Movies and TV shows set in japan
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in japan ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, stylized, visually appealing, weird, realistic and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with vengeance, brutality, storytelling, pornography, death, violence, mentor, obsession, nude and dialogue plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres shot in Japan, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as japan: Guilty of Romance (2011), The Japanese Wife Next Door (2004), Visitor Q (2001), Tokyo Decadence (1992), The Handmaiden (2016), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Nobody Knows (2004), In the Realm of the Senses (1976), The Last Samurai (2003), Battle Royale (2000).
Best films
List of movies set in japan
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A detective probes the brutal murder of a woman in a red light district while a housewife hides her double life as a prostitute from her husband.
Style:
disturbing, erotic, sexy, rough, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, erotica, murder investigation, novelist, japanese girl, brothel, strangulation, police investigation, sex, female sexuality, submissive woman, insomnia ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Office worker Takashi shares a drink one night with two women: Ryoko and Sakura. Fate intervenes and he subsequently ends up marrying Sakura. The newlywed couple move into Takashi’s family home (shared with his sister, father and grandfather), but ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, funny, sexual, sensual ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
nymphomaniac, sex, group sex, asian sex, adultery, unfaithful, porn, newlywed, family relations, pink film, love and romance, infidelity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
18K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A father who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute, and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bloody, tense, cult classic ...
Plot:
incest, sex, rape, father daughter incest, macabre, violent, psychopath, prostitute, breast feeding, necrophilia, obsession, sexual harassment ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Style:
erotic, sexy, surreal, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
bdsm, sex, sexual relations, true love, prostitute, gangster, femdom, violent, sex toy, lesbian sex, female nudity, call girl ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, mount fuji, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sookee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
lesbian, plot twist, lgbtq, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, twists and turns, sapphic, sex, lust, lesbian romance, lesbian sex, lesbianism ...
Time:
1930s, year 2016, ancient times, 2010s
Place:
japan, south korea, indiana, asia, korea ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Style:
captivating, sentimental, dramatic, serious, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
love story, geisha, women, age difference, japanese culture, older man younger woman relationship, brothel, beauty, orphan, love and romance, mentor, femininity ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 1930s, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place:
japan, asia, china, east asia, america ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Style:
touching, depressing, atmospheric, gloomy, bleak ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
poverty, childhood, children, young kid, child abandonment, dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, innocence lost, responsibility, neglect, jailbait, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia, california ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor, they forsake all, even life itself.
Style:
sexy, controversial, erotic, sexual, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, sex scene, passion, jealousy, sex, lust, bdsm, sexual relations, sexual perversion, sensuality, sexuality, asian sex ...
Time:
1930s, pre world war two, year 1976, 20th century, year 1936
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, tokyo, paris france ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the ...
Style:
epic, breathtaking, exciting, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night, adult
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, battles, war, courage, japanese history, warrior, pride and honor, self discovery, human spirit, honor, loyalty ...
Time:
19th century, middle ages, victorian era, year 2003, 1800s ...
Place:
japan, asia, africa, san francisco, pacific ocean ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Style:
bloody, disturbing, cult classic, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
game of death, survival, death, dystopia, violence, gory, desperation, jungle, cruelty, contests and competitions, satire, social commentary ...
Time:
future, year 2000, distant future, 2000s, near future
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, india, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Japan has been invaded and conquered by the Britannian Empire. Japan is now known as Area 11 and its citizens known as Elevens. The Britannian Empire takes away Japan's autonomous power and imposes its rule through the use of Knightmares. The ...
Style:
anime, rough, suspenseful, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
rebelliousness, peril, rivalry, mind control, military, young heroes, battles, youth, civil rights, resistance, emperor, rebellion ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, kyoto japan, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yuichi Hasumi and Shusuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yuichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop ...
Style:
atmospheric, sexy, teen, depressing, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, bullying, music, alienation, high school, teenage life, social misfits, adolescence, friendship, youth, abuse, school ...
Time:
2000s, year 1999, year 2000, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
japan, east asia, okinawa japan, asia, tokyo ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Based on the original 1941 movie from Japan, and from ancient Japan’s most enduring tale, the epic 3D fantasy-adventure 47 Ronin is born. Keanu Reeves leads the cast as Kai, an outcast who joins Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada), the leader of the 47 ...
Style:
epic, exciting, stylized, fairy tale, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, ronin, revenge, battles, medieval, shogun, beast, half breed, sword and sorcery, samurai sword, heroes ...
Time:
middle ages, 18th century, year 2013, 2010s
Place:
japan, asia, ancient china, tokyo
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119K
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
Style:
adult animation, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, anime ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, obsession, twists and turns, stalking, actor's life, actress, violence, stalker, rising to stardom, danger, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Tomokawa is a tough guy turned bored cop who spends much of his time sating lonely housewives and looking after retarded teen Sukemasa. One day while hanging out at a bar, he is approached by a 15-year-old enjo kosai named Yoko, offering a round of ...
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, realistic
Plot:
teenage girl, forced sex, tattoo, mentally challenged, life is a bitch, introspection, tough heroes, teenage life, society, youth, love and romance, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and ...
Style:
anime, touching, sweet, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
rain, shoemaker, youth, overcoming, unlikely couple, age difference, young lovers, teenage life, grownups, relationships, shyness, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
Is relevant?
98K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
Style:
psychological thriller, scary, tense, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
torture, femme fatale, sadism, extreme, violent, psychopath, murder, psychotic woman, sex, widower, twists and turns, revenge ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
An entomologist suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village.
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, avant garde, psychological, philosophical ...
Plot:
existentialism, trapped, love affair, metaphor, escape attempt, surrealism, isolation, sun, insect, held captive, desert, male nudity ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Japan, France, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai ...
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, tense, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
gay, boys love, gay interest, gays and lesbians, medieval, sword fight, murder mystery, samurai, gay asian, emperor, homosexuality, lgbt ...
Time:
19th century, year 1999, 1800s
Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan, spain, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Yuki is the last surviving royal of the House of Takemikazuchi or Takemikazuchi no Hime (たけみかずち の ひめ), who live in a futuristic post-apocalyptic isolationist world where they use their skills as former Mikado guards to become ...
Style:
stylized, serious, suspenseful, fast, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female warrior, martial arts, vengeance, sword fight, ninja, rebellion, heroic mission, medieval, dystopian future, rivalry, escapades, danger ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, asia, hong kong, tokyo
Is relevant?
40K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Japan, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
Style:
psychological, sexy, intense, road movie, serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
spirit, ghost, rape and revenge, vigilante, photograph, supernatural, wedding, photographer, revenge, police investigation, photography, car accident ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
japan, tokyo, new york, asia, mount fuji ...
Is relevant?
462K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, saga, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, boys' night
Plot:
monster, giant monster, godzilla, dinosaur, disaster, creature, kaiju, catastrophe, military, mutant, deadly creature, chaos ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s, year 2014, 2010s, year 1999 ...
Place:
japan, hawaii, san francisco, tokyo, honolulu hawaii ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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 to do it as he reminds him of his youth.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, exciting, semi serious, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
gang, youth, gang war, teenage life, yakuza, high school, juvenile delinquent, high school life, teenage gang, street fight, friendship, rivalry ...
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. ...
Style:
grindhouse, suspenseful, exciting, melancholic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, revenge, vengeance, female killer, rape and revenge, murder, female protagonist, vigilante, female assassin, childbirth, blood, assassination ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, year 1973, turn of the century, 1880s ...
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo takes on one of the city's most powerful crime bosses.
Style:
thrilling, detective, crime thriller, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
yakuza, reporter, organized crime, criminal underworld, journalist, mafia, journalism, newspaper reporter, news reporter, forensics, gangster, corruption ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, ...
Style:
cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, disturbing, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, male nudity, very little dialogue, mutilation, gay subtext, fetishist, transformation, sex, rape, extreme ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
25K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In medieval times, on a remote plain, a widow and her mother-in-law kill wandering samurai, put their bodies in a hole in the ground and sell their armour and valuables, until the daughter-in-law falls in love with one of their intended victims.
Style:
black and white, scary, surreal, art house, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
folk horror, samurai, swamp, murder, witch, sexuality, sex, medieval, survival, danger, vengeance, samurai sword ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 14th century
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
6K
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Rock n' Roll may never die, but the Sakuragoaka Girl's High School Light Music Club might not be here to stay unless would-be drummer Ritsu Tainaka can find three more members to replace the graduated seniors. Determined to see that the ...
Style:
anime, humorous, realistic, semi serious, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
music band, music, friendship, friends, high school, student life, high school life, youth, social relations, teenage life, coming of age, shyness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished swordsman however, and he prefers sharing the life of the residents, teaching the kids how to ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, captivating, humorous
Plot:
samurai, medieval, revenge, dark humor, moral dilemma, rivalry, heroes, introspection, dealing with death, edo period, japanese history, samurai sword ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes ...
Style:
surreal, sweet, humorous, cult classic, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, motorcycle gang, teenager, revenge, obsessive quest, gang, on the road, youth, misfit, fashion, punk, women ...
Time:
2000s, 18th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, france, europe, hong kong
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