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1. After the Storm (2016)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Drama
After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi, Lily Franky
Votes: 12,765 | Gross: $0.27M
2. Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth (1992)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Japan is caught in the middle of a three way battle between Godzilla, the divine Mothra, and her dark counterpart Battra.
Director: Takao Okawara | Stars: Tetsuya Bessho, Satomi Kobayashi, Takehiro Murata, Saburô Shinoda
Votes: 5,511
3. His Motorbike, Her Island (1986)
90 min | Drama, Romance
After a failed romance, a temperamental young biker meets a carefree rural girl while riding through her island hometown and gets her obsessed about riding a motorcycle.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Kiwako Harada, Noriko Watanabe, Riki Takeuchi, Ryôichi Takayanagi
Votes: 683
4. I Are You, You Am Me (1982)
113 min | Comedy
9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result... See full summary »
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Toshinori Omi, Makoto Satô, Sayuri Ishibashi
Votes: 527
5. Kamome shokudô (2006)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, ... See full summary »
Director: Naoko Ogigami | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Hairi Katagiri, Masako Motai, Jarkko Niemi
Votes: 2,724
6. Lonely Heart (1985)
112 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Lonely and love-struck, high-school student Hiroki pursues one girl but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his lonely psyche, or real? An intricate triangle ... See full summary »
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Yasuko Tomita, Toshinori Omi, Yumiko Fujita, Nenji Kobayashi
Votes: 387
7. Megane (2007)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
Taeko is a stressed career woman who leaves her life in the city for an island vacation. The vacation does not become what she expected as everyone on the island is strange.
Director: Naoko Ogigami | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Mikako Ichikawa, Ryô Kase, Ken Mitsuishi
Votes: 1,889
8. 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
9. Pension Metsa (2021– )
Drama
revolves around Tenko, a lady who runs a pension located in a forest in Nagano. Each episode features a new guest at the pension. The interactions between Tenko and her guests unravel throughout each episode
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Masako Motai, Takashi Yamanaka, Koji Yakusho
Votes: 65
10. The One Pound Gospel (2008)
Comedy, Romance, Sport
Hatanaka Kosaku is a talented boxer who turned pro at the age of 19, winning his debut match with a first round KO. He is talented, but he has no guts. His uncontrollable appetite is an ... See full summary »
Stars: Kazuya Kamenashi, Meisa Kuroki, Yoshinori Okada, Ryôsuke Yamada
Votes: 131
11. 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, Sadao Abe, Eita Nagayama, Anne Suzuki
Votes: 111
12. Family of Strangers (2019)
117 min | Crime, Drama
Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That ... See full summary »
Directors: Hideyuki Hirayama, Park Gyu Taek | Stars: Tsurube Shôfukutei, Gô Ayano, Nana Komatsu, Toshiki Ayata
Votes: 276
13. Pale Moon (2014)
126 min | Drama
A mellow drama following the moral decline of a housewife turned bank employee who embezzles a fortune from her customers and indulges in an affair with a younger man. Set in 1994, shortly after the burst of Japan's economic bubble.
Director: Daihachi Yoshida | Stars: Rie Miyazawa, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Yûko Ôshima, Seiichi Tanabe
Votes: 949
14. Green Requiem (1988)
97 min
A Sci-Fi fantasy depicting the love between Asuka, a girl who replenishes nutrients through photosynthesis, and Nobuhiko, a young man who works at the National Institute of Botanical Sciences.
Director: Akiyoshi Imazeki | Stars: Kahori Torii, Shinobu Sakagami, Satomi Kobayashi, Eiji Okada
15. Haru ni Nattara (2024)
Drama
Masahiko has raised his daughter Hitomi by himself. As Hitomi is getting married in 3 months and Masahiko has been told by doctor that he only has 3 months to live, they try to fulfill their bucket lists of things they want to do.
Stars: Yo Aoi, Tatsuya Fukasawa, Gaku Hamada, Manami Hashimoto
Votes: 10
16. Beijing Watermelon (1989)
135 min | Drama
The film is based on true events. It centers around Shunzo, a popular greengrocer who lives in a city near Tokyo. His life, and that of his wife, Michi and their two children, undergoes a ... See full summary »
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Bengal, Masako Motai, Yasufumi Hayashi, Haruhiko Saitô
Votes: 157
17. The Deserted City (1984)
105 min | Drama
After reading a newspaper article about a town being destroyed in a fire, Eguchi begins to recall the summer he spent there writing his thesis. It's a beautiful canal town, the "Venice of ... See full summary »
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Kisuke Yamashita, Toshie Negishi, Tôru Minegishi
Votes: 133
18. Toad's Oil (2009)
131 min | Drama
The story of Takuro Yazawa, a day trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one day, and those around him as they attempt to cope with the death of his son and somehow ... See full summary »
Director: Koji Yakusho | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Satomi Kobayashi, Eita Nagayama, Kaoru Yachigusa
Votes: 139
19. Mother Water (2010)
105 min | Comedy
Peaceful life of different people in Kyoto.
Director: Kana Matsumoto | Stars: Mikako Ichikawa, Ryô Kase, Satomi Kobayashi, Kyôko Koizumi
Votes: 103
20. Riyû (2004)
160 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Four people are murdered in an apartment block, but none of them seem connected.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Takehiro Murata, Saki Terashima, Miyoko Akaza, Takuro Atsuki
Votes: 149
21. Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction (2020)
113 min | Drama
Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the publisher and subordinates and runs the... See full summary »
Director: Daihachi Yoshida | Stars: Lily Franky, Elaiza Ikeda, Yoshino Kimura, Satomi Kobayashi
Votes: 292
22. Sing My Life (2016)
125 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Katsu is now an old woman who even at seventy three has not lost her penchant for being sardonic and dissatisfied. Upon visiting a photography studio her life and body are transported to ... See full summary »
Director: Nobuo Mizuta | Stars: Mitsuko Baishô, Hiro Honda, Katsuko Kanai, Jun Kaname
Votes: 156
23. Bokura no jidai (2007– )
30 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Shun Oguri, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Sawako Agawa
Votes: 25
24. Pan to sûpu to neko biyori (2013– )
60 min | Comedy
Akiko (Satomi Kobayashi) lives with her mother, but suddenly her mother passes away. Since then she quits her editing job and takes over her mother's small restaurant. At the restaurant ... See full summary »
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Kana, Ken Mitsuishi, Sansei Shiomi
Votes: 123
25. Sexy Voice and Robo (2007– )
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A middle school girl teams up with a robot otaku to fight crime in Japan.
Stars: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Suzuka Ohgo, Eri Murakawa, Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Votes: 111
26. Young Girls in Love (1986)
98 min
The story of a young girl's first love is told from the heroine's point of view. Surrounded by various people, she finally begins to awaken to her own feelings as a woman.
Director: Kazuki Ômori | Stars: Yuki Saitô, Haruko Sagara, Mamiko Takai, Toshirô Yanagiba
Votes: 32
27. The Female Teacher in Black (2012– )
54 min | Drama
Stars: Nana Eikura, Fumino Kimura, Kento Yamazaki, Tao Tsuchiya
Votes: 11
28. Chushingura 1/47 (2001 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, History
During Japan's feudal period, a noble lord was treacherously killed by a rival. His 47 samurai retainers took their revenge on their master's killer after scattering into society for ... See full summary »
Director: Shunsaku Kawake | Stars: Takuya Kimura, Kôichi Satô, Eri Fukatsu, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi
Votes: 69
29. Tsuyukusa (2022)
95 min | Drama, Romance
A woman who believes herself to have had an unusual stroke of luck forms a relationship with a man who failed to stop his wife from killing herself.
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Yutaka Matsushige
Votes: 78
30. Tokyo Oasis (2011)
83 min | Drama
The floating clouds between the high buildings, the lines of the taillights under the moonlight, the swirling human waves... Every view in Tokyo looks as if it is alive. Before even she ... See full summary »
Directors: Kana Matsumoto, Kayo Nakamura | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Ryô Kase, Tomoyo Harada, Haru Kuroki
Votes: 110
31. Suika (2003– )
Comedy, Drama
Motoko is a 34-year-old unmarried credit union employee who moves into a boarding house with 3 other women after her best friend and co-worker Mariko embezzles 300 million yen.
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Rie Tomosaka, Ruriko Asaoka, Mikako Ichikawa
Votes: 73
32. Don Quixote (2011– )
Drama
Stars: Shôta Matsuda, Katsumi Takahashi, Ken Aoki, Yutaka Matsushige
Votes: 55
33. Gift (1997– )
550 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Naomi, a middle-aged woman, goes to a house to meet her boyfriend with whom she had planned to skip the country, along with 50 billion yen in cash. When she gets to the house, there is no ... See full summary »
Stars: Takuya Kimura, Ryôko Shinohara, Mitsuko Baishô, Satomi Kobayashi
Votes: 114
34. With the Light (2004– )
Drama, Family
Sachiko and Masato Azuma, in their 4th year of marriage, had been so excited about the birth of their long-waited first child. They named their baby boy "Hikaru" (meaning light in Japanese)... See full summary »
Stars: Ryôko Shinohara, Takanari Saito, Mikako Ichikawa, Masahiro Kômoto
Votes: 71
35. Ren'ai kekkon no rûru (1999– )
Stars: Takashi Itô, Kyôko Koizumi, Toshirô Yanagiba, Takashi Kashiwabara
36. Ryôma no tsuma to sono otto to aijin (2002)
115 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Jun Ichikawa | Stars: Noritake Kinashi, Kiichi Nakai, Kyôka Suzuki, Yôsuke Eguchi
Votes: 40
37. Mountain Days with Tom (2015 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Hana (Kobayashi Satomi), who had been living in Tokyo, starts life in the countryside with her friend Toki (Ichikawa Mikako) and Toki's daughter Toshi (Sasaki Haruka), an elementary school ... See full summary »
Director: Oto Ueda | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Mikako Ichikawa, Ken Mitsuishi, Hitomi Takahashi
Votes: 34
38. Pûru (2009)
96 min | Drama
A Japanese separated mother and her daughter reunite in a small village in Thailand.
Director: Mika Ohmori | Stars: Kana, Ryô Kase, Satomi Kobayashi, Sittichai Kongpila
Votes: 129
39. Fukigen na jiin (2005– )
Comedy
Yoshiko Aoi is a biology researcher at a Japanese university when her ex-lover, the flashy, popular, and completely over the top professor Takashi Minamihara bursts back into her nerdy life.
Stars: Yûko Takeuchi, Seiyô Uchino, Satomi Kobayashi, Yû Yamada
Votes: 18
40. Kabachitare! (2001– )
Drama
Tokiwa stars as Tamura Nozumi, with a cheerful outlook in life, always choosing to believe in everyone. Fukatsu stars as Sakada Chiharu, an amanuensis (daisho) but goes way beyond her ... See full summary »
Stars: Takako Tokiwa, Eri Fukatsu, Takanori Jinnai, Tomohisa Yamashita
Votes: 481
41. Yappari neko ga suki (1988–1991)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Masako Motai, Shigeru Muroi
42. Kiriko no fûkei (1998)
105 min | Romance
During Muraishi's time in prison for fraud, he recalls his past and learns a power to penetrate and cure others. Upon release, he goes to Hakodate, where he can find his ex-wife, Kiriko. ... See full summary »
Director: Tomoyuki Akashi | Stars: Shôichirô Akaboshi, Masanobu Katsumura, Akiko Kazami, Naoto Kine
43. Akahana no sensei (2009)
Drama
Ishihara Santaro is an electronics salesman with a knack for entertaining customers while wearing his trademark red nose. But his actual sales are poor, and he soon gets fired. Through his ... See full summary »
Stars: Yô Ôizumi, Yû Kashii, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Satomi Kobayashi
Votes: 11
44. Kira kira hikaru (1998– )
The job of a medical jurisprudence involves a lot of complicated crimes such as murder and accidents. Hikaru (Fukatsu Eri) is a graduate of a medical university, also focused her discipline... See full summary »
Stars: Eri Fukatsu, Toshirô Yanagiba, Kyôka Suzuki, Yasufumi Hayashi
Votes: 15
45. Tenamonya Shôsha (1998)
97 min | Comedy
Director: Katsuhide Motoki | Stars: Mark Cheng, Teruyuki Kagawa, Akio Kaneda, Satomi Kobayashi
46. Sora to umi wo koete (1989 TV Movie)
160 min | Drama
Director: Shinichi Kamoshita | Stars: Kumiko Goto, Cha Katô, Keiko Oginome, Rie Nakahara
47. Sweet Sweet Ghost (2000)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Toshiharu Ikeda | Stars: Mitsuaki Kaneko, Chiaki Nakajima, Jun Murakami, Masako Motai
48. The 38th Annual Japan Academy Awards (2015 TV Special)
110 min
Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Koji Yakusho, Hideaki Itô, Sakura Andô
49. 2030: Kanata no kazoku (2015 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama
In Tokyo in the year 2030, 27-year-old Itakura Kakeru lives in a shared apartment. He is suddenly approached by Ogiwara Misae, his housemate three years his senior, about wanting his help ... See full summary »
Director: Tomochika Kasaura | Stars: Eita Nagayama, Misako Renbutsu, Saki Aibu, Satomi Kobayashi