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Amazon Prime Video
88
8.1
/196302/
82
/7674/
82
/4108/
4.4
/683876/
96
/226/
91
/450/
85
/40/

The Handmaiden (2016)
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.8
/25036/
76
/615/
77
/455/
4.1
/84706/
90
/20/
90
/378/

Onibaba (1964)
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
poster
82
7.7
/35090/
77
/806/
77
/742/
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.
poster
78
7.1
/155780/
69
/5738/
69
/2511/
3.5
/732715/
90
/326/
65
/548/
90
/55/
cc age 15+

Licorice Pizza (2021)
The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
poster
77
7.1
/11847/
73
/593/
72
/354/
3.7
/14436/
100
/49/
73
/44/
78
/14/

The Age of Shadows (2016)
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.
poster
70
6.9
/1959/
66
/94/
70
/74/
3.2
/3988/
75
/16/
83
/23/
63
/9/

Seoul Searching (2015)
In the 1980s a group of foreign-born Korean teenagers who meet at a Seoul summer camp to learn what it means to be Korean. The three boys, from the U.S., Mexico, and Germany, then meet three girls who rock their world.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
66
6.9
/8950/
68
/319/
69
/271/
3.7
/19695/
66
/41/
65
/164/
65
/11/

Air Doll (2009)
A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with Junichi. She starts to date Junichi and gets a job at the same store where he works. Everything seems to be going perfectly for her until something unexpected happens.
poster
72
65
7.0
/8652/
70
/128/
66
/139/
3.3
/4927/
82
/56/
79
/143/

Sayonara (1957)
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
poster
69
62
6.9
/4161/
69
/181/
70
/102/
3.8
/7819/
62
/61/

Love on Delivery (1994)
Ho Kam-An is a lovestruck dim sum delivery boy who falls for a beautiful judo student. After being humiliated by her boyfriend, Ho Kam-An seeks the services of an aging master who teaches him a half-assed style of kung fu, "Karate Kid"-style.
poster
MGM Plus
60
6.3
/2667/
64
/58/
57
/33/
3.2
/916/
67
/6/
58
/26/

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
poster
59
6.5
/316556/
69
/20603/
67
/10304/
3.1
/507945/
60
/300/
54
/1999/
52
/46/
cc age 13+

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
poster
78
58
7.6
/1476/
67
/18/
71
/41/
3.8
/1619/
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
50
7.5
/2712/
76
/145/
75
/60/
3.9
/3627/
80
/4/

Midnight Diner (2014)
A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruckus-raising Kenzo.
poster
72
49
6.8
/892/
67
/52/
70
/34/
3.6
/2410/
83
/6/

Dance with Me (2019)
Suzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is hypnotized at a local amusement park and left under the spell. Now she is compelled to sing and dance whenever she hears any melody whatsoever. She heads back to the hypnotist for relief, but he is nowhere to be found. So Shizuka sets off on a journey around Japan to find him and break the spell.
poster
Netflix
64
47
6.6
/3287/
68
/210/
66
/80/
3.3
/3998/
54
/5/

The Fable (2019)
The Fable is a legendary yakuza hitman equal to none—but his boss orders him and his sultry associate to lay low and learn how to live a "normal life" in Osaka.
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
Netflix
45
6.2
/177943/
67
/9539/
62
/4012/
2.6
/83387/
16
/88/
48
/2673/
28
/21/
cc age 14+

47 Ronin (2013)
Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
poster
63
44
6.2
/2331/
65
/98/
65
/82/
3.1
/1701/

Fight Back to School 3 (1993)
Chow Sing Sing returns, only this time he doesn’t go back to school. Instead, Chow goes undercover as the husband of a wealthy socialite, which doesn’t sit well with his fiancée, who tries to convince Chow to quit working as undercover.
poster
MGM Plus
58
38
6.0
/2478/
60
/23/
58
/37/
3.0
/814/
80
/5/
33
/21/

Blood on the Sun (1945)
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
27
7.1
/858/
75
/9/
70
/15/
3.7
/2017/
50
/8/

A Wedding Suit (1976)
A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister's wedding. The tailor's apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at night to see what it feels like.
poster
64
15
6.6
/379/
45
/5/
79
/15/
3.4
/387/

Mio's Cookbook (2020)
When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in cooking and eventually became a cook. Meanwhile, Noe has become an oiran (high-ranking courtesan).
poster
Hoopla
66
15
6.6
/280/
64
/13/
66
/15/
3.5
/584/

Village of Doom (1983)
An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.
poster
46
13
4.3
/485/
42
/48/
43
/28/
2.9
/314/

Christina (1984)
Christina Von Belle, a wealthy heiress, is kidnapped by a lesbian terrorist group and held for ransom. She escapes the lesbian terrorists only to fall into the clutches of a gang of gourmet chefs who want a piece of the ransom themselves.
poster
58
11
5.5
/276/
68
/21/
65
/17/
3.2
/230/
38
/3/

The Kodai Family (2016)
Kie Hirano is an ordinary OL who often daydreams. Mitsumasa Kodai at the same company as Kie Hirano, but he is an elite salaryman. He is the eldest son in the Kodai family and he is also telepathic. Mitsumasa Kodai got his special ability to read other people's mind from his British grandmother. Mitsumasa becomes attracted to Kie's warm heart and her dreamy temperament. They begin to date and enjoy their days together, but Mitsumasa Kodai's mother calls.
poster
53
10
5.4
/314/
51
/10/
48
/12/
3.1
/435/

Shinjuku Swan II (2017)
Tatsuhiko Shiratori works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment business. He movies to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. He comes into conflict with Masaki Taki who is the CEO of a scout company.
poster
42
?
4.6
/154/
46
/5/
42
/9/

Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep (1983)
Mami runs a barber shop called The Pink Cut. The place is an immediate success, due mostly to super-short skirts. Recently, Akira, who is anxious about not finding a job, has started coming to her shop. Although he has a girlfriend, he is soon interested in Mami.
poster
55
?
4.4
/196/
67
/13/
55
/18/

À nous les garçons (1985)
Two best friends fall in love with the same boy.
poster
45
?
5.3
/160/
40
/4/
45
/6/

Tokyo File 212 (1951)
A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. secret agent, posing as a reporter, is dispatched to Tokyo to put a stop to these nefarious activities.
poster
57
?
6.5
/63/
60
/5/
35
/2/
3.5
/215/

The Soul Odyssey (2003)
A young man is on an inner journey as he searches for meaning in love, eroticism and marriage. He boards a train, and all the clocks are mirrored from then on, as if looking at them from the inside. He travels to a homey village, meets a potential fiancée, then a more sensuous and mysterious stripper.
poster
?
5.2
/64/
65
/2/
26
/3/

Angry Rice Wives (2021)
In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to catch, so her husband has been far away from home to catch fish. To support herself and her children, Ito carries goods from ships like the other women in the village. Meanwhile, the residents encounter rising prices for rice. The women are unable to feed their family due to the high prices of rice. The women ask a nearby rice store to sell rice at lower prices, but it fails. The price of rice continues to rise daily. Due to an incident, Ito and the other village women step up to the plate.
poster
65
?
6.7
/290/
64
/9/
66
/14/

Snow on The Blades (2014)
At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility and shame for this failure is Shimura Kingo, master swordsman and chief of the guard. Forbidden to take his own life in atonement, he is instead tasked with hunting down the remaining assassins; however, fate intervenes and now only one is left. Devoted to his late lord and his duty, he relentlessly pursues the sole remaining assassin for the next thirteen years. But times are changing in Japan and the way of the sword has become outlawed. What does this mean for Kingo?
poster
57
?
6.3
/149/
50
/10/
51
/8/
3.3
/219/

Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage (1973)
We find Reiko Ike once again cast as a tough schoolgirl who has to band together with her enemies to upset the reign of their private Catholic high school administration where institutionalized sexual abuse is endemic. The tables are turned on the principal and sanctimonious teachers as well as an American priest when the adult evildoers are publicly humiliated and exposed before the entire student body.
poster
60
?
6.4
/208/
47
/4/
71
/7/

Lovers Lost (1982)
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.
poster
64
?
6.9
/215/
50
/3/
70
/3/
3.5
/206/

What Made Her Do It? (1930)
Sumiko's father sends her to live with her alcoholic uncle. He sells her to a circus, which is the start of a downward spiral in an unforgiving world.
poster
51
?
5.3
/270/
54
/9/
49
/7/

Sleazy Dizzy (1990)
A common thief and an employee of a Hong Kong stock company try to help an amnesia-plagued undercover cop to regain his memory and locate the whereabouts of the 50 million dollars cash used in a drug deal. In the meantime, they try to avoid becoming victims of the crime-lord that was responsible for embezzling 50 million dollars out of the stock company.
poster
?

Skipping Class to Go Skinny Dipping (2014)
UC Berkeley students go on a nude boat trip, and go skinny dipping.


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