Movies from Japan

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Dead Run Japan 2005 Sabu (Director, Writer) Yuya Tegoshi Hanae Kan Miki Nakatani Etsushi Toyokawa Ren Osugi Susumu Terajima Ryo Kase Shun Sugata Kiyoshi Shigematsu (Writer) Bleak but powerful film that is worth a watch (Monday, December 18, 2006)
	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)
	The Neighbour No. 13 Japan 2005 Yasuo Inoue (Director) Shido Nakamura just so much meaningless violence, really. (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	The Great Yokai War Japan 2005 Takashi Miike (Director, Writer) Ryunosuke Kamiki Hiroyuki Miyasako Chiaki Kuriyama Bunta Sugawara Kaho Minami Riko Narumi Etsushi Toyokawa Kiyoshiro Imawano Seiko Iwaido Masaomi Kondo Sadao Abe Takashi Okamura Naoto Takenaka Kenichi Endo Renji Ishibashi Hiroshi Aramata (Writer) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Miike unleashes his imagination in less deviant lands (Sunday, November 13, 2005)
	Shinobi Japan 2005 Ten Shimoyama (Director) Yuji Shimomura (Action Director) Jo Odagiri Yukie Nakama Tak Sakaguchi A tragic romance... with ninjas (Saturday, November 12, 2005)
	Linda Linda Linda Japan 2005 Nobuhiro Yamashita (Director) Bae Doo-Na Aki Maeda Yuu Kashii Shiori Sekine No great surprises (Friday, December 16, 2005)
	Meatball Machine Japan 2005 Yudai Yamaguchi (Director) Junichi Yamamoto (Director) Issey Takahashi Aoba Kawai Kenichi Kawasaki Toru Tezuka Budget constrained but imaginative (Sunday, May 10, 2020)
	Strange Circus Japan 2005 Sion Sono (Director, Writer) Masumi Miyazaki Rie Kuwana Issei Ishida Seiko Iwaido Hiroshi Ohguchi Fujiko Tomoro Taguchi Flowers are scars (Tuesday, October 27, 2020)
	Hold Up Down Japan 2005 Sabu (Director, Writer) Yoshihiko Inohara Ken Miyake Masayuki Sakamoto Hiroshi Nagano Go Morita Junichi Okada Yu Kashii Yuki Himura Ayumi Ito Eihi Shiina Arata Furuta Tomu Miyazaki Masato Ibu Leo Morimoto People who have little to forgive have little to love (Sunday, March 21, 2021)
	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)