Japan Movies

Prodded by a friend request, a forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams....

Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim Kah Wai. His eighth feature explores the lesser-known aspects of the Asian melting pot ci...

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The main character is a ruthless hired killer who comes to Japan to fulfill a contract, but is substituted — she is injected with poison, she has exactly one day to live. Kate is going to spend this time usefully-to find the poisoner and kill him......

Like most students Aoi is a member of an extracurricular club at school and practices archery. Due to ample practice, Aoi is good at it. The members are mostly good friends. All is well until blitz and thunder hit the premises and th...

Haruko is a single mother. She has an unusual living arrangement. She lives with her son Riku, her friend Aiko and Aiko's boyfriend Sorao. One day, Yuko stays at Haruko's house to attend an art institute for the summer. Yuko is the d...

A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a 2 year old daughter with a surprising gift....

A G.I. Joe spin-off centered around the character of Snake Eyes....

Kenshin Himura goes up against a mysterious weapons dealer named Enishi Yukishiro. He controls the underworld of China. The secret of Kenshin Himura's "Jujishou" is also revealed....

Barefoot and her friends decide to make a samurai movie, gather a unique cast and staff for the production, and try to screen it at their school festival. During the production, Barefoot finds out that Rintaro is a time-traveler from...

A meeting and romance starts between two people with communication issues - a boy who wears headphones and uses haiku poems, and a shy girl who wears a mask and only does online videos....

Contemplative and almost without dialogues, the film shows the routine of inhabitants in a city: a young woman who lives alone; an eldery that lives in the street, next to the river; a police officer; customers in a bar; two students...

The concluding movie to the Gintama anime series...

Kidô senshi Gandamu: Senkô no Hasauei is a movie starring Kenshô Ono, Reina Ueda, and Jun'ichi Suwabe. Hathaway Noa, still haunted by his past actions, joins a terrorist organization called Mufti and adopts the alias "Mufti Nabiyy......

Boku no Hero Academia: World Heroes Mission is a movie starring Tetsu Inada, Yûki Kaji, and Kenta Miyake. Izuku Midoriya has been framed for being a mass murderer....

Chiisana koi no uta is a movie starring Katrina Bourdo, Leigh Carmichael, and Kazuhiko Kanayama. Inspired by a hit song by Mongol800, there is a small town in Okinawa where the US occupation forces are stationed and have fenced off......

A man (Shingo Katori) works at a printing plant, but he gets fired from his job. The man, his female partner and her daughter move to her hometown. They enjoy peaceful days, but small problems occur which leads to an irrevocable situ...

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Thunderbolt Fantasy: Bewitching Melody of the West is a movie starring Jun'ichi Suwabe and Kôsuke Toriumi. Story of the Lang Wu Yao character from childhood to first joining the travels of Shang Bu Huan and takes place entirely......

A mother and her three children find their fate thrown into chaos by an incident that happened one night. The family members each go their separate ways but reunite after 15 years and struggle to restore their family bonds....

20-year-old Mio has lost her parents early and runs a traditional Japanese inn in Nagano with her grandmother. As her grandmother gets sick and hospitalized, Mio is forced to leave the inn and reluctantly comes to Tokyo to live with...

AI Houkai is a movie starring Sei Ashina, Alice Hirose, and Takanori Iwata. Artificial Intelligence has permeated every aspect of planetary life in 2030. Tokyoites experience AI in every aspect of their lives whether medical,......

The Real Exorcist is a movie starring Fumika Shimizu, Mirai Irako, and Rin Kijima. Sayuri, a coffee shop waitress, uses her supernatural powers to help those who are troubled by spiritual phenomena. She gradually gets involved in......

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Kaede and Hisano form a club. When Hisano vanishes, Kaede throws himself into bringing change to the club....

A naked drunk man shows up on a national live TV in the middle of a sacred festival Namahage, where men dressed in ogre-like costume visit homes to scare kids not to do bad things in the next year. The man, young father Tasuku, gets...

A coming of age tale about Kanto, a 14 year old boy, and a descendant of Japan's indigenous Ainu people, who struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of his father. One day, he learns about the small hole in the cliff in nearb...

Tachibana Ayako wa miraretai is a movie starring Kôhei Higashiyama, Ena Koume, and Aika Yamagishi. Tachibana Ayako and Keisuke became darlings of the YouTubeverse due to their cute videos, which mainly she makes but he gets all the......

The Legacy Of Dr. Death: Black File is a movie starring Gô Ayano, Keiko Kitagawa, and Kenshi Okada. "I'll kill you without suffering." Dr. Death, a serial killer who was asked to euthanize a person at a dark site. The Metropolitan......

Two psychics team up to solve a string of murders, and along their investigations develop a romantic connection....

The Fable: Chapter Two is a movie starring Masanobu Andô, Manami Hashimoto, and Yurina Hirate. Akira Sato is the legendary killer known as The Fable. Following the order of his boss and due to being overworked, he lives peacefully......

A group of the smartest kids at a seemingly perfect orphanage uncover its dark secret, and set in motion a dangerous and desperate escape plan....

Enter the Anime is a movie starring Shinji Aramaki, Kôzô Morishita, and Tania Nolan. It is a documentary aimed at newcomers to anime, and follows anime newbie, Alex Burunova, as she dives into the mysterious world of the genre. The......

A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers....

When poor peasants kidnap a magistrate's daughter to coerce him into reducing their unfair taxes, a wandering ronin decides to give them some help....

Daimajin gyakushû is a movie starring Hideki Ninomiya, Shinji Hori, and Masahide Iizuka. In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur......

Tokugawa onna keibatsu-shi is a movie starring Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, and Fumio Watanabe. Three tales of punishment and torture set in Japan in the Middle Ages....

Goyôkin is a movie starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsurô Tanba, and Yôko Tsukasa. A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place....

An ever evolving alien life-form from the Dark Gaseous Nebula arrives to consume rampant pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid and corrosive sludge, neither humanity or Godzilla may be able to defeat this toxic menace....

A cellist in a small orchestra receives help from animals to help him practice his music....

A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima....

Dragon Ball Z Special: Zetsubô e no Hankô!! Nokosareta Chô Senshi - Gohan to Trunks is a TV movie starring Masako Nozawa, Mayumi Tanaka, and Hiromi Tsuru. In a dark future where the Androids have taken over Earth, Gohan and his......

Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed as the Gyaos re-emerge. Nagamine and Asagi investigate as an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature. Named Iris, Ayana seeks revenge on Gamera for the death of her family....

Waterboys is a movie starring Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroshi Tamaki, and Akifumi Miura. 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......

The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world....

Godzilla's fiftieth Anniversary project, in which Godzilla travels around the world to fight his old foes and his allies plus a new, mysterious monster named Monster X....

A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star....

How have you been? Takeshi's letter is delivered one each month to his younger brother, Naoki. Takeshi is serving a life term in prison for the crime that he had committed to save his brother. But the crime's aftereffect extends to N...