Japanese Western movies

List of the best Japanese Western movies selected by visitors to our site: Sukiyaki Western Django, Scorched Earth, The Quick and the Dead, Dead Man, Trigun: Badlands Rumble, Spirit Untamed, Armadillo, Rodin, The Last Princess, For a Few Bullets.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, western
CountryJapan
Duration01:36

Several hundred years after the Battle of Dannoura, the Genji and Heike clans face off again in a poor mountain town with a buried treasure legend. A revolver-wielding stranger, a lone gunman, burdened with emotional scars and blessed with incredible skill, drifts into town and crosses paths with two warring clans who are both on the hunt for a hidden treasure in a remote western town. Knowing his services are valuable to either side, he offers himself to the clan who will offer up the largest share of the wealth. Yoshitsune commands his Genji gang in white while Kiyomori leads his Heike gang in red. Expectations collide as the key players wonder which gang the gunman will join. Dirty tricks, betrayal, desire and finally, love, get jumbled together, as the situation erupts into a showdown.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrefantastic, action, drama, western
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:47

A bounty hunter named Atticus Gage tracks down criminals in a post-apocalyptic Earth.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, thriller, western
CountryUSA, Japan
Duration01:48

A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, western
CountryUSA, Germany, Japan
Duration02:01

On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, western, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan
Duration01:30

In a quicksand surrounded town called Makka, rumors spread of a legendary robber named Gasback is after the town. To protect it, Mayor Kepler has hired bounty hunters. These hunters have been following Gasback from town to town in hopes of getting the bounty. Vash the Stampede is in town, along with Meryl and Milly, along with the female bounty hunter Ameria and Nicholas D. Wolfwood.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, adventure, family, western, cartoon
CountryUSA, Japan

Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredocumentary, military
CountryDenmark, Sweden
Duration01:45

Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against the Taliban. They're stationed on Armadillo military base in Helman province. Unlike other war movies, this is the real deal - no actors.

Markimdb: 5
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration02:26

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), man of the people, autodidact and revolutionary sculptor - the most brilliant of his era. At 42, Rodin meets Camille Claudel, a young woman desperate to become his assistant. He quickly acknowledges her as his most able pupil, and treats her as an equal in matters of creation.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, biography, history
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:21

Under the oppressive Japanese colonial rule, Deok-hye, the last Princess of the declining Joseon Dynasty, is forced to move to Japan. She spends her days missing home, while struggling to maintain dignity as a princess. After a series of failed tries, Deok-hye makes her final attempt to return home with help of her childhood sweetheart, Jang-han.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, comedy
CountryChina

When a professional thief sees his lifetime goal of being the best potentially realized in stealing a rare artifact, he finds himself entangled in a worldwide plot involving the Soviets, the Japanese and a band of outsiders. It’s up to him and a special agent to save the world!

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, military, history
CountryMexico, USA
Duration02:16

An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantasy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

After an accident, Mun-Gi wakes up to find that he’s forgotten who he is. Searching for clues about his life, he meets Yeon-Hwa, who introduces herself as a ghost.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, military, biography, history, sport
CountryUSA
Duration02:17

    A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:15

    The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds himself haunted by an unsolved 50-year old case. Holmes' memory isn't what it used to be, so he only remembers fragments of the case: a confrontation with an angry husband, a secret bond with his beautiful but unstable wife.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration00:51

    After meeting an untimely demise in separate incidents, Cha Min and Go Se-yeon discover they’ve come back to life in new bodies they don’t recognize.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:55

    During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island (‘Hashima Island’) to mine for coal, attempt to escape.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, India, Hong Kong, China, Canada
    Duration02:13

    In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, action
    CountryIndonesia

    The legend of Yamashita's Gold lures a treasure hunter and his group deep into the Indonesian jungle. Once they are trapped in an abandoned World War II Japanese bunker, they face the terrifying reality that the only way out is to go further in.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:32

    On her first day at work, Areum replaces a woman who broke up with the boss. The wife of the boss finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Areum for the other woman.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:10

    Two Korean girls, Jung-Min (14) and Young-hee (15) are kidnapped by the Japanese Imperial Army and taken to a 'Comfort Station' in China. There, they join other kidnapped girls in serving Japanese soldiers as sexual slaves known as 'Comfort Women'. Decades later, an elderly lady attempts to reunite with the spirit of her lost friend. Inspired by the testimony of Kang Il-chul.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama
    CountryHong Kong
    Duration01:55

    When the women of her time had their feet bound to please men, Qiu Jin was already questioning the sexual inequality of feudal traditions. Free-spirited and well-educated, she grew up practicing martial arts and was as well versed in poetry as she was in sword-fighting. When this rebellious girl moved to Beijing with her husband, she witnessed how her country was raided and ravaged by foreign powers. With the encouragement of her neighbor Wu Zhiying, the wife of righteous magistrate Li Zhongyue, Qiu Jin left her family behind to pursue study in Japan. There, she met some like-minded schoolmates who shared her ideals, including revolutionary leader Xu Xilin, and secretly joined his anti-Qing cause. After returning to China, Qiu Jin participated in the uprisings staged by Xu Xilin, leading a small group of hot-blooded students against the armed forces of the corrupt Qing government...

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredocumentary, music, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:24

    Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. Directed by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), MARLEY is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:13

    Abhimanyu Kaul - a young, independent, Games Developer, living in Japan and the love of his life, Anwita Chauhan - a bubbly, passionate and full of life, summer intern. Their happy and content life faces the test of time, when blood ties and the pressure of being born into the first family of India tears a young Abhimanyu between his love for Anwita and a promise made to his dying father, the Prime Minister of India. Being a public figure, by reluctantly accepting to represent the governing party, much against his own wishes and at the cost of his private life, is a double-edged sword that Abhimanyu must walk on.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, biography, history, sport
    CountryTaiwan

    A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:31

    Two 19th-century opportunists (Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis) become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist (Tom Wilkinson).

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:55

    Kim Myeong-min (39) is Agent Kim, a family man who lives a happy and contented life with his wife and two children. He is disguised as a manager in a company that sells fake viagra imported from China. Together with his three comrades, Agent Kang (Yeom Jeong-ah, 39), Agent Woo (Jeong Kyeo-woon, 29) and Adviser Yoon (Byeon Hee-bong, 70), Agent Kim was sent to South Korea 10 years ago for a special mission.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Kurupt FM, innit. The rest is irrelevant. After Brentford’s largest pirate radio station has ended, the boys from Kurupt FM find their way to Japan on an epic adventure in search of fortune and fame.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountrySouth Korea

    An assassin goes to Thailand in order to solve a kidnapping case linked to him, and finds himself chased by a man whose brother he killed.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military, biography
    CountryHong Kong, China
    Duration02:03

    Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:01

    A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryChina, USA
    Duration01:56

    With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryHong Kong
    Duration01:39

    Chen Zhen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his teacher's murder.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    Haru, an orphaned American who washes ashore in Japan and is mistaken for the great White Ninja of legend. Raised among the finest Ninjas, Haru grows strong and big - very big. With the grace of all Three Stooges rolled into one body, Haru is an embarrassment to his clan. But when a beautiful blonde pleads for his help, Haru is given one dangerous, disastrously funny chance to prove himself.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA

    Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA

    An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreadventure, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:15

    During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    The Village tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:44

    Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:29

    In a DVD-themed sex hotel, a young employee has hidden drugs in room #7 for criminals in exchange for wiping off his debt. But then his boss hides a dead body in the same room and locks the door. And a dangerous battle of wits ensues between a man who must lock away the secret behind the door, and another, who must go inside.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genredocumentary, history
    CountryUSA

    Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully last -- uses of thermonuclear weapons in war. Featuring interviews with fourteen atomic bomb survivors - many who have never spoken publicly before - and four Americans intimately involved in the bombings, White Light/Black Rain provides a detailed exploration of the bombings and their aftermath.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe's, and deserted his wife Trina. They have a seven-year-old daughter. Kimura forces Joe into piloting war criminals by revealing that during the war Trina made treasonous propaganda broadcasts.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, adventure, family, cartoon, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredocumentary, news
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountrySouth Korea

    The struggles of an artist. Jang Seung-up (1843-1897), also called Owon, focusing on the years 1882 to 1897, when Korea was in political upheaval, caught between China and Japan, the conservative dynasty dying, and peasant revolt at hand. Jang, born poor, has genius; a merchant, Kim, becomes his patron, finding him a teacher. Jang must convince others that a commoner can have talent, then move beyond his ability to copy old masters and find his own style. He's bedeviled by a temper and alcohol, arguments with patrons as he seeks commissions, and relationships with kisaeng, particularly Mae-hyang, that start and stop. It's the life of a restless spirit producing great art.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    The tough and cold mercenary Warchild, is working for the man who took care of his war training and upbringing, the greedy General Ruechang. Ruechang is planning to take over the country by marrying Princess Halo. But Halo discovers that Ruechang killed her father to gain more power than he had working for the King, so she decides to run away. Warchild is the one who has to bring her back to Ruechang, but the one thing no one counted on happens... Warchild and Halo falls in love, and together they take on the forces of Ruechang... Written by Zorteper -

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredocumentary, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:23

    As glam rock's most flamboyant survivors, X Japan ignited a musical revolution in Japan during the late '80s with their melodic metal. Twenty years after their tragic dissolution, X Japan’s leader, Yoshiki, battles with physical and spiritual demons alongside prejudices of the West to bring their music to the world.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    Primo & Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama
    CountryNetherlands, United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, Austria
    Duration02:06

    A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.




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