Best Japanese movies

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Eiko Nakamura,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.

Actors : Lucien Dodge, Edward Bosco, Amber Lee Connors, Gô Ayano,
Directors : Takashi Shimizu,

Truth and illusion blurs when a homeless amnesiac awakens from an experimental medical procedure with the ability to see people's innermost traumas.

Actors : Kaya Kiyohara, Taishi Nakagawa, Kengo Kawanishi, Matsutera Chiemi,
Directors : Kôtarô Tamura,

Tsuneo is a university student and Josee is a young girl who has rarely gone out of the house by herself due to her being unable to walk. The two meet when Tsuneo finds Josee's grandmother taking her out for a morning walk.

Actors : Hidenobu Kiuchi, Daisuke Namikawa, Yui Ishikawa, Takehito Koyasu,
Directors : Taichi Ishidate,

After the aftermath of a war, a young girl who was used as a 'tool' for war learned to live. With the scars of burns, she goes back to her past to feel the true feelings of the Major's, "I love you."

Actors : Mayu Yokota, Ren Nagase, Natsuki Deguchi,
Directors : Takahiro Miki,

With only a year left to live, 17-year-old Akito finds new meaning in life by bringing joy to a terminally ill girl who has just six months remaining.

Actors : Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroshi Tamaki, Akifumi Miura, Kôen Kondô,
Directors : Shinobu Yaguchi,

In a Japanese high school, a class of adolescent geeks joins the new synchronized swimming teacher and takes up the challenge to take part in the competition, in spite of the mockeries of the "real sportsmen".

Actors : Takahiro Murase, Takahiro Kandaka, Masato Tsujioka, Shin'ya Tsukamoto,
Directors : Shin'ya Tsukamoto,

A man wakes up to find himself locked in a cramped concrete maze of corridors, in which he can barely move. He doesn't remember why he is there or how he got there. He has a terrible stomach injury and is slowly bleeding to death.

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Manami Konishi, Hiroyuki Hirayama,
Directors : Kiyoshi Kurosawa,

A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points ...

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 : Donpei Tsuchihira, Mika Hijii, Shûji Kashiwabara, Masanori Mimoto,
Directors : Seiji Chiba,

A comet crashes into a Japanese forest and a group of mighty ninjas must fight a group of killer Aliens before they reach their village and kill everyone.

Actors : Hiroyuki Yoshino, Mamoru Miyano, Chiwa Saitô, Daisuke Ono,
Directors : Kenji Kamiyama,

Anime adventure from 'Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex' (2002) director Kenji Kamiyama. Nine cyborgs created for destructive purposes disappeared for over 27 years after they were ...

Actors : Maiko, Ebizô Ichikawa, Hideaki Itô, Ko Shibasaki,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

A star, Miyuki Goto (Ko Shibasaki) plays Oiwa, the protagonist in a new play based on the ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan. She pulls some strings to get her lover, Kosuke Hasegawa (Ebizo ...

Actors : Seizô Fukumoto, Chihiro Yamamoto, Masashi Gôda, Hirotarô Honda,
Directors : Ken Ochiai,

The film centers an aged movie extra who specializes to be killed in samurai movies without ever being lit by the limelight. Using Charlie Chaplin's film Limelight as an underlying theme, ...

Actors : Shunsuke Kazama, Luis Alfonso, Kenjirô Tsuda, Gregory Abbey,
Directors : Satoshi Kuwabara,

Yugi and Kaiba have a special duel that transcends dimensions.

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yoshiko Sakuma, Jûzô Itami, Yûko Kotegawa,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of ...

Actors : Akaji Maro, Bambi Naka, Ikuyo Kuroda, Masahiro Takashima,
Directors : Philippe McKie,

A vibrant and intoxicating look into Japanese dance and subculture communities.

Actors : Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Ren Ôsugi, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Masanobu Andô,
Directors : SABU,

A simple funeral turns a man's world topsy turvy.

Actors : Leehom Wang, Hyde, Gackt, Tarô Yamamoto,
Directors : Takahisa Zeze,

The story of love and friendship on the harsh streets of 2014 Mallepa, a small corner in Asia.

Actors : Takao Ohsawa, Masaya Katô, Tak Sakaguchi, Kanae Uotani,
Directors : Ryûhei Kitamura,

A raging god of battle and a master samurai duke it out in a series of sword fights in a remote temple.