7.7
Goodbye CP
IMDb: 7.7 1972 82 min
The insistently brash Kazuo Hara’s first film Goodbye CP (sometimes called Sayonara CP) is a relentlessly honest documentary that’s ...
6.8
The Bullet Train
IMDb: 6.8 1975 152 min
One of the Japanese Shinkansen “Bullet Trains” is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 ...
3.5
Gamera vs. Zigra
IMDb: 3.5 1971 87 min
A moon base is destroyed by a spaceship with a cluster of gumballs on its head. Later, at Sea World, dolphins are dying mysteriously. Zigra ...
7.9
Isle of Dogs
IMDb: 7.9 2018 101 min
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that’s a garbage dump. The ...
8
Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel II. Lost Butterfly
IMDb: 8 2019 117 min
The story focuses on the Holy Grail War and explores the relationship between Shirou Emiya and Sakura Matou, two teenagers participating in this ...
3.8
Tokyo Home Stay Massacre
IMDb: 3.8 2020 75 min
Three American late teens travel to Japan to escape a sad past and have some fun but end up trapped in a house with a demented Japanese host ...
5.4
Tokyo Grand Guignol
IMDb: 5.4 2015 115 min
A man repeats the same day running from the Yakuza. A woman encounters her violent mirror image. A woman and her laser gun fight a shadow demon. ...
3.9
The Roommate
IMDb: 3.9 2008 90 min
A paranormal thriller involving two young women who start off as roommates but become much more. These working ladies have such a wonderful time ...
7.7
Lost in Translation
IMDb: 7.7 2003 102 min
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo — the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial — ...
7.3
125 Years Memory
IMDb: 7.3 2015 132 min
Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this Japanese-Turkish blockbuster: The sinking of ...
5.0
Gamera vs. Barugon
IMDb: 5.0 1966 106 min
After a treacherous expedition to retrieve a giant opal, disaster strikes as the opal reveals itself to be an egg which spawns Barugon, demon dog ...
4.8
Girls of the White Orchid
IMDb: 4.8 1983 96 min
In Los Angeles, naive and lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol finds an advertisement for a job opportunity in Tokyo. Traveling to Japan to ...
8
Drive My Car
IMDb: 8 2021 179 min
Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle ...
6.8
Boiling Point
IMDb: 6.8 1990 96 min
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. ...
8.3
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
IMDb: 8.3 2007 86 min
Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first — and hopefully last — uses of thermonuclear weapons ...
6.7
Made in Japan
IMDb: 6.7 2015 89 min
Made in Japan is the remarkable story of Tomi Fujiyama, the world’s first Japanese country music superstar. It is a funny yet poignant ...
7.2
A Bride for Rip Van Winkle
IMDb: 7.2 2016 179 min
Dispatched teaching staff member Nanami meets Tetsuya through SNS and decides to marry him. She doesn’t have many relatives and turns to ...
5.7
The Barbarian and the Geisha
IMDb: 5.7 1958 105 min
Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous ...
7
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai’s Daughter
IMDb: 7 2017 73 min
Dramatized telling of the story of Katsushika Oei, daughter of the great Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). A great artist in her ...
6.7
The Wolverine
IMDb: 6.7 2013 126 min
Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis – and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits – in a life-changing voyage to ...