Best award winning movies with an escapist fantasy from Japan
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with an escapist fantasy from Japan! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with an escapist fantasy from Japan, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
8.0
2 A Whisker Away (2020)
A peculiar girl transforms into a cat to catch her crush's attention. But before she realizes it, the line between human and animal starts to blur.
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- 2020-06-18 | Animation / Drama
Cast
- Mirai Shida, Natsuki Hanae
Rating
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7.883
3 Spirited Away (2001)
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
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- 2001-07-20 | Animation / Family
Cast
- Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino
Rating
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8.537
4 Ride Your Wave (2019)
Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love.
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- 2019-06-21 | Animation / Romance
Cast
- Ryota Katayose, Rina Kawaei
Rating
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7.583
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5 The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)
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 enthrals all who encounter her. But, ultimately, she must confront her fate.
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- 2013-11-23 | Animation / Drama
Cast
- Aki Asakura, Takeo Chii
Rating
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8.094
6 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
7 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
English aristocrat Lara Croft is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and in the midst of a battle with a secret society. The shapely archaeologist moonlights as a tomb raider to recover lost antiquities and meets her match in the wicked Powell, who's in search of a powerful relic.
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- 2001-06-11 | Adventure / Fantasy
Cast
- Angelina Jolie, Iain Glen
Rating
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5.895
8 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the planet. With the aid of the Deep Eyes Squadron and her mentor, Dr. Sid, Aki must save the Earth from its darkest hate and unleash the spirits within.
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- 2001-07-02 | Adventure / Action
Cast
- Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin
Rating
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6.193
9 Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.
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- 2004-09-09 | Fantasy / Animation
Cast
- Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura
Rating
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8.403
10 Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)
Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it!
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- 2020-10-16 | Animation / Action
Cast
- Natsuki Hanae, Akari Kito
Rating
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8.217
