JAPANESE THINGS
My perpetually growing collection of Japanese films, on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, and digital downloads.
The list is supposed to be ordered alphabetically, but because imdb constantly switches titles from their original Japanese into English, it frequently gets out of order.
All films on this list should be available in some format in the United States with English subtitles.
If you'd like to browse by genre, decade, or other criteria, please use the 'refine list' feature.
If you'd like to comment for any reason, please do!
The list is supposed to be ordered alphabetically, but because imdb constantly switches titles from their original Japanese into English, it frequently gets out of order.
All films on this list should be available in some format in the United States with English subtitles.
If you'd like to browse by genre, decade, or other criteria, please use the 'refine list' feature.
If you'd like to comment for any reason, please do!
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- DirectorMakoto NaitôStarsEtsuko ShihomiMisa OharaHiroshi NawaMaki is the leader of a female gang that fights for justice, but she is taken and sent to a sadistic women's prison.
- DirectorSion SonoShinichiro ArakawaStarsMasatoshi NagaseKumiko AsôTakuji SuzukiA color-blind man decides to have an operation to cure his vision.
- DirectorMomoko AndôStarsSakura AndôMiyoko AsadaBengalSawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family of an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him.
- DirectorRiki OkamuraStarsAsae ÔnishiKazuko KatôKaori Torii'1 Litre of Tears' is a Japanese movie mainly based on a published version of Diary.
- DirectorYukihiko TsutsumiStarsMaho NonamiEiko KoikeMaki TsujimuraTwo actresses who have auditioned for one part, sharing the same apartment with opposite personalities equals a night which either neither of them will forget - if they survive!
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsEtsushi ToyokawaYûko AsanoYu Ji Chin YeIn a remake of a well-known Japanese mystery, a man in Kobe does not have a family. He receives a visitor who is a researcher one day who has noticed that the man has a well-off family in Okayama. This village is called Yatsuhakamura. This family has been there for four hundred years. The man decides to visit his new-found family only for a series of murders to coincide with his arrival. This family's lawyer hires a private investigator who begins working on the crimes.
- DirectorToshiaki ToyodaStarsYoshio HaradaRyûhei MatsudaMichio AkiyamaNine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murderers. They commandeer a van from a strip club.
- DirectorKatsuhide MotokiStarsRena TanakaRyô KaseMayuko FukudaA teenage girl adopts a homeless puppy and names it "Socks". They take care of each others since then, until one day when she is thinking Socks to be smaller than she thought it used be...
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsShinnosuke MitsushimaArata IuraShinobu TerajimaIn 1970, famed Japanese writer Yukio Mishima commits suicide after leading a failed coup.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKoji YakushoTakayuki YamadaYûsuke IseyaA group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsTamotsu HayakawaYoshiko KayamaTaiji TonoyamaA shipyard worker gets an offer of free lodging in the company seaside rest house. Upon arriving there, he finds out that he also has to take care of a flock of undisciplined youngsters.
- DirectorKazushi WatanabeStarsDaijirô KawaokaKazushi WatanabeTakeo NoroStylish road movie in which a kidnapped youth becomes friends with his abductors.
- DirectorSadatsugu MatsudaStarsUtaemon IchikawaChiezô KataokaMichiyo Kogureaka 'Chûshingura - ôka no maki, kikka no maki'
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsChôjûrô KawarasakiYoshizaburo ArashiUtaemon IchikawaThe legendary Forty-seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku.aka 'Genroku Chûshingura'
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsKen TakakuraKiichi NakaiRie MiyazawaA group of disgraced samurai plan a decade long revenge against a corrupt lord.
- DirectorSang-il LeeStarsSatoshi TsumabukiMasanobu AndôYûta KanaiA group of rebellious teenagers cause mischief and disorder in a 1969 Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan as a result of tensions from their school and a US military base.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsNagisa ÔshimaWilliam B. WhiteNagisa Oshima explores the first century of Japanese cinema.
- DirectorBrad CrawfordStarsBrian AshcraftDaigo UmeharaAaron Chmielowiec100 Yen is a historical documentary about the evolution of arcades and the culture surrounding it - from the birth of arcades to the game centers that still thrive today.
- DirectorMasaharu TakeStarsSakura AndôHirofumi AraiYôzaburô ItôA 32-year-old woman living with her parents meets a boxer and finally starts a life.
- DirectorToshio MasudaStarsTatsuya NakadaiTeruhiko AoiToshirô MifuneThe lives and battles of soldiers leading up to the 1904 siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.aka 'Hill 203'
- DirectorRenpei TsukamotoStarsHayato IchiharaKuranosuke SasakiKumiko AsôAfter one of their group is caught for speeding a group of trouble-making teenagers decide to prank the local police officer. It starts with simple speeding pranks but gradually moves to more elaborate and bizarre pranks.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsKôsuke ToyoharaMegumi MorisakiKôichi UedaThe Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt.aka 'Yakuza Taxi'
- DirectorShozin FukuiStarsHaji SuzukiOnn-chanKôji ÔtsuboPinocchio 964, a lobotomised cyborg sex slave, is abandoned by his owners due to his inability to maintain an erection, while the corporate entity plans to kill him.
- DirectorMamoru HoshiStarsKazuyuki AsanoJun FubukiYôko ImamotoA science fiction writer finds out his wife has cancer, and decides to write her a story every day to keep her alive, like a reverse Scheherazade or perhaps to cope with the inevitability of his loss.