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Seven Samurai (1954)

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

Release Date: November 19, 1956

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Hideo Oguni

Runtime: 3 h 27 min

MPAA: Not Rated

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: $ 318,649

International: $ 27,609

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
32 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

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
22 votes

A Brighter Summer Day (1991)

Summary: Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.

Release Date: November 25, 2011

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Edward Yang

Writers: Hung Hung

, Mingtang Lai

, Alex Yang

Runtime: 3 h 57 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Yang & His Gang Filmmakers

Country: Taiwan

Language: English

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
7 votes

Lady Snowblood (1973)

Summary: A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

Release Date: March 22, 1974

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: Toshiya Fujita

Writers: Kazuo Kamimura

, Kazuo Koike

, Norio Osada

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd.

Distributor: HBO Max, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

99 - Rotten Tomatoes
70 votes

The Twilight Samurai (2002)

Summary: As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.

Release Date: November 02, 2002

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Yôji Yamada

Writers: Shûhei Fujisawa

, Yôji Yamada

, Yoshitaka Asama

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

Production: Eisei Gekijo, Hakuhodo, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Nippon Television Network (NTV), Shochiku, Sumitomo Corporation

Distributor: Empire Pictures, Twilight Time

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 559,765

International: $ 6,813,004

98 - Rotten Tomatoes
59 votes

Rashomon (1950)

Summary: The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

Release Date: December 26, 1951

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Ryûnosuke Akutagawa

, Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Daiei

Distributor: Edward Harrison, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, The Criterion Channel, Embassy Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 250,000

Domestic: $ 46,808

International: $ 34,571

96 - Rotten Tomatoes
89 votes

Ran (1985)

Summary: In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

Release Date: June 01, 1985

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Hideo Oguni

, Masato Ide

Runtime: 2 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Greenwich Film Productions, Herald Ace, Nippon Herald Films

Distributor: Orion Classics, CBS/Fox, StudioCanal, The Criterion Collection, Rialto Pictures, Wellspring Media

Countries: Japan, France

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 11,500,000

Domestic: $ 4,135,750

International: $ 28,533

96 - Rotten Tomatoes
45 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

95 - Rotten Tomatoes
132 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

95 - Rotten Tomatoes
22 votes

Lupin III: The First (2019)

Summary: Lupin III goes on a grand adventure to uncover the secrets of the Bresson Diary, which is tied to the legacy of his famous grandfather.

Release Date: October 18, 2020

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime

Director: Takashi Yamazaki

Writers: Monkey Punch

, Takashi Yamazaki

, Maurice Leblanc

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Abe Shuji, Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company (CTV), Fukuoka Broadcasting System (FBS), Hiroshima Telecasting (HTV), Marza Animation Planet, Miyagi Television Broadcasting, Nippon Television Network (NTV), Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company, Shirogumi, Shizuoka Daiichi Television, TMS Entertainment, Toho Company, Video Audio Project (VAP), Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation (YTV)

Distributor: GKIDS

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 245,724

International: $ 7,256,886

92 - Rotten Tomatoes
115 votes

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Summary: The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Release Date: October 14, 1994

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Writers: Quentin Tarantino

, Roger Avary

Runtime: 2 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Miramax, A Band Apart, Jersey Films

Distributor: Fathom Events, Miramax, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Video, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 107,928,762

International: $ 106,000,000

91 - Rotten Tomatoes
32 votes

Radio Days (1987)

Summary: A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.

Release Date: January 30, 1987

Genre: Comedy

Director: Woody Allen

Writer: Woody Allen

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Image Entertainment, Orion Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Twilight Time

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,792,779

90 - Rotten Tomatoes
370 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

90 - Rotten Tomatoes
48 votes

Super Dark Times (2017)

Summary: Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.

Release Date: September 29, 2017

Genres: Drama, Crime, Horror

Director: Kevin Phillips

Writers: Ben Collins

, Luke Piotrowski

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Ways & Means, Neighborhood Watch, Lila 9th Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 33,109

90 - Rotten Tomatoes
20 votes

Onibaba (1964)

Summary: Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.

Release Date: February 04, 1965

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Kaneto Shindô

Writer: Kaneto Shindô

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Kindai Eiga Kyokai, Tokyo Eiga Co Ltd.

Distributor: Toho Company, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: English

88 - Rotten Tomatoes
48 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: Not Rated

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

88 - Rotten Tomatoes
8 votes

The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014)

Summary: Admiral Yi Sun-sin faces a tough challenge when he is forced to defend his nation with just 13 battleships against 300 Japanese enemy ships in the Battle of Myeongryang.

Release Date: July 30, 2014

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Han-min Kim

Writers: Cheol-Hong Jeon

, Han-min Kim

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: CJ Entertainment, Big Stone Pictures

Distributor: CJ Entertainment America, CJ Entertainment, Walla

Country: South Korea

Language: Korean

Movie budget: $ 9,500,000

Domestic: $ 2,589,811

International: $ 135,752,447

87 - Rotten Tomatoes
168 votes

Thoroughbreds (2017)

Summary: Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.

Release Date: March 09, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Cory Finley

Writer: Cory Finley

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: B Story, Big Indie Pictures, June Pictures

Distributor: Focus Features

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,072,605

International: $ 114,650

87 - Rotten Tomatoes
127 votes

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)

Summary: The blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.

Release Date: September 06, 2003

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Takeshi Kitano