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1. Pachinko (2022– )
TV-MA | 55 min | Drama
Based on the New York Times bestseller, this sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.
Stars: Lee Min-ho, Choi Joon-Young, Soji Arai, Jin Ha
Votes: 11,794
2. Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A reporter, notorious for working on pseudo-documentaries, must uncover the legend of the three guardian monsters who must rise to defend Japan from the vengeful spirits within Godzilla.
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko | Stars: Chiharu Niiyama, Ryûdô Uzaki, Masahiro Kobayashi, Shirô Sano
Votes: 6,985
3. Oh Lucy! (2017)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lonely woman living in Tokyo decides to take an English class, where she discovers her alter-ego, Lucy.
Director: Atsuko Hirayanagi | Stars: Shinobu Terajima, Soseki Yamatoya, Miyu Yagyu, Kayano Masuyama
Votes: 3,353 | Gross: $0.38M
4. The Great Yokai War (2005)
PG-13 | 124 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A young boy is chosen as the defender of good and must team up with Japan's ancient spirits and creatures of lore to attempt to destroy the forces of evil.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Chiaki Kuriyama, Bunta Sugawara
Votes: 2,666
5. Kansen (2004)
R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
INFECTION takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where a doctor's mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient.
Director: Masayuki Ochiai | Stars: Michiko Hada, Mari Hoshino, Tae Kimura, Yôko Maki
Votes: 5,763
6. Aibou: Tokyo Detective Duo (2000–2023)
110 min | Drama
Detective Ukyo Sugishita and his partner solve cases by just the two of them as "Special Task Unit" of MPD where demoted people belong.
Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Atsushi Yamanishi, Kazuhisa Kawahara, Ryo Ono
Votes: 136
7. 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: 434
8. Miss Osaka (2021)
90 min | Drama
The timid Ines steals the identity of a Japanese Hostess to become the person she could never find within. But when her boyfriend starts unraveling the double disappearance, Ines finds out that killing her past is fraught with danger.
Director: Daniel Dencik | Stars: Vic Carmen Sonne, Mirai Moriyama, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Kaho Minami
Votes: 217
9. Kabukicho Love Hotel (2014)
135 min | Drama, Romance
Over one day at this love hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo - where guests have the choice of staying for a short time or overnight - the dreams and desires of these characters intersect while aspiring for something greater.
Director: Ryûichi Hiroki | Stars: Shôta Sometani, Atsuko Maeda, Roy 5tion, Asuka Hinoi
Votes: 847
10. Enjeru dasuto (1994)
116 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Every Monday at 6 pm a young woman is murdered in the subway. The psychiatrist Setsuko Suma is called in to assist the police. The trail leads to another psychiatrist - Dr Rei Aku - who ... See full summary »
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Kaho Minami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Etsushi Toyokawa, Ryôko Takizawa
Votes: 1,305
11. Masterless (2015)
TV-MA | 85 min | Drama, Fantasy
Kane Madison is an architect working in Los Angeles while his doppelganger-like spirit, an 18th-century Ronin, wanders a parallel netherworld of masked demons and Japanese swordsmen. When ... See full summary »
Director: Craig Shimahara | Stars: Adam LaVorgna, Kaho Minami, Yutaka Takeuchi, Okiko Saito
Votes: 160
12. The Drifting Classroom (1987)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An international school in Kobe, Japan is catapulted into the future after a time-slip occurs.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Yasufumi Hayashi, Aiko Asano, Vajra Barzaghi, Leana D'Aloisio
Votes: 294
13. 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2023 TV Special)
Comedian Hasan Minhaj hosts a celebration of the best in artist-driven film and new television programming.
Director: Lizz Zanin | Stars: Hasan Minhaj, Soji Arai, Kevin Bacon, W. Kamau Bell
Votes: 23
14. Kirin ga kuru (2020– )
45 min | Drama
"Kirin ga Kuru" revolves around the life of Mitsuhide Akechi (Hiroki Hasegawa). He was a samurai and a general during the Sengoku period.
Stars: Hiroki Hasegawa, Ebizô Ichikawa, Mugi Kadowaki, Shôta Sometani
Votes: 55
15. Family X (2010)
90 min | Drama
In this story of a dysfunctional family all the stereotypes of a Japanese unit come to the fore when the wife works the kitchen, the husband is focused on his work and the son does not have... See full summary »
Director: Kôki Yoshida | Stars: Kaho Minami, Mariko Tsutsui, Tomorô Taguchi, Yoshiyuki Morishita
Votes: 38
16. Chronicle of My Mother (2011)
108 min | Drama
Based on an autobiographical novel by Inoue Yasushi, the film chronicles the passage of fifteen years within a family struggling with abandonment, resentment and decline with old age. As ... See full summary »
Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Kaho Minami, Aoi Miyazaki, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 496
17. VS Arashi (2008–2020)
31 min | Game-Show
In this highly physical game and variety show, Japanese pop idols Arashi pit their wits, strength and courage against a different team of entertainers or sportspeople every week.
Stars: Arashi, Shô Sakurai, Masaki Aiba, Kazunari Ninomiya
Votes: 85
18. The Monday Night Mystery Theater (2001–2006)
120 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Getsuyo Mystery Gekijo is a weekly mystery series. Virtually all story-lines follow the same formula of a murder mystery, the protagonist attempting to solve the case, the murderer is found... See full summary »
Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Yuri Adachi, Yôsuke Asari, Yasunori Danta
19. Tokyo: The Last War (1989)
103 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The year is 1945. After the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, the government decides to consult spiritual psychics to aid them in winning the war. ... See full summary »
Director: Takashige Ichise | Stars: Masaya Katô, Takeshi Kusaka, Brian Matt-Uhl, Kaho Minami
Votes: 137
20. Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989)
114 min | Action, Drama, War
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of ... See full summary »
Director: Hideo Gosha | Stars: Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Tomokazu Miura, Masahiro Motoki, Katsutoshi Arata
Votes: 218
21. Nirai kanai kara no tegami (2005)
113 min | Drama
Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a cameraman. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuki to live in Tokyo. Although Masami has ... See full summary »
Director: Naoto Kumazawa | Stars: Yû Aoi, Manami Higa, Yûta Kanai, Hitomi Kawai
Votes: 96
22. 21 seiki no onna no ko (2019)
117 min | Drama
14 short films with an animated end-title sequence by young directors born in late '80s to '90s.
Directors: Yûka Eda, Momoko Fukuda, Kanae Higashi, Aya Igashi, Yurina Kaneko, Ayaka Katô, Hana Matsumoto, Aimi Natsuto, Yukari Sakamoto, Rin Shutô, Risa Takeuchi, Sakura Tamagawa, Yôko Yamanaka, Yûki Yamato, Yûka Yasukawa | Stars: Aki Asakura, Shiori Doi, Juri Fukushima, Kotone Furukawa
Votes: 57
23. And Live (2019– )
Drama, Romance
Toko was raised by an uncle when, as a little girl, her parents died in a car accident. She was a singer and dancer and dreamt of bigger things as an artist. Older and ready she is headed ... See full summary »
Stars: Kasumi Arimura, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Kang Ji-young, Amane Okayama
Votes: 88
24. The Go Master (2006)
104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A Chinese man becomes an expert player of the traditional game of Go.
Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian | Stars: Sylvia Chang, Chang Chen, Akira Emoto, Aki Fujî
Votes: 588
25. Ruby Fruit (1995)
95 min | Fantasy, Romance
Maiko is a recently widowed young woman travelling to Bali to distract herself from the loss of her husband, Esau. At the airport she meets Kioko, who gives her a dagger and a photo of a ... See full summary »
Director: Takumi Kimizuka | Stars: Tsugami Arimura, Ayana Inoue, Kaho Minami, Tomoko Mochizuki
Votes: 18
26. Open House (1998)
116 min | Drama
Tomonori is a third rate model and very unhappy with her demeaning job of handing out leaflets. Unfortunately she doesn't have too many options. One day she gets drunk and starts a fight at a party where she is working.
Director: Isao Yukisada | Stars: Tokiko Katô, Daijirô Kawaoka, Kaho Minami, Ken Mitsuishi
Votes: 36
27. The Geisha House (1998)
113 min | Drama
Young Tokiko works at a geisha house as a maid, waiting for her maiko practice (apprenticeship of geisha) to begin. The movie depicts detailed lifestyle of geishas at that time, showing their rules, loves, beauties and humanities.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Maki Miyamoto, Sumiko Fuji, Kaho Minami, Mai Kitajima
Votes: 256
28. Love Begins When the Money Ends (2020)
Comedy, Romance
Reiko Kuki works under the Accounting Department of a midsize toymaker and lives delicately due to a past event. One day, she meets Keita Saruwatari, the son of the toymaker's President who... See full summary »
Stars: Mayu Matsuoka, Haruma Miura, Shôhei Miura, Takumi Kitamura
Votes: 61
29. Gensan Punch (2021)
110 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
From the award-winning Cannes/Venice/Toronto-elected director Brillante Mendoza, "GENSAN PUNCH" is inspired by the true story of a Japanese man with a prosthetic leg, who travelled to the ... See full summary »
Director: Brillante Mendoza | Stars: Shogen, Ronnie Lazaro, Beauty Gonzalez, Kaho Minami
Votes: 88
30. Nihon junjô-den Okashina futari Monokuruoshiki hitobito no mure (1988)
110 min
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Riki Takeuchi, Tomokazu Miura, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Kaho Minami
Votes: 14
31. IS: Otoko demo onna demo nai sei (2011– )
Drama
IS follows the high school life of Hoshino Haru. Haru was born intersex meaning that he was born with physical characteristics of both sexes and cannot clearly be assigned as a binary ... See full summary »
Stars: Saki Fukuda, Ayame Gôriki, Masahiro Inoue, Jingi Irie
Votes: 63
32. Wonderful Paradise (2020)
97 min | Comedy, Fantasy
At a large mansion on the outskirts of Tokyo, Shuji SASAYA looks around a room with full of packed cardboard boxes. He has to sell this mansion because of his mistake. His hermit son, Yuta,... See full summary »
Director: Masashi Yamamoto | Stars: Kaho Minami, Seikô Itô, Soran Tamoto, Mayu Ozawa
Votes: 61
33. Hikari (I) (2017)
137 min | Drama
When Nobuyuki was a middle school student, he lived on the remote island Mihama. One evening, he committed a crime to protect his classmate/girlfriend Mika. The next day, a fierce tsunami ... See full summary »
Director: Tatsushi Ômori | Stars: Arata Iura, Eita Nagayama, Kyoko Hasegawa, Manami Hashimoto
Votes: 62
34. Blue Hour (2019)
92 min | Drama
Thirty-year-old professional woman Sunada is a commercial agency director in Tokyo Japan. However, despite what others may think, she is unhappy with her job, career trajectory or the ... See full summary »
Director: Yuko Hakota | Stars: Denden, Shim Eun-kyung, Kaho, Daisuke Kuroda
Votes: 275
35. Koiko no Mainichi (1988)
96 min | Romance
The lives of a young yakuza and his girlfriend.
Director: Akiyoshi Kimata | Stars: Shino Ikenami, Seiji Kurasaki, Yûki Matsumura, Kazuki Minabuchi
36. Fukigen na kajitsu (1997)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
A beautiful thirty-something woman is unhappy with her marriage, and dates a number of men in an effort to find a better partner.
Director: Katsuo Naruse | Stars: Kaho Minami, Isako Washio, Jinpachi Nezu, Kazuma Suzuki
Votes: 30
37. Seikimatsu no uta (1998– )
50 min | Drama
Just when about to commit suicide after being deserted by his bride-to-be during the wedding, a man meets a university professor who is also at the point of killing himself. A woman nearby ... See full summary »
Stars: Yutaka Takenouchi, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Maki Sakai, Yoshino Kimura
Votes: 18
38. Genroku ryôran (1999– )
Drama
The 38th NHK Taiga Drama is Genroku Ryoran. The "Forty-seven Loyal Samurai" is one of the most enduring and best-loved stories of Japan's history.
Stars: Kanzaburô Nakamura, Hiroaki Murakami, Kôji Ishizaka, Eisaku Yoshida
39. The Female Teacher in Black (2012– )
54 min | Drama
Stars: Nana Eikura, Fumino Kimura, Kento Yamazaki, Tao Tsuchiya
Votes: 11
40. To Dance with the White Dog (2002)
99 min
A white dog suddenly comes into the life of an aged man who recently lost his wife. Life with the dog gradually helps to heal the heart of the old man. It appears the dog may actually be a reincarnation of his wife.
Director: Takashi Tsukinoki | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Wakamura, Kôsuke Toyohara, Kaho Minami
Votes: 17
41. Yoru no pikunikku (2006)
117 min | Drama
The film follows a group of high school students on a strenuous day-long hike during which they discover new sides of themselves. The story is adapted from author Onda Rika's popular ... See full summary »
Director: Masahiko Nagasawa | Stars: Tasuku Emoto, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Takuya Ishida, Tomohiro Kaku
Votes: 206
42. Umechan sensei (2012)
15 min | Drama
The story is set in the devastated area of Kamata, Tokyo, in 1945 just after the end of the war. Horikita plays Shimomura Umeko, the youngest of 3 siblings whose father is a doctor at a ... See full summary »
Stars: Maki Horikita, Orie Tôjô, Kimi Meguro, Kaho Minami
Votes: 31
43. Detective Zero (2019)
Mystery
Rekihiko Tokiya is an excellent detective in Kyoto. While he chases a suspect, Rekihiko falls into a water storage pool at an abandoned factory. He wakes up in a hospital room and is ... See full summary »
Stars: Susumu Terajima, Ikki Sawamura, Miori Takimoto, Tetsuya Takeda
Votes: 19
44. Rules of Living
113 min | Comedy, Drama | Filming
It is a bilingual love comedy about a Japanese divorcee who has to take in an American male roommate to make ends meet. Mikuko Abe is stuck, both in life and in love. When her daughter ... See full summary »
Director: Greg Dale | Stars: Kaho Minami, Greg Dale, Mayuko Kawakita, Sumire
45. Bokura no jidai (2007– )
30 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Shun Oguri, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Sawako Agawa
Votes: 25
46. Rikon bengoshi (2004– )
54 min | Drama
Takako Mamiya is a lawyer who quits her job at a prestigious law firm and establishes her own office. She confidently sets out to build her business, but soon her former firm is putting up ... See full summary »
Stars: Yuki Amano, Tetsuji Tamayama, Rie Mimura, Kuranosuke Sasaki
47. Sketches of Kaitan City (2010)
Not Rated | 152 min | Drama
In the city of Kaitan, during the winter, the local shipyard is downsized and workers are laid off. Futa (Pistol Takehara) lives with his younger sister Honami (Mitsuki Tanimura). He loses ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri | Stars: Mitsuki Tanimura, Pistol Takehara, Ryô Kase, Kaho Minami
Votes: 186
48. Tomorrow - ashita (1988)
105 min | Drama
On 9 August 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film describes the daily life of people the day before that fateful event, their feelings of joy and sadness. For them, tomorrow would never come.
Director: Kazuo Kuroki | Stars: Kaori Momoi, Kaho Minami, Nobuko Sendô, Michiko Araki
Votes: 85
49. The Katsuragi Murder Case (2016)
120 min | Crime, Drama
An overbearing father, frightened mother, laid off elder bother, the family makes young brother to be an indiscriminate monster.
Director: Masaaki Akahori | Stars: Hirofumi Arai, Kaho Minami, Tomokazu Miura, Rena Tanaka
Votes: 135
50. Hana (2003)
106 min | Drama
Is it more important for you to remember them or for people to remember you? Two men, one younger and the other older, take a car from Tokyo to the far south of Kyushu all the while ... See full summary »
Director: Shinichi Nishitani | Stars: Takao Osawa, Akira Emoto, Ken'ichi Endô, Shiho Fujimura
Votes: 21