Movies from Japan

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Movie Name
Country
Release Year
Akira
Japan
1988
Katsuhiro Otomo (Director)
A landmark in animation and sci-fi (Thursday, September 17, 2020)
Samurai III: Duel At Ganryu Island
Japan
1956
Hiroshi Inagaki (Director, Writer) Toshiro Mifune Koji Tsuruta Mariko Okada Kaoru Yachigusa Michiko Saga Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki
Solid conclusion to the trilogy (Sunday, September 20, 2020)
Unagi
Japan
1997
Shohei Imamura (Director, Writer) Koji Yakusho Misa Shimizu Mitsuko Baisho Akira Emoto Fujio Tokita Sho Aikawa Ken Kobayashi Tomoro Taguchi Akira Yoshimura (Writer) Daisuke Tengan (Writer) Shigeru Komatsubara (Cinematographer)
But why an eel? (Friday, August 28, 2020)
Shinjuku Swan II
Japan
2017
Sion Sono (Director) Go Ayano Tadanobu Asano Motoki Fukami Yuta Nakano Yusuke Iseya Yu Yamada Alice Hirose Nobuaki Kaneko Maryjun Takahashi Kippei Shiina Jun Murakami Yuki Kubota Yusuke Kamiji Ken Wakui (Writer) Mataichiro Yamamoto (Writer) Sohei Tanikawa (Cinematographer)
No real reason for this film to exist (Saturday, August 29, 2020)
For Love's Sake
Japan
2012
Takashi Miike (Director) Satoshi Tsumabuki Emi Takei Takumi Saito Ito Ono Sakura Ando Tsuyoshi Ihara Kimiko Yo Ikki Kajiwara (Writer) Takayuki Takuma (Writer) Nobuyasu Kita (Cinematographer)
It's a Miike musical (Monday, August 31, 2020)
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Japan
2013
Sion Sono (Director, Writer, Soundtrack) Hiroki Hasegawa Fumi Nikaido (Actor, Actor) Shinichi Tsutsumi Jun Kunimura Gen Hoshino Tomochika Itsuji Itao Hiroyuki Onoue Tetsu Watanabe Tasuku Nagaoka Akihiro Kitamura Megumi Kagurazaka Motoki Fukami Tak Sakaguchi Nanoka Hara Mickey Curtis Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Tomonobu Kikuchi (Soundtrack)
Sion Sono doing his best Takashi Miike impression (Monday, September 14, 2020)
Ghost Squad
Japan
2018
Noboru Iguchi (Director, Writer, Cinematographer) Anna Yanagi Sumire Ueno Minori Mikado Yuni Hong Yakan Nabe Ruby Nakamura Asaka Nakamura Yûya Ishikawa Demo Tanaka Ryôhei Abe Hidemitsu Ban Yasuhiko Fukuda (Soundtrack)
Decent idea, shame about the execution (Friday, September 18, 2020)
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl
Japan
2009
Yoshihiro Nishimura (Director) Naoyuki Tomomatsu (Director) Yukie Kawamura Takumi Saito Eri Otoguro Kanji Tsuda Sayaka Kametani Jiji Boo Eihi Shiina Takashi Shimizu Shungiku Uchida (Writer) Shu G. Momose (Cinematographer)
Trashy but demented fun (Saturday, September 19, 2020)
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)
Road To High & Low
Japan
2016
Shigeaki Kubo (Director) Yuki Yamada Taiki Sato Kanta Sato Kenjiro Yamashita Keita Machida Nobuyuki Suzuki Takanori Iwata Hiroomi Tosaka Sho Aoyagi Masataka Kubota Tatsuya Nakamura Kyoko Koizumi Karen Fujii Shuka Fujii
TV series condensed to incoherent 90 minute film (Saturday, September 26, 2020)