Japanese movies

Japanese horror movies
25 Greatest Japanese Horror Movies, Ranked

From Noroi: The Curse (2005) to Onibaba (1964), we rank the best Japanese horror movies of all…

best samurai movies of all time
20 Best Samurai Movies Of All Time, Ranked

From Harakiri (1962) to Seven Samurai (1954), these are the best Samurai movies of all…

japanese silent movies
18 Essential Japanese Silent Films

From Souls on the Road (1921) to A Page of Madness (1926), these are some…

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All 11 Hayao Miyazaki Movies, Ranked

From Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) to Princess Mononoke (1997), here are all Hayao Miyazaki movies,…

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Drive My Car (2021) Review: Thought-Provoking Murakami Adaptation

Haruki Murakami’s stories have fascinated readers for decades now. His works have been translated from…

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All 23 Studio Ghibli Movies, Ranked

From Ponyo (2008) to My Neighbor Totoro (1997), here’s my ranking of the best Studio Ghibli movies.…

Akira Kurosawa movies
10 Greatest Akira Kurosawa Movies, Ranked

The history of cinema encompasses a rather huge chunk of world history. And within this…

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Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Explained

Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) traverses several themes — humanity, selfhood, compassion and belonging. However, the…

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25 Greatest Japanese Movies Of All Time, Ranked

From Only Yesterday (1991) to Seven Samurai (1954), here are the greatest Japanese movies of…

Nobody Knows (2004) Review: Light In The Dark

Nobody Knows is a 2004 Japanese film by Hirokazu Koreeda, of After Life and Shoplifters fame. The…

Tora-san Wish You Were Here
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here: Remembering The Evergreen Drifter

 Tora-san, Wish You Were Here, directed by Yoji Yamada, had its theatrical release in 2019.…