Best "japanese" Movies of All Time

41 movies found (page 1/2):

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

The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 1(2022)

52min | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Action

4.1/5 (with 89 votes)

Tristan, the son of Meliodas and Elizabeth, inherits the power of the Goddess Clan and can heal people’s wounds and injuries, but he often ends up hurting others due to his inability to control his Demon Clan power. To protect his family, Tristan heads to Edinburgh Castle and meets a host of new friends along the way.

Directed by Noriyuki Abe

Subscription Netflix

Death Note(2006)

| 2h 6min | Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 289 votes)

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.

Directed by Shūsuke Kaneko - With Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama, Asaka Seto, Erika Toda, Hikari Mitsushima, Yuu Kashii, ...

The Final Countdown(1980)

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

3.3/5 (with 244 votes)

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Directed by Don Taylor - With Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles Durning, ...

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Buy Amazon Instant Video

Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend(2013)

1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.5/5 (with 14 votes)

A lonely otaku is fired from his job. He is rescued in a ruined building by a strange girl in a sailor suit. When he wakes up, the girl becomes a figure. The young man and the pretty figure begin to live together.

Directed by Takashi Ishii - With Naoto Takenaka

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness(2013)

1h 58min | Documentary

3.8/5 (with 75 votes)

Follows the behind-the-scenes work of Studio Ghibli, focusing on the notable figures Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki.

Directed by Mami Sunada - With Hayao Miyazaki

Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

964 Pinocchio(1991)

1h 37min | Horror, Science Fiction, Action

2.8/5 (with 27 votes)

Pinocchio 964 is a memory-wiped sex slave who is thrown out by his owners for failure to maintain an erection. It is unclear in what ways he has been modified beyond having no memory and being unable to communicate. He is discovered by Himiko while wandering aimlessly through the city. Himiko has also been memory-wiped, possibly by the same company that produced Pinocchio, but she is fully functional. Himiko spends her days drawing maps of the city, to aid other memory-wiped people. Himiko takes Pinocchio home and tries to teach him to speak. After much effort he has a breakthrough and finally becomes aware of his situation. At this point his body erupts in an inexplicable metamorphosis and it becomes clear that his modifications were much more involved and esoteric than simple memory loss. Himiko also begins to transform, though in a much more subtle manner.

Directed by Shozin Fukui

The General and His Empire of Joy(1977)

1h 21min | Drama

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurai's wife, he finds that his love Okoyo (Eiko Matsuda), has managed to be recruited as one of Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna's (Kantaro Suga) concubines. While attempting to win her back, Zenjiro becomes involved in increasingly murderous palace intrigues.

Hill of Freedom(2014)

1h 6min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 22 votes)

Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori, who has come back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has to make sense of the chronology.

Directed by Hong Sang-soo - With Ryō Kase, Moon So-ri, Kim Eui-sung

Collision Course(1989)

| 1h 40min | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

2.1/5 (with 13 votes)

A Japanese investigator and a Detroit cop team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.

Directed by Lewis Teague - With Jay Leno, Pat Morita, Chris Sarandon

Truck Rascals X: Hometown Express(1979)

1h 50min | Action, Comedy, Romance / Love

Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet music into the ocean. Momojiro helps her by diving in to collect the sheets for her and ends up falling in love.

Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams(1970)

1h 29min | Crime

3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds her other classmates working. This lounge bar is run by Junko Miyazono.

Directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi - With Reiko Oshida, Bokuzen Hidari

Ad Protect Your Online Privacy with a VPN

Don't risk your personal information and online activities being exposed to hackers, government surveillance, and other online threats. A VPN encrypts your internet connection and hides your IP, giving you maximum security and privacy. Take control of your online safety, switch to a VPN now. Choose one of these services to learn more:

Actually Happened! Most Terrifying Psychic Phenomena. Psychic Research Team Report. Relived.(2004)

1h 2min | Horror

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An investigation in two neighboring houses with possible paranormal activity.

Shirome(2010)

1h 23min | Horror

2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

In his latest film, Shirome, Stardust Promotion's relatively new pop idol unit Momoiro Clover star as a group of girls who enter an old abandoned school hoping to have their wishes granted by a spirit called Shirome. The girls initially had no clue they were being filmed for a movie at all. Instead, they were told that they were being filmed for an upcoming television show exploring haunted locations. The result is a faux documentary style in the same vein as "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity".

Directed by Kōji Shiraishi - With Kanako Momota, Akari Hayami, Shiori Tamai, Momoka Ariyasu, Reni Takagi, Ayaka Sasaki, ...

The Spiders' The Noisy Parade(1968)

1h 22min | Comedy, Music

Popular Japanese Group Sounds band, The Spiders, star in their second movie, a "HELP!" inspired rock n roll spy movie!

Sway(2014)

1h 48min | Drama

2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Three parallel love stories set in three different cities are set against some of the major international events of the last five years, in this ambitious.

Two Portraits of MIYAGINO(2010)

1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love, History, Mystery, Crime

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.

Documentary of AKB48 To Be Continued(2011)

2h | Documentary, Music

This documentary follows the unstoppable all-female Japanese idol group, AKB48. With a complicated balance of competition and friendship among the members, their bond is strong. The footage was taken from over 1000 hours of recorded videos throughout 2010 and includes personal interviews with select members revealing each of the girls' struggle, joy, growth, and dream.

Directed by Yuri Kanchiku

Screen Play(1993)

11min | Animation, Drama

2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

A narrator relates the Japanese tale of two lovers who defy their families and society to be together. The tale ends happily, until something happens to make this tale truly Japanese in character.

Directed by Barry Purves

Lost in the Wilderness(1986)

2h 20min | Adventure, History

The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1970, Uemura also accomplished several "firsts". He was the first man to reach the North Pole solo, climb Denali solo, and float down the Amazon river solo. In the film, Uemura returns to Tokyo after a stint in Siorapaluk in Northern Greenland. In Tokyo, he reconnects with an old friend and, over coffee, shares his life story - from his days as a college dropout to his successful expedition to the top of Everest.

Directed by Junya Satō

The Asian Angel(2021)

2h 8min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Aoki is a failing novelist, and Sol is a failing pop singer. Encountering each other in South Korea, speaking different languages, they and their families somehow end up in a truck heading off into the Korean countryside.

Directed by Yuya Ishii - With Sosuke Ikematsu, Choi Hee-seo, Joe Odagiri, Kim Min-jae, Kim Ye-eun, Tateto Serizawa, ...

Battle of Blood Island(1960)

| 1h 4min | Drama, War

2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find try to put aside their differences in order to evade the Japanese and survive.

Directed by Joel Rapp - With Roger Corman

Subscription Amazon Prime Video | Rent Amazon Instant Video | Buy Amazon Instant Video

Ura Horror(2008)

1h 15min | Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A found footage anthology horror film by Kôji Shiraishi.

Disputed Passage(1939)

| 1h 27min | Drama, War

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.

Directed by Frank Borzage - With Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Howard, Judith Barrett, Elisabeth Risdon, Gordon Jones, ...

Chichibu Demon(2011)

1h 7min | Horror, Mystery

2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

The staff of a film production company encounter the unknown while investigating the folklore and dark tales of Chichibu.

Yohji Yamamoto: Dressmaker(2016)

1h 9min | Documentary

Yohji Yamamoto | Dressmaker is an intimate and delving portrait of one of fashion's most revered stalwarts. For a man who creates clothing as armour, Yamamoto opens up as never before to share the core values that shape his life and work. Interviews with family, friends, employees and confidants reveal further insight about this complex and enigmatic figure.

Samurai Beyond Admiration Record to the World's Best(2023)

Documentary

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Dead Girl Walking(2004)

44min | Horror, Mystery, Drama

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Sayuru is an ordinary teenage girl. But one day everything changes when she learns that she apparently died. Even though she is dead, she is still in the mind and wandering around at home on days like a ghost. But her family is ready to do anything to get rid of the ghost.

A Crowd of Three(2010)

2h 11min | Drama

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at a children's facility. Kenta & Jun now works as part of a demolition crew but become fed up with their jobs. The friends then decide to take a road trip up north to visit Kenta's brother at the Abashiri prison.

Being Japanese(2021)