Julianne Michelle, Rebecca De Mornay, Corey Sevier

Votes: 6,150

32. The Outrage (1964)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Western

Travelers in the 1870s Southwest discuss a recent murder trial in which all the principals told differing stories about the events.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson

Votes: 2,524 | Gross: $3.92M

33. The Ring Virus (1999)

Not Rated | 108 min | Horror

After the mysterious death of her niece and other three teenagers on the same hour and with the symptoms of heart attack, the journalist Sun-ju decides to investigate their last moments. ... See full summary »

Director: Dong-bin Kim | Stars: Shin Eun-kyung, Seung-Hyun Lee, Jung Jin-young, Kim Chang-wan

Votes: 2,438

34. Sangre fría (2004)

780 min | Thriller, Mystery, Horror

A group of students participate in a student contest that involve murders and inconveniences.

Stars: Mariano Martínez, Dolores Fonzi, Nicolás Pauls, Alejo Ortiz

Votes: 85

35. Iron Maze (1991)

R | 104 min | Drama, Thriller

In Corinth, a dying town 15 miles from Pittsburg: One evening, a Japanese businessman, who wanted to tear down the closed iron mills to build an amusement park, is found half dead in his ... See full summary »

Director: Hiroaki Yoshida | Stars: Jeff Fahey, Bridget Fonda, Hiroaki Murakami, J.T. Walsh

Votes: 757

36. My Girl and I (2005)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance

Beautiful student Su-Eun prevents her fellow student Su-Ho to drown in the ocean. Su-Ho however, does not know who saved him, until Su-Eun tells him after a while. The love between them ... See full summary »

Director: Yun-su Jeon | Stars: Cha Tae-hyun, Song Hye-kyo, Song Chang-ui, Moon Jeong-Hee

Votes: 2,737

37. Woodstock Villa (2008)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A businessman's wife approaches a cash-strapped man to kidnap her and test her husband's love for her, but was her unexpected death part of the plan?

Director: Hansal Mehta | Stars: Sikandar Kher, Neha Oberoi, Arbaaz Khan, Gulshan Grover

Votes: 432

38. Battle Royale

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Announced

A group of teens face off against each other in a futuristic survival game held on a remote island. Based on the 2000 Japanese film "Battle Royale".

39. Untitled Departures Remake

Comedy, Drama, Music | Announced

A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.