Sekai no Okiku

2023

Japanese

6.7

♡ 2

Junji Sakamoto Director

Kôichi Satô as

Claude Maki as

Renji Ishibashi as

Haru Kuroki as Okiku

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets into fertiliser sold to local farmers. Enter Okiku, the only daughter of a fallen samurai, and amongst the overflowing piles of excrement, a well-nourished love story unfolds.

Tokyo Pop

1988

Japanese

6.7

♡ 4

100%

Fran Rubel Kuzui Director

Rikiya Yasuoka as Akira

Gary Allen as Curtis

Michael Cerveris as Mike

Carrie Hamilton as Wendy Reed

A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here". She takes what little money she has including ex-boyfriend's rent money and goes to Tokyo. She has numerous cross-cultural adventures and ends up singing with a Japanese rock group looking for a gaijin gimmick.

Why Don't You Play in Hell?

2013

Japanese

7.1

♡ 25

83%

Sion Sono Director

Tetsu Watanabe as Detective Kimura

Gen Hoshino as Koji Hashimoto

Itsuji Itao as Masuda

Nanoka Hara as Mitsuko Muto

In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.

House

1977

Japanese

7.2

♡ 35

90%

Nobuhiko Ôbayashi Director

Tomokazu Miura as Auntie's Fiancé

Yasumasa Ônishi as Old Villager

Kimiko Ikegami as Oshare

Fumi Dan as Teacher

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

Gamera vs. Barugon

1966

Japanese

5.1

♡ 6

44%

Noriaki Yuasa Director

Ichirô Sugai as Dr. Matsushita

Takuya Fujioka as Dr. Sato

Yûzô Hayakawa as Kawajiri

Kôji Fujiyama as Onodera

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

Early Spring

1956

Japanese

7.7

♡ 17

100%

87%

Action

co-workers relationship

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Masami Taura as Kôichi Kitagawa

Fujio Suga as Tanabe

Eijirô Tôno as Tokichi Hattori

Keijirô Morozumi as Tsuji

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Memoirs of a Geisha

2005

English

7.3

♡ 81

35%

Rob Marshall Director

Ken Watanabe as Chairman

Ted Levine as Colonel Derricks

Michelle Yeoh as Mameha

Cathy Shim as The Baron's Guest

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead

2011

Japanese

4.7

♡ 19

35%

Noboru Iguchi Director

Hideki Kurauchi as

Arisa Nakamura as Megumi

Kentarô Shimazu as Tanaka

Demo Tanaka as The Shit Zombie

Wracked with guilt over her younger sister's suicide, pretty young karate student Megumi accompanies a group of older friends on a camping trip into the woods, where they're attacked by feces covered undead.

Guyver: Dark Hero

1994

English

5.8

♡ 26

Steve Wang Director

Christopher Michael as Atkins

Shaun T. Benjamin as D.C.

Koichi Sakamoto as Sakai

David Hayter as Sean Barker

Sean Barker became the unwilling host to an alien bio-armor known as the Guyver. A year ago he destroyed the Kronos Corporation, an organization of mutants who want the Guyver. Now he is trying to find why the Guyver unit forces him to fight and kill evil.

Silence

2016

English

7.2

♡ 341

83%

70%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Martin Scorsese Director

Ciarán Hinds as Father Valignano

Liam Neeson as Ferreira

Ryô Kase as João

Andrew Garfield as Rodrigues

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

Little Forest: Winter/Spring

2015

Japanese

7.6

♡ 10

Jun'ichi Mori Director

Yôichi Nukumizu as

Takahiro Miura as

Ai Hashimoto as Ichiko

Mayu Matsuoka as Kikko

Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.

Monster

2023

Japanese

7.8

♡ 73

97%

Hirokazu Koreeda Director

Yûko Tanaka as Fushimi

Shidô Nakamura as Kiyotaka

Soya Kurokawa as Minato

Sakura Andô as Saori

After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.

Harajuku

2018

Norwegian

6.7

♡ 3

Drama

japan

Eirik Svensson Director

Nicolai Cleve Broch as Einar

Benjamin Hennum Knudsen as Steffen

Tao Bonnefoy Vassvik as Thomas

Ines Høysæter Asserson as Vilde

The evening before Christmas eve, Vilde is hanging out with her friends at the central station, when she learns that her mother has been in an accident. She is forced to contact her biological father, but wants to run away to Tokyo.

As the Gods Will

2014

Japanese

6.3

♡ 50

57%

Takashi Miike Director

Nijirô Murakami as

Dôri Sakurada as Class 2-B President

Katsuhiro Higo as Kokeshi Taro

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Polar Bear

High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.

964 Pinocchio

1991

Japanese

5.6

♡ 11

Shozin Fukui Director

Naoshi Gôda as Gaki

Yoshimitsu Takada as Kanja

Takahiro Hosoya as Michi Yuku Otoko

Kôta Mori as Shimada

A memory-wiped and defective cyborg sex slave is tossed onto the streets and taken in by a homeless woman while his corporate creators hunt him down.

Love Letter

1995

Japanese

7.9

♡ 44

96%

Shunji Iwai Director

Kumi Nakamura as Hamaguchi, teacher

Takashi Kashiwabara as Male itsuki fujii

Mariko Kaga as Male itsuki's mother

Kaori Oguri as Suzumi

Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to be called Itsuki Fujii.

Destination Tokyo

1943

English

7.1

♡ 4

67%

Delmer Daves Director

Eleanor Parker as Mike's Wife on Record

William Challee as Rocky the Quartermaster

John Alvin as Sound Man

Dane Clark as Tin Can

During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives.

Godzilla

2014

English

6.4

♡ 343

76%

Gareth Edwards Director

Ken Watanabe as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

Elizabeth Olsen as Elle Brody

Taylor Nichols as Military Analyst

Brian Markinson as Whelan

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.

Dogwood Tree

2010

Japanese

6.8

♡ 3

japanese high school student

Romance

Nobuhiro Doi Director

Osamu Mukai as Junichi Kitami

Yutaka Matsushige as Kenjiro Kiuchi

Hiroko Yakushimaru as Ryoko Hirasawa

Yui Aragaki as Sae

A young girl tries to maintain a long-distance relationship with an aspiring fisherman.

Harakiri

1962

Japanese

8.6

♡ 68

100%

Masaki Kobayashi Director

Yoshio Inaba as Jinai Chijiiwa

Rentarô Mikuni as Kageyu Saito

Masao Mishima as Tango Inaba

Yoshirô Aoki as Umenosuke Kawabe

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

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Sekai no Okiku

Tokyo Pop

Why Don't You Play in Hell?

House

Gamera vs. Barugon

Early Spring

Memoirs of a Geisha

Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead

Guyver: Dark Hero

Silence

Little Forest: Winter/Spring

Monster

Harajuku

As the Gods Will

964 Pinocchio

Love Letter

Destination Tokyo

Godzilla

Dogwood Tree

Harakiri