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  • Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Yoshio Inaba, Daisuke Katô, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, and Keiko Tsushima in Seven Samurai (1954)

    1. Seven Samurai

    19543h 27mNot Rated98Metascore
    8.6 (388K)
    Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraKeiko Tsushima
  • Toshirô Mifune, Kyôko Kagawa, and Tatsuya Mihashi in The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

    2. The Bad Sleep Well

    19602h 31mNot Rated
    8.0 (15K)
    A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMasayuki MoriKyôko Kagawa
  • Meiko Kaji in Lady Snowblood (1973)

    3. Lady Snowblood

    19731h 37mNot Rated80Metascore
    7.6 (18K)
    A young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.
    DirectorToshiya FujitaStarsMeiko KajiToshio KurosawaMasaaki Daimon
  • Shin'ichi Chiba and Etsuko Shihomi in Sister Street Fighter (1974)

    4. Sister Street Fighter

    19741h 26mR
    6.4 (1.7K)
    A young martial artist is on a mission to rescue her brother who's being held captive by a sadistic drug lord.
    DirectorKazuhiko YamaguchiStarsEtsuko ShihomiShin'ichi ChibaAsao Uchida
  • Shin'ichi Chiba in The Street Fighter (1974)

    5. The Street Fighter

    19741h 31mR
    6.9 (6K)
    After failing to reach a deal with her enemies, a mercenary karateka protects the daughter of a recently-deceased oil tycoon from the evil conglomerate gunning for her inheritance.
    DirectorShigehiro OzawaStarsShin'ichi ChibaGoichi YamadaYutaka Nakajima
  • Toshirô Mifune and Machiko Kyô in Rashomon (1950)

    6. Rashomon

    19501h 28mNot Rated98Metascore
    8.1 (191K)
    The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMachiko KyôMasayuki Mori
  • Bunjaku Han, Meiko Kaji, and Akiko Wada in Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss (1970)

    7. Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss

    19701h 20mNot Rated
    6.1 (922)
    A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiyu group over a fixed boxing match.
    DirectorYasuharu HasebeStarsAkiko WadaMeiko KajiKôji Wada
  • Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo (1970)

    8. Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo

    19701h 24mNot Rated
    6.0 (566)
    Five freewheeling friends conjure up a plan to rob 30 million yen from a religious movement.
    DirectorToshiya FujitaStarsMeiko KajiBunjaku HanTakeo Chii
  • Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (1970)

    9. Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter

    19701h 25mNot Rated
    6.3 (935)
    A street girl gang clashes with racist local gangsters after one of the girls starts dating an Afro-Japanese man.
    DirectorYasuharu HasebeStarsMeiko KajiRikiya YasuokaTatsuya Fuji
  • Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71 (1971)

    10. Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71

    19711h 26mNot Rated
    5.9 (412)
    The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.
    DirectorToshiya FujitaStarsMeiko KajiTatsuya FujiYoshio Harada
  • Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970)

    11. Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal

    19701h 22mNot Rated
    6.3 (465)
    Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.
    DirectorYasuharu HasebeStarsTatsuya FujiNoriko KurosawaEiji Gô
  • Rainy Dog (1997)

    12. Rainy Dog

    19971h 35mNot Rated
    7.0 (3K)
    A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
    DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsShô AikawaLi-Wei ChangShih Chang
  • Reiko Ike and Miki Sugimoto in Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom (1972)

    13. Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom

    19721h 19m
    6.7 (144)
    Delinquent girl boss meets and conflicts with an orphan girl who lives an isolated life after the dramatic deaths of her parents. She plays the piano, but stands up against her lecherous guardian, who is also a school official.
    DirectorNorifumi SuzukiStarsMiki SugimotoNatsuko MiuraMasataka Naruse
  • Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom (1973)

    14. Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom

    19731h 28m
    6.7 (863)
    Three new students at a super strict girls' school face off against the oppressive administration, a corrupt politician and a sadistic student discipline brigade.
    DirectorNorifumi SuzukiStarsMiki SugimotoReiko IkeSeiko Saburi
  • Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group (1973)

    15. Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group

    19731h 27m
    6.5 (82)
    A principal's spoiled daughter rules school until challenged by a rival. After mobsters kill the rival's father and take his company, she investigates their drug operation.
    DirectorMasakazu ShimuraStarsReiko IkeYûko KanôHiroshi Nawa
  • Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage (1973)

    16. Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage

    19731h 26m
    6.2 (141)
    Reiko Ike is back as a tough schoolgirl who eventually has to band together with her enemies to upset the reign of their private Catholic high school administration where institutionalized sexual abuse is endemic.
    DirectorMasakazu ShimuraStarsReiko IkeRyôko EmaNatsuko Yashiro
  • Shin'ichi Chiba in Return of the Street Fighter (1974)

    17. Return of the Street Fighter

    19741h 28mR
    6.3 (2.4K)
    Mercenary karate master Tsurugi gets mixed up in a plot by the American mafia to take over the karate dojos in Asia, aided by a corrupt dojo master.
    DirectorShigehiro OzawaStarsShin'ichi ChibaClaude GagnonYôko Ichiji
  • The Street Fighter's Last Revenge (1974)

    18. The Street Fighter's Last Revenge

    19741h 23mR
    6.0 (1.6K)
    Mercenary karate master Tsurugi is hired to retrieve a cassette tape which holds a very sensitive recording of governmental corruption. A back and forth game of who got the tape ensues.
    DirectorShigehiro OzawaStarsShin'ichi ChibaReiko IkeKôji Wada
  • Ran (1985)

    19. Ran

    19852h 40mR97Metascore
    8.2 (146K)
    In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi Nezu
  • Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread (1974)

    20. Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread

    19741h 25mNot Rated
    6.6 (611)
    This time Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese prostitutes. Koryu's older sister, working as a jewelry designer, is secretly if unhappily involved with the gangsters.
    DirectorKazuhiko YamaguchiStarsEtsuko ShihomiTamayo MitsukawaMichiyo Bandô
  • Return of the Sister Street Fighter (1975)

    21. Return of the Sister Street Fighter

    19751h 17mNot Rated
    6.2 (504)
    When Koryu's childhood friend Shurel is abducted by gangsters, the desperate young woman recruits a female martial artist and a tough-as-nails stranger to join her for a dangerous rescue mission.
    DirectorKazuhiko YamaguchiStarsEtsuko ShihomiAkane KawasakiMei-Ho Chang
  • Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist (1976)

    22. Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist

    19761h 17mNot Rated
    5.6 (416)
    Although not an official sequel (Shihomi plays a different character), the film is often referred to as a sequel to the series. Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. In order to help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into a movie studio in Kyoto where a drug dealing syndicate is based.
    DirectorShigehiro OzawaStarsEtsuko ShihomiMitchi LoveKen Wallace
  • Takeshi Kusaka, Shigeru Kôyama, Masako Natsume, Keiko Oginome, Eiji Okada, Ken Takakura, Tsunehiko Watase, and Sô Yamamura in Antarctica (1983)

    23. Antarctica

    19832h 23mG
    7.6 (1.9K)
    Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search for the dogs inadvertently marooned there.
    DirectorKoreyoshi KuraharaStarsKen TakakuraTsunehiko WataseEiji Okada
  • Sonatine (1993)

    24. Sonatine

    19931h 34mR73Metascore
    7.5 (25K)
    Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war then escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach.
    DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeshi KitanoAya KokumaiTetsu Watanabe
  • Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988)

    25. Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

    19882h 15m
    6.0 (523)
    A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming city.
    DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsShintarô KatsuKyûsaku ShimadaMieko Harada

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