Movies from Japan

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable Japan 1973 Shunya Ito (Director) Toei Company (Production Company) Meiko Kaji Mikio Narita Reisen Ri Yayoi Watanabe Seiya Satô Takashi Fujiki Tomoko Mayama Mitsuru Mori Emi Jo Hirô Matsuda (Writer) Masao Shimizu (Cinematographer) Shunsuke Kikuchi (Soundtrack) Good rather than great (Tuesday, June 29, 2021)
	Female Convict Scorpion: Grudge Song Japan 1973 Yasuharu Hasebe (Director, Writer) Toei Company (Production Company) Meiko Kaji Masakazu Tamura Yumi Kanei Hiroshi Tsukata Yayoi Watanabe Akemi Negishi Toshiyuki Hosokawa Hirô Matsuda (Writer) Fumio Kōnami (Writer) Hanjirô Nakazawa (Cinematographer) Hajime Kaburagi (Soundtrack) Reviewed by Simon (Tuesday, July 6, 2021)
	Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 Japan 1972 Shunya Ito (Director, Writer) Toei Company (Production Company) Meiko Kaji Fumio Watanabe Kayoko Shiraishi Yuki Aresa Hiroko Isayama Yukie Kagawa Hōsei Komatsu Hideo Murota Hirô Matsuda (Writer) Fumio Kōnami (Writer) Masao Shimizu (Cinematographer) Shunsuke Kikuchi (Soundtrack) Super stylish and metaphorically rich (Tuesday, June 22, 2021)
	Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion Japan 1972 Shunya Ito (Director) Toei Company (Production Company) Meiko Kaji Rie Yokoyama Isao Natsuyagi Yayoi Watanabe Yōko Mihara Akemi Negishi Hideo Murota Yumiko Katayama Keiko Kuni Emi Jo Fumio Watanabe Hirô Matsuda (Writer) Fumio Kōnami (Writer) Hanjirô Nakazawa (Cinematographer) Shunsuke Kikuchi (Soundtrack) A genuine classic (Saturday, June 19, 2021)
	Female Yakuza Tale Japan 1973 Teruo Ishii (Director, Writer) Reiko Ike Makoto Ashikawa Reviewed by Simon (Monday, May 21, 2012)
	Fish Story Japan 2009 Yoshihiro Nakamura (Director) Vincent Giry Gaku Hamada Atsushi Itô Kengo Kôra Mirai Moriyama Yoshihiro Nagata Nao Ohmori Mikako Tabe Kiyohiko Shibukawa Noriko Eguchi Hidekazu Mashima Takashi Yamanaka Kazuki Namioka Kenjirô Ishimaru Kotaro Isaka (Writer) Tamio Hayashi (Writer) Kôtarô Isaka (Writer) Kazuyoshi Saitô (Soundtrack) Takashi Komatsu (Cinematographer) Can music save the world? (Friday, May 3, 2013)
	For Love's Sake Japan 2012 Takashi Miike (Director) Satoshi Tsumabuki Emi Takei Takumi Saito Ito Ono Sakura Ando Tsuyoshi Ihara Kimiko Yo Ikki Kajiwara (Writer) Takayuki Takuma (Writer) Nobuyasu Kita (Cinematographer) It's a Miike musical (Monday, August 31, 2020)
	Fudoh Japan 1996 Takashi Miike (Director) Shosuke Tanihara Hilariously transgressive (Sunday, March 17, 2002)
	Full Metal Yakuza Japan 1997 Takashi Miike (Director) Super-cheap but gleefully twisted and inventive (Tuesday, December 3, 2002)
	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)