#2010s Best Japanese Movies
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- DirectorHideaki AnnoShinji HiguchiStarsHiroki HasegawaYutaka TakenouchiSatomi IshiharaJapan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsHaruka AyaseMasami NagasawaKahoThree sisters who live in their grandmother's home invite their thirteen-year-old half sister, whom they have just met, to join them.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsMasaharu FukuyamaMachiko OnoYôko MakiRyota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.
- DirectorHitoshi ÔneStarsYûmi GotôTokie HiroseAya KunitakeNine men and women gather at a house party. The men are disappointed with a woman's appearance. People try to lighten the mood, but there is an awkwardness. The house party ends. Dates among the nine men and women begin.
- DirectorMasato HaradaStarsTakuya KimuraKazunari NinomiyaYuriko YoshitakaMogami Takeshi works at the Tokyo prosecutor's office focusing on violent criminal cases. Okino Keiichiro admires him and is happy to be assigned to work with Mogami. When a money lender is killed for his dealings with the deceased one Matsukura Shigeo is considered a suspect. He has a past involving a schoolgirl and the prosecutors strive to make the case.
- DirectorKeisuke YoshidaStarsKumiko AsôShôta YasudaYôko AkinoMabuchi and Yoshimi meet at a screenwriting class. Mabuchi works hard to become a writer, but can't see a future for herself. Meanwhile, Yoshimi is a bigmouth who never tries hard at anything. These two people's fate intertwined.
- DirectorKeisuke YoshidaStarsGô MoritaGaku HamadaAimi SatsukawaGetting two stories in one, Himeanôru depicts the story of co-workers where one of them is gunning to make a cafe's waitress his. When the co-worker visits the said cafe to see the waitress his friend is yearning for, he also meets an old class-mate he has not seen in some time. In a twist and transition the waitress tells the visiting co-worker that she is being stalked by a man. That man is none other than the old class-mate.
- DirectorDaihachi YoshidaStarsRyunosuke KamikiAi HashimotoSuzuka OhgoA story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how this affects every person in his school.
- DirectorHitoshi ÔneStarsTakeru SatohRyunosuke KamikiNana KomatsuMoritaka Mashiro, a junior high student, forgets his notebook in class. His classmate Akito Takagi, notes Mashiro's drawings in it and asks him to become a manga artist to his stories. Mashiro declines. Takagi incites Mashiro to meet with Miho Azuki, Mashiro's crush, and tells her the two plan to become mangakas (manga artists). In response, Azuki reveals her plans to be a seiyuu (voice actress). Mashiro proposes to her that they should both marry when Azuki becomes a voice actress for the anime adaptation of their manga. The two then start creating their manga, under the pen name Muto Ashirogi, in hopes of getting serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump.
- DirectorKeisuke YoshidaStarsMasataka KubotaHirofumi AraiKeiko EnoueKazunari, a quiet and well-behaved young man, works at a printing company. On the other hand, his older brother, Takushi, is a short-tempered, typical troublemaker who was just released from jail. Yuria, a hard-working lady at a local printing factory has a young sister, Mako, who is very attractive and popular, unlike Yuria. The life of these brothers and sisters comes across suddenly, and two pairs of "cat-and-dog" siblings accelerate their fight.
- DirectorHitoshi ÔneStarsSatoshi TsumabukiKiko MizuharaHirofumi AraiThirty-five-year-old Yuji Koroki likes singer Tamio Okuda. He is useless with women in the tradition of films like Train Man or My life Changed When I Went To A Sex Parlour. He works at a popular magazine and has a difficult time with the banter of those coworkers around. There is Akari though and is lovely and flaunting and hence desirable and attractive to Yuji and all men. With love comes misery however as Yuji is soon deep in both.
- DirectorNorihiro KoizumiStarsSuzu HiroseShûhei NomuraMackenyuThe first part of the "Chihayafuru" trilogy. Chihaya is a high school student who loves Karuta, a traditional card game from Japan. Chihaya and her friends start a Karuta club at high school to become the greatest Karuta player in Japan.
- DirectorHitoshi ÔneStarsMirai MoriyamaMasami NagasawaKumiko Asô31 years old, broke, single and lonely Yukio encounters four beautiful women suddenly appearing in his life. Will he be able to escape his "Moteki" status?
- DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsTakako MatsuYoshino KimuraMasaki OkadaA psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.
- DirectorNorihiro KoizumiStarsSuzu HiroseShûhei NomuraMackenyuThe third part of the "Chihayafuru" trilogy that takes place 2 years after "Chihayafuru Part II". Chihaya is now a high school senior who is ready to enter another national competition alongside her friends.
- DirectorNorihiro KoizumiStarsSuzu HiroseShûhei NomuraMackenyuThe second part of the "Chihayafuru" trilogy following the Karuta tournament in Tokyo. Chihaya's team is ready for the national competition. However, she is disappointed to hear that her childhood best friend has quit the game.
- DirectorShô MiyakeStarsTasuku EmotoShizuka IshibashiTomomitsu AdachiA love triangle that captures all the magic and melancholy of a summer, concentrating on the fleeting moments and encounters experienced by its three protagonists.
- DirectorIsao YukisadaStarsMana AshidaMisato AoyamaAki HanoLittle Kokko is only in third grade of her primary school, but is already dissatis2fied, inquisitive, defiant and angst-ridden. It has little to do with her family either. It is all from within. She has a large family and yet - perhaps that is why she wants nothing to do with anybody and prefers to be a loner. Still, there are all the questions.
- DirectorDaisuke MiuraStarsKasumi ArimuraSakurako MizukiFumi NikaidôLooking for jobs, five young friends regularly meet at one's apartment. Judging and gauging one another by their ability to land job pits the friends as also competitors. When one of the friends finds work the remaining four feel abandoned and the relationships are not the same anymore.
- DirectorTatsuya NagamineStarsMasako NozawaAya HisakawaRyô HorikawaGoku and Vegeta encounter Broly, a Saiyan warrior unlike any fighter they've faced before.
- DirectorSang-il LeeStarsKen WatanabeMirai MoriyamaAoi MiyazakiA grisly unsolved murder links three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities.
- DirectorMasaaki AkahoriStarsHirofumi AraiKaho MinamiTomokazu MiuraAn overbearing father, frightened mother, laid off elder bother, the family makes young brother to be an indiscriminate monster.
- DirectorDaisuke MiuraStarsSôsuke IkematsuMugi KadowakiKen'ichi TakitôFrom midnight to 5 AM, people gather at a high-end apartment in Roppongi to engage in promiscuous sexual activity. Story depicts the process of the men and women who meet for the first time there to have loveless sex.
- DirectorTakashi YamazakiStarsMinami HamabeJun KunimuraMasaki SudaIn 1933, a young naval officer and math prodigy uncovers a conspiracy regarding the construction of Japanese warships for the ongoing World War 2.
- DirectorDaisuke MiuraStarsKazunobu MinetaMei KurokawaRyûhei MatsudaToshiyuki Tanishi (Mr Tanishi) is a 29-year-old chronic masturbator and toy vending machine salesman - he is socially awkward and down on his luck. Things change when he meets Chiharu a pretty woman who might actually be into him. Unfortunately, he has competition for Chiharu's affection from handsome, rival vending salesman Aoyama.