Best Japanese movies of 2010s

Actors : Ken Mitsuishi, Tatsuo Nadaka, Toshiyuki Nishida, Takeshi Kitano,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a renowned fixer whose influence extends into Japan. A relatively minor incident causes tensions to rise between Chang Enterprises and the faraway powerful Hanabishi. The growing conflict gets out of hand and ignites a ferocious power struggle...

Actors : Mamoru Miyano, Yôko Hikasa, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Tamio Ôki,
Directors : Ryôtarô Makihara,

A humanoid robot is asked to replace Hal, who was killed in a terrible accident, in order help Hal's girlfriend move on in life, but struggles to understand the real Hal's past and the meaning of being alive.

Actors : Jun Kunimura, Ayumi Itô, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Gô Ayano,
Directors : Shûichi Okita,

Were people's lives changed by having known Yonosuke?

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Isao Hashizume, Takako Matsu, Haru Kuroki, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Tôma Ikuta, Manatsu Hayashi, 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 : Hana Sugisaki, Jun Kunimura, Taiga, Chizuru Ikewaki,

Five short 'film' stories of how 5 different directors imagine Japan to be in 10 years from now.

Actors : Jyo Kairi, Rihito Itagaki, Minami Hamabe, Miyu Andô,
Directors : Yûichirô Hirakawa,

A group of the smartest kids at a seemingly perfect orphanage uncover its dark secret, and set in motion a dangerous and desperate escape plan.

Actors : Tomoya Nagase, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Kenta Kiritani, Aoi Morikawa,
Directors : Kankurô Kudô,

The official trailer for TOO YOUNG TO DIE!, a supernatural comedy about an unlucky high school student who dies in a bus crash during a school trip only to be press-ganged into a demonic ...

Actors : Mayuko Iwasa, Minehiro Kinomoto, Nao Nagasawa, Mao Ichimichi,
Directors : Koichi Sakamoto,

Marking the 75th anniversary of his birth, Shotaro Ishinomori's classic spy heroine manga "009-1" has been adapted into a live-action motion picture for the first time ever.

Actors : Hiroshi Kamiya, Takahiro Sakurai, Maaya Sakamoto, Yui Horie,

In the spring of his second year of high school, Koyomi Araragi met the beautiful vampire Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade. Koyomi saved Kiss-shot, who was on the verge of death ...