Best Japanese movies of 2000s

Actors : Tomoka Kurotani, Erika Sawajiri, Joe Odagiri, Yukie Nakama,
Directors : Ten Shimoyama,

Star-crossed lovers must fight on opposing sides in a battle that will determine the next Shogun.

Actors : Shôsuke Tanihara, Megumi Yamaguchi, Ryo Kase, Rinko Kikuchi,
Directors : Mamoru Oshii,

A group of eternally young fighter pilots known as Kildren experience the sudden loss of innocence as they battle the enemy in astonishing dogfights above the clouds.

Actors : Yôsuke Kubozuka, Takao Ohsawa, Shidô Nakamura, Haruka Ayase,
Directors : Fumihiko Sori,

Ichi is a blind woman who roams about town with her shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese guitar), but she has exceptional sword skills with which she fights off yakuza and other villains.

Actors : Kotoha Hiroyama, Hiroaki Kawatsure, Shigeo Ôsako,
Directors : Kôji Shiraishi,

An unnamed doctor has always had everything he's ever wanted, but that has only made him develop more extreme and depraved needs. He kidnaps a young couple in the prime of their life ...

Actors : Ryôko Hirosue, Yôsuke Eguchi, Takao Ohsawa, Jun Kaname,
Directors : Kazuaki Kiriya,

Based on a Japanese folk legend that echoes the tale of Robin Hood, this ninja thriller follows the exploits of Goemon Ishikawa (Yôsuke Eguchi), who leaves his fighting clan after its chief...

Actors : Nami Tsukamoto, Kiki, Tadanobu Asano, Kazuyoshi Kushida,
Directors : Shin'ya Tsukamoto,

After a tragic car accident where his girlfriend Ryôko Ooyama (Nami Tsukamoto) died, Hiroshi Takagi (Tadanobu Asano) suffers amnesia with his memories completely blanked. When he sees a ...

Actors : Kotomi Kyôno, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Ôsugi, Takeshi Kitano,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

Beat Takeshi, a prominent actor, meets a lookalike named Kitano, who is a struggling actor, but after the meeting, Kitano's dreams take a violent, surreal turn.

Actors : Satsuki Yukino, Masaya Onosaka, Hiromi Tsuru, Shô Hayami,
Directors : Satoshi Nishimura,

20 years after meddling into the bank heist of a notorious robber named Gasback, Vash the Stampede is heading towards Macca City. Rumors say that the legendary thief might appear there ...

Actors : Machiko Ono, Yôichirô Saitô, Kanako Masuda, Shigeki Uda,
Directors : Naomi Kawase,

A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.

Actors : Yoshino Kimura, Anna Tsuchiya, Kippei Shîna, Hiroki Narimiya,
Directors : Mika Ninagawa,

A young girl is sold into a red-light district brothel and tries to adapt to life as an oiran (courtesan).

Actors : Tadanobu Asano, Andrew Alfieri, Hideaki Anno, Moyoco Anno,

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.

Actors : Masakazu Morita, Fumiko Orikasa, Hiroki Yasumoto, Noriaki Sugiyama,
Directors : Noriyuki Abe,

In Karakura Town, unidentifiable spirits begin appearing en mases. While attempting to deal with these strange souls, Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki meet Senna, a mysterious shinigami ...

Actors : Hiromi Nagasaku, Eriko Satô, Masatoshi Nagase, Aimi Satsukawa,
Directors : Daihachi Yoshida,

Traumatic incidents, conflicts, and bloody quarrels awaits the Wago family members who return home to bury their parents.

Actors : Jun Fukuyama, Rie Tanaka, Rina Satô, Kenji Nojima,
Directors : Yasuhiro Yoshiura,

In a not too distant future, a young man's outlook on his home android begins to change after tracking the android's behavioral log to a mysterious cafe.

Actors : Takahiro Murase, Takahiro Kandaka, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Masato Tsujioka,
Directors : Shin'ya Tsukamoto,

A man wakes up to find himself locked in a cramped concrete maze of corridors, in which he can barely move. He doesn't remember why he is there or how he got there. He has a terrible stomach injury and is slowly bleeding to death.

Actors : Yûko Asano, Yui Aragaki, Haruma Miura, Yôsuke Asari,
Directors : Natsuki Imai,

Mika is a fresh high school student who starts texting a mysterious boy. She is shocked when he reveals who he is - Hiro, a delinquent attending her school. What she doesn't know is that Hiro isn't as bad as he seems.

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Manami Konishi, Hiroyuki Hirayama,
Directors : Kiyoshi Kurosawa,

A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points ...

Actors : Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroshi Tamaki, Akifumi Miura, Kôen Kondô,
Directors : Shinobu Yaguchi,

In a Japanese high school, a class of adolescent geeks joins the new synchronized swimming teacher and takes up the challenge to take part in the competition, in spite of the mockeries of the "real sportsmen".

Actors : Satoshi Tsumabuki, Ko Shibasaki, Kiichi Nakai, Yoshio Harada,
Directors : Akihiko Shiota,

A female warrior who was raised as a man joins a young samurai's quest to recover 48 of his body parts from 48 demons and to avenge her parents death.

Actors : Ariko Arita, Toshihisa Fukunaga, Naozô Hotta, Sumiko Shirai,
Directors : Gô Shibata,

A wheelchair bound man goes on a killing spree to ease his hurt when a local college coed rebuffs his amorous advances.