The Vault
Gate of Flesh
1964 ★ 6.6In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous fr
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
2025 ★ 7.9The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep at
Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers
1998 ★ 6.7Beast Wars II refers to the 1998 Japanese Transformers television animated series, and the movie and toyline that resulted from it. The series was preceded by B
NIPPON SANGOKU: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun
2026 ★ 8.6A revolution sparked by nuclear war, natural disaster, and misrule leads to the collapse of Japanese society. The country splits into three nations vying for he
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973 ★ 7.4In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza. Crime Action Dra
The Idiot
1951 ★ 7.0A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko N
Terminator Zero
2024 ★ 7.0A warrior from a post-apocalyptic future travels to 1997 to protect an AI scientist being hunted by an unfeeling — and indestructible — cyborg. The television s
The Tiger and Her Wings
2024 ★ 8.3In the early Showa era, Japan’s first women’s law school opens, and the protagonist, Inotsume Tomoko (Ito Sairi), gains nationwide attention as one of the first
Ai yori aoku
1972 ★ 0.0The 12th NHK Asadora. Set in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, at the end of the Pacific War. Maki is the heroine, married to Shuichi who must go to war. She stays
Jun-chan's Cheering Song
1988 ★ 7.0The year is 1947, August. Ono Junko's family is being evacuated to Wakayama and the father is going to war. A few years later, the father has returned from Manc
Musume to Watashi
1961 ★ 0.0A television serial that was in turn adapted from a radio series and a novel, My Daughter And I featured a Japanese novelist who is married to a French woman wh
In Full Bloom
2019 ★ 6.8Set shortly after the end of World War II, a philosophical boxing drama of two fighters from opposite worlds (USA and Japan) who are pulled together for a quest
Godzilla
1954 ★ 7.6Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more
NieR:Automata Ver1.1a
2023 ★ 8.1The distant future, 5012. The sudden aerial invasion of Earth by <Aliens> and their creations <Machine Lifeforms> led mankind to the brink of extinction. The su
Umechan Sensei
2012 ★ 8.0Umechan Sensei is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on April 2, 2012. It is about a girl named Umeko Shimomura who, despite being overshadowed by h
Into the Badlands
2015 ★ 7.6In a land controlled by feudal barons, a great warrior and a young boy embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment. A genre-bending martia
Natsuzora
2019 ★ 8.0Okuhara Natsu was born in Tokyo in 1937. In 1945, she loses both parents to war and becomes an orphan, but her father’s comrade, Shibata Takeo, takes her in and
Barefoot Gen
1983 ★ 7.6A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people. Animation Drama War History animated dramatic
The Rolling Girls
2015 ★ 6.5In a dystopian future where Japan's political organization has crumbled after the Great Tokyo War, Japan is broken up into 10 independent nations, with each nat
Lead Tombstone
1964 ★ 4.4LEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2, rescued his country farmer mother from rape by stabbing the offend
Sayonara
1957 ★ 6.7Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounde
Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story
2019 ★ 7.8Traces Japan’s history with the Olympic games and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for viewers before Tokyo hosts the event again in 2020. The first half tells the story
The Teahouse of the August Moon
1957 ★ 6.2In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead. Comedy japan village interpreter satire ba
Early Summer
1951 ★ 7.9In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her singl