Best Japanese movies of 2010s

Actors : Dean Newcombe, Lily Franky, Tatsuya Nakamura, Yûko Nakamura,
Directors : Shin'ya Tsukamoto,

A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2.

Actors : Eri Kitamura, Aoi Yûki, Kaori Mizuhashi, Chiwa Saitô,

A mysterious creature "Kyubey" offers a young girl named Madoka Kaname the chance to have any one wish granted to her. In exchange she must battle evil creatures named "Witches" at the risk of losing her life.

Actors : Dallas Reid, Clifford Chapin, Justin Briner, Sumire Uesaka,
Directors : Takaharu Ozaki,

In a world dominated by monsters, a young priestess decides to train as an adventurer to deal with the threat. She joins a group of inexperienced fighters who have set out to drive the goblins away.

Actors : Taiga, Kanji Furutachi, Mayu Tsuruta, Fumi Nikaidô,
Directors : Kôji Fukada,

After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to know the people of the town, including Takashi, a shy relative of her childhood friend.

Actors : Ai Kayano, Toshihiko Seki, Shôtarô Morikubo, Sumire Uesaka,
Directors : Junji Shimizu,

When the evil Dr Hell attacks the Earth, the mighty giant mecha Mazinger Z is formed to stop him.

Actors : Ayaka Miyoshi, Ryôta Bandô, Tsuyoshi Furukawa, Narendra Singh Dhami,
Directors : Takashi Shimizu,

A young psychologist heads to an infamous haunted place, named 'Howling Village', in order to find out her family's dark history.

Actors : Luci Christian, Yutaka Aoyama, Susumu Chiba, Igor Chapurin,
Directors : Shinji Takamatsu,

The silver-haired samurai Sakata Gintoki investigates the disappearance of a legendary sword named Benizakura while his partners Kagura and Shimura Shinpachi try to find out what has happened to Gintoki's friend, Kotaro Katsura.

Actors : Kanto Shimokura, Masao Nishida, Emi Shimokura, Debo Akibe,
Directors : Takeshi Fukunaga,

A coming of age tale about Kanto, a 14 year old boy, and a descendant of Japan's indigenous Ainu people, who struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of his father. One day, he ...

Actors : Manatsu Hayashi, Tôma Ikuta, Yui Aragaki, Arata Iura,
Directors : Nobuhiro Doi,

Sae (Yui Aragaki) is a high school student who is studying hard for her college entrance exams. She lost her father when she was very young and so lives her mother Ryoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru...

Actors : Renji Ishibashi, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Satomi Kobayashi, Rie Miyazawa,
Directors : Daihachi Yoshida,

A mellow drama following the moral decline of a housewife turned bank employee who embezzles a fortune from her customers and indulges in an affair with a younger man. Set in 1994, shortly after the burst of Japan's economic bubble.

Actors : Isao Hashizume, Haru Kuroki, Takako Matsu, Kazuko Yoshiyuki,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

A woman looks back on her family's life in Tokyo before and during WWII. A maid arrives from the countryside to work for an upper middle class family. She fits in well, but everyone's emotions are stirred up with the arrival of a student.

Actors : Kumiko Asô, Masami Nagasawa, Mirai Moriyama, Riisa Naka,
Directors : Hitoshi Ohne,

31 years old, broke, single and lonely Yukio encounters four beautiful women suddenly appearing in his life. Will he be able to escape his "Moteki" status?

Actors : Caitlin Glass, Morgan Garrett, R. Bruce Elliott, Greg Dulcie,
Directors : Ryôtarô Makihara,

After breaking the law of reanimating human corpses, young Watson has to either work for the government or face punishment. He has to go on a secret mission, to find the notes of Viktor Frankenstein, who reanimated the first human corpse.

Actors : Daisuke Namikawa, Atsuko Tanaka, Mie Sonozaki, Miyuki Sawashiro,
Directors : Fuminori Kizaki,

Based on the 2009 game, Bayonetta: Bloody Fate follows the story of the witch Bayonetta, as she defeats the blood-thirsty Angels and tries to remember her past from before the time she ...

Actors : Sora Amamiya, Rie Takahashi, Ai Kayano, Jun Fukushima,
Directors : Takaomi Kanasaki,

Kazuma's party is suddenly alerted by an outrageous letter delivered by Yunyun. The letter requested that they come to the Crimson Demon Clan's village, that is facing a threat that could mean it's ending.

Actors : Kôichi Satô, Fumiyo Kohinata, Kôji Yakusho, Yô Ôizumi,
Directors : Kôki Mitani,

After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honno-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. ...

Actors : Mickey Koga, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Kentarô Shimazu, Masanori Mimoto,
Directors : Takanori Tsujimoto,

Toramaru, lord of integrated martial arts Mugen-ga-ryu, ends his training journey and visits his master, Gensai. "You have to duel with every martial arts master and win, in order to obtain...

Actors : Seishirô Katô, Tetsuya Bessho, Kappei Yamaguchi, Tomoyo Harada,
Directors : Masaya Fujimori,

A Tyrannosaurus named Heart was brought up by a herbivorous dinosaur. Heart grew up being scared of other dinosaurs. One day, Heart meets a baby Ankylosaurus and he names the Ankylosaurus "...

Actors : Hiroya Shimizu, Mizuki Itagaki, Ryôko Fujino, Anna Ishii,
Directors : Izuru Narushima,

A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death; if he was killed by someone or committed suicide.

Actors : Kentez Asaka, Satomi Ishihara, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Mina Fujii,
Directors : Hideo Nakata,

A battle between a man who can control people with a stare, and the only man he cannot control. When their fate cross, the survival battle begins. The two men with inevitable fate, who will survive ?