Movies from Japan

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Roningai Japan 1990 Kazuo Kuroki (Director) Shintaro Katsu Gently paced but ultimately satisfying samurai film (Thursday, August 18, 2005)
	Salaryman Kintaro Japan 1999 Takashi Miike (Director) An engaging story of some likeable characters (Wednesday, September 14, 2005)
	Satorare Japan 2001 Katsuyuki Motohiro (Director) Masanobu Ando Rubbish (Thursday, February 6, 2003)
	Seven Samurai Japan 1954 Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Toho Co. (Production Company) Takashi Shimura Toshiro Mifune Yoshio Inaba Seiji Miyaguchi Minoru Chiaki Daisuke Katō Isao Kimura Keiko Tsushima Tatsuya Nakadai Shinobu Hashimoto (Writer) Hideo Oguni (Writer) Asakazu Nakai (Cinematographer) Fumio Hayasaka (Soundtrack) One of the best films ever made (Friday, January 31, 2003)
	Sharkskin Man and Peach Hip Girl Japan 1998 Katsuhito Ishii (Director, Writer) Tadanobu Asano Sie Kohinata Ittoku Kishibe Kimie Shingyôji Susumu Terajima Shingo Tsurumi Yoji Tanaka Keisuke Horibe Kanji Tsuda Hiroshi Machida (Cinematographer) Clever, funny and well-made (Sunday, March 17, 2002)
	Killing Machine Japan 1976 Noribumi Suzuki (Director) Sonny Chiba Yutaka Nakajima Makoto Sato Naoya Makoto Kyoichi Sato Isao Matsumoto (Writer) Worth a look for Chiba fans, non-essential for everyone else (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	Sky High Japan 2003 Ryuhei Kitamura (Director) Yumiko Shaku Takao Osawa Shosuke Tanihara Intriguing and enjoyable film with flaws (Thursday, June 3, 2004)
	St John's Wort Japan 2001 I didn't get the point (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	The Streetfighter Japan 1974 Shigehiro Ozawa (Director) Sonny Chiba Goichi Yamada Yutaka Nakajima Tony Cetera Masafumi Suzuki Highly (but selectively) recommended! (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	Return Of The Streetfighter Japan 1974 Shigehiro Ozawa (Director) Sonny Chiba Yoko Ichiji Masashi Ishibashi Hiroshi Tanaka Masafumi Suzuki Neither as gory or as good as the original (Tuesday, March 14, 2006)