Best Japanese movies of 2000s

Actors : Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino, Rumi Hiiragi,
Directors : Hayao Miyazaki,

During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya, Ikki Sawamura,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

Actors : Michiyo Ohkusu, Tadanobu Asano, Takeshi Kitano, Yui Natsukawa,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

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.

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Ren Ôsugi, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

A 19th-century samurai tries to protect a battered wife.

Actors : Kyôko Koizumi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yû Koyanagi, Kai Inowaki,
Directors : Kiyoshi Kurosawa,

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.

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 : Aya Ueto, Kenji Kohashi, Hiroki Narimiya, Takatoshi Kaneko,
Directors : Ryûhei Kitamura,

Raised to deal in cold blooded death, the teenage assassin girl Azumi must defeat three evil warlords while also battling her own heart.

Actors : Hidetaka Yoshioka, Takako Matsu, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Masatoshi Nagase,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

During the time of change of the mid-19th Century, Yaichiro is bid farewell by his fellow samurai friends Munezo and Samon as he leaves their clan's fiefdom on the northwest coast of Japan ...

Actors : John Getz, Stephen Dorff, Rosalind Chao, Hugo Armstrong,

Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.

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 : Mitsuko Baishô, Mansaku Fuwa, Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

Actors : Kôji Imada, Sayaka Maeda, Seiko Takuma, Takashi Fujii,

After a deadly encounter with two yakuza, a loser with a crush on his childhood girlfriend goes to heaven and back, embarking on a psychedelic self-discovery experience with her and his friends.

Actors : Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara, Miho Ninagawa, Shin'ya Tsukamoto,
Directors : Takashi Shimizu,

A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman (Shinya Tsukamoto) investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.

Actors : Doona Bae, Yû Kashii, Shiori Sekine, Aki Maeda,
Directors : Nobuhiro Yamashita,

A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival.

Actors : Yui Ichikawa, Chiharu Niiyama, Noriko Sakai, Kei Horie,
Directors : Takashi Shimizu,

As their curse spreads on all around, the ghosts find their chance to live once again through the pregnancy of a cursed woman.

Actors : Kyôka Suzuki, Yui Ichikawa, Atsuro Watabe, Shô Aikawa,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

A down-and-out school teacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.

Actors : Kippei Shîna, Teruyuki Kagawa, Kaoru Kobayashi, Keiko Toda,
Directors : Yôichi Sai,

As a Labrador puppy, Quill is sent to live with a couple, Isamu and Mitsuko Nii, who work as volunteers, training guide dogs (seeing eye dogs). When he grows to an adult dog, he is taken to...

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Hideaki Itô, Mansai Nomura, Eriko Imai,
Directors : Yôjirô Takita,

Set in the capital city of Kyoto during the Heian period, a magician and fortune teller Onmyoji Seimei is called in to assist Hiromasa to thwart court wizard and minister Doson who is ...

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 : Kumiko Asô, Akira Terao, Kanako Higuchi, Yûsuke Iseya,
Directors : Kazuaki Kiriya,

Live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name (Shinzo Ningen Casshân). Theme song by Utada Hikaru.