Every week, Netflix adds new films to its catalogue in Japan. Here's what dropped during Jul 20–Jul 26, 2026 — each title links to a full editorial page on Movie OTT with cast, crew, and where to watch.
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New on Netflix Japan — Jul 20–Jul 26, 2026
Fresh Netflix releases this week in Japan. 25 new films, auto-curated from official streaming-availability data.
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The Phantom of the Opera
2004 · 0 min
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s timeless musical comes to life with Gerard Butler as the deformed opera ghost who terrorizes the cast and crew of the French Opera House as he falls in love with a young chorus girl, Christine (Emmy® Rosum).
- #3
Oldboy
2003 · 0 min
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-sik) is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.
- #4
Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea
2026 · 0 min
Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea reconstructs the 2012 luxury cruise disaster through survivor testimony and footage the world has never seen. Haunting, precise, and deeply unsettling — this is documentary filmmaking that doesn't let you look away.
- #5
King Richard
2021 · 0 min
Armed with a clear vision, Richard Williams guides his extraordinarily talented daughters, Venus and Serena, on their journey to tennis superstardom.
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Point Blank
1967 · 0 min
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man single-handedly tries to retrieve the money that was stolen from him. Starring Oscar-winning Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson.
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The Devil's Rejects
2005 · 0 min
Rob Zombie's gritty, grisly sequel to "House of 1000 Corpses" finds the Firefly family continuing their murderous ways while on the run.
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The Hunt for Red October
1990 · 0 min
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub is heading for the U.S. coast; however, one CIA analyst (Alec Baldwin) thinks the captain (Sean Connery) will defect the submarine and he only has hours to prove it.
- #10
The American Society of Magical Negroes
2024 · 0 min
The American Society of Magical Negroes is a fresh, satirical comedy about a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people’s liv
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Lost Highway
1997 · 0 min
“We’ve met before, haven’t we?” A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, LOST HIGHWAY, David Lynch’s seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker’s most potent cinematic dreamscapes. Starring Patricia Arquette and Bil
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AWAKE
2020 · 0 min
A 2020 Japanese drama about young men navigating life's harshest realities. Directed by Atsuhiro Yamada and starring Ryo Yoshizawa, AWAKE is a raw, unflinching look at survival and connection that'll stay with you long after the credits roll.
- #13
Pi
1998 · 0 min
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
- #14
Dancer in the Dark
2000 · 0 min
Selma, a migrant single mother in rural America, is slowly going blind. While daydreaming about the musicals she adores, she works endless shifts at a factory, saving up for an operation that will save her son’s eyesight. But when a neighbo
- #15
23 000 Lives
2026 · 0 min
Inspired by real German sea-rescue NGO Jugend Rettet, 23 000 Lives follows young Berliners who crowdfund a ship and sail into the Mediterranean to save thousands. It's urgent, morally tangled, and arrives on Netflix July 17, 2026.
- #16
Go
1999 · 0 min
Ronna needs to make some extra cash. Simon wants to escape to Vegas for the weekend. Adam and Zack want to stay out of trouble. But it's not just another night in the life of these unusual characters. They're about to embark on a wild ride
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Farewell My Concubine
1993 · 0 min
A breathtakingly intimate romance unfolds against a sweeping backdrop of social upheaval in renowned director Chen Kaige’s sumptuous saga of passion, fate, and the transcendent possibilities of art. Spanning fifty years of twentieth-century
- #18
The Firm
1993 · 0 min
An Ivy League lawyer (Tom Cruise) goes to work at a small Memphis firm no one has ever left alive.
- #19
Speak No Evil
2024 · 0 min
An American couple and their daughter visit a mysterious British family's country estate.
- #20
Discover the Thrilling World of Kraven the Hunter
2024 · 0 min
The brutal origin story of Marvel's iconic villain Kraven, who becomes the world's greatest hunter.
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