Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi(2001)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 90

During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.



Kaze tachinu(2013)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.



Ran(1985)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.



Drive My Car(2021)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Yusuke Kafuku is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day she disappears.



13 Assassins(2010)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.



Zatôichi(2003)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

The blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.



Mononoke-hime(1997)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.



Tokyo Sonata(2008)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 73

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.



Like Someone in Love(2012)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 73

In Tokyo, a young sex worker develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days.



Mirai no Mirai(2018)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.



Omohide poro poro(1991)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.



The Twilight Samurai(2002)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A 19th-century samurai tries to protect a battered wife.



Kiseki(2011)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.



Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy(2021)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 71

An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.



Blade of the Immortal(2017)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine - ...



Weathering with You(2019)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A high-school boy who has run away to Tokyo befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather.



Wife of a Spy(2020)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A Japanese merchant who leaves his wife behind in order to travel to Manchuria, where he witnesses an act of barbarism. His subsequent actions cause misunderstanding, jealousy and legal problems for his wife.



Nanking(2007)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.



Cure(1997)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.



Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai(2011)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 61

An tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.




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