japanese movies/series
since im studying japanese i use them to practice listening. Feel free to recommend!
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Su-ki-da
Hiroshi Ishikawa · 2006
Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their love still remains.
Even if This Love Disappears from the World Tonight
Takahiro Miki · 2022
Maori agrees to date smitten classmate Toru on the condition that they don't fall in love. After all, she can only hold on to memories for 24 hours.
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Shunji Iwai · 2001
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.
20th Century Nostalgia
Masato Hara · 1997
A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time, taking over his body to infiltrate and study humanity in order to find the reasons why our civilization is doomed to future destruction. He replicates the spirit of another alien in a girl that he meets, and together they use their video cameras to document modern urban Japanese society.
The Asadas!
Ryota Nakano · 2020
Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
Nobuhiro Doi · 2021
Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years.
Blue
Hiroshi Ando
Watched
Linda Linda Linda
Nobuhiro Yamashita · 2005
La historia comienza con el inminente concurso que se celebra en el instituto Shibazaki y con la separación de la banda. Su cofundadora, Kei, decide pedir a la estudiante de intercambio coreana, Son, que sea la vocalista del grupo. El problema es que Son no se sabe las canciones y apenas habla japonés y sólo quedan tres días para el concurso.
My Broken Mariko
Yuki Tanada · 2022
Shiino one day finds out that her best friend Mariko has committed suicide. After snatching Mariko's urn from her abusive father, Shiino heads to Marigaoka Cape, a place Mariko always wanted to go.
Ju-on: The Grudge
Takashi Shimizu · 2002
When social worker Rika is sent to check on a traumatized old lady whose family have moved in at the site of the notorious Saeki family murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that is transmitted via its victims further and further from its original source.
As the Gods Will
Takashi Miike · 2014
High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.
Orange
Kojiro Hashimoto · 2015
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.
No Longer Heroine
Tsutomu Hanabusa · 2015
Hatori y Rita han sido amigos de la infancia, y apesar de que Rita sea un casanova, Hatori siempre entiende, por que al parecer ella opina que es la protagonista de esta historia shojo. Pero hay un problema. Rita decide andar con Adachi, una chica de bajo perfil que al parecer tiene demasiadas cualidades para ser protagonista shojo. Hatori se empieza a cuestionar si esta historia es para ella, y decidida ante todo, no se rendira a ser un personaje secundario y asi, quedarse con su amor de toda la vida, Rita. Mientras tanto, el estudiante masculino más popular, Kosuke Hiromitsu se interesa por Hatori.
12 Suicidal Teens
Yukihiko Tsutsumi · 2019
Twelve boys and girls gather at an abandoned hospital to die for various different reasons. There, they find the body of a dead boy. The twelve boys and girl attempt to find the person who killed the boy. During their search, the reasons why they want to die are revealed.
Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots
Ryûhei Yoshino · 2021
Horigai spends her boring days waiting to graduate from college. As she hangs out with friends, she begins to realize the violence and sorrow behind their ordinary lives.
The Last 10 Years
Michihito Fujii · 2022
Twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love – until she meets a man named Kazuto Manabe at a school reunion.
Call Me Chihiro
Rikiya Imaizumi · 2023
An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.
From Me to You
Naoto Kumazawa · 2010
Sawako tiene un aire sombrío y por eso sus compañeros de clase la apodan «Sadako». Debido a esto, no consigue hacer amigos. Hasta que Shota Kazehaya, un extrovertido compañero de clase, empieza a hablar con ella y su vida cambia totalmente. Con la ayuda de Kazehaya, comienza a relacionarse con más gente y se hace amiga de Chizuru Yoshida y Ayane Yano.
From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke
· 2023
With her gloomy demeanor, Sawako has a hard time fitting in. But when an outgoing classmate approaches her, life takes a turn for the better.
Perfect Days
Wim Wenders · 2023
Hirayama parece totalmente satisfecho con su sencilla vida de limpiador de retretes en Tokio. Fuera de su estructurada rutina diaria, disfruta de su pasión por la música y los libros. Le encantan los árboles y les hace fotos. Una serie de encuentros inesperados revelan poco a poco más de su pasado.
Godzilla Minus One
Takashi Yamazaki · 2023
In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.
Drawing Closer
Takahiro Miki · 2024
With only a year left to live, 17-year-old Akito finds new meaning in life by bringing joy to a terminally ill girl who has just six months remaining.
Alice in Borderland
Haro Aso · 2020
Un aficionado a los videojuegos y sus dos amigos se ven atrapados en una versión paralela de Tokio, donde deben competir en sádicos juegos para sobrevivir.
Beyond Goodbye
Hiroshi Kurosaki · 2024
Saeko pierde a su prometido en un accidente y empieza a tener una conexión inexplicable con un extraño... y es que en él viven el corazón y los recuerdos del amor de su vida.
Love Letter
Shunji Iwai · 1995
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 also be called Itsuki Fujii.
First Love
· 2022
Deux jeunes ados tombent amoureux pour la première fois, mais à l'âge adulte, le passé revient les hanter.
My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday
Takahiro Miki · 2016
Takatoshi Minamiyama majors in art at an university in Kyoto. On the train to the school, he sees Emi Fukuju and falls in love with her at first sight. Gathering up all his courage, he speaks to her. They begin to date and enjoy happy days together, but Emi reveals her secret to him.
Noriko's Dinner Table
Sion Sono · 2005
A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
Battle Royale II: Requiem
Kenta Fukasaku · 2003
It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.
Battle Royale
Kinji Fukasaku · 2000
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Suicide Club
Sion Sono · 2001
When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.
18×2 Beyond Youthful Days
Michihito Fujii · 2024
No fundo do poço depois de perder o emprego e a empresa que ele próprio criou, um homem de 36 anos viaja sozinho ao Japão para tentar reencontrar um amor do passado.
