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HBO Max Amazon Channel
91
8.6
/953067/
86
/30313/
85
/17886/
4.4
/3312987/
96
/225/
96
/23081/
96
/41/
8.7
/1397305/
cc age 9+

Spirited Away (2001)
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
poster
Kanopy
85
7.5
/8285/
76
/241/
74
/186/
4.1
/27259/
100
/24/
83
/101/
92
/8/

Maborosi (1995)
A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.6
/15393/
76
/399/
71
/259/
4.2
/52738/
88
/34/
90
/386/
91
/19/

After Life (1999)
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
75
7.4
/58485/
75
/2811/
75
/1890/
3.7
/261614/
87
/87/
80
/476/
71
/20/
7.7
/132215/
cc age 9+

From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun—but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
7.2
/22127/
73
/566/
73
/507/
3.9
/47266/
86
/29/
79
/364/
53
/13/

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
57
52
6.3
/47880/
65
/2163/
65
/1433/
3.0
/105778/
36
/1/
47
/11/
6.8
/95365/
cc age 12+

Tales from Earthsea (2006)
Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn't enter the world of humans. Due to all these bizarre events, Ged, a wandering wizard, is investigating the cause. During his journey, he meets Prince Arren, a young distraught teenage boy. While Arren may look like a shy young teen, he has a severe dark side, which grants him strength, hatred, ruthlessness and has no mercy, especially when it comes to protecting Teru. For the witch Kumo this is a perfect opportunity. She can use the boy's "fears" against the very one who would help him, Ged.
poster
62
34
6.7
/397/
55
/12/
64
/21/
3.7
/2177/
50

March Comes In Like a Lion (1991)
The film begins with some Polaroids of a young boy and a young girl. A female voice over tells us who these people are. They are brother and sister, she is seven and he is eight. She goes on to say that when she was seven and he was eight, she told her brother that she would marry him.
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58
27
5.8
/778/
64
/25/
51
/21/
59
/54/

Ashura (2005)
Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki. However, something is not right, as mysterious marks appear on her body as time progresses. At the same time, it is announced that Ashura, the queen of all demons, will be resurrected and bring destruction to the universe.
poster
50
20
5.7
/628/
56
/16/
59
/17/
3.1
/1691/
18
/6/

The Guard from Underground (1992)
A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.
poster
70
20
7.1
/672/
76
/11/
59
/9/
3.6
/590/
75
/20/

Laundry (2002)
A young man named Teru, mentally altered by a childhood injury, runs a laundry and falls for Mizue, a lonely young woman with internal scars.
poster
59
19
6.1
/240/
54
/10/
69
/10/
45
/4/
6.6
/2613/

The Boy Who Saw the Wind (2000)
Amon is a boy who can control the wind. Branik, ruler of the Empire of the Golden Snake, wants Amon's power to complete the ultimate weapon and sends his troops to capture the boy. Amon, using his talents, manages to runs away with Maria, one of the People of the Sea. Together, they try to stop the Empire of the Golden Snake from destroying and conquering everything.
poster
68
16
6.8
/317/
66
/8/
69
/11/
3.5
/790/

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss (1976)
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.
poster
64
10
6.8
/125/
55
/4/
67
/3/
3.4
/805/

Stranger (1991)
After serving time for bank fraud, Kiriko now lives a quiet life as a taxi driver working night shifts... but her peace is shattered by a relentless stalker in a Land Cruiser.
poster
55
8
5.2
/171/
55
/11/
50
/14/
3.2
/222/

Muhan (1985)
Gritty softcore thriller about a female assassin brutally victimized in her past, her target, and her sadistic yakuza handler.
poster
?
80
/1/

The Way of The Prison Guard (2025)
This mystery TV movie depicts hope and rebirth through the lives of inmates with different circumstances and the prison guards who strive to rehabilitate them.
poster
?
10
/1/

She's In Love With Picasso (1989)
Kiriko is a curator at the Hakone Open-Air Museum. She gets caught up in a computer virus incident and fights for her life. This drama was produced by Fuji Television to promote its affiliated museums. At the time, it was notable for being directed by the cutting-edge director Koji Enomoto.
poster
?
20
/1/

MOROCCO 2: The Return of the Yokohama Follies (1996)
Tatsu's life seemed to be smooth sailing, as he was blessed by his friends, married Fujieda, and made peace with the yakuza. However, the days when the yakuza were free to run amok were coming to an end. Tatsu was sent to prison for a dispute over a bottle of hiropon, and during his two years in prison, his former gang mates became Inayama-gumi disciples.... I can't stand under the wind of others! Tatsu mutters in anger...
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?
5.6
/14/
10
/1/
10

Firefly (1989)
A young outlaw racing through the streets of Yokohama. Will the love that slipped through his fingers like sand come back to him once again?
poster
?
20
/1/
20
/2/

Whore Hospital 4: No-Pants Nursing (2001)
Rumors were circulating that obscene medical examinations were being conducted at Murata Memorial Hospital. Seishi, who works for the Ministry of Health and Welfare, infiltrates the hospital to find out what's going on. There, his girlfriend Rin worked as a nurse. Okada, an inpatient, said that if he had a certain card given to the nurses, they would remove the accumulated material, and that the longer he stayed in the hospital, the more special treatment he would receive. That night, Seishi sneaks into Okada's room and sees him being serviced by a nurse. And he had a suspicion that the other person was Rin. Before long, Seishi was to receive the highest quality paradise treatment. Seishi uses sleeping pills to put Okada to sleep and enters the treatment room in his place, but...
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?
6.8
/16/
10
/1/

Paper Lantern (1987)
A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer who has very little left to live. This film is based on the posthumous manuscript of Shoji Kaneko, the legendary director who died of cancer after completing work on the hit "Ryuji".
poster
?
75
/2/

Breakfast of the Movie (2023)
Documentary on the legendary bento shop "Popeye," known to everyone in the film industry.
poster
?
5.9
/11/

Nobunaga's Coffin (2006)
N/A
poster
?
5.1
/17/
10
/1/

The Most Suitable Profession for Women (1990)
N/A
poster
?
6.0
/10/
10
/1/

Yojo no jidai (1988)
Adapted from Shusaku Endō's novel.
poster
?
5.6
/10/
10
/1/

London Calling (1985)
While attending a screening of his film at the London Film Festival, a Japanese man tries to track down a woman from his past after receiving a mysterious phone call.
poster
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10
/1/

Kirikomi (1995)
N/A
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10
/2/

ホリデイ~江戸の休日~ (2023)
N/A
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10
/1/
20
/1/

Moa sekushi kemono no yoni mo ichido (1981)
A couple of delinquents doing small time con jobs steal the car of a local councilman. Inside the car they find a stuffed panda. Suddenly the two find themselves targeted by the yakuza. It seems they will do anything to retrieve the panda. But why?
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5.2
/25/
45
/2/

Beautiful Sisters: Seduced (1982)
A part time student, who works at a book store, is offered a room at his boss’s house to use for his studies. But he takes advantage of the offer to sexually assault the boss’s two daughters.
poster
?
10
/1/

After That (1982)
Film director Shunichi Nagasaki reflects on a near-fatal motorcycle accident that occurred while shooting his commercial feature debut The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September.
poster
?
4.1
/12/
10
/1/

Seven Days War 2 (1991)
N/A
poster
?
6.2
/19/
20
/1/

Some Kinda Love (1996)
The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a beauty obsessed by UFOs.
poster
?
4.8
/15/

Samurai Pirates (2013)
Long ago, Japan was home to several navies. The Murakami Navy, said to be the strongest of them all, once defeated even Nobunaga, and refused to join Hideyoshi, choosing to pursue their love of freedom and the sea. The man who led these samurai of the sea was the great pirate lord Takeyoshi Murakami. And now Kaede Murakami, a descendant of Takeyoshi, is an elementary schooler living on an island. On her 12th birthday, Kaede discovers a flute in her family's storehouse that has been passed down through the Murakami family for generations. The flute holds the key to finding the Murakami Navy's buried treasure. This adventure story tells the tale of an ancient pirate and his descendant forming a connection that transcends time, uniting the island.
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6.8
/15/
10
/1/

Rock Requiem (1988)
Four young high school students who dream of being in a rock band must deal with the unexpected deaths of their friends while making concert decisions.
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75
/2/

"Renjou" Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira (2022)
Kosuge, the president of a factory, is killed by someone while returning home. A bag charm is found at the scene. When Akira Higuchi and his colleagues from the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division investigate his home, they find a bankbook with the letters A, Y, M, and S written in English. It turns out that the charms left behind were custom-made by Seiji Iwai. However, Seiji had committed suicide five years ago in a robbery-suicide case. Seiji's mother, Mizuki, is an old acquaintance of Superintendent Tendo. Higuchi heads for Mizuki's place...
poster
?
100
/1/

Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories (2015)
Bunsei era, at a time when Edo culture is at its peak, and barely 50 years before the arrival of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Sabu is a cheerful, honest young man who left his hometown with the dream of becoming a policeman. He is an informant to the policeman Saheiji of Asakusa in Edo and stays with him and his daughter Midori. One day, Sabu encounters the cool master swordsman Ichi, who makes a living giving massages, and they become partners in an unexpected way. Although Sabu is still an informant, he and the blind Ichi collaborate in a way that compensates for each other’s shortcomings. Sabu becomes Ichi’s eyes while Ichi becomes Sabu’s right-hand man and solves cases with his well-honed skills of deduction as they search for the truth in difficult cases in Edo. One case starts with the discovery of two dead bodies in the Sumida River. The bodies have diagonal slashes and were left in boxes.
poster
?
10
/1/

Another Side (1980)
This is Yamakawa's first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era of rapid economic growth yearn for "another side" of life as they face romantic conflicts and the suicide of a fellow student.
poster
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7.1
/16/
80
/1/

Kaze no Shounen: Ozaki Yutaka Towa no Densetsu (2011)
The short life of singer-songwriter Ozaki Yutaka, who died suddenly in 1992 at the age of 26, will be dramatized for the first time on the TV Tokyo production, "Kaze no shounen ~ Ozaki Yutaka eien no densetsu".
poster
?
5.1
/9/
52
/2/

Cat Taxi (2010)
N/A
poster
?
4.7
/21/
70
/1/

The Woman of S.R.I.: The Movie (2021)
N/A
poster
51
?
6.4
/53/
10
/1/
70
/1/
3.2
/365/

Burning Dog (1991)
A gang of thieves plot to rob a US military base in Okinawa, but rising tensions in the group threaten to put the plan in jeopardy.
poster
?
6.4
/43/
63
/3/
62
/4/

Murder in the Kairotei (2011)
A woman (Takako Tokiwa) risks her life to exact revenge for her murdered lover.
poster
?
10
/1/

Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death (1993)
Bored Hatamoto film
poster
?
6.8
/12/
100
/1/

Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma (1986)
N/A
poster
?
4.6
/8/
10
/1/

Kizu (1988)
Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new type of yakuza film that stylishly depicts the short but vibrant life of legendary urban yakuza Takashi Hanagata.
poster
?
6.3
/36/
10
/1/
63
/6/

The Seburi Story (1985)
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.
poster
?
6.9
/53/
90
/1/
55
/7/

Heart, Beating in the Dark (2005)
This new version of Nagasaki's Yami utsu shinzô (1982) is neither a remake nor a sequel. It is both those things, and at the same time it is also a documentary, a portrait of the consequences of passing time, and an occasionally very funny reflection on what the hell the point is of all this filmmaking business anyway. Shigeru Muroi and Takashi Naito, back then young hopefuls willing to take chances, now among the most established and recognisable actors in Japan, return to play the roles they assumed in the 1982 film, each of their characters having gone their own way. Alongside, another young couple (Honda and the ever-brilliant Eguchi) find themselves in the exact same situation as their older counterparts 25 years earlier. Their paths cross, an opportunity arises: for the elder two to redeem part of their own lives, for the younger couple to find a helping hand in their darkest hour.
poster
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5.6
/31/
40
/2/
65
/2/

Passion (1992)
A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.


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