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80
7.9
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4.1
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96
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Love Letter (1995)
Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to be called Itsuki Fujii.
poster
82
75
7.7
/4631/
77
/114/
77
/97/
4.3
/10516/
91
/44/
91
/64/
79
/22/

Eureka (2001)
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
6.7
/8699/
68
/499/
67
/321/
3.5
/27077/
98
/121/
88
/3/
77
/25/

First Love (2019)
One night in Tokyo, Leo, a young boxer, meets his first love, Monica, an imprisoned sex worker. Caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, they find themselves pursued by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin.
poster
72
7.0
/9483/
73
/411/
70
/369/
3.6
/12131/
78
/240/

Crows Zero (2007)
The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself do it as he reminds him of his youth.
poster
78
67
7.5
/4820/
76
/83/
74
/94/
4.0
/7364/
89
/105/

Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
poster
74
66
7.1
/4686/
72
/156/
72
/114/
3.8
/20081/
81
/69/

April Story (1998)
In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in the first place.
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76
64
7.4
/5549/
74
/123/
74
/112/
3.7
/1544/
87
/179/

When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2003)
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town clan, he is forced by the love for his family to leave for the city in search of higher pay to support them.
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76
62
7.4
/3199/
73
/56/
74
/85/
3.8
/4717/
86
/72/

GO (2001)
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.
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Amazon Prime Video
62
6.7
/7706/
70
/292/
70
/274/
3.5
/8380/
47
/17/
57
/32/
53
/12/

Beyond Outrage (2012)
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage Beyond.
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74
57
7.3
/2525/
70
/59/
69
/58/
3.8
/1821/
86
/49/

Monday (2000)
A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before.
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The Roku Channel
63
52
6.4
/3858/
69
/227/
68
/181/
3.4
/6131/
60
/5/
60
/6/
58
/4/

Outrage Coda (2017)
Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and Chang's life is endangered, Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.
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67
47
7.0
/2089/
69
/50/
66
/43/
3.5
/1002/
57
/14/
71
/40/

Villain (2010)
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His world is shattered one day when he is involved in the murder of one of his former encounters, the sweet-faced Ishibashi Yoshino who, after being jilted by playboy Masuo Keijo, berates and mocks the troubled loner.
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69
46
7.0
/2220/
70
/45/
65
/54/
3.5
/974/
72
/78/

Blood and Bones (2004)
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
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60
46
6.0
/2127/
62
/117/
65
/70/
3.2
/6838/
49
/36/

Yakuza: Like a Dragon (2007)
Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his yakuza past. Unfortunately, Kiryū's problems slowly escalate as he is pursued by a former associate, the baseball-bat-wielding psycho Gorō Majima, who has a grudge to settle with Kiryū.
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71
34
7.1
/334/
66
/26/
75
/11/
3.6
/916/

The Solitary Gourmet (2025)
Upon receiving a message from an old friend’s daughter, Goro arrives in Paris and learns of the elderly man’s wish to taste a particular soup he had in his childhood before he dies. Deciding to help, Goro sets out on a quest to find this mysterious soup, traveling through Japan, braving a storm, and even ending up in South Korea.
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34
7.3
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/14/
69
/16/
3.6
/582/
84
/175/

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan. Following a period of intensely rebellious behavior, Boku learns that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.
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68
30
6.2
/142/
70
/1/
60
/1/
80
/167/
68
/958/

Get Up! (2003)
A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, his underlings planned to kidnap James Brown to convince him to perform privately for their boss.
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68
30
6.8
/1069/
71
/42/
68
/30/
3.3
/888/

Girl in the Sunny Place (2013)
A new salesman named Kosuke Okuda happens to meet Mao Watarai, a friend from his middle school days. Back then, Mao was called stupid and bullied, but now she is an attractive woman. Kosuke and Mao fall in love and decide to marry, but Mao has a secret.
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69
29
7.1
/1155/
72
/54/
65
/34/
3.5
/595/

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (2008)
In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government issues death messages, or "ikigami", informing them that they have only 24 hours left to live. The film follows a young man tasked with delivering these messages, as well as the victims.
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26
6.7
/346/
67
/8/
67
/12/
71

A Chorus of Angels (2012)
Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she takes charge of six students. However, she is later forced to leave after an accident occurs. 20 years later, Haru learns that one of her former students has committed a crime, and eventually returns to the island once more.
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26
6.6
/1302/
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/24/
70
/36/
3.4
/628/
60
/7/

Midsummer's Equation (2013)
Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an oceanside town to speak on a panel. But when a man turns up dead outside the inn where he's staying, Yukawa begins to unravel the connections that tie the victim to the activist daughter of the innkeepers, and a precocious boy who first appears on a train—and keeps popping up. It's a Sherlock Holmes mystery with an environmental twist, and one that should please fans of a classic whodunnit.
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23
7.0
/1009/
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/29/
66
/18/
3.6
/932/
74
/7/

Drive (2002)
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h speed limit even under the extreme situation.
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73
20
7.1
/771/
79
/17/
68
/15/
3.7
/924/
73
/4/

Blessing Bell (2002)
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
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14
6.4
/507/
65
/20/
65
/17/
3.4
/269/

Space Brothers (2012)
When Mutta was 12-years-old and Hibito was 9-years-old the two brothers saw what they thought was an UFO flying towards the moon. They made a pact then to become astronauts and one day fly into space together. Fast forward to the year 2025. Older brother Mutta (Shun Oguri) works as for an automotive company and his younger brother Hibito works as an astronaut. Although Mutta failed to follow through on his childhood promise, after losing his job, he receives a phone call from Hibito which reignites his childhood dream of flying into outer space ...
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13
5.8
/467/
64
/20/
61
/18/
3.2
/300/
53
/5/

God's Puzzle (2008)
A set of twins -- one a hard-working student and the other a drifter -- team up with a dropout to unlock the secrets of the universe and to build one of their own.
poster
60
13
6.5
/385/
62
/7/
55
/13/
61
/12/

Heaven's Bookstore (2004)
Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he knows, Kenta wakes up to find himself in a room he has never been in before. It is a strange room that seems to have no connection to life. He descends a staircase to find many shelves of books.
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68
13
6.7
/707/
73
/11/
70
/11/
3.4
/292/

The Voice of Sin (2020)
Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago. The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.
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63
13
6.6
/549/
56
/6/
64
/8/
3.4
/667/

Between Calmness and Passion (2001)
An appassionato art student and a dispassionate college girl make a vow, saying they would meet each other again in the Florence Cathedral after 10 years.
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11
7.4
/58/
57
/4/
60
/7/
3.6
/662/

Open House (1998)
A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.
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66
9
6.6
/352/
64
/13/
70
/11/
3.5
/222/
60
/1/

Flowers (2010)
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.
poster
?
7.6
/27/

A Moon in the Ordinary (2025)
Kensho Aoto reunites with Yoko Sudo, whom he had feelings for in junior high school, for the first time in 35 years. On the second floor window sill of a small apartment. Yoko was leaning against the window and looking up at the moon in the night sky, then Kensho was watching her from outside. Kensho “What were you thinking back then?” Yoko “...Something like a dream. Just about something like a dream.” The two of them are naturally attracted to each other for the first time at the age of 50. They eventually start talking about the future...
poster
?
20
/1/

Keijitachi no Natsu (1999)
The TV movie follows a detective with a burning sense of justice who risks his life to pursue a corruption case involving the prime minister's office.
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?
6.6
/12/

Three Year Delivery (2006)
Fuyuko (Tomoko Nakajima), begins the film nine months pregnant, but doesn't deliver until her third year, to the bafflement of all around her.
poster
?
5.7
/10/

Tobi ga kururi to (2005)
N/A
poster
?
5.7
/9/
20
/1/

Kagerô 2 (1996)
An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.
poster
?
6.8
/34/
60
/1/
80
/1/

Box: The Hakamada Case (2010)
Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested for the June 10, 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka . Iwao Hakamada has always insisted on his innocence and many others also believe Iwao Hakamada has been falsely accused ...
poster
?
4.1
/12/
10
/1/

Seven Days War 2 (1991)
N/A
poster
?
20
/1/

Pinocchio: A Man Without Nationality (1997)
A yakuza search for his past
poster
?
7.0
/88/
70
/7/
50
/2/

Fly, Daddy, Fly (2005)
Suzuki’s world is shattered when his teenage daughter is brutally attacked. The assailant, Ishihara, son of a politician, brazenly mocks Suzuki as he throws him cover-up money. Angry, Suzuki finds he has no answer to Ishihara and in venting his anger, loses his daughter’s trust too. A sleep-deprived, crazed Suzuki goes to Ishihara’s school wielding a knife. He does not find Ishihara, but instead forms an alliance with an odd group of school misfits called the Zombies. The group’s elusive leader, Pak Sun Shin, decides to train Suzuki, who quits his job and embarks on a punishing programme to win back freedom for his daughter.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Villain Company Wolf's Soul (1991)
A unique group of individuals who stand out in the Japanese film industry.
poster
?
10
/1/

Run the Beast (1990)
The beast that lives in a cool man is awakening now!
poster
?
10
/1/

The Shootist 3 (1991)
The biggest crisis has come to Matsushita, a shootist who has passed through numerous shrines!
poster
?
100
/1/

Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War (2008)
N/A
poster
?
6.8
/29/
60
/1/
70
/1/

Shodo Girls: Blue Blue Sky (2011)
Shinko (Karin Aiba) is a high school student from Hamamatsu. Due to university admission pressures, she struggles with her mother. She hasn't really made conversation with her mom in a year. Shinko's friend Misato (Mayuu Kusakari) then recommends to her to join the school's calligraphy club. Shinko is impressed by Teacher Yatsushiro's (Kazuki Namioka) words. Teacher Yatsushiro is the one who takes care of the calligraphy club. Shinko decides to join the calligraphy club.
poster
?
10
/1/

Kyō Kara Ore Wa!! 2 (1993)
N/A
poster
?
40
/1/

Kyō Kara Ore Wa!! Dengeki no 17 Sai (1995)
N/A
poster
?
70
/1/

The Ice Ruts (2016)
Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only person she has blood relationship in this world, but he is going to die soon. Mayu has just started a new life as a detective at the Criminal Investigation Division which deals mainly with murder cases soon, and has to handle with two corpses of old men continuously. One corpse found frozen buried in the snow and the freezing sea. Soon with a detailed investigation she finds out a connection between the two cases which seemed to be completely different at first glance. It was just the breach to open a history of an incident which had origin back to the 1960s in Aomori Prefecture. Growing more and more as a detective, Mayu has to unravel the mystery of a case which goes beyond time and space and which ends in Hokkaido with a result that no one expected.
poster
?
10
/1/
60
/1/

Kyō Kara Ore Wa!! The Movie (1994)
based on manga


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