Japanese Cinema Archives

A.li.ce (1999)

17 November 200425 April 2020

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Dystopian Future/Time Travel

Director: Kenichi Maejima

After Life (1998)

29 June 199923 June 2025

Rating: ★★★★

The Afterlife

Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda

Actors: Susumu Terajima

Akira (1988)

2 August 19991 December 2021

Rating: ★★★★★

Anime/Psychic Powers Amok

Director: Katsuhiro Otomo

Alakazam the Great (1961)

5 May 199927 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Mischievous Monkey’s Adventures/Animation

Director: Osamu Tezuka, Taiji Yabushita

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Jonathan Winters, Sterling Holloway

Andromedia (1998)

21 January 202521 January 2025

Rating: ★★

Teenage Girl Uploaded to the Internet

Director: Takashi Miike

Actors: Hiroko Shimabukuro, Kenji Harada, Eriko Imai, Christopher Doyle, …

Angel Dust (1994)

19 September 20003 July 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Japanese Serial Killer Thriller

Director: Sogo Ishii

Actors: Kaho Minami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Etsushi Toyokawa

Angel’s Egg (1985)

22 January 202022 January 2020

Rating: ★★

Anime/Surreal Journey Across an Alien World

Director: Mamoru Oshii

Anthem of the Heart (2015)

17 April 201721 December 2021

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Girl Cursed With Being Unable to Speak

Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai

Apartment 1303 (2007)

7 April 201514 October 2022

Rating: ★★

Japanese Ghost Story

Director: Ataru Oikawa

Appleseed (1988)

8 July 200114 October 2022

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Future Anti-Terrorist Squad

Director: Katsuyoshi Katayama

Appleseed (2004)

14 December 20088 July 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Anime/Future Anti-Terrorist Squad

Director: Shinji Aramaki

Appleseed Alpha (2014)

24 October 201425 March 2025

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Post-Holocaust Cyborg Action

Director: Shinji Aramaki

Actors: Luci Christian, David Matranga, Wendel Calvert, Chris Hutchison, …

Appleseed Ex Machina (2007)

27 July 200825 March 2025

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Future Anti-Terrorist Squad

Director: Shinji Aramaki

Aragami (2003)

30 June 201621 September 2023

Rating: ★★★

Samurai vs Immortal Monster

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura

Actors: Takao Osawa, Masaya Kato

Arrietty (2010)

3 November 20119 October 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Anime/Miniature People Adventures

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Assault Girls (2009)

24 July 201121 November 2021

Rating: ★★

Virtual Reality Videogaming

Director: Mamoru Oshii

Atomic Rulers of the World (1965)

6 May 202113 November 2021

Rating: ★

Japanese Superhero Film

Director: Koreyoshi Akasaka, Teruo Ishii, Akira Mitsuwa

Actors: Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi

Atragon (1963)

17 September 202417 September 2024

Rating: ★★½

Super-Submarine Adventure

Director: Ishiro Honda

Actors: Tadao Takashima, Yoko Fujiyama, Ken Uehara, Jun Tazaki, …

Attack Girls’ Swim Team vs. the Undead (2007)

23 August 20123 November 2020

Rating: ★★

Lesbian Japanese Schoolgirls vs Zombies

Director: Koji Kawamo

Attack of the Monsters (1969)

2 April 200626 December 2024

Rating: ★★★

Japanese Monster Movie

Director: Noriaki Yuasa

Actors: Nobuhiro Kajima, Christopher Murphy, Reiko Kasahara, Kon Omura

Attack on Titan (2015)

29 November 201518 September 2024

Rating: ★★★

Live-Action Anime Adaptation/Invasion by Giants

Director: Shinji Higuchi

Actors: Haruma Miura, Kiko Mizuara, Kanata Hongo, Satomi Ishihara, …

Attack on Titan II: End of the World (2015)

9 January 201716 March 2023

Rating: ★★

Live-Action Anime Adaptation/Invasion by Giants

Director: Shinji Higuchi

Actors: Haruma Miura, Kiko Mizuara, Kanata Hongo, Hiroki Hasegawa, …

Audition (1999)

6 October 199910 October 2023

Rating: ★★★★★

Twisted Love Story/Sadism and Torture

Director: Takashi Miike

Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura

August in the Water (1995)

25 January 200317 December 2020

Rating: ½

Japanese Mystical End of the World

Director: Sogo Ishii

Avalon (2001)

3 July 200327 November 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Virtual Reality

Director: Mamoru Oshii

AVN (2010)

10 January 20133 October 2019

Rating: ★★★

Ninjas Fight Alien Creatures

Director: Seiji Chiba

Actors: Masanori Mimoto, Mika Hijii, Donpei Tsuchihira, Shuji Kashiwabara, …

Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)

27 July 200822 July 2021

Rating: ★★★

Compilation of Batman Anime Shorts

Director: Shouijiro Nishimi, Futoshi Higashide, Hiroshi Morioka, Yoshiaki Aoki, …

Actors: Kevin Conroy, David McCallum, Rob Paulsen, Gary Dourdan, …

Batman Ninja (2018)

6 May 201810 April 2025

Rating: ★★★

Batman Anime

Director: Junpei Mizusaki

Battle in Outer Space (1961)

17 November 200030 January 2024

Rating: ★★★

Alien Invasion/Japanese Space Opera

Director: Ishiro Honda

Actors: Ryo Ikebe, Koreya Senda

Battle League Horumo (2009)

13 June 20124 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Combat Tournaments with Miniature Creatures

Director: Katsuhide Motoki

Actors: Takayuki Yamada, Sei Ashina, Chiaki Kuriyama, Gaku Hamada, …

Battle Royale (2000)

28 June 20031 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Deadly Elimination Game

Director: Kinji Fukasaku

Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Beat Takashi Kitano, Taro Yamamoto, …

Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)

20 August 200529 April 2020

Rating: ★★

Deadly Elimination Game

Director: Kinji Fukasaku, Kenta Fukasaku

Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Riki Takeuchi

Battlefield Baseball (2003)

4 June 201411 October 2023

Rating: ★★

Combat Baseball/Gonzo Japanese Film

Director: Yudai Yamaguchi

Actors: Tak Sakaguchi, Atsushi Ito, Hidetaki Nishio, Shoichiro Masumoto

Before We Vanish (2017)

27 January 20202 November 2021

Rating: ★★★

Japanese Alien Invasion Film

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Actors: Ryuhei Matsuda, Hiroki Hasegawa

Belladonna of Sadness (1973)

7 March 20189 November 2019

Rating: ★★½

Anime Erotica/Temptation by the Devil

Director: Eiichi Yamamoto

Belle (2021)

8 April 20228 April 2022

Rating: ★★★½

Anime/Beauty and the Beast in Virtual Reality

Director: Mamoru Hosoda

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006)

27 November 201215 July 2021

Rating: ★

Prison Murder Mystery with Surreal SF Elements

Director: Takashi Miike

Actors: Ryuhei Matsuda, Masanobu Ando, Ryo Ishibashi

Big Man Japan (2007)

8 September 201115 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Giant Japanese Superhero Mockumentary

Director: Hitoshi Matsumoto

Actors: Hitoshi Matsumoto

Big Tits Zombie (2010)

26 June 20116 June 2025

Rating: ★★½

Gonzo Japanese Zombie Film

Director: Takao Nakano

The Bird People in China (1998)

17 October 200421 January 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Lost Culture

Director: Takashi Miike

Actors: Renji Ishibashi, Masahiro Motoki, Mako

Blade of the Immortal (2017)

19 November 201726 April 2023

Rating: ★★½

Immortal Samurai/Manga Adaptation

Director: Takashi Miike

Actors: Takuya Kimura, Sota Fukushi, Ebizo Ichikawa, Hayato Ichihara, …

Bleach (2018)

11 May 202011 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Manga Adaptation/Monster Hunter

Director: Shinsuke Sato

Actors: Sota Fukushi, Hana Sugisaki, Miyavi, Ryo Ishizawa, …

Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)

10 November 20032 January 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Vampire Battles Demons/Anime

Director: Hiroyuki Kitakubo

Bloody Chainsaw Girl (2016)

9 April 201819 February 2020

Rating: ★★★

Chainsaw-Wielding Schoolgirl Battles Mutant Cyborgs

Director: Hiroki Yamaguchi

Blue Remains (2000)

28 November 200419 February 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Anime/Underwater Post-Holocaust Environmentalism

Director: Hisaya Takabayashi, Toshifumi Takizawa

The Boy and the Beast (2015)

6 November 20155 February 2022

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Boy Becomes Apprentice to a Beast Warrior

Director: Mamoru Hosoda

The Boy and the Heron (2023)

5 July 2024

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Boy Enters Otherworld

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Bubble (2022)

4 December 2023

Rating: ★★

Anime/Mysterious Bubble Covers Tokyo

Director: Tetsuro Araki

Bugmaster (2006)

10 December 201224 September 2020

Rating: ★★★

Wandering Exorcist/Manga Adaptation

Director: Katsuhiro Otomo

Actors: Jo Odagiri, Nao Omori, Yu Aoi

Bullet Ballet (1998)

18 October 200411 March 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Man’s Obsession with a Gun

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto

Actors: Shinya Tsukamoto, Kyoka Suzuki

Bus (1987)

11 December 200216 March 2020

Rating: ★★½

Japanese Dystopia

Director: Takashi Komatsu

Carved: The Slit Mouthed Woman (2007)

3 November 202030 April 2024

Rating: ★★

Boogeywoman from Japanese Urban Legend

Director: Koji Shiraishi

Actors: Eriko Sato, Haruhiko Kato, Miki Mizuno

Casshern (2004)

19 April 200731 August 2020

Rating: ★★★

Future Superhero/Anime Remade in Live-Action

Director: Kazuaki Kiriya

Actors: Yusuke Iseya, Akira Terao, Kumiko Aso, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, …

The Cat Returns (2002)

25 July 200430 March 2020

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Girl’s Adventure in the World of Cats

Director: Hiroyuki Morita

Children Who Chase Lost Voices from the Deep (2011)

19 March 20134 August 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Anime/Lost Underground Realm

Director: Makoto Shinkai

Cinderella Game (2016)

13 December 202213 December 2022

Rating: ★★

Deadly Elimination Card Game

Director: Hayato Kano

Actors: Kasumi Yamaya, Taro Suruga, Miku Yoshida, Meiku Harakawa, …

Cold Fish (2010)

2 October 201022 December 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Serial Killer Black Comedy

Director: Shion Sono

Actors: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Taro Suwa

The Complex (2013)

7 February 20176 December 2021

Rating: ★★

Japanese Ghost Story/Haunted Apartment

Director: Hideo Nakata

Actors: Atsuko Maeda, Hiroki Narimiya, Masanobu Katsumura, Naomi Nishida, …

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)

14 August 200317 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Anime/Future Bounty Hunters

Director: Shinichiro Watanabe

Cross Fire (2000)

17 February 20011 May 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Pyrokinesis

Director: Shusuke Kaneko

Actors: Akiko Yada, Hideaki Ito

Cube (2021)

29 April 202229 April 2022

Rating: ★★

Mysterious Labyrinth

Director: Yashukiko Shimizu

Actors: Masaki Suda, Kotaro Yoshida, Takumi Saito, Masaki Okada, …

Cure (1997)

23 September 200124 September 2020

Rating: ★★★

Hypnotism Murders

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cyborg She (2007)

17 June 202017 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Romance With a Time-Travelling Cyborg

Director: Kwak Jae-young

Actors: Keisuke Koide, Haruka Ayase

Dark Water (2002)

2 May 200529 January 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Japanese Ghost Story/Haunted Apartment

Director: Hideo Nakata

Actors: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno

Darkside Blues (1994)

31 July 200025 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Anime/Dark Future/Mysterious Stranger

Director: Nobuyasa Furukawa

Actors: Peter Patrikios, Rachel Lillis

Dead Ball (2011)

23 June 202011 October 2023

Rating: ★★

Gonzo Japanese Splatter Film/Combat Baseball

Director: Yudai Yamaguchi

Actors: Tak Sakaguchi, Koichi Yamadera, Ryosei Tayama

Dead or Alive (1999)

28 June 200329 June 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Gonzo Yakuza Film

Director: Takashi Miike

Actors: Riki Takeuchi, Sho Aikawa, Renji Ishibasha, Shingo Tsurumi

Dead Or Alive 2 – Birds (2000)

8 July 200321 January 2025

Rating: ★★

Gonzo Yakuza Film

Director: Takashi Miike

Actors: Riki Takeuchi, Sho Aikawa, Shinya Tsukamoto, Edison Chen

Dead or Alive: Final (2002)

13 March 200629 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Cyberpunk Dystopia/Androids

Director: Takashi Miike

Actors: Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Josie Ho, Terence Yin

Dead Sushi (2012)

14 November 201230 June 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Man-Eating Sushi Amok/Gonzo Japanese Horror

Director: Noboru Iguchi

Actors: Rina Takeda, Shigeru Matsuzaki, Kentaro Shimazu, Kanji Tsuda, …

Death Note (2006)

17 August 20071 July 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Notebook with Killing Powers

Director: Shusuke Kaneko

Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama, Takeshi Kaga, Shido Nakamura, …

Death Note: The Last Name (2006)

17 August 20071 July 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Notebook with Killing Powers

Director: Shusuke Kaneko

Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama, Erika Toda, Takeshi Kaga, …

Demon City Shinjuku (1988)

14 March 20161 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Suburb of Tokyo Taken Over by Demonic Forces

Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Demon Pond (1979)

20 November 200120 July 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Haunted Pond/Japanese Legend

Director: Masahiro Shinoda

Actors: Tamasaburo Bando, Go Kato, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yatsuko Tanami

Destroy All Monsters (1968)

16 November 20003 December 2020

Rating: ★★

Japanese Monster Bash

Director: Ishiro Honda

Actors: Akira Kubo, Yukiko Kobayashi, Jun Tazaki, Yoshio Tsuchiya

Digimon: The Movie (2000)

15 March 200121 November 2021

Rating: ★★½

Animation/Cute Cyber-Creatures

Director: Mamoru Hosoda, Shigeyasu Yamauchi

Actors: Mona Marshall, Colleen O'Shaughnessey

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010)

16 June 201120 March 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Anime/Alternate Timeline/Reality-Bending Teenager

Director: Tatsuya Ishihara, Yasuhiro Takemoto

Dogora the Space Monster (1964)

2 September 202017 September 2024

Rating: ★★½

Japanese Monster Movie

Director: Ishiro Honda

Actors: Yosuo Natsuki, Dan Yuma, Yoko Fujiyama, Jun Tazaki, …

Doman Seman (2009)

27 May 201120 August 2020

Rating: ★

Gonzo Japanese Fantasy

Director: Go Shibata

Actors: Motako Ishii, Naozo Hotta

The Door Into Summer (2021)

7 August 2023

Rating: ★★★

Time Travel

Director: Takahiro Miki

Actors: Kento Yamazaki, Kaya Kiyohara, Naohito Fujiki, Natsuna Watanabe, …

Downrange (2017)

28 January 202121 September 2023

Rating: ★★★

Roadside Sniper

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura

Actors: Kelly Connaire, Stephanie Pearson, Rod Hernandez-Farella, Anthony Kirlew, …

Dracula (1980)

15 October 199931 August 2020

Rating: ★★

Anime/Dracula vs Satanism

Director: Minoru Okazaki

Dreams (1990)

12 March 20016 October 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Japanese Ghost Story Anthology

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Actors: Akira Terao, Martin Scorcese

Drifting Home (2022)

4 December 2023

Rating: ★★½

Anime/Apartment Building Drifts Out to Sea

Director: Hiroyasu Ishida

Earwig and the Witch (2020)

5 December 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Anime/Witch’s Apprentice

Director: Goro Miyazaki

Embalming (1999)

7 March 20057 June 2023

Rating: ★★★

Blackmarket Organ Legging/Sinister Cult

Director: Shinji Aoyama

Actors: Reiko Takashima, Hitomi Miwa, Kojiro Hongo

The Empire of Corpses (2015)

25 November 20199 March 2023

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Alternate Victorian England Based on Frankenstein Technology

Director: Ryotaho Makihara

Empire of Passion (1978)

24 April 19996 October 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Japanese Ghost Story

Director: Nagisa Oshima

Actors: Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji

Entrails of a Virgin (1986)

11 January 202411 January 2024

Rating: ★★

Pinku Film/Demonic Rapist

Director: Kazuo Komizu

Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone (2007)

24 September 200814 March 2023

Rating: ★★

Anime/Invasion by Vast Alien Machines

Director: Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki

Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance (2009)

11 March 201114 March 2023

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Invasion by Vast Alien Machines

Director: Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki

Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo (2012)

4 February 201412 April 2025

Rating: ★★

Anime/Invasion by Vast Alien Machines

Director: Hideaki Anno, Mahiro Maeda, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki

Evil of Dracula (1974)

5 July 200427 August 2024

Rating: ★★★

Japanese Vampire

Director: Michio Yamamoto

Actors: Toshio Kurosawa, Moriko Mochizuki, Mori Kishida, Katsuhiko Sasaki, …

Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)

29 May 201516 July 2020

Rating: ★★★

Killer Living Hair Extensions

Director: Shion Sono

Actors: Chiaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi, Megumi Sato, Ken Mitsuishi, …

The Face of Another (1966)

16 April 201113 July 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Man With No Face

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijiro Hira, Machiko Kyo

The Family Complete (2010)

13 October 201310 November 2020

Rating: ★

Gay Incest Virus

Director: Koichi Imaizumi

Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)

21 November 20005 January 2024

Rating: ★★★

Women’s Prison Breakout/Revenge

Director: Shunya Ito

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

15 July 200110 February 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Anime/Alien Soul Devourers

Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Motu Sakakibara

Actors: Ming-Na, Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, …

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)

4 May 200910 December 2020

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Computer Game Adaptation

Director: Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue

Foreboding (2017)

2 November 20212 November 2021

Rating: ★★★

Japanese Alien Invasion Film

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Actors: Kaho, Masahiro Higashide, Shota Sometani, Eriko Nakamura, …