Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "foreigner-in-japan"

1. Tokyo Vice (2022– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo takes on one of the city's most powerful crime bosses.

Stars: Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rachel Keller, Shô Kasamatsu

Votes: 46,399

2. Destroy All Monsters (1968)

G | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In 1999, a race of she-aliens, the Kilaaks, brainwash Earth's monsters into attacking major cities, prompting a team of astronauts to stop the invaders while the monsters battle Ghidorah.

Directors: Ishirô Honda, Jun Fukuda | Stars: Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Kobayashi, Yoshio Tsuchiya

Votes: 7,697

3. Lost Girls and Love Hotels (2020)

R | 97 min | Drama, Thriller

Disillusioned with the world she knows, a woman searches for meaning and affirmations of life with a dashing Yakuza gangster in Tokyo.

Director: William Olsson | Stars: Alexandra Daddario, Takehiro Hira, Carice van Houten, Andrew Rothney

Votes: 5,408

4. Lady Snowblood (1973)

Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

Director: Toshiya Fujita | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon, Miyoko Akaza

Votes: 16,390

5. The Ramen Girl (2008)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.

Director: Robert Allan Ackerman | Stars: Brittany Murphy, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tammy Blanchard, Soji Arai

Votes: 11,134

6. Your Eyes Tell (2020)

123 min | Drama, Romance

A tragic accident lead to Akari's blindness, but she clings to life and the smaller pleasures it can still afford her. Akari has also lost her family. She meets Rui a former kick boxer, ... See full summary »

Director: Takahiro Miki | Stars: Yuriko Yoshitaka, Ryûsei Yokohama, Kyôsuke Yabe, Jun Fubuki

Votes: 1,772

7. Pengin haiwei (2018)

Not Rated | 117 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

A fourth-grader, Aoyama-kun, investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.

Director: Hiroyasu Ishida | Stars: Kana Kita, Yû Aoi, Rie Kugimiya, Megumi Han

Votes: 3,870

8. Masquerade Hotel (2019)

133 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A serial (3) killer leaves a GPS code of his next target with each victim - this time Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. A detective goes undercover as hotel staff - haircut, manners etc.

Director: Masayuki Suzuki | Stars: Takuya Kimura, Masami Nagasawa, Fumiyo Kohinata, Zen Kajihara

Votes: 2,271

9. Tokyo Olympiad (1965)

Not Rated | 170 min | Documentary, Sport

Kon Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, creating a record of observations that range from the expansive to the intimate.

Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Antonio Ambu, Gary Anderson, Gerry Ashworth, Polina Astakhova

Votes: 2,215

10. Blood (II) (2022)

111 min | Drama

After the death of her husband, a young woman travels to Japan where she finds solace in an old friend, but, when his comforting turns to affection, she realizes she must give herself permission before she can fall in love again.

Director: Bradley Rust Gray | Stars: Carla Juri, Takashi Ueno, Sachiko Ohshima, Futaba Okazaki

Votes: 56

11. Tokyo 2020: Games of the XXXII Olympiad (2021)

Sport

NBC Sports coverage of the Tokyo 2020: Games of the XXXII Olympiad, an international multi-sport competition that took place in and around Tokyo, Japan from 21 July 2021 through 08 August 2021.

Stars: Emma McKeon, Caeleb Dressel, Luc Abalo, Kaylee McKeown

Votes: 119

12. Supai Zoruge (2003)

182 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia.... See full summary »

Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Iain Glen, Masahiro Motoki, Kippei Shîna, Takaya Kamikawa

Votes: 272

13. Warau Mikaeru (2006)

92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Every high school has its misfits, its square pegs, its rebels. St. Michael's Academy, nestled on an impossibly pretty and strangely remote Japanese island, is no exception. In fact, given ... See full summary »

Director: Issei Oda | Stars: Juri Ueno, Megumi Seki, Airi Taira, Yûsuke Iseya

Votes: 226

14. Greetings from Fukushima (2016)

108 min | Drama

A young German woman bonds with an elderly Japanese woman while touring the Fukushima region of Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake.

Director: Doris Dörrie | Stars: Rosalie Thomass, Kaori Momoi, Nami Kamata, Moshe Cohen

Votes: 832

15. Oriental Evil (1951)

Not Rated | 64 min | Drama

Set in post war Japan, an American woman tries to clear her brother's reputation as a drug smuggler after his apparent suicide. She gets help from a seemingly kind Englishman.

Directors: George P. Breakston, C. Ray Stahl | Stars: Byron Michie, Martha Hyer, Tetsu Nakamura, Richard Binge

Votes: 79

16. Geisha Girl (1952)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Romance

"Rocky" Wilson and his sidekick, Archer McGregor, American soldiers en route home from Korea, stop over in Tokyo. They instantly get involved in a sabotage plot and, inadvertently, end up ... See full summary »

Directors: George P. Breakston, C. Ray Stahl | Stars: Steve Forrest, Martha Hyer, Archer MacDonald, Tetsu Nakamura

Votes: 81

17. Unreal Boys (2020)

36 min | Documentary, Short

Explores the concepts of reality and fantasy through the Japanese genre of shota. Following the experiences of young men living in Japan and their interactions with the genre.

Director: Karl Andersson | Stars: Karl Andersson, Gou Tsukumo

18. Atlanta Boogie (1996)

100 min | Sport

Centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly.

Director: Masashi Yamamoto | Stars: Saiko Suzuki, Shinta Furuta, Ayumi Shimizu, Hideyuki Nozawa

19. Hosé! José Mujica! - Just Keep Walking (2021)

98 min | Documentary

Uruguayan President José 'Pepe' Mujica is known as a man of the people, a humanitarian and also for his modesty. He became known widely following his speech at the United Nations' Rio ... See full summary »

Director: Kazuma Tabei | Stars: Sakura Andô, Pepe Mujica, Kazuma Tabei, Lucia Topolansky

20. Talio: Avenger Buddies (2020)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2020)

Comedy, Crime, Mystery

She is a revenge attorney. What does that mean? Well, she is a new lawyer at the firm and looking at picking up cases. She is not having any luck until a case falls into her laps. Her ... See full summary »

Stars: Ken'ichi Endô, Hideyo Fujita, Minami Hamabe, Junko Hamura

21. Talio: Avenger Buddies (2020)
Episode: Episode #1.5 (2020)

Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A man walks into the agency looking for help finding who murdered his wife and raided the safe twenty-five years ago. He has limited time and the statute of limitation has kicked in, which ... See full summary »

Stars: Mariko Akama, Yui Asaka, Ken'ichi Endô, Minami Hamabe

22. Talio: Avenger Buddies (2020)
Episode: Episode #1.7 (2020)

Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Her father was accused of a financial crime, fingered by an industry figure who was speaking to the cops and subsequently vanished from her life. She is an adult now, but has never ... See full summary »

Stars: Ken'ichi Endô, Minami Hamabe, Seikô Itô, Wataru Murakami

23. Drops of God (2023)
Episode: A Father (2023)

TV-MA | 57 min | Drama

Camille heads to Tokyo after receiving an unexpected call from her estranged father.

Director: Oded Ruskin | Stars: Fleur Geffrier, Tomohisa Yamashita, Tom Wozniczka, Stanley Weber

Votes: 577

24. Tôkyô zenryoku shôjo (2012– )
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2012)

Comedy

Teenage country girl heads to Tokyo to find a father she had been lead to believe is dead following his divorce from her mother. Instead, the mother spills the beans that he is alive and ... See full summary »

Star: Hana Toyoshima

25. Tôkyô zenryoku shôjo (2012– )
Episode: Episode #1.10 (2012)

54 min | Comedy

Urara is back in Tokyo and living with her father again. She is also helping Sakurai and doing her best to assist to free his time so he can study towards obtaining his law degree. She ... See full summary »

Director: Mitsuru Kubota | Stars: Emi Takei, Atsuro Watabe, Shôhei Miura, Takashi Tsukamoto

26. Samurai Gourmet (2017)
Episode: The White-Haired Knight (2017)

TV-PG | Adventure, Comedy

Left on his own for dinner, Kasumi wanders the neighborhood to find a suitable place. He settles on a yakitori restaurant with a gruff chef.

Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Tetsuji Tamayama, Honami Suzuki, Susumu Kurobe

Votes: 62