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Ran
(乱)
The Greatest Shakespeare Film
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, France • 1985
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki
- Genre Action, Drama, History
- Available on Kanopy
Children of Hiroshima
(原爆の子)
Schoolteacher Takako Ishikawa returns to her hometown of Hiroshima four years after the US dropped the atomic bomb.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1952
- Director Kaneto Shindō
- Cast Nobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa, Masao Shimizu, Jukichi Uno, Akira Yamanouchi, Jun Tatara
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Tubi TV
Harakiri
(切腹)
The world has never understood why the Japanese prefer death to dishonor. This winner of Prix Special du Jury at Cannes 1963 provides the answer!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1962
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentarou Mikuni, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama, Yoshio Inaba
- Genre Action, Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Unforgiven
(許されざる者)
Jubei vowed to never again pick up a sword, but poverty gives him no choice, and he must become a bounty hunter.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2013
- Director Lee Sang-il
- Cast Ken Watanabe, Koichi Sato, Akira Emoto, Yuya Yagira, Shiori Kutsuna, Eiko Koike
- Genre Action, Crime, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
The Eel
(うなぎ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1997
- Director Shōhei Imamura
- Cast Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Akira Emoto, Fujio Tokita, Sho Aikawa, Ken Kobayashi
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Madadayo
(まあだだよ)
The tale of a German professor’s life after he resigns prior to WWII to pursue a career as a writer.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1993
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Tatsuo Matsumura, Kyōko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro, Masayuki Yui, Akira Terao
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Godzilla
(ゴジラ)
A 164-foot-tall monster near Odo Island in Japan goes on a rampage that threatens the entire world.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1954
- Director Ishirō Honda
- Cast Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Fuyuki Murakami, Sachio Sakai
- Genre Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Crackle, The Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Channel
A Woman's Life
(女の歴史)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1963
- Director Mikio Naruse
- Cast Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Natsuko Kahara
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Go Master
(吴清源)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, China • 2007
- Director Tian Zhuangzhuang
- Cast Chang Chen, Akira Emoto, Sylvia Chang, Ayumi Ito, Takashi Nishina, Nao Omori
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Kill!
(斬る)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1968
- Director Kihachi Okamoto
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Etsushi Takahashi, Yuriko Hoshi, Tadao Nakamaru, Akira Kubo, Shigeru Kôyama
- Genre Action, Comedy
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
(ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版：序)
A teenage boy in a futuristic vision of Tokyo joins a clandestine military group to fight aliens set on eradicating humanity.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2007
- Director Hideaki Anno
- Cast Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Akira Ishida, Fumihiko Tachiki
- Genre Action, Animation, Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Microsoft Store
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
(ある船頭の話)
A boatman who ferries villagers across a river has his livelihood threatened by the creation of a bridge upstream.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2019
- Director Joe Odagiri
- Cast Akira Emoto, Ririka Kawashima, Nijiro Murakami, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Tadanobu Asano, Jun Murakami
- Genre Drama
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
Lu Over the Wall
(夜明け告げるルーのうた)
A lonely middle schooler befriends a mermaid whose singing causes humans to compulsively dance.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2017
- Director Masaaki Yuasa
- Cast Shota Shimoda, Soma Saito, Minako Kotobuki, Kanon Tani, Akira Emoto, Shizuka Itoh
- Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
- Available on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Hoopla
Yarn
(Garn)
Meet the artists redefining the art form of knitting and crochet.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Netherlands, Cuba, Germany • 2016
- Director Una Lorenzen
- Cast Barbara Kingsolver, Olek, Tilde Björfors, Tinna Thórudóttir Thorvaldsdóttir, Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam, Akira Blondo
- Genre Animation, Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Cineverse, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
A House on a Hill
(坂道の家)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2014
- Director Yasuo Tsuruhashi
- Cast Machiko Ono, Akira Emoto, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Eri Watanabe, Yûko Fueki, Marie
- Genre Mystery, Drama, TV Movie
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Journey to the Shore
(岸辺の旅)
For 3 years, Mizuki’s husband was missing. One day, he suddenly returns and invites her on a trip with him.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, France • 2015
- Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast Eri Fukatsu, Tadanobu Asano, Masao Komatsu, Yu Aoi, Yasayuki Shuto, Akira Emoto
- Genre Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Available on Kanopy
Godzilla, King of the Monsters
- ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1998
- Director
- Cast Haruo Nakajima, Akira Ifukube, Jun Fukuda, Noriaki Yuasa, Kenpachirō Satsuma
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Shall We Dance?
(Shall We ダンス?)
- ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1996
- Director Masayuki Suo
- Cast Kōji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eri Watanabe, Akira Emoto, Yuu Tokui
- Genre Music, Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
(ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:Q)
What was destroyed can (not) be rebuild.
- ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2012
- Director Hideaki Anno
- Cast Megumi Ogata, Yuko Miyamura, Akira Ishida, Megumi Hayashibara, Maaya Sakamoto, Kotono Mitsuishi
- Genre Animation, Science Fiction, Action, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Blood: The Last Vampire
- ✭
- Japan, United States • 2000
- Director Hiroyuki Kitakubo
- Cast Youki Kudoh, Saemi Nakamura, Joe Romersa, Rebecca Forstadt, Stuart Robinson, Akira Koteyama
- Genre Animation, Fantasy, Horror
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Gintama
(銀魂)
- Japan • 2006
- Creator
- Cast Tomokazu Sugita, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Rie Kugimiya, Akira Ishida, Fumihiko Tachiki, Kazuya Nakai
- Genre Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on Hulu, Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
Lovely Complex
(ラブ★コン)
- Japan • 2007
- Creator Aya Nakahara
- Cast Masaya Onosaka, Akemi Okamura, Fujiko Takimoto, Yuki Matsuoka, Akira Nagata, Kazuko Kojima
- Genre Animation, Comedy, Drama
- Available on Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
Boruto: Naruto the Movie
(BORUTO -NARUTO THE MOVIE-)
- Japan • 2015
- Director Hiroyuki Yamashita
- Cast Yuko Sanpei, Kokoro Kikuchi, Junko Takeuchi, Noriaki Sugiyama, Daisuke Namikawa, Akira Ishida
- Genre Animation, Action, Comedy
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry
(劇場版 FAIRY TAIL -DRAGON CRY-
)
- Japan • 2017
- Director Tatsuma Minamikawa
- Cast Makoto Furukawa, Wataru Hatano, Aya Hirano, Yui Horie, Akira Ishida, Rie Kugimiya
- Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
- Available on Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Redcon-1
War Has Just Evolved.
- United Kingdom • 2018
- Director Chee Keong Cheung
- Cast Oris Erhuero, Carlos Gallardo, Mark Strange, Joshua Dickinson, Martyn Ford, Akira Koieyama
- Genre Action, Horror, Science Fiction
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Freevee, Plex, Plex Channel
Ninja Boy
(伊賀野カバ丸)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1983
- Creator Azuki Yuu
- Cast Ryusei Nakao, Akira Kamiya, Mai Tachihara, Akio Nojima, Yusaku Yara, Ken'ichi Ogata
- Genre Animation, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Carnation
(カーネーション)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2011
- Creator
- Cast Mari Natsuki, Machiko Ono, Akari Ninomiya, Chiaki Kuriyama, Akira Takarada, Yumi Asou
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Naruto: Shippuden
(ナルト 疾風伝)
Naruto returns home after years away, seeking to save his old friend, facing enemies old and new.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2007
- Creator
- Cast Junko Takeuchi, Chie Nakamura, Noriaki Sugiyama, Kazuhiko Inoue, Satoshi Hino, Akira Ishida
- Genre Action & Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Hulu, Crunchyroll, Adult Swim, Spectrum On Demand, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
(人間の條件 第１部純愛篇／第２部激怒篇)
A Japanese pacifist and socialist struggles to accommodate the demands of his country during wartime.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1959
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima, Sō Yamamura, Akira Ishihama
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Criterion Channel
Super Dimension Fortress Macross
(超時空要塞マクロス)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1982
- Creator Shouji Kawamori, Kazutaka Miyatake, Studio Nue
- Cast Arihiro Hase, Mari Iijima, Mika Doi, Akira Kamiya, Eiji Kanie, Eri Takeda
- Genre Animation, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, War & Politics
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Nana
(ナナ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2006
- Creator
- Cast Romi Park, KAORI, Akira Ishida, Megumi Kojima, Anna Tsuchiya, Aya Hirano
- Genre Animation, Comedy, Drama
- Available on Hulu
Gintama: The Very Final
(銀魂 THE FINAL)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2021
- Director Chizuru Miyawaki
- Cast Tomokazu Sugita, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Rie Kugimiya, Kazuya Nakai, Akira Ishida, Kenichi Suzumura
- Genre Animation, Action, Comedy
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Freevee
Treasure Island
(宝島)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1978
- Creator
- Cast Akio Nojima, Iemasa Kayumi, Junpei Takiguchi, Shozo Iizuka, Akira Kamiya, Kaneta Kimotsuki
- Genre Action & Adventure, Animation
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Tsukahara Bokuden
(塚原卜伝)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2011
- Creator
- Cast Masato Sakai, Narimi Arimori, Akira Nakao, Takehiro Hira, Takaaki Enoki, Ken Yasuda
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Gintama: The Movie: The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya
(劇場版 銀魂 完結篇 万事屋よ永遠なれ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2013
- Director Youichi Fujita
- Cast Tomokazu Sugita, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Rie Kugimiya, Akira Ishida, Susumu Chiba, Kazuya Nakai
- Genre Action, Comedy, Science Fiction, Animation
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
(昭和元禄落語心中)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2016
- Creator
- Cast Tomokazu Seki, Koichi Yamadera, Akira Ishida, Kappei Yamaguchi, Megumi Hayashibara
- Genre Animation, Drama, Comedy
- Available on Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
Brass Dreams
(仰げば尊し)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2016
- Creator Ishikawa Takako
- Cast Akira Terao, Mackenyu, Nijiro Murakami, Mikako Tabe, Takumi Kitamura, Taiga Nakano
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga
(Los albores del kaiju eiga)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain • 2019
- Director Jonathan Bellés
- Cast Akira Takarada, Haruo Nakajima, Kenpachirō Satsuma, Shusuke Kaneko, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Koizumi
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Maison Ikkoku
(めぞん一刻)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1986
- Creator Rumiko Takahashi
- Cast Issei Futamata, Sumi Shimamoto, Shigeru Chiba, Yuko Mita, Kazuyo Aoki, Akira Kamiya
- Genre Animation, Comedy, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Uninhabited Planet Survive!
(無人惑星サヴァイヴ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2003
- Creator
- Cast Yukiko Iwai, Mabuki Ando, Kiyoe Koiizuka, Nahoko Kinoshita, Akira Ishida, Junko Minagawa
- Genre Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Fate/Zero
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2011
- Creator
- Cast Ayako Kawasumi, Rikiya Koyama, Akio Otsuka, Akira Ishida, Ayumi Tsunematsu, Daisuke Namikawa
- Genre Action & Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on Hulu, Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
(八代将軍吉宗)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1995
- Creator
- Cast Noguchi Gorou, Toshiyuki Nishida, Hideji Ôtaki, Takuro Tatsumi, Yuki Saito, Akira Emoto
- Genre Drama, War & Politics
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Big X
(ビッグX)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1964
- Creator
- Cast Fuyumi Shiraishi, Keiko Yamamoto, Akira Shimada, Yoshiko Ohta, Ichiro Nagai
- Genre Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Throne of Blood
(蜘蛛巣城)
Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan ranks among his most acclaimed films.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1957
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Kubo, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Hiroshi Tachikawa
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
B-Fighter Kabuto
(ビーファイターカブト)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1996
- Creator
- Cast Hideomi Nakazato, Yukina Kurisu, Ryoichi Yamaguchi, Kaori Asoh, Hideki Anzai, Akira Ooka
- Genre Action & Adventure, Kids
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Dying at a Hospital
(病院で死ぬということ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1993
- Director Jun Ichikawa
- Cast Ittoku Kishibe, Masayuki Shionoya, Akira Yamanouchi, Reiko Nanao
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Monkey King
(エノケンの孫悟空 前編 後編)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1940
- Director Kajirō Yamamoto
- Cast Kenichi Enomoto, Minoru Takase, Hideko Takamine, Chieko Takehisa, Aiko Mimasu, Yoshiko Yamaguchi
- Genre Music, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Creamy Mami: Long Good-Bye
(魔法の天使 クリィミーマミ Long Good-Bye)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1985
- Director Tomomi Mochizuki
- Cast Takako Ohta, Saeko Shimazu, Akira Murakami, Kaneta Kimotsuki, Kazuhiko Inoue
- Genre Animation
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Future Police Urashiman
(未来警察ウラシマン)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1983
- Creator Hirohisa Soda
- Cast Michitaka Kobayashi, Akira Kamiya, Keiko Yokozawa, Masako Katsuki, Tōru Ōhira, Eiji Maruyama
- Genre Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Choushinsei Flashman
(超新星フラッシュマン)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1986
- Creator
- Cast Mayumi Yoshida, Youko Nakamura, Akira Ishihama, Tsutomu Kitagawa, Kihachirō Uemura, Hiroko Maruyama
- Genre Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Family, Action & Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Slow Step
(スローステップ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1991
- Creator Mitsuru Adachi
- Cast Akira Kamiya, Ryou Horikawa, Hiroko Emori, Hikaru Midorikawa, Masaharu Sato, Sanae Takagi
- Genre Animation, Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Captain Future
(キャプテンフューチャー)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, France, West Germany • 1978
- Creator Edmond Hamilton
- Cast Keiichi Noda, Kazuhiko Inoue, Eiko Masuyama, Akira Kamiya, Taichiro Hirokawa, Kazuhiko Kishino
- Genre Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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