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Akira

Akira

Katsuhiro Otomo 1988 2h 4m 7.9

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

Hauru no ugoku shiro

Hauru no ugoku shiro

Hayao Miyazaki 2004 1h 59m 8.3

When Sophie, a shy young woman, is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking home.

Gake no ue no Ponyo

Gake no ue no Ponyo

Hayao Miyazaki 2009 1h 40m 7.9

Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (崖の上のポニョ, Gake no Ue no Ponyo) is a 2008 animated film by the Japanese anime studio Studio Ghibli, written and directed by famed anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. It is Miyazaki's ninth film for Ghibli. The plot centers on a 5-year-old boy and his relationship with a goldfish princess who longs to become human.

Shichinin no samurai

Shichinin no samurai

Akira Kurosawa 1954 3h 27m 8.9

Seven Samurai is the masterpiece from Akira Kurosawa from 1954 in which a town hires an old samurai to protect their village. A mix of action, comedy, and social drama. This epic film is an intimate look into the powerful emotions of the characters and named the greatest film in Japanese cinema history.

Gedo senki

Gedo senki

Goro Miyazaki 2006 1h 55m 6.8

From Goro Miyazaki, the son of Oscar-winning Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, comes a story of wizards, dragons, princes and witches. Based on Ursula K. Le Guin's "Earthsea" series.

Kurenai no buta

Kurenai no buta

Hayao Miyazaki 1992 1h 33m 8.1

In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war.

Metoroporisu

Metoroporisu

Rintaro 2001 1h 47m 7.1

In the midst of societal conflict in the futuristic city of Metropolis, Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban set out to uncover the mystery behind the first human-like robot, Tima.

Yôjinbô

Yôjinbô

Akira Kurosawa 1961 1h 50m 8.0

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Kaidan

Kaidan

Masaki Kobayashi 1964 3h 3m 8.7

A classic collection of four Japanese Horror stories. Features "Black Hair", "The Woman in the Snow", "Hoichi the Earless" and "In a Cup of Tea"

Appurushîdo

Appurushîdo

Shinji Aramaki 2004 1h 45m 6.8

In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?

Kiraware Matsuko no isshô

Kiraware Matsuko no isshô

Tetsuya Nakashima 2006 2h 10m 8.5

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.

Suna no onna

Suna no onna

Hiroshi Teshigahara 1964 2h 27m 9.1

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Jûsan-nin no shikaku

Jûsan-nin no shikaku

Takashi Miike 2010 2h 21m 7.7

Cult director Takeshi Miike delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

Kagemusha

Kagemusha

Akira Kurosawa 1980 3h 8.5

A criminal is taught to impersonate a dying warlord in order to protect his clan from appearing weak and vulnerable.

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

Jan de Bont 2003 1h 57m 5.5

Intrepid British archaeologist Lara Croft has made perhaps the most important archaeological discovery in history: an orb that leads to the mythical Pandora's Box. Unfortunately, the orb falls into the hands of Jonathan Reiss, an evil scientist who deals in killer viruses and hopes to sell the secrets of the box as the ultimate weapon.

Spy Game

Spy Game

Tony Scott 2001 2h 6m 7.0

Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.

Bakemono no ko

Bakemono no ko

Mamoru Hosoda 2015 1h 59m 8.3

Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.

Uchu kara no messeji

Uchu kara no messeji

Kinji Fukasaku 1978 1h 45m 5.5

An embattled planet, which is on the edge of doom, sends an S.O.S. and an intergalactic team comes to its rescue.

Kaze tachinu

Kaze tachinu

Hayao Miyazaki 2013 2h 6m 8.2

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

Ringu

Ringu

Hideo Nakata 1998 1h 36m 7.2

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

Tsubaki Sanjûrô

Tsubaki Sanjûrô

Akira Kurosawa 1962 1h 36m 8.3

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

Shika no ou

Shika no ou

Masayuki Miyaji, Masashi Ando 2021 1h 53m

Following a brutal war, former soldier Van toils in a mine controlled by the ruling empire. One day, his solitary existence is upended when a pack of wild dogs carrying a deadly and incurable disease attack, leaving only Van and a young girl named Yuna as survivors.

Tengoku to jigoku

Tengoku to jigoku

Akira Kurosawa 1963 2h 22m 8.7

An executive on the outs with his company gets in deeper when he pays off kidnappers who have abducted the wrong boy.

Yoidore Tenshi

Yoidore Tenshi

Akira Kurosawa 1948 1h 38m 7.6

An alcoholic doctor builds a shaky friendship with a dying gangster

Kumonosu-jô

Kumonosu-jô

Akira Kurosawa 1957 1h 48m 8.6

Mikio and Washizu are the commanders of the 1st and 2nd Fortress under a local lord, who reigns in the Spiders' Web Castle. After defeating the lord's enemies in battle, they visit the fortress. Washizu, driven by his wife, conspires and murders the lord, becoming lord of the castle. But his evil deeds come back to haunt him.

Godzilla

Godzilla

Roland Emmerich 1998 2h 19m 5.6

An American science fiction movie from director Roland Emmerich in which a lizard is transformed in a huge monster during an atomic bomb test. The film is based on the Japanese Godzilla films and is the first Godzilla film produced in the States.

Ookami kodomo no Ame to Yuki

Ookami kodomo no Ame to Yuki

Mamoru Hosoda 2012 1h 57m 8.7

After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.

Kokuhaku

Kokuhaku

Tetsuya Nakashima 2010 1h 47m 8.7

Middle school teacher Yoko Moriguchi's (Takako Matsu) life comes crashing down after the murder of her 4 year old daughter. Eventually Yoko Moriguchi suspects some of her own students to have been responsible for her daughter's death. An elaborate plan for revenge then ensues, including forcing students to drink HIV tainted milk ...

Kozure Ôkami: Sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma

Kozure Ôkami: Sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma

Kenji Misumi 1972 1h 21m 7.8

Trailed by a clan of female ninja, Ogami is paid to assassinate a clan traitor accompanied by three killers known as the Gods of Death.

Gantz

Gantz

Shinsuke Sato 2011 2h 10m 7.2

After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.

Hadaka no shima

Hadaka no shima

Kaneto Shindō 1960 1h 37m 8.6

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

Kaguyahime no monogatari

Kaguyahime no monogatari

Isao Takahata 2013 2h 17m 8.0

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her - but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.

Kozure ôkami: Ko wo kashi ude kashi tsukamatsuru

Kozure ôkami: Ko wo kashi ude kashi tsukamatsuru

Kenji Misumi 1972 1h 24m 7.7

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.

Neko no ongaeshi

Neko no ongaeshi

Hiroyuki Morita 2002 1h 15m 7.4

Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.

Kakushi-toride no san-akunin

Kakushi-toride no san-akunin

Akira Kurosawa 1958 2h 19m 7.9

Lured by gold, two greedy peasants escort a man and woman across enemy lines. However, they do not realize that their companions are actually a princess and her general.

Shurayukihime

Shurayukihime

Toshiya Fujita 1973 1h 37m 8.2

A young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

Umimachi Diary

Umimachi Diary

Hirokazu Kore-eda 2015 2h 7m 7.5

A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their 13-year-old half sister.

Kari-gurashi no Arietti

Kari-gurashi no Arietti

Hiromasa Yonebayashi 2010 1h 34m 7.5

14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.

Dai-bosatsu tôge

Dai-bosatsu tôge

Kihachi Okamoto 1966 2h 2m 8.3

Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.

Ikiru

Ikiru

Akira Kurosawa 1952 2h 23m 8.1

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Kaijû no kodomo

Kaijû no kodomo

Ayumu Watanabe 2019 1h 51m 6.5

A young girl is drawn into a mystery involving sealife around the world, in which two mysterious boys are somehow involved.

Kozure Ôkami: Shinikazeni mukau ubaguruma

Kozure Ôkami: Shinikazeni mukau ubaguruma

Kenji Misumi 1972 1h 29m 7.3

In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute, and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

Spriggan

Spriggan

Hirotsugu Kawasaki 1998 1h 30m 8.3

An elite superhuman agent must stop a foreign military unit from seizing control of an ancient artifact that holds the key to ultimate power.

Lupin III: The First

Lupin III: The First

Takashi Yamazaki 2019 1h 33m 7.0

The iconic "gentleman thief" Lupin III returns in an action-packed, continent-spanning adventure, as Lupin III and his colorful underworld companions race to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Bresson Diary, before it falls into the hands of a dark cabal that will stop at nothing to resurrect the Third Reich.

Gantz: Perfect Answer

Gantz: Perfect Answer

Shinsuke Sato 2011 2h 21m 6.8

Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tired of fighting and refuses to continue.

Kozure Ôkami: Oya no kokoro ko no kokoro

Kozure Ôkami: Oya no kokoro ko no kokoro

Buichi Saitō 1972 1h 21m 7.3

In the fourth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin, and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.

Kimi no na wa.

Kimi no na wa.

Makoto Shinkai 2016 1h 46m 7.7

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.

Gojira -1.0

Gojira -1.0

Takashi Yamazaki 2023 2h 5m 7.6

Postwar Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.

Kozure Ôkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigoro

Kozure Ôkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigoro

Yoshiyuki Kuroda 1974 1h 23m 7.3

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.

Shimotsuma monogatari

Shimotsuma monogatari

Tetsuya Nakashima 2004 1h 42m 7.7

Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...

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