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HBO Max Amazon Channel
84
8.1
/54070/
82
/3269/
82
/2420/
4.1
/160860/
95
/21/
92
/288/
76
/8/
8.5
/482337/
cc age 10+

Wolf Children (2012)
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.
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Kanopy
73
7.5
/13667/
78
/468/
74
/270/
4.2
/168871/
68
/40/
89
/511/
73
/18/

All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
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.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
67
IMDb 29
6.4
/59050/
64
/1584/
64
/385/
3.2
/269534/
70
/304/
74
/264/
65
/56/
cc age 15+

The Smashing Machine (2025)
In the late 1990s, up-and-coming mixed martial artist Mark Kerr aspires to become the greatest fighter in the world. However, he must also battle his opioid dependence and a volatile relationship with his girlfriend Dawn.
poster
74
65
7.2
/5336/
68
/127/
70
/127/
3.7
/15331/
86
/183/

Hana & Alice (2004)
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
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Netflix
75
63
6.8
/5263/
71
/357/
72
/143/
3.5
/7225/
93
/15/
96
/7/
62
/5/

Kingdom (2019)
Set in Qin Dynasty during the warring states period in ancient China. Shin was a war orphan. He has a dream of becoming a great general Shin has a fateful encounter with young King Eisei. King Eisei aims to unify all of China.
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75
59
7.2
/4010/
77
/56/
73
/52/
3.5
/1694/
83
/181/

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004)
While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.
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66
59
6.5
/4117/
68
/218/
67
/133/
3.2
/1330/
78
/9/
59
/105/

ICHI (2008)
Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortunately for Ichi, she is also a gifted swordswoman and carries a lethal blade within her walking stick.
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67
54
6.6
/5649/
68
/162/
69
/126/
3.2
/904/
72
/105/

Goemon (2009)
Follow the infamous ninja bandit named Ishikawa Goemon (Yosuke Eguchi) in an epic story. One night while looting treasure from Nanban (Southern Barbarians), Goemon finds a mysterious box hidden inside a secret grave. A forgotten relic from the past containing untold powers.
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68
46
6.6
/2366/
65
/44/
69
/58/
3.3
/976/
75
/89/

Aragami (2003)
Two seriously wounded samurai find refuge from a storm at an isolated temple, the home of a swordsman and a mysterious young woman. One samurai awakes to find that not only has his comrade died, but that his wounds have miraculously healed. He discovers that he has been given the power of immortality by the swordsman, a man once known as the legendary Miyamoto Musashi, who now lives an endless existence as Aragami, a "god of battle".
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Netflix
71
45
7.2
/1679/
76
/95/
67
/670/
3.5
/1498/

Kingdom: Return of the Great General (2024)
Depicts a continuation of the "Battle of Mayang", an all-out war against the neighboring country Zhao that Shin and Wang Ki fought in in the previous work "Flame of Fate".
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Netflix
71
45
6.8
/2050/
73
/152/
75
/133/
3.3
/2105/
76
/5/

Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny (2023)
To defend their kingdom against a sudden invasion, a mighty general returns to the battlefield alongside a war orphan, now grown up, who dreams of glory.
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Netflix
67
44
6.7
/2488/
69
/158/
72
/125/
3.2
/2801/
67
/2/

Kingdom 2: Far and Away (2022)
It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification.
poster
54
40
6.2
/2822/
65
/96/
64
/115/
3.2
/1714/
45
/11/
44
/13/
35
/6/

Shield of Straw (2013)
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru. Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.
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Amazon Prime Video
75
38
7.7
/2531/
70
/32/
70
/38/
3.6
/952/
87
/9/

Kano (2014)
A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
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The Roku Channel
42
37
4.3
/8389/
53
/206/
45
/163/
2.1
/2269/
28
/148/

Into the Sun (2005)
After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent that had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza. Using his former ties, he quickly determines that a war is brewing between old-guard Yakuza members and a young, crazed leader with ties to the Chinese Tong.
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35
6.0
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61
/37/
62
/52/
3.2
/511/
62
/157/

Sky High (2003)
A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims and taking them with him. His victims however, are not merely random humans as thought by the police. They are in fact, the past and present guardians of the gateway of the afterlife.On the day he is to be married, Detective Kanzaki, who happens to be on the case, discovers that his fiancé Mina has been murdered with her heart also missing. He also learns that the killers are Kudo, a geneticist, and his evil secretary Rei. The two are trying to obtain six hearts from the guardians so that they may call forth a horde of demons from the Gate of Rage and have their every desire granted. Only problem is, once they open the gate the entire world will be covered in darkness.
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Hoopla
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27
5.7
/196/
59
/12/
62
/15/
3.2
/417/
86
/7/

The Great Yokai War: Guardians (2021)
Fifth grader Kei Watanabe has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from destruction, Kei challenges a war against the yōkai.
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23
6.8
/251/
90
/4/
63
/6/
85
/35/

Helen the Baby Fox (2006)
A young boy named Taichi Ogawara finds a fox cub on the side of the road and takes it home as a pet. He discovers it is blind, deaf, and mute. Because of this, he names it Helen, after Helen Keller.
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69
19
6.8
/584/
63
/16/
78
/22/
3.4
/260/

Jam Films (2002)
Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.
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18
6.3
/466/
67
/9/
60
/19/
3.4
/697/

Halfway (2009)
In this high school romance Hiro is dismayed to learn her new love Shu will be going away to college in Tokyo. She asks him not to go.
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45
15
4.6
/160/
65
/2/
50
/1/
31
/13/
39
/12/
42
/7/

Midnight Eagle (2007)
A stolen military aircraft with nuclear missiles on board crashes in the snowbound Northern Japanese Alps. Two teams of rangers from Japan's Defense Force must reach the craft before the enemies do.
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74
13
8.0
/441/
75
/18/
70
/10/
3.6
/402/

The King and I (2018)
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.
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9
6.6
/352/
64
/13/
70
/11/
3.5
/225/
60
/1/

Flowers (2010)
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.
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?
100
/1/
96
/5/

The Silent Service: The Great Sea Battle of the Arctic Ocean (2025)
Yamato submerges in the cold, deep northern seas with Mozart's music echoing. The nuclear-powered submarine, named the “Great and Powerful Peace,” overwhelmed the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Battle of Tokyo Bay and set course for New York. As it approached the Bering Strait, the border between the U.S. and Russia, a submarine loomed behind Yamato... “Sink the nuclear terrorist Yamato!” It is a cutting-edge U.S. submarine, far superior to Yamato, sent by the U.S. President Bennett. At the same time, a general election is held in Japan to dissolve the House of Representatives. Prime Minister Takegami announces his support for Yamato, and the two will share the same fate, whether they remain or sink. Will Shiro Kaieda be able to overcome the greatest challenge of the voyage? Under the aurora borealis, in the Arctic Ocean with floating ice floes, the curtain rises on the battle to be fought.
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?
6.9
/22/
73
/3/

Wish You Were Here (2019)
On the eve of her latest fashion showcase in Beijing, successful entrepreneur Yuan Yuan is approached by Keiko, a mysterious young Japanese woman. An admirer of Yuan Yuan’s career, Keiko has learned Mandarin and fashion design for a chance to speak with her idol. As Yuan Yuan takes Keiko under her wing, long suppressed memories begin to surface of her time in Hokkaido and the husband she’d left behind.
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?
6.6
/19/
20
/1/

Filament (2002)
Due to his short fuse, Kyota is never able to hold a job for very long. Instead, he wastes his days with his dead-beat friends, Takuji and Ringo. Meanwhile his father is a cross-dresser, and his little sister Akemi is a dangerous sleepwalker who is trying to divorce her dangerous yakuza husband. When their mother returns after abandoning them 10 years earlier, Kyota lashes out. But as their dysfunctional life together begins, something happens that changes this family's destiny forever.
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52
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6.4
/377/
10
/2/
83
/6/

The Silent Service (2023)
Shiro Kaieda is appointed the captain of Japan's first nuclear submarine, jointly built by Japan and the United States in top secret. However, he and his 76 crew members go rogue in this story that delves into themes of nuclear war, international politics, and world peace.
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?
10
/1/

Gerende ga tokeru hodo koishitai (1995)
A film about love and winter sports.
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10
/1/

The Hungry Shinjuku Detective (1994)
The private eye of Shinjuku Yokubo Tantei is a lone wolf, lush, and loser but has kept his integrity in a dirty, dangerous world.
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20
/1/

劇的紀行 深夜特急’97 西へ!ユーラシア編 (1996)
N/A
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5.7
/80/
55
/2/
87
/3/

Milk White (2004)
Takayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's syndrome, and will gradually lose his sight. He resigns from his job and leaves his girlfriend, Yoko (Yuriko Ishida) to return to his hometown, Nagasaki, where his mother lives. Takayuki spends his days strolling around Nagasaki, to imprint familiar scenes on his memory. Yoko visits him and insists on staying. Takayuki has major concerns for her future, and his own life. He drives her away, for her own good. After days of affliction, the two reunite. The story leads to an emotive conclusion, the end of his spiritual journey.
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10
/1/

Midnight Train (1995)
N/A
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?
20
/1/
60
/1/

Yakuza Ladies: Revenge (2000)
13th installment of the 16-film franchise.
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63
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6.2
/196/
60
/1/
69
/8/

Riding the Metro (2006)
Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.
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47
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6.0
/92/
10
/1/
72
/14/

Sakurada Gate Incident (2010)
Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events.
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45
?
5.4
/128/
15
/2/
66
/5/

The Island Tales (2000)
A group of disparate characters find themselves trapped overnight on a island somewhere off the coast of mainland China. The circumstances force them to overlook their preconceptions of one another, and they forge a kinship that goes to the heart their identities.
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41
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5.5
/107/
37
/4/
32
/4/

Christmas on July 24th Avenue (2006)
Sayuri Honda (Miki Nakatani) claims she has no interests in love affairs. She refuses to take things as they are for she fancies her harbor town of Nagasaki as Lisbon, Portugal. But on Christmas, encouraged by the season of romance, she tries to materialize her once-in-a-lifetime love with the man of her dreams.
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74
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6.3
/138/
90
/2/
60
/1/
86
/8/

Bizan (2007)
Sakiko, works independently at a travel agent in Tokyo. She was raised by her mother, Tatsuko, is hospitalized, Sakiko returns to her hometown Tokushima on Shikoku. The town is famous for its annual Awa Dance Festival. She is told by doctor, Terasawa Daisuke, that her mother has terminal cancer.
poster
?
6.9
/65/
70
/1/

Life Tengoku de Kimi ni Aetara (2007)
Follows the life of Natsuki Iijima, a windsurfer from Japan, as he battles and ultimately loses his life to liver cancer. The first and only windsurfer to compete for 8 consecutive years in the World Cup Competition, Natsuki's diagnosis overwhelms him with fear and panic. Despite this set back, with the love and devotion of his wife Hiroko and four children, he decides to live life the best he can, to the fullest, without having his life prolonged with further treatment
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?
6.9
/29/
20
/1/

Sennen-Tabito (1999)
Knowing that he has only a month to live, a pianist goes back to his beloved ocean. He meets a girl with a broken leg. She is the daughter of his dearest woman who died many years ago. The relationship between them becomes closer. They rescue a man who tries to commit suicide. When the pianist is nearing his end, that man finds love in the girl's heart...
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?
20
/1/

Worst Contact (2000)
In the near future, a man undergoes an experiment by sharing living quarters with an alien aboard a space station. Based on a Yasutaka Tsutsui play.
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?
6.8
/63/
63
/3/
70
/4/

The Taste of Fish (2008)
It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market is where you're most likely to find them. It's the home of Japan's biggest daily fish auction, and it's a place of fierce competition between fish merchants that have been in the business for generations. Based on a comic series, The Taste of Fish follows businessman Shuntaro, who has a successful career in a trading company and is in a steady relationship with girlfriend Asuka. One day, Shuntaro has to help out at the fish wholesaler store run by Asuka's father, and he immediately falls in love with the world of Tsukiji Fish Market. Soon, Shuntaro quits his job and devotes all of his time to running the business while learning about the market's fascinating set of long-standing traditions. However, he must first also learn to distinguish the tastes of different fishes before he can survive in the competitive world of Tsukiji.
poster
60
?
5.4
/171/
70
/4/
56
/11/

A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth (2006)
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought together by chance when they inadvertently team up to thwart a bank robbery. Recognizing the potential of their combined talents, they decide to form a bank-robbing gang themselves, just for the fun and romance of it. Their heists are played out swiftly and coolly, less like robberies than performance art. Eventually, the foursome's good-natured crime streak is interrupted when a man from one of their pasts creates a whirlwind of extortion and double crossing.
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6.6
/100/
51
/6/
53
/3/

Two Punks (1996)
Centering on a young drifter almost casually drawn into violence--a crime drama about a boy and a man equally ill-equipped for criminal life and straight society. Neither wants to be a Yakuza, but normal life presents problems.
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60
?
6.3
/323/
53
/15/
66
/24/

Strawberry Night (2013)
Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work. Reiko than becomes involved in a murder case named "Strawberry Night" due to the mysterious use of those words surrounding the case ...
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60
?
6.8
/157/
50
/3/
63
/27/

The Terminal Trust (2012)
Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, Shinzo Egi asks his doctor Ayano Orii if she could follow his wish. Doctor Ayano Orii is then questioned in a criminal case because of her decision.
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5.4
/45/
70
/1/
70
/2/

The Battling Angel (2003)
Police struggle to uncover Klein, a powerful criminal organization. Asuka, a young detective, is assigned to contact and escort Hatsumi, a mistress of the drug lord Kimikuni, but they are ambushed, leaving Hatsumi brain-dead and Asuka near to death. However, the police concoct a top-secret plan to infiltrate Klein by transplanting Asuka's brain into Hatsumi's body.
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63
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5.3
/223/
65
/5/
71
/11/

AI Amok (2020)
In 2030, AI is everywhere including the medical field, finance and security. Artificial intelligence has become essential in people's lives. They have come to completely trust AI, but artificial intelligence becomes out of control and it causes disaster.


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