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1. Kimi no na wa (1991–1992)
Drama, Romance
A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.
Stars: Tetsuo Kurata, Makiko Mutô, Yoshiko Tanaka, Kyôka Suzuki
Votes: 13
2. Bokura no jidai (2007– )
30 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Shun Oguri, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Sawako Agawa
Votes: 25
3. Aoi tokugawa sandai (2000– )
Drama, History
The 39th NHK Taiga Drama is Aoi Tokugawa Sandai. It is James Miki's dynamic and colorful tale of three generations of the Tokugawa dynasty--from its founder Ieyasu to Iemitsu, the third Shogun who solidified the Tokugawa power base.
Stars: Baijaku Nakamura, Toshiyuki Nishida, Kazuyo Asari, Machiko Washio
Votes: 38
4. Shadow Warriors (1980–1985)
54 min | Action
A band of ninjas has been forced to stand back and covertly go into business in order to stay out of the spotlight. Being out of favour with the shogun does that to you. With the said ... See full summary »
Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Sô Yamamura, Kirin Kiki, Renji Ishibashi
Votes: 157
5. 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
6. Akuma no youna aitsu (1975)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Troubled young rock singer Ryo Kamon, who suffers from a malignant brain tumor, is secretly the culprit of the unsolved 300 million yen heist of 1968.
Stars: Kenji Sawada, Tatsuya Fuji, Ichirô Araki, Michiyo Yasuda
Votes: 7
7. Shoplifters (2018)
R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Kirin Kiki, Mayu Matsuoka
Votes: 86,573 | Gross: $3.31M
8. Still Walking (2008)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You, Kazuya Takahashi
Votes: 18,654 | Gross: $0.16M
9. Life Is Fruity (2017)
91 min | Documentary
It is Aichi Prefecture and the story is that of 90-year-old architect Shuichi Tsubata, who has accomplished much professionally, and his 87-year-old wife Hideko. They live in a house ... See full summary »
Director: Kenshi Fushihara | Stars: Kirin Kiki, Eiko Tsubata, Shûichi Tsubata
Votes: 375
10. Like Father, Like Son (2013)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama
Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki, Lily Franky
Votes: 28,189 | Gross: $0.28M
11. Bad Reputation: Turf Wars (1974)
104 min
A man, Asakichi, becomes the target of the yakuza when he relates to a geisha.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Jôji Ai, Hiroko Isayama, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 46
12. Ten to sen (2007– )
278 min | Drama, Mystery
Stars: Yumiko Takahashi, Cynthia Cheston, Takeshi Kitano, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 34
13. The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
G | 94 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter Arrietty is discovered.
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Stars: Bridgit Mendler, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Mirai Shida
Votes: 104,560 | Gross: $19.20M
14. Umi no koto (1966)
130 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Tomotaka Tasaka | Stars: Yoshiko Sakuma, Katsuo Nakamura, Ganjirô Nakamura, Hisano Yamaoka
Votes: 37
15. Furusato (1983)
106 min | Drama
Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left ... See full summary »
Director: Seijirô Kôyama | Stars: Yoshi Katô, Hiroyuki Nagato, Tokue Hanazawa, Fumie Kashiyama
Votes: 28
16. Akai kujira to shiroi hebi (2006)
102 min | Drama
On her way to Chikura to live with her son, Yasue Amami gets off at the Tateyama train station. "I want to see my old house," she explains to Akemi Tanaka, the granddaughter accompanying ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshiko Sembon | Stars: Miyoko Asada, Mari Banno, Kyôko Kagawa, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 20
17. Our Little Sister (2015)
PG | 127 min | Drama, Family
Three sisters who live in their grandmother's home invite their thirteen-year-old half sister, whom they have just met, to join them.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose
Votes: 16,919 | Gross: $0.46M
18. Tatsu no ko Tarô (1979)
75 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A young boy has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.
Directors: Kiriô Urayama, Peter Fernandez | Stars: Jun'ya Katô, Mîna Tominaga, Kazuo Kumakura, Kazuo Kitamura
Votes: 916
19. Kesa no aki (1987 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Yukio Fukamachi | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Naoki Sugiura, Mitsuko Baishô
Votes: 6
20. 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: 12,740 | Gross: $0.12M
21. 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: 12,770 | Gross: $0.27M
22. The Best Bad Thing (1997 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Drama
Director: Peter Rowe | Stars: Lana McKissack, Michel Perron, Robert Ito, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 95
23. Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
142 min | Drama
Masaya is going through a period of intensely rebellious behavior. He then learned that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.
Director: Joji Matsuoka | Stars: Joe Odagiri, Kirin Kiki, Yayako Uchida, Kanato Tanihata
Votes: 1,044
24. Ballad of Orin (1977)
109 min | Drama
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Naraoka, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 644
25. I Wish (2011)
PG | 128 min | Drama
Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Kôki Maeda, Oshiro Maeda, Ryôga Hayashi, Seinosuke Nagayoshi
Votes: 7,943 | Gross: $0.15M
26. Chronicle of My Mother (2011)
108 min | Drama
Based on an autobiographical novel by Inoue Yasushi, the film chronicles the passage of fifteen years within a family struggling with abandonment, resentment and decline with old age. As ... See full summary »
Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Kaho Minami, Aoi Miyazaki, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 496
27. 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: 388
28. Honô no shôzô (1974)
96 min
Directors: Toshiya Fujita, Akira Katô | Stars: Kenji Sawada, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Takeo Chii, Yukiji Asaoka
Votes: 10
29. Kamikaze Girls (2004)
102 min | Comedy
Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima | Stars: Kyôko Fukada, Anna Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Sadao Abe
Votes: 8,097
30. 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: 528
31. Every Day a Good Day (2018)
100 min | Drama
Noriko is a university student. By her mother's recommendation, Noriko begins attending a Japanese tea ceremony near her house with her cousin Michiko. There, Noriko learns from Teacher ... See full summary »
Director: Tatsushi Ômori | Stars: Haru Kuroki, Mikako Tabe, Kirin Kiki, Mayu Harada
Votes: 1,276
32. Jack and the Beanstalk (1974)
G | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A young peasant boy named Jack climbs a giant beanstalk and stumbles upon a city in the clouds ruled by an evil queen.
Director: Gisaburô Sugii | Stars: Tonpei Hidari, Masachika Ichimura, Nobue Ichitani, Kazuo Kamimura
Votes: 1,027
33. Za Chugaku kyoshi (1992)
106 min | Drama, Comedy
The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Tomoko Fujita, Jun Fubuki, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 14
34. Rage (2016)
142 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A grisly unsolved murder links three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities.
Director: Sang-il Lee | Stars: Ken Watanabe, Mirai Moriyama, Aoi Miyazaki, Satoshi Tsumabuki
Votes: 3,411
35. 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
36. Días de cine (1991– )
60 min | News
Antonio Gasset hosts this show in which recently released movies and DVDs are thoughtfully discussed in a documentary-like way.
Stars: Gerardo Sánchez, Elena S. Sánchez, Antonio Gasset, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Votes: 334
37. Villain (2010)
139 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A young woman's murder provokes reflection on the ugliness and villainy of modern society.
Director: Sang-il Lee | Stars: Eri Fukatsu, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Denden, Akira Emoto
Votes: 2,001
38. Jônetsu tairiku (1998– )
30 min | Documentary
Stars: Hitoshi Kubota, Kenta Maeda, Ryôta Murata, Yûji Tanaka
Votes: 21
39. Zigeunerweisen (1980)
Not Rated | 144 min | Horror, Mystery
A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Yoshio Harada, Naoko Ôtani, Kisako Makishi, Akaji Maro
Votes: 1,503
40. Kakekomi (2015)
143 min | Comedy, Drama
The lives of women saved by the historical Tokei-ji Buddhist Temple.
Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Yô Ôizumi, Erika Toda, Hikari Mitsushima, Rina Uchiyama
Votes: 466
41. Inochi (2002)
111 min | Drama
Yu Miri is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka, decides to help raise him.
Director: Tetsuo Shinohara | Stars: Makiko Esumi, Etsushi Toyokawa, Toshio Kakei, Kumiko Asô
Votes: 89
42. Keiho (1999)
133 min | Crime, Drama
Masaki Shibata Sinichi is a theater actor who murders a man and his wife. Masaki confesses the crime and alleges that the reason for it was that the woman, five months pregnant, had ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita | Stars: Kyôka Suzuki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Ittoku Kishibe, Naoki Sugiura
Votes: 216
43. The Diary of Yumechiyo (1985)
128 min | Drama
The beautiful Yumechiyo returns home with the crushing news that her atom-bomb-induced illness is leukemia. With less than 6 months to live she falls in love with a young man.
Director: Kiriô Urayama | Stars: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Kirin Kiki, Mayumi Ogawa
Votes: 33
44. Mori, the Artist's Habitat (2018)
99 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu's garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for his paintings, including numerous bugs and cats. A sweet and heartwarming day begins for... See full summary »
Director: Shûichi Okita | Stars: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Munetaka Aoki, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Yoichi Hayashi
Votes: 479
45. Hanekonma (1986)
15 min | Romance
Tachibana Rin, nicknamed Hanekonma (lit. tomboy in Fukushima dialect), grew up in Soma, Fukushima. Rin and her mother Yae worked hard to earn money in order for her to enter a prestigious all-women's school in Sendai.
Stars: Kirin Kiki, Nenji Kobayashi, Saito Yuki
Votes: 6
46. 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
47. Crane (1988)
93 min | Fantasy, History
Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju sand says she will become his wife...
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hideki Noda, Takuzô Kawatani, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 40
48. Saido kâ ni inu (2007)
94 min | Drama
In this coming of age story, ten-year-old Kaoru's life undergoes big changes when her mother leaves home. Kaoru forms a surprising bond with her father's lover, Yoko, as she learns a lot about life during one unforgettable summer.
Director: Kichitarô Negishi | Stars: Yûko Takeuchi, Hana Matsumoto, Takeru Taniyama, Rie Mimura
Votes: 316
49. Dai yûkai (1991)
TV-PG | 120 min | Comedy, Crime
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place between captors ... See full summary »
Director: Kihachi Okamoto | Stars: Tôru Kazama, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Katsuyasu Uchida, Shigeru Kôyama
Votes: 221
50. Tokyo Marigold (2001)
97 min | Romance
Based on a novel by Hayashi Mariko, Tokyo Marigold is the story of a modern relationship in modern Tokyo under modern circumstances. Eriko (Rena Tanaka) has no definite plans, but is ... See full summary »
Director: Jun Ichikawa | Stars: Rena Tanaka, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Yôichirô Saitô, Michelle Grondine
Votes: 191