Japan Movies

Godzilla's fiftieth Anniversary project, in which Godzilla travels around the world to fight his old foes and his allies plus a new, mysterious monster named Monster X.

A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.

How have you been? Takeshi's letter is delivered one each month to his younger brother, Naoki. Takeshi is serving a life term in prison for the crime that he had committed to save his brother. But the crime's aftereffect extends to N

Shin kyûseishu densetsu Hokuto no Ken: Raô den - Gekitô no shô is a movie starring Hiroshi Abe, Takashi Ukaji, and Yuriko Ishida. Earth was devastated by a terrible nuclear conflict that wiped out any sign of civilization. In this...

A story about the most popular racing event in the galaxy, the Redline, and the various racers who compete in it.

Fuchi ni tatsu is a movie starring Tadanobu Asano, Mariko Tsutsui, and Taiga Nakano. Toshio hires Yasaka in his workshop. This old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.

Death Note - Desu nôto: Light Up the New World is a movie starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Sôsuke Ikematsu, and Ken'ichi Matsuyama. An update to the "Death Note" series in which a mysterious notebook contains deadly powers.

A dramatic yet heart-warming story of cross-cultural friendship among children in the aftermath of WWII, presented by Tokyo-based award-winning animation studio Production I.G. Based on true events.

Persona 3 the Movie: #3 Falling Down is a movie starring Akira Ishida, Eri Ogawa, and Rie Tanaka. The fight of the protagonist and his group S.E.E.S. with the strange monsters called 'Shadows' is getting closer to the end. Makoto...

An adaptation of the last arc in the manga, Mushishi Zoku Shou: Suzu no Shizuku follows Ginko's peculiar journey amidst the occult to unravel the mystery behind the enigmatic girl called Kaya and the mountain that has become her home

Shinjuku suwan is a movie starring Erika Sawajiri, Takayuki Yamada, and Yûsuke Iseya. A down-and-out man finds a new job in Tokyo's red-light district as a scout who recruits women to work in the adult-entertainment business.

Ni hao, Zhihua is a movie starring Xun Zhou, Hao Qin, and Jiang Du. Attending the reunion in lieu of her late elder sister, Zhihua accidentally runs into Yin Chuan, on whom she had a crush in her youth. As old memories are evoked...

The main character Toru Norimiya who became an adult without having the courage to love depicts what will change as a result of reunion with former Bandman's old friend Takuya Sato and encounter with poetry.

Yokogao is a movie starring Mariko Tsutsui, Mikako Ichikawa, and Sôsuke Ikematsu. A home-care nurse's relationship with the family she has spent years working for is threatened when her nephew is arrested for kidnapping their...

Madamu to nyôbô is a movie starring Atsushi Watanabe, Kinuyo Tanaka, and Mitsuko Ichimura. A writer struggles to finish his story against many distractions, but the jazz party next door proves to be too much.

Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo is a movie starring Tatsuo Saitô, Tomio Aoki, and Mitsuko Yoshikawa. Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn't the most important man in his workplace.

A kabuki actor's mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover's son.

A friendly bus driver and his passengers over the duration of one journey through the mountains to the nearest train station.

Naniwa erejî is a movie starring Isuzu Yamada, Seiichi Takegawa, and Chiyoko Ôkura. A young woman becomes a mistress of her boss in order to support her family.

Hitori musuko is a movie starring Chôko Iida, Shin'ichi Himori, and Masao Hayama. A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.

Gion no shimai is a movie starring Isuzu Yamada, Yôko Umemura, and Benkei Shiganoya. Two geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto. After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other...

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. O

Ninjô kami fûsen is a movie starring Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan'emon Nakamura, and Tsuruzô Nakamura. The lives of two slum neighbors, one of a happy-go-lucky gambler and the other of a poor ronin, converge when the two get involved...

Two blind masseurs travel to a mountain retreat. One of them falls for a visiting lady from Tokyo and investigates a series of thefts.

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

Uchûjin Tôkyô ni arawaru is a movie starring Keizô Kawasaki, Toyomi Karita, and Bin Yagisawa. UFOs are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them...

Fûsen is a movie starring Shirô Amakusa, Michiyo Aratama, and Izumi Ashikawa. Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a...

A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.

Spending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for.

Neko to Shôzô to futari no onna is a movie starring Hisaya Morishige, Isuzu Yamada, and Kyôko Kagawa. A timid man who has spent much of his life attempting without success to get out from under the domination of his mother, finds...

Nagareru is a movie starring Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, and Hideko Takamine. Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mothers trade in...

Kumonosu-jo is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, and Isuzu Yamada. A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

Tômei ningen to hae otoko is a movie starring Ryûji Shinagawa, Yoshirô Kitahara, and Junko Kanô. A ruthless serial killer with a peculiar method of stalking and killing his victims comes face to face with a police officer turned...

Yûwaku is a movie starring Hideyo Amamoto, Tomio Aoki, and Reiko Arai. The middle-aged Shokichi, shop owner and widower, could never forget his first love. One day, Akiko, a painter, appears in the gallery with the painting titled...

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is actually the love child of her wealthy businessman father and his ex-secretary.

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.

Two friends who witnessed an organized crime murder are threatened by the local mob into keeping quiet.

Nusumareta yokujô is a movie starring Osamu Takizawa, Shin'ichi Yanagisawa, and Hiroyuki Nagato. A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.

Narayama bushikô is a movie starring Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, and Yûko Mochizuki. A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

Kyojin to gangu is a movie starring Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, and Osamu Abe. In the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while...

A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.

Kakushi-toride no san-akunin is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, and Minoru Chiaki. Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.

Japanese version of 'Cyrano de Bergerac', a poet/swordsman with a huge nose who loves a woman who loves another. Ignoring his true feelings, he helps them get together.

Ohayô is a movie starring Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, and Chishû Ryû. Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Jirôchô Fuji is a movie starring Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizô Ichikawa, and Shintarô Katsu. An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made "the ultimate Jirocho movie" about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in...

Hiroshima mon amour is a movie starring Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, and Stella Dassas. A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing...

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.