20+ Best Japanese movies to watch online (October 2024)
2019-09-23 | FlixCatalog Staff
Looking for some of the best Japanese movie you can watch online in US? Fret not, we are here to help you. Here is a list of all the Japanese movie you can watch on some of your favourite OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar. Amazon Prime Video has the most content in this language amongst all streaming platforms.
There's no definitive separation as long as there is memory'. Since the Tsunami hit the northern part of Japan's coast in 2011, more than 20 thousand people lost their lives, and many ...
8.8/1078 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O.
8.8/10148 min
Available in 11 platform(s).
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
8.6/10125 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
8.5/10104 min
Available in 10 platform(s).
A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34.
8.5/10106 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
8.5/1089 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe.
8.4/10181 min
Available in 13 platform(s).
Two strangers find themselves linked in a bizarre way. When a connection forms, will distance be the only thing to keep them apart?
8.4/10106 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
From the orange and gold of fall to the pink blossoms of spring, Signatures follows an entire winter in the hardwoods of Hokkaido, Japan. Deep January blower to April corn, we bring you a ...
8.4/1051 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.
8.4/1092 min
Available in 14 platform(s).
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
8.4/10134 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
If there was anyone you could call a true queen of J-pop, it's most definitely Utada Hikaru. She's one of the best selling artists in Japan of all time, with her debut album hitting almost ...
8.3/10141 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Spectacular BABYMETAL show feat. Su-Metal's first triumphal return to her hometown, Hiroshima on Dec 2 and 3, 2017. The stage set was reminiscent of rocky mountains and shrines which was graced by a brawny performance by the fox warriors.
8.3/10106 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
An Irish doctor survived the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki and was given a Samurai sword for the lives he saved. 70 years later his family searches for the origin of their father's sword.
8.3/1070 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Using extensive interviews with survivors and archival footage, an examination reveals the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
8.3/1086 min
Available in 10 platform(s).
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.
8.2/10119 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
8.2/10111 min
Available in 14 platform(s).
An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
8.2/10132 min
Available in 11 platform(s).
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
8.2/10162 min
Available in 11 platform(s).
American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.
8.1/10152 min
Available in 9 platform(s).
Aquà sigo (Still here) brings together the existential ponderings of the people around us who most deserve to be listened to, those who have lived the longest. We travel the world hearing memories of love and loss, of joy and hardship.
8.1/1087 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A young man is ostracized by his classmates after he bullies a deaf girl to the point where she moves away. Years later, he sets off on a path for redemption.
8.1/10130 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
8.1/10145 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.
8.1/10139 min
Available in 12 platform(s).
A documentary about the German Industrial Metal band Rammstein. Especially centering on their relationship with the USA, cumulating in the group's 2010 New York concert.
8.1/10143 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
The stunning discovery of the lost letters of Anne Frank's father, Otto reveal an unknown chapter of their family's life.
8.1/1073 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
A Delhi girl from a traditional family sets out on a solo honeymoon after her marriage gets cancelled.
8.1/10146 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident while hunting for food for their children, a young woman must find ways to raise the werewolf son and daughter that she had with him while keeping their trait hidden from society.
8.1/10117 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Three friends decide to turn their fantasy vacation into reality after one of their friends gets engaged.
8.1/10155 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
A college professor bonds with an abandoned dog he takes into his home.
8.1/1093 min
Available in 9 platform(s).
A remix of images and sounds, using a films original material and mixing it with new imagery.
8.1/1079 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
Each member of a middle class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.
8.1/10173 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
In the 1920's, when Taiwan is Japan's colony, the small town Chiu-Fen was famous of its gold mines. Escaping from the landlord's control, Chu and Wei join the gold rush in Chiu-Fen, hoping ...
8.1/10165 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.
8.1/1086 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
A documentary following Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old WW2 veteran notorious for his protests against Emperor Hirohito, as he tries to expose the needless executions of two Japanese soldiers during the war.
8.1/10122 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
8.1/10117 min
Available in 10 platform(s).
Riko, Reg, and their new friend, Nanachi, continue their journey down the Abyss and arrive at the 5th layer. But in order for them to continue to the 6th layer, they must encounter the haunting figure of Nanachi's past: Bondrewd the Novel.
8/10113 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
Young Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
8/10164 min
Available in 11 platform(s).
Shintaro is a Tokyo janitor who moonlights as a pro wrestler in an underground league called Doglegs. He's had 20 glorious years in the ring but now he's getting old and wants to pursue his...
8/1089 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
At party held at Phantomhive Manor is; in secret, a set up by Ciel to gather information on one of his guest for the queen. But when the attended target is murder in the middle of night, ...
8/10116 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.
8/10137 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
On December 18, Kyon finds that several traces of the SOS Brigade have mysteriously disappeared from his life. Mikuru and Yuki do not seem to recall meeting him, and Haruhi and Itsuki do ...
8/10162 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
During the Japanese invasion of 1937, when a wealthy martial artist is forced to leave his home and work to support his family, he reluctantly agrees to train others in the art of Wing Chun for self-defense.
8/10106 min
Available in 24 platform(s).
A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.
8/10237 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.
8/10130 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
8/10141 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
Concurrent theatrical ending of the TV series Shin Seiki Evangelion (1995).
8/1087 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
8/1081 min
Available in 11 platform(s).
Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
8/10102 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.
8/10124 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.
8/10128 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
8/10125 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
Warrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
8/10117 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
8/1083 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
The final chapter in the Heaven's feel trilogy. Angra Mainyu has successfully possessed his vessel Sakura Matou . It's up to Rin, Shiro, and Rider to cleanse the grail or it will be the end of the world and magecraft as we all know it.
8/10120 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
The story focuses on the Holy Grail War and explores the relationship between Shirou Emiya and Sakura Matou, two teenagers participating in this conflict. The story continues immediately ...
7.9/10117 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.
7.9/10121 min
Available in 12 platform(s).
Director Naoko Nobutomo chronicling the enduring love, resilience and struggles of her nonagenarian parents as her mother's Alzheimer's-related dementia gradually worsens.
7.9/10102 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.
7.9/10137 min
Available in 13 platform(s).
Part 3 of Kizumonogatari (Wound Tale) trilogy, based on a light novel by Nisio Isin.
7.9/1083 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force.
7.9/10150 min
Available in 9 platform(s).
In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.
7.9/10117 min
Available in 17 platform(s).
As the truth behind the girls' contracts with Kyubey is revealed, Madoka has to make the ultimate decision to either see those she love the most die before her eyes or to sacrifice her life as a normal girl and help out her friends in need.
7.9/10109 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
7.9/10127 min
Available in 13 platform(s).
Under constant attack by Angels, NERV introduces two new pilots: the mysterious Makinami Mari Illustrous and the intense Asuka Langley Shikinami. Parallel to the incursion, Gendo Ikari and ...
7.9/10112 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A hacker known as the Puppet Master is hunted by a female cyborg cop and her partner. This film is a revised version of Ghost in the Shell (1995).
7.9/1083 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
7.9/10115 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
7.9/10141 min
Available in 10 platform(s).
The ostensible subject of this remarkably beautiful film is the growing, drying, peeling and packaging of persimmons in the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama. The inhabitants explain that...
7.9/1090 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
A love story between a girl who loves reading books, and a boy who has previously checked out all of the library books she chooses.
7.9/10111 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
7.9/1083 min
Available in 10 platform(s).
The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.
7.9/10123 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.
7.9/10114 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
7.9/10120 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
7.9/10180 min
Available in 9 platform(s).
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
7.9/10108 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Trailed by a clan of female ninja, Ogami is paid to assassinate a clan traitor accompanied by three killers known as the Gods of Death.
7.9/1082 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
In London at the end of the 19th century and after the events of Princess Principal (2017). The Empire is increasing counter-spy actions in the wake of the incident, and finds Control, the ...
7.8/1054 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Otose Nishizono ages out of the orphanage system on her 18th birthday to begin a new life in her own apartment and starts her very first job at a hotel cleaning rooms. But her troubling ...
7.8/1090 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
A group of youths aspiring to become professional superheroes, fight in a world full of people with abilities, also known as quirks. Deku and his fellow classmates from Hero Academy face Nine, the strongest villain yet.
7.8/10104 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
After departing from Ozen's camp, Riko and Reg continue their journey, encountering more dangers as they descend further into the Abyss.
7.8/10110 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Goku and Vegeta encounter Broly, a Saiyan warrior unlike any fighter they've faced before.
7.8/10100 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.
7.8/10101 min
Available in 10 platform(s).
Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the...
7.8/10129 min
Available in 11 platform(s).
Can we really be fully human without Free Speech? Is Free Speech the oxygen of our society? Without it we crumble.
7.8/1080 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
The film documents the rise and fall of the Wufeng Lin family in Wufeng, Taiwan over the turbulent years of Taiwan under the administrations of the Qing dynasty, Japan, and Republic of China.
7.8/10108 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
It's been some years since the end of the Shinobi War. Naruto Uzumaki is the 7th Hokage of Konohagakure, in this new era. His son, Boruto Uzumaki, will soon enter the Chûnin exams, alongside Sarada Uchiha and the mysterious Mitsuki.
7.8/1095 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
After the events of the anime, Rintarou begins to feel the repercussions of extensive time travel, and eventually completely fades from reality. Kurisu, being the only companion to remember him, now must find a way to bring him back.
7.8/1090 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
Madoka Kaname used to be a normal girl living happy days of her life. This all ended when she sacrificed herself in order to save other magical girls from the utterly cruel fate that ...
7.8/10116 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
A year has passed since Guts parted ways with Griffith. The Band of the Hawks is plotting a rescue mission to save Griffith who is confined to prison.
7.8/10110 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
Ryota 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.
7.8/10121 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
A former Marine stands in the way of the Straw Hat Pirates.
7.8/10108 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Real heroes faced the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami tragedy. The battle to rebuild Japan continues - and the world must not forget their story.
7.8/1097 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
7.8/10143 min
Available in 10 platform(s).
A documentary on 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono, his renowned Tokyo restaurant, and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Yoshikazu.
7.8/1081 min
Available in 21 platform(s).
ANPO: Art X War tells the story of Japan's historic resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan through an electrifying array of artwork created by Japan's foremost artists. The film ...
7.8/1089 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A swordsman from a strange land is caught in a struggle between morality, righteousness, and devotion as he reluctantly agrees to take a raggedy boy and his dog to a remote, Buddhist temple.
7.8/10103 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
By following the lives of five Japanese individuals this documentary explores the problem of depression in Japan and how the marketing of anti-depressant drugs has changed the way the ...
7.8/1082 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A.D. 2034. It has been two years since Motoko Kusanagi left Section 9. Togusa is now the new leader of the team, that has considerably increased its appointed personnel. The expanded new ...
7.8/10108 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
Documentary with dramatic reenactments with actors to describe what dropping the bomb on Hiroshima was like.
7.8/1090 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
7.8/1090 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
A continuation of the story told in the Daft Punk music videos "One More Time," "Aerodynamic," "Digital Love," and "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger."
7.8/1068 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.
7.8/10154 min
Available in 11 platform(s).
A TV interviewer and his cameraman meet a former actress and travel through her memories and career.
7.8/1087 min
Available in 12 platform(s).
A terrorist explosion releases a deadly virus on the masses, and it's up the bounty-hunting Bebop crew to catch the cold-blooded culprit.
7.8/10115 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
The traumatized survivors of a murderous bus hijacking come together and take a road trip to attempt to overcome their damaged selves. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose.
7.8/10217 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
7.8/10157 min
Available in 10 platform(s).
A vagabond swordsman is aided by a beautiful ninja girl and a crafty spy in confronting a demonic clan of killers - with a ghost from his past as their leader - who are bent on overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate.
7.8/1094 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
In a dark future where the Androids have taken over Earth, Gohan and his student Trunks are the last defense against these deadly killing machines.
7.8/1047 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
How the Japanese process American pop culture and make it their own -- a mind-bending odyssey through cultural mixing.
7.8/1056 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
The tale of Bardock, the father of Goku, and his rebellion against his master the mighty Frieza.
7.8/1048 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
7.8/10103 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An old woman is getting close to the cut-off age, and we follow her last days with her family.
7.8/10130 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
Summer vacation is drawing to an end. When Suguru wins a free trip to Okinawa, all of the five students of Asahigaoka branch school are excited to end their vacation with a bang. Along with...
7.7/1071 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
7.7/10135 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A look inside the underground punk rock scene in Osaka, Japan. With live concert footage from Flat Sucks, PiPi, By-Pass, Low Card de la morte, C.W. and more.
7.7/1047 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A relationship between two high school second years, Licht Sajo, who is an honor student, and Hikaru Kusakabe, who plays in a rock band.
7.7/1060 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
In the spring of his second year of high school, Koyomi Araragi met the beautiful vampire Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade. Koyomi saved Kiss-shot, who was on the verge of death ...
7.7/1068 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
The filmmaker's grandfather worked at the Red Cross after the Hiroshima bombing. Her quest to learn why he never talked about his experiences takes a new turn after Fukushima's catastrophe.
7.7/1079 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
The Jomon period three thousand years ago produced clay figurines and other artifacts which interest Goro. That is why it is fascinating for him when he meets Momoko who has a mysterious ...
7.7/10\N min
Available in 6 platform(s).
Due to 12 y.o. Anna's asthma, she's sent to stay with relatives of her guardian in the Japanese countryside. She likes to be alone, sketching. She befriends Marnie. Who is the mysterious, blonde Marnie.
7.7/10103 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
7.7/10185 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
Follows the routines of those employed at Studio Ghibli, including filmmakers Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki as they work to release two films simultaneously, The Wind Rises and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.
7.7/10