After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do anything to protect herself and her family from harm.

Paprika

2006

Japanese

7.7

♡ 90

87%

88%

Action

Animation

based on novel or book

Satoshi Kon Director

Hideyuki Tanaka as Guy

Satoshi Kon as Jin-nai

Rikako Aikawa as Kakimoto Nobue

Kôichi Yamadera as Osanai Morio

Megumi Hayashibara as Paprika / Chiba Atsuko

Katsunosuke Hori as Shima Tora-taroh

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.

Millennium Actress

2001

Japanese

7.8

♡ 58

93%

second sino-japanese war (1937-45)

surreal

Satoshi Kon Director

Laura Post as Eiko Shimao

Takkô Ishimori as Head Clerk

Masaya Onosaka as Kyoji Ida

Ben Diskin as Kyoji Ida

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.

Godzilla 2000

1999

Japanese

6.0

♡ 13

Takao Okawara Director

Ron Yuan as Katagiri

Hiroshi Abe as Mitsuo Katagiri

François Chau as Prof. Yuji Shinoda

Amy Hill as Shop Owner

An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are further complicated when a giant meteor is discovered in the Ibaragi Prefecture. The mysterious rock begins to levitate as it's true intentions for the world and Godzilla are revealed.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

1973

Japanese

7.5

♡ 17

Kenji Misumi Director

Tomisaburô Wakayama as Ogami Itto

Michiyo Yasuda as Shiranui

Eiji Okada as Wakita

Minoru Ôki as Yagyu Retsudo

Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assignment.

My Blood & Bones in a Flowing Galaxy

2020

Japanese

6.6

♡ 5

Action

based on novel or book

SABU Director

Tomoyo Harada as

Kaya Kiyohara as

Takumi Kitamura as Arashi

Kai Inowaki as Gengo Tamaru

Kiyosumi's affection for his schoolmate Hari grows after he saves her from bullying, but a dark secret she's unwilling to share threatens their bond.

The Contestant

2023

English

7.2

♡ 12

92%

Clair Titley Director

Juliet Hindell as Self

Harutaro Kagawa as Self - director of reality show Denpa Shonen

Seiichi Hirai as Self - Nasubi's manager

Ikuyo Hamatsu as Self - Tomoaki Hamatsu's elder sister

The incredible true story of a man who lived for 15 months trapped inside a small room, naked, starving and alone... and completely unaware that his life was being broadcast on national TV in Japan, to over 15 million viewers a week.

Aichaku

2024

Japanese

6.8

♡ 5

Michael Williams Director

Emika Kamieda as Erika

Christopher Nishizawa as Ken

Inko Haku as Kumi

Kaori Takeshita as Yoshiko

The lives of an American expat and a half Japanese construction worker living in rural Japan are forever changed over the course of three days as they engage in an unexpected romance.

Sisters of the Gion

1936

Japanese

7.4

♡ 11

89%

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Taizô Fukami as Kimura

Eitarô Shindô as Kudo, the drygoods merchant

Isuzu Yamada as O-Mocha

Yôko Umemura as Umekichi

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She thinks that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. Omocha therefore tries various schemes to get rid of Furusawa, and set themselves up with better patrons.

Hell in the Pacific

1968

English

7.2

♡ 15

John Boorman Director

Lee Marvin as American Pilot

Toshirô Mifune as Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda

During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean.

Godzilla vs. Megalon

1973

Japanese

4.9

♡ 16

38%

Ishirô Honda Director

Eisuke Nakanishi as Asuka Island Nuclear Test

Robert Dunham as Emperor Antonio of Seatopia / Motorcycle assailant

Shinji Takagi as Gojira

Yutaka Hayashi as Hiroshi Jinkawa

Inventor Goro Ibuki creates a humanoid robot named Jet Jaguar. It is soon seized by an undersea race of people called the Seatopians. Using Jet Jaguar as a guide, the Seatopians send Megalon as vengeance for the nuclear tests that have devastated their society.

Aura: Koga Maryuin's Last War

2013

Japanese

6.4

♡ 4

38%

Seiji Kishi Director

Kishô Taniyama as Kinoshita

Scott Gibbs as Kume

Kana Hanazawa as Ryoko Saito

Juliet Simmons as Ryoko Sato

Satou Ichirou once called himself 'Maryuuin Kouga' and behaved as if he were a hero in a fantasy world. His strange behavior caused his classmates to bully him and he left the school. At his new school, he tries to behave like a normal boy, but one day he meets a girl who cosplays with a blue cape. She calls herself "a researcher traveling from the outer world to search for the 'Dragon Terminal'". At first, Ichirou rejects the girl, Satou Ryouko, because her behavior reminds him of his embarrassing past, but he changes his mind after seeing her getting bullied. In order to bring Ryouko back to real life, Ichirou accepts her and his past and begins the final battle as Maryuuin Kouga.

The Most Dangerous Game

1978

Japanese

6.5

♡ 3

Tôru Murakawa Director

Hiroshi Shimizu as

Renji Ishibashi as Mâjan-ya no otoko B

Iwao Dan as Nanjou no guardman A

Yûsaku Matsuda as Shouhei Narumi

The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in a vicious power struggle between two large corporations over a sizable government defence contract.

The Killing Game

1978

Japanese

6.2

♡ 2

Tôru Murakawa Director

Moeko Ezawa as Housewife

Iwao Dan as Ishihara

Naomi Oka as Mama of Bar Yuko

Kei Satô as Shoichi Katsuda

The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes back he bumps into two women that he has spared five years ago. Two rival yakuza bosses hire Narumi to kill the other. Will Narumi's sense of chivalry entrap him again?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

1993

English

4.8

♡ 50

19%

Stuart Gillard Director

Corey Feldman as Donatello

Tad Horino as Grandfather

Sab Shimono as Lord Norinaga

John Aylward as Niles

The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

1972

Japanese

7.1

♡ 16

Shun'ya Itô Director

Jirô Sagawa as

Osamu Yamanouchi as

Hiroko Isayama as Asako Noda

Shinzô Hotta as Furuya

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

Samurai Vendetta

1959

Japanese

6.6

♡ 5

Kazuo Mori Director

Gen Shimizu as

Seishirô Hara as

San'emon Arashi as

Ryûzaburô Mitsuoka as

Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous revenge of the 47 Ronin.

Suicide Club

2001

Japanese

6.5

♡ 20

63%

Sion Sono Director

Nao Nagasawa as

Kimiko Yo as Kiyomi Kuroda

Kenjirô Tsuda as Mita

Tamao Satô as Nurse Yôko Kawaguchi

When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer to this mystery, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.

Onibaba

1964

Japanese

7.8

♡ 38

90%

Kaneto Shindô Director

Hiroshi Tanaka as Horse Riding Samurai B

Nobuko Otowa as Kichi's Mother

Kentarô Kaji as Runaway Warrior B

Jûkichi Uno as Samurai General

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

The Forest

2016

English

4.8

♡ 77

10%

Jason Zada Director

Taylor Kinney as Aiden

Yukiyoshi Ozawa as Michi

Natalie Dormer as Sara / Jess Price

Stephanie Vogt as Valerie

Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.

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The Contestant

Aichaku

Sisters of the Gion

Hell in the Pacific

Godzilla vs. Megalon

Aura: Koga Maryuin's Last War

The Most Dangerous Game

The Killing Game

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

Samurai Vendetta

Suicide Club

Onibaba

The Forest