Director: Edward Zwick

Notable Actors: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe,

Year: 2003

IMDB Score: 7.7/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 66%

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Tom Cruise stars in this American period action drama set in the 19th century - a time for modernization and change in Japan - as a Civil War veteran named Nathan Algren who is hired by Emperor Meiji to train an army capable of defeating a Samurai-headed rebellion. But, Nathan is captured by Samurais and learns about their lifestyle and the way of the warrior and soon begins to question which side he should be fighting for. This film was a big blockbuster hit and also paved way for the exposure of Japanese actor Ken Watanabe to Hollywood.

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Director: Clint Eastwood

Notable Actors: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya

Awards: Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, National Board of Review Awards for Best Picture, Japan Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film

Year: 2006

IMDB Score: 7.9/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91%

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This Japanese language-American war film portrays the campaign of Iwo Jima from the Japanese soldiers perspective, which acts as the companion to Flags of our Fathers - the American perspective. Private First Class Saigo, who was just an ordinary baker, experiences the horrors of war and looks to General Kuribayashi to lead them into battle. The film received widespread praise for its direction, story and portrayals of good and bad during wartime.

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Director: Ishiro Honda

Notable Actors: Akira Takarada, Momoko Koichi

Awards: 2007 Saturn Awards Best DVD Classic Film Release Award

Year: 1954

IMDB Score: 7.6/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%

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The classic 1954 Godzilla movie is a kaiju film (monster or beast) that started the longest running franchise film to date. With the atomic bomb droppings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still fresh in Japans mind, Godzilla is about a kaiju that has evolved from an ancient sea creature that was disturbed by underwater hydrogen bomb tests. Japan must find a way to stop this enormous, destructive sea monster from destroying Tokyo. Since its release, Godzilla has become a worldwide pop culture icon. As it was distributed by Toho, the Toho Cinemas in Shinjuku features a giant Godzilla head that can be seen peering over its building. More details about seeing the Godzilla head can be seen here.

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Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda

Notable Actors: Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Mayu Matsuoka

Awards: Asian Film Award for Best Film, Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best FIlm, Japan Academy Award for Best Picture and many more

Year: 2018

IMDB Score: 8/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 99%

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Shoplifters is a Japanese drama that revolves around a non-biological family that shoplifts to cope with their poverty. After a routine shoplifting run, Osamu, the father, and his son come across a little girl who is left outside in the cold and decide to bring her into the “family”. As the film progresses the family lives happily together, but soon reveal hidden secrets. This film has received lots of fame in Japan and on the international level.

Director: Sofia Coppola

Notable Actors: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson

Awards: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

Year: 2003

IMDB Score: 7.7/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95%

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This comedy drama presents a story of love and friendship in an unlikely bond between middle aged actor Bob Harris and neglected college graduate Charlotte in the middle of Tokyo. Both Bob and Charlotte, unused to the culture of Japan, also share a common dissatisfaction in their lives which quickly forms into a new friendship as they explore the sights and sounds of Tokyo. Lost in Translation shares a perfect balance of humor, drama and romance. It’s the perfect movie to watch before coming to Japan as it uses the backdrops of Tokyo for its scenes and features real places like the Shibuya crossing, Park Hyatt Hotel and Shinjuku.

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Director: Yojiro Takita

Notable Actors: Masahiro Motoki, Ryoko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki

Awards: Japan Academy Awards Picture of the Year, Oscars Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Year: 2008

IMDB Score: 8.1/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 80%

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Departures is a drama film that reveals the strange but unique occupation of being a nokanshi - a Japanese ritual mortician. A young man, Daigo, returns back to his hometown after failing as a cellist when he accidentally stumbles across a nokanshi job when he mistakes the job advertisements wording of “assisting departures” for a travel agency. But, after taking up as a nokanshi, he is subjected to prejudice from people around him because of the social taboos in Japan that surround this job. This drama is able to capture both tears and laughter in 2 hours in an elegant way. It’s definitely a must see film from Japan.

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Director: Kinji Fukasaku

Notable Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kitano

Awards: Blue Ribbon Award

Year: 2000

IMDB Score: 7.6/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 87%

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Battle Royale is based on the novel from 1999 which follows a class of junior high school students who are gassed and forced on an island by the totalitarian government to fight until the last survivor. Each student is given food, water, a map of the island, flashlight and a random weapon and is told to have one emerging victor in three days. Any uncooperative student or students leaving the island will die from collar detonation. This film is controversial and violent, but given universal acclaim for its unique style and interesting story. Since the release of the film, the term battle royale has been redefined as this genre or mode of entertainment where a select group of people battle each other for one emerging winner.

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Director: Akira Kurosawa

Notable Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Daisuke Kato

Awards: Venice Film Festical Silver Lion Award

Year: 1954

IMDB Score: 8.6/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%

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Directed by one of Japan’s greatest directors of the 20th century, Akira Kurosawa made Seven Samurai which had a huge cultural impact across the world. It was even adapted into the American western film The Magnificent Seven and has inspired filmmakers like Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan. Seven Samurai is set in 1586 during the Sengoku Period when war ravaged the country. It focuses on a village of farmers that hire seven ronin, or masterless samurai to protect the village from bandits who will raid the farmers after after harvest to steal their crops. The film is well known for its innovative idea of having a team assemble of heroic characters and perform a mission.

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Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Studio: Topcraft

Year: 1984

IMDB Score: 8.1/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88%

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Before the legacy of Studio Ghibli that started with Hayao Miyazaki, Miyazaki directed Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind which received lots of fame and popularity. Based off of his own manga he wrote, this film is an epic science fantasy adventure film. This film is set in a thousand years after an apocalyptic war that destroyed civilization and created a vast toxic jungle filled with poisonous forests and giant mutant creatures. Nausicaa, the princess of the Valley of the Wind, is a young woman who explores the jungle and communicates with the creatures in hopes to understand them and bring peace between humans and the creatures until she gets entangled with Tolmekia, a kingdom trying to eradicate these creatures. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind consistently ranks on greatest animated movies of all time lists and is a must watch movie for a true epic story.

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Director: Katsuhiro Otomo

Studio: TMS Entertainment

Year: 1988

IMDB Score: 8/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%

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Akira is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk film based off of the manga with the same name. Set in a dystopian 2019, Shotaro Kaneda leads a gang of bikers who finds himself in trouble after his childhood friend Tetsuo Shima crashes his bike and gains telekinetic abilities. With this power, he eventually threatens an entire military complex in the middle of a chaotic, rebellious and futuristic Neo-Tokyo. Akira is strikingly violent and moves with high energy that’ll surely keep you gripped to your seat at all times.

The end of the world was only the beginning A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopa...