
japonese moviesଓ
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Crime

Goth
Gen Takahashi · 2008
Itsuki and Yoru share a passion for the dark and death, making them the perfect choice to track down a serial killer who is roaming the streets.
Drama

One Million Yen Girl
Yuki Tanada · 2008
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.

Helter Skelter
Mika Ninagawa · 2012
Adaptación de un popular manga sobre una joven estrella que llegará a incrementar su paso por la cirugía plástica para mantener su imagen.

Tokyo Trash Baby
Ryuichi Hiroki · 2000
Miyuki doesn't need to stalk the man she's crazy about, because he lives one floor down. Rather then approach him, she digs through his trash.

Love & Pop
Hideaki Anno · 1998
Baseado num romance de Ryu Murakami, o diretor Hideaki Anno abordou o tema do "namoro por ajuda",uma realidade das colegiais de Tóquio no final dos anos noventa. O filme é único na medida em que foi filmado com uma câmera de vídeo digital e assemelha-se muito às sensações das colegiais que corriam pelas ruas de Shibuya e Harajuku, prenunciando a chegada do "próximo século" ao mundo de Anno. As novas atrizes da época, incluindo Yukie Nakama e o popular ator Tadanobu Asano, participaram no filme. Hiromi é uma adolescente do mundo novo, Ela é conhecida como uma "kogal". Um dia antes das férias de verão, vai a Shibuya com as amigas Chisa, Nao e Chieko para comprar uma roupa de banho. No entanto, está tão desesperada por um anel de topázio que encontrou lá que pede a ajuda das outras três para conseguir o dinheiro para comprá-lo até à hora de fechamento da loja. Ela decide conseguir o dinheiro por meio dos encontros, No entanto, as experiências são todas terríveis.

Blue Spring
Toshiaki Toyoda · 2001
Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.

Himizu
Sion Sono · 2011
After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
Comedy

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.

Love Exposure
Sion Sono · 2009
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.

Kamikaze Girls
Tetsuya Nakashima · 2004
Momoko (Kyoko Fukada) es una joven solitaria que vive en su propio mundo construido sobre la época rococó francesa y que tiene una visión muy particular de las cosas. Pero su mundo de disfraces y máscaras pronto se ve trastocado por la llegada de Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya), una gamberra motorizada que, al contrario de ella, prefiere el estilo norteamericano y necesita estar rodeada de gente en todo momento. Para ello se inventa una leyenda urbana que la hará sentir importante y gracias a la cual juntará una pandilla propia con Momoko. A partir de ese momento ambas iniciarán una inseparable amistad que las hará ver el mundo de forma diferente. Adaptación de una novela de Novala Takemoto (autor de las novelas Lolita).
Fantasy

Gemini
Shinya Tsukamoto · 1999
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.

Picnic
Shunji Iwai · 1996
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.
Horror

House
Nobuhiko Obayashi · 1977
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

Onibaba
Kaneto Shindō · 1964
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

Demons
Toshio Matsumoto · 1971
Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.
Romance

Color Me True
Hideki Takeuchi · 2018
Kenji is a young aspiring movie director. He falls in love with Princess Miyuki, who came from a black‐and‐white movie.

Parasite in Love
Kensaku Kakimoto · 2021
A man named Kengo Kosaka is germaphobe, Due to his disorder, he is also a lonely young man. Meanwhile, high school student Hijiri Sanagi has Ommatophobia. Both Kengo Kosaka and Hijiri Sanagi do not expect to find love with another person.

Floating Clouds
Mikio Naruse · 1955
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
Thriller

Cure
Kiyoshi Kurosawa · 1997
A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.








