A Letter to Momo (2011)
Rating: ★★★½
Anime/Girl Befriends Goblins
Director: Hiroyuki Okiura
Category: Fantasy
A.li.ce (1999)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Dystopian Future/Time Travel
Director: Kenichi Maejima
Category: Science Fiction
A Page of Madness (1926)
Rating: ★★½
Madness/Surrealism
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Actors: Masuo Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa, Eiko Minami, Misao Seki
Category: Fantasy
After Life (1998)
Rating: ★★★★
The Afterlife
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Actors: Susumu Terajima, Arata, Taketoshi Naito, Erika Oda, …
Category: Fantasy
Akira (1988)
Rating: ★★★★★
Anime/Psychic Powers Amok
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Category: Science Fiction
Alakazam the Great (1961)
Rating: ★★★
Mischievous Monkey’s Adventures/Animation
Director: Osamu Tezuka, Taiji Yabushita
Actors: Frankie Avalon, Dodie Stevens, Jonathan Winters, Arnold Stang, …
Category: Fantasy
Angel Dust (1994)
Rating: ★★★½
Japanese Serial Killer Thriller
Director: Sogo Ishii
Category: Horror
Anthem of the Heart (2015)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Girl Cursed With Being Unable to Speak
Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai
Category: Fantasy
Apartment 1303 (2007)
Rating: ★★
Japanese Ghost Story
Director: Ataru Oikawa
Actors: Noriko Nakagoshi, Arata Furata, Eriko Hatsuni, Naoko Otani, …
Category: Horror
Appleseed (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Future Anti-Terrorist Squad
Director: Katsuyoshi Katayama
Category: Science Fiction
Appleseed (2004)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/Future Anti-Terrorist Squad
Director: Shinji Aramaki
Category: Science Fiction
Appleseed Alpha (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Post-Holocaust Cyborg Action
Director: Shinji Aramaki
Actors: Luci Christian, David Matranga, Wendel Calvert, Chris Hutchison, …
Category: Science Fiction
Appleseed Ex Machina (2007)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Future Anti-Terrorist Squad
Director: Shinji Aramaki
Category: Science Fiction
Aragami (2003)
Rating: ★★★
Samurai vs Immortal Monster
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Actors: Takao Osawa, Masaya Kato, Kanae Uotani
Category: Fantasy
Arrietty (2010)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/Miniature People Adventures
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Category: Fantasy
Assault Girls (2009)
Rating: ★★
Virtual Reality Videogaming
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Actors: Meisa Kuroki, Yoshikatsu Fujiki, Rinko Kikuchi, Hinako Saeki, …
Category: Science Fiction
Attack Girls’ Swim Team vs. the Undead (2007)
Rating: ★★
Lesbian Japanese Schoolgirls vs Zombies
Director: Koji Kawamo
Actors: Sasa Handa, Yuria Hidaka, Ayumu Tokito, Sakae Yamazaki
Category: Horror
Attack of the Monsters (1969)
Rating: ★★★
Japanese Monster Movie
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Actors: Nobuhiro Kajima, Christopher Murphy, Reiko Kasahara, Hiroko Kai, …
Category: Science Fiction
Attack on Titan (2015)
Rating: ★★★
Live-Action Anime Adaptation/Invasion by Giants
Director: Shinji Higuchi
Actors: Haruma Miura, Kiko Mizuara, Kanata Hongo, Satomi Ishihara, …
Category: Fantasy
Attack on Titan II: End of the World (2015)
Rating: ★★
Live-Action Anime Adaptation/Invasion by Giants
Director: Shinji Higuchi
Actors: Haruma Miura, Kiko Mizuara, Kanata Hongo, Hiroki Hasegawa, …
Category: Fantasy
Audition (1999)
Rating: ★★★★★
Twisted Love Story/Sadism and Torture
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura
Category: Horror
August in the Water (1995)
Rating: ½
Japanese Mystical End of the World
Director: Ishii Sogo
Actors: Komine Rena, Aoki Shinsuke, Takari Masaaki, Matsuo Reiko, …
Category: Science Fiction
Avalon (2001)
Rating: ★★★★
Virtual Reality
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Actors: Malgorzata Foremniak, Dariusz Biskupski, Bartek Swiderski, Jerzy Gudejko, …
Category: Science Fiction
AVN (2010)
Rating: ★★★
Ninjas Fight Alien Creatures
Director: Seiji Chiba
Actors: Masanori Mimoto, Mika Hijii, Donpei Tsuchihira, Shuji Kashiwabara, …
Category: Science Fiction
Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
Rating: ★★★
Compilation of Batman Anime Shorts
Director: Shouijiro Nishimi
Actors: Kevin Conroy, David McCallum, Rob Paulsen, Corey Padnos, …
Category: Fantasy
Batman Ninja (2018)
Rating: ★★★
Batman Anime
Director: Junpei Mizusaki
Category: Fantasy
Battle in Outer Space (1961)
Rating: ★★★
Alien Invasion/Japanese Space Opera
Director: Ishiro Honda
Actors: Ryo Ikebe, Kyoko Anzai, Leonard Stanford, Koreya Senda, …
Category: Science Fiction
Battle League Horumo (2009)
Rating: ★★★
Combat Tournaments with Miniature Creatures
Director: Katsuhide Motoki
Actors: Takayuki Yamada, Chiaki Kuriyama, Sei Ashima, Gaku Hamada, …
Category: Fantasy
Battle Royale (2000)
Rating: ★★★
Deadly Elimination Game
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Beat Takeshi, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, …
Category: Science Fiction
Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
Rating: ★★
Deadly Elimination Game
Director: Kenta, Kinji Fukasaku
Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Riki Takeuchi, Shugo Osinari, Ai Maeda, …
Category: Science Fiction
Battlefield Baseball (2003)
Rating: ★★
Combat Baseball/Gonzo Japanese Film
Director: Yudai Yamaguchi
Category: Fantasy
Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Rating: ★★½
Anime Erotica/Temptation by the Devil
Director: Eiichi Yamamoto
Category: Fantasy
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006)
Rating: ★
Prison Murder Mystery with Surreal SF Elements
Director: Takashi Miike
Category: Science Fiction
Big Man Japan (2007)
Rating: ★★★
Giant Japanese Superhero Mockumentary
Director: Hitoshi Matsumoto
Actors: Hitoshi Matsumoto, Ua, Taichi Yazaki, Tomoji Hasegawa, …
Category: Fantasy
Big Tits Zombie (2010)
Rating: ★★½
Gonzo Japanese Zombie Film
Director: Takao Nakano
Actors: Sola Aoi, Risa Kasumi, Mari Sakurai, Tamayo, …
Category: Horror
The Bird People in China (1998)
Rating: ★★★★
Lost Culture
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishabashi, Mako, Li Li Wang
Category: Fantasy
Blade of the Immortal (2017)
Rating: ★★½
Immortal Samurai/Manga Adaptation
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Takuya Kimura, Hana Sugisaki, Sota Fukushi, Ebizo Ichikawa, …
Category: Fantasy
Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)
Rating: ★★★★
Vampire Battles Demons/Anime
Director: Hiroyuki Kitakubo
Actors: Youki Kudoh
Category: Horror
Bloody Chainsaw Girl (2016)
Rating: ★★★
Chainsaw-Wielding Schoolgirl Battles Mutant Cyborgs
Director: Hiroki Yamaguchi
Actors: Rio Uchida, Mari Yamachi, Seira Sato, Yuki Tamaki
Category: Horror
Blue Remains (2000)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/Underwater Post-Holocaust Environmentalism
Director: Hisaya Takabayashi, Toshifumi Takizawa
Category: Science Fiction
The Boy and the Beast (2015)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Boy Becomes Apprentice to a Beast Warrior
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Category: Fantasy
Bugmaster (2006)
Rating: ★★★
Wandering Exorcist/Manga Adaptation
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Actors: Jo Odagiri, Nao Omori, Yu Aoi, Reisen Lee, …
Category: Fantasy
Bullet Ballet (1998)
Rating: ★★★★
Man’s Obsession with a Gun
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Actors: Shinya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Tatsuya Nakamura, Takahiro Murase, …
Category: Horror
Bus (1987)
Rating: ★★½
Japanese Dystopia
Director: Takashi Komatsu
Actors: Hiroyasu Ito, Toru Usuda, Kyoichi Ando, C.W. Nicole, …
Category: Science Fiction
Casshern (2004)
Rating: ★★★
Future Superhero/Live-Action Anime
Director: Kazuaki Kiriya
Actors: Yusuke Iseya, Akira Terao, Toshiaki Karasawa, Kumiko Aso, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Cat Returns (2002)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Girl’s Adventure in the World of Cats
Director: Hiroyuki Morita
Category: Fantasy
Children Who Chase Lost Voices from the Deep (2011)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/Lost Underground Realm
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Category: Fantasy
Cold Fish (2010)
Rating: ★★★½
Serial Killer Black Comedy
Director: Shion Sono
Actors: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Asuka Kurosawa, Megumi Kagurazaka, …
Category: Horror
The Complex (2013)
Rating: ★★
Japanese Ghost Story/Haunted Apartment
Director: Hideo Nakata
Actors: Atsuko Maeda, Hiroki Narimiya, Kanau Tanaka, Masanobu Katsumura, …
Category: Horror
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
Rating: ★★
Anime/Future Bounty Hunters
Director: Shinichiro Watanabe
Category: Science Fiction
Cross Fire (2000)
Rating: ★★★½
Pyrokinesis
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Actors: Akiko Yada, Hideaki Ito, Kaori Momoi, Hidenori Takeyama, …
Category: Horror
Cure (1997)
Rating: ★★★
Hypnotism Murders
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Actors: Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa
Category: Horror
Dark Water (2002)
Rating: ★★★½
Japanese Ghost Story/Haunted Apartment
Director: Hideo Nakata
Actors: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Asami Mizukawa, Shigemitsu Ogi, …
Category: Horror
Darkside Blues (1994)
Rating: ★★
Anime/Dark Future/Mysterious Stranger
Director: Nobuyasa Furukawa
Actors: Kathleen Kern, Rachel Nanstad, Matthew Harrington, Peter Patrikios, …
Category: Science Fiction
Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000)
Rating: ★★
Gonzo Yakuza Film
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Riki Takeuchi, Sho Aikawa, Endo Kenichi, Shinya Tsukamoto, …
Category: Fantasy
Dead or Alive: Final (2002)
Rating: ★★
Cyberpunk Dystopia/Androids
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Josie Ho, Richard Chen, …
Category: Science Fiction
Dead or Alive (1999)
Rating: ★★★½
Gonzo Yakuza Film
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Takeuchi Riki, Sho Aikiwa, Renji Ishibasha, Hitoshi Ozawa, …
Category: Science Fiction
Dead Sushi (2012)
Rating: ★★★½
Man-Eating Sushi Amok/Gonzo Japanese Horror
Director: Noboru Iguchi
Actors: Rina Takeda, Shigeru Matsuzaki, Kentaro Shimazu, Kanji Tsuda, …
Category: Horror
Death Note (2006)
Rating: ★★★½
Notebook with Killing Powers
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama, Takeshi Kaga, Yu Kashii, …
Category: Horror
Death Note: The Last Name (2006)
Rating: ★★★★
Notebook with Killing Powers
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama, Erika Toda, Takeshi Kaga, …
Category: Horror
L: Change the World (2008)
Rating: ★★
Death Note Spinoff
Director: Hideo Nakata
Actors: Kenichi Matsuyama, Youki Kudoh, Mayuko Fukuda, Narushi Fukuda, …
Category: Horror
Demon City Shinjuku (1988)
Rating: ★★★
Demon City Shinjuku (Makaitoshi Shinjuku) Japan. 1988. Crew Director – Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Screenplay – Kaori Okamura, Based on the Novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Producers – Kenji Kurata & Makoto Seya.) Plot Genichirou is killed in a fierce sword battle while trying to stop the evil sorcerer Revi Ra. Afterwards, Shinjuku City is transformed into a […]
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Category: Fantasy
Demon Pond (1979)
Rating: ★★★★
Haunted Pond/Japanese Legend
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Actors: Tamasaburo Bando, Go Kato, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yatsuko Tanami
Category: Fantasy
Destroy All Monsters (1968)
Rating: ★★
Japanese Monster Bash
Director: Ishiro Honda
Actors: Akira Kubo, Yukiko Kobayashi, Jun Tazaki, Yoshio Tsuchiya, …
Category: Science Fiction
Digimon: The Movie (2000)
Rating: ★★½
Animation/Cute Cyber-Creatures
Director: Mamoru Hosoda, Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Actors: Joshua Seth, Lara Jill Miller, Mona Marshall, Doug Erholz, …
Category: Fantasy
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/Alternate Timeline/Reality-Bending Teenager
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara, Yasuhiro Takemoto
Category: Science Fiction
Doman Seman (2009)
Rating: ★
Gonzo Japanese Fantasy
Director: Go Shibata
Actors: Motako Ishii, Yusuke Noguchi, Takeshi Yamamoto, Naozo Hotta, …
Category: Fantasy
Dracula (1980)
Rating: ★★
Anime/Dracula vs Satanism
Director: Minoru Okazaki
Category: Horror
Dreams (1990)
Rating: ★★★★★
Japanese Fantasy Anthology
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Akira Terao, Martin Scorcese, Mitsunori Isaki, Mitsuko Baisho, …
Category: Fantasy
Embalming (1999)
Rating: ★★★
Blackmarket Organ Legging/Sinister Cult
Director: Shinji Aoyama
Actors: Reiko Takashima, Yutaka Matsushige, Toshio Shiba, Hitomi Miwa, …
Category: Horror
Empire of Passion (1978)
Rating: ★★★★
Japanese Ghost Story
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Category: Fantasy
Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone (2007)
Rating: ★★
Anime/Invasion by Vast Alien Machines
Director: Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki
Category: Science Fiction
Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance (2009)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Invasion by Vast Alien Machines
Director: Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki
Category: Science Fiction
Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo (2012)
Rating: ★★
Anime/Invasion by Vast Alien Machines
Director: Hideaki Anno, Mahiro Maeda, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki
Category: Science Fiction
Evil of Dracula (1974)
Rating: ★★★
Japanese Vampire
Director: Michio Yamamoto
Actors: Toshio Kurosawa, Moriko Mochizuki, Oota Mio, Kunie Tanaka, …
Category: Horror
Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)
Rating: ★★★
Killer Living Hair Extensions
Director: Shion Sono
Actors: Chiaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi, Miku Sato, Megumi Sato, …
Category: Horror
The Face of Another (1966)
Rating: ★★★★
Man With No Face
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijiro Hira, Machiko Kyo, Miki Irie, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Family Complete (2010)
Rating: ★
Gay Incest Virus
Director: Koichi Imaizumi
Actors: Ryosuke Kanba, Hotaru, Jinta Fujimaru, Koji Kaji, …
Category: Science Fiction
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
Rating: ★★★
Women’s Prison Breakout/Revenge
Director: Shunya Ito
Actors: Meiko Kaji, Kayoko Shiraichi, Fumio Watanabe, Yukie Kagawa
Category: Horror
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/Alien Soul Devourers
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Motu Sakakibara
Actors: Ming-Na, Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, …
Category: Science Fiction
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Computer Game Adaptation
Director: Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue
Category: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Frankenstein Conquers the World (1966)
Rating: ★★
Japanese Monster Movie
Director: Ishiro Honda
Actors: Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Kuji Furuhata, Tadao Takashima
Category: Science Fiction
Full Metal Yakuza (1997)
Rating: ★★★
Yakuza Cyborg
Director: Takashi Miike, Shohei Ando
Actors: Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Tomorowo Taguchi, Shoko Nakahara, Ren Osugi
Category: Science Fiction
Fullmetal Alchemist (2017)
Rating: ★★
Anime in Live-Action/Magician Heroes
Director: Fumihiko Sori
Actors: Ryosuke Yamada, Tsubasa Honda, Dean Fujioka, Ryuta Sato, …
Category: Fantasy
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2011)
Rating: ★★
Anime TV Series Spinoff/Magician Heroes
Director: Kazuya Murata
Category: Fantasy
Galaxy Express 999 (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Anime Space Opera
Director: Taro Rin
Actors: Saffron Henderson, Kathleen Barr, Janyse Jaud, Terry Klassen, …
Category: Science Fiction
Galaxy Turnpike (2015)
Rating: ★★
Intergalactic Burger Bar Comedy
Director: Koki Matani
Actors: Shingo Katon, Haruka Ayase, Yuka, Zen Kajiwara, …
Category: Science Fiction
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)
Rating: ★★★★
Japanese Monster Movie
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Actors: Ai Maeda, Ayako Fujitani, Shinobu Nagayama
Category: Science Fiction
Gamera: Super Monster (1980)
Rating: 0
Japanese Monster Movie
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Actors: Mach Fumiake, Koichi Maeda, Keiko Kudo, Yaeko Kojima, …
Category: Science Fiction
Gamera, The Guardian of the Universe (1995)
Rating: ★★★½
Japanese Monster Movie
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Actors: Shinobu Nakayawa, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ayako Fujitani, Yukijiro Hotari, …
Category: Science Fiction
Gamera vs Barugon (1966)
Rating: ★★
Japanese Monster Bash
Director: Tanaka Shigeo
Actors: Kojiro Hongo, Koji Fujiyama, Kyoko Enami, Yuko Hayakawa, …
Category: Science Fiction
Gamera vs Jiger (1970)
Rating: ★
Japanese Monster Movie
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Actors: Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Varis, Katherine Murphy, Kon Omura, …
Category: Science Fiction
Gamera vs. Zigra (1971)
Rating: 0
Japanese Monster Movie
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Actors: Eiko Yanami, Yasuchi Sakagami, Arlene Zoellner, Koji Fujiwara, …
Category: Science Fiction
Gammera the Invincible (1965)
Rating: ★★½
Japanese Monster Movie
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Actors: Brian Donlevy, Albert Dekker, Eiji Funakoshi, Yoshiro Uchida, …
Category: Science Fiction
Gemini (1999)
Rating: ★★★★
Evil Twin
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Actors: Motoki Masahiro, Ryo
Category: Horror
Genius Party Beyond (2008)
Rating: ★★★
Anime Anthology
Director: Masahiro Maeda, Kazuto Nakazawa, Shinya Ohara, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, …
Category: Fantasy
Ghidrah the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
Rating: ★★★
Japanese Monster Bash
Director: Ishiro Honda
Actors: Akiko Wakabayashi, Yuriko Hoshi, Yosuke Natsuki, Emi, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond (1960)
Rating: ★★
Japanese Ghost Story
Director: Yoshihiro Ishikawa
Actors: Shozaburo Date, Noriko Kitazawa, Yoichi Numata
Category: Horror
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Rating: ★★★★
Cyberpunk Anime
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Category: Science Fiction
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Rating: ★★★★
Cyberpunk Anime
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Category: Science Fiction