Shikoku (1999)
Rating: ★★★
Japanese Ghost Story
Director: Shunichi Nagasaki
Category: Horror
Shin Godzilla (2016)
Rating: ★★★½
Giant Atomic Monster
Director: Hideaki Anno
Actors: Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, Ren Osugi, …
Category: Science Fiction
Shin Kamen Rider (2023)
Rating: ★★★
Japanese Superhero Reboot
Director: Hideaki Anno
Actors: Sosuke Ikematsu, Minami Hamabe, Tasuku Emoto, Shinya Tsukamoto, …
Category: Science Fiction
Shin Ultraman (2022)
Rating: ★★★
Japanese Superhero Reboot
Director: Shinji Higuchi
Actors: Takumi Saitoh, Masami Nagasawa, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Akari Hayami, …
Category: Science Fiction
Short Peace (2013)
Rating: ★★★
Anime Anthology
Director: Shuhei Morita, Katsuhiro Otomo, Hiroaki Ando, Hajime Katoki
Category: Fantasy
Sinking of Japan (2006)
Rating: ★★
Japanese Disaster Movie
Director: Shinji Higuchi
Actors: Etsushi Toyokawa, Ko Shibasaki, Mayuko Fukuda, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Sky Crawlers (2008)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/Cloned Flyers
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Category: Science Fiction
Slit Mouth Woman in L.A. (2014)
Rating: ★★
Japanese Horror Anthology
Director: Akira Hirose, Hiro Kay, Kazuya Ogawa, Takeshi Sone
Actors: Lauren Taylor, John Klopping, Eiji Inoue, Stefanie Estes, …
Category: Horror
Solar Crisis (1990)
Rating: ★★★
Space Mission
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Actors: Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, Corin Nemec, …
Category: Science Fiction
Son of Godzilla (1968)
Rating: ★★★
Japanese Monster Bash
Director: Jun Fukuda
Actors: Akira Kubo
Category: Science Fiction
Space Adventure Cobra (1982)
Rating: ★★★
Anime Space Opera
Director: Osamu Dezaki, Carl F. Macek
Category: Science Fiction
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
Rating: ★★★
Anime TV Series in Live-Action/Space Opera
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Category: Science Fiction
Space Cruiser Yamato (1977)
Rating: ★★½
Anime Space Opera
Director: Yoshinobu Nishizaki, Gino Tanasescu
Category: Science Fiction
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)
Rating: ★★★½
Anime/Space Opera
Director: Shinji Aramaki
Category: Science Fiction
The Spiral (1998)
Rating: ★★
Ring Sequel
Director: Joji Iida
Actors: Koichi Sato, Miki Nakatani, Hinako Saeki, Shingo Surumi, …
Category: Horror
Spirited Away (2001)
Rating: ★★★★★
Anime/Afterlife Bathhouse
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy
Spriggan (1998)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Alien Artefact/Psychic Kid Amok
Director: Hirotsugu Kawasaki
Category: Science Fiction
Stacy (2001)
Rating: ★★
Schoolgirl Zombies
Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Actors: Natsuki Kato, Toshinori Omi, Tomoka Hayashi
Category: Horror
Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)
Rating: ★★★
War with Aliens/Anime
Director: Shinji Aramaki
Category: Science Fiction
Steamboy (2004)
Rating: ★★★★
Steampunk Anime
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Category: Science Fiction
Strange Circus (2005)
Rating: ★★★½
Twisted Disfigurement Story
Director: Shion Sono
Category: Horror
Submersion of Japan (1973)
Rating: ★★★
Disaster Movie/Japan Sinks Into the Ocean
Director: Shiro Moritani
Actors: Keiju Kobayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Hiroshi Fujioka
Category: Science Fiction
Suicide Club (2002)
Rating: ★★
Programmed Mass Suicides
Director: Shion Sono
Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Akaji Maro, Rolly, …
Category: Horror
Summer Time Machine Blues (2005)
Rating: ★★★★
Japanese Time Travel Comedy
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro
Actors: Yoko Maki, Tsuyoshi Muro, Kuranosuke Sasaki
Category: Science Fiction
Summer Wars (2009)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/Amok A.I./Family Saga
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Category: Science Fiction
Suzume (2022)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/Quest to Close Portals
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Category: Fantasy
Sweet Home (1989)
Rating: ★★½
Gonzo Japanese Haunted House Film
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Category: Horror
Tale of a Vampire (1992)
Rating: ★★
Vampire Romance
Director: Shimako Sato
Actors: Julian Sands, Suzanna Hamilton, Kenneth Cranham
Category: Horror
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Japanese Fairytale
Director: Isao Takahata
Category: Fantasy
Tales from Earthsea (2006)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/Epic Fantasy
Director: Goro Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy
Tamala 2010 (2002)
Rating: ★★
Demented Anime/Girl Cat’s Space Adventures
Director: t.o.L.
Category: Science Fiction
Taro, The Dragon Boy (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Young Boy’s Adventures
Director: Kirio Urayama
Category: Fantasy
Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/The Lives of Street Kids
Director: Michael Arias
Category: Fantasy
Terra Formars (2016)
Rating: ★★★
Mutated Insects on Mars
Director: Takashi Miike
Category: Science Fiction
Terror Beneath the Sea (1966)
Rating: ★★
Amphibian Cyborgs
Director: Hajime Sato
Actors: Sonny Chiba, Peggy Neal, Enric Nielsen
Category: Science Fiction
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1976)
Rating: ★★★
Japanese Monster Bash
Director: Ishiro Honda
Actors: Akihiko Hirata, Katsuhiko Sasaki
Category: Science Fiction
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
Rating: ★★
Man-Machine Fusion
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Actors: Tomoroh Taguchi, Shinya Tsukamoto, Sujin Kim
Category: Science Fiction
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009)
Rating: ★★
Man-Machine Fusion
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Actors: Eric Bossick, Shinya Tsukamoto
Category: Science Fiction
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
Rating: ★★★★★
Man-Machine Fusion
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Actors: Tomoroh Taguchi, Shinya Tsukamoto
Category: Science Fiction
Three … Extremes (2004)
Rating: ★★★★
Asian Horror Anthology
Director: Fruit Chan, Park Chan-Wook, Takashi Miike
Actors: Bai Ling, Miriam Yeung, Tony Leung Ka-fai
Category: Horror
Time of Eve (2010)
Rating: ★★★½
Anime/Cafe for Androids
Director: Yasuhiro Yoshiura
Category: Science Fiction
Time Slip (1981)
Rating: ★★★½
Soldiers Thrown Back in Time to Feudal Japan
Director: Kosei Saito
Actors: Sonny Chiba
Category: Science Fiction
The Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2010)
Rating: ★★
Japanese Time Travel Film
Director: Masaaki Tanaguchi
Actors: Riisa Naka, Narumi Yasuda, Masanobu Katsumura
Category: Science Fiction
To the Solitary Me Who Loved You (2022)
Rating: ★★★½
Multiverse Film/Anime
Director: Kenichi Kasai
Category: Science Fiction
Tokyo Fist (1995)
Rating: ★★★
Boxing, Body-Piercing and Masochism
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Actors: Shinya Tsukamoto
Category: Horror
Tokyo Ghoul (2017)
Rating: ★★
Manga Adaptation/Secret World of Ghouls
Director: Kentaro Hagiwara
Actors: Masataka Kubota, Noboyuki Suzuki, Yo Oizumi, Kai Ogasawara, …
Category: Horror
Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
Rating: ★★★
Gonzo Japanese Splatter Film/Cops vs Bio-Mechanoid Mutants
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura
Actors: Eihi Shiina, Jiji Bu, Shun Sugata
Category: Horror, Science Fiction
Tokyo Tribe (2014)
Rating: ★★
Near-Future Gang Warfare
Director: Shion Sono
Actors: Riki Takeuchi, Ryohei Suzuki, Young Dais, Nana Seino, …
Category: Science Fiction
Tomie (1999)
Rating: ★½
Japanese Ghost Story
Director: Ataru Oikawa
Actors: Mami Nakamura, Miho Kanno, Tomorowo Taguchi
Category: Horror
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
Rating: ★★★★
Japanese Ghost Story
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Actors: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ikio Sawamura
Category: Fantasy
Unico (1981)
Rating: ★★★½
Anime/Young Unicorn Boy’s Adventures
Director: Toshio Hirata
Category: Fantasy
Urotsukidoji II: Legend of the Demon Womb (1989)
Rating: ★★½
Anime/Perverse Demon Wars
Director: Hideki Takayama
Category: Horror
Uzumaki (2000)
Rating: ★★★
Spiral Obsession and Mutations/Japanese Horror Film
Director: Higunchinsky
Actors: Erko Hatsune, Ren Osugi, Taro Suwa
Category: Horror
Vampire (2011)
Rating: ★★★★
Serial Killer with a Blood-Drinking Fetish
Director: Shunji Iwai
Actors: Kevin Zegers, Adelaide Clemens, Rachael Leigh Cook, Amanda Plummer, …
Category: Horror
Vampire Bride (1960)
Rating: ★★
Vengeful Creature/Japanese Horror
Director: Kyotaro Namiki
Actors: Junko Ikeuchi, Hiroko Amakusa
Category: Horror
Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl (2009)
Rating: ★★★½
Gonzo Japanese Splatter Film
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura, Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Actors: Yukie Kamamura, Takumi Saito, Kanji Tsuda, Jiji Bu, …
Category: Horror
Vampire Hunter D (1985)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Post-Holocaust Vampire Hunter
Director: Toyoo Ashida
Category: Horror
Vampire Hunter D (2000)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Vampire Hunter
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Actors: Pamela Segall, Wendee Lee, Alex Fernandez, Michael McShane, …
Category: Horror
Varan the Unbelievable (1958)
Rating: ★
Japanese Monster Movie
Director: Ishiro Honda
Actors: Myron Healey, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Clifford Kawada, Derick Shimatsu, …
Category: Science Fiction
Versus (2000)
Rating: ★★½
Yakuza Zombies/Splatter
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Actors: Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka, Kenji Matsuda, …
Category: Horror
Vexille (2007)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Future Android Japan
Director: Fumihiko Sori
Category: Science Fiction
Village of Dreams (1996)
Rating: ★★
Mischievous Twins’ Childhood/Magical Realism
Director: Yoichi Higashi
Category: Fantasy
Visitor Q (2001)
Rating: ★★★½
Catalogue of Perversions/Mysterious Visitor/Black Comedy
Director: Takashi Miike
Category: Horror
War of the Gargantuas (1966)
Rating: ★★
Japanese Monster Bash
Director: Ishiro Honda
Actors: Russ Tamblyn, Kumi Mizuno, Kenji Sahara, Jun Tazaki
Category: Science Fiction
Warning from Space (1956)
Rating: ★
Japanese Alien Visitors Film
Director: Koji Shima
Category: Science Fiction
Weathering With You (2019)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Girl Who Can Control Weather
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Category: Fantasy
What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? (2022)
Rating: ★★
The Aftermath of a Giant Monster Attack
Director: Satoshi Miki
Actors: Ryosuke Yamada, Tao Tsuchiya, Gaku Hamada, Eri Fuse, …
Category: Science Fiction
When Marnie Was There (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Ghost Story
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Category: Fantasy
A Whisker Away (2020)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Girl Transforms Into a Cat
Director: Junichi Sato, Tomotaka Shibayama
Category: Fantasy
Wicked City (1987)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/War with Demon Dimension
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Category: Fantasy
Willy McBean and His Magic Machine (1965)
Rating: ★★★
Children’s Time Travel Film
Director: Arthur Rankin Jr
Actors: Billie Richards, Larry Mann, Paul Soles, James Doohan
Category: Science Fiction
The Wings of Honneamise (1987)
Rating: ★★★½
Anime/Alternate World Spacelaunch
Director: Hiroyuki Yamaga
Category: Science Fiction
Wolf Children (2012)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/Werewolf Children
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Category: Fantasy
World Apartment Horror (1991)
Rating: ★★
Strange Apartment Building Comedy/Haunting
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Category: Horror
X (1996)
Rating: ★★½
Anime Superheroics
Director: Rintaro
Category: Fantasy
The X from Outer Space (1967)
Rating: ★★
Japanese Monster Movie
Director: Kazui Nihonmatzu
Actors: Toshiya Wazaki, Peggy Neal, Eiji Okada
Category: Science Fiction
Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)
Rating: ★★½
Gonzo Yakuza Vampire Film
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Hayato Ichihara, Lily Frankie, Yayan Ruhian, Riko Narumi, …
Category: Fantasy
Yakuza Weapon (2011)
Rating: ★★
Gonzo Japanese Splatter Film/Yakuza With Cyborg Attachments
Director: Tak Sakaguchi, Yudai Yamaguchi
Actors: Tak Sakaguchi, Shingo Tsurumi, Mei Kurokawa, Akaji Maro
Category: Science Fiction
YatterMan (2009)
Rating: ★★★
Anime TV Series in Live-Action/Gonzo Giant Robot Heroics
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Sho Sakurai, Kyoko Fukada, Saki Fukuda, Sadao Abe, …
Category: Science Fiction
Yog – The Monster from Outer Space (1970)
Rating: 0
Japanese Monster Movie
Director: Ishiro Honda
Actors: Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Kenji Sahara
Category: Science Fiction
Your Name. (2016)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Cross-Time Bodyswap
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Category: Fantasy
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie – Pyramid of Light (2004)
Rating: ★★
Anime/Playing Card Dueling
Director: Hatsuki Suji
Actors: Dan Green, Eric Stuart
Category: Fantasy
Yuki: Snow Fairy (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Young Goddess Comes to Earth
Director: Tadashi Imai
Category: Fantasy
Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010)
Rating: ★★
Japanese Superhero
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Sho Aikawa, Riisa Naka, Tsuyoshi Abe
Category: Science Fiction
Zebraman (2004)
Rating: ★★
Japanese Superhero
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Sho Aikawa, Kyoka Suzuki, Yui Ichikawa
Category: Science Fiction
Zombie Ass: The Toilet of the Dead (2011)
Rating: ★★
Gonzo Japanese Horror/Zombie Ass Parasites
Director: Noboru Iguchi
Category: Horror