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Paprika (2006)

Summary: When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.

Release Date: June 22, 2007

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Animation, Anime

Director: Satoshi Kon

Writers: Yasutaka Tsutsui

, Seishi Minakami

, Satoshi Kon

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Madhouse, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA), The Criterion Channel

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 300,000,000

Domestic: $ 882,267

International: $ 64,323

9.1 - Douban
146398 votes

Tokyo Story (1953)

Summary: An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

Release Date: March 13, 1972

Genre: Drama

Director: Yasujirô Ozu

Writers: Kôgo Noda

, Yasujirô Ozu

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Shochiku, Entertain Me Productions

Distributor: New Yorker Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

8.8 - Douban
299216 votes

Still Walking (2008)

Summary: A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

Release Date: June 28, 2008

Genre: Drama

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda

Writer: Hirokazu Koreeda

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bandai Visual Company, Cinequanon, Eisei Gekijo

Distributor: The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 167,047

International: $ 3,344,073

8.8 - Douban
15106 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

8.7 - Douban
109948 votes

Fireworks (1997)

Summary: Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.

Release Date: March 20, 1998

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Writer: Takeshi Kitano

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

Production: Bandai Visual Company, TV Tokyo, Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co., Office Kitano

Distributor: Milestone, Film Movement

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 500,000

8.7 - Douban
52283 votes

Dreams (1990)

Summary: A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.

Release Date: August 24, 1990

Genres: Drama, Fantasy

Directors: Akira Kurosawa

, Ishirô Honda

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Ishirô Honda

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Akira Kurosawa USA

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,963,207

International: $ 1,006,954

8.7 - Douban
6364 votes

I Was Born, But... (1932)

Summary: Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn't the most important man in his workplace.

Release Date: June 03, 1932

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Yasujirô Ozu

Writers: Akira Fushimi

, Geibei Ibushiya

, Yasujirô Ozu

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Shochiku

Distributor: Janus Films, The Criterion Channel

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

8.6 - Douban
163659 votes

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Summary: In December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.

Release Date: November 24, 1974

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writers: Paul Dehn

, Agatha Christie

, Anthony Shaffer

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: PG

Production: EMI Film Distributors, G.W. Films Limited

Distributor: HBO Max, Paramount Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

Domestic: $ 27,634,716

International: $ 24,801

8.6 - Douban
29628 votes

Ugetsu (1953)

Summary: A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

Release Date: September 07, 1954

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, War

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Writers: Matsutarô Kawaguchi

, Hisakazu Tsuji

, Akinari Ueda

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Daiei Studios

Distributor: Janus Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 11,197

International: $ 13,762

8.6 - Douban
27350 votes

Late Spring (1949)

Summary: Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

Release Date: September 13, 1949

Genre: Drama

Director: Yasujirô Ozu

Writers: Kazuo Hirotsu

, Kôgo Noda

, Yasujirô Ozu

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Shochiku

Distributor: New Yorker Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 13,254

International: $ 6,427

8.6 - Douban
20335 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

8.5 - Douban
1502524 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

8.5 - Douban
184142 votes

Summer Wars (2009)

Summary: A student tries to fix a problem he accidentally caused in OZ, a digital world, while pretending to be the fiancé of his friend at her grandmother's 90th birthday.

Release Date: August 01, 2009

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime

Director: Mamoru Hosoda

Writers: Mamoru Hosoda

, Satoko Okudera

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Madhouse, Nippon Television Network (NTV), Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., D.N. Dream Partners, Warner Bros., Yomiuri Television, Video Audio Project (VAP)

Distributor: GKIDS, FUNimation Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 80,768

International: $ 18,353,560

8.5 - Douban
27712 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

8.4 - Douban
287218 votes

Lan Yu (2001)

Summary: A young, gay student has a relationship with an older, successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet closeted straight life, or an honest, yet subversive life with the student.

Release Date: November 22, 2001

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Stanley Kwan

Writer: Jimmy Ngai

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: Kwan's Creation Workshop, Yongning Creation Workshop

Distributor: Golden Scene, Strand Releasing

Countries: Hong Kong, China

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 116,325

International: $ 3,731,639

8.3 - Douban
6513 votes

The Life of Oharu (1952)

Summary: Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.

Release Date: April 20, 1964

Genre: Drama

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Writers: Saikaku Ihara

, Kenji Mizoguchi

, Yoshikata Yoda

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Koi Productions, Shintoho Film Distribution Committee

Distributor: The Criterion Collection, Toho Company

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

8.2 - Douban
232910 votes

The Wind Rises (2013)

Summary: A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.

Release Date: February 21, 2014

Genres: Drama, Biography, Animation, Anime

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Writer: Hayao Miyazaki

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Studio Ghibli, Touchstone Pictures, Wild Bunch, Nippon Television Network (NTV), Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Animation Japan, d-rights, Toho Company, KDDI Corporation

Distributor: GKIDS, Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, HBO Max, Shout! Factory

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,209,580

International: $ 131,625,981

8.2 - Douban
225465 votes

Isle of Dogs (2018)

Summary: Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.

Release Date: April 13, 2018

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Director: Wes Anderson

Writers: Wes Anderson

, Roman Coppola

, Jason Schwartzman

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Studio Babelsberg, Twentieth Century Fox Animation

Distributor: Searchlight Pictures, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Disney+

Countries: United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan

Language: English

Domestic: $ 32,015,231

International: $ 32,641,377

8.2 - Douban
2057 votes

Pygmalion (1938)

Summary: A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.

Release Date: March 03, 1939

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Directors: Anthony Asquith