Japanese New Releases
by rworne | created - 25 Feb 2021 | updated - 25 Feb 2021 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)
173 min | Adventure, Drama, History
When Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda retreats into the jungles of the Philippines to continue the war himself for another 10,000 days.
Director: Arthur Harari | Stars: Yûya Endô, Kanji Tsuda, Yûya Matsuura, Tetsuya Chiba
Votes: 2,913
3. Behind a Mask
90 min | Romance | Post-production
Director: Hideo Jôjô | Stars: Daichi Nakano, Hurukawa Iori
4. The Assassin: Maria
74 min | Romance | Post-production
Director: Wataru Oku | Stars: Ryô Asagiri, Hideo Otsuki
5. Amorous Glance
65 min | Romance | Post-production
Director: Taichiro Natsume | Stars: Mirai Uchino, Hukuya Takahiro
6. Ghostbuster Ladies
72 min | Romance | Post-production
Director: Yoji Ono | Stars: Mirai, Matsuki Momoko
7. The Unbelievable Ability
81 min | Romance | Post-production
Director: Taichiro Natsume | Stars: Takahiro Hukuya, Nagisa Odajima
8. The Assassin: Erica
73 min | Romance | Post-production
Director: Masatsugu Asahi | Star: Usui Saryu
9. Blader
Action, Sci-Fi | Completed
Director: Junya Okabe | Stars: Tomohito Wakizaki, Tom Fujita, Kôichi Kasuga, Tôma Ônishi
10. Mugen shinshi: Ningyô jigoku (2021)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
In the early Showa period (1926-1989) in Japan, detective Mamiya Mugen solves weird cases.
Director: Misako Unakami | Star: Masazumi Minaki
11. Kaiju: Island of Fire
Action, Horror, Sci-Fi | Filming
A combined military task force travels to an ancient Japanese Island, searching for the missing members of a construction team, currently in the process of building a new military base. ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew L Phillips | Stars: Tomoko Ai, Robert Scott Field, Chuck Wilson, Tom Constantine
12. Ramree
Drama | Completed
Director: Michael Poole | Stars: Michael Yama, Kento Matsunami, Daniel Joo, Koji Niiya
13. Midori House
Comedy, Romance | Post-production
Midori, an aggressive divorce lawyer in massive debt stands to inherit her adoptive father's estate but must provide hospitality to estranged families at his beach house.
Director: Erick Ferman | Star: Satomi Fox
14. Matcha & Vanilla (2021)
84 min | Drama
A lesbian couple in conservative Japan must fight to stay together when one of them is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Director: Hamish Downie | Stars: Qyoko Kudo, Tomoko Hayakawa, Sestacial Bec, Asuka Goto
Votes: 27
19. The Zero Century: Maetel
Animation, Drama, Fantasy | Pre-production
The story of Princess Maetel and how she came to start her timeless train trip on the Galaxy Express 999.
Director: Hiroyuki Yamaga
20. The Zero Century: Harlock
Animation, Drama, Fantasy | Pre-production
The story of Space Pirate Captain Harlock.
Director: Hiroyuki Yamaga
21. The Zero Century: Emeraldas
Animation, Drama, Fantasy | Pre-production
The story of Pirate Queen Emeraldas.
Director: Hiroyuki Yamaga
23. The Boy and the Heron (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kô Shibasaki, Aimyon
Votes: 51,171
24. The South End
Drama | Pre-production
A Japanese portal movie theater owner runs away through the secret islands of Okinawa with an American ex-soldier.
Director: Daisuke Miyazaki
25. Macproud
Sci-Fi | Pre-production
A man and his soul are connected between reality and fiction but more fiction takes over the more changes the place that he loves so much.
Director: Johan Karlberg | Star: Johan Karlberg
26. The Edge of Human Part 3 (2022)
15 min | Sci-Fi
After a waking up from a 30 years cryopod sleep, Aries finds himself in hospital with memory loss. His memory cannot return because it's locked in a data cube called Memory Runner. Four ... See full summary »
Directors: Yoshihiro Akase, Johan Karlberg, Angela En-Yu Lao | Stars: Johan Karlberg, Angela En-Yu Lao, Nathalie Ng, Lily Ge
29. Issa (2022)
Biography, Drama
Movie depicts the later life of poet Issa Kobayashi. At the age of 50, he goes back to his hometown. Two years later, he marries 28-year-old Kiku. The couple go on to have three sons and ... See full summary »
Directors: Jérémie Reichenbach, Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | Stars: Lily Franky, Tamao Nakamura, Atsushi Itô, Renji Ishibashi
30. 416 Minutes
70 min | Fantasy | Post-production
Director: Ivan Talijancic | Stars: Carmel Amit, Erika Latta, Cecilia Albertini, Gillian Chadsey
31. Ninja Scroll 2
Animation, Action, Drama | Pre-production
Plot Unknown - Sequel to the 1993 Anime film, Ninja Scroll.
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
32. From Opened Xing
102 min | Drama, Fantasy | Post-production
A man with stalking habit meets a girl with a strange atmosphere and they fall in love, but with what they are holding inside, lives of them and people around them shift to unexpected directions.
Director: Masaya Uenoyama
33. After Party (I)
Drama | Post-production
Director: Taishi Muramoto | Stars: Nijirô Murakami, Masaki Miura, Yûko Nakamura, Jun Murakami
34. Godzilla vs. Wolfman
Unrated | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi | Announced
Godzilla vs. Wolfman consists of a werewolf appearing in Japan, which becomes irradiated and grows to enormous size. This giant Wolfman encounters Godzilla in the countryside, and the two monsters battle.
Director: Shizuo Nakajima | Stars: Shitosi Shima, Ema Ishihara
35. Nakagin
Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Announced
The last members of humanity try to survive in an aging Japanese hotel.
Director: Douglas Buchanan | Star: Douglas Buchanan
36. No Way Out (IV)
Not Rated | 48 min | Drama, Thriller | Post-production
Yuki has looked for her gone daughter Serika for 7 years and her husband Takashi is full of eccentricities with a certain obsession. A story of this family. There is 'No Way Out'.
Director: Yugo Wakaguri | Stars: Hiroyuki Sato, Natsuko Sakakura
38. Futari no sekai
64 min | Comedy | Announced
Director: Keita Fujimoto | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Shiori Doi
40. Homura
70 min | Action, Crime, Drama | Post-production
From an early age, Homura who were charged to master of 'Ju-jutsu', father, Zenichiro Narukami, parted from father as Hitman assassination of the organization. Then she became a professor of firearms crime in professional college.
Director: Kengo Kaji | Stars: Yukie Kawamura, Yoshihiro Nakayama
41. The King of Iron Fist Tournament
Action, Crime, Drama | Announced
Thrown off a cliff at a young age, one man fuelled by hatred and vengeance will do whatever it takes to defeat the one responsible for his agony; his father.
43. Kamera no mita yume
Comedy | Post-production
Director: Yukari Sakamoto | Stars: Ryô Satô, Rei Sato
44. Flipside
Action | Pre-production
3 estranged cousins are reunited at the wake of their grandfather, who had brought them all together and raised them. At the wake they are given a something that sets them on a journey that will change their lives forever.
Director: John Prudhont | Stars: Eileen Rene Prudhont, John Prudhont
46. Barcode Man
Drama | Announced
An atomic bomb survivor, Minoru, struggles to forget his tragic past until he meets a student, Saki, who not only gives him the power to create new memories but also move forward with his life.
Director: Shirley Petchprapa | Stars: Junichi Kajioka, Miyako Akina Fuqua
47. Super VS
110 min | Action | Announced
In the near future, two men on a secret mission travel Tokyo Japan. While there they get entangled in an all out gang war with the Yakuza that lands them as prisoners on the worlds most ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura | Stars: Eihi Shiina, Asami, Rina Takeda, Bryce DiCristofalo
50. Ghostwriter Go
Comedy | Announced
Director: Yôichirô Hayama | Stars: Rina Nagai, Ayaka Morita, Nagare Hagiwara, Asuka Kataoka
51. Utsusemi no mori
117 min | Drama | Announced
Director: Tôru Kamei | Stars: Tokuma Nishioka, Akira Emoto, Noriko Sakai, Kazuhiko Kanayama
52. Aoki uru
Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi | Announced
The new generation of the Royal Space Force and their endeavors to make it to space.
Director: Hiroyuki Yamaga
53. Fumô kaigi
Drama | Announced
Director: Yusei Naruse | Stars: Tokio Emoto, Yuya Miyashita, Hideo Ishiguro, Kyosuke Hamao
63. Hôjôkishiki
Animation | Announced
A young boy who stumbles upon an underworld city in the deepest depths of a pond, in his back garden.
Director: Gorô Miyazaki
64. Utsukushiki yuuwaku: Gendai no 'gahi' (2021)
120 min | Drama
With both beauty and wit, Maiko looks for a man who suits her. One night, she finds Taro, a candidate for the prime minister. Everything goes well as she plans, but he finds out she's actually a "youma" who destroys the country.
Director: Hiroshi Akabane | Stars: Nao Hasegawa, Ryoma Ichihara, Moro Morooka, Miho Yabe
65. Afterglows (2023)
120 min
Director: Taichi Kimura | Stars: Kentez Asaka, Nozomi de Lencquesaing, Akira Koieyama, Megumi
Votes: 6
66. The Great Yokai War: Guardians (2021)
118 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Brothers Dai and Kei are summoned by peace-loving spirits to stop an angry demon from destroying Tokyo. When they become separated, Kei?s mission is to save his brother and restore harmony between human and spirit worlds.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kokoro Terada, Hana Sugisaki, Rei Inomata, Nanako Matsushima
Votes: 133
67. Rakka-sei (2021)
Animation, Drama, Fantasy
A young teenager has dreams of falling into an alternate world.
Director: Banishment | Stars: Akari Kitô, Marie Miyake, Daiki Yamashita
68. Masquerade Night (2021)
129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder case will appear at the countdown party Masquerade Night that will be held at Hotel Cortesia Tokyo.
Director: Masayuki Suzuki | Stars: Masami Nagasawa, Takuya Kimura, Ryo Ishibashi, Kumiko Asô
Votes: 867
70. The Orbital Children (2022– )
TV-14 | 38 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
In 2045, two children born on the moon and three kids from Earth try to survive after an accident on their space station leaves them stranded.
Stars: Adam McArthur, Ray Chase, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Abby Trott
Votes: 849
71. Yakuza (III)
Action, Crime | Pre-production
The tale of a yakuza (Japanese gangster) who makes his way through the Japanese criminal underworld.
72. Kingdom II: Harukanaru Daichi e (2022)
TV-14 | 134 min | Action, Adventure, History
It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification.
Director: Shinsuke Sato | Stars: Kento Yamazaki, Ryô Yoshizawa, Kanna Hashimoto, Nana Seino
Votes: 1,586
73. Goo Goo G'joob
Crime | Announced
When a police officer goes undercover into the secret world of Tokyo's sex clubs, he finds himself seduced by it. However, he must overcome his darkest desires, and catch a brutal serial killer.
Director: Jason K. Lau
74. Perfect Education étude (2020)
80 min | Romance
Ayano, a middle-aged female director met Aoi, young attractive actor at the audition for her new film. Ayano soon felt something different in Aoi and the audition goes far beyond the moral.
Director: Takuya Kato | Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Tomohiro Ichikawa, Sarara Tsukifune
Votes: 60
75. Tenement (2024)
88 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Soriya goes back to Cambodia in a quest to find herself after her mother's death, there she finds a family she has never known and an old building full of dark secrets.
Directors: Sokyou Chea, Inrasothythep Neth | Stars: Yoshihiko Hosoda, Sahrah Pich Manika, Rous Mony, Touch Narady
Votes: 15
76. Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution (2021)
TV-14 | 116 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A virtual world in a scab coral created by Eureka. Ten years have passed since the people of the virtual world appeared on this earth with the collapse. The future to wait for the ends of the wishes of Eureka.
Directors: Tomoki Kyôda, Hayato Sakai, Bill Rogers | Stars: Dawn M. Bennett, Steve Blum, Johnny Yong Bosch, Edward Bosco
Votes: 44
77. Gekido (2022)
100 min | Thriller
Director: Yoshiki Takahashi | Stars: Yôta Kawase, Ryûju Kobayashi, Shingo Mizusawa, Eita Okuno
Votes: 31
78. Make-Believers (2021)
100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Masa hires rental actress and aspiring dancer, Kanako, to pose as his fiancee to impress his estranged, ailing father. But as his father's death delays, Masa has to navigate the spiraling web of lies and to learn to follow his heart.
Director: Kenjo McCurtain | Stars: Takashi Kawaguchi, Yuki Morikawa, Shouta Hatori, Saiki Masuda
Votes: 19
80. Ringo Juice
Comedy, Drama | Filming
Director: Alin Bijan | Stars: Mike McFarland, Mike Norris, Pierre V. Johnson, Nathan Marlow
82. Ringo Juice
Comedy, Drama | Filming
Director: Alin Bijan | Stars: Mike McFarland, Mike Norris, Pierre V. Johnson, Nathan Marlow
83. Iguana Tokyo (2022)
74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
What happens, when an ordinary family in one of the arguably most advanced cities in the world starts living in two different worlds? What happens, when that fine line between reality and ... See full summary »
Director: Kaan Müjdeci | Stars: Saadet Aksoy, Akira Mori, Ertan Saban, Omer Tasli
Votes: 156
84. Iguana Tokyo (2022)
74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
What happens, when an ordinary family in one of the arguably most advanced cities in the world starts living in two different worlds? What happens, when that fine line between reality and ... See full summary »
Director: Kaan Müjdeci | Stars: Saadet Aksoy, Akira Mori, Ertan Saban, Omer Tasli
Votes: 156
85. Dorobo
Action, Thriller | Announced
Following the death of his father, Kichiro must, against all odds, retrieve the unique Tachi sword that his forefathers had passed down from generation to generation before it was stolen by the vicious warlord, daimyo Jun'Ichi.
Director: Ian Bogere
86. Dorobo
Action, Thriller | Announced
Following the death of his father, Kichiro must, against all odds, retrieve the unique Tachi sword that his forefathers had passed down from generation to generation before it was stolen by the vicious warlord, daimyo Jun'Ichi.
Director: Ian Bogere
87. Sengoku Girl and Kendo Boy
Sci-Fi | Filming
Yui is a Sengoku era swordswoman. Through a series of events and actions she travels in time and appears in present day Oita Prefecture, Japan. Masato is the president of a libations ... See full summary »
Director: Masaki Hamamoto | Stars: Kanata Hongô, Chieko Matsubara, Kie Kitano, Taisaku Akino
88. Sengoku Girl and Kendo Boy
Sci-Fi | Filming
Yui is a Sengoku era swordswoman. Through a series of events and actions she travels in time and appears in present day Oita Prefecture, Japan. Masato is the president of a libations ... See full summary »
Director: Masaki Hamamoto | Stars: Kanata Hongô, Chieko Matsubara, Kie Kitano, Taisaku Akino
89. Orbital Era
Animation, Action, Adventure | Announced
Story of some boys in a society in the near future on a space colony under construction who keep living their lives while they're being tossed about by fate.
Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo
90. Orbital Era
Animation, Action, Adventure | Announced
Story of some boys in a society in the near future on a space colony under construction who keep living their lives while they're being tossed about by fate.
Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo
91. Canna Tokyo
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi | Post-production
Director: Sounosuke Kita | Stars: Sarina Akito, Ippei Satô, Yoshi Nishioka, Yûsuke Senba
92. Canna Tokyo
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi | Post-production
Director: Sounosuke Kita | Stars: Sarina Akito, Ippei Satô, Yoshi Nishioka, Yûsuke Senba
93. Phantom Camellia (2019)
52 min | Drama
Set in the Taisho period, Japan (mid-1920s) Otogai and Uro, two best friends at the early stages in their writing careers, share a mutual admiration and a common path. A woman, untold ... See full summary »
Director: Ginga Takeshima | Stars: Hiroki Aiba, Nojiri Daisuke, Yuki Fujiwara, Atomu Ito
94. Phantom Camellia (2019)
52 min | Drama
Set in the Taisho period, Japan (mid-1920s) Otogai and Uro, two best friends at the early stages in their writing careers, share a mutual admiration and a common path. A woman, untold ... See full summary »
Director: Ginga Takeshima | Stars: Hiroki Aiba, Nojiri Daisuke, Yuki Fujiwara, Atomu Ito
95. Aura, IL
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance | Post-production
Suppose you knew the date of your death, would that solve anything?
Director: Yu Hasegawa-Johnson | Stars: Avalon Barrie, Jason Van Eman, Troy Xu, Brian Yang
96. Aura, IL
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance | Post-production
Suppose you knew the date of your death, would that solve anything?
Director: Yu Hasegawa-Johnson | Stars: Avalon Barrie, Jason Van Eman, Troy Xu, Brian Yang
97. Yakuza (I)
Crime, Drama | Announced
An American boy orphaned in Kyoto, Japan, is raised by members of a yakuza crime syndicate. During an all-out gang war, he rises to become one of their fiercest leaders.
98. Yakuza (I)
Crime, Drama | Announced
An American boy orphaned in Kyoto, Japan, is raised by members of a yakuza crime syndicate. During an all-out gang war, he rises to become one of their fiercest leaders.
99. Blonde (2025)
Thriller | Filming
A mismatched pair of detectives get caught up in a conspiracy surrounding a actress, while digging into the backstories behind murders, child abductions, and nuclear secrets.
Director: Nicolas Rose | Star: Nicolas Rose
100. Blonde (2025)
Thriller | Filming
A mismatched pair of detectives get caught up in a conspiracy surrounding a actress, while digging into the backstories behind murders, child abductions, and nuclear secrets.
Director: Nicolas Rose | Star: Nicolas Rose
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