Movies from Japan

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Golgo 13 - Assignment Kowloon Japan 1977 Yukio Noda (Director) Sonny Chiba Etsuko Shiomi Poorly written, acted and directed (Wednesday, June 6, 2007)
	Hausu Japan 1977 Nobuhiko Obayashi (Director) Yōko Minamida Masayo Miyako Eriko Tanaka Mieko Satô Ai Matubara Kumiko Oba Miki Jinbo Kimiko Ikegami Chiho Katsura (Writer) Yoshitaka Sakamoto (Cinematographer) Off the wall (Sunday, July 19, 2020)
	Samurai Reincarnation Japan 1981 Kinji Fukasaku (Director, Writer) Toei Company (Production Company) Sonny Chiba Kenji Sawada Akiko Kana Hiroyuki Sanada Ai Kanzaki Hideo Murota Noboru Matsuhashi Naoko Kubo Mikio Narita Fûtarô Yamada (Writer) Tatsuo Nogami (Writer) Kiyoshi Hasegawa (Cinematographer) Hozan Yamamoto (Soundtrack) Sounds more fun than it actually is (Saturday, September 25, 2021)
	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)
	Legend Of The Eight Samurai Japan 1983 Kinji Fukasaku (Director, Writer) Toei Company (Production Company) Hiroyuki Sanada Sonny Chiba Hiroko Yakushimaru Etsuko Shiomi (Actor, Actor) Minori Terada Masaki Kyômoto Takuya Fukuhara Shunsuke Kariya Kenji Ohba Keiko Matsuzaka Toshio Kamata (Writer) Seizô Sengen (Cinematographer) Splendidly cheesy swords & sorcery epic (Friday, August 20, 2021)
	Nausicaa: Valley Of The Wind Japan 1984 Hayao Miyazaki (Director, Writer) Sumi Shimamoto Mahito Tsujimura Hisako Kyôda Gorô Naya Joe Hisaishi (Soundtrack, Soundtrack) A wonderful movie (Sunday, May 5, 2002)
	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)
	Sukeban Deka Japan 1987 Hideo Tanaka (Director) Yui Asaka Goro Kataoka Masato Ibu Cheesy, violent fun (Friday, July 15, 2005)
	Akira Japan 1988 Katsuhiro Otomo (Director) A landmark in animation and sci-fi (Thursday, September 17, 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)