# The best Japanese films of 2025 (Kinema Junpo Best Ten)

The ten Japanese films of the 99th Kinema Junpo Best Ten (2025). Number one is Sho Miyake's Two Seasons, Two Strangers; the blockbuster Kokuho came second.

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- Jul 22, 2026 · 藤田 恵
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## Top 10

1. **Two Seasons, Two Strangers** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sho Miyake's quiet film about travelling; Shim Eun-kyung won the best actress award.
2. **Kokuho** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lee Sang-il's kabuki epic starring Ryo Yoshizawa, one of the biggest hits ever in Japan.
3. **Teki Cometh** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Daihachi Yoshida adapts Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel, with Kyozo Nagatsuka as a retired professor.
4. **Futsu no kodomo (Ordinary Kids)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Miho O's film about a group of children.
5. **Takarajima** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Keishi Otomo adapts Junjo Shindo's prize-winning novel about postwar Okinawa.
6. **Orokamono no mibun** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Directed by Koto Nagata.
7. **Kirishima desu** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Banmei Takahashi's film about a man who spent decades on the run.
8. **Umibe e iku michi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Directed by Satoko Yokohama.
9. **Kyo no sora ga ichiban suki** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Akiko Ohku's coming-of-age film.
10. **Miharashi sedai** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Directed by Yuiga Danzuka.

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