Movies from Japan

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Love Letter Japan 1995 Shunji Iwai (Director) Miho Nakayama Etsushi Toyokawa Beautifully crafted, haunting movie. Iwai is a master of his art! (Wednesday, April 17, 2002)
	MPD Psycho Japan 2000 Takashi Miike (Director) Naoki Hosaka Tomoko Nakajima Ren Osugi Sadaharu Shiota Yoshinari Anan Rieko Miura Chiaki Kuriyama Eiji Ootsuka (Writer) Gichi Ootsuka (Writer) Yumi Sirakura (Writer) Essential viewing for the Miike fan (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	Funky Forest - The First Contact Japan 2005 Katsuhito Ishii (Director, Writer) Hajimine Ishimine (Director, Director) Shunichiro Miki (Director, Writer) Hideaki Anno Tadanobu Asano Susumu Terajima Ryo Kase Erika Saimon Chizuru Ikewaki Kazue Fukiishi Maya Banno Kanji Tsuda Maybe the strangest film I've seen (Thursday, February 9, 2006)
	The Neighbour No. 13 Japan 2005 Yasuo Inoue (Director) Shido Nakamura just so much meaningless violence, really. (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	Osaka Tough Guys Japan 1995 Takashi Miike (Director) Not recommended (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	Pistol Opera Japan 2001 Seijun Suzuki (Director) Makiko Esumi Masatoshi Nagase Kenji Sawada Yoji Tanaka Unique and striking but over-long (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	Postman Blues Japan 1997 Sabu (Director, Actor, Writer) Shinichi Tsutsumi Keisuke Horibe Ren Osugi Kyoko Toyama Sei Hiraizumi Akaji Maro Hiroshi Shimizu Tomoro Taguchi Susumu Terajima Akira Yamamoto Diamond Yukai Yoji Tanaka Daisuke Okamoto (Soundtrack) Shuji Kuriyama (Cinematographer) Very creative and charming work (Friday, June 11, 2004)
	Rainy Dog Japan 1997 Takashi Miike (Director) Sho Aikawa (Actor, Actor) Gao Ming-Chun Xianmei Chen Jianqin He Blacky Ko Chang Li-Wei Zhang Shi Billy Ching Sau-Yat Tomoro Taguchi Seigo Inoue (Writer) Koji Endo (Soundtrack) One of Miike's strongest and most well balanced films. (Friday, December 13, 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)
	Returner Japan 2002 Takashi Yamazaki (Director) Takeshi Kaneshiro Anne Suzuki Goro Kishitani Entertaining for a couple of hours (Sunday, March 23, 2003)