Origin: Japan
Year: Before 2010
40 content found
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland 1989

Each night, young Nemo goes to Slumberland and has adventures and befriends the king of Slumberland, Morpheus. But one night Nemo discovers Nightmare Land, and the evil nightmare king, throwing Slumberland and Nemo himself into da...

Category: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Stars: Gabriel Damon, Mickey Rooney, Rene Auberjonois

7.1 IMDB Rating 876 Views
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 1974

An Okinawan prophecy appears to foretell Earth's destruction at the hands of Godzilla, only for the true Godzilla to reveal his doppelganger as a mechanical alien weapon.

Category: Action, Adventure, Family

Stars: Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama, Reiko Tajima

6.2 IMDB Rating 1,019 Views
Silver Fang 1986–

An Akita-Inu puppy is destined to defend his people against a monstrous bear.

Category: Action, Adventure, Animation

Stars: Eiko Yamada, Hideyuki Tanaka, Toshiko Fujita

8.9 IMDB Rating 3,761 Views
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 2006

A high-school girl named Makoto acquires the power to travel back in time, and decides to use it for her own personal benefits. Little does she know that she is affecting the lives of others just as much as she is her own.

Category: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Stars: Riisa Naka, Takuya Ishida, Mitsutaka Itakura

7.7 IMDB Rating 1,394 Views
Grave of the Fireflies 1988

A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.

Category: Animation, Drama, War

Stars: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi

8.5 IMDB Rating 1,521 Views
Ju-on 2 2003

As their curse spreads on, the ghosts find their chance to live once again through the pregnancy of a cursed woman.

Category: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Stars: Noriko Sakai, Chiharu Niiyama, Kei Horie

6,4 IMDB Rating 1,666 Views
Princess Mononoke 1997

While protecting his village from rampaging boar-god/demon, a confident young warrior, Ashitaka, is stricken by a deadly curse. To save his life, he must journey to the forests of the west. Once there, he's embroiled in a fierce campaign that humans were waging on the forest. The ambitious Lady Eboshi and her loyal clan use their guns against the gods of the forest and a brave young woman, Princess Mononoke, who was raised by a wolf-god. Ashitaka sees the good in both sides and tries to stem the flood of blood. This is met be animosity by both sides as they each see him as supporting the enemy.

Category: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Kids

Stars: Billy Crudup, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver, John DiMaggio

8.4 IMDB Rating 9,120 Views
Dark Water 2002

After winning a custody battle for her daughter, Yoshimi tries to make a new start. The apartment she moves into seems perfect at first. Soon though, strange things begin happening. Huge water stains appear on the ceiling and drip constantly, more liquid oozing into the rooms every day. She calls the landlord in but he refuses to do anything about it. A child's red bag shows up in odd places and soon the child herself starts appearing. Yoshimi then discovers the origin of the ghost...

Category: Drama, Mystery

Stars: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa

6.7 IMDB Rating 3,939 Views
Akira 1988

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.

Category: Action, Animation, Kids, Sci-Fi

Stars: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda

8.0 IMDB Rating 6,878 Views
Fainaru fantajî sebun adobento chirudoren 2005

Two years after the events in "Final Fantasy VII", a disease called 'Seikon-Shoukougun', or 'Geostigma', is spreading through the planet. This disease is believed to have been caused by the body fighting off foreign material that invaded the body two years earlier, at the end of "Final Fantasy VII". Guilt-ridden and haunted by his past, ex-SOLDIER Cloud Strife has decided to live a secluded, solitary life away from his friends while maintaining "Strife's Delivery Service", whose headquarters is located in Tifa Lockheart's bar, the Seventh Heaven. Tifa's bar serves as an orphanage for children stricken with Geostigma. Here, Tifa keeps an eye on Barret's six-year-old daughter, Marlene, while Barret searches the planet for an alternative energy source to the Planet's energy, Mako. One day, Cloud receives a phone call from the former Shinra, Inc. president, Rufus, asking him for protection from a mysterious man named Kadaj. Kadaj, in the meantime, along with his brothers Loz and Yazoo, are searching for their "mother", and seem to believe that Cloud knows where to find her. Meanwhile, Vincent Valentine has been wandering the planet gathering information on Kadaj's scheme, and Cloud and his friends must come together again to fight these new enemies.

Category: Action, Adventure, Animation

Stars: Takahiro Sakurai, Ayumi Itô, Shotaro Morikubo, Maaya Sakamoto

7.3 IMDB Rating 7,326 Views
The Eel 1997

White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a barber in prison) and talks almost to no-one except for the eel he "befriended" in prison. One day he finds the unconscious body of Keiko, who attempted suicide and reminds him of his wife. She starts to work at his shop, but he doesn't let her become close to him.

Category: Drama

Stars: Kôji Yakusho,Misa Shimizu,Mitsuko Baishô,Akira Emoto

7.4 IMDB Rating 3,111 Views
The Place Promised in Our Early Days 2004

The story takes place in a alternate postwar period, in 1996, where Japan is divided. Hokkaido is ruled by the "Union" while Honshu and other southern islands are under US authority. A tall tower was built on Hokkaido, which could even be seen from Tokyo. In the summer of 1996, three middle-school students make a promise that they'll cross the border with a self-constructed plane and unravel the tower's secret, but their project was abandoned after the girl, Sayuri Sawatari, became mysteriously ill and transferred to Tokyo. Years later on the brink of another war Hiroki Fujisawa finds out that Sayuri had been in coma since then, and he asks Takuya Shirakawa to help him finding a way to wake her up.

Category: Animation, Drama, Kids, Romantic

Stars: Hidetaka Yoshioka,Masato Hagiwara,Yuka Nanri,Unshô Ishizuka

7.2 IMDB Rating 4,449 Views
Mind Game 2004

The film follows Nishi, a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, the film follows Nishi as he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place. Nishi (and some friends) attempt to break out of their trap, and discover what it truly means to be alive along the way. This is a mind-bending trip that uses some of the most innovative animation ever created.

Category: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids

Stars: Kôji Imada,Sayaka Maeda,Takashi Fujii,Seiko Takuma

7.9 IMDB Rating 3,135 Views
5 Centimeters Per Second 2007

Takaki and Akari are two classmates in elementary school. During their time together they have become close friends. Their relationship is tested when Akari moves to another city because of her parents' jobs. Both of them struggle to keep their friendship alive, as time and distance slowly pulls them apart. When Takaki finds out that he is moving further away, he decides to visit Akari one last time.

Category: Animation, Drama, Kids, Romantic

Stars: Kenji Mizuhashi,Yoshimi Kondou,Satomi Hanamura,Ayaka Onoue

7.8 IMDB Rating 4,761 Views
Crows Zero II 2009

Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.' The two schools, in fact, have a history of bad blood between them. And the simmering embers of hatred are about to flare up again, burning away any last remnants of the truce they had so rigorously observed until now.

Category: Action

Stars: Shun Oguri,Kyôsuke Yabe,Meisa Kuroki,Nobuaki Kaneko

7.3 IMDB Rating 2,803 Views
The Secret World of Arrietty 2010

14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items that they borrow from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.

Category: Adventure, Animation, Family, Kids

Stars: Moises Arias,Bridgit Mendler,David Henrie,Will Arnett

7.6 IMDB Rating 5,920 Views
A Night in Nude: Salvation 2010

Jiro (Naoto Takenaka) is a man who can do anything for you for a price. Part odd jobs man and part private eye he takes on tasks as simple as clearing out storage lockers to tracking down lost items. That's what he's asked to do by a beautiful young woman (Hiroko Sato) who shows up at his warehouse living space one afternoon. This young woman asks Jiro to help her track down a lost Rolex watch that she says was accidentally thrown out of a helicopter while she was scattering the ashes of her late father. Jiro knows the story isn't true, but he needs the money so he and the young woman begin poking around miles of woodland in the proverbial search for a needle in a haystack. Miraculously Jiro finds the wrist watch, but it looks to be caked in rotting meat. Needy but not stupid Jiro hands the watch over to a sympathetic police woman he knows for analysis. Little does Jiro know that the discovery of this Rolex will lead to another case, one filled with violence, sex and danger, one that will lead him directly into the heart of darkness.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Daisuke Iijima,Harumi Inoue,Machiko Kochi,Kura

6.3 IMDB Rating 4,318 Views
The Bad Sleep Well 1960

In Kurosawa's HAMLET-like story of corporate scandal in post-war Japan, a young man attempts to use his position at the heart of a corrupt company to expose the men responsible for his father's death.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Toshirô Mifune,Masayuki Mori,Kyôko Kagawa,Tatsuya Mihashi

8.1 IMDB Rating 2,889 Views
Inugami 2001

Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family.

Category: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller

Stars: Yûki Amami,Atsuro Watabe,Eugene Harada,Shiho Fujimura

6.1 IMDB Rating 3,040 Views
New Dominion Tank Police 1993

The year is 2016. The place is New Port City. The Tank Police are still waging a desperate war on crime, and their tactics are still highly questionable. Mayor Weatherby is trying to pass a bill banning certain weapons from the city, which makes her a target of the Dai Nippon Geiken Corporation, who are now manufacturing mobile weapons that even the Tank Police may not be able to stop. Dai Nippon Geiken is also connected with the murder of Leona Ozaki's former partner, Charon Ishira, making the battle all the more personal for the Tank Police's number one officer, who will stop at nothing to avenge her partner. But can she pay the high price revenge calls for?

Category: Action, Anime

Stars: Rei Sakuma,Toni Barry,Hiroyuki Shibamoto,Adam Henderson

7.2 IMDB Rating 3,852 Views