Japanese Movies by Genre: Action

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  Library Wars: The Last Mission (2015)

  Director: Shinsuke Sato
  Plot: Atsushi Dojo and his team are given the job of guarding a special one-of-a-kind "library law handbook" on display at a special exhibition. However, what begins as a simple mission turns out to be a trap set up by fellow Library Defense Force member Tezuka Hikaru's older brother Satoshi in an attempt to overthrow the group.
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  KIRI: Shokugyo Koroshiya Gaiden (2015)

  Director: Koichi Sakamoto
  
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  The Ninja War of Torakage (2015)

  Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura
  
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  Strayer's Chronicle (2015)

  Director: Takahisa Zeze
  Plot: During Japan's economic bubble of the early 1990s, various scientific experiments were conducted to find the key to controlling human evolution. One method was to force expectant mothers to endure various extreme stresses during their pregnancies in order to encourage mutations in their babies that would push the limits of human ability. Another method was to give babies the special abilities of various animals and insects through genetic engineering.The subjects of these experiments are now on the verge of becoming 20-years old. Subaru was given superhuman vision, hearing, and muscle strength. However, as a drawback of the powers, he and his fellow test subjects live with the risk of complete mind collapse, called "Hatan" (failure). Because of this, they're forced to use their powers to help a powerful politician named Kouichiro Watase who holds the key to reversing "Hatan". Meanwhile, a super-powered assassination squad called "Ageha" led by a wheelchair-bound young man named Manabu suddenly arrives on the scene to take revenge on Watase. In spite of both groups facing the same fate, they wind up fighting each other.Soon, they discover the key to their creation is also the key to human evolution. Will they use it to create or destroy?
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  Assassination Classroom (2015)

  Director: Eiichiro Hasumi
  Plot: "Class E" of Kunugigaoka Junior High School consists of students determined to have no future. They're separated from their classmates and assigned to a bizarre tentacled alien homeroom teacher. The alien, whom the students refer to as "Kurosensei" (literally "unkillable teacher"), had previously destroyed most of the moon and threatened to destroy Earth. However, he decided to delay his plan for one year if he was given a class of junior high school students to teach on the terms that he wouldn't harm them.Kurosensei teachers his class various assassination techniques and the government promises a 10 billion yen reward to the student who finally manages to kill him. Unfortunately, Kurosensei is able to avoid all of their attacks due to his vastly superior alien reflexes. In spite of this, student Nagisa Shiota keeps track of any perceived weaknesses as he and his classmates try to come up with new ways to kill him.
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  Naruto the Movie: The Last (2014)

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  Dragon Ball Z: Fukkatsu no F (2015)

  Director: Tadayoshi Yamamuro
  Plot: Two remaining factions of Frieza's army, Sorbet and Tagoma, arrive on earth in search of the Dragon Balls in a desperate attempt to revive their leader. They eventually succeed in their mission, and Frieza awakens determined to get revenge against the Saiyans.
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  Gonin Saga (2015)

  Director: Takashi Ishii
  Plot: Yuto's father was Shigeru Hisamatsu, a young lieutenant with the Gosei-kai affiliated Ogoshi gang. Although Hisamatsu is a peaceful young man who's grown up to have a very different life than his late father, a certain incident leads him to vow revenge against Gosei-kai.
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  I Am a Hero (2015)

  Director: Shinsuke Sato
  Plot: Hideo Suzuki is an aspiring manga artist living a mundane life until one day people around him start contracting a virus called ZQN and turning into zombies. After being attacked by his own infected girlfriend, Hideo escapes with a shotgun he happens to own and goes on the run with a high school girl named Hiromi he meets along the way.While on the run, Hiromi is bitten by a ZQN-infected baby, but since the baby has no teeth, Hiromi is only partially infected herself and doesn't lose control of her mind.
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  Tenku no Hachi (2015)

  Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
  Plot: Terrorists hijack a massive state of the art Japan Self-Defense Force helicopter called "Big B" and remotely direct it to hover menacingly over a nuclear power plant. At the same time, a fax is sent out to the power company, government, and news media stating the helicopter has about 10 hours of fuel left and will be allowed to crash unless all nuclear power facilities currently under construction are taken offline. To make the situation even more dire, a child is left behind in the helicopter as added insurance.