kyoto japan movies

GREAT PRETENDER razbliuto (2024)
6.9 / 10

Animation, Crime, Action

Presumed dead, master con artist and recovering amnesiac Dorothy is discovered by Shanghai Longu-bang, a mob who wants payback for her conning them....

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
7.666 / 10

Drama, Romance, History

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno (2014)
7.6 / 10

Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto...

Norwegian Wood (2010)
6.3 / 10

Drama, Romance

Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the...

Lady Maiko (2014)
7.2 / 10

Comedy, Drama, Music

Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent...

Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (2017)
7.436 / 10

Comedy, Romance, Animation, Fantasy

As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as "The Girl with Black Hair" experiences a series of...

Sisters of the Gion (1936)
7.164 / 10

Drama

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and...

The Crucified Lovers (1954)
7.7 / 10

Drama, Romance

In 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the best...

No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
6.833 / 10

Drama

Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings during a...

The 47 Ronin (1941)
6.951 / 10

Drama, History

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences...

The Woman in the Rumor (1954)
7.4 / 10

Romance, Drama

Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows...

The End of Summer (1961)
7.5 / 10

Drama

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...

Taira Clan Saga (1955)
6.9 / 10

Drama

Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...

Conflagration (1958)
7 / 10

Drama

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...

Ashes from the Sun (2008)
6 / 10

Drama

Environmental drama set in Asturias, Spain. A Scottish travel writer is forced to stay in a valley town in northern Spain when his camper van breaks...

Wonderwall: The Movie (2020)
6.7 / 10

Drama

A university orders that old, decrepit Konoe Dormitory be rebuilt, to the opposition of the students who still occupy and maintain it. Movie version...

Central Japan (2014)
7 / 10

Documentary

Join Megan McCormick on a journey of discovery across Japan's spectacular heartland starting in Japan's beautiful former capital Kyoto. She explores...

CHAIN/チェイン (2021)
8 / 10

Lights of Kyoto (2017)
5.7 / 10

Drama, Romance

Born and raised in Kyoto, 17 years old Takatoyo spends all his summer holidays in his hometown. However, this time will be different. Takatoyo will...

Impossible to Imagine (2019)
7 / 10

Romance

The story of a traditional Kyoto woman who runs a failing kimono business and the entrepreneurial, biracial, business consultant who comes to help...