Movies from Japan

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck And God In A Coin Locker Japan 2007 Yoshihiro Nakamura (Director, Writer) Gaku Hamada Eita Megumi Seki Kei Tamura Kaoru Hirata Midoriko Kimura Ryuhei Matsuda Kotaro Isaka (Writer) Ducks and Dylan (Sunday, May 26, 2013)
	The Forest of Love Japan 2019 Sion Sono (Director, Writer) Kippei Shiina Shinnosuke Mitsushima Kyoko Hinami Eri Kamataki Young Dais Natsuki Kawamura Yuzuka Nakaya Dai Hasegawa Chiho Fujii Tsukino Yamamoto Manaka Kinoshita Miyu Kinoshita Yuki Nagashima Gaku Sano Kenji Katoh (Soundtrack) Sôhei Tanikawa (Cinematographer) Cinema is life, you know (Sunday, August 16, 2020)
	The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Japan 2006 Mamoru Hosoda (Director) Yasutaka Tsutsui (Writer) Satoko Okudera (Writer) Beautiful contemplation on the bittersweet years of adolescence (Saturday, February 2, 2013)
	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)
	The Guys From Paradise Japan 2000 Takashi Miike (Director) Tsutomu Yamazaki Koji Kikkawa (Actor, Soundtrack) Kenichi Endo (Actor, Actor) Kazuhiko Kanayama Naoto Takenaka Hua Rong Weng Kenji Mizuhashi Nene Otsuka Mai Oikawa Monsour Del Rosario Izo Hashimoto (Writer) Itaru Era (Writer) Yôji Hayashi (Writer) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Further confirmation of Miike's extraordinary film-making talent (Monday, June 23, 2003)
	The Hidden Fortress Japan 1958 Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Toshiro Mifune Minoru Chiaki Kamatari Fujiwara Susumu Fujita Takashi Shimura Misa Uehara Eiko Miyoshi Ryûzô Kikushima (Writer) Hideo Oguni (Writer) Shinobu Hashimoto (Writer) Masaru Satô (Soundtrack) Kazuo Yamazaki (Cinematographer) Beautifully filmed (Sunday, November 14, 2021)
	The Land Of Hope Japan 2012 Sion Sono (Director) Isao Natsuyagi Naoko Ohtani Jun Murakami Megumi Kagurazaka Hikari Kajiwara Yutaka Shimizu Gently urgent warning about Fukushima (Sunday, January 5, 2014)
	The Machine Girl Japan 2008 Noboru Iguchi (Director, Writer) Minase Yashiro Asami Kentaro Shimazu Nobuhiro Nishihara Greatest film ever? (Monday, October 15, 2012)
	The Most Terrible Time in My Life Japan 1994 Kaizo Hayashi (Director, Writer) Masatoshi Nagase Shirō Sano Kiyotaka Nanbara Yang Haitin Hou Te-chien Akaji Maro Shinya Tsukamoto Jō Shishido Haruko Wanibuchi Daisuke Tengan (Writer) Yûichi Nagata (Cinematographer) Yôko Kumagai (Soundtrack) Hidehiko Urayama (Soundtrack) Smart, stylish and funny (Monday, January 1, 2024)
	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)