Top Japanese Films

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

An engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.

As a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.

In the era of Japan's Meiji Restoration, an assassin regains his humanity.

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.

When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.

Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

Ishun is a wealthy but unsympathetic master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.

After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.