Best Japanese movies

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 : Nao Ohmori, Mao Daichi, Hairi Katagiri, Shinobu Terajima,
Directors : Hitoshi Matsumoto,

An ordinary man with an ordinary life joins a mysterious club. The membership lasts for one year only and there is one rule: no cancellation under any circumstance. The man enters into a ...

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Jûzô Itami,

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

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 : Motoko Gollent, Tetsuya Bessho, Mike Wiluan, Yoshihiro Tatsumi,
Directors : Eric Khoo,

A story based on the life and short stories of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a mangaka known for his gekiga style of alternate Japanese manga.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Jinpachi Nezu, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûnosuke Itô, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

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 : Honoka Matsumoto, Rina Kawaei, Ryôta Katayose, Kentarô Itô,
Directors : Masaaki Yuasa,

A surfer and firefighter meet and fall in love.

Actors : Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ohba, Kimiko Ikegami, Ai Matsubara,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which tries to devour the girls in bizarre ways.

Actors : Honami Satô, Kiko Mizuhara, Shunsuke Tanaka, Shinya Niiro,
Directors : Ryuichi Hiroki,

Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.

Actors : Yuki Kaji, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Tetsu Inada, Daiki Yamashita,
Directors : Kenji Nagasaki,

When a cult of terrorists ruins a city by releasing a toxin that causes people's abilities to spiral out of control, Japan's greatest heroes spread around the world in an attempt to track down the mastermind and put him to justice.

Actors : Maxey Whitehead, Matthew Mercer, Vic Mignogna, Alexis Tipton,
Directors : Kazuya Murata,

In the lost holy land of Milos, the Elrics search for the truth behind an unknown form of alchemy. What secrets are hidden in Milos? Riddles must be solved and dangers faced before the truth can be found.

Actors : Jun Yoshinaga, Nijirô Murakami, Miyuki Matsuda, Tetta Sugimoto,
Directors : Naomi Kawase,

On a subtropical island, a teenage couple deal with the interwoven cycle of life, death and love.

Actors : Masami Nagasawa, Kento Yamazaki, Ryô Yoshizawa, Kanna Hashimoto,
Directors : Shinsuke Sato,

In ancient China, a young boy dreams of becoming the greatest general of the Qin Kingdom.

Actors : Eiko Masuyama, Makio Inoue, Yasuo Yamada, Kiyoshi Kobayashi,
Directors : Hayao Miyazaki,

A flamboyant thief and his gang struggle to free a princess from an evil count's clutches and to learn the hidden secret to a fabulous treasure that she holds part of a key to.

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 : Jûkichi Uno, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô, Nobuko Otowa,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.