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Kanopy
88
7.9
/94195/
79
/3613/
78
/2228/
4.3
/283624/
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
84
8.1
/34309/
81
/2125/
82
/1712/
3.9
/183962/
93
/14/
92
/58/
8.5
/654314/

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)
After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.6
/18460/
76
/660/
75
/403/
4.1
/72346/
100
/10/
86
/416/
80
/6/

Lady Snowblood (1973)
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
poster
81
7.6
/13673/
75
/364/
74
/267/
4.2
/39170/
94
/87/
80
/389/
80
/22/

Tokyo Sonata (2008)
A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.
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Amazon Prime Video
81
7.8
/13725/
77
/829/
79
/608/
4.1
/39837/
97
/74/
87
/21/
73
/21/
8.2
/83648/
cc age 10+

In This Corner of the World (2016)
Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…
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Hoopla
80
7.5
/68343/
78
/4633/
80
/2547/
3.7
/270864/
91
/98/
96
/36/
72
/30/
8.2
/667762/
cc age 13+

Weathering with You (2019)
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
poster
82
77
7.6
/5895/
79
/237/
78
/144/
4.4
/59000/
91
/218/

Swing Girls (2004)
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.
poster
80
76
7.5
/5625/
79
/225/
75
/138/
4.2
/56976/
88
/16/
87
/247/
74
/6/

Linda Linda Linda (2005)
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".
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Kanopy
75
7.4
/14010/
76
/661/
74
/589/
3.9
/28426/
84
/58/
85
/47/
60
/16/

Sweet Bean (2015)
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.
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FXNow
74
7.6
/736643/
78
/48513/
74
/18897/
3.5
/1642288/
83
/417/
85
/4267/
66
/51/
cc age 17+

Deadpool 2 (2018)
Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.
poster
75
72
6.7
/8672/
72
/831/
74
/488/
3.5
/13884/
91
/11/
76
/31/

I Am a Hero (2016)
A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed on impact. A moment later, when the corpse stands up and walks away, it could be a hallucination or something far more extraordinary.
poster
71
7.1
/15889/
72
/547/
69
/382/
3.7
/25843/
75
/24/
74
/142/
66
/5/

Cold Fish (2011)
When fish shop owner Shamoto's teenage daughter Mitsuko is caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man named Murata helps resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Mitsuko work at their opposing fish store. Shamoto soon discovers that something far more sinister lives behind Murata's friendly demeanor.
poster
72
70
7.2
/8928/
76
/300/
70
/219/
4.2
/62427/
62
/29/
87
/654/
56
/14/

Kamikaze Girls (2004)
Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.
poster
74
65
7.2
/5338/
68
/133/
70
/127/
3.7
/15519/
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.
poster
69
64
7.0
/5350/
70
/166/
69
/152/
3.8
/11819/
64
/11/
79
/150/
59
/7/

Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
poster
73
60
7.1
/3218/
70
/77/
65
/58/
3.7
/3407/
89
/200/

Waterboys (2001)
In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the synchronised swimming competition, in-spite of the mockeries of the real sportsmen.
poster
65
60
6.6
/7205/
69
/306/
66
/228/
3.4
/8466/
59
/27/

Lesson of the Evil (2012)
Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer who concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
77
59
7.4
/2442/
74
/118/
77
/84/
4.1
/31284/
81
/27/

Love & Pop (1998)
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
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Crunchyroll
63
59
6.3
/9505/
67
/746/
71
/554/
3.2
/38075/
57
/7/
58
/20/

As the Gods Will (2014)
High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.
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Crunchyroll
69
58
6.5
/2200/
75
/189/
78
/234/
3.2
/4309/
67

Tokyo Revengers (2021)
An unemployed man learns that his ex-girlfriend was murdered. He suddenly finds himself travelling through time to his middle school years and has chance to change the future and save the girl. He aims to rise to the top of the most brutal delinquent gang.
poster
80
58
7.7
/2648/
80
/62/
77
/46/
3.8
/1289/
90
/123/

Always - Sunset on Third Street (2005)
Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's family. Neighbors Hiromi, writer Chagawa with admirer Junnosuke strive alongside them in postwar Tokyo's evolution.
poster
76
56
7.3
/4527/
75
/237/
75
/154/
3.7
/8967/
83
/4/

Flying Colors (2015)
A high school girl, Sayaka Kudō was the bottom of the class. After a year, she improved her deviation value from 30 to 70, then passed Keio University that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan.
poster
80
55
7.4
/2669/
77
/92/
73
/58/
3.9
/4469/
100
/5/
78
/3/

Her Love Boils Bathwater (2016)
After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Futaba resolves to spend her remaining time reuniting her broken family, reopening the long-closed bathhouse, and helping her shy daughter Azumi learn to stand on her own.
poster
71
55
6.8
/2262/
74
/145/
72
/106/
3.6
/8861/

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.
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Kanopy
74
52
6.9
/1355/
73
/149/
66
/48/
3.5
/2932/
91
/11/
76
/12/

Tokyo Idols (2017)
This exploration of Japan's fascination with girl bands and their music follows an aspiring pop singer and her fans, delving into the cultural obsession with young female sexuality and the growing disconnect between men and women in hypermodern societies.
poster
Rakuten Viki
69
52
6.8
/2533/
70
/103/
73
/136/
3.4
/4786/

My Rainy Days (2009)
Because of her past, 17-year-old Rio lives her days filling the emptiness in her heart with money—until one day, she meets a university professor named Kouki and falls in love.
poster
77
51
7.6
/1974/
73
/31/
73
/39/
3.7
/1111/
91
/84/

I Just Didn't Do It (2007)
A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.
poster
67
51
7.0
/2383/
69
/30/
68
/54/
3.5
/1249/
56
/18/
83
/246/
53
/5/

Hula Girls (2006)
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
poster
74
51
7.2
/3350/
73
/171/
73
/141/
3.7
/4704/
82
/5/

Survival Family (2017)
A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki decides to escape from Tokyo with his family.
poster
72
49
7.1
/1781/
72
/46/
69
/50/
3.7
/8889/
74
/29/

A Gentle Breeze in the Village (2007)
When eighth-grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.
poster
78
47
7.6
/2500/
77
/83/
70
/71/
4.1
/4350/
86
/4/

A Story of Yonosuke (2013)
The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and commutes to a university in the center of Tokyo.
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Amazon Prime Video
67
44
6.8
/1163/
65
/44/
70
/37/
3.5
/2392/
96
/24/
38
/3/

Missing (2022)
Depressed and in debt, Santoshi tells his young daughter that he is going to find an infamous serial killer and collect a reward. However, when Santoshi disappears without a trace, she starts to fear the worst and begins searching for him.
poster
64
44
6.3
/1719/
68
/91/
65
/69/
3.1
/5593/

No Longer Heroine (2015)
Hatori Matsuzaki is a female high school student. She has a crush on her childhood friend Rita Terasaka and believes he will eventually choose her as her heroine, but Rita Terasaka begins dating Miho Adachi. Meanwhile, the most popular male student, Kosuke Hiromitsu takes an interest in Hatori Matsuzaki.
poster
63
44
6.1
/1860/
69
/112/
66
/69/
2.8
/6104/

L♡DK (2014)
Aoi Nishimori's parents moved to another city for work, but Aoi didn't want to transfer to a new high school. She stays behind and lives in an apartment by herself. Shūsei Kugayama moves in next to Aoi's apartment. Shūsei is a very popular student at their high school. Due to a mistake, Aoi makes the sprinkler go off in his room. Until Shūsei's room is fixed, he stays with Aoi.
poster
74
43
7.2
/486/
77
/80/
73
/23/
3.5
/1643/
7.8
/148939/

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
74
43
7.6
/1178/
74
/69/
70
/65/
3.6
/1419/
80
/6/
7.4
/17576/

Ajin: Demi-Human – Compel (2015)
For high schooler Kei—and for at least forty-six others—immortality comes as the nastiest surprise ever. Sadly for Kei, such a feat doesn't make him a superhero. In the eyes of both the general public and governments, he's a rare specimen who needs to be hunted down and handed over to scientists to be experimented on for life—a demi-human who must die a thousand deaths for the benefit of humanity.
poster
62
42
5.8
/1250/
67
/106/
64
/82/
3.1
/6496/

12 Suicidal Teens (2019)
A group of boys and girls, twelve in total, gather at an abandoned hospital to die for various different reasons. There, they find the body of a dead boy. The group of twelve attempt to find the person who killed the boy. During their search, the reasons why they want to die are revealed.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
41
4.6
/22244/
51
/857/
49
/519/
2.3
/17891/
27
/11/
29
/1659/

Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
39
6.9
/841/
66
/17/
61
/19/
3.8
/2244/
71
/104/

Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933)
Set in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge to be friends. But when a youth named Henry appears on his motorcycle and offers to take Sunako for a ride, we know that this friendship won't last and that the lives of both girls will change in ways they are barely able to comprehend, and can do little to change.
poster
70
38
6.7
/1710/
71
/78/
69
/47/
3.3
/1606/
81
/7/

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store (2017)
In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late into the night, Atsuya sees a letter in the mailbox. The letter is addressed to the Namiya General Store and the letter was written by someone to consult about worries. Incredibly, the letter was written 32 years ago. The mailbox is somehow connected to the year 1980. Atsuya and his friends decide to write a reply and place their letter in the mailbox.
poster
67
37
6.6
/967/
65
/34/
62
/29/
3.8
/31489/

Blue (2003)
An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan.
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Rakuten Viki
64
36
6.5
/361/
78
/130/
58
/35/
2.8
/2138/

L♡DK: Two Loves Under One Roof (2019)
Aoi Nishimori and Shūsei Kugayama are in love and they begin to live together secretly. Suddenly, Shūsei's cousin, Reon Kugayama, comes to them. Their secret is discovered by Reon. Now, Aoi, Shūsei, and Reon begin to live together.
poster
79
35
7.3
/1075/
73
/69/
68
/31/
4.1
/15970/
100
/1/

August in the Water (1995)
A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
34
7.0
/1443/
65
/24/
63
/33/
3.5
/2489/
87
/5/

What Did the Lady Forget? (1937)
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.
poster
60
33
6.0
/999/
63
/72/
61
/45/
2.9
/1335/

Strobe Edge (2015)
Ninako Kinoshita has never been in love until an encounter with the school's most popular boy, Ren Ichinose, leads the two to befriending each other. Ren's patient and kind personality is a far cry from his unapproachable idol status at school, and soon Ninako falls in love with him. However, she must cope with the fact that he already has a long-time girlfriend.
poster
58
32
5.7
/1116/
58
/99/
60
/76/
3.3
/1781/
50
/3/

Kiki's Delivery Service (2014)
A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her friends and family. Kiki then begins her new life with her trusted cat Jiji.
poster
71
31
6.7
/747/
73
/16/
75
/20/
3.6
/1720/

My Blood and Bones in a Flowing Galaxy (2021)
Kiyosumi's affection for his schoolmate Hari grows after he saves her from bullying, but a dark secret she's unwilling to share threatens their bond.
poster
68
30
6.6
/483/
77
/18/
60
/21/
3.6
/3372/

Dear Friends (2007)
Rina is the it girl. She is thin, has long hair, is flaunting and dresses attractively. Every man wants to be with her and every woman wants to be like her. She also happens to be self-absorbed, mean and nasty.


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