2000s Japanese Movies

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Brother(2000)

| 1h 54min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 179 votes)

A Japanese Yakuza gangster’s deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother’s gang.

Directed by Takeshi Kitano - With Omar Epps, Takeshi Kitano, Tatyana Ali, ...

Japan Sinks(2006)

2h 15min | Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Science Fiction

2.6/5 (with 12 votes)

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with other countries to take refugees, while scientists struggle to save Japan itself.

With Tetsurō Tamba, ...

The Happiness of the Katakuris(2002)

| 1h 53min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

3.5/5 (with 86 votes)

The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.

Directed by Takashi Miike - With Tetsurō Tamba, Shinji Takeda, ...

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Gokusen: The Movie(2009)

1h 58min | Comedy, Drama

3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

A passionate teacher, Kumiko Yamaguchi, a.k.a. Yankumi, is now overseeing the new students of Class 3D of Akado High School, who still have not opened up to her and are giving her a hard time. Current and former Class 3D students collide in this epic finale to the Japanese TV series.

With Hiroki Narimiya, ...

Lala Pipo: A Lot of People(2009)

2h | Drama, Comedy

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Adapted from a sex-stuffed cult novel, LALAPIPO (a play on the phrase “A Lot of People”) follows divergent seedy strands of sexual and narrative spaghetti through the sticky Tokyo night. There’s a chubby freelance writer who’s so obsessed with masturbating to the sound of his upstairs neighbors going at it that he forgets to deal with his own love life and when he finally does have sex he is immediately filled with self-loathing. The upstairs neighbor’s story then splits off like an amoeba: she’s an office lady seduced by a “talent scout” who is falling down the sex industry ladder, moving from hostess, to massage girl, to private karaoke attendant. The talent scout’s story then splits off and runs in its own direction, revealing the sorry state of this young pimp’s soul. From there, the movie takes more and more time to consider the lives of more and more characters until the entire Japanese sex industry is filled with the wailing of lost souls.

Directed by Masayuki Miyano - With Hiroki Narimiya

Blood(2009)

1h 26min | Action, Horror

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Police Detective Hoshino (Kanji Tsuda) investigates the murder of a maid at a mansion belonging to Miyako Rozmberk (Sugimoto), a seductive vampire mistress and "cougar" all in one. Ukyo Kuronuma (Jun Kaname), an Edo-era swordsman who was turned into a vampire by Miyako is fingered for the crime but before anything can be done about it Hoshino ends up under Miyako's spell as well. This leads Hoshino and Ukyo to battle one another for the privilege of staying with Miyako for eternity.

Directed by Ten Shimoyama

Women in the Mirror(2003)

2h 9min | Drama

4.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.

With Mariko Okada, Sae Isshiki, Hideo Murota

First Love(2000)

1h 53min | Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a malignant stomach ulcer, Sataka is left alone with her emotionally repressed father; whiling away the hours one day, she comes across a love letter written to her mother 24 years earlier. Deciding to track down the letter's author, Sataka eventually finds Shinichiro (Hiroyuki Sanada), an overweight slob who was abandoned by his wife years earlier and now spends his time hanging around pachinko parlors. Determined to clean him up and reintroduce him to her mother, Sataka nags Shinchiro until he finally agrees to her demands, and a gradual friendship develops between the two as Sataka drags him to the gym and a clothing store. But once Shinchiro's makeover is complete, he turns the tables on his young friend, and when the time comes for him to meet Sataka's mother, all concerned parties find themselves embarking on a new phase in their lives.

Directed by Tetsuo Shinohara - With Rena Tanaka, Hiroyuki Sanada, Mitsuru Hirata

Shangri-La(2002)

1h 44min | Comedy, Drama

3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.

With Shigeru Muroi

Japanese Devils(2001)

2h 40min | Documentary, War

2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

A documentary recording the testimony of fourteen former Japanese soldiers as they recount atrocities and war crimes committed during the Second World War, including the the infamous Unit 731 medical experimentation group. Having been trained by their country to be nothing but killers, the soldiers claim to have become morally numb and unable to see non-Japanese as even human. Perhaps feeling some remorse for what they have done, they now choose to tell their stories for the world to hear.

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