Japan Movies

Yajû shisubeshi is a movie starring Yûsaku Matsuda, Mako Midori, and Akemi Mari. A journalist steals a gun from a cop after killing him and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.

Shogun Assassin is a movie starring Tomisaburô Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, and Minoru Ôki. When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son...

In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place o

Ratu Ilmu Hitam is a movie starring Suzzanna, W.D. Mochtar, and Teddy Purba. A woman is accused of being a witch and thrown to her death over a cliff. A strange man rescues her, nurses her back to health, and is told that she must...

A teenage boy must fight in an interplanetary war as the only available pilot to a revolutionary new giant battle robot.

A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time, but love survives despite the problems.

Yokohama BJ bûrusu is a movie starring Yûsaku Matsuda, Mari Henmi, and Toby Kadoguchi. BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a...

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

Sayuri ,a female teacher is abducted ,imprisoned and tortured by a pervert.

The famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.

Punk rock gangs and music groups clash with one another and the brutal police force in a futuristic Tokyo setting.

Midori Satsuki plays Megumi, a woman who runs a Japanese-style restaurant called "Meg" in in Los Angeles, California. The film follows her erotic adventures.

Kiryûin Hanako no shôgai is a movie starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Masako Natsume, and Akiko Nakamura. A yakuza melodrama, covering decades in the lives of Boss Onimasa, his adopted daughter Matsue, and his biological daughter Hanako.

A 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.

Cobra, a famous space pirate with a psycho-gun hidden in his left arm, supposed dead for two years, is back in action. He falls for bounty huntress Jane Flower, whom crime lord Necron wants dead, and tries to help her save her world.

The Challenge is a movie starring Scott Glenn, Toshirô Mifune, and Donna Kei Benz. A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.

Junichi, a poor student gets off at Karuizawa Station, the popular tourist spot in order to mix in with the upper classes. He starts his part-time job at a high-end restaurant where rich guests gather. At one party he drops a silver

The Last Unicorn is a movie starring Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, and Angela Lansbury. A beautiful unicorn sets out to learn if she truly is the last of her kind in this sparkling animated musical.

Iga ninpôchô is a movie starring Hiroyuki Sanada, Noriko Watanabe, and Jun Miho. A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with...

Ushimitsu no mura is a movie starring Masato Furuoya, Misako Tanaka, and Kumiko Ohba. 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...

A married kleptomaniac (Sonoko) and a younger woman (Mitsuko) begin an unusual love affair which develops fast into a kinky sexual love triangle when Sonoko's husband gets involved.

After killing the son of a powerful oil tycoon, an infamous hit-man becomes the target of American soldiers and superhuman killers.

During W.W. II, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British P.O.W. and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid blood-shed.

Naomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a washed-up gumshoe who's hired by Naomi's father to bodygard his daughter until she leaves. Shuichi finds the job annoying and wants to quit. But

A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the older man to teach him the secrets of his dangerous trade.

La bestia y la espada mágica is a movie starring Paul Naschy, Shigeru Amachi, and Beatriz Escudero. In the 16th Century, the lycanthrope Waldemar Daninsky travels from his native Europe to Japan, seeking a way to cure himself of...

Satomi hakken-den is a movie starring Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Shin'ichi Chiba. Princess Shizu's family is wiped out by an family of undead seeking revenge. The eight samurai can save her, but who and where are they?

The orphaned Makioka sisters look for a husband for their third sister, Yukiko, as the rebellious youngest sister, Taeko, is kept waiting her turn.

Chôjin Locke is a movie starring Keiichi Nanba, Keiko Han, and Taeko Nakanishi. Colonel Yamaki is looking for Locke, an ESPer with powers are far beyond imaginable. He is supposed to enroll him on a mission to investigate Lady Kahn,...

Warrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.

Ningyo densetsu is a movie starring Mari Shirato, Kentarô Shimizu, and Jun Etô. Woman is avenging the death of her husband in this slightly supernatural drama.

The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband's, in particular her husband's younger brother and father-in-law. Her husband, on the other hand, has an affair with a dominatrix and is obsesse

Gyakufunsha kazoku is a movie starring Katsuya Kobayashi, Mitsuko Baishô, and Yoshiki Arizono. After moving into a new house, a family starts acting crazier and crazier.

Antonio Gaudí is a movie starring Isidro Puig Boada, Antoni Gaudí, and Seiji Miyaguchi. The work of Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí, as seen by Japanese New Wave director Hiroshi Teshigahara.

The Japanese government suppresses the horrifying news of Godzilla's resurrection as political tensions increase between the United States and Soviet Union, both of whom are willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.

Ran is a movie starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, and Jinpachi Nezu. In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will...

The Yankees have pulled out and filling the void are the local thugs and hoodlums oppressing the town and everyone around. A doctor has come to Okinawato help his old friend. The local hoodlum is buying everything in sight and is abu

In 1985, Makoto Tezuka, the son of manga genius Osamu Tezuka, was still a film student with a few experimental shorts to his credit and who was entrusted with the mission to turn an album by Haruo Chikada into a musical film.

Lupin squares off with two criminal families and Inspector Zenigata's new female patrol to track down a hoard of biblical-era treasure.

Urusei Yatsura 3: Rimenbâ mai rabu is a movie starring Fumi Hirano, Toshio Furukawa, and Akira Kamiya. A curse placed on Lum as an infant manifests itself in the present day, causing her to be taken to another dimension. Lum's...

Late at night, a woman is kidnapped by an unknown assailant and taken back to his blood-spattered dungeon, where he turns her into a "flower of blood and flesh" through a series of dismemberment and evisceration.

Tampopo is a movie starring Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, and Nobuko Miyamoto. A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes...

Four half-sisters share an unusually close bond during tumultuous times of post-war Japan.

Yuki no dansho - jonetsu is a movie starring Yuki Saitô, Takaaki Enoki, and Kiminori Sera. The story deals with a young girl getting adopted by a family that holds her like a slave and then being "freed" by a young man working for...

A young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her, and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself.

Tenshi no tamago is a video starring Mako Hyôdô, Jinpachi Nezu, and Kei'ichi Noda. A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.