Best Japanese movies on Netflix in India

Top 20: Best Japanese movies on Netflix in India

Updated 9 October 2026 · Ranked by average TMDB user rating, counting only films with at least 200 votes · Subscription titles only

1. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) · ★ 8.8/10 · Animation, Action, Fantasy
   The Demon Slayer Corps are drawn into the Infinity Castle, where Tanjiro, Nezuko, and the Hashira face terrifying Upper Rank demons in a desperate fight as the final…
2. Spirited Away (2001) · ★ 8.5/10 · Animation, Family, Fantasy
   A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never…
3. Grave of the Fireflies (1988) · ★ 8.5/10 · Animation, Drama, War
   In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling…
4. Drawing Closer (2024) · ★ 8.4/10 · Romance, Drama
   With only a year left to live, 17-year-old Akito finds new meaning in life by bringing joy to a terminally ill girl who has just six months remaining.
5. Howl's Moving Castle (2004) · ★ 8.4/10 · Fantasy, Animation, Adventure
   Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his…
6. Princess Mononoke (1997) · ★ 8.3/10 · Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
   Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a…
7. Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020) · ★ 8.3/10 · Animation, Drama, Fantasy
   As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.
8. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997) · ★ 8.3/10 · Animation, Science Fiction, Drama
   SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the…
9. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019) · ★ 8.1/10 · Animation, Action, Fantasy
   Class 1-A visits Nabu Island where they finally get to do some real hero work. The place is so peaceful that it's more like a vacation... until they're attacked by a…
10. Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (2019) · ★ 8.1/10 · Drama, Fantasy, Animation
    Violet Evergarden, a former soldier returned from war, comes to teach at a women's academy and changes a young girl's life.
11. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013) · ★ 8.1/10 · Animation, Drama, Fantasy
    Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess…
12. Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023) · ★ 8.1/10 · Animation, Fantasy, Action
    As a lionhearted boy who can't wield magic strives for the title of Wizard King, four banished Wizard Kings of yore return to crush the Clover Kingdom.
13. My Neighbor Totoro (1988) · ★ 8.1/10 · Fantasy, Animation, Family
    Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros,…
14. Ultraman: Rising (2024) · ★ 8.0/10 · Animation, Science Fiction, Family
    A star athlete reluctantly returns home to take over his father's duties as Ultraman, shielding Tokyo from giant monsters as he becomes a legendary hero.
15. Castle in the Sky (1986) · ★ 8.0/10 · Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
    A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
16. Warriors of the Wind (1984) · ★ 7.9/10 · Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
    After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful…
17. Whisper of the Heart (1995) · ★ 7.9/10 · Animation, Drama, Family
    Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by…
18. When Marnie Was There (2014) · ★ 7.9/10 · Animation, Drama, Family
    Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and…
19. My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (2018) · ★ 7.9/10 · Animation, Action, Adventure
    All Might and Deku accept an invitation to go abroad to a floating and mobile manmade city, called 'I-Island', where they research quirks as well as hero supplemental…
20. A Whisker Away (2020) · ★ 7.9/10 · Animation, Drama, Romance
    A peculiar girl transforms into a cat to catch her crush's attention. But before she realizes it, the line between human and animal starts to blur.

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