20+ Best Japanese movies on Netflix (December 2024)
Dec 25, 2024 | FlixCatalog Staff
There is no limit to the number of movies and TV shows you can find online on OTT platforms. Deciding on what to watch can be a painful experience sometimes. Looking for the best movie to watch on Netflix? We are here to help. Here is a list of the Top 98 movie to watch on netflix this December.
Fun Fact: The average IMDB rating of all the movies in this list is 6.55 .
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.
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).
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 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).
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).
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).
Concurrent theatrical ending of the TV series Shin Seiki Evangelion (1995).
8/1087 min
Available in 8 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).
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 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).
For three years, Guts believed his mission was to pursue Griffith's dream together with him. But in order to become Griffith's equal and truly be called his friend, Guts realizes he will ...
7.7/1095 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all Hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.
7.7/1090 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.
7.7/10127 min
Available in 11 platform(s).
Follow three professional video game players as they overcome personal adversity, family pressures, and the realities of life to compete in a $1,000,000 tournament that could change their lives forever.
7.6/1075 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
In this continuation of the K-On anime, the girls from the band "After School Tea Time" go on a trip to London.
7.6/10110 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
The legendary sword, So'unga, which belonged to the Great Dog Demon, has been unleashed. It seeks to cover the Earth in an eternal Hell and end all life on it. Inuyasha must join forces ...
7.6/1099 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
He trusts no one, only his sword.
7.5/1076 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
Kenshin Himura goes up against a mysterious weapons dealer named Enishi Yukishiro. He controls the underworld of China. The secret of Kenshin Himura's "Jujishou" is also revealed.
7.4/10137 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Yuma is a young Japanese woman who suffers from cerebral palsy. Torn between her obligations towards her family and her dream to become a manga artist, she struggles to lead a self-determined life.
7.4/10115 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Violet Evergarden, a former soldier returned from war, comes to teach at a women's academy and changes a young girl's life.
7.4/1090 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
Adaption of the sixth Light Novel of series, it follows the story of two new characters - Riku and Shuvi - during the events of the Ancient War, prior to the 10 pledges.
7.4/10110 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
A 15-year-old boy and 27-year-old woman find an unlikely friendship one rainy day in the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden.
7.4/1046 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
Ooari girls academy faces closer once again and the Tankery club girls must participate in another match to save their school from permanent closure!
7.3/10119 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
When Ichigo's sister Yuzu is kidnapped by sinners & he is asked to do something for them in order to get his sister released. Ichigo must find a way to take his sister back form hell with the help of Rukia, Renji & Uryu.
7.3/1094 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
Inuyasha and company have finally destroyed Naraku. And each start to go in their separate ways. Sango going to find her younger brother Kohaku; Miroku back to his old home; Inuyasha, ...
7.3/1099 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
A documentary about a Thai idol girl group, BNK48 originally adapting from a Japanese idol girl group, AKB48 open opportunity to ordinary teens to be selected into a controlled system and competitive concept.
7.2/10100 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
50 years ago, Inuyasha was marked with a blood scar on his back, and as of yet, he hasn't gotten revenge. He encounters children with the same scar desperate to find a way to escape. ...
7.2/1089 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
Menomaru(a moth monster) was brought to life by a Shikon Shard. Inuyasha's father has defeated the monster's father 500 years ago. Inuyasha will need Kagome's feelings to win.
7.2/10100 min
Available in 9 platform(s).
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
7.2/10119 min
Available in 11 platform(s).
The Seven Deadly Sins travel to the Sky Temple in search of an elusive ingredient.
7.1/1099 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
In order to conceal past corruption by the government, the Kyuryu gang proceeds on a plan to destroy a street and build a casino. To stop the Kyuryu gang, members of the SWORD begin to move.
7.1/10118 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
The most brutal new gangs appear. These gangs are Doubt and Prison gang, and they try to dominate the area controlled by SWORD. They also go up against other gangs in the area and challenge White Rascals to fight.
7.1/10124 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.
7.1/10132 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
After being brutally murdered in a subway station, a teen boy awakens to find himself resurrected by a strange computer named Gantz, and forced to fight a large force of invading aliens in Osaka.
7.1/1095 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Naruto Uzumaki is framed and sent to an inescapable prison where he must escape by any means necessary.
7.1/10108 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
An explosion happens in the middle of Seireitei, and Rukia has a memory loss. Then Urahara tries to seek the background of the events.
7.1/1094 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko starts living in the countryside with her grandmother who runs a traditional Japanese inn. While she prepares to be the next owner of the inn, Okko can somehow see friendly ghosts.
7/1094 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
A young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.
7/1098 min
Available in 11 platform(s).
In this sequel to the first It's A Wonderful Family, the characters who are still based on those in Tokyo Family (which itself was based on Tokyo Story), are a couple of years older with ...
7/10113 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Ninjas with bloodline limits begin disappearing in all the countries and blame points toward the fire nation. By Tsunade's order, Kakashi is sacrificed to prevent an all out war. Naruto fights through friends and foes to prevent his death.
7/1095 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
Our hero Naruto is caught in special chakra that propels him into the past. He finds himself in the City of Loran. As he encounters strange things, can he save the future with the past?
6.9/1085 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
Dan, Tettsu and Chiharu (DTC) were exhausted after all those exciting days. Yet what awaits them is an extremely boring life. In order to seek for excitement and youth (and girls), the trio...
6.8/10102 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
The story centers on Kai, a gloomy middle school student whose life changes after meeting Lu, a mermaid.
6.8/10112 min
Available in 9 platform(s).
A mysterious group of ninja called the Sora-nin from the Sky Country makes a surprise attack on Konoha. This is because Konoha nearly destroyed the Sky Country during the last Shinobi World...
6.8/1098 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
Her name is Akiko and she is a fun-loving single mother to a young schoolboy. He needs her. She needs men. Specifically, she needs sex and attention from men and almost any man would do so ...
6.7/10126 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
6.7/10125 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
With Earth now left in ruins following the "Nano Hazard," most of humanity has abandoned the planet they once called home along with their physical bodies and rebuilt their digitalized ...
6.7/10104 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Demons that once almost destroyed the world, are revived by someone. To prevent the world from being destroyed, the demon has to be sealed and the only one who can do it is the shrine ...
6.7/1094 min
Available in 7 platform(s).
A coming of age tale about Kanto, a 14 year old boy, and a descendant of Japan's indigenous Ainu people, who struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of his father. One day, he ...
6.6/1084 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
An anthology of three original shorts written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Yoshiyuki Momose and Akihiko Yamashita.
6.6/1053 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
Go is the oldest game still played in its original form. In east Asia, it is hailed as one of mankind's greatest cultural achievements and considered both ancient art and national sport. At...
6.6/1097 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
In the distant future, humans are declared "illegal residents" and hunted to near extinction by murderous robots. One day, a group of human scavengers come across a strange man named Killy, who may be the key to humanity's survival.
6.6/10106 min
Available in 4 platform(s).
6.6/1095 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Naruto and his team are hired to protect a young actress from three rogue warriors in the Land of the Snow.
6.6/1082 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
On the planet Latimer, reawakened Takeshi Kovacs must protect a teenage tattooist named Holly while investigating the death of a yakuza boss alongside Gina, a strangely familiar no-nonsense CTAC agent.
6.5/1074 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Based on the fifth Dragon Quest game.
6.5/10103 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A young girl is drawn into a mystery involving sealife around the world, in which two mysterious boys are somehow involved.
6.5/10111 min
Available in 10 platform(s).
6.4/1099 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
S.W.O.R.D. Chiku is a devastated and dangerous town with 5 gangs fighting fiercely. Before these 5 gangs, the legendary Mugen gang dominated the town. Mugen and the Amamiya Brothers (who ...
6.4/10129 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Naruto, Kakashi, Sakura, and Rock Lee are assigned to protect Michiru, the prince of the Land of the Moon, while he travel the world. The prince purchased a tiger Sham and the whole circus, which became the team's protection.
6.4/1095 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
Naruto, Shikamaru and Sakura are on a mission to deliver a lost pet to a village when a mysterious knight appear to confront them.
6.4/1097 min
Available in 8 platform(s).
It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband and wife no questions asked. All is well then. Well, perhaps not. Each holds a secret ...
6.3/10123 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A small group of student filmmakers and a shy young girl with strict parents are simultaneously manipulated, seduced and abused by an older man. They follow his bidding, even when murder is involved.
6.3/10151 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A Japanese teenager can see ghosts and sees a cute girl fighting an evil monster. He ends up with her reaper power and she as human in his high school class. He discovers a connection between his mom's death and these monsters.
6.3/10108 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town is 10 years old today. This means he is now old enough to become a Pokémon Trainer. Ash dreams big about the adventures he will experience after receiving his first Pokémon from Professor Oak.
6.3/1098 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
While on vacation in Japan, a Filipina actress meets a young Filipino man.
6.2/10107 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
Ash meets five residents who come together to save the day when a series of threats endanger the annual Wind Festival and the entire population of their home, Fula City
6.2/10100 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
A group of high school students experience the brutal front of urban isolation after a corpse washes up from the river.
6.2/10118 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Set in Busan, South Korea during the 1970s, Lee Doo-sam builds an empire as a drug smuggler in the Busan underworld, while public prosecutor Kim In-goo attempts to take down Lee Doo-sam.
6.2/10139 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
An epic set in post-WWII Japan and centered on an American former G.I. who joins the yakuza.
6.2/10120 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after discovering who was responsible for his teacher's death (Huo Yuanjia) in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. A mysterious ...
6.2/10106 min
Available in 12 platform(s).
Upon learning that his father has been kidnapped, Austin Powers must travel to 1975 and defeat the aptly named villain Goldmember, who is working with Dr. Evil.
6.2/1094 min
Available in 12 platform(s).
High schooler Yuu and his friend Haru get involved in a case involving his childhood friend Kotona, which forces them to go back and forth between another world that is different but is ...
6.1/10106 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A clumsy but cheerful fisheries student struggles to find her place at a research institute renowned for its tuna cultivation.
6.1/1089 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
The Amamiya Brothers, Masaki (Takahiro) and Hiroto (Hiroomi Tosaka), keep looking for their older brother Takeru (Takumi Saito) who disappeared one year ago. The three Amamiya brothers lost...
6.1/10110 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A desperate group of refugees attempts to recolonize Earth 20,000 years after Godzilla took over, but one young man wants revenge above all else.
6/1089 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
An enigmatic translator with a dark past is brought in for questioning after an ex-pat friend, who came between her and her photographer boyfriend, ends up missing and presumed dead.
5.9/10107 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
As the sun is dying out, people all around the world build giant planet thrusters to move Earth out of its orbit and sail Earth to a new star system. Yet the 2500-year journey comes with unexpected dangers, and in order to save humanity, a group of young people in this age of a wandering Earth fight hard for the survival of humankind.
5.9/10125 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning is caught up in a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
5.9/1099 min
Available in 11 platform(s).
Humanity's desperate battle to reclaim the Earth from Godzilla continues. The key to defeating the King of the Monsters may be Mechagodzilla, a robotic weapon thought to have been lost nearly 20,000 years ago.
5.8/10101 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
To bring down a global human trafficking ring, an Interpol agent recruits the help of a brutal criminal with inside knowledge of the yakuza.
5.8/1097 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
After a scientific experiment leads to the creation of a clone of Mewtwo, he sets out to destroy the world. Ash and his friends then decide to thwart Mewtwo's evil plans.
5.7/1098 min
Available in 5 platform(s).
It is the year 2015, the final era over which magic still held sway. Caldea is an organization established to observe the magical world and the world of science - as well as to prevent the ...
5.7/1074 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Ali Senay (Cem Yilmaz) and Ilber (Cetin Altay), the two partners of Senay Cüccaciye, sell garden dwarfs. When their company starts to dwindle, they decide to participate in a gardening fair...
5.6/10114 min
Available in 6 platform(s).
A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.
5.6/10103 min
Available in 10 platform(s).
Schoolchildren Norimichi, Yûsuke and Jun'ichi want to know if fireworks look round or flat from the side. They make a plan to find the answer at a fireworks display, while Nazuna schemes to...
5.5/1090 min
Available in 9 platform(s).
Two mismatched personal trainers' lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client.
5.4/10105 min
Available in 17 platform(s).
Two alchemist brothers go on a quest for the Philosopher's Stone after an attempt to revive their dead mother goes horribly wrong.
5.3/10135 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Accused of heinous crimes he didn't commit, a prosecutor sets out on a mission to clear his name.
5.2/10106 min
Available in 3 platform(s).
Nate, Whisper, Jibanyan, Hailey, USApyon, and all of their Yo-kai friends embark on five unique adventures that all end up tied together in the end.
5.1/1094 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.
5.1/1083 min
Available in 10 platform(s).
An undercover cop becomes embroiled in a battle with warring criminals who want to acquire a "black box," their ultimate key to a treasure.
5/10170 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
Humanity, their alien allies, and Godzilla all enter their endgame as the powerful destructive entity known as Ghidorah arrives on Earth.
5/1091 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
A woman goes into Japan's Suicide Forest to find her twin sister, and confronts supernatural terror.
4.8/1093 min
Available in 10 platform(s).
With ruthless US and Japanese investment banks circling Tuftons, a struggling two-hundred-year-old, family-run British bank, can its bumbling, incompetent chairman, Sir Charles Bunbury, fend off the onslaught and save the bank?
4.8/10105 min
Available in 9 platform(s).
For an important case, a policeman needs the help of his former best friend to impersonate the daughter of a foreign dignitary in a beauty pageant.
4.6/10119 min
Available in 2 platform(s).
A high school student named Light Turner discovers a mysterious notebook that has the power to kill anyone whose name is written within its pages, and launches a secret crusade to rid the world of criminals.
4.5/10101 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
Hatsumi and her family live normal lives until she is used by Ryoki who begins to bully and intimidate her. Azusa is a friend in the area and also good looking. He has the hots for Hatsumi ...
4.4/10119 min
Available in 1 platform(s).
It is a documentary aimed at newcomers to anime, and follows anime newbie, Alex Burunova, as she dives into the mysterious world of the genre. The documentary features some of the biggest ...
2.6/1058 min
Available in 1 platform(s).