Movies from Japan

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Calamari Wrestler Japan 2004 Kawasaki Minoru (Director, Director, Writer) Kana Ishida Nobuo Kameko Osamu Nishimura Masakazu Migita (Writer) Not quite brilliant, but interesting enough to receive a recommendation (Thursday, July 13, 2006)
	Cutie Honey Japan 2004 Hideaki Anno (Director, Actor, Writer) Eriko Sato Mikako Ichikawa Jun Murakami Mitsuhiro Oikawa Hairi Katagiri Sie Kohinata Ryuhei Matsuda Katsuhito Ishii Yoji Tanaka Go Nagai Rumi Takahashi (Writer) Kumi Koda (Soundtrack) Super-cutie and super-silly (Monday, November 8, 2004)
	Battlefield Baseball Japan 2003 Yudai Yamaguchi (Director) Tak Sakaguchi Interesting curio (Monday, September 20, 2004)
	2LDK Japan 2003 Yukihiko Tsutsumi (Director) Eiko Koike Maho Nonami Wicked fun (Monday, February 9, 2004)
	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)
	Kikoku Japan 2003 Takashi Miike (Director) Riki Takeuchi Mickey Curtis Kenichi Endo Renji Ishibashi Koichi Iwaki Hiroshi Katsuno Yûta Sone Shigenori Takechi (Writer) Disappointingly generic Yakuza movie from Miike (Wednesday, March 16, 2005)
	The Negotiator (Koshonin) Japan 2003 Takashi Miike (Director) Kenichi Endo (Actor, Actor) Ren Ishibashi Hiroshi Mikami Mayu Tsuruta Shirô Sano Masatô Ibu Renji Ishibashi Yoji Tanaka Takahisa Igarashi (Writer) Kota Yamada (Writer) Good, but not one of Miike's best (Friday, March 3, 2006)
	Sky High Japan 2003 Ryuhei Kitamura (Director) Yumiko Shaku Takao Osawa Shosuke Tanihara Intriguing and enjoyable film with flaws (Thursday, June 3, 2004)
	When The Last Sword Is Drawn Japan 2003 Yojiro Takita (Director) Kiichi Nakai Koichi Sato Excellent Samurai film (Saturday, December 27, 2003)
	One Missed Call Japan 2003 Takashi Miike (Director) Ko Shibasaki Shinichi Tsutsumi Kou Shibasaki Kazue Fukiishi Anna Nagata Atsushi Ida Renji Ishibashi Yasushi Akimoto (Writer) Minako Daira (Writer) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Koji Endo (Soundtrack) Cliched and redundant (Sunday, June 12, 2005)