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1. Whisper of the Heart (1995)
G | 111 min | Animation, Drama, Family
A love story between a girl who loves reading books, and a boy who has previously checked out all of the library books she chooses.
Director: Yoshifumi Kondô | Stars: Yoko Honna, Issei Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi
Votes: 73,100
2. The Naked Director (2019–2021)
TV-MA | 48 min | Biography, Drama
Follows the story of Toru Muranishi's unusual and dramatic life filled with big ambitions as well as spectacular setbacks in his attempt to turn Japan's porn industry on its head.
Stars: Takayuki Yamada, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Misato Morita, Tokio Emoto
Votes: 6,977
3. Hell Girl (2005–2006)
TV-MA | Animation, Drama, Family
When someone wants revenge, they post about it on a special website at midnight. Then Hell Girl appears to do their bidding.
Stars: Mamiko Noto, Masaya Matsukaze, Takako Honda, Takayuki Sugô
Votes: 1,985
4. Tokyo Pop (1988)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Aspiring singer Wendy hops on a plane to Tokyo with dreams of making it big in the music business. She soon finds romance with Hiro, a rock 'n' roll musician who convinces her to become the lead singer in his band.
Director: Fran Rubel Kuzui | Stars: Carrie Hamilton, Diamond Yukai, Taiji Tonoyama, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 376 | Gross: $0.13M
5. Aibou: Tokyo Detective Duo (2000–2024)
110 min | Drama
Detective Ukyo Sugishita and his partner solve cases by just the two of them as "Special Task Unit" of MPD where demoted people belong.
Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Atsushi Yamanishi, Kazuhisa Kawahara, Ryo Ono
Votes: 136
6. Burst City (1982)
115 min | Action, Drama, Music
Punk rock gangs and music groups clash with one another and the brutal police force in a futuristic Tokyo setting.
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Takanori Jinnai, Shinya Ohe, Yuto Iseta, Hitomi Tsurukawa
Votes: 900
7. Flight Attendant: Scandal (1984)
67 min | Comedy
The sexual escapades of four flight attendants.
Director: Masaru Konuma | Stars: Tomoko Ai, Keito Asabuki, Shigeru Muroi, Makoto Yoshino
Votes: 35
8. Doctor X (2012– )
Not Rated | 54 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Daimon Michiko is a freelance surgeon who wanders from hospital to hospital because the harsh environment led many doctors to retire. However, Michiko doesn't look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude.
Stars: Ryôko Yonekura, Ittoku Kishibe, Yuki Uchida, Toshiyuki Nishida
Votes: 795
9. Old Enough! (1990– )
Documentary, Adventure
Toddlers, aged two to four, are followed by cameras as they are sent on their first errands by themselves. From delivering forgotten items to shopping trips, the little ones get to make their first independent journeys into the world.
Stars: George Tokoro, Hiroko Moriguchi, Megumi, Hisako Manda
Votes: 1,220
10. Família (2023)
121 min | Drama
A moving story depicting people trying to create a "family" overcoming differences in circumstances.
Director: Izuru Narushima | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Ryô Yoshizawa, Lucas Sagae, Fadile Waked
Votes: 92
11. Hell's Garden (2021)
102 min | Action, Comedy
Naoko Tanaka is a 26-year-old office lady. Her job is typical, but her workplace has fierce fights among different cliques. Other office ladies are absorbed in the daily clique fighting. ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuaki Seki | Stars: Mei Nagano, Alice Hirose, Nanao, Rina Kawaei
Votes: 319
12. The Ginger Tree (1989– )
240 min | Drama
In 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she falls in love with a married ... See full summary »
Stars: Samantha Bond, Daisuke Ryû, Fumi Dan, Joanna McCallum
Votes: 154
13. The Little House (2014)
136 min | Drama, Romance
A woman looks back on her family's life in Tokyo before and during WWII. A maid arrives from the countryside to work for an upper middle class family. She fits in well, but everyone's emotions are stirred up with the arrival of a student.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Takako Matsu, Haru Kuroki, Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Votes: 1,456
14. Joshû ori (1983)
68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An inmate attempts to escape from prison and is confronted by the guard.
Director: Masaru Konuma | Stars: Mina Asami, Ryoko Watanabe, Nami Matsukawa, Shigeru Muroi
Votes: 184
15. Out (2002)
119 min | Comedy, Thriller
Four down on their luck housewives murder their husbands and find whacky ways to hide the bodies!
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Mieko Harada, Mitsuko Baishô, Shigeru Muroi, Naomi Nishida
Votes: 104
16. Bu su (1987)
95 min | Drama
Suzume moved in Tokyo where she will live in aunt's house, basically a geisha house. She have no interest in any social activity, nor any friendship with classmates. She's not into geisha ... See full summary »
Director: Jun Ichikawa | Stars: Yasuko Tomita, Michiyo Yasuda, Kazue Itô, Masahiro Takashima
Votes: 195
17. The Fallen Angel (2010)
134 min | Drama
Born with a silver spoon in his life, the child is nonetheless lonely and a misfit. His mate recognizes the feelings and predicts that when grown up his friend will be a great artist and ... See full summary »
Director: Genjiro Arato | Stars: Tôma Ikuta, Yûsuke Iseya, Shinobu Terajima, Satomi Ishihara
Votes: 270
18. The Woman of S.R.I. (1999– )
55 min | Drama
As criminals become more sophisticated and crimes more complex, the police must turn to speedier and more scientific means of weeding through clues and narrowing down suspects. That's where... See full summary »
Stars: Yasuko Sawaguchi, Takashi Naitô, Satoru Saitô, Mayumi Wakamura
Votes: 23
19. Ore no kawaî wa môsugu shouhi-kigen!? (2022)
Drama
Kousuke Maruya is a 29-year-old sales staff member of a beer manufacturing company and often uses his cuteness and killer smile as sales weapons. As he is entering his 30s, Kousuke ... See full summary »
Stars: Ryôsuke Yamada, Kyôko Yoshine, Takaya Sakoda, Kazuya Ôhashi
Votes: 91
20. Genji monogatari: Sennen no nazo (2011)
136 min | Drama, Fantasy
"Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Hakaru Genji. Lady Fujitsubo is Genji's first love. Miyasutokoro Ryokuzono is obsessed with Genji and eventually ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuo Tsuruhashi | Stars: Tôma Ikuta, Miki Nakatani, Yôko Maki, Mikako Tabe
Votes: 174
21. Bartender (2011)
60 min | Drama
Ryu Sasakura (Masaki Aiba) is a bartending prodigy who won a European cocktail contest. He got into an argument with his instructor and was fired. In a state of dejection he came back to ... See full summary »
Stars: Masaki Aiba, Shihori Kanjiya, Naoto Takenaka, Nobuaki Kaneko
Votes: 42
22. Gegege no Kitarô (2007)
103 min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Kitaro is half-human and half-yokai (a general term for creatures and supernatural beings), orphaned as a child and dedicated to keeping the peace between the human and yokai worlds. Kitaro... See full summary »
Director: Katsuhide Motoki | Stars: Eiji Wentz, Mao Inoue, Rena Tanaka, Yô Ôizumi
Votes: 398
23. Keishicho Outsider (2023– )
Crime, Drama
Eiji Kagawa is an assistant inspector from Sakuramachi Chuo Police Station. He used to be a detective in charge of dealing with organized crime groups, but he got into trouble and was ... See full summary »
Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Takumi Saitô, Moka Kamishiraishi, Gaku Hamada
Votes: 39
24. Hear the Song of the Wind (1982)
98 min | Drama
A student travels back to Kobe for the summer. Once there, he meets his friend Rat, hangs on the usual place, listening to the Beach Boys and meets a mysterious twin girl.
Director: Kazuki Ômori | Stars: Kaoru Kobayashi, Kimie Shingyôji, Kai Atô, Masato Furuoya
Votes: 134
25. Viyon no tsuma (2009)
114 min | Drama
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 ... See full summary »
Director: Kichitarô Negishi | Stars: Takako Matsu, Tadanobu Asano, Shigeru Muroi, Masatô Ibu
Votes: 426
26. Robinson's Garden (1987)
119 min | Drama
A hippie-like girl tries to turn an abandoned industrial site into an urban oasis full of greenery.
Director: Masashi Yamamoto | Stars: Kumiko Ohta, Kou Machida, Tuko Ueno, Cheebo
Votes: 163
27. Tetsuko no heya (1976– )
35 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Meiko Nakamura, Makoto Ôtake, Tomio Umezawa
Votes: 33
28. Seven Secretaries: The Movie (2022)
118 min | Mystery
The seven secretaries who consist of the "Shadow Army" enjoy peaceful days. They receive a new request from Koichi Ogata, who runs a ramen restaurant in Nagano prefecture. He is furious at ... See full summary »
Director: Naoki Tamura | Stars: Yôsuke Eguchi, Shim Eun-kyung, Gaku Hamada, Alice Hirose
Votes: 48
29. Gegege no Kitarô: Sennen noroi uta (2008)
119 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Set in the same world populated by Yokai, demon spirits with supernatural powers - Wentz Eiji of WaT reprises his role as half-human, half-yokai hero Kitaro, who takes it upon himself to ... See full summary »
Director: Katsuhide Motoki | Stars: Eiji Wentz, Kie Kitano, Rena Tanaka, Yô Ôizumi
Votes: 175
30. Tôkyô monogatari (2002 TV Movie)
97 min | Drama
Director: Rieko Miyamoto | Stars: Ken Utsui, Kaoru Yachigusa, Akira Shirai, Shigeru Muroi
31. Shichinin no Hisho (2020)
Drama
Shadow's Legion is a group of nameless secretaries working in various industries. These secretaries work for top officials while, at the same time, plan things secretly to change the ... See full summary »
Stars: Yôsuke Eguchi, Shim Eun-kyung, Fumino Kimura, Nanao
Votes: 45
32. No yohna mono (1981)
103 min | Comedy, Romance
In a film about Rakugo, which is a traditional Japanese sit-down comedy, a man living in Tokyo is a young comic practitioner starting out. On his birthday he visits a Soapland (sexually ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita | Stars: Kumiko Akiyoshi, Katsunobu Ito, Isao Bitô, Erika Asô
Votes: 101
33. Betwitched in Tokyo (2004– )
45 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Arisa is fascinated by humans. So much so that she leaves the magic world. But the broom she uses is faulty and she winds up in Japan. There she meets Joji Matsui who works at an ... See full summary »
Stars: Ryôko Yonekura, Taizô Harada, Mari Natsuki, Kyôko Kishida
Votes: 28
34. Prescription Police (2006– )
Comedy
Kiriyama Shuichiro works as an information management officer in the prefectural police station. As he is very observant and has interest in the unresolved cases which have gone past the ... See full summary »
Stars: Joe Odagiri, Kumiko Asô, Kôsuke Toyohara, Eri Fuse
Votes: 252
35. Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B (1979–2011)
Drama
Kinpachi Sakamoto is the homeroom teacher for a group of third-year students known as the "B-Group". The students are from a wide range of backgrounds, and have an equally wide range of ... See full summary »
Stars: Hideko Hara, Tetsuya Takeda, Aya Ueto, Miho Konishi
Votes: 50
36. Hanako & Anne (2014)
15 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Follows the life of translator Hanako Muraoka; from the turbulent Meiji Period, to the Taisho Period and the Showa Period. Hanako Muraoka would go on to translate novel "Anne of Green Gables," by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Stars: Akihiro Miwa, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Sarah Macdonald, Ryohei Suzuki
Votes: 83
37. Day and Night (2019)
134 min | Drama
Koji Akashi's father committed suicide. His father was a whistleblower, involving a large corporation. Koji's family now faces ruin. Kenichi Kitamura works at an orphanage. He approaches ... See full summary »
Director: Michihito Fujii | Stars: Shinnosuke Abe, Masanobu Andô, Yasushi Fuchikami, Ryo Fujimoto
Votes: 92
38. Battle Heater (1989)
93 min | Comedy, Horror
A kotatsu comes alive and tries to eat people
Director: Jôji Iida | Stars: Akira Emoto, Hisako Hara, Masao Imafuku, Kenichi Ishii
Votes: 124
39. Carnival in the Night (1981)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama
The newly divorced singer Kumi is not too enthusiastic about life as a single mother. She drops her son to her ex-husband, leaving her band and embarks on a crazy tour of Tokyo's shadowy side.
Director: Masashi Yamamoto | Stars: Akemi Edo, Michirô Endô, Nobutaka Kuwabara, Shigeru Muroi
Votes: 64
40. Hikikomori Sensei (2021)
Drama
Ueshima Yohei is a so-called "hikikomori survivor" who was withdrawn from the world for 11 years. After he finally escaped from his room 3 years ago, he opened a yakitori restaurant with ... See full summary »
Stars: Honami Suzuki, Yui Sakuma, Jirô Satô, Rio Suzuki
Votes: 8
41. Shuffle (1981)
34 min | Short
A cop chases a punk who had a fight with his girlfriend through every kind of urban setting, going on so long the punk starts hallucinating.
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Yosuke Nakajima, Tatsuya Mori, Shigeru Muroi, Genjiro Arato
Votes: 296
42. Samurai High School (2009– )
54 min | Drama
Mochizuki Kotaro is a mild-mannered, unmanly high school student. One day, he visits a library and meets the mysterious librarian Himiko, who recommends to him an ancient book about a ... See full summary »
Stars: Haruma Miura, Yu Shirota, Anne Watanabe, Suzuka Ohgo
Votes: 164
43. Izakaya yurei (1994)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry. Thinking she is just being dramatic, he promises and ... See full summary »
Director: Takayoshi Watanabe | Stars: Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Shigeru Muroi, Yûji Miyake
Votes: 54
44. Tokyo MPD - From ZERO to HERO (2016– )
54 min | Mystery
The title character, Junichi Oiwa, leads the most coveted section of Tokyo MPD as the head of over 400 elite detectives. He is present at all serious crime scenes, spearheading multiple ... See full summary »
Stars: Takashi Naitô, Yuki Saitô, Akio Kaneda, Hiroki Suzuki
Votes: 11
45. Roots Search (1986 Video)
Not Rated | 45 min | Animation, Horror, Mystery
A research crew in deep space discovers a desolate ship that warps into their area, they encounter the commander and sole survivor of the ship incapacitated, the research team will soon discover that they have found something far worse.
Director: Hisashi Sugai | Stars: Keiko Han, Ken'yû Horiuchi, Kaneto Shiozawa, Osamu Kobayashi
Votes: 135
46. The New Morning of Billy the Kid (1986)
109 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Absurdist comedy characterizes this amusing and entertaining film from Naoto Yamakawa. All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white... See full summary »
Director: Naoto Yamakawa | Stars: Yoshiki Arizono, Makoto Ayukawa, Yoshio Harada, Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Votes: 27
47. Kaiki daikazoku (2004–2005)
25 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Kiyoshi Imawano and his family move into a haunted house. The entire family, except the occult-obsessed father, gains the power to see ghosts and spirits. An undead monk, secret government ... See full summary »
Stars: Issei Takahashi, Asuka Shibuya, Moro Morooka, Shunji Fujimura
Votes: 69
48. Totto Channel (1987)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Early days of the Japanese television broadcasting, through the eyes of an ingenue who is trained as a contract actress.
Director: Kazuki Ômori | Stars: Yuki Saitô, Noriko Watanabe, Rikako Murakami, Naoko Amihama
Votes: 17
49. Ohima nara Kite yo ne! (1987)
Comedy, Romance
The main character, Nozomi, grew up as the eldest daughter of the Satake clan, but became shy after being told that she was adopted in junior high school . The real father is Yamamoto in ... See full summary »
Stars: Miho Nakayama, Yûki Matsumura, Kazuhiko Kanayama, Chieri Ito
50. Makoto (2005)
115 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
At a forensic and autopsy centre at a university medical students and interns not only conduct postmortems, but also seeks clues to mysterious deaths. Makoto is a proficient and diligent ... See full summary »
Director: Ryôichi Kimizuka | Stars: Shô Aikawa, Becky, Tetsuya Bessho, Noriyuki Higashiyama
Votes: 13