Letters from Iwo Jima(2006)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 87

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.



Inception(2010)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A thief, who steals corporate secrets through use of dream-sharing technology, is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO.



Batman Begins(2005)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

After training with his mentor, Batman begins his fight to free crime-ridden Gotham City from the corruption that Scarecrow and the League of Shadows have cast upon it.



Godzilla(2014)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 78

The world is beset by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity.



The Last Samurai(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.



Godzilla: King of the Monsters(2019)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The crypto-zoological agency Monarch faces off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah.



Memoirs of a Geisha(2005)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.



The Sea of Trees(2015)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.



Bel Canto(2018)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A world-renowned opera singer becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform for a wealthy industrialist in South America.



Tampopo(1985)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 27

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.



Ashita no kioku(2006)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 34

A successful businessman's family life is shattered by an early onset of Alzheimer's.



Yurusarezaru mono(2013)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Just as Clint Eastwood's star-making spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee (Villain) has decided to ...



Fukushima 50(2020)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 5

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.



Ikari(2016)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A grisly unsolved murder links three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities.



Shizumanu taiyô(2009)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A drama based on the 1985 plane crash that caused 520 deaths, the worst aviation event in Japanese history.



Ninja Warriors(1985)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Document-stealing killer super ninjas are up to no good. A more robust and secure records management system could have discouraged such behavior.



Umi to dokuyaku(1986)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Downed American fliers in WWII are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in cruel medical experiments.



Il ragazzo dal kimono d'oro(1987)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Anthony is in the Phillipines visiting his father. He inadvertently interferes with the affairs of local gangster Quino, who also happens to be a champion Karate fighter. After embarrassing...



Hayabusa: Harukanaru kikan(2012)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

From the Sumitomo Corporation website "HAYABUSA: The Long Voyage Home" a film in whose production Sumitomo Corporation participated... See full synopsis »



Ninja's Force(1984)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a dangerous top-secret formula is stolen, a government agent traces the thieves back to a mysterious island and a secret-society of Ninja's.




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