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 : Steve Blum, Rie Kugimiya, Shin'ichirô Miki, Wendee Lee,
Directors : Seiji Mizushima,

With Earth now left in ruins following the "Nano Hazard," most of humanity has abandoned the planet they once called home along with their physical bodies and rebuilt their digitalized ...

Actors : Kirk Geiger, Asami, Orson Chaplin, David Sakurai,
Directors : Kurando Mitsutake,

When a mysterious loner and Karate master Kenji's little sister goes missing in Los Angeles, whoever stands in his way of finding her will face the wrath of a lethal KARATE KILL!

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Saori Hayami, Takaya Hashi, Tesshô Genda, Daiki Hamano,
Directors : Yutaka Uemura,

Tanya Degurechaff continues her misadventures, avoiding death and being sent to hell, while battling the forces of the Republic Army.