Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.

In This Corner of the World

2016

Japanese

7.8

♡ 99

97%

husband wife relationship

japan

War

world war ii

Sunao Katabuchi Director

Joe Ochman as Additional Voices

Kira Buckland as Keiko

Laura Post as Suzu Non

Non as Suzu

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

Recently, My Sister Is Unusual

2014

Japanese

4.9

♡ 17

Yûki Aoyama Director

Hajime Inoue as

Reiko Hayama as

Yûki Aoyama as

Yukichi Kobayashi as Yûya Kanzaki

Mitsuki and Yuya become stepsister and stepbrother because of their parents' marriage. Mitsuki can't get along with her new family and Yuya doesn't know how to approach his new stepsister. One day, Mitsuki becomes possessed by the spirit of Hiyori. Hiyori likes Yuya and believes Yuya can help her get to heaven. Hiyori places a leather chastity belt upon on Mitsuki and a plan takes place to help send Hiyori to heaven.

The Burmese Harp

1956

Japanese

8.0

♡ 18

90%

Kon Ichikawa Director

Kô Nishimura as Baba

Rentarô Mikuni as Captain Inouye

Toshiaki Itô as Hashimoto

Kunitarô Sawamura as Old man

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.

Love and Honor

2006

Japanese

7.7

♡ 11

81%

84%

Action

based on novel or book

Yôji Yamada Director

Kaori Momoi as Ine Hatano

Takuya Kimura as Shinnojo Mimura

Ken Ogata as Shinnojo's fencing instructor

Takashi Sasano as Tokuhei

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

All About Lily Chou-Chou

2001

Japanese

7.5

♡ 33

68%

Shunji Iwai Director

Ryô Katsuji as Hitoshi Terawaki

Yuki Ito as Kamino

Tetsu Sawaki as Retsuya Inubushi Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Shiori Tsuda

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

Creepy

2016

Japanese

6.4

♡ 27

91%

57%

Action

based on novel or book

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Director

Toru Baba as

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Takakura

Takashi Sasano as Tanimoto

Yûko Takeuchi as Yasuko

After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police force and takes up a position as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. But his desire to get to the bottom of criminals’ motives remains, and he does not hesitate long when former colleague Nogami asks him to reopen an old case.

A Certain Killer

1967

Japanese

6.7

♡ 6

Kazuo Mori Director

Yumiko Nogawa as

Raizô Ichikawa as

Tatsuo Matsushita as

Jôtarô Senba as

A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.

Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth

1992

Japanese

6.2

♡ 12

78%

Takao Okawara Director

Tetsu Watanabe as Army Commander

Akira Takarada as Environmental Planning Board Chief Joji Minamino

Takehiro Murata as Kenji Andoh

Kenzo Ogiwara as Takeo Shimura

Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately a meteorite has awoken a hibernating Godzilla as a three way battle for the Earth begins.

Ox-Head Village

2022

Japanese

4.9

♡ 6

Takashi Shimizu Director

Satoru Matsuo as

Naoki Tanaka as Riko

Riko as

Keiko Horiuchi as

Having launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish. Rumours circulate that they were victims of The Ox-Head Village curse, triggering an investigation by two of their friends, desperate to find the truth about what has happened…

Highlander: The Final Dimension

1994

English

4.5

♡ 34

Andrew Morahan Director

Jason Cavalier as Banger 4

Bonnie Mak as Hooker

Michael Jayston as Jack Donovan

John Dunn-Hill as Loony Napoleon

Starts off in the 15th century, with Connor McLeod training with another immortal swordsman, the Japanese sorcerer Nakano. When an evil immortal named Kane kills the old wizard, the resulting battle leaves him buried in an underground cave. When Kane resurfaces in the 20th century to create havoc, it's up to McLeod to stop him.

Gappa the Triphibian Monster

4.4

Hiroshi Noguchi Director

Zenji Yamada as Captain of the Kamome-maru

Yôko Yamamoto as Itoko Koyanagi

Yûji Odaka as Prof. Daize Tonooka

Kôtarô Sugie as Reporter #1

An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.

A Strange House

2024

Japanese

5.2

♡ 8

japan

Mystery

Thriller

Jun'ichi Ishikawa Director

Shôtarô Mamiya as

Nozomi Miyabe as

Jirô Satô as

Masanobu Takashima as Kiyotsugu Morigaki

Amemiya is an unpopular Youtuber who specializes in the occult. One day, his manager brings him a floor plan with an inscrutable point. With the help of Kurihara and Yuzuki, he begins to look into the plan and reveal the mystery behind.

Tomie

1998

Japanese

5.3

♡ 6

Ataru Oikawa Director

Yoriko Dôguchi as Dr. Hosono

Yôichi Nukumizu as Manager

Mami Nakamura as Tsukiko Izumisawa

Kôta Kusano as Yuuichi Saiga

Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?

Ninja Scroll

1993

Japanese

7.8

♡ 83

90%

Yoshiaki Kawajiri Director

Joe Romersa as Bandit Lackey / Walla

Ichirô Nagai as Doujin

Daisuke Gôri as Genma Himuro

Toshihiko Seki as Yurimaru

Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, lending his services to those with gold—or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a plot to overthrow the government threatens to end his wandering ways—and possibly his life.

Windtalkers

2002

English

6.1

♡ 66

33%

50%

Action

based on a true story

John Woo Director

Peter Stormare as Hjelmstad

Nicolas Cage as Joe Enders

Christian Slater as Ox Henderson

Mark Ruffalo as Pappas

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.

Flags of Our Fathers

2006

English

7.1

♡ 78

76%

Clint Eastwood Director

Neal McDonough as Captain Severance

Robert Patrick as Colonel Chandler Johnson

Paul Walker as Hank Hansen

Erik Aude as Officer

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

Yojimbo

1961

Japanese

8.2

♡ 83

96%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Eijirô Tôno as Gonji - Tavern Keeper

Isuzu Yamada as Orin

Toshirô Mifune as Sanjuro Kuwabatake / The Samurai

Seizaburô Kawazu as Seibê - Brothel Operator

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

12 Suicidal Teens

2019

Japanese

5.8

♡ 31

Action

based on novel or book

Yukihiko Tsutsumi Director

Yuina Kuroshima as Meiko

Takumi Kitamura as Nobuo

Kanna Hashimoto as Ryôko

Mahiro Takasugi as Satoshi

A group of boys and girls, twelve in total, gather at an abandoned hospital to die for various different reasons. There, they find the body of a dead boy. The group of twelve attempt to find the person who killed the boy. During their search, the reasons why they want to die are revealed.

Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117

1966

French

5.6

♡ 3

Michel Boisrond Director

Hiroshi Katô as

Marina Vlady as Eva Wilson

Henri Serre as John Wilson

Jitsuko Yoshimura as Tetsuko

After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming responsibility, and threatening the US with another attack, if they don't pay.

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Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends

In This Corner of the World

Recently, My Sister Is Unusual

The Burmese Harp

Love and Honor

All About Lily Chou-Chou

Creepy

A Certain Killer

Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth

Ox-Head Village

Highlander: The Final Dimension

Gappa the Triphibian Monster

A Strange House

Tomie

Ninja Scroll

Windtalkers

Flags of Our Fathers

Yojimbo

12 Suicidal Teens

Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117