Japan
"japan" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Big Boobs Buster
Synopsis:
Another buxom bombshell falls prey to the masked vigilante, the Big Boobs Buster! Rumor has it that the vengeful villainess was once a mild mannered student ridiculed and rejected for her small bust size. Now, the spurned woman gets even by donning a ridiculous costume and taunting her well-endowed nemeses. Will bouncy coeds across the land be forced under cover? Is any bosomy beauty safe from th…
Starring:
Harumi Kai,
Uran Hirosaki,
Masakazu Arai
Plot:
femme fatale,
ecchi,
big tits,
slasher,
awkwardness,
female rear nudity,
japan,
nipples,
nudity,
female nudity
...
#2
Cardcaptor Sakura
Synopsis:
Sakura Kinomoto, an elementary school student who discovers that she possesses magical powers after accidentally freeing a set of magical cards from the book they had been sealed in for years. She is then tasked with retrieving those cards in order to avoid an unknown catastrophe from befalling the world.
Starring:
Tomokazu Seki,
Aya Hisakawa,
Megumi Ogata
Plot:
friendship,
magic,
elementary school,
romance,
coming of age,
based on manga,
magic book,
cards,
school,
shoujo
...
#3
Yu Yu Hakusho
Synopsis:
One day, 14-year-old Yusuke Urameshi suddenly finds himself dead, having died pushing a child out of the way of oncoming traffic. Since he has such a bad personality, even the Spirit World was caught by surprise that he would sacrifice himself. Yusuke soon finds out he wasn't supposed to die and has a chance for resurrection and bringing his body back to life. After being resurrected, Yusuke beco…
Starring:
Nozomu Sasaki,
Mayumi Tanaka,
Megumi Ogata
#4
Ranma ½
Synopsis:
Saotome Ranma, a teenage martial artist, and his father Genma travel to the 'cursed training ground' of Jusenkyo in China. There, despite the warnings of the Chinese guard, they fall into the cursed springs. From now on, whenever Ranma is doused in cold water, he turns in to a girl, and a cute, well-built red-head at that. Hot water changes him back into a man again, but only until the next time.…
Starring:
Megumi Hayashibara,
Kappei Yamaguchi
#5
Beyblade Burst
Synopsis:
Middle schooler Valt Aoi, with his Beyblade Valtryek, faces off against friends, classmates and rivals to become the world's number one Blader.
Starring:
Marina Inoue
Plot:
japan,
based on toy,
shounen,
beating the odds,
alternative world,
battle,
teenager,
stadium,
fighting top,
surrealism
...
#6
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
Synopsis:
Japan has been invaded and conquered by the Britannian Empire. Japan is now known as Area 11 and its citizens known as Elevens. The Britannian Empire takes away Japan's autonomous power and imposes its rule through the use of Knightmares. The Empire's rule has never faltered, but cracks have begun to show...
Starring:
Takahiro Sakurai,
Jun Fukuyama,
Ami Koshimizu
Plot:
mind control,
politics,
war strategy,
mecha,
military,
supernatural power,
robot,
academy,
secret identity,
xenophobia
...
#7
Doraemon
Synopsis:
Doraemon is an anime TV series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and based on the manga series of the same name. This anime is the much more successful successor of the 1973 anime.
Starring:
Michiko Nomura,
Kazuya Tatekabe,
Kaneta Kimotsuki
Plot:
japan,
time travel,
school life,
doraemon,
anime,
eyeglasses,
doroyaki,
musophobia,
talking animal,
boy wears eyeglasses
...
#8
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
Synopsis:
Bullies often target someone frail and weak—someone exactly like Yûgi Muto. He treasures his Millennium Puzzle, an ancient Egyptian artifact that was brought into his grandfather's game shop. Believing that solving the puzzle will grant him his wish, he completes the puzzle, unleashing a new personality within him, the soul of the "King of Games." The new personality named Yami Yûgi is the exact …
Starring:
Kenjiro Tsuda,
Tetsuya Iwanaga,
Hiroki Takahashi
Plot:
monster,
card game,
magic,
giant monster,
adversary,
child,
trading card,
psychotronic series,
calling your attacks,
yu gi oh
...
#9
Tokyo Ghoul
Synopsis:
Ken Kaneki is a bookworm college student who meets a girl names Rize at a cafe he frequents. They're the same age and have the same interests, so they quickly become close. Little does Kaneki know that Rize is a ghoul – a kind of monster that lives by hunting and devouring human flesh. When part of her special organ – "the red child" – is transplanted into Kaneki, he becomes a ghoul himself, trap…
Starring:
Natsuki Hanae,
Sora Amamiya,
Sumire Morohoshi
Plot:
monster,
dystopia,
supernatural,
secret organization,
gore,
anime,
coffee shop,
college student,
human hybrid,
organ transplant
...
#10
Gintama
Synopsis:
In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, an unemployed samurai finds work however he can.
Starring:
Akira Ishida,
Kenichi Suzumura,
Takehito Koyasu
Plot:
samurai,
sword,
katana,
parody,
space invasion,
anachronism,
male full frontal nudity,
anime,
japan,
shounen
...
#11
You Only Live Twice
Synopsis:
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
Starring:
Sean Connery,
Bernard Lee,
Lois Maxwell
#12
Yojimbo
Synopsis:
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and un…
Starring:
Eijirô Tôno,
Takashi Shimura,
Tatsuya Nakadai
Plot:
samurai,
gang war,
tough guy,
revolver,
bodyguard,
small town,
captive woman,
mother son reunion,
rivalry,
ronin
...
#13
Woman in the Dunes
Synopsis:
An entomologist suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village.
Starring:
Eiji Okada,
Kyōko Kishida,
Hiroko Itō
#14
Windtalkers
Synopsis:
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
Starring:
Mark Ruffalo,
Nicolas Cage,
Peter Stormare
Plot:
navajo indian,
year 1944,
saipan,
military,
japanese army,
japanese soldier,
arizona,
tortoise,
semper fi,
bigotry
...
#15
Wasabi
Synopsis:
Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.
Starring:
Jean Reno,
Carole Bouquet,
Yoshi Oida
Plot:
frenchman abroad,
hit with a golf ball,
dinner date,
will,
video arcade,
facial scar,
stadium,
sidekick,
kyoto japan,
wasabi
...
#16
Ugetsu
Synopsis:
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
Starring:
Machiko Kyō,
Masayuki Mori,
Kichijirô Ueda
Plot:
rape victim,
civil war,
samurai,
ambition,
japan,
16th century,
pottery,
tragedy,
palace,
marriage
...
#17
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Synopsis:
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Starring:
James Whitmore,
Wesley Addy,
Martin Balsam
#18
Tokyo Story
Synopsis:
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Starring:
Chishū Ryū,
Nobuo Nakamura,
Eijirô Tôno
Plot:
doctor,
widow,
teacher,
selfishness,
hairdresser,
estrangement,
family reunion,
post world war two,
marriage,
loneliness
...
#19
Throne of Blood
Synopsis:
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan…
Starring:
Takashi Shimura,
Toshirō Mifune,
Minoru Chiaki
Plot:
tragedy,
villain,
opening a door,
visit,
shot with an arrow,
shot with multiple arrows,
ride,
rider,
horseman,
spear
...
#20
The Last Emperor
Synopsis:
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
Starring:
Joan Chen,
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa,
Peter O'Toole
Plot:
china,
based on true story,
emperor,
1950s,
chinese history,
1930s,
1910s,
flash forward,
symbolism,
childhood
...