Best Japanese Adventure Movies

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Best Japanese Adventure Movies
Best Japanese Adventure Movies
TOP Movies: Fast Five (2011), Soul (2020), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), WALL·E (2008), The Little Mermaid (1989), Up (2009), Coco (2017), Toy Story 3 (2010), The Incredibles (2004), Inside Out (2015), Finding Nemo (2003), Spirited Away (2001), Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022), Big Hero 6 (2014), Toy Story (1995), Godzilla Minus One (2023), Howl's Moving Castle (2004), Toy Story 2 (1999), Wreck-It Ralph (2012).

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 7.3
 405K
Fast Five (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de ...
Style: exciting, action packed, suspense, suspenseful, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, manly, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: heist, car chase, chase, car race, car, on the run, racing, organized crime, street racing, tough heroes, freedom, classic car ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: brazil, iran, latin america, south america, rio de janeiro ...
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 8.0
 375K
Soul (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful gig at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls ...
Style: 3d animation, touching, philosophical, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family friendly
Plot: jazz, self discovery, life after death, afterlife, meaning of life, lifestyle change, acceptance, life & death, following a dream, life, teaching the ways of the world, death ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: hawaii, tibet, manhattan new york city, new york
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 8.1
 972K
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: James Sullivan and Mike Wazowski are monsters, they earn their living scaring children and are the best in the business... even though they're more afraid of the children than they are of them. When a child accidentally enters their world, ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, sweet, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, teens ...
Plot: monster, friendship, imaginary, creature, imagination, children, fantasy world, friends, parallel world, rivalry, little girl, rivals ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: persia, himalaya
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Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
Style: bleak, realistic, epic, contemplative, disturbing ...
Audience: family outing, adult
Plot: world war two, war, military, japanese history, battles, survival, anti war, japanese army, imperial japan, brutality, japanese military, violence ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, 2000s, ancient times ...
Place: japan, asia, nebraska, tokyo
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 8.4
 1.2M
WALL·E (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When ...
Style: feel good, touching, futuristic, emotional, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: loneliness, robot, space travel, ecology, outer space, post apocalypse, love, technology, artificial intelligence, society, happy ending, ecological disaster ...
Time: future, distant future, year 2008, 2000s
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The Little Mermaid (1989)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the ...
Style: fairy tale, light, feel good, sweet, cute ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: mermaid, princess, disney princess, good versus evil, transformation, father daughter relationship, love, underwater, witch, happy ending, prince, first love ...
Time: 1800s, year 1989, 20th century, 1830s, 19th century
Place: madagascar, denmark, caribbean
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 8.3
 1.1M
Up (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sweet, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, date night ...
Plot: dog, loneliness, friendship, unlikely friendships, follow your dream, hopes, friends, animal life, journey, obsessive quest, aging, wilderness ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south america, iran, venezuela, latin america, mount everest
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 8.4
 583K
Coco (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Mystery
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead ...
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, sweet, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: day of the dead, afterlife, life after death, musician, music, life & death, death, childhood, memory, good versus evil, boy, dog ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017
Place: mexico, tibet
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 8.3
 887K
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally left at a nefarious day care center. The toys must band together to escape and return home ...
Style: feel good, funny, touching, emotional, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, toddlers, girls' night ...
Plot: toys, escape, friendship, objects come to life, toy story, toy comes to life, anthropomorphism, dinosaur, betrayal, college, dog, friends ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iran, ohio
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 8.0
 802K
The Incredibles (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.
Style: entertaining, funny, exciting, computer animated, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: superhero, heroes, good versus evil, secret identity, superhero team, superheroine, superhuman powers, strong female character, disguise, villain, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: year 2004, 60s, 20th century, year 1962, 2000s ...
Place: usa, chicago, fictional island
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 8.1
 778K
Inside Out (2015)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. ...
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, 3d animation, motivational ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: imaginary friend, memory, creativity, dream, joy, childhood, parents and children, life philosophy, subconscious, coming of age, friendship, happy ending ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, minnesota, california, tibet, usa
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 8.2
 1.1M
Finding Nemo (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, sweet, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, teens ...
Plot: friendship, underwater, shark, memory loss, father son relationship, animal, freedom, courage, single father, rescue, odd couple, talking animal ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new south wales, oceania, pacific ocean, sydney australia
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 8.6
 840K
Spirited Away (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
Style: anime, surreal, atmospheric, stylized, fairy tale ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, surrealism, supernatural, magic, witch, parallel world, fantasy world, imaginary, ghost, creature, dragon, japanese mythology ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.
Style: fairy tale, 3d animation, anime, profound, cute ...
Audience: kids
Plot: anthropomorphic cat, wolf, talking cat, talking animal, shrek, cat, furry, animal, anthropomorphic animal, travel, spiritual journey, fencing ...
Time: 2020s
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he ...
Style: feel good, 3d animation, humorous, funny, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: food, inventor, nerd, natural disaster, father son relationship, mad scientist, small town, greed, parents and children, save the world, friendship, weatherman ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: fictional island, paris france, china, egypt, london ...
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 7.8
 497K
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
Style: touching, feel good, entertaining, exciting, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, family friendly, toddlers ...
Plot: superhero, robot, friendship, heroes, teenage life, androids and robots, boy genius, young heroes, good versus evil, friends, imaginary, child prodigy ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, 2030s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, tokyo, california
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 8.3
 1.1M
Toy Story (1995)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from ...
Style: touching, computer animated, exciting, funny, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, girls' night ...
Plot: friendship, toys, wilhelm scream, rescue, toy story, toy comes to life, rivalry, friends, childhood, teamwork, anthropomorphism, birthday ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: usa, ohio
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Godzilla Minus One (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In postwar Japan, a new terror rises. Will the devastated people be able to survive... let alone fight back?
Style: crying, ambiguous ending
Plot: godzilla, kaiju, monster, giant monster, post war japan, post war, kamikaze, naval battle, duty, heroes, male female relationship, bomb ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1947, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place: japan
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Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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, kids, family friendly, date night, teen drama
Plot: witch, steampunk, magic, supernatural ability, imaginary, fantasy world, self discovery, magical, demon, curses spells and rituals, wizards and magicians, transformation ...
Time: year 2004, year 2005, 20th century, 1900s, 2000s ...
Place: japan, seattle
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 7.9
 616K
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz ...
Style: feel good, 3d animation, humorous, funny, emotional ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: friendship, toy story, toy comes to life, toys, chase, villain, outer space, falling from height, kidnapping, little boy, anthropomorphism, doll ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: ohio
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 7.7
 455K
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Wreck-It Ralph is the 9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of an arcade video game named Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the game's titular hero fixes buildings that Ralph destroys. Wanting to prove he can be a good guy and not just a villain, Ralph ...
Style: humorous, 3d animation, sweet, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: imaginary, obsessive quest, friendship, prejudice, disguise, hacker, master of disguise, medal, heroes, chases and races, danger, good versus evil ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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The Boy and the Heron (2023)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he ...
Style: anime, entertaining, exciting, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot: grief, fire, parakeet, spirituality, teenage boy, poverty, coming of age, bullying, courage, education, world war two, teenage life ...
Time: year 1943, 1940s, 20th century, year 1947, year 1944
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 8.0
 463K
Aladdin (1992)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Princess Jasmine grows tired of being forced to remain in the palace, so she sneaks out into the marketplace, in disguise, where she meets street-urchin Aladdin. The couple falls in love, although Jasmine may only marry a prince. After being ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers ...
Plot: princess, desert, genie, love, arabian nights, disney princess, friendship, magic, poverty, unlikely couple, rags to riches, aladdin ...
Time: middle ages, year 1992, 90s, 20th century, medieval times ...
Place: middle east, saudi arabia, sahara, arabia, iraq
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 7.5
 328K
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Elastigirl springs into action to save the day, while Mr. Incredible faces his greatest challenge yet – taking care of the problems of his three children.
Style: exciting, funny, entertaining, captivating, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, preschool
Plot: superhero, superheroine, supernatural ability, parenting, superhero team, baby, supernatural power, mission, good versus evil, teleportation, obsessive quest, family relations ...
Time: 2010s, year 1962, 60s, 20th century
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 7.1
 420K
Free Guy (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A bank teller realizes he's a background character in an open world action game.
Style: entertaining, humorous, exciting, feel good, heroic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family friendly, kids, adult
Plot: virtual reality, video game, game, gamer, changing lives, career change, heroes, fantasy world, bank teller, code, programmer, altering history ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, seattle, tokyo
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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A spinoff of The Fate of the Furious, focusing on Johnson's US Diplomatic Security Agent Luke Hobbs forming an unlikely alliance with Statham's Deckard Shaw.
Style: buddy comedy, entertaining, tense, exciting, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: tough guy, car, brother and sister, terrorism, secret organization, chase, speed, fight, martial arts, chases and races, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, future
Place: usa, tower bridge london, moscow russia, london, los angeles ...
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After finding himself in a world known as the Mushroom Kingdom, A Brooklyn plumber Mario must travel through this world with a princess named Peach and a mushroom named Toad to find his brother Luigi and save the world from a ruthless fire-breathing ...
Style: 3d animation, anime, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Audience: kids, family friendly
Plot: princess, brother brother relationship, unlikely hero, evil, mushroom, plumber, evil king, superhero, adaptation, gorilla, power, car chase ...
Time: 2020s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york
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 6.5
 243K
Silent Hill (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric ...
Style: scary, dark, surreal, gothic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, monster, demon, survival, supernatural horror, macabre, insanity, torture, ghost town, ghost, good versus evil, missing child ...
Time: year 2006, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, america, usa
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 7.1
 439K
Brave (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Mérida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, computer animated, 3d animation, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: princess, witch, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, bravery, happy ending, bear, heroine, female protagonist, rebellious daughter, archery, archer ...
Time: middle ages, 10th century, year 2012, 2010s, medieval times
Place: scotland, scottish highlands, europe
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 6.4
 436K
Godzilla (2014)
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, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: monster, giant monster, dinosaur, godzilla, disaster, creature, kaiju, catastrophe, military, deadly creature, giant, giant creature ...
Time: jurassic, 90s, year 2014, 2010s, year 1999 ...
Place: japan, san francisco, hawaii, tokyo, honolulu hawaii ...
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