Japan Movies

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

Reality and fantasy melds as a Korean documentary film director attempts to capture life in the small town of Gojo, Japan.

In 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer allows his wife to be seduced by a British naval attaché in order to gain...

Two public broadcast employees, tired of their dead-end jobs, set out to make a documentary proving aliens exist in a small Minnesotan farming...

The dark sensibilities and cultural resonances of Butoh, the radical Japanese dance movement, are explored in this multilayered work. Profoundly...

A prequel to the story of the legendary samurai and one cat. In Edo era, there was a legendary samurai named Kyutaro Madarame who are feared as a...

Enthronement of Japan's emperor, Naruhito, in 2019.

2 days until the “Last Graduation Ceremony” of high school, the building was to be demolished. Each student accepted their...

Su-San invites Hama-chan to go fishing at a place close to his heart after learning about Hama-chan and his wife's fertility problems.

A school that teaches young boys and girls how to become famous anchorpeople in the media. But there is something strange going in this school. The...

A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death,...

The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle...

A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The...

Student film and first feature by director Kiyotaka Taguchi. A giant monster invades Japan sending everyone into a panic. The military efforts are...

A high school teacher, struggling to keep up with today's youth and estranged from his only son, receives the news about a terrible accident that...

It is a bilingual love comedy about a Japanese divorcee who has to take in an American male roommate to make ends meet. Mikuko Abe is stuck, both in...

Kaoru Fukazawa is a manga artist. His manga series was published for eight years, but has now finished. He doesn't have any ideas for his next work....

Revealing the flaws of Japanese society, the 1995 sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway prompted Murakami to return to his homeland, whose conformism...

One of Japan's most renowned baseball pros, Takenori Emoto of the Hanshin Tigers, relates humorous anecdotes from his own career and the game in...

Aiko and Hashimoto discovere a VHS videotape called "A Guide to Surviving Zombies From". This is a video with a set of instructions that will help...