Movies from Japan

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Audition Japan 1999 Takashi Miike (Director) Ryo Ishibashi Eihi Shiina Jun Kunimura Renji Ishibashi Ryu Murakami (Writer) Daisuke Tengan (Writer) A more sophisticated film than it is given credit for (Monday, October 15, 2012)
	Space Travellers Japan 2000 Katsuyuki Motohiro (Director) Takeshi Kaneshiro Masanobu Ando Eri Fukatsu Hiroyuki Ikeuchi Very enjoyable hostage-based capers (Monday, October 15, 2001)
	Ringu Japan 1998 Hideo Nakata (Director) Nanako Matsushima Miki Nakatani Yuko Takeuchi Hitomi Sato It's definitely scary, but why do you want to be scared? (Monday, October 15, 2012)
	Himizu Japan 2011 Sion Sono (Director, Writer) Shota Sometani Fumi Nikaido Tetsu Watanabe Mitsuru Fukikoshihi Megumi Kagurazaka Minoru Furuya (Writer) It's tough to be a teenager. (Wednesday, October 24, 2012)
	Rashomon Japan 1950 Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Toshiro Mifune Machiko Kyo Masayuki Mori Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki Ryûnosuke Akutagawa (Writer) Kurosawa looks at the blackness of the human heart (Tuesday, November 13, 2012)
	Yatterman Japan 2009 Takashi Miike (Director) Sho Sakurai Saki Fukuda Kyoko Fukada Kendo Kobayashi Katsuhisa Namase Sadao Abe Tatsuo Yoshida (Writer) Masashi Sogo (Writer) Too adult for kids, too childish for adults? (Monday, November 19, 2012)
	Kotoko Japan 2011 Shinya Tsukamoto (Director, Actor, Writer, Cinematographer) Cocco (Actor, Writer, Soundtrack) A journey into a very troubled mind (Thursday, November 22, 2012)
	Villain Japan 2010 Lee Sang-il (Director, Writer) Satoshi Tsumabuki Eri Fukatsu Masaki Okada Hikari Mitsushima Kirin Kiki Shuichi Yoshida (Writer) Joe Hisaishi (Soundtrack) A film of two halves... neither very good (Sunday, November 25, 2012)
	Like A Dragon Japan 2007 Takashi Miike (Director) Toei Company (Production Company) Kazuki Kitamura Goro Kishitani Sho Aikawa YosiYosi Arakawa Kenichi Endo Yoo Gong Haruhiko Kato Tomoro Taguchi Natsuo Tomita Claude Maki Yutaka Matsushige Sansei Shiomi Saki Takaoka Seiji Togawa (Writer) Masashi Sogo (Writer) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Koji Endo (Soundtrack) Miike finds another fresh way to take on the Yakuza genre (Wednesday, December 5, 2012)
	Throne Of Blood Japan 1957 Akira Kurosawa (Director) Toshiro Mifune Isuzu Yamada Takashi Shimura Akira Kubo Yoichi Tachikawa Minoru Chiaki Asakazu Nakai (Cinematographer) Kurosawa's interpretation of Macbeth (Friday, January 4, 2013)