Movies from Japan

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Movie Name
Country
Release Year
Shinjuku Swan II
Japan
2017
Sion Sono (Director) Go Ayano Tadanobu Asano Motoki Fukami Yuta Nakano Yusuke Iseya Yu Yamada Alice Hirose Nobuaki Kaneko Maryjun Takahashi Kippei Shiina Jun Murakami Yuki Kubota Yusuke Kamiji Ken Wakui (Writer) Mataichiro Yamamoto (Writer) Sohei Tanikawa (Cinematographer)
No real reason for this film to exist (Saturday, August 29, 2020)
Shinjuku Swan
Japan
2015
Sion Sono (Director) Go Ayano Takayuki Yamada Yusuke Iseya Erika Sawajiri Nobuaki Kaneko Motoki Fukami Kosuke Toyohara Yu Yamada Erina Mano Anna Konno Jun Murakami Kotaro Yoshida Manami Marutaka Yuki Kubota Ken Yasuda Lorena Kotou Ami Tomite Ken Wakui (Writer) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer)
It's about demand and supply (Sunday, August 23, 2020)
Shin Godzilla
Japan
2016
Shinji Higuchi (Director) Yusuke Ishida (Director) Hiroki Hasegawa Yutaka Takenouchi Satomi Ishihara Mikako Ichikawa Isshin Inudo Akira Emoto Ren Osugi Akira Ogata Hairi Katagiri Jun Kunimura Shinya Tsukamoto Tetsu Watanabe Hideaki Anno (Writer) Kosuke Yamada (Cinematographer)
Mostly awful but Godzilla is pretty awesome (Monday, May 17, 2021)
Sharkskin Man and Peach Hip Girl
Japan
1998
Katsuhito Ishii (Director, Writer) Tadanobu Asano Sie Kohinata Ittoku Kishibe Kimie Shingyôji Susumu Terajima Shingo Tsurumi Yoji Tanaka Keisuke Horibe Kanji Tsuda Hiroshi Machida (Cinematographer)
Clever, funny and well-made (Sunday, March 17, 2002)
Seven Samurai
Japan
1954
Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Toho Co. (Production Company) Takashi Shimura Toshiro Mifune Yoshio Inaba Seiji Miyaguchi Minoru Chiaki Daisuke Katō Isao Kimura Keiko Tsushima Tatsuya Nakadai Shinobu Hashimoto (Writer) Hideo Oguni (Writer) Asakazu Nakai (Cinematographer) Fumio Hayasaka (Soundtrack)
One of the best films ever made (Friday, January 31, 2003)
Serial Experiments Lain
Japan
1998
Genuinely creepy (Saturday, September 29, 2012)
Satorare
Japan
2001
Katsuyuki Motohiro (Director) Masanobu Ando
Rubbish (Thursday, February 6, 2003)
Sanshiro Sugata
Japan
1943
Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Denjirō Ōkōchi Susumu Fujita Yukiko Todoroki Ryūnosuke Tsukigata Takashi Shimura Ranko Hanai Sugisaku Aoyama Tsuneo Tomita (Writer) Akira Mimura (Cinematographer) Seiichi Suzuki (Soundtrack)
Fine, if a little insubstantial (Saturday, January 22, 2022)
Samurai Reincarnation
Japan
1981
Kinji Fukasaku (Director, Writer) Toei Company (Production Company) Sonny Chiba Kenji Sawada Akiko Kana Hiroyuki Sanada Ai Kanzaki Hideo Murota Noboru Matsuhashi Naoko Kubo Mikio Narita Fûtarô Yamada (Writer) Tatsuo Nogami (Writer) Kiyoshi Hasegawa (Cinematographer) Hozan Yamamoto (Soundtrack)
Sounds more fun than it actually is (Saturday, September 25, 2021)
Samurai III: Duel At Ganryu Island
Japan
1956
Hiroshi Inagaki (Director, Writer) Toshiro Mifune Koji Tsuruta Mariko Okada Kaoru Yachigusa Michiko Saga Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki
Solid conclusion to the trilogy (Sunday, September 20, 2020)