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  • Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, and Misa Uehara in The Hidden Fortress (1958)

    1. The Hidden Fortress

    19582h 6mNot Rated89Metascore
    8.0 (44K)
    Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMisa UeharaMinoru Chiaki
  • Hiiro Ishibashi and Mana Ashida in Children of the Sea (2019)

    2. Children of the Sea

    20191h 51mNot Rated74Metascore
    6.5 (4.1K)
    A young girl is drawn into a mystery involving sealife around the world, in which two mysterious boys are somehow involved.
    DirectorAyumu WatanabeStarsMana AshidaHiiro IshibashiSeishû Uragami
  • The Wonderland (2019)

    3. The Wonderland

    20191h 55mUnrated
    6.2 (1.2K)
    A girl without self-confidence meets a mysterious alchemist Hippocrates and his student Pipo who are on a mission to save the world. Together, they laid the groundwork for "Wonderland" and Akane is labeled as Wonderland's savior.
    DirectorKeiichi HaraStarsMayu MatsuokaAnne WatanabeKumiko Asô
  • Yûya Yagira and Ayu Kitaura in Nobody Knows (2004)

    4. Nobody Knows

    20042h 21mPG-1388Metascore
    8.0 (34K)
    In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
    DirectorHirokazu KoreedaStarsYûya YagiraAyu KitauraHiei Kimura
  • Memories of Matsuko (2006)

    5. Memories of Matsuko

    20062h 10m
    7.8 (9.2K)
    When Matsuko is murdered, her nephew, Sho, gets to progressively unveil the many details of her mysterious past, discovering she wasn't just a forgotten outcast and had led an intriguing yet bizarre life.
    DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsMiki NakataniEita NagayamaYûsuke Iseya
  • Hana and Alice (2004)

    6. Hana and Alice

    20042h 15m
    7.2 (5.2K)
    When two best friends develop a crush on the same boy, they develop a plan to trick him into dating them.
    DirectorShunji IwaiStarsAnne SuzukiYû AoiTomohiro Kaku
  • Love Letter (1995)

    7. Love Letter

    19951h 57mPG
    7.9 (12K)
    After losing her fiance in a fatal mountain-climbing incident, Hiroko was devastated. She comes across his childhood address in a school yearbook and impulsively writes to him. But what happens when she receives a reply?
    DirectorShunji IwaiStarsMiho NakayamaEtsushi ToyokawaBunjaku Han
  • Little Forest: Winter/Spring (2015)

    8. Little Forest: Winter/Spring

    20152h
    7.6 (3.1K)
    Ichiko lived in a big city, but goes back to her small hometown Komori, located on a mountain in the Tohoku region. She is self-sufficient. Ichiko gains energy living among nature and eating foods she makes from seasonal ingredients.
    DirectorJun'ichi MoriStarsAi HashimotoMayu MatsuokaYôichi Nukumizu
  • Beautiful Sunday (1998)

    9. Beautiful Sunday

    19981h 33m
    6.0 (178)
    A droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions of, the residents of a Tokyo apartment block.
    DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsMomoko BitôTeruyuki KagawaIttoku Kishibe
  • Ikigami (2008)

    10. Ikigami

    20082h 13m
    7.0 (1.1K)
    Ikigami takes place in a dystopian society where the government has implemented the "Prosperity Law". This law dictates 1 in 1000 random citizens ages 18~24 will die for the state in a mandatory lottery. Death occurs at a preset date and time, which is when an injected nano-capsule, received at an early age, explodes. The law is meant to create appreciation for life by instilling fear in order to make people live the best possible lives.
    DirectorTomoyuki TakimotoStarsShôta MatsudaTakashi TsukamotoRiko Narumi
  • Ai Hashimoto in Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014)

    11. Little Forest: Summer/Autumn

    20141h 51m
    7.6 (3.8K)
    Ichiko lived in a big city, but goes back to her small hometown Komori, located on a mountain in the Tohoku region. She is self-sufficient. Ichiko gains energy living among nature and eating foods she makes from seasonal ingredients.
    DirectorJun'ichi MoriStarsAi HashimotoMayu MatsuokaYôichi Nukumizu
  • Guilty of Romance (2011)

    12. Guilty of Romance

    20112h 24m56Metascore
    6.7 (6.2K)
    When a woman is found dead in an abandoned apartment in a hotel neighborhood in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo, police officer Kasuko focuses his investigation on two respectable women who are not what they seem.
    DirectorSion SonoStarsMiki MizunoMakoto TogashiMegumi Kagurazaka
  • Cocco in Kotoko (2011)

    13. Kotoko

    20111h 31mNot Rated
    6.8 (2.5K)
    When a single mother suffers a nervous breakdown, she is suspected of child abuse and her child is taken away. Her mental suffering escalates as she succumbs to her darkest fantasies.
    DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsShin'ya TsukamotoYûko NakamuraCocco
  • Tomie: Forbidden Fruit (2002)

    14. Tomie: Forbidden Fruit

    20021h 31m
    5.7 (612)
    Tomie terrorizes an artistically inclined young girl and her widowed father, slowly integrating herself into the family.
    DirectorShun NakaharaStarsNozomi AndôAoi MiyazakiJun Kunimura
  • House (1977)

    15. House

    19771h 28mNot Rated75Metascore
    7.2 (37K)
    A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
    DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko Ôba
  • Black Cat (1968)

    16. Black Cat

    19681h 39mNot Rated
    7.7 (9.4K)
    Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.
    DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsKichiemon NakamuraNobuko OtowaKei Satô
  • Takako Matsu in Confessions (2010)

    17. Confessions

    20101h 46mNot Rated
    7.7 (44K)
    Yuko, a teacher of middle-school, is shattered to see her four-year-old daughter dead. She returns back to the school and finds out that her students are responsible for her daughter's murder.
    DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsTakako MatsuYoshino KimuraMasaki Okada
  • Arata Iura, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Yû Abiru, and Kengo Kôra in Snakes and Earrings (2008)

    18. Snakes and Earrings

    20082h 3mNot Rated
    6.1 (944)
    19-year-old Rui finds life disappointing but falls in love with Ama in Tokyo, who pierces her tongue. Shiba, a tatoo designer, becomes curious about Rui due to his sadist split. A love triangle ensues, involving violence and sex.
    DirectorYukio NinagawaStarsYuriko YoshitakaKengo KôraArata Iura
  • Onibaba (1964)

    19. Onibaba

    19641h 43mNot Rated
    7.9 (24K)
    Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.
    DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaJitsuko YoshimuraKei Satô
  • Kôji Yakusho and Nana Komatsu in The World of Kanako (2014)

    20. The World of Kanako

    20141h 58mNot Rated55Metascore
    6.5 (6.3K)
    As former detective Akikazu searches for his missing daughter, Kanako, he soon learns she has a mysterious secret life.
    DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsKôji YakushoNana KomatsuSatoshi Tsumabuki
  • Masumi Miyazaki and Rie Kuwana in Strange Circus (2005)

    21. Strange Circus

    20051h 48mUnrated
    6.9 (6.6K)
    The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
    DirectorSion SonoStarsMasumi MiyazakiIssei IshidaRie Kuwana
  • Dark Water (2002)

    22. Dark Water

    20021h 41mPG-13
    6.7 (36K)
    A mother going through a divorce moves into a run down apartment with her daughter. A persistent leak from above, visions of a missing girl, and other eerie phenomena become increasingly menacing as clues to a past tragedy come to light.
    DirectorHideo NakataStarsHitomi KurokiRio KannoMirei Oguchi
  • Spiral (2000)

    23. Spiral

    20001h 30m62Metascore
    6.1 (9.7K)
    The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
    DirectorHiguchinskyStarsEriko HatsuneFhi FanHinako Saeki
  • Kami no hidarite akuma no migite (2006)

    24. Kami no hidarite akuma no migite

    20061h 34mNot Rated
    5.3 (161)
    What's scary is being a human being, and what's scary is being myself. Truly horrifying things reside inside oneself. The work asks if you can stand the inescapable terror.
    DirectorShûsuke KanekoStarsAsuka ShibuyaTsubasa KobayashiAi Maeda
  • Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)

    25. Noriko's Dinner Table

    20052h 39mNot Rated59Metascore
    7.0 (5.2K)
    Teenager Noriko Shimabara abandons her family, seeking Kumiko, an online group's leader. She joins Kumiko's circle, which spirals after 54 students commit mass suicide.
    DirectorSion SonoStarsKazue FukiishiTsugumiYuriko Yoshitaka

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