Stray Dog (1949), Godzilla (1954), Drunken Angel (1948), Cure (1997), Fear and Trembling (2003), Ocean Waves (1993), Kurosawa (2001), House of Bamboo (1955) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Tokyo movies.
Storyline: Two detectives (Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura) track one's stolen revolver into the underworld of late-1940s Tokyo.
Plot Keywords: police officer, criminal, stripper, mentor, brooding, dark, tokyo ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A fire-breathing behemoth terrorizes Japan after an atomic bomb awakens it from its centuries-old sleep.
Plot Keywords: godzilla, japanese man, japanese woman, japanese soldier, child, scientist, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Akira Kurosawa's postwar allegory focusing on an alcoholic doctor's determination to cure a gangster of tuberculosis.
Plot Keywords: doctor, gangster, criminal, victim, neighbor, gritty, tokyo ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Tokyo detective (Koji Yakusho) investigates a series of murders committed in exactly the same way by people who seem to have no connection.
Plot Keywords: detective, killer, police officer, victim, creepy, chilling, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Belgian interpreter (Sylvie Testud) endures humiliation by her new co-workers (Kaori Tsuji, Taro Suwa) at a huge Japanese company.
Plot Keywords: executive, interpreter, japanese woman, businessman, supervisor, engaging, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The arrival of a pretty transfer student from Tokyo sets in motion a change in the relationship between two best friends.
Plot Keywords: student, teacher, young girl, young boy, lover, friend, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Director Adam Low explores the life and work of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, who is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors of all-time. Low begins with Kurosawa's childhood in Tokyo and chronicles his ascent following the release of such masterpieces as "Rashomon," "Seven Samurai" and "Throne of Blood." The film also includes interviews with figures Kurosawa has influenced, including such film icons as Clint Eastwood and George Lucas.
Plot Keywords: filmmaker, friend, historian, critic, clint eastwood, fascinating, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In post-World War II Tokyo, Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is on a U.S. Army special assignment to investigate a murderous clique led by ex-soldier Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan). Kenner ingratiates himself with Dawson and his inner circle, gaining their trust while starting a relationship with Mariko (Shirley Yamaguchi), the wife of a murdered gang member. But the sinister Dawson suspects there's a traitor among them when the police are tipped off about a planned robbery.
Plot Keywords: soldier, crime boss, gang member, woman, police officer, brooding, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A British businessman (Cary Grant) shares an apartment with a U.S. athlete (Jim Hutton) and a diplomat's fiancee (Samantha Eggar) during the Tokyo Olympics.
Plot Keywords: businessman, roommate, athlete, fiancé, tourist, industrialist, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Elderly couple Shukishi and Tomi Hirayama live in the small coastal village of Onomichi, Japan with their youngest daughter, schoolteacher Kyoko Hirayama. Their other three surviving adult children, who they have not seen in quite some time, live either in Tokyo or Osaka. As such, Shukishi and Tomi make the unilateral decision to have an extended visit in Tokyo with their children, pediatrician Koichi Hirayama and beautician Shige Kaneko, and their respective families (which includes two grandchildren). In transit, they make an unexpected stop in Osaka and stay with their other son, Keiso Hirayama. All of their children treat the visit more as an obligation than a want, each trying to figure out what to do with their parents while they continue on with their own daily lives. At one point, they even decide to ship their parents off to an inexpensive resort at Atami Hot Springs rather than spend time with them. The only offspring who makes a concerted effort on this trip is Noriko ...
Plot Keywords: father, mother, doctor, hairdresser, daughter-in-law, soldier, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Tokyo, the reckless single mother Keiko moves to a small apartment with her twelve years old son Akira Fukushima and his siblings Shigeru and Yuki. Kyoko, another sibling arrives later by train. The children have different fathers and do not have schooling, but they have a happy life with their mother. When Keiko finds a new boyfriend, she leaves the children alone, giving some money to Akira and assigning him to take care of his siblings. When the money runs out, Akira manages to find means to survive with the youngsters without power supply, gas or water at home, and with the landlord asking for the rent.
Plot Keywords: brother, sister, mother, friend, landlord, touching, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The lead character, called 'The Bride,' was a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, led by her lover 'Bill.' Upon realizing she was pregnant with Bill's child, 'The Bride' decided to escape her life as a killer. She fled to Texas, met a young man, who, on the day of their wedding rehearsal was gunned down by an angry and jealous Bill (with the assistance of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad). Four years later, 'The Bride' wakes from a coma, and discovers her baby is gone. She, then, decides to seek revenge upon the five people who destroyed her life and killed her baby. The saga of Kill Bill Volume I begins.
Plot Keywords: bride, hit man, murderer, enemy, villain, gory, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago.
Plot Keywords: gang member, biker, child, scientist, mutant, dark, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the early 60's in Tokyo, the widower Hirayama is a former captain from the Japanese navy that works as a manager of a factory and lives with his twenty-four year-old daughter Michiko and his son Kazuo in his house. His older son Koichi is married with Akiko that are compulsive consumers and Akiko financially controls their expenses. Hirayama frequently meets his old friends Kawai and Professor Horie, who is married with a younger wife, to drink in a bar. When their school teacher Sakuma comes to a reunion of Hirayama with old school mates, they learn that the old man lives with his daughter that stayed single to take care of him. Michiko lives a happy life with her father and her brother, but Hirayama feels that it is time to let her go and tries to arrange a marriage for her.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: widower, son, daughter, teen boy, suitor, fiancé, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Recalled to duty, a lawyer (William Holden) leaves his wife (Grace Kelly) and goes to Korea to bomb bridges for an admiral (Fredric March).
Plot Keywords: pilot, wife, military officer, dark, tense, aircraft carrier, military base ...
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