151. Hula Girls ( Hula gâru )
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sang-il Lee
Actors: Yasuko Matsuyuki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yû Aoi, Shizuyo Yamazaki
152. The Mystery of Rampo
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rintaro Mayuzumi, Kazuyoshi Okuyama
Actors: Masahiro Motoki, Naoto Takenaka, Michiko Hada, Teruyuki Kagawa
153. Chaos ( Kaosu )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hideo Nakata
Actors: Jun Kunimura, Ken Mitsuishi, Masato Hagiwara, Miki Nakatani
154. Hana: Tale of a Reluctant Warrior ( Hana yori mo naho )
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Actors: Junichi Okada, Rie Miyazawa, Arata Furuta, Jun Kunimura
155. Metropolis ( Metoroporisu )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rintaro
Actors: Yuka Imoto, Kei Kobayashi, Kouki Okada, Tarô Ishida
Plot: A story of a young boy, and his uncle from Japan are on the hunt for a mad doctor who supposedly uses human body parts to creating new robots. But in the midst of the investigation, Kinichi.. nephew to his great detective uncle finds himself kneeling face to face to a small girl who the mad scientist himself had created.
Now both are on the run from a hit squad lead by a boy named Rock who must hunt them down to cover for his adopted father's tracks against humanity. Sealed within this girl however is a fail safe switch if she was ever to come to harm. If it activates, it would mean all life on earth would be wiped out in eighteen hours.
156. Boy and the Heron, The ( Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka )
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Takuya Kimura, Kô Shibasaki
Plot: Young Mahito Maki struggles to adapt following the death of his mother - hearing her voice in the fire even after moving the countryside with his uncle. Upon discovering an abandoned tower - he finds a world between life and death.
157. Snow Trail ( Ginrei no hate )
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Senkichi Taniguchi
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Kosugi, Akitake Kôno
158. End of Summer, The ( Kohayagawa-ke no aki )
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Actors: Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Michiyo Aratama
159. Weathering with You ( Tenki no ko )
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Actors: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Tsubasa Honda, Sakura Kiryu
160. Scandal ( Shubun )
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku
Plot: A Japanese industrialist is so obsessed by fear of a nuclear attack that he plots to give up everything he has built and relocate his family to Brazil. A study of postwar upheaval in Japan - cultural, generational, ideological.
