Movies from Japan

view all movies

	Movie Name Country Release Year
	A Scene At The Sea Japan 1991 Takeshi Kitano (Director, Writer) Claude Maki Hiroko Ôshima Toshizo Fujiwara Susumu Terajima Tetsu Watanabe Joe Hisaishi (Soundtrack) A quieter, more contemplative Kitano film (Sunday, January 17, 2021)
	Heaven And Earth Japan 1990 Waste of time (theirs and mine) (Thursday, July 1, 2004)
	Roningai Japan 1990 Kazuo Kuroki (Director) Shintaro Katsu Gently paced but ultimately satisfying samurai film (Thursday, August 18, 2005)
	Boiling Point Japan 1990 Takeshi Kitano (Director, Actor, Writer) Yûrei Yanagi Gadarukanaru Taka Eri Fuse Makoto Ashikawa Etsushi Toyokawa Stylish and whimsical (Friday, July 24, 2020)
	Violent Cop Japan 1989 Takeshi Kitano (Director, Actor) Makoto Ashikawa Maiko Kawakami Shiro Sano Sei Hiraizumi Susumu Terajima Kenichi Endo Hisashi Nozawa (Writer) A landmark in Japanese cinema (Saturday, July 11, 2020)
	Tetsuo: The Iron Man Japan 1989 Shinya Tsukamoto (Director, Actor, Writer) Tomoro Taguchi Kei Fujiwara Nobu Kanaoka Naomasa Musaka Renji Ishibashi Chu Ishikawa (Soundtrack) Perhaps the strangest thing you will ever see (Monday, June 10, 2013)
	Black Rain Japan 1989 Shohei Imamura (Director, Writer) Yoshiko Tanaka Kazuo Kitamura Etsuko Ichihara Masato Yamada Shoichi Ozawa Norihei Miki Hisako Hara Akiji Kobayashi Kazuko Shirakawa Taiji Tonoyama Fujio Tokita Takashi Miike Toshirō Ishidō (Writer) Takashi Kawamata (Cinematographer) Toru Takemitsu (Soundtrack) Not as traumatic as I'd been expecting (Friday, September 29, 2023)
	Akira Japan 1988 Katsuhiro Otomo (Director) A landmark in animation and sci-fi (Thursday, September 17, 2020)
	Sukeban Deka Japan 1987 Hideo Tanaka (Director) Yui Asaka Goro Kataoka Masato Ibu Cheesy, violent fun (Friday, July 15, 2005)
	Ran (Chaos) Japan 1985 Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Tatsuya Nakadai Akira Terao Jinpachi Nezu Daisuke Ryû Mieko Harada Yoshiko Miyazaki Hisashi Igawa William Shakespeare (Writer) Asakazu Nakai (Cinematographer) Kurosawa despairs at the human condition (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)