Best Japanese movies of 1990s

Actors : Yuriko Ishida, Billy Crudup, Yûko Tanaka, Yôji Matsuda,
Directors : Hayao Miyazaki,

On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.

Actors : Miki Imai, Mayumi Iizuka, Youko Honna, Toshirô Yanagiba,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.

Actors : John Rafter Lee, Wendee Lee, Andrew Philpot, Pamela Adlon,
Directors : Yoshiaki Kawajiri,

When a girl is abducted by a vampire, a legendary bounty hunter is hired to bring her back.

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Anna Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi Ujiki,
Directors : Kiyoshi Kurosawa,

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Actors : Hinako Saeki, Eun-Kyung Shin, Fhi Fan, Eriko Hatsune,
Directors : Higuchinsky,

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

Actors : Nanako Matsushima, Hitomi Satô, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi,
Directors : Hideo Nakata,

A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.

Actors : Aya Kokumai, Masanobu Katsumura, Tetsu Watanabe, Takeshi Kitano,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

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.

Actors : Ryuji Aigase, Katsumi Suzuki, Shôtarô Morikubo, Takehito Koyasu,
Directors : Hirotsugu Kawasaki,

An elite superhuman agent must stop a foreign military unit from seizing control of an ancient artifact that holds the key to ultimate power.

Actors : Chieko Misaka, Kenji Matsuda, Hideo Sakaki, Tak Sakaguchi,
Directors : Ryûhei Kitamura,

There are 666 portals that connect this world to the other side. These are concealed from all human beings. Somewhere in Japan exists the 444th portal.... The forest of resurrection.

Actors : Sie Kohinata, Kimie Shingyôji, Tadanobu Asano, Ittoku Kishibe,
Directors : Katsuhito Ishii,

In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from ...

Actors : Akaji Maro, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Tomorô Taguchi, Diamond Yukai,
Directors : SABU,

A salaryman, a drug addict and a yakuza go on a breathless three man chase through the streets of Tokyo, each for a different reason and fighting demons.

Actors : Hinano Yoshikawa, Kaori Mizushima, Shinji Takeda, Tetta Sugimoto,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Limosin,

The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective find that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.

Actors : Hitomi Satô, Fumiyo Kohinata, Kyoko Fukada, Miki Nakatani,
Directors : Hideo Nakata,

Reiko takes Yoichi into hiding when her son begins to display frightening powers. Meanwhile, Mai Takano and the authorities begin a desperate search for them, as the mysterious Ring curse spreads...

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Kippei Shîna, Kôichi Satô, Jinpachi Nezu,
Directors : Takashi Ishii,

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.

Actors : Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Ren Ôsugi, Masanobu Andô,
Directors : SABU,

A simple funeral turns a man's world topsy turvy.

Actors : Takahiro Murase, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Tatsuya Nakamura,
Directors : Shin'ya Tsukamoto,

A man sees his life changed for ever when his fiancee shoots herself. Baffled, he wants by all means to obtain such a weapon of destruction and he finds himself caught in a violent group of...

Actors : Mami Nakamura, Miho Kanno, Yoriko Dôguchi, Tomorô Taguchi,
Directors : Ataru Oikawa,

A traumatized young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from.

Actors : Ayumi Hamasaki, Kouji Yamaguchi, Yoshinori Okada, Kumi Takada,
Directors : Ryosuke Hashiguchi,

The movie is built around the very complex relationships between Yoshida, leaving Shimizu for Aihara (or at least he tries to), and his friend Ito, whose love for Yoshida seems to have ...

Actors : Ryôko Hirosue, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Ken Takakura, Shinobu Ohtake,
Directors : Yasuo Furuhata,

A solitary middle-aged station manager is haunted by troubling memories of his past when he learns the line his station is on will be decommissioned for lack of profitability. He is visited...

Actors : Masatoshi Nagase, Keisuke Horibe, Yoshinori Okada, Akemi Kobayashi,
Directors : Katsuhito Ishii,

Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive ...