Cinema - Japan, a list by ahasson

7.9

/93951/

79

/3577/

78

/2214/

4.3

/280254/

99

/230/

91

/197/

93

/40/

4.0

age 16+

In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface, forcing them to confront the true meaning of love, belonging, and what makes a family.

87

7.9

/20541/

80

/600/

77

/419/

4.3

/58245/

100

/66/

90

/301/

89

/21/

4.0

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

86

7.9

/97881/

79

/4005/

77

/1730/

4.3

/710849/

96

/186/

93

/34/

80

/38/

4.0

age 12+

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

86

8.1

/26827/

80

/582/

77

/342/

4.1

/12071/

99

/69/

94

/817/

82

/25/

4.0

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?

85

8.0

/34813/

80

/849/

79

/603/

4.4

/98249/

92

/92/

93

/907/

88

/31/

3.5

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.

84

7.5

/75244/

75

/2757/

74

/1427/

4.2

/360182/

97

/216/

78

/269/

91

/42/

4.0

age 15+

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

84

7.8

/176035/

76

/3512/

75

/2199/

3.9

/65354/

91

/201/

86

/10114/

89

/37/

4.0

age 16+

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

81

7.5

/11121/

74

/422/

72

/342/

4.1

/54861/

99

/115/

81

/18/

86

/19/

3.5

An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.

81

7.6

/13625/

75

/364/

74

/265/

4.2

/38730/

94

/87/

80

/389/

80

/22/

3.5

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.

81

7.8

/30645/

77

/947/

77

/772/

4.2

/61588/

86

/102/

89

/162/

73

/33/

3.5

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

81

7.5

/71233/

75

/2540/

73

/1218/

3.9

/55909/

95

/129/

88

/1792/

84

/33/

3.5

age 18+

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

80

7.4

/8424/

74

/211/

72

/171/

3.9

/12731/

93

/76/

84

/81/

80

/22/

3.5

age 10+

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.

80

7.4

/14030/

73

/493/

71

/370/

3.9

/27639/

96

/136/

80

/31/

84

/26/

3.5

Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's apartment. A typhoon passes and the family must stay there all night long.

79

7.5

/205422/

74

/7404/

72

/3685/

3.9

/377848/

90

/51/

88

/8548/

81

/7/

age 17+

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

79

7.6

/18650/

77

/731/

75

/532/

4.1

/47952/

93

/121/

83

/73/

75

/31/

3.0

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.

79

7.7

/44612/

77

/1608/

75

/943/

4.0

/60324/

81

/16/

88

/553/

Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.

78

7.0

/12765/

68

/582/

67

/273/

3.8

/107134/

91

/165/

83

/8/

83

/40/

3.5

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.

78

7.4

/53054/

74

/1280/

72

/921/

3.7

/26022/

87

/123/

88

/1672/

75

/33/

3.5

age 17+

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

82

78

7.6

/7788/

76

/232/

75

/156/

4.2

/20966/

100

/18/

87

/130/

77

/5/

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.

82

77

7.8

/9436/

79

/240/

77

/175/

4.2

/14639/

93

/290/

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.

82

76

7.6

/5850/

79

/226/

78

/139/

4.3

/51225/

91

/218/

A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the school's brass band.

76

7.5

/17876/

73

/305/

76

/343/

3.9

/14116/

72

/39/

88

/550/

71

/16/

3.0

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.

76

7.5

/19770/

76

/1344/

76

/629/

3.6

/13899/

84

/63/

Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.

82

75

7.7

/4638/

77

/114/

77

/97/

4.3

/10516/

91

/44/

91

/64/

79

/22/

In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.

80

75

7.5

/5576/

79

/218/

75

/134/

4.2

/50571/

87

/15/

87

/247/

74

/6/

Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three songs for the festival's rock concert—including a classic '80s song by the Japanese punk rock band The Blue Hearts called "Linda Linda".

75

7.4

/13942/

76

/650/

74

/588/

3.9

/27718/

84

/58/

85

/47/

60

/16/

3.0

The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry.

76

75

7.5

/15934/

76

/1111/

77

/543/

3.7

/12007/

81

/36/

Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.

75

7.4

/30936/

75

/1990/

75

/873/

3.5

/21085/

85

/231/

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

81

74

IMDb 48

7.9

/6561/

81

/172/

78

/38/

3.9

/70088/

88

/164/

96

/497/

67

/31/

age 13+

An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental family' agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.

80

74

7.2

/10430/

73

/1019/

72

/266/

3.9

/52844/

99

/69/

90

/21/

A cafe owner discovers that the TV in his cafe suddenly shows images from the future, but only two minutes into the future.

80

73

7.2

/11965/

74

/994/

77

/526/

3.6

/10689/

100

/5/

89

/18/

In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge.

78

73

7.6

/7558/

76

/184/

74

/119/

3.9

/3020/

84

/32/

84

/274/

76

/11/

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.

73

7.5

/13573/

78

/468/

74

/266/

4.2

/164452/

68

/40/

89

/511/

73

/18/

2.0

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

73

7.0

/13701/

69

/354/

68

/265/

3.8

/31036/

83

/99/

61

/111/

76

/31/

3.5

An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.

74

73

7.3

/9983/

73

/350/

71

/193/

3.7

/11127/

76

/42/

75

/149/

76

/19/

A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

73

7.2

/18381/

70

/904/

71

/528/

3.2

/9752/

80

/5/

83

/1562/

In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira follower) and Kiyomi Takada (another Kira follower) but in the end will Light win? or will a Shinigami named Ryuk make all the difference in Light's victory or his ultimate death?

73

7.5

/33129/

72

/1746/

70

/760/

3.1

/18769/

80

/5/

83

/1562/

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.

76

72

7.0

/4318/

75

/250/

67

/103/

3.8

/20020/

86

/7/

82

/722/

Two girls named Nana meet on a train to Tokyo. Nana K. aims to reunite with her boyfriend and Nana O. hopes to make it big in the music business. Despite their differences, the pair hit it off and become roommates.

72

7.0

/9493/

73

/411/

70

/370/

3.6

/12131/

78

/240/

The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself do it as he reminds him of his youth.

81

71

7.5

/3573/

75

/111/

71

/66/

3.9

/4345/

100

/12/

88

/85/

A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" that is foretold to save the world. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together.

77

70

7.5

/4772/

80

/231/

77

/103/

3.9

/21003/

Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years.

70

7.1

/6006/

68

/218/

68

/194/

3.8

/35047/

77

/48/

73

/6/

69

/20/

2.5

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.

75

70

7.1

/5245/

72

/188/

70

/168/

4.0

/23564/

100

/21/

71

/36/

66

/9/

After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.

72

70

7.2

/8902/

76

/300/

70

/217/

4.2

/59919/

62

/29/

87

/654/

56

/14/

Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...

76

69

7.2

/4962/

71

/171/

71

/101/

4.0

/32934/

87

/132/

Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.

78

69

7.7

/4557/

76

/112/

74

/91/

3.9

/1888/

81

/21/

84

/159/

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

73

69

7.2

/5815/

74

/258/

72

/232/

3.6

/6600/

77

/84/

Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.' The two schools, in fact, have a history of bad blood between them. And the simmering embers of hatred are about to flare up again, burning away any last remnants of the truce they had so rigorously observed until now.

76

68

7.2

/5233/

69

/81/

67

/82/

3.7

/7792/

88

/57/

82

/271/