Movies from Japan

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Return Of The Streetfighter Japan 1974 Shigehiro Ozawa (Director) Sonny Chiba Yoko Ichiji Masashi Ishibashi Hiroshi Tanaka Masafumi Suzuki Neither as gory or as good as the original (Tuesday, March 14, 2006)
	Returner Japan 2002 Takashi Yamazaki (Director) Takeshi Kaneshiro Anne Suzuki Goro Kishitani Entertaining for a couple of hours (Sunday, March 23, 2003)
	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)
	Rise of the Machine Girls Japan 2019 Yûki Kobayashi (Director, Writer) Himena Tsukimiya Kanon Hanakage Tak Sakaguchi Kazuya Murakami Kazuma Konishi Kazuki Miki Yûki Ashida Yûya Ishikawa Rie Kitahara Toshie Negishi Jun Tsugita (Writer) Kou Nakagawa (Soundtrack) Keizô Suzuki (Cinematographer) A fun throwback to the Golden Age of Japanese Splatter (Saturday, May 21, 2022)
	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)
	Roaring Fire Japan 1981 Norifumi Suzuki (Director, Writer) Toei Company (Production Company) Hiroyuki Sanada Sonny Chiba Etsuko Shiomi Mikio Narita Larry Shreve Toshiaki Minami Tatsuo Endō Masashi Ishibashi Hiroshi Tanaka Shinsuke Inoue (Writer) Tons of fun (Tuesday, February 27, 2024)
	Robogeisha Japan 2009 Noboru Iguchi (Director, Writer) Yoshihiro Nishimura Naoto Takenaka Asami Aya Kiguchi A vehicle for an amazing imagination (Thursday, October 14, 2010)
	Roningai Japan 1990 Kazuo Kuroki (Director) Shintaro Katsu Gently paced but ultimately satisfying samurai film (Thursday, August 18, 2005)
	Rurouni Kenshin Japan 2012 Keishi Ohtomo (Director, Writer) Kenji Tanigaki (Action Director) Takeru Satoh Emi Takei Koji Kikkawa Yu Aoi Munetaka Aoki Go Ayano Genki Sudo Taketo Tanaka Nobuhiro Watsuki (Writer) Takuro Ishizaka (Cinematographer) A slick and fresh take on the martial arts genre (Sunday, June 6, 2021)
	Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno Japan 2014 Keishi Ohtomo (Director) Kenji Tanigaki (Action Director) Takeru Satoh Emi Takei Tatsuya Fujiwara Yôsuke Eguchi Yusuke Iseya Munetaka Aoki Yu Aoi Ryûnosuke Kamiki Tao Tsuchiya Min Tanaka Kazufumi Miyazawa Yukiyoshi Ozawa Ken'ichi Takitô Ryosuke Miura Tomomi Maruyama Maryjun Takahashi Nobuhiro Watsuki (Writer) Takuro Ishizaka (Cinematographer) Just as enjoyable and well made as the first film (Sunday, January 31, 2016)