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1. Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971)
72 min | Drama
Set in a future in which children have overthrown adults, the film does not have a central narrative. It depicts a series of graphic tableaux in which children engage in cruel and abusive acts against the adults.
Director: Shûji Terayama | Stars: Goro Abashiri, Tarô Apollo, Shiro Demaemochi, Mitsufumi Hashimoto
Votes: 773
2. Rubber's Lover (1996)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Scientists use a brain-altering drug to conduct experiments, after one such project goes astray, they need to find another test subject in this Japanese splatter-punk film.
Director: Shozin Fukui | Stars: Nao, Norimizu Ameya, Yôta Kawase, Mika Kunihiro
Votes: 1,086
3. Tonkei shinjû (1981)
91 min | Drama, Horror
Pig Chicken Suicide is a veritable assault on the senses, mixing violent images of animal slaughter, racial strife and surrealism to tell the story of two Koreans living in Japan who's love... See full summary »
Director: Yoshihiko Matsui | Stars: Naomi Hagio, Takahiro Hattori, Toshihiko Hino, Remi Nakamachi
Votes: 118
4. D-Zaka no satsujin jiken (1998)
95 min | Mystery
Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.
Director: Akio Jissôji | Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Kyûsaku Shimada, Yumi Yoshiyuki, Yûko Daike
Votes: 191
5. Mizu no nai pûru (1982)
103 min | Crime, Drama
Inspired by an actual crime involving chloroform, this revolutionary film shows the everyday madness of a railroad employee.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Yûya Uchida, Mie, Reiko Nakamura, Yumiko Fujita
Votes: 598
6. Midori (1996)
104 min | Drama
Midori is a coming-of-age drama set amongst the heady high school world of peer rivalry and sexual awakening, featuring an emotionally-detached high-school girl who, her parents dead, lives... See full summary »
Director: Ryûichi Hiroki | Stars: Hiroko Shimada, Haruhiko Katô, Masato Irie, Hiroko Nakajima
Votes: 19
7. Focus (1996)
73 min | Crime, Drama
A small and intrusive reporting crew are reporting on the actions of a man who monitors transmissions in a documentary they are filming. When suddenly a weapon is introduced the nerd and ... See full summary »
Director: Satoshi Isaka | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Keiko Unno, Akira Hirai, Tetsuo Sano
Votes: 206
8. Family Without a Dinner Table (1985)
143 min | Crime, Drama
This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames them in front of the entire nation.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Ogawa, Kie Nakai, Kiichi Nakai
Votes: 76
9. Hymn (1972)
112 min | Drama
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind Shamisen teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Tokuko Watanabe, Jiro Kawarazaki, Daijirô Harada
Votes: 117
10. 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: 2,391
11. Shokkaku (1970)
104 min | Drama
A film that explores sexual instincts, centering on the psychological conflicts between a mother and son, and between a son and his lover.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi, Jiro Daimaru, Daigo Kusano
Votes: 15
12. Suzaku (1997)
95 min | Drama
Depicts the dissolution of a small family in a remote Japanese timber village.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Jun Kunimura, Machiko Ono, Sachiko Izumi, Kôtarô Shibata
Votes: 1,479
13. A Stranger of Mine (2005)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Six months passed and Takeshi Miyata is still depressed after his girlfriend dumped him in a sudden way especially after he bought a big apartment for both of them but in one night after he just finished work his childhood friend.
Director: Kenji Uchida | Stars: Yasuhi Nakamura, Reika Kirishima, So Yamanaka, Yuka Itaya
Votes: 1,235
14. Sennan Asbestos Disaster (2016)
215 min | Documentary
Ten years in the making, Kazu Hara's three-and-a-half-hour-long epic is a longitudinal study of asbestos victims demanding reparations from a heartless state.
Director: Kazuo Hara
Votes: 36
15. Zoku ningen kakumei (1976)
159 min | Biography
In the second part of a biographical story, a man is released from jail and forges ahead with the business of religion. Then one day he meets a nineteen-year-old who asks him many questions... See full summary »
Director: Toshio Masuda | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Teruhiko Aoi, Michiyo Aratama, Junko Natsu
Votes: 25
16. Willful Murder (1981)
132 min | Drama
In 1949, Mr. Shimoyama, governor of Japan National Railroads, was found dead, run by train, after a mysterious disappearance. Officially it was considered suicide, but many suspected he was killed for some political conspiracy.
Director: Kei Kumai | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Yôko Asaji, Takashi Ebata
Votes: 83
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