JAPAN Movies

Yakusoku no Neverland (2020) A number of Japanese children all complete with Western names are being well fed, taken care of and pampered at a very meticulate and managed orphanage. The facility and grounds are impressive, but the wall acting as a barrier is high. There is a secret to the place and

Minamata (2020) War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.

Black Fox: Age of the Ninja (2019) A masked ninja stalks the streets. Who is this mysterious figure?

Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer (2018) Detective Conan investigates an explosion that occurs on the opening day of a large Tokyo resort and convention center.

Modern Love (2018) NASA announces the discovery of a new planet in the solar system, Emanon, where life might exist. Working part-time at a travel agency, Mika is doing her Master's degree in theoretical ...

We Love (2018) The romantic escapades of a group of high school students.

The alien Wulgaru's last assault against humanity was foiled by the heroic actions of the genetically enhanced humans known as the Evolved Children in their advanced AHSMB battle armor, but now a new attack has been launched against Earth under an even deadlier champion, Diorna, created from the fus

The balance of the worlds is maintained by heroes. Suddenly a red-hot meteor falls upon one of these worlds, called Neo World. An amnesiac youth named Wukong Impulse Gundam appears at the point where it landed. The chaos that starts with this incident spreads through the other worlds, one after anot

True Mothers (2020) A woman with an adopted child is contacted unexpectedly by the child's birth mother.

Mighty Uke (2010) Mighty Uke travels the world to discover why so many people of different nations, cultures, ages and musical tastes are turning to the ukulele to express themselves, connect with the past, and with each other.

Cape Nostalgia (2014) A story set in a café situated along a small cape and run by an elderly woman named Etsuko and aided her nephew Koji.

Rex: kyoryu monogatari (1993) A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.

My Korean Teacher (2016) Young-Ung is not having a good time. His girlfriend is a gold digger and cheated on him. He is in Japan and working, but his employer has laid him off and is being raided. The products are ...

One Piece: Stampede (2019) Pirates from around the world gather at the Pirates Expo to join the hunt for Gol D. Roger's lost treasure.

Nobody (2021) A bystander who intervenes to help a woman being harassed by a group of men becomes the target of a vengeful drug lord.

Kamen Rider Blade: Missing Ace (2004) Four years after an alternate ending to the series, the Undead have been re-released and Glaive reveals himself to be the Albino Joker. The four Riders are again united, intent on saving Amane and stopping the Albino Joker.

High and Low (1963) An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control of the National Shoe Company, with the intent of keeping the company out of the hands of incompetent and greedy executives. He needs the same money, though, to pay the ransom that will possibly save a child's lif

Parasyte: Part 2 (2015) Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.

Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974) Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to prison and stripped of her badge. But very soon after, a rich politician's daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang. Age

Tidal Wave (1973) Racked by earthquakes and volcanos, Japan is slowly sinking into the sea. A race against time and tide begins as Americans and Japanese work together to salvage some fraction of the disappearing Japan.

The Aimed School (1981) Mitamura Yuka (Hiroko Yakushimaru) is a normal shy middle school student that has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show his skills, by stealing the student government election, Yuka and her friends vow to stop him. The election has uncovered so

Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss (1970) Tough girl biker Ako (pop singer Akiko Wada) comes across Mei (Meiko Kaji) and her girl gang (the Alleycats/Stray Cats) as they are about to have a knife fight in Shinjuku, Tokyo with another gang of girls. When the second gang calls in their boyfriends fo

Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen (1974) Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds

Moonlight Serenade (1997) Opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, as he remembers a trip made as a young boy. Then, he and family took a boat trip from Awaji to Beppu in order to bury the ashes of his elder brother, killed in the just-ended WWII. The lad spends much of the tri

The Living Skeleton (1968) About a young woman living in a seaside town haunted by the ghosts of a ship's crew murdered by modern-day pirates.

Fukushima 50 (2020) Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake an tsunami in 2011.

Okichi is the bored wife of a rich oil dealer. Yohei is a young man who is the son of Okichi's former business partner. As a child, Okichi often cares the boy, but when his father dies, he moves away. Years later, he returns as a man, and Okichi becomes momentarily in love with him. But Kogiku, the

Two young women and a sex date who turns out to be an alright guy. What follows is a classic love triangle, however so skillfully played that most of it comes out rather fresh.

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 r

Farewell to the Land (1982) The film opens with the drowning deaths of farmer Yukio's two sons. Their deaths send him on a course of self-destruction.

Cash Calls Hell (1966) Fresh out of prison, a broken man reluctantly takes a job to kill three men, but changes his mind when some gangsters target the same men. He then tries to find out why the men are being targeted in the first place.

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the vile Lord Kira.

Black Belt (2007) The events take place in 1932 in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, in which the corrupt leaders of the Japanese army are trying to take over all the Karate dojos for their own personal benefit. Amidst these circumstances the master of one of these dojos dies before passing on the Kuroob

Detective Conan: Quarter of Silence (2011) The explosion of a new Tokyo Subway line leads Conan and his friends in a snow-clad village. Here, after 8 years, the little detective sheds light on the dynamics behind the shocking event that caused the death of a woman and the coma of a 15 years old boy.

In what turned out to be the final work of Toshiya Fujita, we follow the titular revolver as it passes, coincidentally or deliberately, from owner to owner and home to home bringing misery, curse or surprise to its then current owner. By following the gun the viewer meets its owners and gets to know

This a bit of a slow burner for nothing much happens in the film. However, you’ll be surprised by how it grows on you. The film is about two semi-slackers (Kenichi Hasegawa and Kunie Tanaka) with an ultra-intimate friendship working, slacking and drinking in a freezing Hokkaido town. For a modern

Isamu, a star athlete in high school, becomes a race cyclist. He wins his debut races, but soon his opponents see through his lack of strategy and beat him easily. Isamu’s maths teacher, a race cycling freak, says he knows the solution to Isamu’s problem. But will Isamu listen to him?

The Sword of Doom (1966) Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai without compassion or scruples. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade. Ryunosuke accepts her offer, but kills her hus

Set in the 1960s, Nagisa is a coming of age story about a 13-year-old girl named Nagisa (Seashore) and the summer when she blooms into a woman.

Bitter End of a Sweet Night (1961) An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

Earwig and the Witch (2020) It follows an orphan girl, Earwig, who is adopted by a witch and comes home to a spooky house filled with mystery and magic.

Wrath of Daimajin (1966) An evil warlord invades a peaceful lakeside village during one of their annual festivals. In the course of burning down buildings, executing helpless civilians and generally looting and pillaging, the warlord's men blow up the statue of the village god and sink the pieces de

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981) A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.

I Am a Cat (1975) The cat of the title roams around the house of a poor schoolteacher in the late 19th century, observing the goings-on of the teacher and his neighbors.

Godzilla Raids Again (1955) Koji Kobayashi, a spotter for a Japanese fishing fleet crash lands his plane on a barren island. His best friend, Shoichi Tsukioka, manages to find him and lands his plane next to his so he can be rescued. The two pilots are shocked when they see two giant monsters waging

Corpse Prison: Part Two (2017) They thought they were coming to study a mysterious town hidden in the mountains of Japan. Instead, they've discovered that their Professor brought them to Yasaka for a much darker purpose.

Corpse Prison: Part One (2017) For 50 years no girls were born in a small village deep in the mountains. A professor, his assistant and his female students from university arrive in this isolated village for field work. Will they make it back?

Branded to Kill (1967) The number-three-ranked hit-man, with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice, fumbles his latest job, which puts him into conflict with a mysterious woman whose death wish inspires her to surround herself with dead butterflies and dead birds. Worse danger comes from his own treach