Release Date: 2002-10-12

Overview: Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.

Rating: 7.577 (337 votes)

Release Date: 1924-12-22

Overview: After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.

Rating: 7.579 (95 votes)

Release Date: 1995-02-11

Overview: While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

Rating: 5.7 (78 votes)

Release Date: 2000-05-18

Overview: In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.

Rating: 7.7 (94 votes)

Release Date: 1917-01-29

Overview: Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

Rating: 7.027 (75 votes)

Release Date: 2005-09-02

Overview: Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.

Rating: 6.1 (82 votes)

Release Date: 2018-05-25

Overview: Akira Tachibana is a soft-spoken high school student who used to be a part of the track and field club. Working part-time at a restaurant, she finds herself inexplicably falling in love with her manager, a divorced 45-year-old man.

Rating: 7.481 (52 votes)

Release Date: 1991-05-25

Overview: The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.

Rating: 7.1 (142 votes)

Release Date: 2008-09-10

Overview: Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin Dancing. One night, after a glorious dance competition, they have a car accident and see their lives turn upside down. Rumba or how optimism and humour can overcome fatality!

Rating: 5.951 (41 votes)

Release Date: 1921-02-21

Overview: A bank teller who becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.

Rating: 6.554 (129 votes)

Release Date: 2019-02-14

Overview: Two best friends who wind up in the friend zone navigate a series of failed relationships through the years — until sparks finally fly.

Rating: 7.2 (44 votes)

Release Date: 2010-09-24

Overview: To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.

Rating: 6.486 (37 votes)

Release Date: 1989-12-01

Overview: A young man and his friend move to Taiwan, believing it to be a land of possibilities, but it's not long before they're accused of being spies.

Rating: 8.1 (12 votes)

Release Date: 1989-10-12

Overview: Based on a true story about great robbery of the tombstone treasure in 1938, which marked the end of the King dynasty in China.

Rating: 7 (1 votes)

Release Date: 1993-09-10

Overview: Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.

Rating: 7.515 (652 votes)

Release Date: 2010-11-05

Overview: The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.

Rating: 6.5 (157 votes)

Release Date: 1997-10-30

Overview: Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.

Rating: 7.7 (722 votes)

Release Date: 2007-12-01

Overview: The story starts following an incident: a young girl jumps from the top of a building. The image provokes a certain dread, as the girl appears to have been a corpse even before she jumped. The case is dismissed, yet more and more of these suicides occur, and all from the same building. Thus began the rumour, that a ghost inhabited the rooftop of the building.

Rating: 6.741 (147 votes)

Release Date: 1996-07-27

Overview: Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.

Rating: 6.876 (322 votes)

Release Date: 1995-03-25

Overview: Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to be called Itsuki Fujii.

Rating: 7.8 (224 votes)