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Yojimbo
(用心棒)
A ronin comes to a town divided between two gangs and decides to play them off each other to his advantage.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1961
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Seizaburō Kawazu
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
Samurai Rebellion
(上意討ち 拝領妻始末)
Isaburo Sasahara is an aging swordsman living a quiet life until his clan lord orders that his son marry the lord's mistress.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1967
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Gō Katō, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Etsuko Ichihara, Isao Yamagata
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, FlixFling, Tubi TV
Only Yesterday
(おもひでぽろぽろ)
Is the life you have now really everything you imagined it to be?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1991
- Director Isao Takahata
- Cast Miki Imai, Toshirō Yanagiba, Yoko Honna, Mayumi Iizuka, Masahiro Itou, Chie Kitagawa
- Genre Animation, Drama, Romance
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
PLUTO
When the world's seven most advanced robots and their human allies are murdered one by one, Inspector Gesicht soon discovers that he's also in danger.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- • 2023
- Creator Toshio Kawaguchi
- Cast Shinshu Fuji, Yoko Hikasa, Minori Suzuki
- Genre Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
The End of Summer
(小早川家の秋)
The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1961
- Director Yasujirō Ozu
- Cast Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Michiyo Aratama, Keiju Kobayashi, Masahiko Shimazu
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kanopy, Criterion Channel
After the Storm
(海よりもまだ深く)
Who knows what a bright new morning can bring?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2016
- Director Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Cast Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki, Yoko Maki, Taiyô Yoshizawa, Satomi Kobayashi
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Spectrum On Demand, Kanopy, Hoopla
Café Lumière
(珈琲時光)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, Taiwan • 2004
- Director Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Cast Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo, Nenji Kobayashi, Yôko Hoshi
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Apostasy
(破戒)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1948
- Director Keisuke Kinoshita
- Cast Ryō Ikebe, Yôko Katsuragi, Osamu Takizawa, Jūkichi Uno, Masao Shimizu, Yoshi Katō
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Whisperer of the Heart
(耳をすませば)
Shizuki lives a simple life, dominated by her love of stories and writing, until one day she meets her “Prince of Books.”
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1995
- Director Yoshifumi Kondou
- Cast Yoko Honna, Issey Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Keiju Kobayashi
- Genre Animation, Drama, Family
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Like Father, Like Son
(そして父になる)
Ryota Nonomiya learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth, and he must make a life-changing decision,
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2013
- Director Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Cast Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yoko Maki, Lily Franky, Keita Ninomiya, Shôgen Hwang
- Genre Drama
- Available on AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, The Roku Channel, Kanopy
Kingdom
(キングダム)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2012
- Creator
- Cast Yutaka Nakano, Rie Kugimiya, Masakazu Morita, Jun Fukuyama, Yoko Hikasa, Toshiyuki Morikawa
- Genre Action & Adventure, Animation, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
Hal
(ハル)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2013
- Director Ryotaro Makihara
- Cast Yoshimasa Hosoya, Yoko Hikasa, Mamoru Miyano, Shinpachi Tsuji, Tamio Ohki, Ako Mayama
- Genre Animation, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
To Each His Own
(ちょっと今から仕事やめてくる)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2017
- Director Izuru Narushima
- Cast Sota Fukushi, Asuka Kudo, Haru Kuroki, Eiko Koike, Kotaro Yoshida, Yôko Moriguchi
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Nearly 20 years after his death, Toshiro Mifune remains a true giant of Japanese cinema.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2016
- Director Steven Okazaki
- Cast Keanu Reeves, Kyōko Kagawa, Yōko Tsukasa, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Takeshi Katō, Kaoru Yachigusa
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Strand Releasing Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Ride or Die
(彼女)
Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2021
- Director Ryuichi Hiroki
- Cast Kiko Mizuhara, Honami Sato, Yoko Maki, Anne Suzuki, Shunsuke Tanaka, Tetsushi Tanaka
- Genre Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Bitter Honey
(蜜のあわれ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2016
- Director Gakuryu Ishii
- Cast Fumi Nikaido, Ren Osugi, Yoko Maki, Kengo Kora, Hanae Kan, Masatoshi Nagase
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Caniba
A portrait of Issei Sagawa, a Japanese man who murdered and ate a man in 1981.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2017
- Director Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel
- Cast Issei Sagawa, Jun Sagawa, Yôko Satomi
- Genre Documentary
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV
The Princess Blade
(修羅雪姫)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2001
- Director Shinsuke Sato
- Cast Yumiko Shaku, Hideaki Ito, Kyūsaku Shimada, Shirô Sano, Yôichi Numata, Yoko Maki
- Genre Action, Science Fiction
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Hush!
(ハッシュ!)
Two guys, a girl, and the desire for a baby
- ✭
- Japan • 2001
- Director Ryosuke Hashiguchi
- Cast Reiko Kataoka, Kazuya Takahashi, Seiichi Tanabe, Yoko Akino, Manami Fuji, Ken Mitsuishi
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Veronika Decides to Die
(ベロニカは死ぬことにした)
- Japan • 2005
- Director Kei Horie
- Cast Yoko Maki, Lee Wan, Jun Fubuki, Tomoko Nakajima, Keiko Oginome, Yumi Takigawa
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
DORA - Escape into Music
(DORA - Flucht in die Musik)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2022
- Director Tim van Beveren, Kyra Steckeweh
- Cast Käthe Leisegang, Yoko Bustamente, Andris Nelsons, Beatrix Borchard, Koraljka Kos, Andrej Bielow
- Genre Documentary, Music, History
- Available on Amazon Video, Tubi TV
Epic Chushingura
(大忠臣蔵)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1971
- Creator
- Cast Tetsuya Watari, Toshirō Mifune, Kikugorô Onoe, Ichirô Arishima, Chūsha Ichikawa, Yōko Tsukasa
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Macross Frontier Galaxy Tour Final in Budokan
(マクロスF ギャラクシーツアーFINAL in ブドーカン)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2009
- Director
- Cast Megumi Nakajima, Yoko Kanno, May'n
- Genre Music
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Mirrorman
(ミラーマン)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1971
- Creator
- Cast Nobuyuki Ishida, Jun Usami, Takako Sawai, Hajime Sugiyama, Yōko Ichiji
- Genre Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Mushi-Shi
(蟲師)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2005
- Creator
- Cast Yûji Ueda, Daisuke Kishio, Mika Doi, Yuto Nakano, Yoko Hikasa
- Genre Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on Amazon Video, Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
Late Blooming Sunflower My Life Renewed
(遅咲きのヒマワリ～ボクの人生、リニューアル～)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2012
- Creator
- Cast Toma Ikuta, Yoko Maki, Fumino Kimura, Yutaka Matsushige, Tasuku Emoto, Ryoko Kuninaka
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Madö King Granzört
(魔動王グランゾート)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1989
- Creator Oji Hiroi, Hajime Yatate
- Cast Shinobu Adachi, 松田辰也, Yoko Matsuoka, Megumi Hayashibara, Reiko Suzuki, Michihiro Ikemizu
- Genre Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
A Place Further Than the Universe
(宇宙よりも遠い場所)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2018
- Creator
- Cast Inori Minase, Kana Hanazawa, Yuka Iguchi, Saori Hayami, Mamiko Noto, Yoko Hikasa
- Genre Animation, Comedy, Drama
- Available on Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
Summer Time Rendering
(サマータイムレンダ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2022
- Creator
- Cast Natsuki Hanae, Anna Nagase, Saho Shirasu, Yoko Hikasa, Jin Urayama, Kensho Ono
- Genre Animation, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Hulu
Space Battleship Yamato
(宇宙戦艦ヤマト)
2010 is the Year of Yamato
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1974
- Creator Leiji Matsumoto, Yoshinobu Nishizaki
- Cast Kei Tomiyama, Gorō Naya, Shūsei Nakamura, Yoko Asagami, Takeshi Aono, Ichirō Nagai
- Genre Animation, Drama, Action & Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
(相棒)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2000
- Creator
- Cast Yutaka Mizutani, Takashi Yamanaka, Sawa Suzuki, Yasufumi Terawaki, Yôko Moriguchi
- Genre Drama, Crime, Mystery
- Available on No streaming locations found.
スチュワーデス物語
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1983
- Creator
- Cast Morio Kazama, Chiemi Hori, Nagisa Katahira, Mio Takaki, Senri Yamazaki, Yoko Akino
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Crucified Lovers
(近松物語)
The tortured heart behind the cultivated image.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1954
- Director Kenji Mizoguchi
- Cast Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyōko Kagawa, Eitarō Shindō, Eitarō Ozawa, Yôko Minamida, Haruo Tanaka
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Plex, Plex Channel
Perfect Woman
(やまとなでしこ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2000
- Creator Tomoko Aizawa, Miho Nakazono
- Cast Nanako Matsushima, Akiko Yada, Kazuyuki Aijima, Masahiko Nishimura, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Yôko Moriguchi
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Sword of Doom
(大菩薩峠)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1966
- Director Kihachi Okamoto
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama, Michiyo Aratama, Yōko Naitō, Toshirō Mifune, Tadao Nakamaru
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Late Autumn
(秋日和)
A mother gently tries to persuade her daughter to marry.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1960
- Director Yasujirō Ozu
- Cast Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano, Shinichirô Mikami
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Women in Prison
(女囚と共に)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1956
- Director Seiji Hisamatsu
- Cast Setsuko Hara, Michiyo Kogure, Kyōko Kagawa, Yoshiko Kuga, Kyôko Anzai, Yôko Sugi
- Genre Drama, Crime
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Driland
(探検ドリランド)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2012
- Creator Gree
- Cast Yoko Hikasa, Kanako Miyamoto, Motoko Kumai, Kenji Nojima, Koki Uchiyama, Masako Nozawa
- Genre Action & Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Kids
- Available on No streaming locations found.
IRIBITO –Stranger–
(いりびと―異邦人―)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2021
- Creator
- Cast Mitsuki Takahata, Shunsuke Kazama, Sumire, Yôko Moriguchi, Yutaka Matsushige
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
(残菊物語)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1939
- Director Kenji Mizoguchi
- Cast Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kōkichi Takada, Gonjurô Kawarazaki, Kakuko Mori, Tokusaburo Arashi, Yōko Umemura
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Plex, Plex Channel
Two in the Shadow
(乱れ雲)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1967
- Director Mikio Naruse
- Cast Yûzô Kayama, Yōko Tsukasa, Mitsuko Mori, Mie Hama, Mitsuko Kusabue, Daisuke Katō
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Love Generation
(ラブジェネレーション)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1997
- Creator
- Cast Takuya Kimura, Takako Matsu, Seiyo Uchino, Risa Junna, Norika Fujiwara, Yôko Moriguchi
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Dinosaur War Izenborg
(恐竜大戦争アイゼンボーグ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1977
- Creator
- Cast Kyōnosuke Kami, Yoko Asagami, Jun Hazumi, Junpei Takiguchi, Kazue Takahashi, Shingo Kanemoto
- Genre Action & Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
K-ON!
(けいおん!)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2009
- Creator
- Cast Aki Toyosaki, Yoko Hikasa, Minako Kotobuki, Satomi Sato, Ayana Taketatsu, Chika Fujitou
- Genre Animation, Comedy
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Fandango At Home
Sound of the Mountain
(山の音)
An aging businessman watches the marriage of his son and daughter-in-law fall apart.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1954
- Director Mikio Naruse
- Cast Setsuko Hara, Sō Yamamura, Ken Uehara, Yōko Sugi, Teruko Nagaoka, Yatsuko Tan'ami
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Forever a Woman
(乳房よ永遠なれ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1955
- Director Kinuyo Tanaka
- Cast Yumeji Tsukioka, Masayuki Mori, Ryōji Hayama, Yōko Sugi, Shirō Ōsaka, Tōru Abe
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2010
- Director Sunao Katabuchi, Rei Hiroe
- Cast Michie Tomizawa, Kazue Ikura, Satsuki Yukino, Motoi Koyanagi, Megumi Toyoguchi, Daisuke Namikawa
- Genre Animation, Action & Adventure, Crime
- Available on Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
Repast
(めし)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1951
- Director Mikio Naruse
- Cast Ken Uehara, Setsuko Hara, Yukiko Shimazaki, Yōko Sugi, Akiko Kazami, Haruko Sugimura
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Goyokin
(御用金)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1969
- Director Hideo Gosha
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsurō Tamba, Yōko Tsukasa, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Ruriko Asaoka, Kunie Tanaka
- Genre Drama, Action
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Swan Lake
(世界名作童話 白鳥の湖)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1981
- Director Kimio Yabuki
- Cast Tarō Shigaki, Keiko Takeshita, Asao Koike, Yoko Asagami, Yoneko Matsukane, Fuyumi Shiraishi
- Genre Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
- Available on Hoopla
K-ON! The Movie
(映画けいおん！)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2011
- Director Naoko Yamada
- Cast Aki Toyosaki, Yoko Hikasa, Satomi Sato, Minako Kotobuki, Ayana Taketatsu, Madoka Yonezawa
- Genre Animation, Family, Adventure, Comedy, Music
- Available on Google Play Movies, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Arcadia of My Youth: Infinite Course SSX
(わが青春のアルカディア 無限軌道SSX
)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1982
- Creator
- Cast Makio Inoue, Kei Tomiyama, Yoko Asagami, Reiko Tajima, Yuriko Yamamoto, Satomi Majima
- Genre Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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