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1. After Life (1998)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Fantasy
After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô
Votes: 13,780 | Gross: $0.80M
2. A Man (2022)
121 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
Director: Kei Ishikawa | Stars: Sakura Andô, Masataka Kubota, Yumi Kawai, Yôko Maki
Votes: 1,440
3. 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: 510
4. Trick (2000– )
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Quirky professor Jiro Ueda and struggling magician Naoko Yamada investigate and unmask the fraudulent people who claim to have supernatural abilities.
Stars: Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe, Katsuhisa Namase, Yôko Nogiwa
Votes: 552
5. Doctor X (2012– )
Not Rated | 54 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Daimon Michiko is a freelance surgeon who wanders from hospital to hospital because the harsh environment led many doctors to retire. However, Michiko doesn't look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude.
Stars: Ryôko Yonekura, Ittoku Kishibe, Yuki Uchida, Toshiyuki Nishida
Votes: 793
6. Dark Tales of Japan (2004 TV Movie)
92 min | Horror
Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors.
Directors: Yoshihiro Nakamura, Masayuki Ochiai, Takashi Shimizu, Kôji Shiraishi, Norio Tsuruta | Stars: Kayoko Shiraishi, Shôzô Endô, Yoshinori Okada, Kanako Fukaura
Votes: 598
7. Like Grains of Sand (1995)
129 min | Drama, Romance
The movie is built around the very complex relationships between Yoshida, leaving Shimizu for Aihara (or at least he tries to), and his friend Ito, whose love for Yoshida seems to have ... See full summary »
Director: Ryosuke Hashiguchi | Stars: Yoshinori Okada, Ayumi Hamasaki, Kouji Yamaguchi, Kumi Takada
Votes: 1,546
8. CSI: Crime Scene Talks (2011– )
Drama
"CSI: Crime Scene Talks" depicts the work of a group of detectives who solve murder cases by looking for clues in the articles left by victims.
Stars: Takaya Kamikawa, Masahiro Kômoto, Chiaki Kuriyama, Masaru Nagai
Votes: 31
9. The Woman with Red Hair (1979)
73 min | Comedy, Drama
At his working place, Kozo and his colleague gangrape the boss' teenage daughter. Then, on the highway, he picks up a red-haired woman walking on the road back to his home. She ends up ... See full summary »
Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro | Stars: Junko Miyashita, Renji Ishibashi, Ako, Moeko Ezawa
Votes: 310
10. Toruso (2009)
104 min | Drama
Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her sister discovers her secret desire.
Director: Yutaka Yamazaki | Stars: Sakura Andô, Sora Aoi, Yûko Genkaku, Renji Ishibashi
Votes: 127
11. A Life: Itoshiki Hito (2017)
54 min | Drama
When Okita Kazuaki was starting out as a doctor, he was forced to resign from the hospital. He left his girlfriend Danjo Mifuyu behind and went to the US alone. 10 years go by and he comes ... See full summary »
Stars: Takuya Kimura, Yûko Takeuchi, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Fumino Kimura
Votes: 329
12. Angel Guts: Nami (1979)
98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
This is the third film in the Angel Guts series. It tells the story of Nami, a young female journalist. As she investigates the brutal stories of rape victims, she finds herself becoming ... See full synopsis »
Director: Noboru Tanaka | Stars: Eri Kanuma, Takeo Chii, Mimi Sawaki, Miyako Yamaguchi
Votes: 258
13. The Woman of S.R.I. (1999– )
55 min | Drama
As criminals become more sophisticated and crimes more complex, the police must turn to speedier and more scientific means of weeding through clues and narrowing down suspects. That's where... See full summary »
Stars: Yasuko Sawaguchi, Takashi Naitô, Satoru Saitô, Mayumi Wakamura
Votes: 23
14. Hanako of the Toilet (1998)
95 min | Horror
When a young girl discovers that her new middle school is the same one her sister mysteriously disappeared from eleven years before. She and her new friends join forces to fight the evil force that threatens them all.
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Stars: Hiroiki Ariyoshi, Eri Fuse, Maya Hamaoka, Satomi Ishii
Votes: 131
15. Wet & Rope (1979)
Unrated | 69 min | Drama, Thriller
After being brutally raped, a young woman attempts to commit suicide. A priest talks her out of it and she decides to become a nun. Once inside the convent, she is again a victim of sexual abuse.
Director: Kôyû Ohara | Stars: Yuki Nohira, Miyako Yamaguchi, Yûko Akane, Jun Aki
Votes: 196
16. Zenshin to koyubi (2005)
109 min | Drama
Director: Kei Horie | Stars: Masaaki Akahori, Akiko Fukuda, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Reiko Kataoka
Votes: 11
17. Farewell to the Land (1982)
130 min | Drama
The film opens with the drowning deaths of farmer Yukio's two sons. Their deaths send him on a course of self-destruction.
Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi | Stars: Jinpachi Nezu, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Jirô Yabuki, Miyako Yamaguchi
Votes: 153
18. Woman's Trail: Wet Path (1980)
71 min | Drama
A man travels with his pill-popping girlfriend to the headquarters of her Yakuza boss husband, in order to claim her for himself.
Director: Kazunari Takeda | Stars: Natsuko Kiriya, Miyako Yamaguchi, Kan Mikami, Megumi Ogawa
Votes: 52
19. Hotaru (2000)
164 min | Drama
A stripper, referred to as a fire fly be a use of her attractive beauty, falls in love. She finds inner piece as love is what her life was missing.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Yûko Nakamura, Toshiya Nagasawa, Miyako Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Kitami
Votes: 116
20. The Detective Story (1979–1980)
Action, Comedy
A cop from San Francisco sets up as a detective in Japan and takes on cases.
Stars: Yûsaku Matsuda, Mikio Narita, Kaori Takeda, Michihiro Yamanishi
Votes: 36
21. Hanezu (2011)
91 min | Drama
Woodwork artist Takumi moves to a small village Asuka.He then meets Kayoko,a woman who went to the same school as Takumi.Kayoko is fascinated with the color hanezu(crimson); lives with boyfriend Tetsuya.Soon,she falls in love with Takumi.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Tôta Komizu, Hako Ohshima, Durian Sukegawa, Akaji Maro
Votes: 1,003
22. Nowhere Man (1991)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.
Director: Naoto Takenaka | Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Jun Fubuki, Kotaro Santo, Miyako Yamaguchi
Votes: 104
23. Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation (2017)
54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Born in an affluent family, Sakurako is grown beautiful but rather spirited and speaks roughly. As an osteologist, she reconstructs skeletal remains of animals in her atelier at home when ... See full summary »
Stars: Alisa Mizuki, Taisuke Fujigaya, Yua Shinkawa, Masahiro Takashima
Votes: 36
24. Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears (1993)
94 min | Drama, Sport
Director: Eiichi Kudô | Stars: Chigusa Nagayo, Yôko Shimada, Tsunehiko Watase, Hiroshi Abe
25. Doctors: Saikyô no meii (2011– )
54 min | Drama
Stars: Ikki Sawamura, Masanobu Takashima, Manami Higa, Ran Itô
Votes: 30
26. Kyôso tanjô (1993)
95 min | Comedy
A young man, Kazuo, joins a new cult religion even though he sees through the initial recruitment pretense, and participating in the activities of a new social phenomenon, some of whose ... See full summary »
Director: Toshihiro Tenma | Stars: Masato Hagiwara, Kôji Tamaki, Ittoku Kishibe, Takeshi Kitano
Votes: 108
27. Female Teacher: Secret (1978)
70 min
Director: Shin'ichi Shiratori | Stars: Miyako Yamaguchi, Etsuko Hara, Jun Aki, Yasuko Chiba
Votes: 14
28. Sunadokei (2007– )
Drama
Young Ann moves to her mothers hometown with her mother after her patents divorce. Ann then meets Daigo, who becomes her first love. Daigo helps Ann get accustomed to country life and the suicide of her mother.
Stars: Terunosuke Takezai, Megumi Satô, Ryôko Kobayashi, Akemi Ohmori
Votes: 10
29. Prescription Police (2006– )
Comedy
Kiriyama Shuichiro works as an information management officer in the prefectural police station. As he is very observant and has interest in the unresolved cases which have gone past the ... See full summary »
Stars: Joe Odagiri, Kumiko Asô, Kôsuke Toyohara, Eri Fuse
Votes: 251
30. Kuroe (2001)
128 min | Drama
Director: Gô Rijû | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Rie Tomosaka, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Miyuki Matsuda
Votes: 121
31. Marital War in Kibogaoka (1979)
69 min | Drama
Director: Shôgorô Nishimura | Stars: Yuko Katagiri, Natsuko Yashiro, Miyako Yamaguchi, Yûko Akane
32. Emergency Room 24 Hours (2001– )
Drama
Stars: Kazuyuki Aijima, Shingo Ippongi, Yôsuke Eguchi, Nanako Matsushima
Votes: 33
33. Tokyo biyori (1997)
121 min | Biography, Drama
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.
Director: Naoto Takenaka | Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Miho Nakayama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Tadanobu Asano
Votes: 310
34. Tantei gakuen Q (2007– )
Mystery
Notebooks that foretell deaths, numerous urban legends, and murders with no clues - a series of strange incidents occur, and people are lead into a deep labyrinth of mysteries. Five ... See full summary »
Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mirai Shida, Ryôsuke Yamada, Jun Kaname
Votes: 81
35. Gate of Flesh (1977)
97 min | Drama
A tale of prostitutes in American-occupied Japan, following the end of World War 2.
Director: Shôgorô Nishimura | Stars: Reiko Kayama, Tokuko Watanabe, Miyako Yamaguchi, Izumi Shima
Votes: 27
36. Pink Salon: Five Lewd Women (1978)
94 min | Drama
Director: Noboru Tanaka | Stars: Kyôko Aoyama, Erina Miyai, Eiko Matsuda, Machiko Ohtani
Votes: 18
37. Ware ni utsu yoi ari (1990)
106 min | Action
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Yoshio Harada, Kaori Momoi, Hsiu-Ling Lu, Renji Ishibashi
Votes: 37
38. Kôshônin (2008– )
Drama
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) is a high profile team of officers trained to handle cases in kidnappings, hostage situations, corporate blackmail, and other highly volatile criminal ... See full summary »
Stars: Ryôko Yonekura, Ren Ôsugi, Masatô Ibu, Sôsuke Takaoka
Votes: 47
39. Invisible Man (1996– )
Drama, Mystery
A photographer accidentally gets hold of a drink that enables him to become invisible, and while getting rapped up in stories in which he never expected to find himself, winds up being the hero.
Stars: Shingo Katori, Eri Fukatsu, Maiko Yamada, Hitomi Kuroki
Votes: 8
40. Kekkon Aite wa Chusen de (2018)
Drama, Romance
Japan's birthrate has fallen lower and the population is not sustaining itself. Government policy kicks in. It is designed to bolster the birthrate by introducing young men and women to one... See full summary »
Stars: Rin Takanashi, Ryôhei Ohtani, Aimi Satsukawa, Shûhei Nomura
Votes: 39
41. Momoe's Lips: Rape Shot (1979)
68 min | Crime
Toru, a down and out tabloid reporter is looking for his next "big" story. In order to get paid decent money in the supermarket rag business, you need to find controversy. The elusive "... See full summary »
Director: Katsuhiko Fujii | Stars: Minako Mizushima, Yûko Asuka, Noriaki Abe, Shinzô Hotta
Votes: 34
42. Shinjuku, Messy District: I'll Be There (1977)
87 min
Director: Chûsei Sone | Stars: Miyako Yamaguchi, Moeko Ezawa, Jun Aki, Machiko Aoki
Votes: 50
43. Fuhatsudan (2018– )
Drama
A press conference is held by a large electrical manufacturer. The press conference discusses improper accounting by the company of 150 billion yen. Finance Consultant Ryo Koga manipulates ... See full summary »
Stars: Kippei Shîna, Meisa Kuroki, Shin Takuma, Tomoyo Harada
Votes: 6
44. Daitokai - Tatakai no hibi (1976– )
54 min | Action, Drama
Sergeant Raisuke Kuroiwa (Tetsuya Watari) and the Kuroiwa Force, a special Flying Squad-esque division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police solves crimes and cracks down on their perpetrators.
Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Kaku Takashina, Takehiko Ono, Yûjirô Ishihara
Votes: 10
45. The Woman Prosecutor of Kyôto (2003– )
54 min | Mystery
Stars: Yûko Natori, Kana Wakisawa, Keizô Kanie, Yôko Ôshima
46. Like Shooting Stars in the Twilight (2018)
Drama, Romance
Kanji Takizawa works at a bank. He has worked his way up to become a branch manager. Kanji Takizawa is married to Mariko and they have a daughter. Recently, he hardly speaks to his wife and... See full summary »
Stars: Shô Kasamatsu, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Yumi Asô, Miho Nakayama
Votes: 7
47. Zettai reido: Mikaiketsu jiken tokumei sôsa (2010– )
Drama
Sakuragi Izumi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last year. The new investigation team uses DNA ... See full summary »
Stars: Aya Ueto, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Tomomi Maruyama
Votes: 68
48. Miyazawa Kenji sono ai (1996)
116 min
Director: Seijirô Kôyama | Stars: Hiroshi Mikami, Miki Sakai, Shinobu Nakayama, Riho Makise
Votes: 24
49. From Orion's Testimony: Formula for Murder (1978)
73 min
Director: Kichitarô Negishi | Stars: Miyako Yamaguchi, Shogo Kano, Rokkô Toura, Akemi Negishi
Votes: 14
50. Bone of a Butterfly: Hunter with White Skin (1978)
85 min
Director: Shôgorô Nishimura | Stars: Yuki Nohira, Waka Akaishi, Chieko Ichikawa, Aiko Masuda