Miraculous World: Tokyo Stellar Force

Kagami drags Marinette to Tokyo to help the Stellars defeat a new supervillain, but Marinette soon realizes her friend has another, untold reason for this trip to Japan.

Greatful Dead

2013

Japanese

6.4

♡ 15

Eiji Uchida Director

Itsuji Itao as

Wakana Sakai as

Kenji Matsuda as

Takashi Sasano as Shiomi

Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests, many of which are abnormal.

Dawn of the Felines

2017

Japanese

5.5

♡ 11

Kazuya Shiraishi Director

Kaito Yoshimura as

Takamitsu Nonaka as

Kazuko Shirakawa as Madam of SM Club

Ken Yoshizawa as Old Man

A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.

Rage

2016

Japanese

7.0

♡ 13

Action

based on novel or book

Sang-il Lee Director

Suzu Hirose as Izumi Komiya

Pierre Taki as Kunihisa Nanjo

Hideko Hara as Takako Fujita

Ken Watanabe as Yohei Maki

A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.

Yajû shisubeshi

1980

Japanese

6.8

♡ 7

Tôru Murakawa Director

Daiki Katô as Hirai

Mako Midori as Kimiko Wakazuki

Rikiya Yasuoka as Minehara

Yoshirô Aoki as Okada

A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the author of the killings "walks like a dead man".

Midnight Diner 2

2016

Japanese

7.4

♡ 8

80%

Joji Matsuoka Director

Kimiko Yo as Chieko

Takashi Yamanaka as Gen

Mitsuki Tanimura as Kasumi

Yutaka Matsushige as Ryu

The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.

A Courtesan with Flowered Skin

2014

Japanese

5.9

♡ 5

Action

based on novel or book

Keisuke Toyoshima Director

Kanji Tsuda as

Yumi Adachi as

Yôko Mitsuya as

Saki Takaoka as

Japan around 1860: popular courtesan Asagiri will be freed soon from her service, yet she cannot imagine any other existence. Until one day at a local festival, Asagiri meets the young artisan Hanjiro by chance – an encounter that changes her destiny. With a strong performance by leading actress Yumi ADACHI and exquisite camerawork and production design, A COURTESAN WITH FLOWERED SKIN succeeds in recalling the golden age of Japanese erotic film.

Tsukiji Wonderland

2016

Japanese

7.4

♡ 11

91%

social & cultural documentary

tokyo, japan

Naotarô Endô Director

Through the lives of professionals working at Tsukĳi Fish Market in Tokyo, the film portrays how Tsukĳi has been the center of fish culinary culture and helped Japanese food culture to flourish as we know it today.

Ginza Cosmetics

1951

Japanese

7.0

♡ 6

54%

Action

based on novel or book

Mikio Naruse Director

Eijirô Tôno as Hyôbei Sugano

Eijirô Yanagi as Seikichi Kineya

Ranko Hanai as Shizue Sayama

Masao Mishima as Tasuzô Fujimura

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

Tokyo Sonata

2008

Japanese

7.5

♡ 25

94%

israeli–palestinian conflict

middle class

palestinian-israeli conflict

piano lessons

tokyo, japan

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Director

Kai Inowaki as Kenji Sasaki

Kazuya Kojima as Kobayashi-san

Kanji Tsuda as Kurosu

Tao Tsuchiya as Mika

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.

Crazy Thunder Road

1980

Japanese

6.4

♡ 2

67%

Gakuryû Ishii Director

Genki Yoshimura as

Tatsuo Yamada as Hitoshi

Kôji Nanjô as Ken

Nenji Kobayashi as Tsuyoshi

When Ken, the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo, falls in love with a barmaid, he quickly loses his rebellious ideals. The rest of the gang feels betrayed, especially the reputedly troubled kid Jin who revolts against his former friend.

Tokyo!

2008

Japanese

♡ 14

76%

Michel Gondry Director

Ayumi Itô as Akemi

Ryô Kase as Akira Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as La livreuse de pizza

Yutaka Matsushige as (segment "Shaking Tokyo")

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.

Sound of the Mountain

1954

Japanese

7.7

♡ 11

94%

Action

adultery

Drama

dysfunctional marriage

japan

parent-in-law child-in-law relationship

pregnancy

tokyo, japan

Mikio Naruse Director

Nobuo Kaneko as

Tsuruko Mano as

Machiko Kitagawa as

Setsuko Hara as Ogata Kikuko

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Late Chrysanthemums

1954

Japanese

7.4

♡ 7

87%

Mikio Naruse Director

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as

Tsuruko Mano as

Sadako Sawamura as Nobu

Chikako Hosokawa as Tamae

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.

My Geisha

1962

English

6.5

♡ 4

61%

husband wife relationship

Jack Cardiff Director

Robert Cummings as Bob Moore

Shirley MacLaine as Lucy Dell / Yoko Mori

Edward G. Robinson as Sam Lewis

Nobuo Chiba as Shig

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...

The Pillow Book

1995

English

6.5

♡ 13

68%

Peter Greenaway Director

Ewan McGregor as Jerome

Miho Tanaka as Model Friend in Cafe Typo

Hideko Yoshida as The Aunt / The Maid

Ken Ogata as The Father

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

KT

2002

Japanese

6.2

♡ 4

Action

based on a true story

Junji Sakamoto Director

Ryûshi Mizukami as

Yoshio Harada as Akikazu Kamikawa

Gô Rijû as Hong Seong-Jin

Kôichi Satô as Masuo Tomita

This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jung.

Tokyo Family

2013

Japanese

7.5

♡ 4

91%

Yôji Yamada Director

Taiki Matsuno as

Teiyû Ichiryûsai as (as Mie Suzuki) Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Noriko Mamiya

Jun Fubuki as Woman at the bar

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

Mio on the Shore

2019

Japanese

6.6

♡ 6

Ryûtarô Nakagawa Director

Sakurako Konishi as

Eri Tokunaga as Mikoto Shimamura

Kaito Yoshimura as Toshihito Arai

Shûgo Oshinari as Yu Iseki

Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.

Silent Möbius

1991

Japanese

6.2

♡ 7

Kazuo Tomisawa Director

Naoko Matsui as Katsumi Liqueur

Lisa Ann Beley as Kiddy Phenil

Trevor Devall as Second-Grade Monster / Newscaster

Juliana Donald as Yuki Saiko

In a futuristic Tokyo, several policewomen fight a monster. One of them, Katsumi Liqueur, remembers where she saw it before... Katsumi Liqueur, an American-born woman of Japanese descent, travels to Tokyo to visit her mother, Fuyuka, who is sick in the hospital. She takes a shortcut through an alley after her taxi gets stuck in traffic, only to encounter a monster and two policewomen fighting it. Later, she meets their chief, Rally Cheyenne, who, it seems, has been expecting her, though Katsumi has never met her before. The policewomen want Katsumi to help them fight the monster, but Katsumi, who does not want to believe in magic, resists.

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Miraculous World: Tokyo Stellar Force

Greatful Dead

Dawn of the Felines

Rage

Yajû shisubeshi

Midnight Diner 2

A Courtesan with Flowered Skin

Tsukiji Wonderland

Ginza Cosmetics

Tokyo Sonata

Crazy Thunder Road

Tokyo!

Sound of the Mountain

Late Chrysanthemums

My Geisha

The Pillow Book

KT

Tokyo Family

Mio on the Shore

Silent Möbius