Does anyone know where I can find/watch the two films “Midori no chiheisen zenpen” and “Midori no chiheisen kohen” from 1935, in which actress Setsuko Hara played? I'm really interested in watching them just from the titles, but I can't find anything about them on the internet.

I am looking for some movies, possibly upbeat, where Eita Nagayama is involved in. Can anyone recommend me some?

IIRC, I have only seen him on two films: The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker (2007) and Summer Time Machine Blues (2005), which I both enjoyed.

hey!! i was wondering where i could watch the movie island of the light directed by tetsuya matsushima. ive tried looking everywhere for answers and just couldnt find any. would really love to check this off my watchlist.

Sorry if this is the wrong sub, I'm totally new to this website but I figured this could be the right place to ask?

Basically, I've been looking for this Japanese movie I can only vaguely remember the opening scene of and it's been tormenting me a little.

In the scene there's this two-story house near the sea, the sky is all gloomy and the lighting is blue-ish, I think it's around dawn. There's a song playing in the background, I think, and possibly some voiceover from the main character. The next bit shows a bedroom inside the house where a girl is waking up from her futon, frazzled, to the sound of someone (her parents?) calling for her to come join them for breakfast from downstairs. It all looked very 2000-2010, from the overall feel of the scene to the fashion, which I can't describe exactly but it gave me that vibe at the time.

The only other detail I can add is that I don't think it was an auteur film, it was most likely a tv movie, so no cinema/wide release unfortunately.

Thank you in advance for your help!

EDIT: it's "Taiyou no Uta" (2006), thank you u/ZiviAevalia!

Hey there I am from India and I have a lot of trouble finding japanese movies on the net. If anybody here has any domain that they know where we Indians can stream and download the movies it will be a lot of help

Thank you!

Hey guys!

I want to watch Dynamite Dondon/Noisy Dynamite but I can't find it. Once i was able to watch it but I lost the link :(

The movie is super fun and I want to watch it again. THANKS IN ADVANCE

What is wrong with the writers of this god damn movie. It went from so god damn sweet to so god dam sad so fast.

Let my heart rest for one god dam second man. How are you going to do that to us?

does anybody have a google drive link to this movie or something? I cant find it anywhere

I have a friend who’s a big fan of japanese movies and he’s been looking for shiki-jitsu/ ritual. i’m hoping to find a physical version of the movie to buy him as a present but i have a hard time finding it. I know it’s supposed to be in europe and america but Is it hard to find it in japan ?

Basically in the UK there is a tradition of playing James Bond movies every Christmas since the late 80s on iTV one of the big 5 national broadcasting stations which basically included as local channels as an expected standard across the country. So every Christmas they play every film released in the franchise at that point from Dr. No all the way to the newest movie released just last year on iTV. This tradition still continues today.

So I'm wondering since by the 70s Godzilla already had 15 movies released........ Was there a similar run of "Godzilla seasons"on major holiday breaks annually on Japan's free local OTA TV channels across the country? Well to be pedantic on their own Big 3 or Big 5 or whatever national TV broadcasting station thats pretty much included on local channels across Japan like whatever's their own equivalent of iTV? If this is a tradition in Japan, does it still continue today and how much do they update the seasonal rosters? Like Would Minus 1 be included during 2024's own Godzilla holiday season for audiences to watch for free on Fuji TV or whatever national TV Network included a standard in local channels within the country that is Japan's counterpart to iTV?

Today I finished watching perfect days Next in my lineup are:- The parades A bride for rip van Winkle

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So backstory is I was on a plane in 2018 and watched a GREAT Japanese Horror / Thriller film that to this day I can't remember the name of. I have tried multiple times throughout the years to describe the plot to people and no one knows wtf I'm talking about so have come here to give it another shot.

PREMISE / PLOT (NB: Some details may be wrong, but this is the overall gist)

A young-ish guy works in I believe a tourism or local government office for his city in rural Japan, which is suffering from de-population. In order to combat this, he comes up with or is tasked with executing this plan to re-populate the city with convicts from a local prison.

There are about 10 prisoners?? who seem pretty high security risk honestly, who come to live in the town and he gets to know each of them. Pretty soon, people start dying and obviously suspicion falls on the ex-cons. Main guy is reserving judgement because he is in love with one of the ex-cons, a young woman who protests her innocence, and seems nice until all signs of the murders start pointing to her.

There's also something about a fish festival and a sea monster?? Like it's a fishing town?

ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS?

I'm just trying to find more highly rated 2024 Japanese films that I could find digitally (through streaming sites or...you know, the other way), preferably non-anime but if it's not relying on me having to have seen a pre existing anime then I'm open to it!

Thank you!!!

I’ve been getting into Korean movies lately.

But also know Japanese films are great too.

What films would you recommend which have great twists and stories?

I recently watched Shunji Iwai’s “The King of Snow” and even though it wasn’t a masterpiece I really liked its format, aesthetics and length (around 25 min). So I was wondering if anyone could recommend similar short movies? I’m talking self contained stories, filmed for TV from the 90’s and early 00’s, sorry if it’s too specific lol, I just really dug the vibe of this short.

Hey all, its been a long time since Ive seen the movie but about 10ish years ago I saw the strangest Japanese movie on netflix and cant remember the title for the life of me. Its about a boy ( i think he’s a high school student) who learns that the world will be ending. So he decides to kidnap his crush and they go somewhere. She catches a cold and dies from it. He leaves her dead body on a bench along side the road. There is also a ridiculous scene where he tries to bang some girl and literally unloads a bunch of mayonnaise all over her bum. In the end of the movie he comes into contact with some kind of weird cult I think.

I know this isn’t a whole lot to go off of but I think tnt scenes ive described are so bizarre that if anyone else saw this movie… well, you will know haha. Thanks in advance for the help!!

I have come across discussions suggesting that Japanese cinema lost its allure in the 2010s. However, I believe this perspective overlooks the vast potential within the industry. While I have only seen 20-30 Japanese films, I can confidently assert that in the past, filmmakers have pushed boundaries across genres, from mainstream to pink and V-cinema, redefining what Japanese cinema can be. Moreover, the creativity of manga writers parallels that of filmmakers, indicating untapped opportunities for innovation. Instead of dismissing contemporary works, we should embrace the rich tapestry of stories awaiting exploration in Japanese cinema. Thank you for reading this from an Indian student.

Hii, so recently I have been really invested in Japanese films and I've watched various that I feel they have something in common but I don't know how are this type of films called or what are them related to. For now I would like to watch more films that includes weird cinematography, subcultures of Japan or films that shows how was the life in Japan through 90's-00's. But I'm completely open to other recommendations 💕 Here some of the films that I've watched and has the style I'm looking for:

• Kamikaze girls
• Peep "TV" show
• Love and pop
• Love exposure
• All about Lily Chou-Chou
• Love and other cults
• Girls life (2008)

Also If anyone know weird japanese movies not that romaticed and more realistic and abstracts pls recommend me! Thank you all

There was one movie on youtube, it's a japanese one. All I remember is the female lead was a teacher I think, she wears glasses and the japanese uniform. I also remember a kiss scene in the library. Sorry this is all I remember, I'm not sure but the female lead was kinda depressed. Thank you :)

So my friend was really close with a professor we had for a Japanese Cinema course in university, actually a bunch of my friends and I decided to take it back then because it had a ton of open seats. Anyway, this professor recently was giving away his collection because he's moving to a different country, and he actually gave all his DVDs to my friend. He's got probably pretty much any Japanese movie you can think of from before 2020 or so maybe (not literally any but just an insanely staggering amount of movies, a few which don't even have an average rating on Letterboxd due to too few reviews). Pretty much every great Japanese director's got at least one or two if not several movies in there, at least a few of them for most.

Anyways, we had a stroke of fate in that also recently a different friend of ours started working somewhere with a big screening room - the screen there is near the size of a nationwide chain movie theater screen. We want to take advantage with the collection we just came into. The "issue" is, there's so many that the sheer amount is making us unsure what to even start watching. We did watch stuff like Seven Samurai, Ran, Kwaidan, Godzilla in there for the class but it wasnt a long enough class to where we watched every single classic, so don't be afraid to name movies which seem "obvious" too. We want to take the most advantage we can of the screen and projector which are both really, really good, so whatever works best for that is desired

Best known for for movies The Silk Road, Get Up!, Tsuribaka Nisshi & TV drama Monkey. He was 76 years old. Investigative sources say that he was found collapsed at his home in Setagaya Ward in Tokyo on Thursday, and was confirmed dead on the spot. Police are investigating details.

Recently watched one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking movies I have ever seen called “Analog” on a British Airways” flight, I wanted to show my wife, but it doesn’t exist anywhere online… no streaming, no places to buy either? I have never experienced this before with a movie, any insight as to why? Or how I can get my hands on a way to watch it again?

My heart cried after watching this film.