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Kanopy
92
8.6
/398827/
84
/5714/
84
/4089/
4.6
/399556/
100
/103/
97
/6724/
98
/7/
cc age 13+

Seven Samurai (1954)
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
poster
Kanopy
90
8.1
/76834/
81
/1455/
82
/1179/
4.4
/137727/
100
/52/
93
/872/
100
/19/

Tokyo Story (1953)
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
poster
Netflix
90
8.5
/377060/
85
/10010/
84
/6328/
4.5
/1061939/
100
/50/
95
/5487/
94
/16/
8.5
/451956/
cc age 15+

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
86
8.3
/23130/
81
/387/
81
/394/
4.4
/32161/
73
/15/
94
/388/
90
/10/

Red Beard (1965)
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
poster
Kanopy
86
8.2
/41266/
80
/658/
78
/472/
4.3
/62805/
98
/82/
93
/368/

Pather Panchali (1955)
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. His wife, Sarbojaya, looks after their rebellious daughter, Durga, and young son, Apu. The children enjoy the small pleasures of their difficult life.
poster
85
8.3
/22118/
82
/474/
80
/357/
4.2
/22767/
87
/23/
96
/404/

To Live (1994)
Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.6
/15413/
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
Criterion Channel
83
7.8
/4104/
76
/101/
75
/86/
4.0
/7806/
86
/7/
88
/33/

The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
poster
Kanopy
83
7.7
/79551/
76
/2282/
77
/1636/
4.2
/180909/
96
/121/
89
/974/
79
/31/
cc age 15+

Mother (2009)
A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
82
8.0
/10554/
78
/206/
78
/201/
4.2
/20700/
100
/11/
92
/97/
94
/5/

Early Summer (1951)
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.3
/10936/
72
/197/
70
/210/
3.8
/20390/
100
/18/
82
/299/
81
/19/

The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
A young Vietnamese peasant girl named Mùi becomes the servant of a house in pre-unification Saigon.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
81
7.8
/12221/
78
/350/
77
/305/
4.2
/57870/
94
/16/
87
/177/
87
/9/

Good Morning (1959)
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
poster
81
7.7
/30416/
78
/1720/
78
/894/
4.1
/84125/
95
/106/
88
/135/
78
/20/
cc age 11+

The Breadwinner (2017)
A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
poster
Netflix
81
80
7.4
/7097/
74
/825/
73
/253/
3.7
/30070/
100
/22/
92
/39/
cc age 8+

Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019)
ZIM discovers his almighty leaders never had any intention of coming to Earth and he loses confidence in himself for the first time in his life, which is the big break his human nemesis, Dib has been waiting for.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.4
/19893/
74
/892/
71
/143/
3.9
/91608/
96
/141/
93
/51/
78
/34/
cc age 12+

The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.5
/205839/
74
/7472/
72
/3710/
3.9
/385773/
90
/51/
89
/8548/
81
/7/
cc age 17+

Battle Royale (2000)
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.
poster
Kanopy
81
79
7.7
/12390/
76
/317/
74
/233/
4.0
/6796/
92
/53/
86
/275/
85
/13/

City of Life and Death (2009)
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
poster
78
7.6
/2224/
77
/146/
80
/88/
4.1
/32441/
81
/15/

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025)
The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep attachment to her family's housekeeper, Nishio-san, Amélie discovers the wonders of nature as well as the emotional truths hidden beneath the surface of her family's idyllic life as foreigners in post-war Japan.
poster
Netflix
77
7.5
/115962/
77
/4739/
74
/2426/
3.6
/66754/
97
/31/
84
/1345/
67
/13/

Ip Man 2 (2010)
Having defeated the best fighters of the Imperial Japanese army in occupied Shanghai, Ip Man and his family settle in post-war Hong Kong. Struggling to make a living, Master Ip opens a kung fu school to bring his celebrated art of Wing Chun to the troubled youth of Hong Kong. His growing reputation soon brings challenges from powerful enemies, including pre-eminent Hung Gar master, Hung Quan.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.2
/115541/
72
/2426/
69
/1364/
3.6
/37880/
90
/160/
75
/8298/
77
/36/
cc age 15+

Rescue Dawn (2007)
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
76
7.2
/11007/
70
/282/
71
/248/
3.9
/32388/
100
/26/
84
/267/

Branded to Kill (1967)
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
75
7.1
/24470/
69
/380/
66
/348/
3.5
/13850/
88
/34/
77
/302/
65
/9/

The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
75
7.4
/58550/
75
/2811/
75
/1891/
3.7
/261614/
87
/87/
80
/476/
71
/20/
7.7
/132918/
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
74
7.4
/4566/
71
/33/
69
/61/
3.7
/1515/
73
/77/
89
/203/
60
/24/

Together (2002)
When a violin prodigy Xiaochun and his father head to Beijing seeking fame and fortune, they soon discover a fierce world of cutthroat ambition. But when Xiaochun is "adopted" by a famous music tutor, success finally seems within reach - until a shocking discovery begins to unravel his entire world, and the boy must make the most difficult choice of his life. Can he achieve the fame his father had always hoped for without losing the extraordinary passion that sets him apart?
poster
74
7.7
/141727/
76
/3181/
75
/2065/
3.9
/108755/
75
/67/
90
/3542/
62
/22/
cc age 14+

Empire of the Sun (1987)
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
73
7.2
/6552/
72
/217/
71
/189/
3.8
/24693/
100
/5/
78
/58/

The Housemaid (1960)
A piano composer's family moves into a new house; when his pregnant wife collapses from working to support the family, he hires a housemaid to help with housework.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
71
7.4
/13598/
72
/275/
69
/222/
3.7
/4147/
71
/38/
86
/489/
68
/11/

The Secret Life of Words (2005)
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
poster
71
6.8
/3733/
67
/49/
64
/52/
3.5
/1224/
67
/9/
74
/64/

At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?
poster
70
6.8
/8229/
68
/102/
65
/100/
3.3
/2251/
83
/77/
71
/190/
69
/26/

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.
poster
Kanopy
75
70
7.1
/7065/
71
/200/
68
/166/
4.0
/44782/
81
/48/
73
/125/
83
/16/

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
On a dark, wet night in Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. A meager audience, the remaining few staff, and perhaps even a ghost or two, watch King Hu’s wuxia classic "Dragon Inn", each haunted by memories and desires evoked by cinema itself.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
69
7.6
/5475/
72
/124/
74
/224/
3.9
/9188/
100
/8/
82
/28/

Bitter Rice (1949)
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.
poster
Netflix
68
6.5
/30866/
69
/3190/
70
/1119/
3.3
/37341/
70
/27/
78
/215/
64
/4/
cc age 15+

Space Sweepers (2021)
When the crew of a space junk collector ship called The Victory discovers a humanoid robot named Dorothy that's known to be a weapon of mass destruction, they get involved in a risky business deal which puts their lives at stake.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
68
7.6
/4256/
75
/78/
75
/98/
4.0
/11086/
93
/15/
88
/31/

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
poster
79
68
7.5
/5518/
72
/81/
71
/76/
3.8
/1726/
100
/5/
84
/70/

King Rat (1965)
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
poster
76
68
7.1
/5895/
73
/88/
70
/110/
3.8
/5737/
82
/11/
85
/140/
76
/15/

Cyclo (1995)
Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.
poster
70
67
6.9
/13315/
71
/279/
67
/228/
3.7
/17736/
71
/56/
80
/662/
58
/19/

Gozu (2003)
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.
poster
79
67
7.8
/6925/
75
/696/
76
/585/
3.9
/24252/
90
/7/
7.8
/89291/

Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (1993)
It has been thirteen years since the Androids began their killing rampage and Son Gohan is the only person fighting back. He takes Bulma's son Trunks as a student and even gives his own life to save Trunks's. Now Trunks must figure out a way to change this apocalyptic future
poster
Criterion Channel
77
64
7.3
/3147/
72
/59/
66
/68/
3.8
/5155/
95
/21/
82
/36/

An Actor's Revenge (1963)
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
poster
78
64
7.7
/3667/
71
/93/
71
/52/
3.6
/685/
96
/46/
88
/296/
76
/19/

Nanking (2007)
The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Japanese army murdered over 200,000 and raped tens of thousands of Chinese. In the midst of this horror, a small group of Western expatriates banded together to save 250,000. Nanking shows the tremendous impact individuals can make on the course of history.
poster
63
7.1
/28190/
72
/837/
71
/1616/
3.7
/39121/
41
/70/
64
/318/
50
/25/

Little White Lies (2010)
Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.
poster
Hulu
62
5.9
/89849/
60
/5090/
60
/1176/
2.6
/614701/
77
/299/
55
/770/
62
/48/
cc age 16+

The Monkey (2025)
When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
62
7.2
/2785/
70
/59/
67
/66/
3.7
/5683/
100
/9/
76
/35/

Osaka Elegy (1936)
Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.
poster
69
61
6.9
/4740/
64
/89/
62
/97/
3.5
/4710/
86
/58/
65
/48/

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
poster
Netflix
76
61
7.5
/7410/
76
/447/
73
/304/
3.5
/5028/
88
/5/

100 Meters (2016)
Based on the incredibly true story of a Spanish man with Multiple Sclerosis who tried to finish an Iron-Man: 3,8km swimming, 180km cycling and 42 running. And he was told that he could not make 100 meters.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
58
6.7
/1903/
66
/42/
64
/44/
3.7
/7934/
89
/9/
73
/35/
74
/7/

Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story.
poster
78
58
7.6
/1481/
67
/18/
71
/41/
3.8
/1670/
92
/71/
86
/4/

Children of Hiroshima (1952)
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
poster
76
58
7.0
/2242/
67
/48/
65
/54/
3.9
/3341/
100
/9/
76
/23/

The Puppetmaster (1993)
Master puppeteer Li Tien-lu recalls his life in Japanese-occupied Taiwan during the first half of the 20th century.
poster
63
58
6.5
/9825/
66
/210/
64
/176/
2.7
/3817/
67
/351/

The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)
In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition, Selima is assigned to sleep with Truscott and teach him the native language and customs. But when they fall in love, both colonists and natives object to their plans to marry.


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