#2020s Best Japanese Films

A love story spanning 5 years between a man and a woman. A 22-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman both miss the last train at Meidaimae Station in Tokyo and meet there. Their relationship develops romantically.

Nobuto is a boxer who is not going to be a champion anytime soon. He works hard, trains, attends consistently and yet ends up amassing losses. In the same gym and training with Nobuto is Kazuki. The latter man looks destined for success. He is engaged to Chika who was crushed on by Nobuto when they were children.

A traumatized former officer hell-bent on revenge receives an order to go undercover within the Yakuza by befriending their most frenetic member.

Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.

Teenage assassins Chisato and Mahiro visit the coastal city of Miyazaki when they unexpectedly cross paths with a bloodthirsty assassin who's looking to add to his personal body count.

Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.

A comedy drama that depicts the conflict between students and their university over the continuation if a long-standing college dorm. Konoeryo, with a long history, is a university dormitory in Kyoto. Discussion on the reconstruction of the aging dormitory begins. Some want to rebuild the dormitory, but others want to keep the dormitory the same at it is now, starting a confrontation between the two sides.

Set in the 19th century, "Moeyo Ken" follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi and fought against the Meiji Restoration.

Set several years after The Blood Of Wolves and Ogami Shogo's death in the Western city of Hiroshima, the detective's plan to surround and control the yakuza low-lives has been implemented and is working. Much bloodshed and potential death has been prevented. However, the release of one criminal element places everything in jeopardy.

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.

A young (kind of happy-go-lucky) man navigates life through relationships with various people.

A teenager girl's accidental death incites a media frenzy and causes her harsh father to turn his range against those he believes are responsible.

Misa, battling PMS and stigma, starts anew at Kurita Optics. Amidst work and sweets, she meets Takatoshi. Despite his quiet demeanor and struggle with panic attacks, a deep bond forms.

A lifelong Yakuza, released from prison after 13 years, journeys to find the mother who abandoned him as a child. He is hindered by his gangster past and struggles to adapt to his new life outside of prison.

A mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.

A renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with a big personal loss when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.

Kenji Yamamoto's father died from using a stimulant drug. His life fell into desperation. Kenji then joined a crime syndicate. There, he meets the gang's boss Hiroshi Shibasaki. Hiroshi reaches out to Kenji and they developed a relationship like father and son. As time passes, Kenji has his own family.

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.

It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification.

A young man falls in love with a woman he meets at a party, but when she leaves him, he must face some uncomfortable truths.

Watako loses her lover Kimura in a Tokyo traffic accident. Determined to move on, she hides her pain and resumes life with her husband. However, Kimura's memory haunts her, forcing her to confront the deep grief she tried to bury.

In Tokyo, from their breakup to their first meeting, the love story between Teruo, a classical dancer, and Yô, a taxi driver, told in reverse. They remember their most intimate days, every year on July 26, the day they met and separated.

A grifter and her loose-cannon brother get their hands on a massive amount of money, but their ill-gotten gains puts a huge target on their back.

Kasumi doesn't know what love is and she doesn't have any feeling of romance. Due to her sister's marriage, her mother arranged a formal marriage arrangement without her permission. At the meeting, she met a man who is just seeking friend.

Whose baby? The big question is distinctly and grippingly explored through a contemporary Japanese lens.