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1. First Love (2019)
TV-MA | 108 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Becky, Bengal, Masayuki Deai, Mami Fujioka
Votes: 8,023
2. Stray Dog (1949)
Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Votes: 18,909
3. The Castle of Sand (1974)
143 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Gô Katô, Kensaku Morita, Yôko Shimada
Votes: 1,534
4. I Am Waiting (1957)
91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara | Stars: Yûjirô Ishihara, Mie Kitahara, Isamu Kosugi, Kenjirô Uemura
Votes: 987
5. Black River (1957)
114 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ineko Arima, Keiko Awaji
Votes: 1,214
6. Dragnet Girl (1933)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Jôji Oka, Sumiko Mizukubo, Kôji Mitsui
Votes: 1,049
7. Cabaret (1986)
104 min | Crime, Drama, Music
University student sax player gets a lesson in the hard-boiled noir life.
Director: Haruki Kadokawa | Stars: Hironobu Nomura, Takeshi Kaga, Mitsuko Baishô, Junko Mihara
Votes: 72
8. Rusty Knife (1958)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Two friends who witnessed an organized crime murder are threatened by the local mob into keeping quiet.
Director: Toshio Masuda | Stars: Yûjirô Ishihara, Mie Kitahara, Akira Kobayashi, Mari Shiraki
Votes: 723
9. Massacre Gun (1967)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Crime
Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuharu Hasebe | Stars: Jô Shishido, Hideaki Nitani, Yôko Yamamoto, Jirô Okazaki
Votes: 542
10. That Night's Wife (1930)
TV-MA | 65 min | Crime, Drama
A desperate man with a sick daughter decides to commit a robbery in order to help her. He begins to feel remorse though, which makes him question his decision.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Mitsuko Ichimura, Tokihiko Okada, Chishû Ryû, Tatsuo Saitô
Votes: 956
11. Keisatsukan (1933)
121 min | Crime, Drama
Itami, a young policeman, meets his high school friend, Tetsuo, a gangster, at a roadblock. As they rekindled their friendship, a complex relationship is established between them.
Director: Tomu Uchida | Stars: Eiji Nakano, Isamu Kosugi, Taisuke Matsumoto, Sôji Ubukata
Votes: 148
12. Walk Cheerfully (1930)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A small-time hood wants to go straight for a good girl but finds that starting over isn't as simple as it sounds.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Minoru Takada, Hiroko Kawasaki, Satoko Date, Takeshi Sakamoto
Votes: 750
13. Underworld Beauty (1958)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released from prison, a gangster (Michitaro Mizushima) retrieves diamonds sought by fellow yakuza.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Michitarô Mizushima, Mari Shiraki, Shinsuke Ashida, Tôru Abe
Votes: 566
14. Stakeout (1958)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two cops on stakeout wait for a murderer.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Minoru Ôki, Takahiro Tamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Hideko Takamine
Votes: 441
15. Punishment Room (1956)
96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Nothing less than a phenomenal, astonishing and pioneering film. This spectacle of an angry, ego-driven youth tormented by his own emotional impotence, low self-esteem and resentment towards his parents.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Keizô Kawasaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Ayako Wakao
Votes: 224
16. The Candidates in the Den of Thieves (2023)
Not Rated | 72 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Soeroso, a former filmmaker who won an Honoris Causa Doctorate with a flamboyant and narcissistic figure was suddenly appointed by the "Kings of the Archipelago" to run as a presidential candidate.
Directors: Revo Marty, Sigit Pradityo | Stars: Sigit Pradityo, Arya Fabryan, Anya Aureel, Tara Ellena
17. Yun no machi (1989)
90 min | Drama, Romance
A Japanese boy in love with a girl of Korean origin must battle the prejudices of those around him in order to sustain the relationship.
Director: U. Son Kim | Stars: Kotoe Hatsui, Hisashi Igawa, Mi Bom Kang, Rei Sen Lee
18. Korosu ga gotoku (1948)
89 min | Mystery
Director: Shigeo Tanaka | Stars: Mitsuko Mito, Masao Wakahara, Eijirô Tôno, Kenjirô Uemura
19. Kyatsu o nigasuna (1956)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Hideo Suzuki | Stars: Isao Kimura, Keiko Tsushima, Takashi Shimura, Sônosuke Sawamura
Votes: 18
20. Akatsuki no tsuiseki (1950)
94 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Jun Tazaki, Michitarô Mizushima, Yôko Sugi
Votes: 21
21. Idainaru X (1948)
Crime
Director: Hideo Ôba | Stars: Tôru Abe, Yumeko Aizome, Sugisaku Aoyama, Natsuko Kahara
22. Hadairo no tsuki (1957)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Toshio Sugie | Stars: Bin Amatsu, Keiko Awaji, Minoru Chiaki, Akira Ishihama
23. Rinchi (1949)
98 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa | Stars: Kanjûrô Arashi, Ranko Hanai, Yoshiko Kuga, Ryô Ikebe
Votes: 20
24. Z no senritsu (1948)
80 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Santarô Marune | Stars: Utaemon Ichikawa, Seizaburô Kawazu, Mitsusaburô Ramon, Minoru Takada
25. Netsudeichi (1950)
102 min | Drama
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Susumu Fujita, Yûji Hori, Harue Tone
Votes: 13
26. From the Dust. (2024– )
30 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
At the end of the year, a poison gas terror attack takes place at a terminal station in Tokyo. 666 people die or are injured in the attack.The terror attack's number of victims is related ... See full summary »
Stars: Hiromitsu Kitayama, Tina Tamashiro, Naho Toda