7
Mirai
IMDb: 7 2018 98 min
Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family’s history in their unique ...
6.9
The Blood of Wolves
IMDb: 6.9 2018 126 min
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with ...
6.7
The Third Murder
IMDb: 6.7 2017 125 min
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.
6.3
Sekigahara
IMDb: 6.3 2017 150 min
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Army of the East ...
6.6
The Emperor in August
IMDb: 6.6 2015 136 min 3 views
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and ...
7.6
The Boy and the Beast
IMDb: 7.6 2015 119 min 3 views
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world ...
6.5
The World of Kanako
IMDb: 6.5 2014 118 min 4 views
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As ...
6.4
The Kiyosu Conference
IMDb: 6.4 2013 135 min 4 views
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and ...
7.1
The Woodsman and the Rain
IMDb: 7.1 2012 129 min 4 views
A widowed lumberjack’s life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to ...
7.3
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
IMDb: 7.3 2011 128 min 4 views
A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion ...
7.2
The Last Ronin
IMDb: 7.2 2010 133 min 5 views
16 years after the fateful “revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin,” involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and ...
7.5
13 Assassins
IMDb: 7.5 2010 141 min 4 views
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan’s feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a ...
6.3
Walking My Life
IMDb: 6.3 2007 124 min 4 views
A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and ...
7.5
Tokyo Sonata
IMDb: 7.5 2008 120 min 5 views
A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.
6.4
Retribution
IMDb: 6.4 2007 104 min 5 views
A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the ...
7.5
I Just Didn’t Do It
IMDb: 7.5 2007 143 min 6 views
A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, ...
7
Suite Dreams
IMDb: 7 2006 137 min 5 views
New Year’s Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment ...
5.8
Silk
IMDb: 5.8 2007 107 min 5 views
French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to ...
6.2
The Lakeside Murder Case
IMDb: 6.2 2004 118 min 6 views
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school’s ...
6.1
The Choice of Hercules
IMDb: 6.1 2002 130 min 3 views
When radicals from Japan’s Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in ...
7.7
Eureka
IMDb: 7.7 2000 218 min 6 views
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
6.9
License to Live
IMDb: 6.9 1999 109 min 5 views
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family ...
7.5
Cure
IMDb: 7.5 1997 112 min 6 views
A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.
6.6
Lost Paradise
IMDb: 6.6 1997 119 min 6 views
Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with ...
7.7
The Crocodile Hunter
IMDb: 7.7 21 views
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
7.7
Shall We Dance?
IMDb: 7.7 1996 136 min 6 views
A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near ...
7.9
Tampopo
IMDb: 7.9 1985 115 min 4 views
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed ...
7.1
Willful Murder
IMDb: 7.1 1981 132 min 8 views
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and ...
7.2
The Days (2023)
IMDb: 7.2 2023 3 views
Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat — an unprecedented nuclear disaster.
7.2
Rikuoh
IMDb: 7.2 2017 5 views
A CEO struggling to maintain his small sock business risks the company’s future with a new challenge — creating a line of running shoes.
7.6
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
IMDb: 7.6 2023 114 min 6 views
This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, ...
6.3
Father of the Milky Way Railroad
IMDb: 6.3 2023 128 min 6 views
Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and becomes obsessed with farming, jewelry and ...
7.9
Perfect Days
IMDb: 7.9 2023 124 min 8 views
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, ...
5.3
Família
IMDb: 5.3 2023 121 min 6 views
One day a young Brazilian man living in Japan crashes his car into the side of the house of a happy family. They take him in after realizing he ...
6.7
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
IMDb: 6.7 2011 135 min 7 views
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound ...
6.7
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
IMDb: 6.7 2001 119 min 8 views
A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
6.8
Charisma
IMDb: 6.8 1999 104 min 7 views
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 ...
7.3
The Eel
IMDb: 7.3 1997 117 min 8 views
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost ...
