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1. Shin Godzilla (2016)
Not Rated | 120 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Japan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.
Directors: Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi | Stars: Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, Ren Ôsugi
Votes: 36,230 | Gross: $1.92M
2. Audition (1999)
R | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura
Votes: 89,201
3. The Twilight Samurai (2002)
129 min | Drama, Romance
As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi, Ren Ôsugi
Votes: 25,490
4. Cure (1997)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Masato Hagiwara, Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa
Votes: 23,009 | Gross: $0.09M
5. Fireworks (1997)
103 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Ôsugi, Susumu Terajima
Votes: 33,159 | Gross: $0.23M
6. Shall We Dance? (1996)
PG | 136 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.
Director: Masayuki Suô | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eri Watanabe
Votes: 11,730 | Gross: $9.68M
7. Sonatine (1993)
R | 94 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war then escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe, Masanobu Katsumura
Votes: 23,277
8. Maborosi (1995)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Makiko Esumi, Takashi Naitô, Tadanobu Asano, Gohki Kashiyama
Votes: 7,325
9. Spiral (2000)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
Director: Higuchinsky | Stars: Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki, Shin Eun-kyung
Votes: 8,987
10. Brother (I) (2000)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Japanese gangster is exiled to Los Angeles where his brother lives with a small but respectable multi-racial gang, who he inspires to expand their influence.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Claude Maki, Omar Epps, Masaya Katô
Votes: 24,382 | Gross: $0.45M
11. The Tiger (2015)
Not Rated | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
While the Kingdom of Korea is under occupation by the Japanese, an old and experienced hunter is challenged by the hunt of the last tiger.
Director: Park Hoon-jung | Stars: Hitanshu Barik, Kim Hong-pa, Park In-Soo, Jung Ji-so
Votes: 6,566
12. Himitsu (1999)
119 min | Drama, Fantasy
A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his wife died, but her mind somehow got transferred into their daughter's body.
Director: Yôjirô Takita | Stars: Ryôko Hirosue, Kaoru Kobayashi, Ken Kaneko, Yuriko Ishida
Votes: 781
13. Dead or Alive (1999)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A yakuza of Chinese descent and a Japanese cop each wage their own war against the Japanese mafia. But they are destined to meet. Their encounter will change the world.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Shô Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Renji Ishibashi, Hitoshi Ozawa
Votes: 8,559 | Gross: $0.00M
14. GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (2012–2014)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Onizuka, an ex-biker gang leader, has decided to become the world's greatest teacher for the purpose of meeting sexy high school girls. But he just found himself teaching a class of delinquents and everyone tries to find a way to fire him.
Stars: Akira, Yu Shirota, Ryôsei Tayama, Yûsuke Yamamoto
Votes: 699
15. Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary (2014)
93 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy
The warriors called "Saints" are champions of hope who appear whenever evil threatens the world.
Director: Kei'ichi Sato | Stars: Kaito Ishikawa, Kenji Akabane, Kenshô Ono, Nobuhiko Okamoto
Votes: 4,696
16. Aibou: Tokyo Detective Duo (2000–2023)
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
17. Kids Return (1996)
107 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
Dropping out of high school, two friends at first find success, one as a up-and-coming boxer and one as a low level gangster. Yet, their life decisions still find a way of catching up with them.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Ken Kaneko, Masanobu Andô, Leo Morimoto, Hatsuo Yamaya
Votes: 6,767
18. Dolls (2002)
114 min | Drama, Romance
Three stories of never-ending love.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tatsuya Mihashi, Kyôko Fukada
Votes: 17,358 | Gross: $0.00M
19. Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)
Not Rated | 94 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient forests which they have awoken. The ... See full summary »
Directors: Makoto Bessho, Kentarô Mizuno, Ken'ichi Shimizu, Keiichi Sugiyama, Kaoru Suzuki, Yukio Takahashi, Hitoshi Haga | Stars: Ryô Katsuji, Aoi Miyazaki, Yûko Kotegawa, Masaru Hamaguchi
Votes: 4,857
20. Séance (2000 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A psychic housewife and her husband become burdened with a kidnapped girl who escaped her assailant. Junko will not let her husband call the hospital or the police for purely selfish ... See full summary »
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Jun Fubuki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Hikari Ishida
Votes: 1,992
21. My Boss, My Hero (2006)
Comedy, Drama
The series is mainly about a 27 year old man named Makio Sakaki. His purpose is to become a successor after his father. However, he must pass high school first in order to prove himself ... See full summary »
Stars: Tomoya Nagase, Yui Aragaki, Yûya Tegoshi, Yû Kashii
Votes: 1,719
22. Outrage Coda (2017)
104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a renowned fixer whose influence extends into Japan. A relatively minor incident causes tensions to rise between Chang Enterprises and the faraway powerful Hanabishi. The growing conflict gets out of hand and ignites a ferocious power struggle... See full summary »
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tatsuo Nadaka, Ken Mitsuishi
Votes: 3,455
23. Charisma (1999)
104 min | Drama, Mystery
A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without ... See full summary »
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Ren Ôsugi, Yoriko Dôguchi
Votes: 2,050
24. Go (2001)
122 min | Drama, Romance
Sugihara, born in Japan but with North Korean parents, falls in love with a Japanese girl after changing from a North Korean school to a Japanese school. His boxer dad teaches him boxing - skills used a lot.
Director: Isao Yukisada | Stars: Yôsuke Kubozuka, Kô Shibasaki, Tarô Yamamoto, Hirofumi Arai
Votes: 3,014
25. The Solitary Gourmet (2012– )
30 min | Drama
A solitary businessman travels across Japan, eating at its various establishments and experiencing the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.
Stars: Yutaka Matsushige, Tomoki Uekusa, Atsushi Kashiwagi, Masayuki Kusumi
Votes: 508
26. Dear Friends (2007)
115 min | Drama
Rina is the it girl. She is thin, has long hair, is flaunting and dresses attractively. Every man wants to be with her and every woman wants to be like her. She also happens to be ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuyuki Morosawa | Stars: Kentaro Arai, Avery Fane, Masaya Kikawada, Keiko Kitagawa
Votes: 444
27. Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Horror
About hair extensions that attack the women that wear them.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Chiaki Kuriyama, Megumi Satô, Tsugumi, Eri Machimoto
Votes: 3,352
28. Sakura no sono (2008)
102 min | Drama
In this remake, in the setting of a private girls' school the drama club is putting on the play The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. With drama on-stage, there is drama off-stage with ... See full summary »
Director: Shun Nakahara | Stars: Saki Fukuda, Saki Terashima, Anne Watanabe, Yûko Ôshima
Votes: 94
29. Party 7 (2000)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive ... See full summary »
Director: Katsuhito Ishii | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Akemi Kobayashi, Yoshinori Okada, Keisuke Horibe
Votes: 725
30. Abnormal Family (1984)
63 min | Comedy, Drama
The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband's, in particular her husband's younger brother and father-in-law. Her husband, on the other hand, ... See full summary »
Director: Masayuki Suô | Stars: Usagi Asô, Miki Yamaji, Kaoru Kaze, Kei Shuto
Votes: 476
31. Garo (2005–2006)
24 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Garo focuses on Kouga Saezima, the current possessor of the title, Golden Knight Garo, who protects humanity against dark demonic infestations called Horrors. One day he meets a young girl ... See full summary »
Stars: Mika Hijii, Ryosei Konishi, Anri Okamoto, Ai Higa
Votes: 260
32. Getting Any? (1994)
108 min | Comedy
Obsessed with the idea of owning his first car so he can have sex in it, a young man takes any job he can find and ends up in an escalating series of crazy situations.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Duncan, Tokie Hidari, Akiji Kobayashi, Shinsuke Yamane
Votes: 3,205
33. Zebraman (2004)
115 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A down-and-out school teacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Shô Aikawa, Kyôka Suzuki, Atsuro Watabe, Yui Ichikawa
Votes: 3,662
34. Door II: Tokyo Diary (1991 Video)
82 min | Horror, Thriller
Ai is a call girl and makes 20,000 Yen per hour. But her job involves a lot of risks.
Director: Banmei Takahashi | Stars: Chikako Aoyama, Joe Yamanaka, Shingo Kazami, Chiharu Iwamoto
Votes: 61
35. Nightmare Detective (2006)
Unrated | 106 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a ... See full summary »
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Ryûhei Matsuda, Hitomi, Masanobu Andô, Ren Ôsugi
Votes: 2,752
36. Mandei (2000)
100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A simple funeral turns a man's world topsy turvy.
Director: Sabu | Stars: Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Ren Ôsugi, Masanobu Andô
Votes: 2,392
37. Beauty Rope Cosmetology (1983)
69 min | Horror, Thriller
Miki is the daughter of an affluent family. She's an elegant and sophisticated girl who gets captured by a secret admirer.
Director: Katsuhiko Fujii | Stars: Miki Takakura, Maya Itô, Ren Ôsugi, Kissei Kumamoto
Votes: 55
38. Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Amidst a Chinese and Japanese mafia war, a lawyer for the Chinese mob finds a rift forming between him and his corrupt police office brother.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kippei Shîna, Tomorô Taguchi, Takeshi Caesar, Ren Ôsugi
Votes: 2,461
39. Weather Girl (1995 Video)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
Keiko Nadachi is a substitute weather-girl for Michiko Kawai on J-TV. As a way of signing off, she hikes up her skirt and flashes her underwear at the audience. This move makes her an ... See full summary »
Director: Tomoaki Hosoyama | Stars: Kei Mizutani, Takashi Sumida, Yasuyo Shirashima, Saori Taira
Votes: 427
40. Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000)
Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Shô Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Noriko Aota, Edison Chen
Votes: 4,089
41. Back Street Girls: Gokudols (2019)
87 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Three male gangsters are forced by their boss into becoming a trio of female pop singers.
Director: Keinosuke Hara | Stars: Nana Asakawa, Masato Hanazawa, Nana Inoue, Kôichi Iwaki
Votes: 268
42. Orphan Black (2017–2018)
44 min | Drama, Mystery
Sara Aoyama (Kang Ji-Young) was an orphan and is now a single mother. She has suffered through poverty, lack of understanding from society and other problems that led to her being separated... See full summary »
Stars: Yumi Asô, Naoto Takenaka, Kang Ji-young, Tsutomu Takahashi
Votes: 31
43. Eyes of the Spider (1998)
83 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man discovers a darker side of himself after exacting revenge on his daughter's killer.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Shô Aikawa, Duncan, Ren Ôsugi, Sadao Abe
Votes: 616
44. Takeshis' (2005)
108 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Beat Takeshi, a prominent actor, meets a lookalike named Kitano, who is a struggling actor, but after the meeting, Kitano's dreams take a violent, surreal turn.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Kotomi Kyôno, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Ôsugi
Votes: 4,041
45. Hanasaki Mai ga damatteinai (2014– )
54 min | Comedy
Stars: Anne Watanabe, Takaya Kamikawa, Muga Tsukaji, Katsuhisa Namase
Votes: 32
46. Saka no ue no kumo (2009–2011)
Drama
The 19th Century was a turbulent one for Japan. Enduring the throes of change brought about by the Meiji era, it still struggled to join the world and be considered a "civilized, modern ... See full summary »
Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Aleksandr Veremyuk, Hiroshi Abe, Teruyuki Kagawa
Votes: 504
47. MPD Psycho (2000)
54 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After his wife is murdered, a homicide detective develops multiple personalities and takes revenge on her killer. Years later the killer seems to reappear from the dead.
Stars: Ren Ôsugi, Naoki Hosaka, Tomoko Nakajima, Sadaharu Shiota
Votes: 744
48. Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light (2017)
TV-PG | 24 min | Drama
A son tries to reconnect with his father by secretly interacting with him in the fantasy MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) 'Final Fantasy XIV.'
Stars: Yûdai Chiba, Ren Ôsugi, Mako Ishino, Fumika Baba
Votes: 665
49. Posutoman burûsu (1997)
110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A postman is mistaken for a dangerous criminal by the police.
Director: Sabu | Stars: Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Keisuke Horibe, Ren Ôsugi, Kyôko Tôyama
Votes: 1,889
50. XX: Beautiful Prey (1996)
99 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A policewoman becomes entangled in Japan's S&M underground, while investigating a gruesome murder.
Director: Toshiharu Ikeda | Stars: Kei Marimura, Makiko Watanabe, Ren Ôsugi, Atsushi Okuno
Votes: 102