Ghost in the Shell(2017)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.



Zatôichi(2003)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

The blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.



Batoru rowaiaru(2000)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 41

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.



Autoreiji(2010)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 34

The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a rogue gang of drug traffickers in line, a job that gets passed on to his long-suffering subordinate.



Brother(2000)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A Japanese gangster is exiled to Los Angeles where his brother lives with a small but respectable multi-racial gang, who he inspires to expand their influence.



Gohatto(1999)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 38

The new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him, threatening to disturb the rigid code of their squad.



Kikujirô no natsu(1999)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A young, naive boy sets out alone on the road to find his wayward mother. Soon he finds an unlikely protector in a crotchety man and the two have a series of unexpected adventures along the way.



Sonatine(1993)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach.



Autoreiji: Biyondo(2012)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 27

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West.



Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence(1983)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 15

During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.



Hana-bi(1997)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.



Sono otoko, kyôbô ni tsuki(1989)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.



3-4 x jûgatsu(1990)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two disquieted junior baseball players seek revenge on the local yakuza for attacking their coach.



Takeshis'(2005)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Beat Takeshi, a prominent actor, meets a lookalike named Kitano, who is a struggling actor, but after the meeting, Kitano's dreams take a violent, surreal turn.



Akiresu to kame(2008)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.



Yuke yuke nidome no shojo(1969)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.



Chi to hone(2004)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1923, the Korean teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of ...



Kantoku · Banzai!(2007)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.



Outrage Coda(2017)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a renowned fixer whose influence extends into Japan. A relatively minor incident causes tensions to rise between Chang Enterprises and the faraway powerful Hanabishi. The growing conflict gets out of hand and ignites a ferocious power struggle...



While the Women Are Sleeping(2016)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

While vacationing with his wife, a writer (Hidetoshi Nishijima) begins following another man (Takeshi Kitano) and woman (Shiori Kutsuna) who are guests at the resort hotel where he stays.




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