Best Japanese movies of 2007

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 : Machiko Ono, Yôichirô Saitô, Kanako Masuda, Shigeki Uda,
Directors : Naomi Kawase,

A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.

Actors : Eriko Satô, Hiromi Nagasaku, Masatoshi Nagase, Aimi Satsukawa,
Directors : Daihachi Yoshida,

Traumatic incidents, conflicts, and bloody quarrels awaits the Wago family members who return home to bury their parents.

Actors : Yûko Asano, Yui Aragaki, Haruma Miura, Yôsuke Asari,
Directors : Natsuki Imai,

Mika is a fresh high school student who starts texting a mysterious boy. She is shocked when he reveals who he is - Hiro, a delinquent attending her school. What she doesn't know is that Hiro isn't as bad as he seems.

Actors : Satoshi Tsumabuki, Ko Shibasaki, Kiichi Nakai, Yoshio Harada,
Directors : Akihiko Shiota,

A female warrior who was raised as a man joins a young samurai's quest to recover 48 of his body parts from 48 demons and to avenge her parents death.

Actors : Joe Odagiri, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Tomokazu Miura, Kyôko Koizumi,
Directors : Satoshi Miki,

Takemura has no friends and no family. He's a student but he doesn't have any particular ambitions. In other words, he isn't going anywhere fast. Were all this not enough, the sorry sad ...

Actors : Arata Furuta, Noriko Nakagoshi, Yuka Itaya, Eriko Hatsune,
Directors : Ataru Oikawa,

A modern ghost story which turns a love hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror.

Actors : Kenji Nojima, Mai Nakahara, Ryôtarô Okiayu, Kikuko Inoue,
Directors : Osamu Dezaki,

Okazaki Tomoya is a delinquent who finds life dull and believes he'll never amount to anything. Along with his friend Sunohara, he skips school and plans to waste his high school days away.

Actors : Kumiko Asô, Takaaki Enoki, Leona Hirota, Teisui Ichiryûsai,
Directors : Hideo Nakata,

Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river ...

Actors : Tadanobu Asano, Yuka Itaya, Kaori Fujimitsu, Eri Ishida,
Directors : Shinji Aoyama,

Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of an old ...

Actors : Tôru Emori, Ryôhei Abe, Katsutaka Furuhata, Cleve Gray,
Directors : Taku Shinjô,

Young Japanese pilots are trained to sink Allied warships by flying into them.

Actors : Makiko Watanabe, Masahiro Kobayashi,
Directors : Masahiro Kobayashi,

Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wants to live in anonymity, working with ...

Actors : Barclay Iversen, Yuri Nanami, Joe Amos, Linden Young,
Directors : Immanuel Martin,

Miyuki tells the story of the McKenzie's, an American family who take in a young female Japanese exchange student. At first their expectations of a sweet and innocent Japanese girl are ...