Best Japanese movies of 2000s

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 : Nana Natsume, Dylan Kuo, Miki Mizuno, Emme Wong,
Directors : Joe Ma,

A ruthless pack of thugs force mild-mannered, caught-in-the-middle-of-something-bigger Nami to murder her fiance's sister, decidedly ruining her pending marriage and landing the poor girl ...

Actors : Hiro Abe, Toshiya Agata, Mariko Denda, Mari Endo,
Directors : Jason Cuadrado,

Tales From The Dead is anthology of four stories that looks at the quiet terror lurking inside the human soul, showing us that evil does not end when life departs. These original stories ...

Actors : Anna Easteden, Morgan Snyder, Rinko Kikuchi, Griffin Gluck,
Directors : Cellin Gluck,

A middle-aged Japanese man travels to California to attend the wedding of his American-based friend. Prior to the big event, they take one last trip to Napa Valley, where they taste wine, dally with romance.

Actors : Kei Tanaka, Kyôsuke Yabe, Shun Oguri, Yuki Shibamoto,
Directors : Hiroyuki Nakano,

TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his name, status and sword. A royal brother leaves his kingdom to protect the princess he loves,...

Actors : Kenji Yamauchi, Kiki Sugino, Bryerly Long, Kanji Furutachi,
Directors : Kôji Fukada,

The film follows the follies that ensue when a man and his wife shack up with a family that owns a printing press in their building, the husband takes it over, and the couple begin inviting a motley crew of friends.

Actors : Christopher Bevins, Ayumi Asakura, Clint Bickham, Ryan Bijan,

The Axis Powers must band together to save the world from aliens who are painting everything white.

Actors : Kanako Momota, Ayaka Sasaki, Akari Hayami, Momoka Ariyasu,
Directors : Kôji Shiraishi,

Horror mockumentary about a school haunted by a wish-granting ghost that drags people off into hell if it deems their wish to be impure.

Actors : Misaki Yonemura, Hiroya Matsumoto, Rina Saito, Haruka Shimizu,
Directors : Kenta Fukasaku,

Six classmates receive an e-mail from Asuka; who supposedly committed suicide. Later that night they all get together in a classroom and are surprised by a person wearing a bloody rat mask....

Actors : Noriko Kijima, Miyavi Matsunoi, Noriko Eguchi, Jun Miho,
Directors : Kôta Yoshida,

30 something year old Yuriko (Noriko Eguchi) works as a aromatherapist at an aroma salon. She uses essentials oils and her hands to soothe her client's inner well-being. Yuriko also has a ...

Actors : Daniel Aguilar Gutiérrez, Matt Alt, Michelle Ann Dunphy, Hideaki Anno,
Directors : Tomo'o Haraguchi,

The kappa, in Japanese folklore, are water goblins that are closely associated with a certain town in the country. Unfortunately, the area is also home to a militant splinter group of ...

Actors : Etsushi Toyokawa, Naomasa Musaka, Shinobu Ohtake, Akira Emoto,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife ...

Actors : Mitsuko Baishô, Mieko Harada, Shigeru Muroi, Naomi Nishida,
Directors : Hideyuki Hirayama,

Four down on their luck housewives murder their husbands and find whacky ways to hide the bodies!

Actors : Bengaru, Fumina Hara, Tôru Minegishi, Ken'ichi Endô,

(Japanese with English subtitles) In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night; a sex worker is taken by surprise when ...

Actors : Shiori Gechov, Takayuki Hasegawa,
Directors : Yutaka Tsuchiya,

In Tokyo, a Goth girl and an Internet voyeur connect in the post 9-11 world of surveillance and paranoia.

Actors : Keiko Matsuzaka, Mariya Ito, Makoto Kakeda, Miyuki Komagata,
Directors : Eiji Okuda,

In 1838, on the penal colony of Hachijo Island, the ex-courtesan Toyogiku, convicted of arson in the capital, holds court over a motley assembly of criminals and corrupt officials. There ...

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 ...

Actors : Sayuri Iwata, Miu Nakamura, Yôko Chôsokabe, Hatsune Matsushima,
Directors : Kôji Shiraishi,

The story of TekeTeke, the ghost woman with no legs, continues. Conflict arises between a group of high school classmates, and TekeTeke starts hunting them down one by one.

Actors : Gaku Hamada, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Etsushi Toyokawa, Haruka Igawa,
Directors : Isao Yukisada,

he heart wrenching love story between a married couple. The jobless husband cheats on his wife and has no love for her. The wife wants to go on a trip to get pregnant. This mismatched ...