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1. Monster (2023)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Thriller
A mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Sakura Andô, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi
Votes: 22,733
2. Princess Mononoke (1997)
PG-13 | 134 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
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.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka, Billy Crudup
Votes: 435,346 | Gross: $2.38M
3. Tales from Earthsea (2006)
PG-13 | 115 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
In a mythical land, a man and a young boy investigate a series of unusual occurrences.
Director: Gorô Miyazaki | Stars: Timothy Dalton, Willem Dafoe, Mariska Hargitay, Jun'ichi Okada
Votes: 44,335 | Gross: $0.05M
4. Midnight Diner (2014)
119 min | Comedy, Drama
A cook opens a restaurant that only serves from midnight till dawn. One day, he discovers an obituary urn. Follow the stories of his regulars tangled around this urn.
Director: Joji Matsuoka | Stars: Kaoru Kobayashi, Saki Takaoka, Tokio Emoto, Mikako Tabe
Votes: 2,521
5. The Rape (1982)
100 min | Drama
The story of a Japanese woman's relationship after being raped by a stranger and the male dominant society blaming her for the man's wrong doing.
Director: Yôichi Higashi | Stars: Yagi Nakasuri, Yûko Tanaka, Morio Kazama, Frank White
Votes: 72
6. Edo Porn (1981)
Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Drama, History
The famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Ken Ogata, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yûko Tanaka, Kanako Higuchi
Votes: 466
7. Mother (2010)
54 min | Drama
Elementary school teacher Suzuhara Nao decides to abduct Michiki Rena, one of her female students, after discovering that she is being abused by her mother.
Stars: Yasuko Matsuyuki, Kôji Yamamoto, Wakana Sakai, Kana Kurashina
Votes: 527
8. Oshin (1983–1984)
Biography, Drama, Family
Tells the story of Oshin, a poor little girl who would someday become the owner of a big supermarket chain in Japan.
Stars: Toshi Shioya, Nobuko Otowa, Yûko Tanaka, Ayako Kobayashi
Votes: 1,029
9. Woman (2013– )
54 min | Drama
A determined single woman raising two children despite her struggles in life with her health.
Stars: Hikari Mitsushima, Shun Oguri, Rai Takahashi, Rio Suzuki
Votes: 348
10. The Backwater (2013)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
Cannes Film Festival winner Shinji Aoyama creates a chilling atmosphere in this adaptation of an award-winning novel. A young man tries to fight the deadly influence of his violent, abusive... See full summary »
Director: Shinji Aoyama | Stars: Masaki Suda, Ken Mitsuishi, Yukiko Shinohara, Misaki Kinoshita
Votes: 371
11. Mare (2015)
15 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Mare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before her father goes bankrupt, they run away and settle down at a fishing village in Noto. The ... See full summary »
Stars: Tao Tsuchiya, Takako Tokiwa, Kento Yamazaki, Yûko Tanaka
Votes: 88
12. Yasha (1985)
127 min | Crime, Drama
Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where he's become an honest fisherman.
Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Ken Takakura, Ayumi Ishida, Hisamitsu Nakamura, Kenichi Kobayashi
Votes: 279
13. Wuthering Heights (1988)
143 min | Drama
A retelling of Emily Bronte's tale of vengeance and obsessive love, set in medieval Japan.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Yûsaku Matsuda, Yûko Tanaka, Tatsuo Nadaka, Eri Ishida
Votes: 295
14. Gift of Fire (2020)
111 min | Drama
In the midst of WWII, a young Japanese researcher struggles to honor his obligations to science, his family, his country, and his own morality while working to develop an atomic bomb.
Director: Hiroshi Kurosaki | Stars: Yûya Yagira, Kasumi Arimura, Haruma Miura, Issei Ogata
Votes: 56
15. Umoregi (2005)
93 min | Drama
Machi, a young high school student from a small mountain town, is having fun with her friends inventing the outline of a fantasy tale. They all add an episode to this exquisite invention ... See full summary »
Director: Kôhei Oguri | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mai Enoki, Tokie Hidari, Mitsuru Hirata
Votes: 381
16. Amagi Pass (1983)
99 min | Drama, Mystery
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an ... See full summary »
Director: Haruhiko Mimura | Stars: Tsunehiko Watase, Yûko Tanaka, Mikijirô Hira, Yôichi Ito
Votes: 153
17. Anone (2018)
54 min | Drama
One day a woman named Anone is getting ready to leave her home for work when she accidentally drops her wedding ring. As she searches for it she finds quite a bit of cash under the floor. ... See full summary »
Stars: Suzu Hirose, Eita Nagayama, Yûko Tanaka, Anne Suzuki
Votes: 113
18. Hatsukoi no Akuma (2022)
Crime, Drama, Romance
The story centers around four people from different divisions of a police station. Although each of them has their own complicated situation, they have the same goal of wanting to find out ... See full summary »
Stars: Hideaki Itô, Mayu Matsuoka, Yûko Tanaka, Katsuya Maiguma
Votes: 62
19. One Night (2019)
123 min | Drama, Family
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.
Director: Kazuya Shiraishi | Stars: Yôsuke Asari, Hanae Kan, Mayu Matsuoka, Megumi
Votes: 458
20. The Island of Cats (2019)
103 min | Drama
Based on manga series "Neko to Jiichan" by Nekomaki (first published August 7, 2015 by Kadokawa).
Director: Mitsuaki Iwagô | Stars: Guin Poon Chaw, Tasuku Emoto, Shôno Hayama, Yuki Katayama
Votes: 278
21. Dearest (2012)
110 min | Drama
A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea.
Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Ken Takakura, Yûko Tanaka, Kôichi Satô, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
Votes: 521
22. Itsuka dokusho suruhi (2005)
127 min | Drama, Romance
A 50-year-old unmarried milkwoman Minako one day delivers milk to the house of her first love Takanashi, who is now married and whose wife is terminally ill. This meeting will bring unexpected changes into their lives.
Director: Akira Ogata | Stars: Den Fujita, Keisuke Horibe, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ittoku Kishibe
Votes: 174
23. Capone Cries a Lot (1985)
130 min | Action, Comedy
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Yûko Tanaka, Kenji Sawada, Akira Emoto
Votes: 112
24. Why Not? (1981)
151 min | Drama
Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Masao Kusakari, Ken Ogata
Votes: 690
25. Hibi (2005)
114 min | Drama
A single mother struggle for her sick son and her pottery.
Director: Banmei Takahashi | Stars: Yûko Tanaka, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Eri Ishida, Ittoku Kishibe
Votes: 53
26. Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2006 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Based on the autobiographical book of the same title follows an adolescent boy who is torn between love and yarning to be independent. He chooses to live in this city where he's going to experience love, insecurity, desperation, and hope.
Director: Hiroshi Nishitani | Stars: Yûko Tanaka, Yô Ôizumi, Ryôko Hirosue, Nene Ôtsuka
Votes: 7
27. The Whispered City (2000)
105 min
Director: Jun Ichikawa | Stars: Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Kitakawa, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Sadao Abe
Votes: 35
28. Thousand and One Nights (2022)
126 min | Drama
Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing village, and continues to search tirelessly... See full summary »
Director: Nao Kubota | Stars: Yûko Tanaka, Machiko Ono, Duncan, Masanobu Andô
Votes: 22
29. The Firefly (2001)
114 min | Drama
A Japanese love story that takes place during World War 2. It follows a young Japanese man who goes to war and tries to stay connected to his true love.
Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Ken Takakura, Yûko Tanaka, Isao Natsuyagi, Ryûji Harada
Votes: 106
30. I Shall Live by Myself (2020)
138 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Momoko is a woman who is seventy-five-years old and lives alone. She lives in Tokyo, but was not born there having arrived there over fifty years ago. She had met a nice man, been proposed ... See full summary »
Director: Shûichi Okita | Stars: Yû Aoi, Munetaka Aoki, Gaku Hamada, Masahiro Higashide
Votes: 119
31. Haru tono tabi (2010)
134 min | Drama
Haru's Journey provides an insider's look at Japanese culture through its themes of acceptance, endurance and familial commitment. It tells the story of elderly fisherman Tadao and his ... See full summary »
Director: Masahiro Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Eri Tokunaga, Hideji Ôtaki, Kin Sugai
Votes: 255
32. Hana-chan no misoshiru (2014 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
Yasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That changes one day when he meets the irrepressible Matsunaga Chie by accident. Just as their ... See full summary »
Director: Nobuo Mizuta | Stars: Mana Ashida, Tadayoshi Ohkura, Machiko Ono, Sarasa Ayuba
Votes: 22
33. Twenty-Four Eyes (1987)
129 min | Drama
Director: Yoshitaka Asama | Stars: Yûko Tanaka, Tetsuya Takeda, Sumie Sasaki, Misako Konno
Votes: 31
34. Nihon Philharmonic Orchestra: Honoo no dai gogakusho (1981)
115 min | Drama
Director: Seijirô Kôyama | Stars: Morio Kazama, Yûko Tanaka, Mitsuo Hamada, Naomi Hase
Votes: 11
35. Tora-san, the Expert (1982)
106 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Yûko Tanaka, Masami Shimojô
Votes: 95
36. Homeland (2014)
118 min | Drama
Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire village is abandoned after the 2011 Tohoku... See full summary »
Director: Nao Kubota | Stars: Sakura Andô, Renji Ishibashi, Tôru Kizu, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Votes: 112
37. My Home, My Family (2015 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Sakuragi works for a human rental company called Yujou Monogatari. The company specializes in supplying actors and actresses who act as friends or family for folks who have no one for the ... See full summary »
Director: Hajime Takezono | Stars: Mari Hamada, Masami Horiuchi, Mikako Ichikawa, Kitarô
Votes: 11
38. Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story (2013)
96 min | Biography, Drama, War
As a young man, Keisuke Kinoshita (Ryo Kase) carried his mother on a handcart across a mountain. He grew up as a hotblooded young man and was monitored by the military. He then joined ... See full summary »
Director: Keiichi Hara | Stars: Aoi Miyazaki, Mayu Matsuoka, Yûko Tanaka, Ryô Kase
Votes: 120
39. The Homeless Student (2008)
116 min | Biography, Drama, Family
Based on autobiographical novel "The Homeless Junior High School Student" by Hiroshi Tamura. He was homeless during his high school days after the breakup of his parents.
Director: Tomoyuki Furumaya | Stars: Teppei Koike, Akihiro Nishino, Chizuru Ikewaki, Issei Ogata
Votes: 131
40. Wakaba (2004–2005)
Drama
The story is about a young woman who becomes a landscape gardener following her father's wishes. Wakaba, born and brought up in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, lived happily with her parents and ... See full summary »
Stars: Natsuki Harada, Chizuru Azuma, Koji Ishimoto, Yûko Tanaka
41. Ôsaka monogatari (1999)
119 min | Drama, Family
Wakana is a daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked for 20 years without big success. Her parents quarrel constantly, and mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.
Director: Jun Ichikawa | Stars: Chizuru Ikewaki, Kôsuke Nanno, Kenji Sawada, Yûko Tanaka
Votes: 99
42. Konomachi no inochi ni (2016 TV Movie)
115 min | Drama
Putting down unwanted animals is a daily job for Makita Hiroshi and his fellow doctors, Hataeda Aki and Shiga Satoshi. All three do what's requested of them, suffering from pangs of ... See full summary »
Director: Akira Ogata | Stars: Ryô Kase, Erika Toda, Yûko Tanaka, Cillian Joe
Votes: 17
43. Tonneruzu no Mina-san no Okage desu (1988–1997)
54 min | Comedy
Stars: Takaaki Ishibashi, Noritake Kinashi, Tonneruzu, Seiko Matsuda
45. Ties: A Miraculous Colt (2017– )
73 min | Drama
Stars: Yui Aragaki, Hajime Inoue, Ryô Iwamatsu, Ryô Katsuji
Votes: 34
46. Pî-Pî kyodai (2001)
124 min
Director: Yoshiyasu Fujita | Stars: Kentaro Seagal, Zenjirô, Mireille, Teruyuki Kagawa
Votes: 20
47. Niji o tsukamu otoko (1996)
120 min | Drama
A timid movie theater owner is secretly in love with one of his patrons but struggles to express his feelings. Meanwhile, he must deal with the financial hardships of his ailing business.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Toshiyuki Nishida, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Yûko Tanaka, Kunie Tanaka
Votes: 40
48. Tennou no ryouriban (1980–1981)
55 min | Biography, Drama
Stars: Masaaki Sakai, Takeshi Kaga, Yûko Tanaka, Sanma Akashiya
Votes: 9
49. Varukirî purofairu: Toga o seou mono (2008 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Stars: Satoshi Hino, Yumi Tôma, Hiroaki Hirata, Shiho Hisajima
Votes: 16
50. Reiko no ashi (1987 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Teruhiko Kuze | Stars: Yûko Tanaka, Haruko Katô, Miki Imai, Kei Satô