Release Date: 2015-02-20

Overview: A Japanese girl struggling to fit in at her new school teams up with a reclusive neighbor to find out what happened to an upperclassman who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Rating: 7.339 (155 votes)

Release Date: 1994-02-01

Overview: When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

Rating: 7.4 (184 votes)

Release Date: 1998-03-14

Overview: In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in the first place.

Rating: 7.311 (103 votes)

Release Date: 2016-09-17

Overview: A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.

Rating: 6.9 (74 votes)

Release Date: 2013-06-01

Overview: Neurosurgeon Koichi uses an experimental technique to enter the brain of his beloved Atsumi, who is in a coma after attempting suicide. In his quest, Koichi drifts steadily further into the sweltering marshes of the spirit. It is soon no longer clear what is real and what is not.

Rating: 6.2 (65 votes)

Release Date: 1996-09-14

Overview: The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

Rating: 7.5 (90 votes)

Release Date: 1985-08-03

Overview: An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland China.

Rating: 7.4 (99 votes)

Release Date: 2009-10-29

Overview: Young Jin-hee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jin-hee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip.

Rating: 7.3 (69 votes)

Release Date: 2006-10-28

Overview: Tomoya Kishida is working as a staffer in a television studio when he hears about the death of his close friend, Aoi Sato. This sparks his recollection of the events in life they shared from meeting at a record store, shooting a short film as part of their university film club, to saying their last goodbyes. Though in love with each other, neither had the courage to confess their feelings before it was too late.

Rating: 7.6 (25 votes)

Release Date: 1998-12-30

Overview: The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.

Rating: 6.6 (103 votes)

Release Date: 2012-01-28

Overview: A man's body is found under the statue of a winged kirin in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls unconscious while he is attempting to run away. Yashima's lover Kaori comes from Fukushima and tells detectives that he is absolutely not a criminal. Meanwhile, Detective Kyoichiro Kaga's (Hiroshi Abe) investigates and uncovers a point of contact between the dead body and Yashima. A hidden fact of the victim is revealed which even his children did not know about...

Rating: 6.3 (35 votes)

Release Date: 1996-06-15

Overview: Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the walls of the city, they seek to find a picnic spot with the best vantage point to view the final event.

Rating: 6.7 (68 votes)

Release Date: 2006-07-22

Overview: Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery.

Rating: 6.4 (29 votes)

Release Date: 2001-10-06

Overview: Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

Rating: 7.4 (247 votes)

Release Date: 2006-10-21

Overview: Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.

Rating: 7.4 (383 votes)

Release Date: 2020-11-17

Overview: As her friends prep for a Life Day holiday celebration, Rey journeys with BB-8 on a quest to gain a deeper knowledge of the Force at a mysterious Jedi Temple. There, she embarks on a cross-timeline adventure through beloved moments in Star Wars history, coming into contact with iconic heroes and villains from all eras of the saga. But will she make it back in time for the Life Day feast?

Rating: 6.569 (347 votes)

Release Date: 2008-09-13

Overview: Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

Rating: 7.8 (861 votes)

Release Date: 1975-06-10

Overview: In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

Rating: 7.503 (923 votes)

Release Date: 2002-02-15

Overview: John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.

Rating: 7.1 (2467 votes)

Release Date: 2003-04-25

Overview: Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

Rating: 7.179 (4036 votes)