Movies from Japan

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Graveyard Of Honour (Miike) Japan 2002 Takashi Miike (Director, Actor) Goro Kishitani Harumi Inoue Renji Ishibashi Yasukaze Motomiya Daisuke Ryû Yûta Sone Shun Sugata Tetsuro Tamba Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi Goro Fujita (Writer) Kôji Endô (Soundtrack) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Less interesting than Fukasaku's original (Tuesday, October 5, 2021) I'd hoped for something more (Saturday, March 15, 2003)
	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)
	Hanging Garden Japan 2005 Toshiaki Toyoda (Director, Writer) Kyoko Koizumi Seiji Chihara Eita Masahiro Hirota Asami Imajuku Itsuji Itao Jun Kunimura Anne Suzuki Mitsuyo Kakuta (Writer) Junichi Fujisawa (Cinematographer) Complex and rich, defying easy description or summary (Thursday, February 9, 2006)
	Heaven And Earth Japan 1990 Waste of time (theirs and mine) (Thursday, July 1, 2004)
	Ichi The Killer Japan 2001 Takashi Miike (Director) Tadanobu Asano Shinya Tsukamoto A dazzlingly unique and creative movie (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	Imprint Japan 2006 Takashi Miike (Director) Reviewed by Simon (Tuesday, December 5, 2006)
	Inugami Japan 2001 Masato Harada (Director) Enjoyable but not a classic (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	Japan Sinks Japan 2006 Shinji Higuchi (Director) Tsuyoshi Kusanagi Ko Shibasaki Etsushi Toyokawa Mao Daichi Mitsuhiro Oikawa Akira Emoto Jun Kunimura Kenichi Endo Hideaki Anno Eriko Sato Tetsuro Tamba Sakyo Komatsu (Writer) Masato Kato (Writer) Tarô Iwashiro (Soundtrack) Taro Kawazu (Cinematographer) Will make you wish it had (Tuesday, April 17, 2007)
	Blues Harp Japan 1998 Takashi Miike (Director) Hiroyuki Ikeuchi Seiichi Tanabe Saori Sekino Mickey Curtis Daisuke Iijima Atsushi Okuno (Actor, Soundtrack) Tatsuo Yamada Toshiyuki Morioka (Writer) Toshihiko Matsuo (Writer) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) A subtle and complex work (Tuesday, August 24, 2021)
	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)