Japan Movies

Documentary about the world of the Japanese geisha. Unattainable by all but the wealthy and powerful, geisha are the ultimate massagers of the male...

Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in...

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

When her classmate Ritsuko disappears, her friend Ryoko is desperate to find her. When she discovers that Ritsuko was playing a strange game online...

Two people who love each other are separated due to a certain incident. Two years later, the man has become an assassin. A story about an encounter...

Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san's behalf in a case of mistaken identity.

Fate brings a man and woman together in Lyon, France. They fall in love, but time is set to run out on them ...

This landmark documentary film by Paul Elston tells the incredible story of how it was the British who gave the Japanese the knowhow to take out...

Childhood was complicated for Yoshida and he faces Japanese society as an outsider after his return from London alongside his parents. He feels...

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...

In the monotony of the night shift, Selena works at a Konbini while Victor, an exhausted delivery man, becomes a frequent visitor. What begins as...

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...

This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew has stolen a Buddha statue from a Japanese...

An independently produced documentary about growing up as a blind youth in 1960's Japan. It focuses on a group of elementary level students being...

Takeshi Kitano is an international icon. We know the actor, the multi-award-winning filmmaker, but many ignore his double personality: the crazy TV...

TOKYO Ainu features the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, living in Greater Tokyo (Tokyo and its surrounding areas), who are and actively in...

The story is set in the Shimane Prefecture, which supposedly has the fewest lawyers in all of Japan. Nakama plays the role of the hard-working and...

Several otaku band together to save the baby of a Filipina mother.

The referendum whether nuclear power plants should be banned has been held in Japan. People must decide their future.