Best Japanese movies of 2021

Actors : Reika Kirishima, Tôko Miura, Yoo-rim Park, Hidetoshi Nishijima,
Directors : Ryûsuke Hamaguchi,

Yusuke Kafuku is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day she disappears.

Actors : Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Fusako Urabe, Ayumu Nakajima, Katsuki Mori, Kotone Furukawa,
Directors : Ryûsuke Hamaguchi,

An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.

Actors : Honami Satô, Kiko Mizuhara, Shunsuke Tanaka, Shinya Niiro,
Directors : Ryuichi Hiroki,

Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.

Actors : Yuki Kaji, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Tetsu Inada, Daiki Yamashita,
Directors : Kenji Nagasaki,

When a cult of terrorists ruins a city by releasing a toxin that causes people's abilities to spiral out of control, Japan's greatest heroes spread around the world in an attempt to track down the mastermind and put him to justice.

Actors : Kenjirô Tsuda, Yutaka Matsushige, Mirai Moriyama, Avu-chan,
Directors : Masaaki Yuasa,

A fictionalized depiction of the life of Inu-oh ("King Dog"), a 14th-century Japanese performer of music drama at the time of its transition from the folk art of sarugaku ("monkey music") into the formalized traditions of Noh and kyôgen.

Actors : Melinda Antaramian, Takeru Satoh, Munetaka Aoki, Yû Aoi, Shin'nosuke Abe, Kasumi Arimura,
Directors : Keishi Ohtomo,

Kenshin's past catches up to him causing the destruction of Akabeko Restaurant, which was Kenshin's favorite place to eat. There, he finds a note with the word "Junchu" on it.

Actors : Lucien Dodge, Amber Lee Connors, Edward Bosco, Gô Ayano,
Directors : Takashi Shimizu,

Truth and illusion blurs when a homeless amnesiac awakens from an experimental medical procedure with the ability to see people's innermost traumas.

Actors : Akaji Maro, Bambi Naka, Ikuyo Kuroda, Masahiro Takashima,
Directors : Philippe McKie,

A vibrant and intoxicating look into Japanese dance and subculture communities.

Actors : James Belcher, Shelley Calene-Black, Greg Ayres, Hideaki Sorachi, Rie Kugimiya, Clint Bickham, Tomokazu Sugita, Daisuke Sakaguchi,
Directors : Chizuru Miyawaki,

The concluding movie to the Gintama anime series.

Actors : Victoria Grace, Keone Young, Miyavi, Mamoru Miyano, Fred Mancuso, Matthew Yang King, Simu Liu,
Directors : Kyohei Ishiguro,

Izo, a Ronin, and Raiden, an orc, work to bring a young elf girl and the wand she carries to the land of the elves in the north.

Actors : Rich Ting, Masahiro Higashide, Takehiro Hira, Mirai Moriyama, Anne Yatco,
Directors : Yoshihiro Mori,

Prodded by a friend request, a forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams.

Actors : Sora Amamiya, Chris Cason, Brian Timothy Anderson, Zach Aguilar,
Directors : Takayuki Hamana,

Meliodas and his friends jump back into action when the new era of peace is threatened by a powerful magical alliance that could spell the end for all.

Actors : Nicole Fong, Feodor Chin, Keiko Agena, Mugi Kadowaki,
Directors : Gekidan Hitori,

Before he hit it big, Takeshi Kitano got his start apprenticing with comedy legend Fukami of Asakusa. But as his star rises, his mentor's declines.

Actors : Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Haruka Tomatsu, Inori Minase, Bryce Papenbrook, Megumi Hayashibara, Rina Hidaka, David W. Collins, Hiroaki Hirata,
Directors : Ayako Kawano,

High school student Asuna struggles to survive with a young swordsman after its revealed that she is trapped inside the game of Sword Art Online, where if your HP drops to zero, your brain will be destroyed in real life.

Actors : Kaya Kiyohara, Naohito Fujiki, Kenta Hamano, Taizô Harada,
Directors : Takahiro Miki,

An inventor of robotics technology is robbed by his girlfriend and business partner and sent to the future via cryogenic sleep. But when he awakes 30 years later, he is assisted by a humanoid robot originally his own creation.