| Dolls (2002) | 7.5 | |
| The Wolverine (2013) | 6.7 | |
| Death Note (2006) | 8.9 | |
| Your Name. (2016) | 8.4 | |
| Princess Mononoke (1997) | 8.3 |
Movies and TV shows set in japan – page 5
Best films
List of movies set in japan
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
dog, friendship, loyalty, animal, pets, human animal relationship, life & death, loss of friend, loneliness, loss, death, friends ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 1930s
Place:
japan, rhode island, usa
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Humans live in the world of Assiah, demons in Gehenna. The two dimensions are not meant to interfere with each other, but demons still possess creatures in Assiah in spite of this. The humans who can fight these demons are known as exorcists. Rin ...
Style:
anime, exciting, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
supernatural, exorcist, demon, danger, anger, school, rivalry, friendship, curses spells and rituals, heroes, exorcism, imaginary ...
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
The story revolves around a first-year high school student, Teiichi Niiya who had just enrolled at Seikyou Private Academy. When he gets lost in one of the school's old building, he meets a girl named Yuuko Kanoe who reveals herself as a ghost ...
Style:
anime, ecchi, bleak, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, love and romance, school, uncover truth, left to die, hidden truth, supernatural, female nudity, tragedy, school club, high school life, bullying ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Junjou Romantica: Pure Romance, stylized as Junjou Romantica ~Pure Romance~, is a yaoi series by Shungiku Nakamura. It focuses on three storylines; the main couple, which comprises the bulk of the books, and two other male couples that provide ...
Style:
anime, sexy, yaoi, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
gender, couple relations, couples, gay, love affair, boys love, gay relationship, love and romance, love triangle, angst, lgbt, slice of life ...
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Being just a normal student without a special talent, Makoto Naegi wins a lottery to attend the prestigious Hope's Peak Academy where only the top prodigies attend. However, instead of this being the beginning of a wonderful high school life, ...
Style:
anime, captivating, suspense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
who done it, confined, high school, murder mystery, murder, uncover truth, danger, high school student, intrigue, survival, youth, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
In a world where magic is not a fairy tale but has existed for one hundred years siblings Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba prepare to begin their studies at the elite Private Magic University Affiliated High School (Magic High School for short). Entering on ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, anime, serious, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy
Plot:
supernatural ability, social relations, siblings relations, youth, magic, teenage life, high school life, imaginary, family relations, supernatural, badass, misogynist ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Shigurui is a manga series written by Norio Nanjo and illustrated by Takayuki Yamaguchi, based on the first chapter of the novel Suruga-jō Gozen Jiai by Norio Nanjō.
An animated television adaptation, based on the first 32 chapters of the manga, ...
Style:
anime, rough, stylized, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mercilessness, blind character, samurai, martial arts, mortal combat, duel, championship, haunted by the past, ruler, opponent, contests and competitions, edo period ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Hell Girl, also known as Jigoku Shōjo: Girl from Hell, is an anime series produced by Aniplex and Studio Deen. It focuses on the existence of a supernatural system that allows people to take revenge by having other people sent to Hell via the ...
Style:
anime, exciting, scary, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
justice, torment, murder, teenage girl, risk, vengeance, bullying, supernatural, schoolgirl, desperation, evil, threat ...
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
The self-proclaimed mad scientist Rintarou Okabe rents out a room in a rickety old building in Akihabara, where he indulges himself in his hobby of inventing prospective "future gadgets" with fellow lab members: Mayuri Shiina, his ...
Style:
anime, touching, tsundere, exciting, mind bending ...
Audience:
pre-teens, teens
Plot:
time travel, time machine, time loop, changing the past or future, youth, student, memory loss, father daughter relationship, hopes, parallel world, sent to the past, science ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
In this sequel to Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu?!, Mithril becomes aware of a secret organization that has technology able to counter the ECS (Electronic Cloaking System) mode. This organization, known as Amalgam, also has "Black ...
Style:
stylized, anime, exciting, semi serious, shounen ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
danger, heroes, teenage life, secret movement, escapades, military life, heroic mission, teenager, chaos, high school drama, imaginary, rivalry ...
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
44K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of ...
Style:
black and white, atmospheric, tense, witty, stylized ...
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, corruption, rescue, betrayal, medieval, martial arts, police investigation, culture clash, visceral, transformation, small town ...
Time:
19th century, year 1962, future, 1800s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo, india
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Yae no Sakura is a 2013 Japanese television series. It is the 52nd NHK taiga drama. The story focuses on Niijima Yae, who is portrayed by Haruka Ayase.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
feminism, human spirit, rebellion, fighting the system, couples, supportive spouse, society, gender bending, edo period, gender, strong female presence, biopic ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century, 1850s, 1840s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This Japan production spins-off the story of the first Paranormal Activity film by having the ghost from the first film follow a student back to her homeland after a visit to San Diego where she is tragically injured during a car accident. Back home ...
Style:
bleak, scary, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot:
found footage, paranormal activity, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, woman in danger, nightmare comes true, haunted, ghost, graphic violence, haunted house, disability ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself ...
Style:
tense, anime, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
survival, social decay, contests and competitions, rivalry, risk, danger, rich and poor, society, lifestyle, job seeking, deathtrap, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In the near future, a Japanese scientist engineers a powered exoskeleton called "Infinite Stratos" (IS). Possessing technology and combat capabilities surpassing those of any other arms system, the IS threatens to destabilize the world. ...
Style:
anime, ecchi, mecha, manga, romantic ...
Audience:
teen fantasy
Plot:
high school life, harem, youth, imaginary, young heroes, teachers and students, social relations, strong female presence, power relations, androids and robots, student life, school ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Nursing student Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
curses spells and rituals, ghost, danger, riddles and clues, supernatural, death, scoop, haunted, hunted, extreme, occult, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Toru Aizawa, a 11 year old boy suddenly finds a tiny egg on a red mysterious stone. the egg hatches and comes out an abnormal little turtle (Toto) which not only grows rapidly, but also flies in the air and even blows fireballs. At the meantime, a ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, entertaining, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, giant bird, gamera, turtle, save the day, dangerous animal, legends and myths, supernatural, danger, rivalry, escapades ...
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Wracked with guilt over the suicide of her sister Ai, who was tormented by high school bullies, pretty young karate student Megu accompanies a group of older friends on a camping trip into the woods: smart girl Aya, her druggie boyfriend Také, ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, suspenseful, splatter, absurd ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie attack, teenage girl, schoolgirl, zombie, lesbian rape, feces, undead, danger, chaos and mayhem, gory, japanese schoolgirl, karate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, hiring his services to those with gold... or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a hideous plot to overthrow the government threatens to end his wandering ways and ...
Style:
anime, sexy, adult animation, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, samurai, ninja, transformation, demon, duel, good versus evil, vengeance, ninja warrior, graphic violence, master warrior, supernatural ...
Time:
middle ages, ancient times, 1800s
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Kobayashi lives alone in an apartment, until one day, Tooru appeared and they ended up living together. Tooru looks down on humans as inferior and foolish, but having been saved by Kobayashi-san, she does everything she can to repay the debt and ...
Style:
anime, feel good, entertaining, humorous, light ...
Plot:
dragon, everyday life, maid, magic, magical, female protagonist, slice of life, transformation, supernatural, office, fantasy world, friend ...
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
15K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and ...
Style:
humorous, light, funny, captivating, cult classic ...
Plot:
culture clash, workplace, labor union, friendship, satire, small town, worker, factory worker, unemployment, comedy of manners, businessman, working class ...
Time:
80s
Place:
japan, usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, asia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 217 min.
Story:
In Kyushu, southwest Japan, one hot summer morning, a municipal bus is hijacked. In the carnage only three people survive: the driver, a school girl, and her older brother.
Style:
bleak, psychological, sincere, lyrical, depressing ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, bus driver, haunted by the past, family relations, serial killer, orphan, starting over, hijacking, bus, redemption, asian ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, Finland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the ...
Style:
creepy, surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
suicide, conspiracy, high school, violent, police investigation, brutality, death, gory, surrealism, transgression, student, extreme ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Gifted with a wide assortment of supernatural abilities ranging from telepathy to x-ray vision, Kusuo Saiki finds this so-called blessing to be nothing but a curse. As all the inconveniences his powers cause constantly pile up, all Kusuo aims for is ...
Style:
anime, feel good, exciting, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
pre-teens
Plot:
slice of life, everyday life, supernatural ability, life, friendship, supernatural power, psychic, telepathy, supernatural, telekinesis, japanese teenager, schoolboy ...
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
The girl Kyoko Mogami lives alone in an apartment with her big love the childhood friend Sho Fuwa. He is a big music star and has many fans. One day he breaks up with her telling her she is a plain woman, and the only reason he stayed with her all ...
Style:
anime, shoujo, sentimental, feel good, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
rising to stardom, relationship vs career, breakup, rivalry, artists and showbiz, couples, couple relations, teenage love, love and romance, showbiz, musical tour, teenage life ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the countryside with his toddler son in search of ...
Style:
grindhouse, visual, atmospheric, stylized, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ninja, kung fu, martial arts, female nudity, yakuza, female ninja, revenge, samurai sword, violence, exploitation, assassin, violent ...
Time:
16th century, 19th century, 15th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The 8th Godzilla film is aimed at an even younger audience than its predecessors. In the South Seas, scientists conducting weather experiments encounter gigantic mantises and a giant spider that are attacking Godzilla's offspring.
Style:
scary, suspense, natural horror, daikaiju, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, monster, island, godzilla, weather manipulation, giant spider, disaster, weather, danger, heroes, killer animal ...
Time:
year 1967, jurassic, 60s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story:
Yūri Katsuki carried all of Japan's hopes on his shoulders to win at the Gran Prix Finale ice skating competition, but suffered a crushing defeat. He returns home to Kyushu and half feels like he wants to retire, and half feels like he wants ...
Style:
anime, captivating, yaoi, humorous, exciting ...
Plot:
training, dream, rise to the top, figure skating, friendship, rivalry, coach, skating, lgbt, gay, male nudity, competition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father ...
Style:
fairy tale, visually appealing, visually stunning, breathtaking, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
stop motion, magic, creativity, imagination, childhood, samurai, storytelling, destiny, sword, mentor, monkey, fight scenes ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on a visual novel of the same name by Rejet and Otomate, for the female market.
Komori Yui is a positive-thinking girl who nevertheless is troubled by seeing spirits and experiencing poltergeist phenomena. In her second year in high school, ...
Style:
anime, sexy, shoujo, enigmatic, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, supernatural ability, supernatural power, school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, harem, old mansion, radical, evil spirit, siblings relations, family relations ...
Place:
japan
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