My Neighbor Totoro (1988), United Red Army (2007), Fear and Trembling (2003), The Cat Returns (2002), Ocean Waves (1993), Zatoichi (2003), Black Rain (1988), From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Japan movies.
Storyline: Two sisters encounter a mythical forest sprite and its woodland companions when they move to rural Japan.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, family, children, adventure, japan, forest ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Massive student uprisings in 1960s Japan coincide with the rise of the far-left militant group, which later tortured and killed some of its members in 1972.
Plot Keywords: political, historical, revolution, radicalism, japan, violence, ideology ...
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: drama, psychological, workplace, cultural conflict, japan, corporate culture, stress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A high-school student (Chizuru Ikewaki) encounters a magic world of talking cats after saving a feline prince from an oncoming truck.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, adventure, comedy, family, cats, japan ...
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: youth, coming of age, school, friendship, romance, memory, animation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A master swordsman (Beat Takeshi) battles a formidable ronin (Tadanobu Asano) and a deadly clan terrorizing villagers.
Plot Keywords: japan, violence, revenge, gambling, action, gore, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Five years after World War II, Hiroshima's survivors still struggle with the memories of their horrible ordeal.
Plot Keywords: crime, action, thriller, drama, police, japan, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Yokohama teens try to save their school's clubhouse from being demolished.
Plot Keywords: animation, japan, coming of age, romance, 1960s, school, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1940s Japan a villager must fulfill her duty to her husband, a decorated soldier who returned from war a quadruple amputee.
Plot Keywords: war, japan, history, drama, humanity, violence, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of Seita and Satsuko, two young Japanese siblings, living in the declining days of World War II. When an American firebombing separates the two children from their parents, the two siblings must rely completely on one another while they struggle to fight for their survival.
Plot Keywords: war, animation, tragedy, world war ii, japan, siblings, survival ...
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: crime, film noir, thriller, american film, 1950s, japan, gangster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Richard O'Barry was the man who captured and trained the dolphins for the television show Flipper (1964). O'Barry's view of cetaceans in captivity changed from that experience when as the last straw he saw that one of the dolphins playing Flipper - her name being Kathy - basically committed suicide in his arms because of the stress of being in captivity. Since that time, he has become one of the leading advocates against cetaceans in captivity and for the preservation of cetaceans in the wild. O'Barry and filmmaker 'Louie Psihoyos (I)' go about trying to expose one of what they see as the most cruel acts against wild dolphins in the world in Taiji, Japan, where dolphins are routinely corralled, either to be sold alive to aquariums and marine parks, or slaughtered for meat. The primary secluded cove where this activity is taking place is heavily guarded. O'Barry and Psihoyos are well known as enemies by the authorities in Taiji, the authorities who will use whatever tactic to expel the two from Japan forever. O'Barry, Psihoyos and their team covertly try to film as a document of conclusive evidence this cruel behavior. They employ among others Hollywood cameramen and deep sea free divers. They also highlight what is considered the dangerous consumption of dolphin meat (due to its high concentration of mercury) which is often sold not as dolphin meat, and the Japanese government's methodical buying off of poorer third world nations for their support of Japan's whaling industry, that support most specifically at the International Whaling Commission.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: documentary, environmental, japan, hunting, animal rights, academy award, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mitsuha is the daughter of the mayor of a small mountain town. She's a straightforward high school girl who lives with her sister and her grandmother and has no qualms about letting it be known that she's uninterested in Shinto rituals or helping her father's electoral campaign. Instead she dreams of leaving the boring town and trying her luck in Tokyo. Taki is a high school boy in Tokyo who works part-time in an Italian restaurant and aspires to become an architect or an artist. Every night he has a strange dream where he becomes...a high school girl in a small mountain town.
Plot Keywords: animation, romance, fantasy, youth, school, time travel, body swap ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Japanese warlord Hidetori Ichimonji decides the time has come to retire and divide his fiefdom among his three sons. His eldest and middle sons - Taro and Jiro - agree with his decision and promise to support him for his remaining days. The youngest son Saburo disagrees with all of them arguing that there is little likelihood the three brothers will remain united. Insulted by his son's brashness, the warlord banishes Saburo. As the warlord begins his retirement, he quickly realizes that his two eldest sons selfish and have no intention of keeping their promises. It leads to war and only banished Saburo can possibly save him.
Plot Keywords: war, shakespeare, japan, epic, tragedy, power struggle, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two young girls, 10-year-old Satsuki and her 4-year-old sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, family, children, adventure, japan, forest ...
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