Movies from Japan

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	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)
	Gemini Japan 1999 Shinya Tsukamoto (Director, Writer, Cinematographer) Masahiro Motoki Yumiko Sato Yasutaka Tsutsui Shiho Fujimura Tadanobu Asano Renji Ishibashi Akaji Maro Naoto Takenaka Jun Murakami Tomoro Taguchi Koji Tsukamoto Hisako Ohkata Edogawa Rampo (Writer) Chū Ishikawa (Soundtrack) A surreal and sumptuous period horror from Shinya Tsukamoto (Wednesday, July 7, 2021)
	Getting Any? Japan 1994 Takeshi Kitano (Director, Actor, Writer) Office Kitano (Production Company) Dankan Moeko Ezawa Hakuryu Hideo Higashikokubaru Akiji Kobayashi Gadarukanaru Taka Tokie Hidari Ren Osugi Susumu Terajima Makoto Ashikawa Kanji Tsuda Akira Kubo Katsumi Yanagijima (Cinematographer) Senji Horiuchi (Soundtrack) Hidehiko Koike (Soundtrack) Enjoyable piece of total lunacy from a master (Saturday, April 19, 2003)
	Ghost in the Shell Japan 1995 Mamoru Oshii (Director) Production I.G (Production Company) Atsuko Tanaka Akio Otsuka Iemasa Kayumi Koichi Yamadera Kazunori Ito (Writer) Masamune Shirow (Writer) Hisao Shirai (Cinematographer) Kenji Kawai (Soundtrack) Who are you? (Saturday, July 17, 2021)
	Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence Japan 2004 Mamoru Oshii (Director) Kenji Kawai (Soundtrack) Pretentious as hell, but undeniably beautiful (Monday, November 8, 2004)
	Ghost Squad Japan 2018 Noboru Iguchi (Director, Writer, Cinematographer) Anna Yanagi Sumire Ueno Minori Mikado Yuni Hong Yakan Nabe Ruby Nakamura Asaka Nakamura Yûya Ishikawa Demo Tanaka Ryôhei Abe Hidemitsu Ban Yasuhiko Fukuda (Soundtrack) Decent idea, shame about the execution (Friday, September 18, 2020)
	Girl Boss Guerilla Japan 1972 Norifumi Suzuki (Director, Writer) Toei Company (Production Company) Miki Sugimoto Reiko Ike Emi Jo Linda Kimoto Naomi Oka Ryôko Ema Midori Hiro Tōru Abe Takayuki Minagawa (Writer) Enjoyable, if still far from exceptional (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	Girl's Blood Japan 2014 Yuria Haga Asami Tada Ayame Misaki Rina Koike Hideo Sakaki Largely inexplicable fusion of elements but somehow it works (Saturday, November 16, 2019)
	Go, Go Second Time Virgin Japan 1969 Koji Wakamatsu (Director) Michio Akiyama Mimi Kozakura Amazingly bleak film, and quite shocking to watch (Monday, November 26, 2001)