Best Japanese Movies of 2020 – page 2

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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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 7.4
 735
His (2020)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Shun and Nagisa first meet and fall in love during their first year of high school. While Shun is graduating from university, Nagisa tells him that he doesn't see a future for them. Despite Shun's strong feelings, they go their separate ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, dorama, queer cinema ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay love, gay couple, homosexuality, gay lead character, gay slur, lgbtq, discrimination, love story, gay friend, relationships ...
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It's a Summer Film! (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Barefoot and her friends decide to make a samurai movie, gather a unique cast and staff for the production, and try to screen it at their school festival.
Style: entertaining, disturbing, satirical, captivating, psychotronic ...
Plot: filmmaking, schoolgirl, time traveler, friendship, friends, group of friends, time paradox, teenage life, satire, teenager, samurai, summer ...
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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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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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 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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Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather (2020)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The sexually masochistic yakuza boss, Yashiro, isn't the type to warm up to others easily. But when Chikara Doumeki, his newly hired bodyguard, catches his interest, he reconsiders his "hands-off" policy with subordinates. As ...
Style: yaoi, anime, manga, unusual plot structure, enigmatic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay sex, gay slur, friendship, gay interest, boys love, gay relationship, gay romance, secret love, forbidden love, gender ...
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Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: On the planet Latimer, Takeshi Kovacs must protect a tattooist while investigating the death of a yakuza boss alongside a no-nonsense CTAC.
Style: anime, neo noir, tech noir, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: kids
Plot: cyberpunk, murder investigation, sword, male female partnership, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, tattooed man, distopia, soldier, supernatural power, back from the dead, yakuza ...
Time: distant future, 2020s
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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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 6.9
 1K
Last Letter (2020)
Genre: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the task of informing the deceased's friends of the death while the daughter cannot ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: love, niece, aunt, aunt niece relationship, family relations, love story, relationships, family problems, cousin cousin relationship, pet dog, novelist, asian girl ...
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 6.5
 721
Hold Me Back (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Mitsuko Kuroda is 31-years-old and single. She enjoys her life as a single woman. A big reason why she enjoys her single life is that she has counsellor "A" in her mind, which is her other self. Whenever she does not know what do, ...
Style: romantic, touching, sweet, weird, whimsical
Plot: imaginary friend, fall in love, love story, friendship, mentor, love and romance, unlikely friendships, bittersweet, life philosophy, magic realism, hugging, airplane ...
Place: tokyo
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Looking for Magical Doremi (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The story follows 27-year-old Tokyo office worker Mire Yoshizuki who just returned to Japan, 22-year-old fourth-year college student Sora Nagase who aspires to be a teacher, and 20-year-old boyish, part-time Hiroshima okonomiyaki shop worker and ...
Style: anime, captivating, entertaining
Plot: magic, fantasy world, female protagonist, women, magical girl, wizard, magician, friendship, friends, wizards and magicians, magical power, magical
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Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sonic and the gang must team up to fight Dr. Eggman.
Style: funny, exciting, captivating, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, date night, family outing
Plot: hedgehog, on the run, superhero, friendship, road trip, military, friend, super speed, bar fight, chase, anthropomorphic animal, evil man ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: san francisco, california, france, usa, egypt ...
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The Voice of Sin (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago.The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot: cold case, investigative journalism, investigation, crime solving, crime investigation, investigative reporter, uncover truth, gangster, secret, murder investigation, reporter, news reporter ...
Place: japan, kyoto japan
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 7.2
 610
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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Yes, No, or Maybe? (2020)
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, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, anime ...
Plot: lgbt, boys love, gay, true love, lovers, gay lead character, gay couple, gay relationship, society, fall in love, 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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Shirobako Movie (2020)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The "Musashi-Sakai x Shirobako Harumatsuri" (Musashi-Sakai x Shirobako Spring Festival) event in Tokyo for the Shirobako anime revealed on Saturday that the franchise will get an anime film project. P.A. Works is starting production on the ...
Style: anime
Plot: movie studio, animator, audition, recording studio, snow, screenwriter, film producer, film within a film, kimono
Place: tokyo
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Earwig and the Witch (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A headstrong orphan discovers a world of spells and potions while living with a selfish witch.
Style: anime, visually appealing, atmospheric, stylized, dark fantasy ...
Audience: kids
Plot: orphan, adoption, orphanage, witch, black cat, abandoned by mother, notebook, talking animal, superpower, fantasy world, supernatural power, youth ...
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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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Love Me, Love Me Not (2020)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Yuna and Akari are two high school girls with very different views on love: Yuna dreams about romance through rose-coloured glasses, while Akari is down-to-earth and practical. Meanwhile, high school boys Kazuomi and Rio also have different views on ...
Style: anime, captivating, light, shoujo, romantic ...
Plot: in love, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, love story, schoolgirl, relationships, friendship, friends, teenage life, couple relations, schoolboy ...
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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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High School Fleet Movie (2020)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Living by the sea, protecting the sea, and journeying across the sea…They’re the BLUE MERMAIDS! Because of a shift in tectonic plates around 100 years ago, Japan lost much of its area to submergence. To preserve Japan’s territories, Coastal ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, entertaining, anime
Plot: school, military, high school, teamwork, battles, schoolgirl, women, naval officer, girl, female nudity, navy, marines ...
Time: 1940s
Place: japan
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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
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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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Threads - Our Tapestry of Love (2020)
Genre: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Ren Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda were both born in 1989. They met for the first time at the age of 13 and became each other's first love, but they separated. At the age of 21, they met again. They were unable to undo their past. Now, they are 31 ...
Style: emotional, psychological, touching, melancholic, romantic ...
Plot: japanese woman, love and romance, love, couples, youth, couple relations, friendship, true love, japanese man, unfulfilled love, lovers, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Wandering; Agateram (2020)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The wandering knight, Bedivere, reaches the end of his journey. It is A.D. 1273 in Jerusalem. The Holy Land has been transformed into a massive desert and its people have been forced out of their homes as three major powers wage war with each other ...
Style: anime, tense, exciting, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: travel, land, tyranny, king, desert, great war, world war, war, kingdom, fictional kingdom, tyrant, imaginary kingdom ...
Place: holy land
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From Today, It's My Turn: The Movie (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in 1980s Japan, two students transfer into the same school on the same day and become a duo fighting delinquents.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot: teenage girl, japanese schoolgirl, japanese girl, brawl, teenager, new student, new school, japanese teenager, society, friends, youth, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Our 30 Minute Sessions (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: College student Sota picks up a cassette tape left behind by musician Aki when he died a year ago. When the tape is played back, Aki takes over Sota's body for just 30 minutes. They share the same body and rush to reunite a band that split up ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: switching bodies, musician's life, musician, love affair, dead, male female relationship, love story, mind control, spirit, music, relationships, love interest ...
Place: japan
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