Movies from Japan

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Kuroneko Japan 1968 Kaneto Shindo (Director, Writer) Toho Co. (Production Company) Kichiemon Nakamura Nobuko Otowa Kiwako Taichi Kei Satō Taiji Tonoyama Kiyomi Kuroda (Cinematographer) Hikaru Hayashi (Soundtrack) Masterpiece of ghostly style and atmosphere (Saturday, May 22, 1999)
	L: Change The World Japan 2008 Hideo Nakata (Director) Kenichi Matsuyama Kenji Kawai (Soundtrack) poorly conceived and badly written (Friday, February 15, 2008)
	Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance Japan 1974 Toshiya Fujita (Director) Toho Co. (Production Company) Meiko Kaji Juzo Itami Yoshio Harada Kazuko Yoshiyuki Shin Kishida Kôji Nanbara Rinichi Yamamoto Tōru Abe Kazuo Kamimura (Writer) Kazuo Koike (Writer) Tatsuo Suzuki (Cinematographer) Kenjiro Hirose (Soundtrack) Sequel switches onto a different track (Sunday, August 1, 2021)
	Laplace's Witch Japan 2018 Takashi Miike (Director) Sho Sakurai Suzu Hirose Sota Fukushi Mirai Shida Eriko Sato Tao Okamoto Hiroshi Tamaki Etsushi Toyokawa Keigo Higashino (Writer) Hiroyuki Yatsu (Writer) Nobuyasu Kita (Cinematographer) Competent but generic murder mystery (Thursday, May 20, 2021)
	Legend Of The Eight Samurai Japan 1983 Kinji Fukasaku (Director, Writer) Toei Company (Production Company) Hiroyuki Sanada Sonny Chiba Hiroko Yakushimaru Etsuko Shiomi (Actor, Actor) Minori Terada Masaki Kyômoto Takuya Fukuhara Shunsuke Kariya Kenji Ohba Keiko Matsuzaka Toshio Kamata (Writer) Seizô Sengen (Cinematographer) Splendidly cheesy swords & sorcery epic (Friday, August 20, 2021)
	Lesson of the Evil Japan 2012 Takashi Miike (Director, Writer) Yûichi Matsui (Production Company) Takayuki Yamada Hideaki Itô Fumi Nikaido Shota Sometani Yukito Nishii Mitsuru Fukikoshi Saki Takaoka Rio Kanno Kaoru Fujiwara Hideaki Ito Kento Hayashi Kodai Asaka Erina Mizuno Takehiro Hira Hirona Yamazaki Tasuku Nagase Yûsuke Kishi (Writer) Yuusuke Kishi (Writer) Kôji Endô (Soundtrack) Nobuyasu Kita (Cinematographer) Koji Endo (Soundtrack) Another high school nightmare from Japan (Sunday, March 9, 2014)
	Lesson of the Evil: Prologue Japan 2012 Nomoto Fumio (Director) Hideaki Ito Noriko Nakagoshi Ryo Iwamatsu Koh Takasugi Saki Takaoka Mitsuru Fukikoshi Not clear what purpose this serves (Wednesday, July 27, 2022)
	Ley Lines Japan 1999 Takashi Miike (Director) Kazuki Kitamura Dan Li Michisuke Kashiwaya Tomoro Taguchi Naoto Takenaka Sho Aikawa Samuel Pop Aning Yukie Itou Takeshi Caesar Ren Osugi Tetsu Watanabe Ichiro Ryu (Writer) Naosuke Imaizumi (Cinematographer) Koji Endo (Soundtrack) One of Miike's least plot-driven film (Thursday, August 12, 2021)
	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)
	Linda Linda Linda Japan 2005 Nobuhiro Yamashita (Director) Bae Doo-Na Aki Maeda Yuu Kashii Shiori Sekine No great surprises (Friday, December 16, 2005)