Action Japanese Movies To Watch: Japanese films are worldwide right now, not inferior to Hollywood-produced films, including action films. If Hollywood action films always dominated the box office, it turns out that Japanese action films are no less cool.
In Japan, the first film screening was in 1896; these Japanese films have improved their manufacturing technology. Action films are indeed one of the most produced films in the Japanese film industry; they have produced high-quality films until now.
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9 Action Japanese Movies To Watch
1. Crow Zero [Action Japanese Movies To Watch]
Genre: Action
Date of release: October 27, 2007
Cast: Shun Oguri, Takayuki Yamada, Kyosuke Yabe, Sousuke Takaoka, Meisa Kuroki.
Action Japanese Movies To Watch: Takiya Genji is trying to take over the power of the gang. Takiya Genji wants to show that he is also capable of leading a gang. It is proven by being the head of the gang at the Suzuran school.
2.Blade of the Immortal (2017)
Genre: Action
Date of release: April 29, 2017
Cast: Takuya Kimura, Hana Sugisaki, Sota Fukushi, Hayato Ichihara, Erika Toda, Kazuki Kitamura.
Action Japanese Movies To Watch: Blade of the Immortal tells about a war conflict that killed Manji’s younger brother (Manji is a great Samurai who many people hunt). When the incident happened, Manji managed to win and finish off all those hunting him and his brothers’ killer. However, because he was hit by a slash and even stabbed, he almost died.
3. Sukiya Western Django
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller.
Date of release: September 15, 2007
Cast: Hideaki Ito, Koichi Sato, Yusuke Iseya, Kaori Momoi, Teruyuki Kagawa.
Action Japanese Movies To Watch: This film focuses on the life of a sniper. A sniper arrives in a city that is destroyed by rival gangs. Many gangs approached him to invite him to join, but he refused the offer and preferred his way.
4. Harakiri
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, History
Date of release: October 15, 2011
Cast: Ebizo Ichikawa, Eita, Hikari Mitsushima, Koji Yakusho, Naoto Takenaka.
Action Japanese Movies To Watch: The movie tells an era where many samurai had no masters. This condition is undoubtedly such a shame that many of them practice harakiri, a ritual suicide to restore the samurai’s self-respect.
The main character in this film seems to delay his desire to do harakiri for fear of dying. However, he tried to honor the leaders he had served before as his final tribute.
5. Parasyte Part 1
Genre: Action, fantasy, science fiction, horror, drama.
Date of release: October 30, 2014
Cast: Shota Sometani, Eri Fukatsu, Sadao Abe, Ai Hashimoto, Masahiro Higashide, Mansaku Ikeuchi, Shuji Okui, Takashi Yamanaka, Hideto Iwai.
Action Japanese Movies To Watch: This Japanese action genre film adapted from the manga of the same title. An Alien in the form of a worm named Parasyte wants to attack Earth. Besides, these aliens want to take over the human brain through their ears.
6. Rurouni Kenshin
Genre: Action
Date of release: August 25, 2012
Cast: Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei, Koji Kikkawa, Yu Aoi, Munetaka Aoki, Gou Ayano, Genki Sudo.
Action Japanese Movies To Watch: As an imperialist power to celebrate their victory in the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, the Hitokiri Battousai participants fled the battlefield, giving up their swords. However, the ancient katana was not left alone by the Battousai program.
It got claimed by one of the cases, Udo Jin-e. A decade later, Saito Hajime and his fellow agents investigate the murder of a secret agent, possibly at the hands of Battousai. But Saito is unsure and suspects Takeda Kanryu, a wealthy but ruthless businessman.
7. Battle Royale
Genre: Action
Date of release: December 16, 2000
Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Kou Shibasaki, Chiaki Kuriyama.
Action Japanese Movies To Watch: The film is famous for its brutality and sadism. Brutal, even for Japanese film standards, the level of brutality exceeds that of ordinary films. In the future, where political conditions are chaotic.
Eight hundred thousand students boycotted the school, passing the Battle Royale (BR) Act. The student’s brutal action colored the entire film, including Kitano’s teacher, who was killed by his students.
8. Thirteen Assassins
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Date of release: September 25, 2010
Cast: Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya
Action Japanese Movies To Watch: 13 Assassins are taken from a historical event in 1844. At the end of the Edo period, 12 Samurai and a hunter secretly plot to assassinate an Akashi clan’s ruthless leader named Matsudaira Naritsugu.
9. Kagemusha
Genre: Drama, History, War
Date of release: April 1980
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken’ichi Hagiwara
Action Japanese Movies To Watch: It tells the story of an amateur criminal who is taught to pretend to be a fake daimyo because the real daimyo is dying. He had to pretend to prevent the enemy leader from attacking his fragile clan.
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