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97 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
91256 votes

Seven Samurai (1954)

Summary: Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

Release Date: April 26, 1954

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Hideo Oguni

Runtime: 3 h 27 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Kingsley-International Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Embassy Pictures, Films Incorporated, Janus Films, Landmark Films, Embassy Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Cowboy Pictures

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 125,000,000

Domestic: $ 811,696

International: $ 248,577

97 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
20384 votes

Ikiru (1952)

Summary: A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

Release Date: March 25, 1956

Genre: Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Hideo Oguni

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Brandon Films, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Heron International Company, Media Home Entertainment, Cowboy Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Image Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 60,239

International: $ 36,680

96 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
42469 votes

Yojimbo (1961)

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

Release Date: April 25, 1961

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Ryûzô Kikushima

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: G

Production: Kurosawa Production Co., Sammy, Toho Company

Distributor: Janus Films, Seneca Productions, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Cowboy Pictures, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 46,808

International: $ 18,111

96 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
8409 votes

High and Low (1963)

Summary: An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.

Release Date: November 26, 1963

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Hideo Oguni

, Ryûzô Kikushima

, Eijirô Hisaita

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Kurosawa Production Co., Toho Company

Distributor: East West Classics, Continental Distributing, Pacific Arts Video, The Criterion Collection, Cowboy Pictures, Janus Films, Walter Reade-Sterling, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, Toho Company

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 230,000,000

Domestic: $ 46,808

International: $ 6,120

94 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
20221 votes

Throne of Blood (1957)

Summary: A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

Release Date: November 22, 1961

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Hideo Oguni

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Ryûzô Kikushima

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company, Kurosawa Production Co.

Distributor: Cowboy Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Media Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 46,808

International: $ 12,739

94 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
13043 votes

Your Name. (2016)

Summary: Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person.

Release Date: August 26, 2016

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Animation, Anime

Director: Makoto Shinkai

Writer: Makoto Shinkai

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Amuse, CoMix Wave Films, East Japan Marketing & Communications Inc., Kadokawa, Lawson HMV Entertainment (LHE), East Japan Marketing & Communications Inc., TOHO animation, The Answer Studio, Toho Company, Vogue Ting

Distributor: FUNimation Entertainment, FUNimation Productions, HBO Max

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 370,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,017,246

International: $ 377,223,857

94 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1040 votes

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)

Summary: Just before the live airing of a radio play, an actress decides to change the name of her character. This cascades into a battle of egos by all involved that causes continual script changes while the play is on-air live.

Release Date: November 08, 1997

Genre: Comedy

Director: Kôki Mitani

Writers: Kôki Mitani

, Tokyo Sunshine Boys

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

Production: Fuji Television Network, Premiere International, Toho Company

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 11,507

92 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
12434 votes

Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)

Summary: A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

Release Date: October 10, 1980

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Masato Ide

, Akira Kurosawa

Runtime: 2 h 42 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Kurosawa Production Co., Toho Company, Twentieth Century Fox, Zoetrope Studios

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Fox Video

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,000,000

International: $ 18,532

92 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
47 votes

Boruto: Naruto the Movie (2015)

Summary: It's been some years since the end of the Shinobi War. Naruto Uzumaki is the 7th Hokage of Konohagakure, in this new era. His son, Boruto Uzumaki, will soon enter the Chûnin exams, alongside Sarada Uchiha and the mysterious Mitsuki.

Release Date: March 28, 2017

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime

Directors: Hiroyuki Yamashita

, Toshiyuki Tsuru

Writers: Masashi Kishimoto

, Ukyô Kodachi

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Aniplex, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Bandai, Boruto Production Committee, Dentsu, Pierrot, Shueisha, TV Tokyo, Toho Company

Distributor: Eleven Arts, Fathom Events

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 919,651

International: $ 37,442,797

91 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
693 votes

I Just Didn't Do It (2006)

Summary: A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.

Release Date: January 20, 2007

Genre: Drama

Director: Masayuki Suô

Writer: Masayuki Suô

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

Production: Altamira Pictures Inc., Fuji Television Network, Toho Company

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

90 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
148874 votes

Akira (1988)

Summary: A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics.

Release Date: July 16, 1988

Genres: Action, Drama, Animation, Anime

Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Writers: Katsuhiro Ôtomo

, Izô Hashimoto

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: R

Production: Akira Committee Company Ltd., Akira Studio, TMS Entertainment, Bandai, Hakuhodo, Toho Company, LaserDisc., Sumitomo Corporation

Distributor: The Criterion Collection, Adult Swim, Encore Action, FUNimation Entertainment, HBO Max, Image Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 1,100,000,000

Domestic: $ 553,171

International: $ 2,737,123

90 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
5704 votes

Kwaidan (1964)

Summary: A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

Release Date: November 22, 1965

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Writers: Yôko Mizuki

, Lafcadio Hearn

Runtime: 3 h 03 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bungei Production Ninjin Club, Toho Company, Toyo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Distributor: Continental Distributing, HBO Max, Home Vision Cinema, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 350,000,000

89 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
86741 votes

Battle Royale (2000)

Summary: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Release Date: December 16, 2000

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Kinji Fukasaku

Writers: Koushun Takami

, Kenta Fukasaku

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: R

Production: Toho Company, AM Associates, Fukasaku-gumi, MF Pictures, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Toei Company, WOWOW

Distributor: Anchor Bay Films, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starmax

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 4,500,000

89 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
55012 votes

Ninja Scroll (1993)

Summary: A vagabond swordsman is aided by a kunoichi and a spy in battling a demonic clan of killers - led by a ghost from his past - who are bent on overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Release Date: June 05, 1993

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime

Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Writer: Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Victor Company of Japan (JVC), Toho Company, Movic

Distributor: Manga Entertainment, Sentai Filmworks, Sirius Publishing, The Sci-Fi Channel

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

88 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
24047 votes

13 Assassins (2010)

Summary: A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

Release Date: September 25, 2010

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Takashi Miike

Writers: Kaneo Ikegami

, Shoichirou Ikemiya

, Daisuke Tengan

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: R

Countries: Japan, United Kingdom

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 802,778

International: $ 17,886,280

88 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
6367 votes

When Marnie Was There (2014)

Summary: Anna, a shy 12-year-old girl, is sent to spend time with her aunt and uncle who live in the countryside, where she meets Marnie. The two become best friends. But Anna gradually discovers that Marnie is not quite who she appears to...

Release Date: November 28, 2016

Genres: Drama, Family, Animation, Anime

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Writers: Joan G. Robinson

, Keiko Niwa

, Masashi Andô

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: G

Production: Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, KDDI Corporation, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, Nippon Television Network (NTV), Studio Ghibli, Toho Company, When Marnie Was There Production Committee

Distributor: GKIDS, HBO Max, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 561,085

International: $ 34,451,596

88 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
3028 votes

The Boy and the Beast (2015)

Summary: When a young orphaned boy living on the streets of Shibuya stumbles upon a fantastic world of beasts, he's taken in by a gruff warrior beast looking for an apprentice.

Release Date: July 11, 2015

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime

Director: Mamoru Hosoda

Writer: Mamoru Hosoda

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Bakemono no Ko Production Committee, Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company (CTV), D.N. Dream Partners, Hiroshima Telecasting (HTV), Kadokawa, Miyagi Television Broadcasting, Nippon Television Network (NTV), Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company, Shizuoka Daiichi Television, Studio Chizu, Toho Company, Video Audio Project (VAP), Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation (YTV)

Distributor: FUNimation Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 490,643

International: $ 49,290,956

88 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
553 votes

Confessions (2010)

Summary: Yuko, a teacher of middle-school, is shattered to see her four-year-old daughter dead. She returns back to the school and finds out that her students are responsible for her daughter's murder.

Release Date: June 05, 2010

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Tetsuya Nakashima

Writers: Kanae Minato

, Tetsuya Nakashima

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: DesperaDo, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Licri, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Sony Music Entertainment, Toho Company, Yahoo Japan

Distributor: Toho Company, Well Go USA Entertainment, Shocking Videos

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

88 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
248 votes

The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (2017)

Summary: In this comedy about one epic night in Kyoto, a college sophomore goes on a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife, all the while unaware of the romantic longings of her classmate Senpai.

Release Date: April 07, 2017

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Anime

Director: Masaaki Yuasa