Best Japanese Drama Movies of 2020

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Best Japanese Drama Movies of 2020
Best Japanese Drama Movies of 2020
TOP Movies: Soul (2020), The King of Staten Island (2020), Midnight Swan (2020), Minamata (2020), Lost Girls and Love Hotels (2020), Dangerous Drugs of Sex (2020), Voices in the Wind (2020), Kyojo (2020), Mother (2020), Onward (2020), True Mothers (2020), Any Crybabies Around? (2020), Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020), Daughters (2020), Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020), Your eyes tell (2020), Food Luck (2020), Red Post on Escher Street (2020), Wife of a Spy (2020), Woman of the Photographs (2020).

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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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The King of Staten Island (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious ...
Style: humorous, psychological, funny, ironic, feel good ...
Plot: slacker, tattoo artist, arrested development, re-education, stoner, fear of commitment, coming of age, nepotism, family relations, dancer, felony, teenage boy ...
Place: new york, hawaii, manhattan new york city
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 6.9
 663
Midnight Swan (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Nagisa is transgender. She grew up in Hiroshima as a man, but now lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo as a woman. Due to an incident, she begins to live with middle school student Ichika, who is a distant relative. Ichika has been neglected by her mother ...
Style: sincere, captivating, serious, dramatic
Plot: transgender woman, sibling relationship, instinct, transsexuality, relationships, transsexual, relatives, gender, gender issues, trans woman, transgender, shemale ...
Place: japan
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 7.2
 23K
Minamata (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A movie about reporter W. Eugene Smith and his research on mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, resulting in severe neurological symptoms.
Style: realistic, disturbing, art house, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot: war photographer, art, breaking point, frustration, poisoning, american abroad, journalism, photograph, photography, corruption, lifestyle, life philosophy ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, year 1971
Place: japan
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Lost Girls and Love Hotels (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a dashing Yakuza, as their tumultuous affair takes her on a journey through the city's dive bars and three-hour love hotels.
Style: erotic, depressing, emotional, bleak, psychological ...
Plot: foreigner in japan, erotica, asian man white woman relationship, strong sexual content, sex with a stranger, sex in a hotel, female nudity, looking for sex, interracial love, identity crisis, sex, loneliness ...
Place: tokyo, japan
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Dangerous Drugs of Sex (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Katsuragi, an elite office worker who fell from a perfect life, drunkenly attempted to jump and commit suicide. Suddenly, he was helped by a mysterious man, Yoda, but that was the beginning of a horrible life of confinement training...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: gay rape, sexual sadism, lgbt, suicide attempt, bondage, office worker, love and romance, sadism, sadist, sadistic violence, mysterious stranger, mysterious man ...
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Voices in the Wind (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In her search for answers, 17-year-old Haru sets out on a long journey across the country to the town where, in 2011, the devastating tsunami swept away her brother and parents. This road trip takes the young woman, who is still haunted by her loss, ...
Style: independent film, crying, intercultural, road movie
Plot: high school student, sadness, coming of age, human relationship, earthquake, reproduction, desolation, sibling relationship, motel, devastation, stranger, ferry ...
Place: japan, hiroshima japan
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 6.8
 195
Kyojo (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Story: Kimichika Kazama is an instructor at a police academy. He is keenly observant and watches over his students. He is calm as an instructor and has charisma, but strict. Students with various backgrounds attend the police academy with their own reasons ...
Style: exciting, dramatic, captivating, serious
Plot: police academy, police, japanese police, apprentice, student, training, academy, education, teaching, studying, pig
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 6.8
 3K
Mother (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving grandparents instead of going to school. Except raising the little half-sister, his rock-bottom life ...
Style: captivating, suspense
Plot: mother son relationship, mother and son, sexpot, money problems, family problems, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, single mother, family tragedy, family relations, gambling addiction, unemployment ...
Place: japan
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 7.4
 168K
Onward (2020)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.
Style: feel good, fairy tale, sincere, modern fairy tale, visually appealing ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night, family friendly
Plot: brother brother relationship, elf, magic, teenage protagonist, fantasy world, teenage boy, cyclops, wizard, centaur, dead father, creature, coming of age ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future
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 7.0
 2K
True Mothers (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, convinced by the discourse of an adoption association, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a baby boy. A few years later, their parenthood is shaken by a threatening unknown girl, Hikari, ...
Style: captivating
Plot: family relations, children, husband wife relationship, couples, father son relationship, parents and children, kids and family, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships, mother son relationship, woman ...
Place: hiroshima japan
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Any Crybabies Around? (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A man has a baby, runs away, then comes back, but he can't just show up, apologize, and hope that makes himself a grown man.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: drunken man, male nudity, drunk, humiliation, disgraced, relationship problems, naked in public, small village, life is a bitch, family problems, infamy, ex girlfriend
Place: japan
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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A youth romantic drama with themes of growing up, the story focuses on college student Tsuneo and dreamer Josee, who lives her life stuck in a wheelchair. Josee—named after the heroine in Françoise Sagan’s Wonderful Clouds—spends most of her ...
Style: anime, sincere, captivating
Plot: relationships, lifestyle change, woman in a wheelchair, love, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle, teenager, slice of life, wheelchair bound, disabled child, disability ...
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 6.5
 206
Daughters (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two women are flat-mates and friends in Tokyo. One is an event manager and the other works in the world of fashion marketing. The result shows that one is pregnant one day. The woman decides to give birth out of wedlock. It is a major decision, ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: friendship, pregnancy, japanese woman, east asian woman, pregnant woman, relationships, neighbor, female protagonist, girl next door, couple relations, neighbor neighbor relationship, lesbian ...
Place: japan
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Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The official website of the "Violet Evergarden" animated TV series announced an all-new animated film for the series on Monday that will have a simultaneous worldwide release in January 2020. Plot details are unknown.
Style: anime, touching, serious, non-linear, melancholic
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, mail, slice of life, alternate world, tragic love, love, fictional war, letter, social problems, love affair, sensuality, relationships ...
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Your eyes tell (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A tragic accident lead to Kaori's blindness, but she clings to life and the smaller pleasures it can still afford her. She meets Rui and begins to talk to him. Rui was once a promising kickboxer, but something happened in his past. Kaori's ...
Style: sincere, emotional, melancholic, talky, psychological ...
Plot: japanese girl, sexpot, love, true love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, blind woman, japanese woman, love and romance, love affair, young lovers, love story, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, xian
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 6.1
 152
Food Luck (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Yoshito grew up with his mother Yasue after his father passed away. His mother ran a yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurant that his father had left behind. Yoshito enjoyed eating his mother's cooking and their restaurant was loved by many people. ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: restaurant, food, mother son relationship, slice of life, restaurant owner, family problems, social problems, journalist, gourmet, family relations, workplace, food critic ...
Place: japan
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Red Post on Escher Street (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story: A genius film director, Tadashi Kobayashi holds an audition for his new film project. Several actors and actresses answer the open call, but most will only be cast as extras. Can the film come to a completion without accident?
Style: disturbing, semi serious, captivating
Plot: filmmaking, audition, filmmaker, casting, actor, acting audition, film industry, black bra, horniness, mad woman, horny woman, skin ...
Place: japan
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Wife of a Spy (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect he’s up to something. Soon she allows herself to be drawn into a ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: japanese wife, spy, world war two, murder, male female relationship, occupation, wartime, social problems, female protagonist, family relations, lifestyle, war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: japan
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Woman of the Photographs (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A quiet studio photographer is taking photos of insects in the forest when an Instagram model falls out of a tree. Agreeing to give her a lift back into town, he soon finds her dominating his life while sleeping in his home.
Style: emotional, romantic, talky, humorous, psychological
Plot: love and romance, love affair, love triangle, fall in love, couple relations, japanese man, couples, lovers, japanese woman, young lovers, relationships, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Attack on Titan: Chronicle (2020)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In the fourth recap movie, episodes 1-59 of the anime are retold, compiling the first three seasons of the anime into one two hour event.
Style: anime, suspenseful, bloody, bleak, cynical ...
Plot: extinction, monster, macabre, brutality, violence, mutation, destiny, murder, fictional war, life philosophy, friendship, danger ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
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 7.4
 1K
The Asadas (2020)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, surprise ending
Audience: family outing
Plot: photographer, tsunami, disaster, family relations, brother brother relationship, nuclear holocaust, catastrophe, father son relationship, problem, blood, funeral, school ...
Time: year 2011, 2000s, 2010s
Place: japan, tokyo
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The Stranger by the Beach (2020)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 59 min.
Story: On an island off the coast of Okinawa, two young men meet on a beach: Shun Hashimoto, a gay novelist and Mio Chibana, a somber high school student. Day by day, the two of them grow closer, but then, suddenly, Mio decides to leave the island. They ...
Style: anime, yaoi, romantic, touching, scenic ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, youth, encounter, boys love, love, love and romance, gay teenager, sex scene, homosexual, first love, teenager ...
Place: japan, okinawa
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 7.2
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Coming Home (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Mitsuomi Kozuka quits his job due to his boss. He decides to return to his hometown for the first time in 10 years. The town is located in the countryside. There, Mitsuomi Kozuka meets Yamato Kumai. Yamato Kumai is the stepson of old man Kumai. The ...
Style: melancholic, unusual plot structure, sincere, touching, sexy ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, gay love, gay lead character, lgbt, gay couple, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, friends, couple relations, escapades, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Due to his indecise nature, Kyoichi, an advertising company employee, repeatedly cheats on his wife. One day, he meets Wataru, an old classmate from university. Wataru reveals that Kyoichi's wife hired him to investigate whether Kyoichi is ...
Style: romantic, talky, emotional, psychological
Plot: gay, homosexual, boys love, gay bar, lgbt, crush, easy woman, loose woman, gay asian, family relations, escapades, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
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Theatre: A Love Story (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Nagata works as a writer and director for theater company Oroka. His work has not received positive responses and ticket sales has not increased. Making things worse, his relationship with the theatrical troupe is not good. Nagata feels lonely. One ...
Style: romantic, touching, talky, psychological, romantic drama
Plot: japanese girl, love and romance, relationships, love story, couple relations, young lovers, fall in love, teenage love, teenager, true love, friendship, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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 6.4
 875
Romance Doll (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband and wife no questions asked. All is well then. Well, perhaps not. Each holds a secret that even the binds of matrimony cannot untie. Sonoko does not ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, sensual
Plot: japanese wife, sex doll, marriage, east asian woman, family relations, family problems, relationship problems, secret, troubled marriage, husband wife relationship, relationships, male female relationship ...
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 6.7
 14K
A Whisker Away (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Miyo "Muge" Sasaki is a peculiar second-year junior high student who has fallen in love with her classmate Kento Hinode. Muge resolutely pursues Kento every day, but he takes no notice of her. Nevertheless, while carrying a secret she can ...
Style: anime, feel good, captivating, unusual plot structure, visually appealing
Plot: cat, secret love, school, unrequited love, teenager, magic, transformation, classmate, love, supernatural, parallel world, love letter ...
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 7.7
 2K
Given (2020)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 59 min.
Story: The film centers on the love relationship among the band's bassist Haruki Nakayama, drummer Akihiko Kaji, and Akihiko's roommate and ex-boyfriend Ugetsu Murata.
Style: yaoi, anime, contemplative, touching, captivating ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, homosexual, high school, relationships, slice of life, love, gay lead character, music band, gay couple, fall in love, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A continuation of the epic adventure of plucky Riko and Reg who are joined by their new friend Nanachi. Together they descend into the Abyss' treacherous fifth layer, the Sea of Corpses, and encounter the mysterious Bondrewd, a legendary White ...
Style: anime, dark fantasy, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: brutality, underground, adventurer, supernatural ability, supernatural power, teamwork, travel, paranormal, exploration, journey, mutilation, mature ...
Time: 2010s
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