7 Most Inspirational Japanese Movies

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Khuraijam Roger Singh
Oct 24, 2024

Tokyo Story (1953)

The plot of Yasujirō Ozu's Japanese drama film is about an old couple who visit their children and grandkids in Tokyo and discover that they don't care about them. To avoid them, send their parents to a vacation.

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

An animated historical war drama film directed by Isao Takahata, tells the story of siblings and war orphans Seita and Setsuko, and their desperate struggle to survive during the final months of the Pacific War.

Nobody Knows (2004)

Based on the 1988 Sugamo child abandonment case, the film chronicles under the guise of a game, a mother who brings her four kids to a new apartment illegally. The mother vanished one day leaving the four children.

Shall We Dance? (1996)

Masayuki Suo’s film follows a wealthy but dissatisfied Japanese accountant who starts taking ballroom dance classes covertly, he discovers the passion he has been lacking.

Ikiru (1956)

A tragedy film directed by Akira Kurosawa, the film centers on a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat and his final quest to find the meaning of life

Tampopo (1985)

Truck driver Goro and his sidekick Gun decide to assist Tampopo in enhancing the quality of her ramen and her budding business after they stop by a roadside ramen shop.

Spirited Away (2001)

Hayao Miyazaki’s film follows a ten-year-old girl Chihiro "Sen" Ogino, while moving to a new neighborhood, enters the world of Kami and turns her parents into pigs by the witch Yubaba. Chihiro finds a way to free her parents.

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