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Kanopy
90
8.2
/148761/
80
/2489/
80
/1710/
4.5
/217941/
96
/94/
95
/2190/
97
/21/

Ran (1985)
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
poster
Kanopy
88
8.1
/27806/
78
/554/
80
/622/
4.3
/55624/
100
/34/
93
/412/

Ugetsu (1953)
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
poster
Kanopy
88
7.9
/93485/
79
/3517/
78
/2201/
4.3
/274626/
99
/230/
91
/198/
93
/40/
cc age 16+

Shoplifters (2018)
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.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
87
8.4
/376931/
86
/18502/
84
/12144/
4.2
/1264055/
98
/118/
95
/1176/
81
/26/
8.8
/2041412/
cc age 12+

Your Name. (2016)
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.0
/59337/
78
/1058/
79
/940/
4.3
/103590/
96
/49/
93
/1068/

Throne of Blood (1957)
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
82
8.0
/10470/
78
/204/
78
/199/
4.2
/20005/
100
/11/
92
/97/
94
/5/

Early Summer (1951)
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
poster
82
7.7
/35090/
77
/806/
76
/740/
4.2
/67082/
96
/24/
92
/611/
83
/17/

Fireworks (1997)
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
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Kanopy
78
7.4
/52977/
74
/1265/
72
/915/
3.7
/25062/
87
/123/
88
/1672/
75
/33/
cc age 17+

Zatoichi (2003)
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.
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Hoopla
76
7.1
/2559/
75
/234/
72
/114/
3.5
/4682/
100
/15/
82
/27/
70
/5/
7.5
/10154/
cc age 9+

Okko's Inn (2018)
12-year-old Oriko Seki, who lost her parents in a car accident, ended up living in her grandmother's Onsen Ryokan "Haru no Ya." With the ghost "Uribou" cohabitating with her and all the other odds, she ended up training to be a young female innkeeper. At first, she didn't like the training, but gradually felt her admiration for her title and began to train seriously. Thus, the growth of the young warrior Oriko begins.
poster
75
7.1
/9481/
74
/466/
73
/309/
4.0
/22165/
83
/41/
80
/73/
68
/11/

Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
poster
Netflix
75
7.4
/30806/
75
/1984/
75
/869/
3.5
/20994/
85
/230/

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012)
In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.
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Criterion Channel
84
71
8.0
/5337/
76
/102/
77
/145/
4.2
/8890/
100
/7/
92
/24/

Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.
poster
69
6.7
/3699/
67
/269/
67
/152/
3.5
/7390/
93
/59/
70
/26/
74
/16/
7.1
/15349/
cc age 13+

Miss Hokusai (2015)
A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.
poster
68
7.1
/2474/
74
/113/
69
/71/
4.1
/16012/
75
/12/
74
56
/6/

A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (2016)
A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.
poster
79
68
7.8
/5221/
77
/94/
74
/86/
3.7
/2294/
92
/5196/

Be with You (2004)
Takumi and his six-year-old son, Yuji, haven't come to terms with their wife and mother's death. One day, they meet a woman with an uncanny resemblance to her sheltering from the rain near their home.
poster
66
6.8
/124577/
69
/4840/
65
/2355/
3.2
/90019/
73
/52/
69
/2103/
61
/14/
cc age 14+

You Only Live Twice (1967)
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
5.9
/9754/
64
/923/
57
/232/
3.1
/6202/
100
/5/
55
/35/

The Debt Collector (2018)
A classically-trained martial artist goes to work as a debt collector for the mob. The job seems easy enough, until one “client” pulls him into a situation deeper than could ever be expected.
poster
75
62
7.2
/3254/
74
/91/
70
/63/
3.8
/3656/
87
/75/

Adrift in Tokyo (2007)
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.
poster
The Roku Channel
77
58
7.1
/3064/
75
/165/
72
/86/
3.7
/4715/
100
/10/
74
/5/

100 Yen Love (2014)
Slacker Ichiko gets into a fight with her younger sister and begins to live on her own, working the late shift at a 100 yen shop. On her way home, she passes a gym and meets boxer Kano who trains there in silence...
poster
71
55
6.8
/2235/
74
/144/
73
/104/
3.6
/7751/

Orange (2015)
A girl mysteriously receives advice from her future self and as a result her group of friends, along with a newly arrived, troubled classmate, learn how to be better friends and a better community.
poster
72
53
7.0
/2400/
68
/81/
67
/73/
3.7
/6050/
84
/27/

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)
Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of the vice officer who killed her lover.
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Criterion Channel
74
53
7.5
/7132/
74
/165/
72
/132/
3.8
/8854/
78
/3/

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.
poster
72
48
7.2
/1984/
77
/135/
71
/79/
3.7
/3265/
70
/10/

Bunny Drop (2011)
Daikichi learns that his recently deceased grandfather has an illegitimate daughter with an unknown mother. The girl's name is Rin and she is just 6 years old. Everybody in Daikichi's family looks at the girl as an embarrassment and wants no part of her. Daikichi, annoyed by his family's attitude, decides to raise Rin by himself. Even though Daikichi himself has no experience raising a child and is still single.
poster
71
45
7.3
/3001/
67
/85/
70
/69/
3.5
/1200/
78
/14/

The Eternal Zero (2013)
A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they get conflicting accounts from his former comrades about his character and how he joined his squadron.
poster
63
43
5.9
/1781/
66
/68/
62
/79/
3.3
/27295/

Drowning Love (2016)
Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets Koichiro Hasegawa. He is the successor of the Hasegawa family. His family is wealthy and is respected in the area. Natsume Mochizuki and Koichiro Hasegawa become attracted to each other, but something changes their fate.
poster
74
42
7.2
/482/
77
/78/
73
/23/
3.5
/1497/
7.8
/148461/

AnoHana: The Flower We Saw That Day (2015)
Friends grow apart after a tragic accident claims one of their number. Years later, the dead girl appears to them to ask for their help in crossing over to the afterlife.
poster
64
40
6.5
/1771/
65
/81/
61
/60/
3.4
/5036/
62
/12/

Blind Woman's Curse (1970)
Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.
poster
54
40
6.2
/2816/
65
/95/
63
/115/
3.2
/1680/
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
65
39
6.2
/1357/
67
/87/
60
/54/
3.2
/1454/
70
/10/
69
/5/

Samurai Marathon (2019)
When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his independent-minded daughter Yuki secretly joins the race.
poster
58
38
6.0
/2527/
62
/56/
54
/50/
3.0
/835/
56
/54/

Cold Showers (2005)
Mickael's family is struggling (they don't have enough money to pay for hot water) however his life is full with Judo and his girlfriend Venessa. Then Mickael makes a decision to open up his relationship to include Clement his rich-kid Judo partner, starting a chain of events.
poster
73
35
6.9
/582/
74
/27/
73
/22/
3.9
/5615/

Voices in the Wind (2020)
Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her touching search for answers, Haru sets out on a long, eventful journey to her home town, where she lost her family in the flood.
poster
66
34
6.8
/1434/
68
/49/
66
/50/
3.3
/1900/
62
/2/

Cafe Funiculi Funicula (2018)
Kazu works at "Funiculi Funicula" cafe. There is a mysterious rumour that if a customer takes a specific seat at the cafe, that customer can travel back to a time of their choice.
poster
66
30
6.9
/644/
60
/16/
59
/24/
3.5
/389/
64
/11/
75
/19/

Fine, Totally Fine (2008)
Two listless friends and a clumsy girl try to make sense of their lives, and perhaps find love along the way.
poster
63
29
6.4
/992/
62
/31/
65
/26/
3.2
/271/
65
/76/

Virgin Snow (2007)
Min, a Korean boy, moves to Japan with his father who is a potter. One day at a local shrine, he meets Nanae, a beautiful Japanese girl with stunning eyes who is aspiring to be a painter. Min falls in love at first sight and finds out that Nanae attends the school to which he has just transferred. Their friendship develops fast despite their cultural and language difference. When Min's grandmother falls ill, Min returns to Korea and Nanae is nowhere to be found. Had his true feelings for Nanae not been apparent to her? Why has Nanae disappeared without a word?
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Amazon Prime Video
70
28
6.6
/401/
66
/19/
74
/12/
3.7
/3400/

Mio on the Shore (2019)
Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.
poster
66
26
6.6
/684/
61
/24/
58
/34/
3.6
/699/
73
/15/

The Clone Returns Home (2008)
Kohei Takahara, an astronaut who dies in the line of duty, is legally resurrected as a clone: however, contrary to the scientists' expectations, he reverts to his childhood memories when his twin brother drowned sacrificing his life for Kohei. Kohei's clone discovers the body of his former self mistakenly believing that it is his deceased twin. Reliving his tragic past, he sets off carrying his corpse body to the beautiful hometown where he lived with his now dead mother.
poster
64
25
5.7
/378/
76
/48/
68
/36/
2.9
/593/

My Brother Loves Me Too Much (2017)
Setoka Tachibana is a female high school student who has confessed her feelings to other boys 12 times, but has been rebuffed each time. Her older brother Haruka Tachibana cares for his younger sister deeply, but he keeps secret from her that they are not blood related. One day, Setoka's first love Takane Serikawa appears after many years and approaches her.
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Kanopy
63
23
6.4
/568/
68
/22/
59
/41/
3.3
/799/
59
/6/

Hospitalité (2011)
In this black comedy the lives of a timid small-time printer and his young wife are turned inside out by the arrival of a stranger who moves in and takes over their world. Set in a village-like outpost in the heart of Tokyo, this is a wry commentary on Japanese xenophobia. Kiki Sugino heads a spritely ensemble cast.
poster
48
23
5.2
/896/
56
/26/
48
/32/
2.9
/1292/
38
/13/
36
/2/

Vision (2018)
Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.
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Amazon Prime Video
41
23
4.5
/1525/
45
/42/
40
/39/
2.7
/1023/
21
/1507/

The House Where Evil Dwells (1982)
At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place is haunted. But the ghost of 19th-century samurai Shigero turns out to be very real, and is intent on making the family re-enact an ancient murder-suicide.
poster
68
18
6.9
/586/
69
/23/
69
/12/
3.4
/742/

A Long Goodbye (2019)
Mari and Humi learn from their mother that their father has dementia on his 70th birthday. They help prepare their mother for his farewell and prepare themselves for the emotions to follow.
poster
57
18
5.5
/347/
53
/31/
62
/18/
3.0
/829/

Ousama Game (2011)
One night, Chiemi Honda and childhood friend Nobuaki Kanazawa receive an email. The sender is the King and the subject of the email is "King Game." The email states that if the recipient does not complete the king's order within 24 hours then they will be punished. Since that first email all of Chiemi's classmates receive an email from the King. At first, students think it's a joke, but perform the orders anyways. Gradually, the orders become worse. Finally, 2 classmates who do not follow the orders are punished. Then classmates start to disappear in sequence. Maria Iwamura stares at one classmate coldly. With Maria Iwamura, Chiema Honda gets closer to uncovering the identity of the King, but tragedy is about to come to Chiemi..
poster
73
14
6.8
/485/
81
/14/
76
/14/
3.5
/312/

What a Wonderful Family! 3 (2018)
At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen her secret money she kept hidden in the refrigerator.
poster
70
13
6.8
/287/
73
/12/
71
/17/
3.4
/242/

March Goes out Like a Lamb (2017)
The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an upcoming tournament, the father who left the three sisters appears and disturbs the peace.
poster
72
13
7.2
/527/
77
/13/
66
/17/
3.5
/249/
77
/4/

Chronicle of My Mother (2012)
Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.
poster
65
13
6.7
/534/
62
/14/
60
/22/
3.4
/324/
69
/1/

The Ravine of Goodbye (2013)
In a valley, with a dense growth of trees, a baby is killed. The baby's mother Satomi is arrested as the prime suspect. The police also learn that Satomi is involved in a romantic relationship with her next door neighbor Ozaki. The information was provided by the neighbor's lover Kanako.
poster
57
10
5.6
/280/
51
/9/
58
/13/
3.2
/317/

A Beautiful Star (2017)
A family believes they are aliens from other planets and tries to save Earth from impending calamity.
poster
55
8
5.6
/195/
56
/21/
51
/11/
3.0
/262/

Make a Bow and Kiss (2017)
Mikami Yota is smitten with the archery of his older schoolmate Kishimoto, a high school senior who heads the archery club. Mikami clumsily conveys his ardent feelings to An, and she tries to respond to his affections. Their feelings are mutual but somehow things don't go smoothly between them, and then other guys appear on the scene to complicate things.


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