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1. Samurai Cop (1991)
Unrated | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Joe Marshall and Frank Washington are two tenacious police detectives who seek at all costs to stop the Katana, a renegade Yakuza gang composed of violent and sadistic killers who want to lead the drug trade in Los Angeles.
Director: Amir Shervan | Stars: Robert Z'Dar, Mathew Karedas, Janis Farley, Mark Frazer
Votes: 10,075
2. Hostel (2005)
R | 94 min | Horror
Three backpackers head to a Slovak city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljakova
Votes: 190,924 | Gross: $47.33M
3. Giri/Haji (2019)
TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A detective from Tokyo scours London for his missing brother, who's been involved with the Yakuza and accused of murder.
Stars: Takehiro Hira, Kelly Macdonald, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Will Sharpe
Votes: 16,827
4. London Has Fallen (2016)
R | 99 min | Action, Thriller
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning is caught up in a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Director: Babak Najafi | Stars: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett
Votes: 169,571 | Gross: $62.68M
5. Frankenhooker (1990)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A medical student sets out to recreate his decapitated fiancée by building her a new body made of Manhattan street prostitutes.
Director: Frank Henenlotter | Stars: James Lorinz, Joanne Ritchie, Patty Mullen, J.J. Clark
Votes: 13,498 | Gross: $0.21M
6. Red Sun (1971)
PG | 112 min | Action, Drama, Western
In 1870, a gang robs a train and steals a ceremonial Japanese sword meant as a gift for the U.S. President, prompting a manhunt to retrieve it.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Charles Bronson, Toshirô Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress
Votes: 10,709 | Gross: $4.84M
7. The Final Countdown (1980)
PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino
Votes: 26,909 | Gross: $16.65M
8. The Apartment (1996)
R | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A recently engaged man sees a former lover and becomes obsessed with meeting her again.
Director: Gilles Mimouni | Stars: Romane Bohringer, Vincent Cassel, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Monica Bellucci
Votes: 15,910
9. Grand Prix (1966)
Approved | 176 min | Drama, Sport
American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Toshirô Mifune
Votes: 10,494 | Gross: $20.85M
10. Flowers (2016–2018)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
Dark comedy about the eccentric members of the Flowers family. Maurice and Deborah are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice's batty mother and their maladjusted twin children.
Stars: Sophia Di Martino, Olivia Colman, Julian Barratt, Daniel Rigby
Votes: 6,580
11. Berlin Drifters (2017)
TV-MA | 123 min | Drama, Romance
Ryota travels to Berlin hoping for a long-term relationship with a man he met online. However, the German guy does not even let him stay the night, so he drifts around looking for love, while staying at a lonely Japanese man's place.
Director: Kôichi Imaizumi | Stars: Lyota Majima, Kôichi Imaizumi, Mioo Satô, Michael Selvaggio
Votes: 228
12. Attack Force Z (1981)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Drama, History
A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.
Director: Tim Burstall | Stars: John Phillip Law, Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, Chris Haywood
Votes: 2,721
13. Pandemonium (1982)
PG | 82 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer.
Director: Alfred Sole | Stars: Tom Smothers, Carol Kane, Tammy Alverson, Pamela Harlow
Votes: 1,512
14. Bad Kids of Crestview Academy (2017)
R | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
5 high school students get Saturday detention. One tries to find her sister's killer. When hit by a computer virus, the school goes on lockdown and the killing continues.
Director: Ben Browder | Stars: Samantha Hanratty, Colby Arps, Sophia Ali, Erika Daly
Votes: 2,348
15. Remote Control (1988)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A video store clerk stumbles onto an alien plot to take over Earth by brain-washing people with a bad '50s science fiction movie. He and his friend must find a way to stop the aliens before... See full summary »
Director: Jeff Lieberman | Stars: Kevin Dillon, Deborah Goodrich, Christopher Wynne, Frank Beddor
Votes: 1,142
16. They Call Me Bruce (1982)
PG | 87 min | Action, Comedy
A goofy Korean finds his life hopelessly complicated with people continually confusing him with Bruce Lee.
Director: Elliott Hong | Stars: Johnny Yune, Margaux Hemingway, Raf Mauro, Pam Huntington
Votes: 1,856 | Gross: $16.89M
17. Collision Course (1989)
PG | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A Japanese investigator (Morita) and a Detroit cop (Leno) team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Pat Morita, Jay Leno, Chris Sarandon, Tom Noonan
Votes: 1,737
18. Blood Oath (1990)
R | 108 min | Drama, War
The island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1945. During the War, the number of Australian POWs on the island had dropped from 1100 to less than 300 due to abuses by their Japanese captors. Capt. ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Wallace | Stars: Bryan Brown, George Takei, Terry O'Quinn, John Bach
Votes: 959
19. To the Ends of the Earth (2019)
120 min | Drama
A young Japanese woman finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Atsuko Maeda, Shôta Sometani, Tokio Emoto, Adiz Rajabov
Votes: 1,846
20. A Different Story (1978)
PG | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A homosexual woman marries a gay male friend to prevent his deportation, but they soon fall in love.
Director: Paul Aaron | Stars: Perry King, Meg Foster, Valerie Curtin, Peter Donat
Votes: 481
21. Revue Starlight the Movie (2021)
120 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Starlight - This is a story of a far off star, a long time ago, and in the distant future. Two young girls, captivated by the glamour of the performance, exchange promises: "We'll become stars." "I'll wait for you on stage."
Director: Tomohiro Furukawa | Stars: Momoyo Koyama, Suzuko Mimori, Haruki Iwata, Aina Aiba
Votes: 197
22. No culpes al karma de lo que te pasa por gilipollas (2016)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
The lives of a Madrid-based feather-fashion designer and her whole family completely tumble after the appearance of a long-lost high-school crush, now a musician, who is involved with her model sister.
Director: Maria Ripoll | Stars: Verónica Echegui, Álex García, Alba Galocha, David Verdaguer
Votes: 1,086
23. Wild Mouse (2017)
103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When Georg loses his job, he conceals the fact from his younger wife Johanna, who wants a child with him. Instead, he embarks upon a campaign of revenge against his former boss and begins to renovate a roller-coaster with an old school friend.
Director: Josef Hader | Stars: Josef Hader, Pia Hierzegger, Georg Friedrich, Jörg Hartmann
Votes: 2,855
24. The Goddess of 1967 (2000)
119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Distraught Japanese businessman obsessed with Citroën DS (French car brand nicknamed Goddess) and a troubled blind 17-year-old Aussie girl who promised to sell him one drive through the Australian Outback to kill her abusive grandfather.
Director: Clara Law | Stars: Rose Byrne, Rikiya Kurokawa, Nicholas Hope, Elise McCredie
Votes: 1,936
25. Ikoku Irokoi Romantan (2007–2008)
Animation, Romance
Japanese yakuza clan heir Ranmaru just got married on a lavish cruise ship. He ends up spending the night with the ship's captain. When the two men meet again in Italy, it is the start of a spectacular love story.
Stars: Jun'ichi Suwabe, Kentarô Itô, Yuki Kaida
Votes: 264
26. Beyond the Reef (1979)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Romance
Tikoyo lives by the Bora Bora lagoon in the South Pacific, where he found a man-eating tiger shark when it was an orphaned baby, just a foot long. He named it Manidu, and it grew to be ... See full summary »
Director: Frank C. Clarke | Stars: Dayton Ka'ne, Maren Jensen, Kathleen Swan, Keahi Farden
Votes: 230 | Gross: $0.55M
27. Frankenstein 90 (1984)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Eddy Mitchell, Fiona Gélin, Herma Vos
Votes: 396
28. Kimera (1997 Video)
55 min | Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi
For centuries, there have been legends of "devils" walking the Earth, feeding off the blood of humans. However, the truth behind these vampiric legends has remained a mystery... until now. ... See full synopsis »
Director: Kazuyoshi Yokota | Stars: Yasunori Matsumoto, Ryôtarô Okiayu, Nobuo Tobita, Jûrôta Kosugi
Votes: 185
29. Samurai Cowboy (1994)
96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A Japanese man who always wanted to be a cowboy arrives in Montana and teams up with an African American singer, a bullied Native American, a cute veterinarian and an old cowboy to save a ranch.
Director: Michael Keusch | Stars: Hiromi Gô, Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Conrad, Matt McCoy
Votes: 107
30. Chasing Pavement (2015)
Unrated | 82 min | Drama
Chasing Pavement stars Remy Mars as Elijah Young, an 'urban' porn star who is preparing to leave the adult entertainment industry and start a new career as a chef. His new roommate, Takeshi... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Doyle | Stars: Remy Mars, Tokio Sasaki, Antonio Biaggi, Zekee Silos
Votes: 181
31. Vlastníci (2019)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Mrs. Zahrádková has a plan to convince the other co-owners of the flats to finally save the house in which they live together and which is in emergency condition.
Director: Jirí Havelka | Stars: Tereza Ramba, Vojtech Kotek, Dagmar Havlová, Jirí Lábus
Votes: 1,093
32. Natsuki: The Movie (2018)
61 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Burnt out and suffering from a mid life crisis, the eccentric Natsuki Aso decides to take an emergency once-in-a-lifetime trip to Europe. Surprisingly, not everything goes according to plan.
Director: Chris Broad | Stars: Natsuki Aso, Chris Broad, Asami Aso, Pete Donaldson
Votes: 129
33. The Vancouver Asahi (2014)
132 min | Drama, History, Sport
1918 -1942 , A Time Period passed . Vancouver Canada , a Japanese Community and the struggles and triumphs they faced , and the Spirit of a Baseball Team that won over many, and overcame ... See full summary »
Director: Yûya Ishii | Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kazuya Kamenashi, Ryô Katsuji, Yusuke Kamiji
Votes: 259
34. Nazty Nuisance (1943)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Germany's Adolf Hitler is on his way via submarine to a tropical country to negotiate a treaty with the High Chief Paj Mab. Right there with him, although he tried to avoid taking them, are... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Tryon | Stars: Bobby Watson, Joe Devlin, Johnny Arthur, Jean Porter
Votes: 277
35. Moscow, My Love (1974)
95 min | Drama, Romance
A young Japanese ballet dancer comes to Moscow to study at the Bolshoy Theater, works hard, gets a titular role in Gisele and falls in love with the local sculptor. Then she gets a news that will change evrything...
Directors: Aleksandr Mitta, Kenji Yoshida | Stars: Komaki Kurihara, Oleg Vidov, Makoto Satô, Tatyana Golikova
Votes: 142
36. C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule... (1975)
93 min | Comedy, Crime
Max and Riton, 2 thieves make plan to steal money in a train station office. They will operate through the wall in the public toilets.
Director: Jacques Besnard | Stars: Bernard Blier, Michel Serrault, Jean Lefebvre, Tsilla Chelton
Votes: 496
37. Days with You (2009)
103 min | Drama, Romance
Natsuki takes care of her young autistic brother. She then meets her old childhood friend and falls in love, unfortunately he suffers from a serious illness.
Director: Amiy Mori | Stars: Erika Toda, Kazuki Katô, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Midoriko Kimura
Votes: 108
38. Kiko's Saints (2019)
26 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Kiko, a Japanese illustrator on assignment in France, gets suddenly overwhelmed by a strange new inspiration, while she realizes she's been spying on a gay couple on the beach next to the ... See full summary »
Director: Manuel Marmier | Stars: Lika Minamoto, François Burgun, Arthur Gillet, Kengo Saito
Votes: 73
39. Kiko in America (2013)
5 min | Short, Comedy
All the way from Japan, Kiko has landed in California and plans to make herself at home.
Directors: Dan Chen, Nichole Sakura | Stars: Gunnar Blomgren, Nichole Sakura
Votes: 23
40. Hotaru the Movie: It's Only a Little Light in My Life (2012)
109 min | Drama, Romance
Hotaru Amemiya learns that her boss and now husband Seichi Takano has dreamed of vacationing in Rome like in the movie "Roman Holiday". Hotaru makes plans to go to Rome for their honeymoon.
Director: Hiroshi Yoshino | Stars: Haruka Ayase, Naohito Fujiki, Yûya Tegoshi, Mateo Pio Albanese
Votes: 320
41. Cheng fa (1979)
93 min | Action, Adventure
Three strangers with exceptional fighting skills are hired by a retired Army general to combat his brother's mafia in the Dominican Republic.
Director: Yueh-Ting Men | Stars: Yasuaki Kurata, Kin-Kwan Poon, Tadashi Yamashita, Alan Colavito
Votes: 13
42. Hito Hata: Raise the Banner (1980)
86 min | Drama
The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in the United States.
Directors: Duane Kubo, Robert A. Nakamura | Stars: Mako, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Pat Morita, Saachiko
43. Petting monster: Kairaku kui makuri (2021)
Director: Daisuke Yamanouchi | Stars: Ayumi Kimino, Kanna Shinozaki, Coco Nanahara, Tsubaki Katô
44. Toki rakujitsu (1992)
119 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Seijirô Kôyama | Stars: Yoshiko Mita, Hiroshi Mikami, Tatsuya Nakadai, Riho Makise
Votes: 30
45. Biho sangjaeng (1977)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Drama
A young girl is the sole survivor of an attack on her temple. She learns taekwondo from a local merchant. Taking the name 'The Invincible Young-chun', she sets out on a quest for vengence.
Director: Jo-Myeong Jeon | Stars: Il-do Jang, Cecilia Wong, Jang Il-shik, Kwok-Leung Wong
Votes: 68
46. Mai · Roodo (1980)
113 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Director: Kikuo Kawasaki | Stars: Tetsuya Takeda, Tatsuo Nadaka, Leslie Winston, Laura Fanning
47. Seinen wa kouya wo mezasu (1999 TV Movie)
A twenty-year-old man, who has graduated from high school, gives up on attending the university. He plays the trumpet at a Jazz cafe in Shinjuku in Tokyo, which earns him money and affords ... See full summary »
Stars: Masanobu Andô, Riona Hazuki
48. Písnicky roku 1972 (1972 TV Short)
35 min | Short, Music
Director: Ivo Paukert | Stars: Frantisek Cech, Petra Cernocká, Milan Chladil, Milan Drobný
49. Cosmetic (2003 TV Movie)
Drama
A Japanese woman who travels to Paris, France and works at an advertising agency is content. However, she meets a recruiter for a cosmetics company on her day off, is offered a position and... See full summary »
Director: Ten Yamashita | Stars: Adeyto, Vincent Giry, Riona Hazuki, Toshiya Nagasawa
50. Ruch and Norie (2015)
65 min | Documentary
Documentary "Ruch and Norie" is a human interest story about two contrasting people striking up a surprising spiritual relationship. Japanese student Norie Tsuruta travels to Latvia to ... See full summary »
Director: Inara Kolmane | Stars: Marija Steimane Ruch, Norie Tsuruta
Votes: 32