| Nobody Knows (2004) | 8.0 | |
| Shōgun (2024) | 8.6 | |
| Whisper of the Heart (1995) | 7.8 | |
| Wolf Children (2012) | 8.1 | |
| Yojimbo (1961) | 8.2 |
Movies and TV shows set in japan – page 4
Best films
List of movies set in japan
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai (Kimura) and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.
Style:
psychological, serious, jidai geki, romantic, poignant ...
Plot:
blind character, samurai, medieval, hopes, social differences, asian history, blindness, vengeance, society, rivalry, political unrest, master warrior ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
Style:
tense, emotional, stylized, black and white, jidai geki ...
Plot:
samurai, father son relationship, feudal japan, rebellion, revenge, medieval, forced marriage, martial arts, violence, vengeance, kidnapping, family relations ...
Time:
18th century, year 1967, 70s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Ouran High School Host Club is a manga series by Bisco Hatori, serialized in Hakusensha's LaLa magazine between the September 2002 and November 2010 issues. The series follows Haruhi Fujioka, a scholarship student at Ouran High School, and the ...
Style:
anime, humorous, touching, feel good, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
cross dressing, society, debt, high school, teenage life, youth, identical twins, rich and poor, seductive behavior, high school life, flirting, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
5K
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Sotobamura is a small village with around 1300 residents; so small the village isn't even connected to a single highway. An isolated village in which old customs, such as the burial of the dead, are still practiced. One day, the bodies of three ...
Style:
anime, dark fantasy, suspenseful, scary, offbeat ...
Plot:
vampire, danger, mysterious death, supernatural, desperation, fear, death, murder, evil, night, mercilessness, insanity ...
Place:
japan, asia
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224K
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda are pulled into the post-apocalyptic underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for their very survival. Kaneda is a bike gang leader, and Tetsuo is a member of a tough motorcycle crew who becomes involved in a ...
Style:
anime, futuristic, surreal, adult animation, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, post apocalypse, motorcycle gang, motorcycle, teenager, protest, dystopia, body horror, psychic power, military, experiment, hallucination ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, 2010s, 80s ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
Kunieda Kei is a popular, young TV announcer whose public and private personas are so different, they might be called extreme. On the outside, he is the picture of perfection, affectionately nicknamed "The Prince," while on the inside he ...
Style:
yaoi, sincere, sexy, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
lgbt, true love, gay couple, boys love, gay, gay relationship, male male relationship, gay lead character, fall in love, couple relations, youth, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
18K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 109 min.
TV show
Story:
An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.
Style:
atmospheric, mythical, costume drama, epic, serious ...
Plot:
samurai, shogun, jesuit, battles, chivalry, renaissance, historical event, tokugawa shogunate, martial arts, japanese history, samurai sword, interracial relations ...
Time:
17th century, medieval times, 20th century
Place:
japan, portugal, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When Sophie, a shy young woman, is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking home.
Style:
anime, fairy tale, atmospheric, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, family friendly, kids, pre-teens ...
Plot:
witch, steampunk, magic, supernatural ability, magical, fantasy world, love story, curses spells and rituals, imaginary, self discovery, transformation, demon ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2005, 20th century, 1900s, 2000s ...
Place:
japan, seattle, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
She has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time... Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader of Mitakihara middle school, is one of those who lives such a life. One day, she had a very magical encounter. She doesn't know if ...
Style:
anime, yuri, stylized, semi serious, adult animation ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
magical girl, magic, teenage girl, time travel, school, young heroes, surrealism, imaginary, youth, good versus evil, friends, friendship ...
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Durarara!!, often shortened to DRRR!!, is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita, with illustrations by Suzuhito Yasuda, that has also been adapted into a Japanese anime series. As of May 2012, eleven volumes have been published by ...
Style:
anime, touching, manga, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen fantasy
Plot:
city life, urban legend, friendship, gang, supernatural, supernatural ability, snitch, urban, ghost, love and romance, gangster, mysticism ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the Ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the Ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and defeat the enemy to build a world of peace. Red Shadow, Blue Shadow and Aska are neophyte ninjas under ...
Style:
stylized, exciting, humorous, semi serious, manga
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, samurai, love triangle, assassination, master warrior, sword fight, political unrest, heroes, superhero, love and romance, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
3K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Isao Yukisada spins this gritty coming-of-age tale about Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean who struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him. The film begins with Sugihara studying at a Korean junior high school ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, sentimental, sweet ...
Plot:
racism, boxing, coming of age, teenage love, youth, society, fish out of water, parents and children, high school life, teen romance, racial discrimination, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, north korea, asia
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Genre: Crime, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
As one of Suzuki's last fims, it is related to his 1967 Branded to Kill, either as a remake or sequel. The plots of both films involve a third-ranked hit man deposing the top-ranked hit man to claim the top rank.
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, realistic, atmospheric, experimental ...
Plot:
female assassin, hitman, japanese woman, assassin, danger, contests and competitions, rivalry, violent content, assassination, femme fatale, yakuza, children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Perfect Answer begins several months after the events of the first film. Kurono is still fighting aliens under the order of Gantz, a mysterious giant black orb, and he is close to reaching the score he needs to resurrect his friend Kato. Outside his ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, anime ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
game of death, against the rules, escapades, space and aliens, danger, chases and races, katana, evil alien, monster, invasion, superhero, alien ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
Style:
horrifying, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien, evil alien, supernatural, heroic mission, afterlife, save the world, self sacrifice, imaginary, good versus evil, superhuman powers, danger, heroes ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic ...
Style:
freeze frame, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, prostitute, father son relationship, violence, psychopath, sex scene, brutality, murder, lover lover relationship, father in law daughter in law relationship, womanizer, strangulation ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 1979, 70s, 1930s ...
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge
Style:
disturbing, surreal, splatter, harsh, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
revenge, female killer, yakuza, teenage girl, girl heroine, violence spree, vigilantism, bullying, violent, attempted rape, female protagonist, murder ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, bleak, hood ...
Plot:
yakuza, mental disorder, gangster, rivalry, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, drug abuse, addiction, attempted murder, violence, psychopath, organized crime ...
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Forty-two years after her first visit in Tokyo, Mothra returns to warn mankind that they must return Mechagodzilla, along with Godzilla's bones, to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. If not, dire consequences will follow. However, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
godzilla, kaiju, giant monster, save the world, deadly creature, danger, survival, chaos, heroes, battles, good versus evil, escapades ...
Time:
jurassic, 2000s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Under constant attack by monstrous creatures called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind, U.N. Special Agency NERV introduces two new EVA pilots to help defend the city of Tokyo-3: the mysterious Makinami Mari Illustrous and the intense Asuka ...
Style:
mecha, anime, intense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
giant robot, brutality, apocalypse, post apocalypse, mental illness, escapades, good versus evil, man versus machine, imaginary, danger, dystopian future, heroes ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian ...
Style:
disturbing, harsh, atmospheric, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, criminal's revenge, organized crime, lovers on the run, love triangle, gang, chase, rivalry, drug dealing, master criminal, danger, hitman ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo, brazil
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
There are breakpoints in the history, the result of a single event may change the whole course. In 1909, an assassination attempt of a Japanese governor fails. Now, in 2009, Korea is just another state of Japan's Empire & Seoul has become a ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, stylized, exciting, cyber
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
danger, friendship, assassination, dystopian future, state affairs, obsessive quest, political unrest, terrorism, gays and lesbians, politics, political intrigue, heroic mission ...
Time:
1900s, future, 20th century, 2000s, year 2009
Place:
japan, asia, korea
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had ...
Style:
anime, psychological, sadistic, adult animation, mind bending ...
Plot:
murder, curses spells and rituals, psychopath, mature, folklore, trauma, village, fear, mysterious death, under the surface, mental illness, rage ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
samurai, japanese history, sword fight, tragic hero, human spirit, life is a bitch, political unrest, duel, emperor, martial arts, unfulfillment, hopes ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon ...
Style:
anime, exciting, captivating, manga, humorous ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
sword, demon, danger, friendship, supernatural, murder, death, mentor, magic, destiny, vengeance, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
The story begins with Keita Suminoe, a male third-year junior-high school student studying for his high school entrance exams. He is living in a home with his older twin stepsisters, Ako and Riko, who share no blood relation to him, and they help ...
Style:
anime, sweet, light, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
incest, family relations, relationships, step siblings, half brother, forbidden love, school, love triangle, love interest, sexual relations, love affair, humour ...
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it ...
Style:
witty, semi serious, realistic, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
employer employee relationship, culture clash, workplace, translator, fish out of water, power relations, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, demotion, friendship, japanese culture, cultural difference ...
Time:
year 1993, year 1991, year 2003, 90s, year 1990
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, belgium
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
After losing both parents in a fatal plane crash, teenager Ryuuichi Kashima must adjust to his new life as the guardian of his younger brother Kotarou. Although Ryuuichi is able to maintain a friendly and kindhearted demeanor, Kotarou is a reserved ...
Style:
shoujo, anime, feel good, sincere, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
parenting, high school life, friendship, society, slice of life, school, siblings, orphan, high school, school club, tragedy, babysitter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
32K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Style:
anthology, psychedelic, cerebral, philosophical, art film ...
Plot:
dream, surrealism, artist, tunnel, art, nuclear disaster, environmentalism, magic realism, spirit, radiation, philosophy, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
year 1990, 80s, 20th century
Place:
japan, mount fuji, asia, pacific ocean, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot ...
Style:
atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
telephone call, macabre, death, urban legend, supernatural, child abuse, hospital, spirit, good versus evil, vengeance, haunted by the past, supernatural ability ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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