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Movies: Best "japanese mythology" Movies

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Spirited Away(2001)

PG
| 2h 5min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy
4.3/5 (with 7,055 votes)

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Weathering with You(2019)

PG-13
| 1h 52min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 915 votes)

The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.

Directed by Makoto Shinkai

Pom Poko(1994)

G
| 1h 59min | Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 423 votes)

The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide to band together and fight back. The Raccoons practice and perfect the ancient art of transformation until they are even able to appear as humans in hilarious circumstances.

Directed by Isao Takahata

The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity(2020)

2h 12min | Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 75 votes)

Every few hundred years, the most powerful demon on earth—a snake demon—awakens, and the Yin-Yang Masters are summoned to the capital. Meanwhile, the Princess of the realm has her own plans, as she conspires to claim the demon’s power.

Directed by Guo Jingming - With Mark Chao, Deng Lun
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Profound Desires of the Gods(1968)

2h 53min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 26 votes)

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.

Directed by Shohei Imamura - With Rentarō Mikuni, Yoshi Katō, Kanjūrō Arashi, Jun Hamamura

Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto(2013)

1h 35min | Action, Animation, Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

There's a war going on in ancient Kyoto. A war fought in shadows, between the forces of the Shogunate's armed enforcers, the Shinsengumi, and the vampire-like Ronin warriors known as the Rasetsu or Furies. And trapped in the middle is a young woman disguised as a man. Seeking her missing father, Chizuru Yukimura comes to Kyoto only to find her fate forever intertwined with the destinies of Shinsengumi Vice commander Toshizo Hijikata and his elite force of swordsmen. Because Chizuru's father has created a secret elixir that enhances the user's strength, speed and healing, and the furies will do anything and kill anyone in order to control that power!

Natsume's Book of Friends: Ephemeral Bond(2018)

1h 44min | Animation, Fantasy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 8 votes)

The movie of Natsume's Book of Friends series. Natsume has been busy, navigating between humans and Yokai when he coincidentally reunites with an old classmate, Yuki. It brings back painful memories of a certain Yokai. Meanwhile, Natsume also became acquainted with Yorie Tsumura, a woman in the memories of a Yokai whose name he had returned. Yorie knew much about Reiko, but now lived a peaceful life with her only son, Mukuo. Being with this family was comforting for Natsume, but apparently a mysterious Yokai has been lurking in their town. On the way back from investigating, a "Yokai seed" that had latched itself to Nyanko Sensei drops into the Fujiwaras' garden and grows overnight into a fruit tree. When Nyanko Sensei eats a fruit that is somehow shaped like himself, he suddenly splits into three!

Directed by Takahiro Omori

The Great Yokai War –Guardians–(2021)

1h 58min | Fantasy, Kids & Family, Adventure, Horror
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from being destroyed, Kei Watanabe challenges a war against the yōkai.

Directed by Takashi Miike - With Kokoro Terada, Hana Sugisaki

Jiraiya the Hero(1921)

21min | Action, Fantasy
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Jiraiya is some sort of super-ninja with superpowers. He can fly, he can avoid detection by turning himself into a toad, and he has some sort of ability to vanish.

Directed by Shōzō Makino - With Matsunosuke Onoe

Japanese Actors: Wig Exercise(1900)

1min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

Directed by François-Constant Girel

Jizo the Ghost(1898)

Horror

Jizo, the protector of dead children and all creatures trapped in Hell, is usually found in graveyards. Bake-Jizo is a stature placed at crossroads. There is no official record of Bake Jizo's existence - only later recollection of cameraman Shiro Asano, Konishi Honten was photography in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, which imported the first film to Japan.

Hotarubi no Mori e(2011)

45min | Romance / Love, Animation, Fantasy
4.2/5 (with 465 votes)

One hot summer day a little girl gets lost in an enchanted forest of the mountain god where spirits reside. A young boy appears before her, but she cannot touch him for fear of making him disappear. And so a wondrous adventure awaits...