Japan Movies

Short animation by Renzo and Sayoko Kinoshita satirizes in a non narrative way the 'economic animal' Japan and predicted the economic recession in the...

How the Japanese process American pop culture and make it their own -- a mind-bending odyssey through cultural mixing.

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

Pulitzer Prize -- winning journalist John Hersey caused a sensation when he published "Hiroshima", the first account for American readers of the horro...

This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in northern Japan, portraying people from tightly knit...

37 year old sales manager Iwatsu is so caught up in work, he's unable to truly live his life. One night while looking at his graduation album on his p...

A coming-of-age story about a high-school girl who wants to use magic, featuring the 11-member experimental band Vampillia

From resting trees, to violent waters, to blood splattered in the dirt. A wanderer searches for tranquility in 13th century Japan during the Mongol in...

Samurai Japan won the 2023 World Baseball Classic for the first time in 14 years, and went all the way to the final undefeated. In addition to the nev...

Animated short film for Shinsei Kamattechan's song "Ruru's Suicide Show on a Livestream."

Takeda is a film about the universality of the human being seen thru the eyes of a Japanese painter that has adopted the Mexican culture.

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

Young girl Saori, a cook at a diner, loves cooking. There is a regular customer Kujo, a guy who has never touched the plate of her cooking. Saori deci...

A history of baseball in Japan told by three Journalists from different parts of the world .

As described by Oliver Sykes, "The most offensive, vulgar, awkward, retarded band DVD of all time. But also the funniest and the best."

A look inside the underground punk rock scene in Osaka, Japan. With live concert footage from SK8NIKS, Flat Sucks, PiPi, By-Pass, Low Card de la morte...

Andrew Graham-Dixon takes a break from his art critic day job to immerse himself in the art, rituals and practices of the Japanese warrior cult. Will...

In a dystopian present, a young Japanese-American man battles the cascading effects of his family's wrongful incarceration in the 1940s.

The Pearl Jam Movie!! That’s right. Made in 1995 by the band when Jack Irons was drummer and filmed over the course of their 1995 Far-East tour in Jap...

A honeymoon in Japan gets examined microscopically through comics, cards, magazines, and more in this delightful animated film.