Movies from Japan

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Movie Name
Country
Release Year
Gothic & Lolita Psycho
Japan
2010
Go Ohara (Director) Rina Akiyama Ruito Aoyagi Asami Yukihide Benny Hisakatsu Kuroki (Writer)
Great name, good trailer... that's about it though (Saturday, May 4, 2013)
Gozu
Japan
2003
Takashi Miike (Director) Sho Aikawa Yûta Sone Kimika Yoshino Sakichi Sato (Actor, Writer) Kenichi Endo Renji Ishibashi Masaya Katô Hitoshi Ozawa Kazuyoshi Ozawa Tetsuro Tamba Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi Kôji Endô (Soundtrack) Kazunari Tanaka (Cinematographer)
Wonderful creativity (Saturday, June 5, 2004)
Graveyard of Honour (Fukasaku)
Japan
1975
Kinji Fukasaku (Director) Toei Company (Production Company) Tetsuya Watari Tatsuo Umemiya Yumi Takigawa Eiji Gō Noboru Andô Reiko Ike Kunie Tanaka Mikio Narita Hideo Murota Hirô Matsuda (Writer) Fumio Kōnami (Writer) Tatsuhiko Kamoi (Writer) Goro Fujita (Writer) Hanjirô Nakazawa (Cinematographer) Toshiaki Tsushima (Soundtrack)
A reminder that Yakuza are generally not nice people (Sunday, October 3, 2021)
Graveyard Of Honour (Miike)
Japan
2002
Takashi Miike (Director, Actor) Goro Kishitani Harumi Inoue Renji Ishibashi Yasukaze Motomiya Daisuke Ryû Yûta Sone Shun Sugata Tetsuro Tamba Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi Goro Fujita (Writer) Kôji Endô (Soundtrack) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer)
Less interesting than Fukasaku's original (Tuesday, October 5, 2021)
I'd hoped for something more (Saturday, March 15, 2003)
Guilty of Romance
Japan
2011
Sion Sono (Director, Writer) Megumi Kagurazaka Makoto Togashi Miki Mizuno Ryuju Kobayashi Kanji Tsuda Hisako Ohkata Chika Uchida Motoki Fukami Kazuya Kojima Satoshi Nikaido Sohei Tanikawa (Cinematographer)
With women nothing is impossible (Tuesday, September 22, 2020)
Hana and Alice
Japan
2004
Shunji Iwai (Director, Writer) Anne Suzuki Yu Aoi Tomohiro Kaku Sei Hiraizumi Takao Osawa Eri Fuse Ayumi Ito Noboru Shinoda (Cinematographer)
Reviewed by Simon (Tuesday, August 11, 2020)
Hana-Bi
Japan
1997
Takeshi Kitano (Director, Actor, Writer) Kanji Tsuda Makoto Ashikawa Tetsu Watanabe Susumu Terajima Ren Osugi Kayoko Kishimoto Hakuryû Yasuei Yakushiji Tarô Itsumi Ken'ichi Yajima Yûrei Yanagi Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Joe Hisaishi (Soundtrack)
Close to cinematic perfection (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)
Hanagatami
Japan
2017
Nobuhiko Obayashi (Director, Writer) Shunsuke Kubozuka Honoka Yahagi Takako Tokiwa Shinnosuke Mitsushima Keishi Nagatsuka Hirona Yamazaki Tokio Emoto Mugi Kadowaki Takehiro Murata Wakaba Irie Toshie Negishi Takao Ito Kazuo Dan (Writer) Chiho Katsura (Writer) Hisaki Sanbongi (Cinematographer)
If war is worth dying for, so is a festival (Friday, May 14, 2021)
Hanging Garden
Japan
2005
Toshiaki Toyoda (Director, Writer) Kyoko Koizumi Seiji Chihara Eita Masahiro Hirota Asami Imajuku Itsuji Itao Jun Kunimura Anne Suzuki Mitsuyo Kakuta (Writer) Junichi Fujisawa (Cinematographer)
Complex and rich, defying easy description or summary (Thursday, February 9, 2006)
Happiness
Japan
2016
Sabu (Director, Writer) Masatoshi Nagase Erika Okuda Hiroki Suzuki Tetsuya Chiba Arisa Nakajima Kôichi Furuya (Cinematographer)
Happiness is just sadness you haven't reached yet (Sunday, August 22, 2021)