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1. Your Name. (2016)
PG | 106 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person.
Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita, Aoi Yûki
Votes: 319,681 | Gross: $5.02M
2. 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: 10,403
3. Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Gô Katô, Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Votes: 14,077
4. Sweet Bean (2015)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Miki Mizuno
Votes: 12,700 | Gross: $0.12M
5. Black Rain (1989)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, War
The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara, Shôichi Ozawa
Votes: 3,950
6. The Eel (1997)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baishô, Akira Emoto
Votes: 6,397 | Gross: $0.41M
7. September 11 (2002)
Unrated | 134 min | Drama
The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world.
Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Shôhei Imamura, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Danis Tanovic | Stars: Maryam Karimi, Mohamad Dolati, Agelem Habibi, Esmat Vahedi
Votes: 5,923
8. Horus: Prince of the Sun (1968)
Not Rated | 82 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A boy with a mythical sword wants to protect a Norse village from an evil ice wizard and his minions, who destroyed his family's village. However, the villagers don't fully trust him and a mysterious girl with a dark secret befriends him.
Director: Isao Takahata | Stars: Mikijirô Hira, Etsuko Ichihara, Eijirô Tôno, Masao Mishima
Votes: 2,499
9. The Man Without a Map (1968)
118 min | Mystery
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. Contradictory evidence and the lack of clues soon render the case as virtually unsolvable, as the detective grows more and more frustrated.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Etsuko Ichihara, Osamu Ôkawa, Kiyoshi Atsumi
Votes: 608
10. Yakuza senso: Nihon no Don (1977)
132 min | Crime, Drama
A supposedly true-to-life story of one of the biggest rightists - yakuza bosses in 1950s - '60s Japan.
Director: Sadao Nakajima | Stars: Shin Saburi, Kôji Tsuruta, Hiroki Matsukata, Kô Nishimura
Votes: 51
11. The River Fuefuki (1960)
117 min | Drama, History, War
A young man decides to become a warrior, causing trouble for his clan.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Takahiro Tamura, Kôshirô Matsumoto, Shima Iwashita
Votes: 376
12. Baruto no gakuen (2006)
130 min | Drama, History, Music
German soldiers are transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan after the First World War.
Director: Masanobu Deme | Stars: Ken Matsudaira, Bruno Ganz, Hiroshi Abe, Jun Kunimura
Votes: 741
13. Tetsuko no heya (1976– )
35 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Meiko Nakamura, Makoto Ôtake, Tomio Umezawa
Votes: 33
14. Village of Eight Gravestones (1977)
151 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yôko Yamamoto
Votes: 416
15. Snow Country (1957)
133 min | Drama, Romance
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the ... See full summary »
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Keiko Kishi, Kaoru Yachigusa, Akira Kubo
Votes: 176
16. Mushukunin mikogami no jôkichi: Kawakaze ni kako wa nagareta (1972)
80 min | Action
Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss Juzaburo, in order that the harmony of an ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro | Stars: Tôru Abe, Yoshio Harada, Akio Hasegawa, Etsuko Ichihara
Votes: 138
17. Manga Nippon Mukashi Banashi (1975–2017)
30 min | Animation
Stars: Fujio Tokita, Etsuko Ichihara
Votes: 131
18. Seishun no satsujinsha (1976)
132 min | Crime, Drama
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
Director: Kazuhiko Hasegawa | Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Mieko Harada, Etsuko Ichihara, Ryôhei Uchida
Votes: 369
19. Little Remi and Famous Dog Capi (1970)
81 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Japanese animation adaptation of a 19th century French novel: A boy is given up by his foster parents to a traveling performer.
Director: Yûgo Serikawa | Stars: Yoshiko Asai, Masao Mishima, Haruko Mabuchi, Etsuko Ichihara
Votes: 86
20. Kinkakuji (1976)
109 min | Drama
"Temple of the Golden Pavillion" - About the psychological decline of a novice Buddhist monk. After the death of his father, the stammering Goichi Mizoguchi seeks succour and loftier ... See full summary »
Director: Yôichi Takabayashi | Stars: Saburô Shinoda, Toshio Shiba, Katsuhiko Yokomitsu, Yoshie Shimamura
Votes: 67
21. Hideyoshi (1996– )
Action, Adventure, Drama
A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga. With an extrodinary combination of ... See full summary »
Stars: Beat Kiyoshi, Ryû Manatsu, Rô Naruse, Hidekazu Nagae
Votes: 22
22. Shinzanmono (2010– )
54 min | Drama
In the Ningyo-cho area of Nihonbashi, Tokyo - a woman was murdered. Detective Kaga Kyoichiro, who just transferred to the Nihonbashi police precinct, is placed in charge of the murder case.... See full summary »
Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Mieko Harada, Meisa Kuroki, Tomokazu Miura
Votes: 451
23. The Lovelorn Geisha (1960)
111 min | Drama
Aya is the Madame who runs a restaurant where Geishas meet with their customers to eat, drink, listen to music and sing.
Directors: Yûzô Kawashima, Mikio Naruse | Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Takarada, Tatsuya Mihashi
Votes: 156
24. Appassionata (1984)
129 min | Biography, Drama
Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school.
Director: Sadao Nakajima | Stars: Mariko Okada, Yûko Natori, Morio Kazama, Kei Satô
Votes: 45
25. Saibogu 009: Kaijû senso (1967)
60 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Cyborg 009 and his team are re-united to fight the latest menace from the Black Ghost. Before they can tackle their foe the team must overcome an army of monsters sent to stop them, including giant jellyfish, and treacherous cyborgs.
Director: Yûgo Serikawa | Stars: Hiroyuki Ôta, Arihiro Fujimura, Hiroshi Masuoka, Hiroshi Ôtake
Votes: 71
26. Miyori's Forest (2007 TV Movie)
107 min | Animation
Director: Nizô Yamamoto | Stars: Yû Aoi, Hiroyuki Amano, Etsuko Ichihara, Kyôko Sasaki
Votes: 235
27. Hadashi no Gen: Namida no bakuhatsu (1977)
123 min | Biography, Drama, War
Director: Tengo Yamada | Stars: Fumiko Abe, Kazuhide Haruta, Etsuko Ichihara, Shôji Ishibashi
Votes: 77
28. Kiri no hata (1965)
111 min | Crime, Drama
Kiriko attempts to hire a well-known lawyer to defend her brother's murder case. The lawyer turns Kiriko down as she cannot afford him. Some time later, Kiriko encounters the lawyer again, but this time it is he who needs her help.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Chieko Baishô, Osamu Takizawa, Michiyo Aratama, Yûsuke Kawazu
Votes: 176
29. Escape from Japan (1964)
96 min | Action, Crime
As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a robbery.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Yasushi Suzuki, Miyuki Kuwano, Kyôsuke Machida, Ryôhei Uchida
Votes: 192
30. Gonenme no hitori (2016 TV Movie)
108 min | Drama
Junior high school student Matusnaga Ami is on her way home from a cultural festival when she is stopped by a middle-aged male stranger at an overhead bridge. The man says he saw her dance ... See full summary »
Director: Tonkô Horikawa | Stars: Ken Watanabe, Etsuko Ichihara, Katsumi Takahashi, Toshirô Yanagiba
Votes: 18
31. Ten to sen (2007– )
278 min | Drama, Mystery
Stars: Yumiko Takahashi, Cynthia Cheston, Takeshi Kitano, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 34
32. Lonely Heart (1981)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
There is a shooting at a small bookstore in town. When the police arrive they find three victims two of whom have already died. One of the dead uttered something strange before dying. The ... See full summary »
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Rie Nakahara, Etsuko Ichihara
Votes: 79
33. Tokyo Megure Keishi (1978)
54 min | Mystery
The Japanese adaptations of Georges Simenon's Maigret novels relocating the plots to 1978 Tokyo.
Stars: Kin'ya Aikawa, Nobuo Kaneko, Atsuo Nakamura, Fujio Tokita
34. Black Gospel (2014 TV Movie)
110 min | Mystery
On April 4, 1959, Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes his dog for a walk. Shortly later, he finds a dead woman. He is able to identify her by searching through her handbag. Her name is Setsuko ... See full summary »
Director: Kan Ishibashi | Stars: Jun Fubuki, Michael A. Harper, Etsuko Ichihara, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
Votes: 71
35. The Scarlet Camellia (1964)
117 min | Crime, Drama
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Yoshi Katô, Sachiko Hidari, Takahiro Tamura
Votes: 51
36. Tenguri, Boy of the Plains (1977)
21 min | Animation, Short
The story surrounds a boy and a cow who have always lived their lives together. One winter, a famine strikes their village. The villagers resolve to the cow, but the boy helped the cow ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuo Ôtsuka | Stars: Etsuko Ichihara, Masato Yamanouchi, Reiko Katsura, Masashi Amenomori
Votes: 37
37. The Tale of the Blue Beka Boat (1962)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Eijirô Tôno, Sachiko Hidari, Nobuko Otowa
Votes: 17
38. Sweet Sweat (1964)
120 min | Drama
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Keiji Sada, Junko Ikeuchi, Miyuki Kuwano
Votes: 17
39. Kiri no hi (2008 TV Movie)
Drama
On August 15, 1945, five days after Japan's surrender in WWII, the Soviet Army approached the town of Maoka on the northern island of Karafuto, which Japan controlled. Nine young women were... See full summary »
Stars: Shôko Fujimura, Mayuko Fukuda, Etsuko Ichihara, Hitomi Kuroki
40. Burari burabura monogatari (1962)
98 min | Comedy
A man wandering through the land with a large amount of money encounters a fellow vagabond, a woman who has suffered from the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, but she proceeds to run off with his wealth.
Director: Zenzô Matsuyama | Stars: Keiju Kobayashi, Hideko Takamine, Norihei Miki, Reiko Dan
41. Nippon dorobô monogatari (1965)
117 min | Comedy
Gisuke is an illegal dentist by day and a thief by night. One night during an attempted robbery he witnesses a derailment. Later communists are found guilty of the incident, but he knows it was not them.
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Yûnosuke Itô, Shin'ichi Chiba, Shinjirô Ebara
Votes: 51
42. A Room for Rent (1959)
112 min | Comedy, Drama
The story follows the various tenants living in a multi-room tenement on a hill overlooking the city of Osaka.
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Furankî Sakai, Nobuko Otowa, Ikio Sawamura, Chikage Awashima
Votes: 43
43. Kogarashi Monjirô: Kakawari gozansen (1972)
90 min | Action, Drama
Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Monjiro.
Director: Sadao Nakajima | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Etsuko Ichihara, Kunie Tanaka, Minoru Ôki
Votes: 23
44. Koi ni mezameru koro (1969)
Director: Masao Asano | Stars: Kyôko Abe, Harue Akagi, Tomoko Fumino, Keiji Higashiyama
45. Kokuhatsu: Kokusen bengonin (2011– )
54 min | Drama
Takuji Sahara works as a public defender. He keeps fighting for the truth regardless of money and stands stands up for the weak without having regard for his own safety.
Stars: Masakazu Tamura, Miki Maya, Saki Aibu, Yoshimasa Kondô
46. Shabondama (2017)
108 min | Drama
Izumi is an urchin who was set adrift by his parents. He is a thug, a thief and a predator. on the run from the cops he takes to the mountains of Miyazaki in southern Japan where he happens... See full summary »
Director: Shinji Azuma | Stars: Kazuyuki Aijima, Mina Fujii, Kento Hayashi, Etsuko Ichihara
Votes: 136
47. Anyakôro (1959)
144 min
Adapted from Naoya Shiga's novel about the emotional turmoil of a man who suspects that his wife is committing adultery with his father.
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Fujiko Yamamoto, Chikage Awashima, Tatsuya Nakadai
Votes: 10
48. Himawari no michi (1976–1977)
54 min | Drama
Stars: Shinsuke Ashida, Etsuko Ichihara, Junko Ikeuchi, Natsuyo Kawakami
49. Ijiwaru baasan (2009 TV Movie)
Comedy, Family
Directors: Tonkô Horikawa, Hideo Tsurumaki, Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa | Stars: Etsuko Ichihara, Michiko Ameku, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Waka Inoue
50. Keiji 110 kiro (2013– )
54 min | Comedy
Stars: Hidehiko Ishizuka, Shunsuke Nakamura, Mari Hoshino, Kenjirô Ishimaru