Best award winning movies with a different point of view from Japan
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a different point of view from Japan! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a different point of view from Japan, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Broker (2022)
Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them down to capture the crucial evidence.
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- 2022-06-08 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won
Rating
7.164
2 Drive My Car (2021)
Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.
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- 2021-08-18 | Drama
Cast
- Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura
Rating
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7.417
3 Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
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- 2021-04-11 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima
Rating
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7.139
4 Weathering with You (2019)
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
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- 2019-06-19 | Animation / Drama
Cast
- Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori
Rating
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8.0
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5 Belle (2021)
Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious, dragon-like figure appears before her.
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- 2021-07-16 | Animation / Science Fiction
Cast
- Kaho Nakamura, Ryo Narita
Rating
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7.689
6 The Wind Rises (2013)
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
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- 2013-07-20 | Drama / Animation
Cast
- Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijima
Rating
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7.789
7 Departures (2008)
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.
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- 2008-09-13 | Drama
Cast
- Masahiro Motoki, Ryoko Hirosue
Rating
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7.851
8 Yi Yi (2000)
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.
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- 2000-09-20 | Drama
Cast
- Wu Nien-Jen, Issey Ogata
Rating
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7.876
9 Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021)
In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined planet Earth. There, each lives a life far different from their days as an Evangelion pilot. However, the danger to the world is far from over. A new impact is looming on the horizon—one that will prove to be the true end of Evangelion.
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- 2021-03-08 | Animation / Action
Cast
- Megumi Ogata, Yuko Miyamura
Rating
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8.249
10 Shoplifters (2018)
After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.
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- 2018-06-02 | Drama / Crime
Cast
- Lily Franky, Sakura Ando
Rating
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7.859
