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Tampopo (1985)

Summary: A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

Genre: Comedy

Director: Jûzô Itami

Writer: Jûzô Itami

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Itami Productions, New Century Productions

Distributor: New Yorker Films, Republic Pictures Home Video, Fox Lorber Home Video, Janus Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 224,097

International: $ 223,247

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Princess Mononoke (1997)

Summary: On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.

Release Date: November 26, 1999

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Writers: Hayao Miyazaki

, Neil Gaiman

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: DENTSU Music And Entertainment, Nibariki, Nippon Television Network (NTV), Tokuma Shoten

Distributor: GKIDS, Miramax, HBO Max, Miramax Home Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Walt Disney Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 2,400,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,845,631

International: $ 165,125,921

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Shoplifters (2018)

Summary: On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar exist...

Release Date: June 08, 2018

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda

Writer: Hirokazu Koreeda

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: PG

Production: AOI Promotion, Fuji Television Network, Gaga

Distributor: Magnolia Pictures, Wild Bunch

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 3,313,513

International: $ 64,685,835

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Paprika (2006)

Summary: When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.

Release Date: November 25, 2006

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Animation, Anime

Director: Satoshi Kon

Writers: Yasutaka Tsutsui

, Seishi Minakami

, Satoshi Kon

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Madhouse, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA), The Criterion Channel

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 300,000,000

Domestic: $ 882,267

International: $ 78,929

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Drive My Car (2021)

Summary: A renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with a big personal loss when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.

Release Date: August 20, 2021

Genre: Drama

Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Writers: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

, Haruki Murakami

, Takamasa Ôe

Runtime: 2 h 59 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Bitters End, Bungeishunju, C&I Entertainment, C&I Entertainment, Japan Arts Council, Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, L'espace Vision, Nekojarashi, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Quaras, The Asahi Shimbun Company

Distributor: Sideshow (II), HBO Max

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 2,352,240

International: $ 13,004,170

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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)

Summary: An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.

Release Date: December 17, 2021

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Writer: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

Production: Fictive, NEOPA

Distributor: Film Movement

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

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Alice in Borderland (2020)

Summary: Obsessed gamer Arisu suddenly finds himself in a strange, emptied-out version of Tokyo in which he and his friends must compete in dangerous games in order to survive.

Release Date: December 10, 2020

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Mystery

Runtime: 0 h 50 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Robot Communications

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

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A Whisker Away (2020)

Summary: Miyo Sasaki is in love with her classmate Kento Hinode and tries repeatedly to get Kento's attention by transforming into a cat, but at some point, the boundary between herself and the cat becomes ambiguous.

Release Date: June 18, 2020

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Animation, Anime

Directors: Jun'ichi Satô

, Tomotaka Shibayama

Writer: Mari Okada

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: BS Fuji, Dentsu Meitetsu Communications, Fuji Creative (FCC), Fuji Television Network, KDDI Corporation

Distributor: Netflix

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

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First Love (2019)

Summary: A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.

Release Date: February 14, 2020

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Takashi Miike

Writer: Masa Nakamura

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Akatsuki, HanWay Films, Oriental Light and Magic (OLM)

Countries: Japan, United Kingdom

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 218,329

International: $ 5,630,226

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Record of Ragnarok (2021)

Summary: Every 1000 years, the Gods' Council assemble to decide the fate of humanity. After 7 million years of human history, the gods come to the decision that humans are irredeemable and must be extinct.

Release Date: June 17, 2021

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime

Runtime: 0 h 24 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Graphinica

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

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Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

Summary: On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

Release Date: November 08, 2003

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation, Anime

Director: Satoshi Kon

Writers: Satoshi Kon

, Keiko Nobumoto

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Dentsu, Genco, Madhouse, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Tokyo Godfathers Production Committee

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 367,131

International: $ 86,002

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Asakusa Kid (2021)

Summary: Before he hit it big, Takeshi Kitano got his start apprenticing with comedy legend Fukami of Asakusa. But as his star rises, his mentor's declines.

Release Date: December 09, 2021

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Gekidan Hitori

Writers: Gekidan Hitori

, Takeshi Kitano

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Django Film, Nikkatsu

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

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Ride or Die (2021)

Summary: Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.

Release Date: April 15, 2021

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Ryûichi Hiroki

Writers: Nami Yoshikawa

, Ching Nakamura

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Kôdansha, Shogakukan, Studio3, Kodansha

Distributor: Netflix

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

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Call Me Chihiro (2023)

Summary: An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.

Release Date: February 23, 2023

Genre: Drama

Director: Rikiya Imaizumi

Writers: Rikiya Imaizumi

, Kaori Sawai

, Hiroyuki Yasuda

Runtime: 2 h 11 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Asmik Ace Entertainment, Digital Frontier

Distributor: Netflix

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

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Drifting Home (2022)

Summary: Follows two childhood friends who drift into a mysterious sea with an entire housing complex.

Release Date: September 16, 2022

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Animation, Anime

Director: Hiroyasu Ishida

Writers: Hiroyasu Ishida

, Hayashi Mori

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Studio Colorido Co., Twin Engine

Distributor: Netflix

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

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Love Like the Falling Petals (2022)

Summary: An aspiring photographer falls in love with a skillful hairstylist. The future stretches before them until a twist of fate threatens their romance.

Release Date: March 24, 2022

Genres: Drama, Romance

Directors: Yoshihiro Fukagawa

, Valeria Zunzun

Writers: Keisuke Uyama

, Tomoko Yoshida

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Toho Studios

Distributor: Netflix

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

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Late Spring (1949)

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

Release Date: September 13, 1949

Genre: Drama

Director: Yasujirô Ozu

Writers: Kazuo Hirotsu

, Kôgo Noda

, Yasujirô Ozu

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Shochiku

Distributor: New Yorker Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 13,254

International: $ 6,427

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Gozu (2003)

Summary: A yakuza enforcer is ordered to secretly drive his beloved colleague to be assassinated. But when the colleague unceremoniously disappears en route, the trip that follows is a twisted, surreal and horrifying experience.

Release Date: July 14, 2004

Genres: Drama, Crime, Horror

Director: Takashi Miike

Writer: Sakichi Sato

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Rakueisha, The Klockworx

Distributor: Pathfinder Pictures, Cinema Epoch

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 58,202

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Yuki ni negau koto (2005)

Summary: Manabu Yazaki (Yusuke Iseya) lost his business and wife in Tokyo after the dot com crash. He returns to his hometown in Hokkaido during the middle of winter. Manabu Yazaki then takes the advice from a man and bets everything he ha...

Release Date: April 15, 2006

Genre: Drama

Director: Kichitarô Negishi

Writers: Sho Narumi

, Masato Katô

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

Production: Artist Film, Be-Wild

Distributor: TA Entertainment, Asian Crush, Digital Media Rights, Eleven Arts

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 4,816

International: $ 7,297

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Rodan (1956)

Summary: A mining engineer investigates the deaths of his colleagues, discovering prehistoric nymphs and a creature capable of flying - and wreaking havoc - at supersonic speeds.

Release Date: August 06, 1957

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Director: Ishirô Honda