8.0
Barefoot Gen
IMDb: 8.0 1983 83 min
A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy’s life and the lives of the Japanese ...
7.5
An Actor’s Revenge
IMDb: 7.5 1963 113 min
While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide ...
6.8
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
IMDb: 6.8 1972 108 min
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his ...
7.2
Afro Samurai: Resurrection
IMDb: 7.2 2009 101 min
Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back into the game by a beautiful and deadly woman ...
7.0
Fear and Trembling
IMDb: 7.0 2003 107 min
Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese ...
7.9
Hiroshima Mon Amour
IMDb: 7.9 1959 92 min
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the ...
6.7
A Midsummer’s Fantasia
IMDb: 6.7 2014 96 min
A Korean Film director, Kim Taehoon plans to shoot his new film in a small local city called Gojo, Japan. He travels with his assistant director, ...
6.2
Shinobi: The Law of Shinobi
IMDb: 6.2 2002 80 min
In the world of the Ninja, fighting skills play a small role in one’s rank in the Shinobi order. Kageru is the best in his class, but his ...
6.6
World War III Breaks Out
IMDb: 6.6 1960 77 min
The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan finds itself caught in the middle, and Tokyo ...
7.2
Big Bird in Japan
IMDb: 7.2 1988 60 min
While visiting Japan, Big Bird wanders off from a guided tour bus in Tokyo, and is lost until a Japanese woman helps him get to where he needs to ...
7.6
13 Assassins
IMDb: 7.6 2010 141 min
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan’s feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a ...
6.9
You Only Live Twice
IMDb: 6.9 1967 117 min
A mysterious space craft kidnaps a Russian and American space capsule and brings the world on the verge of another World War. James Bond ...
7.6
Weathering with You
IMDb: 7.6 2019 112 min
Tokyo is currently experiencing rain showers that seem to disrupt the usual pace of everyone living there to no end. Amidst this seemingly ...
6.3
Kampai! For the Love of Sake
IMDb: 6.3 2015 95 min
An American journalist, a British sake brewer and the president of a centenary Japanese sake brewery join together to explore the mysterious ...
6.8
Wake Island
IMDb: 6.8 1942 87 min
In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the ...
7.0
To End All Wars
IMDb: 7.0 2001 108 min
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest ...
7.2
Tokyo Drifter
IMDb: 7.2 1966 83 min
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata’s top operative, Tetsuya ...
7.7
The Brighton Miracle
IMDb: 7.7 2019 82 min
Inspired by true events, the story begins with Japanese rugby officials dwelling on a humiliating anniversary, a 145-17 defeat by the New Zealand ...
8.1
The Burmese Harp
IMDb: 8.1 1956 116 min
In the War’s closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he ...
7.3
Hell in the Pacific
IMDb: 7.3 1968 103 min
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited ...