Best Japanese movies of 1990s

Actors : Tadanobu Asano, Christa Hughes, Kevin Sherlock, Georgina Hobson,
Directors : Christopher Doyle,

The protagonist is Asano who has had an amazing memory since his youth spent in Okinawa. Words have tangible shapes, tastes and colours for him. This goes so far that he is not even able to...

Actors : Kei Fujiwara, Kenji Nasa, Kimihiko Hasegawa, Natsuyo Kanahama,
Directors : Kei Fujiwara,

Two police detectives Numata and Tosaka infiltrate a group of underground black market human organ dealers. Things go haywire during a raid on the group's surgical headquarters. Numata ...

Actors : Mai Kitajima, Kimiko Yo, Ken Ogata, Shinobu Ohtake,
Directors : Takashi Ishii,

Thrown together by chance during the robbery of a jewelry store by a Yakuza gang, five women take advantage of the situation to make off with the heist's loot, while a man hunts the same ...

Actors : Masatoshi Nagase, Keisuke Horibe, Yoshinori Okada, Akemi Kobayashi,
Directors : Katsuhito Ishii,

Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive ...

Actors : Sayaka Yamaguchi, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Makoto Togashi, Ken'ichi Endô,
Directors : Tomijiro Mitsuishi,

A young girl looking through her father's notes finds something written about the last experiment he worked on before he went insane. Everything looks ordinary until the name "Tomie" begins appearing throughout the notebook.

Actors : Tomoka Kurotani, Rena Komine, Kotomi Kyôno, Tadanobu Asano,
Directors : Gakuryû Ishii,

Bus conductor Tomiko falls in love with driver Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being a serial killer who killed his female conductors after tiring of them.

Actors : Yukijirô Hotaru, Kunihiro Ida, Masakazu Handa, Yûko Moriyama,
Directors : Keita Amemiya,

Bounty hunters Iria and Bob travel to Earth to capture an escaped bio-engineered fighting machine called Zeiramu.

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Michiko Hada, Naoto Takenaka, Teruyuki Kagawa,

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts...

Actors : Tomio Aoki, Shoichi Komatsu, Tarô Suwa, Ayaka Horie,
Directors : Makoto Shinozaki,

Yuriko works at home all day as a tape transcriber, while her husband, Takashi, works as a school teacher. Yuriko's behavior grows stranger and more distant and she starts spending all day ...

Actors : Hiroshi Miyasaka, Hitoshi Ozawa, Ryûshi Mizukami, Shû Ehara,
Directors : Atsushi Muroga,

A small time Yakuza thug is thrown into a bloody battle after a bank robbery he was forced into goes wrong when all the men begin to turn on each other a hitch-hiking serial killing couple decide to steal their loot.

Actors : Ariyon Bakare, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Paul Bettany, Louise Lombard,
Directors : Ross Kettle,

Steph, an Afrikaner, struggles with his past and heritage in the new South Africa. When his girlfriend befriends a black South African man called Vusisizwe trouble brews.

Actors : Sadao Abe, Ren Ôsugi, Shô Aikawa, Duncan,
Directors : Kiyoshi Kurosawa,

A man discovers a darker side of himself after exacting revenge on his daughter's killer.

Actors : Furankî Sakai, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Shima Iwashita,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal...

Actors : Kiyotaka Nanbara, Masatoshi Nagase, Haruko Wanibuchi, Shirô Sano,
Directors : Kaizô Hayashi,

Mike Hama is a private investigator who has been reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle.

Actors : Masumi Miyazaki, Tomoko Mariya, Kenji Sawada, Tamasaburô Bandô,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

Painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband's ghost and the jealous lover who murdered him.

Actors : Kiyotaka Nanbara, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Masatoshi Nagase, Yui Natsukawa,
Directors : Kaizô Hayashi,

Japan's favorite hard-boiled detective Maiku Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) returns for the third time in this crime drama. A crazed killer has been poisoning women around the city and planting ...

Actors : Toshiya Nagasawa, Takahiro Fujita, Nick Feyz, Eugene Nomura,
Directors : Yoshifumi Hosoya,

Penniless Japanese immigrants in New York. Hiro arrives seeking his fortune as a singer-songwriter. He moves into a cramped flat on the Lower East Side with Akira, a high-school friend, and...

Actors : Makiko Ono, Takuji Suzuki, Takumi Tanji, Miako Tadano,
Directors : Hisashi Saito,

A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murders. Borrowing a station wagon, they flee with no particular destination in mind.

Actors : Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Hideyuki Kasahara, Shima Iwashita, Jun Toba,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

Opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, as he remembers a trip made as a young boy. Then, he and family took a boat trip from Awaji to Beppu in order to bury the ...