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Nobody Knows (2004)

Summary: In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Release Date: October 21, 2004

Genre: Drama

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda

Writer: Hirokazu Koreeda

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Bandai Visual Company, Cine Qua Non Films, Engine Film, c-style

Distributor: IFC Films, MGM Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 684,118

International: $ 1,603,975

8.6 - Douban
108178 votes

Kids Return (1996)

Summary: Dropping out of high school, two friends at first find success, one as a up-and-coming boxer and one as a low level gangster. Yet, their life decisions still find a way of catching up with them.

Release Date: July 27, 1996

Genres: Drama, Crime, Sport

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Writer: Takeshi Kitano

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: 13+

Production: Bandai Visual Company, Office Kitano, Ohta Publishing

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

8.2 - Douban
230293 votes

Hana and Alice (2004)

Summary: When two best friends develop a crush on the same boy, they develop a plan to trick him into dating them.

Release Date: March 13, 2004

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Shunji Iwai

Writer: Shunji Iwai

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

Production: H&A Project, Rockwell Eyes

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

7.9 - Douban
13667 votes

The Eel (1997)

Summary: A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.

Release Date: August 21, 1998

Genre: Drama

Director: Shôhei Imamura

Writers: Shôhei Imamura

, Daisuke Tengan

, Motofumi Tomikawa

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Eisei Gekijo, Groove Corporation, Imamura Productions, Satellite Cinema, Shochiku

Distributor: New Yorker Films

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 418,480

International: $ 6,203

7.9 - Douban
11713 votes

Violent Cop (1989)

Summary: A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.

Release Date: July 16, 1999

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Writers: Hisashi Nozawa

, Takeshi Kitano

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bandai Media Department, Shochiku-Fuji Company

Distributor: Fox Lorber, Film Movement

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 1,960

7.8 - Douban
248 votes

Taiyô no kizu (2006)

Summary: Katayama (Aikawa Sho) is on the way home to his wife and little daughter when he stumbles on a gang of punks beating up an innocent man. Katamaya decides to help the stranger and surprisingly wins the fight. This turns out to be a...

Release Date: September 16, 2006

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Takashi Miike

Writer: Toshimichi Ohkawa

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

Production: Cinema Paradise

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

7.6 - Douban
509 votes

Dead or Alive (1999)

Summary: A yakuza of Chinese descent and a Japanese cop each wage their own war against the Japanese mafia. But they are destined to meet. Their encounter will change the world.

Release Date: November 27, 1999

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Takashi Miike

Writer: Toshiki Kimura

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Daiei, Toei Video Company, Excellent Film

Distributor: Kino Video

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 500,000

7 - Douban
364841 votes

Weathering with You (2019)

Summary: Set during a period of exceptionally rainy weather, high-school boy Hodaka Morishima runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo and befriends an orphan girl who can manipulate the weather.

Release Date: January 17, 2020

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Animation, Anime

Director: Makoto Shinkai

Writer: Makoto Shinkai

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: "Weathering With You" Film Partners, Beijing Enlight Pictures, China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), CoMix Wave Films, Kadokawa, Lawson Entertainment, Story (II), Toho

Distributor: GKIDS, HBO Max, Shout! Factory

Countries: Japan, China

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 11,100,000

Domestic: $ 8,056,636

International: $ 184,871,072

6.7 - Douban
44507 votes

Shin Godzilla (2016)

Summary: Japan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.

Release Date: July 29, 2016

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Directors: Hideaki Anno

, Shinji Higuchi

Writers: Hideaki Anno

, Sean Whitley

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Cine Bazar, Khara Corporation, Toho Company

Distributor: Crunchyroll, FUNimation Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Franchise: Godzilla

Domestic: $ 1,918,403

International: $ 76,134,742

6.3 - Douban
111 votes

Return of Daimajin (1966)

Summary: Giant statue exacts revenge upon those who conquer its worshippers.

Release Date: August 13, 1966

Genres: Drama, Fantasy

Director: Kenji Misumi

Writer: Tetsurô Yoshida

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company, Daiei Studios, Daiei, Toho

Distributor: American International Pictures (AIP), American-International Television (AIP-TV), Something Weird Video (SWV), Sinister Cinema

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

0 - Douban

Monkey (1978)

Summary: An adaptation of a Chinese folktale about a pilgrimage to the West undertaken by a monk and his divine guardians.

Release Date: October 01, 1978

Genres: Action, Adventure, Family

Production: Kokusai Hoei, Nippon Television Network (NTV)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

0 - Douban

Gokusen (2002)

Summary: Gokusen is the story of Kumiko Yamaguchi, aka. Yankumi, a fourth generation crime syndicate member. She's gone straight and wants to be a teacher though, but she's one you don't want to mess with.

Release Date: June 25, 2024

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Runtime: 0 h 54 min

Production: Nippon Television Network (NTV)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Nobody Knows (2004)

Kids Return (1996)

Hana and Alice (2004)

The Eel (1997)

Violent Cop (1989)

Taiyô no kizu (2006)

Dead or Alive (1999)

Weathering with You (2019)

Shin Godzilla (2016)

Return of Daimajin (1966)

Monkey (1978)

Gokusen (2002)

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