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1. Lost in Translation (2003)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris
Votes: 489,343 | Gross: $44.59M
2. Paterson (2016)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Nellie, Rizwan Manji
Votes: 88,983 | Gross: $2.14M
3. The Naked Director (2019–2021)
TV-MA | 48 min | Biography, Drama
Follows the story of Toru Muranishi's unusual and dramatic life filled with big ambitions as well as spectacular setbacks in his attempt to turn Japan's porn industry on its head.
Stars: Takayuki Yamada, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Misato Morita, Tokio Emoto
Votes: 6,943
4. Mystery Train (1989)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Yûki Kudô, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Cinqué Lee
Votes: 30,839 | Gross: $0.37M
5. Suicide Club (2001)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Mai Hosho, Tamao Satô
Votes: 22,228
6. Sweet Bean (2015)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Miki Mizuno
Votes: 12,729 | Gross: $0.12M
7. The Hidden Blade (2004)
R | 132 min | Drama, History, Romance
A 19th Century samurai, held in low esteem due to an action by his late father, must resolve his history with a maid and with his close friend.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Votes: 7,203 | Gross: $0.04M
8. Jigen Daisuke (2023)
120 min | Action, Adventure
The legendary gunman Daisuke Jigen comes to Japan to have his pistol examined.
Director: Hajime Hashimoto | Stars: Tetsuji Tamayama, Mitsuko Kusabue, Kotoka Maki, Yôko Maki
Votes: 426
9. The Box Man (2024)
120 min | Drama
A nameless man gives up his identity to live with a large cardboard box over his head, to meet a range of characters as he wanders in Tokyo.
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Kôichi Satô, Ayana Shiramoto
Votes: 50
10. Sakuran (2006)
111 min | Drama, History
A young girl is sold into a red-light district brothel and tries to adapt to life as an oiran (courtesan).
Director: Mika Ninagawa | Stars: Anna Tsuchiya, Kippei Shîna, Yoshino Kimura, Hiroki Narimiya
Votes: 2,144
11. Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001)
55 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Yoshiki Arizono, Tadanobu Asano, Masakatsu Funaki, Masatoshi Nagase
Votes: 2,714
12. Flirt (1995)
R | 85 min | Drama, Romance
Three short films about lovers' ultimatums are set in New York, Berlin and Tokyo.
Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Paul Austin, Robert John Burke, Martin Donovan, Erica Gimpel
Votes: 2,244 | Gross: $0.08M
13. Party 7 (2000)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive ... See full summary »
Director: Katsuhito Ishii | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Akemi Kobayashi, Yoshinori Okada, Keisuke Horibe
Votes: 726
14. Mountain Woman (2022)
100 min | Fantasy
Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws strength from Mt. Hayachine, where the spirits of humans ascend after passing.
Director: Takeshi Fukunaga | Stars: Masaaki Akahori, Ayame, Denden, Osamu Imai
Votes: 67
15. Punk Samurai Slash Down (2018)
130 min | Action, Drama
In search of employment and a permanent position and having committed murder the ronin Kake Junoshin tells the Kurokaze ('black wave') Han clan that a religious cult is aiming for their ... See full summary »
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Gô Ayano, Keiko Kitagawa, Shôta Sometani, Masahiro Higashide
Votes: 229
16. Pistol Opera (2001)
Not Rated | 112 min | Crime, Action, Drama
The No. 3 assassin of Japan is given the chance to usurp No. 1 and take their place.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Makiko Esumi, Sayoko Yamaguchi, Hanae Kan, Masatoshi Nagase
Votes: 1,519
17. Just Remembering (2021)
115 min | Romance
A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again.
Director: Daigo Matsui | Stars: Sôsuke Ikematsu, Sairi Itô, Kalen Anzai, Toshiki Hirose
Votes: 588
18. Words with Gods (2014)
133 min | Drama
The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words ... See full summary »
Directors: Guillermo Arriaga, Hector Babenco, Álex de la Iglesia, Bahman Ghobadi, Amos Gitai, Emir Kusturica, Mira Nair, Hideo Nakata, Warwick Thornton | Stars: Yaël Abecassis, Demián Bichir, Richa Chadha, Inma Cuesta
Votes: 477
19. A Hundred Flowers (2022)
104 min | Drama
New Year's Eve. Izumi finds his mother Yuriko wandering in a park in the freezing cold. Diagnosed with dementia, her mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son, memories of the mother ... See full summary »
Director: Genki Kawamura | Stars: Mieko Harada, Yuka Itaya, Misuzu Kanno, Yumi Kawai
Votes: 351
20. The Sea Is Watching (2002)
R | 119 min | Romance, Drama
O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.
Director: Kei Kumai | Stars: Misa Shimizu, Nagiko Tôno, Masatoshi Nagase, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Votes: 1,606
21. Last Shadow at First Light (2023)
107 min | Drama
Ami, haunted by recurring apparitions, embarks on a journey from Singapore to Japan in search of her missing mother. Amidst the transforming landscapes, Ami's dreams, hauntings and lost mother unveil their true form.
Director: Nicole Midori Woodford | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Mihaya Shirata, Mariko Tsutsui, Peter Yu
Votes: 92
22. Radiance (II) (2017)
101 min | Drama, Romance
A passionate writer of film versions for visually impaired people meets an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Ayame Misaki, Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Shirakawa
Votes: 2,000
23. Tojiru hi (2000)
91 min | Drama
A brother and sister share more than the standard love for each other, much more, but that is only the beginning of the extraordinary relationships which are accompanied by unusual affections and deeds all around.
Director: Isao Yukisada | Stars: Makoto Togashi, Tetsu Sawaki, Ayaka Maeda, Masatoshi Nagase
Votes: 50
24. The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1993)
92 min | Drama, Thriller
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. Through a series of ... See full summary »
Director: Kaizô Hayashi | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Shirô Sano, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Hai-Ping Yang
Votes: 436
25. Our Time Will Come (2017)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, War
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Xun Zhou, Eddie Peng, Wallace Huo, Deannie Ip
Votes: 1,006 | Gross: $0.10M
26. Wana (1996)
106 min | Drama, Mystery
Japan's favorite hard-boiled detective Maiku Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) returns for the third time in this crime drama. A crazed killer has been poisoning women around the city and planting ... See full summary »
Director: Kaizô Hayashi | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Yui Natsukawa, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kiyotaka Nanbara
Votes: 154
27. Vision (I) (2018)
109 min | Drama
Frenchwoman Joan is a world traveller and chronicler. She travels, sees, experience and writes. She lands in the forest and hills near Nara, Japan and meets Satoshi. Despite the mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Masatoshi Nagase, Takanori Iwata, Minami
Votes: 856
28. We Are Little Zombies (2019)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Four orphans meet at a funeral home and none of them are sad about the recent deaths of their parents. They decide to become friends and live on their own.
Director: Makoto Nagahisa | Stars: Keita Ninomiya, Mondo Okumura, Satoshi Mizuno, Sena Nakajima
Votes: 947
29. Kano (2014)
Not Rated | 185 min | Biography, Drama, History
A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
Directors: Umin Boya, Te-Sheng Wei | Stars: Togo Igawa, Takao Osawa, Masatoshi Nagase, Yu-Ning Tsao
Votes: 2,455
30. Three Sisters of Tenmasou (2022)
120 min | Drama
Director: Ryûhei Kitamura | Stars: Non, Mugi Kadowaki, Riku Hagiwara, Hiroyuki Hirayama
Votes: 49
31. The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995)
101 min | Drama, Mystery
Mike Hama is a private investigator who has been reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle.
Director: Kaizô Hayashi | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Haruko Wanibuchi, Shirô Sano
Votes: 222
32. Noise (2022)
128 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi begins to produce black fig on Shishikari ... See full summary »
Director: Ryûichi Hiroki | Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Akira Emoto
Votes: 247
33. Butterfly Sleep (2017)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A writer of romance novels falls in love with a much younger guy. Their romance is doomed, though, because she has Alzheimer.
Director: Jae-eun Jeong | Stars: Anna Ishibashi, Kim Jae-Wook, Masanobu Katsumura, Hidekazu Mashima
Votes: 128
34. Abunai Deka (1986–1987)
54 min | Action
This series revolves around the investigations of Detectives Toshiki Takayama and Yuji Oshita. Famous for their unique personalities and unorthodox methods of catching the criminals, this ... See full summary »
Stars: Hiroshi Tachi, Kyôhei Shibata, Tôru Nakamura, Bengal
Votes: 18
35. Tales of the Bizarre (1990–1992)
54 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Stars: Tamori, Junji Takada, Ryô Iwamatsu, Toshiya Sakai
Votes: 65
36. They Say Nothing Stays the Same (2019)
137 min | Drama
Why does one need a ferryman? One needs a ferryman where there is a body of water and a bridge does not exist. The village high in the hills has a ferryman, but a bridge is in the works. ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Odagiri | Stars: Akira Emoto, Ririka Kawashima, Nijirô Murakami, Masatoshi Nagase
Votes: 243
37. Bitter Honey (2016)
105 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
Based on novelist Muro Saisei's 1959 book, Bitter Honey narrates the story of a poet who informed by his physician of his impending death finds renewed flights of fantasy. He is visited by ... See full summary »
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Ren Ôsugi, Seiko Iwaidô, Hanae Kan
Votes: 198
38. Sakura (2020)
119 min | Drama, Family
Three siblings share a home with their parents living a happy life. The oldest one is good-looking guy, which is something of a contrast from his younger brother who is at school. The ... See full summary »
Director: Hitoshi Yazaki | Stars: Tamiyasu Chô, Masaya Katô, Takumi Kitamura, Yui Kobayashi
Votes: 139
39. Three Businessmen (1998)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Drama
An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art dealer (Alex Cox), who specializes in ... See full summary »
Director: Alex Cox | Stars: Miguel Sandoval, Robert Wisdom, Alex Cox, Andrew Schofield
Votes: 544
40. Hotel Iris (2021)
100 min | Drama
Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold and thrifty Japanese woman (Nahana) and her lonely half-Taiwanese daughter Mari (Lucia). One... See full summary »
Director: Hiroshi Okuhara | Stars: Lucia, Masatoshi Nagase, Nahana, Kanichiro
Votes: 57
41. Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle (2000)
138 min | Action, History
Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and ultimately broken by the attacks from a ... See full summary »
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Daisuke Ryû, Masakatsu Funaki
Votes: 914
42. Días de cine (1991– )
60 min | News
Antonio Gasset hosts this show in which recently released movies and DVDs are thoughtfully discussed in a documentary-like way.
Stars: Gerardo Sánchez, Elena S. Sánchez, Antonio Gasset, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Votes: 334
43. The War and a Woman (2013)
98 min | Drama
A prostitute, an author and a returning soldier face the immanent despair and nihilism in their war-struck nation. For them, sex has become meaningless and at the same time the only way to ... See full summary »
Director: Jun'ichi Inoue | Stars: Noriko Eguchi, Masatoshi Nagase, Jun Murakami, Akira Emoto
Votes: 56
44. Autumn Moon (1992)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
Twentysomething Japanese tourist, Tokio, comes to Hong Kong looking for good cuisine. He does all that the tourist is expected to do, but is disappointed with the food so far. By chance, he... See full summary »
Director: Clara Law | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Pei-Hui Li, Siu Wan Choi, Maki Kiuchi
Votes: 375
45. 64: Part I (2016)
121 min | Mystery
1989 is 64 Shouwa year in Japanese calendar, thus unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in Prefectural Police Department.
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Kôichi Satô, Gô Ayano, Nana Eikura, Eita Nagayama
Votes: 397
46. 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
47. P. P. Rider (1983)
118 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Three high-school students tangle with the Yakuza and the police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
Director: Shinji Sômai | Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Michiko Kawai, Masatoshi Nagase, Shinobu Sakagami
Votes: 139
48. Fantasmagorie - The Ghost Show (2021)
72 min | Fantasy
Ena is a computer graphics artist. Working like a machine, she ultimately suffers from the rare digital disease "01," which leaves a strange mark on one half of her face. Ena goes back to ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Nikai | Stars: Manon Aubron, Marius Aubron, Hyde, Masatoshi Nagase
Votes: 7
49. Smuggler (2011)
TV-MA | 114 min | Drama
This live-action film adaptation of Shohei Manabe's Smuggler manga is not to be missed! Ryosuke Kinuta is a failed actor with big time debts. His loan shark scores him a gig smuggling dead ... See full summary »
Director: Katsuhito Ishii | Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Masatoshi Nagase, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Hikari Mitsushima
Votes: 557
50. Funuke: Show Some Love, You Losers! (2007)
112 min | Comedy, Drama
Traumatic incidents, conflicts, and bloody quarrels awaits the Wago family members who return home to bury their parents.
Director: Daihachi Yoshida | Stars: Eriko Satô, Aimi Satsukawa, Hiromi Nagasaku, Masatoshi Nagase
Votes: 926