Japanese Movies by Genre: Adventure

  • Porco Rosso Japanese movie poster

    Porco Rosso (1992)

    Director: Hayao Miyazaki
    Plot: A veteran WWI ace fighter pilot once known as Marco Rousolini hunts down "air pirates" over the Adriatic Sea. However, a bizarre curse has transformed him into a pig man dubbed "Porco Rosso", Italian for "Red Pig".
  • Bakemono no Ko Japanese movie poster

    Bakemono no Ko (2015)

    Director: Mamoru Hosoda
    Plot: A lonely young boy crosses over from the real world of Shibuya, Tokyo to the Bakemono (monster) world where he meets a bakemono named Kumatetsu and becomes his protege under his new name "Kyuta".
  • Naruto the Movie: The Last Japanese movie poster

    Naruto the Movie: The Last (2014)

  • Dragon Ball Z: Fukkatsu no F Japanese movie poster

    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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    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.
  • Tenku no Hachi Japanese movie poster

    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.
  • The Next Generation: Patlabor (live-action) Japanese poster

    The Next Generation: Patlabor (2015)

    Director: Mamoru Oshii
  • Santa Company movie poster

    Santa Company (2015)

    Director: Kenji Itoso
    Plot: A large international corporation split into three departments—Santa Dept., Reindeer Dept., and Gift Dept.—work with parents around the world to deliver gifts to children as requested by their parents each Christmas. A girl named Noel has just joined Santa Company after taking an exam to become a “tonttu", or assistant to the Santa Clauses. When a letter from a child is about to be marked “flawed"—meaning the child won't get their requested gift—Noel teams up with three friends and a reindeer, setting off on an adventure to make sure the gift is delivered.
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    A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth (2006)

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    Attack on Titan (2015)

    Director: Shinji Higuchi
    Plot: Humans struggle to defend their territories against giants that have arrived to attack Earth and devour them.