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1. Your Name. (2016)
PG | 106 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person.
Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita, Aoi Yûki
Votes: 322,908 | Gross: $5.02M
2. Babel (I) (2006)
R | 143 min | Drama
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Mohamed Akhzam
Votes: 317,561 | Gross: $34.30M
3. My Dress-Up Darling (2022)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Romance
A quiet loner and the popular girl at school find common ground, making their cosplay dreams come true.
Stars: Hina Suguta, Shoya Ishige, AmaLee, Paul Dateh
Votes: 14,453
4. Antiporno (2016)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Horror
Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Ami Tomite, Mariko Tsutsui, Fujiko, Sayaka Kotani
Votes: 5,035
5. Departures (2008)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama
Soon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo learns that his orchestra is disbanding. He moves back to his hometown with his wife, where he answers an ad for what Daigo thinks is a travel agency but is, in actuality, a mortuary.
Director: Yôjirô Takita | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Votes: 55,094 | Gross: $1.50M
6. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
TV-PG | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A high-school girl named Makoto acquires the power to travel back in time, and decides to use it for her own personal benefits. Little does she know that she is affecting the lives of others just as much as she is her own.
Director: Mamoru Hosoda | Stars: Riisa Naka, Takuya Ishida, Mitsutaka Itakura, Ayami Kakiuchi
Votes: 71,073
7. Tag (2015)
85 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
A girl's life cascades into chaos as everyone around her suffers a gruesome fate while she becomes less certain of who she is and her once-once normal life.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Reina Triendl, Mariko Shinoda, Erina Mano, Yuki Sakurai
Votes: 8,141
8. Bocchi the Rock! (2022)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Hitori "Bocchi-chan" Gotoh is a lonely high school girl whose heart lies in her guitar. One day, she meets Nijika Ijichi and joins 'Kessoku Band'. After that, her daily life starts to change little by little.
Stars: Yoshino Aoyama, Sayumi Suzushiro, Saku Mizuno, Ikumi Hasegawa
Votes: 4,644
9. Hyouka (2012)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Hyouka centers on Oreki Hotarou and his life in the Classic Literature Club. His mundane world is flipped upside down as they begin to solve various mysteries.
Stars: Yûichi Nakamura, Satomi Satô, Adam Gibbs, Madeleine Morris
Votes: 6,183
10. The Fable (2019)
123 min | Action, Comedy
Trained as a ruthless assassin since childhood, a mob hitman is ordered to become a normal law-abiding citizen.
Director: Kan Eguchi | Stars: Jun'ichi Okada, Fumino Kimura, Mizuki Yamamoto, Sôta Fukushi
Votes: 2,844
11. Helter Skelter (2012)
Unrated | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Top star Lilico undergoes multiple cosmetic surgeries to her entire body. As her surgeries show side effect.
Director: Mika Ninagawa | Stars: Erika Sawajiri, Nao Ômori, Shinobu Terajima, Gô Ayano
Votes: 3,353
12. Baby Assassins (2021)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Chisato and Mahiro are two high school girls who are about to graduate. They also happen to both be highly skilled assassins. When the organization they work for orders them to share a room, the relationship between turns sour.
Director: Yugo Sakamoto | Stars: Akari Takaishi, Saori Izawa, Mone Akitani, Yukina Fukushima
Votes: 1,082
13. Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead (2011)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
A group of teenagers go camping in the woods where they find themselves in deep trouble, when poop covered zombies that are controlled by parasites come out to attack them.
Director: Noboru Iguchi | Stars: Arisa Nakamura, Mayu Sugano, Asana Mamoru, Yûki
Votes: 2,423
14. K-On! (2009–2010)
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
K-ON is about 5 high school girls who become friends through the Light Music Club. Yui the lead guitarist, Tsumugi the keyboardist, Mio the bassist, Azusa the rhythm guitarist, and Ritsu the drummer. K-ON is the story of 5 aspiring musicians and their journey through high school together.
Stars: Aki Toyosaki, Yôko Hikasa, Satomi Satô, Minako Kotobuki
Votes: 4,524
15. Sweet Bean (2015)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Miki Mizuno
Votes: 12,791 | Gross: $0.12M
16. As the Gods Will (2014)
TV-MA | 117 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of high school students are forced to play a game of death without knowing who, why or how.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Shôta Sometani, Nijirô Murakami, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nao Ômori
Votes: 8,116
17. Tokyo Revengers (2021)
TV-14 | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A middle-aged loser travels in time to his school years, and, in order to save the love of his life from future doom, he must become the leader of a dreaded school gang.
Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa | Stars: Takumi Kitamura, Yuki Yamada, Yôsuke Sugino, Keita Arai
Votes: 1,927
18. Mob Psycho 100 (2018)
24 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A psychic middle school boy tries to live a normal life and keep his growing powers under control, even though he constantly gets into trouble.
Stars: Kasumi Yamaya, Ayumu Mochizuki, Tatsuomi Hamada, Takayuki Suzuki
Votes: 617 | Gross: $0.12M
19. I Am a Hero (2015)
TV-MA | 126 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A manga artist assistant is surprised by a zombie apocalypse.
Director: Shinsuke Sato | Stars: Yô Ôizumi, Kasumi Arimura, Masami Nagasawa, Hisashi Yoshizawa
Votes: 7,825
20. The World of Kanako (2014)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
As former detective Akikazu searches for his missing daughter, Kanako, he soon learns she has a mysterious secret life.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Nana Komatsu, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroya Shimizu
Votes: 5,913 | Gross: $0.02M
21. Kakegurui (2018–2019)
24 min | Drama, Thriller
A gambling prodigy comes to an elite school run by games and turns the order upside down.
Stars: Minami Hamabe, Aoi Morikawa, Mahiro Takasugi, Taishi Nakagawa
Votes: 1,280
22. Lesson of the Evil (2012)
Unrated | 129 min | Horror, Thriller
A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Takehiro Hira, Hideaki Itô, Shôta Sometani
Votes: 6,811
23. Fukushima 50 (2020)
TV-PG | 122 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu | Stars: Ken Watanabe, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Riho Yoshioka, Takumi Saitô
Votes: 3,387
24. Orange (2015)
139 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A girl mysteriously receives advice from her future self and as a result her group of friends, along with a newly arrived, troubled classmate, learn how to be better friends and a better community.
Director: Kôjirô Hashimoto | Stars: Tao Tsuchiya, Kento Yamazaki, Ryô Ryûsei, Hirona Yamazaki
Votes: 1,983
25. Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo (2013–2015)
TV-14 | 49 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Kotoko Aihara, a high school girl who isn't that smart has to follow her father's decision after her father decides to live temporarily with his friend. She is surprised to learn that the boy who she falls in love with lives there as well.
Stars: Honoka Miki, Yûki Furukawa, Tomomi Nishimura, Yôji Tanaka
Votes: 1,641
26. Kamikaze Girls (2004)
102 min | Comedy
Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima | Stars: Kyôko Fukada, Anna Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Sadao Abe
Votes: 8,120
27. Signal 100 (2019)
88 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A group of high school students are forced into a game where they are hypnotized to commit suicide on an unknown command. Where no one is safe from a sudden death, how can they avoid their fates?
Director: Lisa Takeba | Stars: Kanna Hashimoto, Yûta Koseki, Toshiki Seto, Shôma Kai
Votes: 371
28. Flying Colors (2015)
117 min | Comedy, Drama
Fact-based tale of a slacker high-school girl, years behind in her studies, who decides to start working hard and pass the entrance exams to a prestigious university in Japan.
Director: Nobuhiro Doi | Stars: Kasumi Arimura, Nanami Abe, Morio Agata, Atsushi Itô
Votes: 4,026
29. Kyûketsu Shôjo tai Shôjo Furanken (2009)
TV-MA | 84 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A reconstructed girl is created from the pieces of a vampire girl's mini-butchery. Slaughter abounds as both of them pursue the same boy.
Directors: Yoshihiro Nishimura, Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Stars: Yukie Kawamura, Takumi Saitô, Eri Otoguro, Sayaka Kametani
Votes: 3,920
30. Missing (2021)
124 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Depressed and in debt, Satoshi tells his young daughter that he's going to find an infamous serial killer and collect a reward. However, when Satoshi disappears without a trace, she starts to fear the worse and begins searching for him.
Director: Shinzô Katayama | Stars: Jirô Satô, Aoi Itô, Hiroya Shimizu, Misato Morita
Votes: 994
31. Hana and Alice (2004)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When two best friends develop a crush on the same boy, they develop a plan to trick him into dating them.
Director: Shunji Iwai | Stars: Anne Suzuki, Yû Aoi, Tomohiro Kaku, Sei Hiraizumi
Votes: 4,934
32. High-Kick Girl! (2009)
Not Rated | 81 min | Action
Young girl Kei Tsuchiya(played by Rina Takeda)is a very talented karate pupil, trained by her sensei Yoshiaki Matsumura(played by Tatsuya Naka). But Kei Tsuchiya is very arrogant and spends... See full summary »
Director: Fuyuhiko Nishi | Stars: Rina Takeda, Tatsuya Naka, Ryûki Takahashi, Kyôji Amano
Votes: 921
33. Perfect World (2018)
102 min | Drama, Romance
Kawana Tsugumi works at an interior design company. She happens to meet her first love Ayukawa Itsuki from her high school days. He is now an architect and in a wheelchair because of an accident.
Director: Kenji Shibayama | Stars: Hana Sugisaki, Takanori Iwata, Sei Ashina, Aya Ohmasa
Votes: 202
34. Heroine Disqualified (2015)
112 min | Comedy, Romance
Hatori is in love with her childhood friend Rita, but when Rita gets himself a girlfriend Hatoris world turns upside down.
Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa | Stars: Mirei Kiritani, Kento Yamazaki, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Towa Araki
Votes: 1,548
35. Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (2015 TV Movie)
M | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Friends grow apart after a tragic accident claims one of their number. Years later, the dead girl appears to them to ask for their help in crossing over to the afterlife.
Director: Masaki Nishiura | Stars: Minami Hamabe, Marie Iitoyo, Airi Matsui, Nijirô Murakami
Votes: 421
36. Everyone Is Psychic! (2013– )
29 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
It happens that many inhabitants of Oita Prefecture in southern Japan have extrasensory powers. One student can read others' minds. he is not alone, however, and soon bands with others, who... See full summary »
Stars: Shôta Sometani, Kaho, Erina Mano, Makita Sports
Votes: 280
37. Mutant Girls Squad (2010)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
After a high-school girl discovers that she descends from a long line of mutants, she joins other mutants to battle anti-mutants. Ordinary humans that can't run fast get caught in the slaughter.
Directors: Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Tak Sakaguchi | Stars: Tak Sakaguchi, Asami, Naoto Takenaka, Yoshihiro Nishimura
Votes: 2,035
38. River's Edge (2018)
TV-MA | 118 min | Crime, Drama
High schooler Haruna befriends loner Yamada, then is drawn into the tangled relationship between him, a model and the girl who loves him unreasonably.
Director: Isao Yukisada | Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Ryô Yoshizawa, Aoi Morikawa, Shûhei Uesugi
Votes: 1,100
39. Your Lie in April (2016)
TV-14 | 122 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A piano prodigy who lost his ability to play after suffering a traumatic event in his childhood is forced back into the spotlight by an eccentric girl with a secret of her own.
Director: Takehiko Shinjô | Stars: Kento Yamazaki, Suzu Hirose, Anna Ishii, Taishi Nakagawa
Votes: 1,727
40. Survival Family (2016)
117 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
After a sudden worldwide power cut, a Tokyo family are caught up in the chaos as millions traverse the country in search of electricity.
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi | Stars: Fumiyo Kohinata, Eri Fukatsu, Yuki Izumisawa, Wakana Aoi
Votes: 3,030
41. My Rainy Days (2009)
119 min | Drama, Romance
Seventeen year old high school student Rio Ozawa is always the center of attention due to her beauty. Yet Rio has never cared about anyone but herself due to her traumatic past. Her friends... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Kanchiku | Stars: Nozomi Sasaki, Shôsuke Tanihara, Hikaru Yamamoto, Mitsuki Ôishi
Votes: 2,391
42. The Great War of Archimedes (2019)
130 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
In 1933, a young naval officer and math prodigy uncovers a conspiracy regarding the construction of Japanese warships for the ongoing World War 2.
Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Minami Hamabe, Jun Kunimura, Masaki Suda, Min Tanaka
Votes: 1,212
43. Adrift in Tokyo (2007)
101 min | Comedy
Takemura has no friends and no family. He's a law student but he doesn't have any particular ambitions. A thug offers to pay Takemura's considerable gambling debt if the student accompanies him on a trip across Tokyo.
Director: Satoshi Miki | Stars: Joe Odagiri, Tomokazu Miura, Kyôko Koizumi, Yuriko Yoshitaka
Votes: 3,101
44. Nisekoi: False Love (2018)
117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two children of rival gangster families are betrothed to each other to ensure a truce. They dislike each other in the beginning, but over time they start to like each other.
Director: Hayato Kawai | Stars: Kento Nakajima, Marika Matsumoto, Ayami Nakajô, Shin Takuma
Votes: 425
45. From Today, It's My Turn: The Movie (2020)
114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Three years after the event of the series, Takashi Mitsuhashi and Shinji Ito face the new enemies.
Director: Yûichi Fukuda | Stars: Kento Kaku, Kentarô Itô, Nana Seino, Kanna Hashimoto
Votes: 603
46. My Little Monster (2018)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Haru is a trouble maker absentee. Shizuku is a frigid study geek. They may be a weird combination, but Haru is eager to cling to Shizuku.
Director: Shô Tsukikawa | Stars: Masaki Suda, Tao Tsuchiya, Yûki Furukawa, Minami Hamabe
Votes: 803
47. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (2019)
113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A high school girl and boy are part of the student council at a pricey school. They have a crush on one another, but have kept it under wraps so far. With awareness and an inkling of what ... See full summary »
Director: Hayato Kawai | Stars: Shô Hirano, Kanna Hashimoto, Hayato Sano, Natsumi Ikema
Votes: 469
48. School-Live! (2015– )
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A young girl pretends to live a normal school life with her friends, unable to perceive what is truly happening around her.
Stars: Inori Minase, Ari Ozawa, Mao Ichimichi, Rie Takahashi
Votes: 1,097
49. Wolf Girl and Black Prince (2016)
116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Erika captured a photo of a handsome guy and told her friends that he is her boyfriend. Upon finding this out, the boy proposed to go with her pretense as long as she acts as his pet dog.
Director: Ryûichi Hiroki | Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Kento Yamazaki, Megumi Abe, Riria Baba
Votes: 1,401
50. Red Post on Escher Street (2020)
148 min | Comedy, Drama
It follows a filmmaker who holds auditions for his next project. Several of the actors who fail to win roles participate as extras.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Mala Morgan, Garrett Cassell, Sen Fujimaru, Tomoko Fujita
Votes: 973