Movies from Japan

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Fudoh Japan 1996 Takashi Miike (Director) Shosuke Tanihara Hilariously transgressive (Sunday, March 17, 2002)
	Gonin 2 Japan 1996 Takashi Ishii (Director, Writer) Ken Ogata Shinobu Ootake Kimiko Yo Mai Kitajima Yui Natsukawa Yumi Nishiyama Yumi Takigawa Reiko Kataoka Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi Yasushi Sasakibara (Cinematographer) worth watching, if not unforgettable (Monday, July 8, 2002)
	Swallowtail Butterfly Japan 1996 Shunji Iwai (Director, Writer) Chara Hiroshi Mikami Ayumi Ito Yosuke Eguchi Andy Hui Atsuro Watabe Kaori Momoi Tomoko Yamaguchi Nene Otsuka Yoriko Douguchi Mickey Curtis Tetsu Watanabe Tadanobu Asano Tomoro Taguchi Kaori Fujii Noboru Shinoda (Cinematographer) Takeshi Kobayashi (Soundtrack) One of the greatest movies ever made? (Sunday, March 17, 2002)
	The Way To Fight Japan 1996 Takashi Miike (Director, Actor) Takeshi Caesar Ryoko Imamura Kazuki Kitamura Enjoyable low-key drama (Sunday, June 12, 2005)
	Dangan Runner Japan 1996 Sabu (Director, Actor, Writer) Tomoro Taguchi Diamond Yukai Shinichi Tsutsumi Akaji Maro Ren Osugi Hiroshi Shimizu Ikko Suzuki Keisuke Horibe Absurdity becomes transcendence (Thursday, March 11, 2021)
	The Trap Japan 1996 Kaizo Hayashi (Director, Writer) Masatoshi Nagase Yui Natsukawa Tomoko Yamaguchi Tetta Sugimoto Kiyotaka Nanbara Akaji Maro Shirō Sano Mika Ohmine Haruko Mabuchi Jō Shishido Asuka Kurosawa Daisuke Tengan (Writer) Yûichi Nagata (Cinematographer) A lesser final entry but still great (Monday, January 1, 2024)