Movies like Rage
If Rage's mix of japan, okinawa and tokyo, japan stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Rage's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Battle Royale
2000 · Directed by Kinji Fukasaku · 113 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: japan, suspense · Also a Japanese drama
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
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Death Note
2006 · Directed by Shusuke Kaneko · 126 min7.1
Why you'll like itWith Kenichi Matsuyama · Shares: tokyo, japan · Also a Japanese mystery
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious…
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The World of Kanako
2014 · Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima · 118 min6.4
Why you'll like itWith Satoshi Tsumabuki · Shares: japan · Also a Japanese mystery · From the same decade (2010s)
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her.
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Confessions
2010 · Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima · 107 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese drama · From the same decade (2010s)
Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.
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Hacksaw Ridge
2016 · Directed by Mel Gibson · 139 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: japan, okinawa · From the same decade (2010s)
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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High and Low
1963 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 142 min8.4
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of the Century
1999 · Directed by Kenji Kodama · 100 min7.3
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
Kaitou Kid dares to challenge the police once more, setting his sights on the Russian Imperial Easter Egg. With the date, time, and place, the Osaka police force scrambles to stop him.