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1. Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Not Rated | 147 min | Drama, Thriller
An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Kôji Mitsui, Hiroko Itô
Votes: 22,804
2. A Thousand & One Nights (1969)
X | 128 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
Director: Eiichi Yamamoto | Stars: Sachiko Itô, Haruko Katô, Noboru Mitani, Hitoshi Takagi
Votes: 857
3. The Face of Another (1966)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijirô Hira, Kyôko Kishida, Miki Irie
Votes: 10,484
4. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada
Votes: 10,748
5. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
Not Rated | 190 min | Drama, History, War
His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura, Yûsuke Kawazu
Votes: 7,357
6. 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
7. Princess Tutu (2002–2003)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A duck turned girl with magical powers must help save a prince from an unfinished fairy tale.
Stars: Takahiro Sakurai, Jessica Boone, Chris Patton, Nana Mizuki
Votes: 1,157
8. Heaven and Earth (1990)
PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 16th century Japan, two samurai engage in massive battles across the countryside, one attempting to conquer and the other attempting to defend his land while repressing his love for a woman after taking a vow of celibacy.
Director: Haruki Kadokawa | Stars: Takaaki Enoki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Atsuko Asano, Naomi Zaizen
Votes: 1,144 | Gross: $0.31M
9. The Inugami Family (1976)
146 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Kôji Ishizaka, Yôko Shimada, Teruhiko Aoi, Mieko Takamine
Votes: 1,162
10. Lone Wolf and Cub (2002– )
Drama
Former Shogunate Decapitator Ogami Itto travels around 18th century Japan, accompanied by his young son Daigoro, on a mission to destroy the clan that murdered his wife and disgraced him.
Stars: Kin'ya Kitaôji, Tsubasa Kobayashi, Keiko Tokoshima, Kyôko Kishida
Votes: 166
11. Gokenin Zankurô (1995–2002)
Drama
This is the story of Zankuro the gokenin, his mother, his fiancee and his friends.
Stars: Ken Watanabe, Yôko Moriguchi, Hidekazu Nagae, Kyôko Kishida
Votes: 20
12. Ninja, a Band of Assassins (1962)
Not Rated | 104 min | Action, Drama
A young ninja becomes embroiled in a plot to kill a tyrannical warlord. He journeys across feudal Japan, facing deceit, betrayal, and enemy ninja at every turn. Goemon must complete his mission, regain his honor, and survive.
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Shiho Fujimura, Yûnosuke Itô, Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Votes: 936
13. Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
Husband and wife Gorô and Chiyo, and their only offspring, an infant son named Tarô, go through the ups and downs of family life living in a cramped modern apartment building in suburban ... See full summary »
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Hiroo Suzuki, Eiji Funakoshi, Kumeko Urabe
Votes: 488
14. Princess from the Moon (1987)
121 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter. Not the same as the original tale, though, ... See full summary »
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Kôji Ishizaka
Votes: 616
15. The Sea and Poison (1986)
123 min | Drama
Downed American fliers in WWII are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in cruel medical experiments.
Director: Kei Kumai | Stars: Eiji Okuda, Ken Watanabe, Takahiro Tamura, Kyôko Kishida
Votes: 326
16. Bushido (1963)
122 min | Action, Drama
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he remembers his gruesome family history, which sees his ancestors sacrificing themselves for the sake of their cruel lords, and realizes that he's about to repeat their mistakes.
Director: Tadashi Imai | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Eijirô Tôno, Kyôko Kishida, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 509
17. Tokyo Bordello (1987)
133 min | Drama
A young woman is sold into the famous red light district brothel in Yoshiwara by her bankrupt father.
Director: Hideo Gosha | Stars: Yûko Natori, Rino Katase, Jinpachi Nezu, Sayoko Ninomiya
Votes: 237
18. Hell (1979)
131 min | Horror, Drama
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.
Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro | Stars: Mieko Harada, Kyôko Kishida, Ryûzô Hayashi, Kunie Tanaka
Votes: 165
19. Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974)
88 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A scientist fears that the prophecies of Nostradamus, including the end of all life on Earth, are coming true one after another.
Directors: Toshio Masuda, Shûe Matsubayashi, Shirô Moritani | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Toshio Kurosawa, Kaoru Yumi, Yôko Tsukasa
Votes: 313
20. Tales of the Bizarre (1990–1992)
54 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Stars: Tamori, Junji Takada, Ryô Iwamatsu, Toshiya Sakai
Votes: 65
21. Rikyu (1989)
135 min | Biography, Drama, History
Legendary tea master Sen no Rikyu is faced with his warmongering lord's unrealistic pretensions.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Yoshiko Mita, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kyôko Kishida
Votes: 835
22. Tantei monogatari (1983)
111 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A private detective and a college student find themselves in hot water while investigating the murder of a night club owner.
Director: Kichitarô Negishi | Stars: Hiroko Yakushimaru, Yûsaku Matsuda, Lisa Akikawa, Chû Arai
Votes: 218
23. Sennen no koi - Hikaru Genji monogatari (2001)
143 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji. This film is set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her ... See full summary »
Director: Tonkô Horikawa | Stars: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yûki Amami, Tôru Kazama, Morio Kazama
Votes: 186
24. Mûmin (1969–1970)
30 min | Animation
The adventures of Moomintroll and his associates in the fictional valley of Moominvalley.
Stars: Kyôko Kishida, Hitoshi Takagi, Reiko Mutô, Kôsei Tomita
Votes: 56
25. Swastika (1964)
91 min | Drama, Romance
A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Kyôko Kishida, Eiji Funakoshi, Yûsuke Kawazu
Votes: 1,124
26. Curse of the God Dog (1977)
103 min | Horror
A man looking to mine uranium in a rural Japanese village has the wicked curse of the Dog God set upon him.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Shin'ya Ôwada, Emiko Yamauchi, Masami Hasegawa, Jun Izumi
Votes: 188
27. Terra e... (1980)
113 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.
Director: Hideo Onchi | Stars: Jun'ichi Inoue, Masaya Oki, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Tarô Shigaki
Votes: 371
28. Sukedachi-ya Sukeroku (2001)
88 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A lively and rambunctious samurai who has made a successful living out there and developed quite a reputation returns to his hometown just in time for big things to go down. His methods are... See full summary »
Director: Kihachi Okamoto | Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Kyôka Suzuki, Takehiro Murata, Tatsuya Nakadai
Votes: 163
29. Hissatsu 4: Urami harashimasu (1987)
131 min | Drama
Following the local magistrate's death during a bloody massacre, a new maverick magistrate rides into town, and soon ends up toe-to-toe with the local law enforcement.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Makoto Fujita, Hiroaki Murakami, Kazuko Katô, Ken Nishida
Votes: 121
30. Thumbelina (1978)
65 min | Animation, Fantasy
A tiny girl, only as long as a man's thumb, is born to a childless woman, abducted by frogs who want her to marry their son, but escaping instead (with the help of a bumblebee) to find a real prince without having to kiss the frog first.
Director: Yûgo Serikawa | Stars: Kazuko Sugiyama, Mariko Miyagi, Kyôko Kishida, Kôsei Tomita
Votes: 118
31. I Went To (2000)
111 min | Action, Crime
New magistrate cleans up a corrupt town in his own comic Samurai way.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Yûko Asano, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Ryûdô Uzaki
Votes: 565
32. Haru no yuki (2005)
150 min | Drama, History, Romance
Early 20th century Japan. Kiyoaki Matsugae, a young aristocrat falls in love with a girl he grew up with; Satoko Ayakura, who is to be married to a prince of the royal family.
Director: Isao Yukisada | Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yûko Takeuchi, Sôsuke Takaoka, Mitsuhiro Oikawa
Votes: 351
33. Brother (1960)
98 min | Drama
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Keiko Kishi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 484
34. The 8-Tomb Village (1996)
126 min | Mystery
In a remake of a well-known Japanese mystery, a man in Kobe does not have a family. He receives a visitor who is a researcher one day who has noticed that the man has a well-off family in ... See full summary »
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Etsushi Toyokawa, Yûko Asano, Yu Ji Chin Ye, Hisashi Igawa
Votes: 130
35. Nippon no Don: Yabohen (1977)
141 min | Crime, Drama
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
Director: Sadao Nakajima | Stars: Shin Saburi, Toshirô Mifune, Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara
Votes: 55
36. The Outcast (1962)
119 min | Drama
A young man struggles to come to terms with his true identity in a remote caste-based village in early 20th century Japan.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Shiho Fujimura, Hiroyuki Nagato, Rentarô Mikuni
Votes: 215
37. Winter Days (2003)
39 min | Animation, Short
A compilation of short animated clips on winter days in Japan
Directors: Mark Baker, Jacques Drouin, Taku Furukawa, Co Hoedeman, Kihachirô Kawamoto, Yôichi Kotabe, Yuri Norstein, Bretislav Pojar, Raoul Servais, Shin'ichi Suzuki, Isao Takahata, Kôji Yamamura | Stars: Ryuta Kashiwagi, Kyôko Kishida, Noboru Mitani, Mutsumi Sasaki
Votes: 480
38. Briar-Rose or The Sleeping Beauty (1990)
22 min | Animation, Short
On her fifteenth birthday the princess finds a diary written by her mother when she was young. The diary tells of her mother, the Queen's secret, early love. The Princess goes into the ... See full summary »
Director: Kihachirô Kawamoto | Star: Kyôko Kishida
Votes: 116
39. The Battle of Manchuria (1970)
197 min | Action, War
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Kei Yamamoto, Hideki Takahashi, Mizuho Suzuki, Shinsuke Ashida
Votes: 65
40. Vixen (1969)
95 min | Action, Crime
Although not a pure yakuza film, it does have quite a few of the genre's elements and, more importantly, it truly gets inside the sociopathic soul that serves as fertile ground for the ever-burgeoning yakuza ranks.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ruriko Asaoka, Eiji Okada, Eiko Azusa, Kyôko Kishida
Votes: 82
41. Haru no kane (1985)
128 min | Drama, Romance
Narumi Rokuheita and his wife Noriko spend their lives separated. Soon they start looking for love elsewhere.
Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara | Stars: Kin'ya Kitaôji, Yûko Kotegawa, Yoshiko Mita, Eiji Okada
Votes: 20
42. 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: 27
43. Haunted School 2 (1996)
103 min | Family, Fantasy, Horror
A group of youngsters get stuck in a haunted school and have to deal with an assortment of ghosts.
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Hironobu Nomura, Naomi Nishida, Masakane Yonekura, Kyôko Kishida
Votes: 91
44. The Twilight Story (1960)
120 min | Drama
A young woman goes to Toyko to work as a geisha to support her ailing mother. There she meets an impoverished school teacher and falls in love with him.
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Michiyo Aratama, Nobuko Otowa
Votes: 63
45. A Flame at the Pier (1962)
92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was responsible for saving his life as a baby, he... See full summary »
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Takashi Fujiki, Kôji Nanbara, Kyôko Kishida, Mariko Kaga
Votes: 160
46. Tabi no omosa (1972)
91 min | Drama
A 16-year-old girl grows into maturity while hiking the 88-temple pilgrimage around Shikoku.
Director: Kôichi Saitô | Stars: Yôko Takahashi, Kyôko Kishida, Hideo Sunazuka, Rie Yokoyama
Votes: 199
47. Zodiac Killers (1991)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Ben, a Chinese student in Japan, falls for Meng and agrees to help her deliver a tape containing information that could start a war between the yakuza families.
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Andy Lau, Cherie Chung, Jun'ichi Ishida, Chung-Hua Tou
Votes: 198
48. Kono ko no nanatsu no oiwai ni (1982)
111 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The palmist "blue-moth (Seiga)" is rumored to manipulate the Japanese political and business from behind. Journalist Omoda had inquired into the "blue-moth" but is killed. Sudo who is ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Jinpachi Nezu, Kyôko Kishida, Shinsuke Ashida
Votes: 96
49. Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1998– )
60 min | Drama, History
The series focuses on the life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and final ruler of the Tokugawa period. Born the seventh son of Lord Nariaki of Mito, Yoshinobu is named shogun when he is ... See full summary »
Stars: Reiko Ôhara, Masahiro Motoki, Bunta Sugawara, Gorô Ôhashi
Votes: 10
50. Utamaro: Yume to shiriseba (1977)
140 min | Biography, Drama
Follows the life of the famous classical printmaker, Utamaro Kitagawa, set during the time when Utamaro is commissioned to produce pornographic woodblocks.
Director: Akio Jissôji | Stars: Shin Kishida, Eiji Okada, Mikio Narita, Shingo Yamashiro
Votes: 108