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  • Beyond the Memories (2013)

    1. Beyond the Memories

    20132h 6m
    6.6 (658)
    Kanna Seto lost her childhood friend Haruta in a car accident when she was a freshman in high school. Carrying the emotional pain from that incident throughout her life, Kanna is still wounded as an adult. Kanna then meets Roku Akazawa, who also carries a painful experience from his past. When Roku was an elementary school student, a girl who was with him got into an accident and died. Because of that incident, Roku carries a heavy sense of guilt. Roku then tries to make Kanna feel love again.
    DirectorTakehiko ShinjôStarsMasami NagasawaMasaki OkadaYûki Furukawa
  • House (1977)

    2. 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
  • Wata no kuni hoshi (1984)

    3. Wata no kuni hoshi

    19841h 36m
    6.9 (105)
    After two-month-old kitten Chibi-neko is abandoned by her former owners, she is found by 18-year-old Tokio. Although his mother is allergic to cats and has a great fear of them, she agrees to let him keep the kitten because she fears he is becoming too withdrawn after failing his university entrance exams. Chibi-neko soon falls in love with Tokio. In her own mind, Chibi-neko is a small human who speaks in human words, although people only ever seem to hear her meow, and she believes that all humans were once kittens like her. A stray cat tells Chibi-neko of a paradise called Cottonland, where dreams can come true.
    DirectorShin'ichi TsujiStarsMîna TominagaBin ShimadaMichio Hazama
  • Summer Vacation 1999 (1988)

    4. Summer Vacation 1999

    19881h 30m
    6.6 (320)
    Summer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys' school of all but three boys: the junior Norio & the seniors Kazuhiko & Naoto. They have no families to return to for the summer, so they spend their days in the empty school. A darkness hangs over the three however: the suicide, three months earlier, of classmate Yu. Norio blames Kazuhiko for Yu's death, because it was well-known that Yu loved Kazuhiko; so Kazuhiko is cruel to Norio, and yet has bad dreams. This uneasy arrangement is exacerbated by the arrival of Kaoru, a student early for the fall - who looks exactly like Yu.
    DirectorShûsuke KanekoStarsEri MiyajimaTomoko ÔtakaraMiyuki Nakano
  • Tampopo (1985)

    5. Tampopo

    19851h 54mNot Rated87Metascore
    7.9 (25K)
    A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.
    DirectorJûzô ItamiStarsKen WatanabeTsutomu YamazakiNobuko Miyamoto
  • Non and Hiroomi Tosaka in Hot Road (2014)

    6. Hot Road

    20141h 59m
    5.6 (292)
    About a sad and fierce love between 14-year-old Kazuki and 16-year-old Haruyama. Kazuki lives with her mom but she doesn't like her mom's lover and feels deserted. This leads Kazuki to get into trouble.
    DirectorTakahiro MikiStarsNonHiroomi TosakaYoshino Kimura
  • Raichi Hikari kurabu (2015)

    7. Raichi Hikari kurabu

    20151h 54m
    5.3 (191)
    Nine pretty boys resist becoming ugly adults, building a robot with human intelligence to help them achieve world domination and kidnap a beautiful girl. As their robot learns what it means to be human, its creators lose their humanity.
    DirectorEisuke NaitôStarsKisetsu FujiwaraYûki FurukawaJunya Ikeda
  • A Taxing Woman (1987)

    8. A Taxing Woman

    19872h 7m
    7.2 (2.4K)
    If tax evasion is an art, wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo is Rembrandt. And so, a determined taxing woman gets the tough assignment of trying to catch him.
    DirectorJûzô ItamiStarsNobuko MiyamotoTsutomu YamazakiMasahiko Tsugawa
  • Godzilla in Shin Godzilla (2016)

    9. Shin Godzilla

    20162hPG-1367Metascore
    6.8 (41K)
    Something has surfaced in Tokyo Bay. As the Prime Minister of Japan pleads with the public to remain calm, a horrific creature of tremendous size makes landfall in the city, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Then it evolves.
    DirectorsShinji HiguchiHideaki AnnoStarsHiroki HasegawaYutaka TakenouchiSatomi Ishihara
  • Joshiteki seikatsu (2018)

    10. Joshiteki seikatsu

    20184 epsTV Mini Series
    7.2 (90)
    StarsJun ShisonKeita MachidaShiori Tamai
  • Bin Amatsu, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita, Akiko Koyama, and Fumio Watanabe in Boy (1969)

    11. Boy

    19691h 37m
    7.4 (2K)
    A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.
    DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsFumio WatanabeAkiko KoyamaTetsuo Abe
  • Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)

    12. Pastoral: To Die in the Country

    19741h 44m
    7.7 (2.7K)
    A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
    DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsKaoru YachigusaKeiko NiitakaMasumi Harukawa
  • Supermarket Woman (1996)

    13. Supermarket Woman

    19962h 7m
    7.3 (1.1K)
    Goro's supermarket is not doing well; the rival "Bargains Galore" threatens his business. A chance encounter with Hanako, an energetic woman he knew in grade school, results in big retail and life changes.
    DirectorJûzô ItamiStarsNobuko MiyamotoMasahiko TsugawaRyûnosuke Kaneda
  • Tomoki Hirose in Seven Days: Monday - Thursday (2015)

    14. Seven Days: Monday - Thursday

    20151h 6m
    6.7 (672)
    Toji is a popular high school boy who is easy to get, but difficult to keep. He will date anyone who asks him on a Monday, but is done with the person by the end of the week. Fellow student Yuzuru has broken many girls' hearts and been dumped often. Then Yuzuru becomes interested in Toji and spontaneously asks him out.
    DirectorKenji YokoiStarsTomoki HiroseYûki HiyoriRin Ishikawa
  • Tomoki Hirose and James Takeshi Yamada in Seven Days: Friday - Sunday (2015)

    15. Seven Days: Friday - Sunday

    20151h 22m
    6.8 (573)
    The second part, the first part is Seven days Monday - Thursday. The continuation of Seryou and Shinos date week, two high school students.
    DirectorKenji YokoiStarsTomoki HiroseYûki HiyoriRin Ishikawa
  • Battle Royale (2000)

    16. Battle Royale

    20001h 54mNot Rated81Metascore
    7.5 (202K)
    In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
    DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsTatsuya FujiwaraAki MaedaTarô Yamamoto
  • Transit Girls (2015)

    17. Transit Girls

    2015– 8 epsTV Mini Series
    7.2 (383)
    Despite high school student Sayuri's reluctance to accept her father's fiancee and her daughter Yui, she begins to develop feelings for the girl.
    StarsSairi ItôYui SakumaKentarô Itô
  • Love My Life (2006)

    18. Love My Life

    20061h 36m
    6.0 (952)
    Ichiko and Eri are two Japanese university students who are in a lesbian relationship. Ichiko comes out to her father who tells her he is also gay and her mother was a lesbian. Her best friend is gay too, though he has a female who is after him. Their liaison is very intense, but Eri suggests a temporary separation so she can concentrate on her law studies. The break from their affair is difficult for Ichiko to deal with. But Eri soon sorts out her priorities.
    DirectorKôji KawanoStarsRei YoshiiAsami ImajukuNaomi Akimoto
  • Senrei (1996)

    19. Senrei

    19961h 33m
    5.4 (161)
    A fatal skin disease forces a beautiful actress to retire from the screen. She puts a sinister plan into motion to transplant her brain into her own daughter Sakura. She hears her mother's unbelievable confession of her past, tries to escape in vain. After the horrible operation, she starts a new life as a normal little girl. And she seduces the piano teacher, tries to inherit her mother's properties.... Then a police detective who is suspicious of her mother's sudden disappearance starts sniffing around her...
    DirectorKenichi YoshiharaStarsRie ImamuraLisa AkikawaMie Yoshida
  • Shingo Katori and Ayami Nakajô in Stranger: bakemono ga jiken wo abaku (2016)

    20. Stranger: bakemono ga jiken wo abaku

    20162h 10mTV Movie
    5.6 (25)
    A doctor loses his family and tries to commit suicide, only to be saved by a female vampire and turned into one himself.
    DirectorKatsuyuki MotohiroStarsMika AiharaYasunori DantaMasato Hagiwara
  • Bara no Konrei (2001)

    21. Bara no Konrei

    20011h 25m
    7.8 (96)
    A silent movie with a storyline similar to Bram Stoker's Dracula. It contains Japanese and English captions as dialogue. The protagonist-like character has received a letter from the Earl of Dracula who asks him to travel to Transylvania to finalize the purchase of a manor. Klaha is engaged to Cecil but must push back the wedding. Dracula imprisons Klaha and travels to London to meet Cecil. Meanwhile, the resident Vampire in London is not happy that Dracula has gone there to hunt. He wishes to thwart Dracula's wishes but is prevented by his sister the Nun who is a minion of Dracula.
    DirectorHiroyuki MutoStarsKlahaManaZeykhan Soylu
  • Ishirô Honda and Takashi Shimura in Godzilla (1954)

    22. Godzilla

    19541h 36mNot Rated79Metascore
    7.6 (44K)
    After a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.
    DirectorIshirô HondaStarsTakashi ShimuraAkihiko HirataAkira Takarada
  • Tomoyo Harada in The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983)

    23. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

    19831h 44m
    6.6 (1.1K)
    A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
    DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsTomoyo HaradaRyôichi TakayanagiToshinori Omi
  • Meiko Kaji in Lady Snowblood (1973)

    24. 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
  • The Face of Another (1966)

    25. The Face of Another

    19662h 4mNot Rated
    7.8 (11K)
    A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
    DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsTatsuya NakadaiMikijirô HiraKyôko Kishida

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