Best "japan" Movies of All Time

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Godzilla(2014)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 3min | Action, Drama, Science Fiction

3.1/5 (with 4,047 votes)

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.

Directed by Gareth Edwards - With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Bryan Cranston, ...

Shin Godzilla(2016)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h | Action, Science Fiction, Horror

3.5/5 (with 462 votes)

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

Directed by Hideaki Anno - With Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara

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Hacksaw Ridge(2016)

FSK: 16+ years

| 2h 19min | Drama, History, War

4.1/5 (with 5,982 votes)

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Directed by Mel Gibson - With Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Corr, ...

Bullet Train(2022)

FSK: 16+ years

| 2h 32min | Action, Comedy, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 2,484 votes)

Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives—on the world's fastest train.

Directed by David Leitch - With Brad Pitt, Joey King, Andrew Koji, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Zazie Beetz, ...

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My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission(2021)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 41min | Animation, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

3.8/5 (with 194 votes)

A mysterious group called Humarize strongly believes in the Quirk Singularity Doomsday theory which states that when quirks get mixed further in with future generations, that power will bring forth the end of humanity. In order to save everyone, the Pro-Heroes around the world ask UA Academy heroes-in-training to assist them and form a world-class selected hero team. It’s up to the heroes to save the world and the future of heroes in what is the most dangerous crisis to take place yet in My Hero Academia.

Directed by Kenji Nagasaki

Silence(2016)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 41min | Drama, History

3.6/5 (with 1,426 votes)

Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, Adam Driver, Tadanobu Asano, Ciarán Hinds, Shinya Tsukamoto, ...

Godzilla(1954)

1h 36min | Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction

3.8/5 (with 386 votes)

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Haruo Nakajima, Kokuten Kōdō, ...

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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack(2001)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 45min | Action, Science Fiction, Fantasy

3.7/5 (with 92 votes)

Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spirits within Godzilla that seek to destroy both the nation and its people for the suffering they inflicted in the Pacific conflict.

Directed by Shūsuke Kaneko - With Chiharu Niiyama, Ryudo Uzaki, Katsuo Nakamura, Kōichi Yamadera, Masahiko Tsugawa, Tomoe Shinohara, ...

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Perfect Blue(1998)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 21min | Animation, Thriller

4.1/5 (with 1,110 votes)

Pop singer Mima Kirigow looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually charged murder mystery, Mima’s life begins to fall apart.

Directed by Satoshi Kon

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes(2018)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 36min | Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy

4.0/5 (with 430 votes)

All Might and Deku accept an invitation to go abroad to a floating and mobile manmade city, called 'I-Island', where they research quirks as well as hero supplemental items at the special 'I-Expo' convention that is currently being held on the island. During that time, suddenly, despite an iron wall of security surrounding the island, the system is breached by a villain, and the only ones able to stop him are the students of Class 1-A.

Directed by Kenji Nagasaki

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising(2019)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 44min | Animation, Action, Fantasy, Adventure

4.1/5 (with 512 votes)

Class 1-A visits Nabu Island where they finally get to do some real hero work. The place is so peaceful that it's more like a vacation … until they're attacked by a villain with an unfathomable Quirk! His power is eerily familiar, and it looks like Shigaraki had a hand in the plan. But with All Might retired and citizens' lives on the line, there's no time for questions. Deku and his friends are the next generation of heroes, and they're the island's only hope.

Directed by Kenji Nagasaki

Kate(2021)

1h 46min | Action

3.3/5 (with 620 votes)

A ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims.

Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan - With Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Woody Harrelson, Tadanobu Asano, Jun Kunimura, Michiel Huisman, Miyavi, ...

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The Last Samurai(2003)

FSK: 16+ years

| 2h 34min | Drama, Action, War

3.8/5 (with 3,186 votes)

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

Directed by Edward Zwick - With Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Shin Koyamada, Tony Goldwyn, Masato Harada, Hiroyuki Sanada, ...

Seven Samurai(1954)

FSK: 16+ years

| 3h 27min | Action, Drama

4.3/5 (with 1,498 votes)

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Isao Kimura, Keiko Tsushima, ...

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah(1995)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 43min | Action, Science Fiction, Horror

3.9/5 (with 104 votes)

A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time horrifying new organisms are discovered in Japan. These crustacean-like beings are seemingly born of the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon that killed the original Godzilla.

Directed by Takao Okawara - With Megumi Odaka, Kenpachirō Satsuma, Momoko Kōchi, Yōko Ishino, Akira Nakao, Hurricane Ryu, ...

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Paprika(2006)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 30min | Animation, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

3.9/5 (with 939 votes)

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.

Directed by Satoshi Kon

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Kill Bill: Vol. 1(2003)

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 51min | Action, Crime

4.0/5 (with 8,164 votes)

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

Directed by Quentin Tarantino - With Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, ...

Ox-Head Village(2022)

1h 55min | Horror

2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

Having launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish. Rumours circulate that they were victims of The Ox-Head Village curse, triggering an investigation by two of their friends, desperate to find the truth about what has happened….

Ju-on: The Grudge(2002)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 32min | Horror

3.3/5 (with 330 votes)

Volunteer home-care worker Rika is assigned to visit a family, she is cursed and chased by two revengeful fiends: Kayako, a woman brutally murdered by her husband and her son Toshio. Each person that lives in or visits the haunted house is murdered or disappears.

Directed by Takashi Shimizu - With Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara, Yuya Ozeki, Takako Fuji, Yui Ichikawa, ...

All About Lily Chou-Chou(2001)

2h 26min | Drama, Crime

3.6/5 (with 97 votes)

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

Directed by Shunji Iwai - With Shugo Oshinari, Ayumi Itō, Salyu, Hayato Ichihara, Takao Ōsawa, Miwako Ichikawa, ...

Godzilla Raids Again(1955)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 22min | Science Fiction, Horror

3.0/5 (with 100 votes)

Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon that killed the original, authorities attempt to lure Godzilla away from the mainland. But Anguirus soon arrives and the two monsters make their way towards Osaka as Japan braces for tragedy.

Directed by Motoyoshi Oda - With Haruo Nakajima, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Hiroshi Koizumi

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You Only Live Twice(1967)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 57min | Action, Thriller, Adventure

3.3/5 (with 918 votes)

A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.

Directed by Lewis Gilbert - With Sean Connery, Mie Hama, Donald Pleasence, Akiko Wakabayashi, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, ...

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Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie(2012)

1h 49min | Animation, Fantasy, Action

3.8/5 (with 419 votes)

Sixteen years ago, a mysterious masked ninja unleashes a powerful creature known as the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox on the Hidden Leaf Village Konoha, killing many people. In response, the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze and his wife Kushina Uzumaki, the Demon Fox's living prison or Jinchūriki, manage to seal the creature inside their newborn son Naruto Uzumaki. With the Tailed Beast sealed, things continued as normal. However, in the present day, peace ended when a group of ninja called the Akatsuki attack Konoha under the guidance of Tobi, the mysterious masked man behind Fox's rampage years ago who intends on executing his plan to rule the world by shrouding it in illusions.

Directed by Hayato Date

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The Temptation of Kimono(2009)

1h 25min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Mikage will get married to Youiti next year, she agrees to live with Youiti's parents. One day, Youiti's father disrobed Mikage's Kimono and raped her. To her astonishment, her fiancé Youiti whom Mikage considers true love has an affair with his young stepmother. Shocked and devastated, what will Mikage do?

The Wind Rises(2013)

FSK: 6+ years

| 2h 6min | Drama, Animation, War, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 1,289 votes)

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

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Unbroken(2014)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 17min | Drama, War

3.7/5 (with 1,874 votes)

A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

Directed by Angelina Jolie - With Alex Russell, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Jack O'Connell, Jai Courtney, Luke Treadaway, ...

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Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins(2012)

FSK: 16+ years

| 2h 14min | Adventure, Action, Drama, History

3.8/5 (with 335 votes)

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

Directed by Keishi Ōtomo - With Takeru Satō, Emi Takei, Munetaka Aoki, Teruyuki Kagawa, Gō Ayano, Genki Sudo, ...

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Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning(2021)

2h 17min | Action, Adventure, Drama

3.8/5 (with 172 votes)

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who carries a huge burden in her heart, his life will change forever.

Directed by Keishi Ōtomo - With Takeru Satō, Kasumi Arimura, Issey Takahashi, Nijirō Murakami, Masanobu Andō, Kazuki Kitamura, ...

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The Grudge(2019)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 33min | Horror, Mystery

2.8/5 (with 535 votes)

After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do anything to protect herself and her family from harm.

Directed by Nicolas Pesce - With Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Lin Shaye, Betty Gilpin, Jacki Weaver, ...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III(1993)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 36min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction

2.7/5 (with 338 votes)

The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.

Directed by Stuart Gillard - With Paige Turco, Elias Koteas, Stuart Wilson, Vivian Wu, John Aylward, James Murray, ...

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Movies: Best "japan" Movies

Godzilla(2014)

Shin Godzilla(2016)

Hacksaw Ridge(2016)

Bullet Train(2022)

My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission(2021)

Silence(2016)

Godzilla(1954)

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack(2001)

Perfect Blue(1998)

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes(2018)

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising(2019)

Kate(2021)

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The Last Samurai(2003)

Seven Samurai(1954)

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah(1995)

Paprika(2006)

Kill Bill: Vol. 1(2003)

Ox-Head Village(2022)

Ju-on: The Grudge(2002)

All About Lily Chou-Chou(2001)

Godzilla Raids Again(1955)

You Only Live Twice(1967)

Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie(2012)

The Temptation of Kimono(2009)

The Wind Rises(2013)

Unbroken(2014)

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins(2012)

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning(2021)

The Grudge(2019)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III(1993)

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