Movies from Japan

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Fudoh Japan 1996 Takashi Miike (Director) Shosuke Tanihara Hilariously transgressive (Sunday, March 17, 2002)
	Gonin 2 Japan 1996 Takashi Ishii (Director, Writer) Ken Ogata Shinobu Ootake Kimiko Yo Mai Kitajima Yui Natsukawa Yumi Nishiyama Yumi Takigawa Reiko Kataoka Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi Yasushi Sasakibara (Cinematographer) worth watching, if not unforgettable (Monday, July 8, 2002)
	Swallowtail Butterfly Japan 1996 Shunji Iwai (Director, Writer) Chara Hiroshi Mikami Ayumi Ito Yosuke Eguchi Andy Hui Atsuro Watabe Kaori Momoi Tomoko Yamaguchi Nene Otsuka Yoriko Douguchi Mickey Curtis Tetsu Watanabe Tadanobu Asano Tomoro Taguchi Kaori Fujii Noboru Shinoda (Cinematographer) Takeshi Kobayashi (Soundtrack) One of the greatest movies ever made? (Sunday, March 17, 2002)
	Bird People Of China Japan 1997 Takashi Miike (Director) Masahiro Motoki Renji Ishibashi Michiko Kichise Yûichi Minato Tomohiko Okuda Makoto Shiina (Writer) Masa Nakamura (Writer) Kôji Endô (Soundtrack) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Not necessarily a must-see movie, but undoubtedly worth seeing. (Saturday, February 1, 2003)
	Black Angel Japan 1997 Takashi Ishii (Director, Writer) Riona Hazuki Reiko Takashima Kippei Shiina Miyuki Ono Ren Osugi Jinpachi Nezu Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi Reiko Kataoka Vague recommendation (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
	Down To Hell Japan 1997 Ryuhei Kitamura (Director) Interesting curio (Saturday, June 14, 2003)
	Full Metal Yakuza Japan 1997 Takashi Miike (Director) Super-cheap but gleefully twisted and inventive (Tuesday, December 3, 2002)
	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)
	Hana-Bi Japan 1997 Takeshi Kitano (Director, Actor, Writer) Kanji Tsuda Makoto Ashikawa Tetsu Watanabe Susumu Terajima Ren Osugi Kayoko Kishimoto Hakuryû Yasuei Yakushiji Tarô Itsumi Ken'ichi Yajima Yûrei Yanagi Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Joe Hisaishi (Soundtrack) Close to cinematic perfection (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)