Best Japanese movies

Actors : Hideo Kanze, Hisashi Igawa, Sen Yano, Sumie Sasaki,
Directors : Hiroshi Teshigahara,

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.

Actors : Kento Yamazaki, Anna Yamada, Gordon Maeda,
Directors : Shigeaki Kubo,

In the early 20th century in Hokkaido, Japan, a treasure hunt between various parties takes place for a hidden stash of gold.

Actors : Yoshino Kimura, Anna Tsuchiya, Kippei Shîna, Hiroki Narimiya,
Directors : Mika Ninagawa,

A young girl is sold into a red-light district brothel and tries to adapt to life as an oiran (courtesan).

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 : Kenshô Ono, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Kaito Ishikawa, Kenji Akabane,
Directors : Kei'ichi Sato,

Warriors called "Saints" are the champions of hope who have always appeared since the Age of Myth whenever evil threatens the world. In this present day story, many years since the long ...

Actors : Miki Fukui, Kana Kita, Yû Aoi, Megumi Han,
Directors : Hiroyasu Ishida,

A fourth-grader, Aoyama-kun, investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.

Actors : Kenshô Ono, Miyu Tomita, Kanon Amane,
Directors : Francesca Calo, Tomotaka Shibayama,

A high school student's life takes an unexpected turn when he meets an oni (demon) girl on a quest in the human world.

Actors : Tadanobu Asano, Andrew Alfieri, Hideaki Anno, Moyoco Anno,

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.

Actors : Masakazu Morita, Fumiko Orikasa, Hiroki Yasumoto, Noriaki Sugiyama,
Directors : Noriyuki Abe,

In Karakura Town, unidentifiable spirits begin appearing en mases. While attempting to deal with these strange souls, Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki meet Senna, a mysterious shinigami ...

Actors : Ayumi Itô, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kazunari Ninomiya,
Directors : Shinsuke Sato,

Kato's (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) death changes Kurono's (Kazunari Ninomiya) view of life completely. He decides to keep fighting until he earns 100 points so that he can bring back Kato. GANTZ ...

Actors : Ken'ichirô Matsuda, Ikkyu Juku, Maaya Sakamoto, Tarusuke Shingaki,

In this prequel set one year after the fourth World War, cyborg and hacker extraordinaire Motoko Kusanagi from the military's 501st Secret Unit finds herself wrapped up in the investigation of a devastating bombing.

Actors : Kan'ichi Kurita, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Suzu Hirose,
Directors : Takashi Yamazaki,

Lupin III goes on a grand adventure to uncover the secrets of the Bresson Diary, which is tied to the legacy of his famous grandfather.

Actors : Kôichi Satô, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Takumi Saitoh, Tomorô Taguchi, Naoto Ogata, Mark Chinnery, Ken Watanabe,
Directors : Setsurô Wakamatsu,

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake an tsunami in 2011.

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Kôichi Satô, Kippei Shîna, 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 : Meiko Kaji, Isao Hashizume, Masami Nagasawa, Yukiya Kitamura,
Directors : Miwa Nishikawa,

A middle-aged former yakuza is released from prison after thirteen years where he was placed for murder. He is struggling to adapt to society and freedom, find a job and communicate ...

Actors : Halo Asada, Masami Nagasawa, Sho Gunji, Sadao Abe,
Directors : Tatsushi Ohmori,

Akiko (Masami Nagasawa) is a single mother and her son is Shuhei (Sho Gunji). Akiko casually has sex with other men, including Ryo (Sadao Abe). Akiko is the only person whom Shuhei can rely on. One day, Shuhei makes a shocking decision.

Actors : Nobunaga Shimazaki, Yutaka Aoyama, Tatsuhisa Suzuki,
Directors : Toshiki Hirano,

It's the ultimate showdown. The toughest fighters from "Baki Hanma" and "Kengan Ashura" clash in this unprecedented, hard-hitting martial arts crossover.

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 : Jun Fukuyama, Rie Tanaka, Rina Satô, Kenji Nojima,
Directors : Yasuhiro Yoshiura,

In a not too distant future, a young man's outlook on his home android begins to change after tracking the android's behavioral log to a mysterious cafe.

Actors : Yôichi Numata, Shigeru Amachi, Hiroshi Hayashi, Utako Mitsuya,
Directors : Nobuo Nakagawa,

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.