# Japanese films that will make you cry

Keep a handkerchief handy: the Japanese tearjerkers ranked highest in Mynavi News's survey, my-best and U-WATCH.

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- Sep 28, 2026 · kenichi_movie
- https://even.best/en/l/3875/japanese-films-that-will-make-you-cry

## Top 13

1. **Grave of the Fireflies (1988)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The clear number one in the survey: two siblings in wartime.
2. **Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A man remembers the high-school sweetheart he lost.
3. **Departures (2008)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A cellist who becomes an encoffiner; Oscar for foreign-language film.
4. **Let Me Eat Your Pancreas (2017)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Days with a classmate who has little time left.
5. **The Eternal Zero (2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The truth about a grandfather who was a kamikaze pilot.
6. **Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Tokyo neighbourhood in 1958, as Tokyo Tower rises.
7. **The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ken Takakura's ex-convict heads home.
8. **Rebirth (2011)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A woman who raised a kidnapped child, and the child herself.
9. **Be with You (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A dead wife returns in the rainy season.
10. **Poppoya (1999)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ken Takakura as a Hokkaido stationmaster who never left his post.
11. **Hachiko Monogatari (1987)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Akita who kept waiting for his master.
12. **Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lily Franky's story of a mother and son.
13. **The Last 10 Years (2022)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A woman's last ten years with an incurable illness.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.