Movies from Japan

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Movie Name
Country
Release Year
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Japan
2001
Shunji Iwai (Director, Writer) Izumi Inamori Yoji Tanaka Issey Takahashi Shinji Higuchi Kaori Fujii Yu Aoi Hayato Ichihara Shûgo Oshinari Ayumi Ito Takao Osawa Miwako Ichikawa Takeshi Kobayashi (Soundtrack) Noboru Shinoda (Cinematographer)
Beautiful and harrowing (Sunday, August 8, 2021)
Avalon
Japan
2001
Mamoru Oshii (Director) Kenji Kawai (Soundtrack)
Unique aesthetic experience (Sunday, March 17, 2002)
Blue Spring
Japan
2001
Toshiaki Toyoda (Director, Writer) Ryuhei Matsuda Hirofumi Arai Sousuke Takaoka Yusuke Oshiba Yuta Yamazaki Kiyohiko Shibukawa Takashi Tsukamoto Kyoko Koizumi Norimichi Kasamatsu (Cinematographer)
Beautiful (Sunday, March 17, 2002)
Ichi The Killer
Japan
2001
Takashi Miike (Director) Tadanobu Asano Shinya Tsukamoto Nao Ômori Sabu Paulyn Sun Susumu Terajima Shun Sugata Toru Tezuka Kiyohiko Shibukawa Suzuki Matsuo Jun Kunimura Sakichi Sato (Actor, Writer) Hideo Sako Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Seiichi Yamamoto (Soundtrack)
Raised the bar for on-screen depravity (Sunday, September 15, 2024)
A dazzlingly unique and creative movie (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
Inugami
Japan
2001
Masato Harada (Director)
Enjoyable but not a classic (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
Metropolis (Anime)
Japan
2001
Rintaro (Director)
Very pretty but nothing that had a strong impact on me (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)
Satorare
Japan
2001
Katsuyuki Motohiro (Director) Masanobu Ando
Rubbish (Thursday, February 6, 2003)
Spirited Away
Japan
2001
Hayao Miyazaki (Director)
A fine piece of imaginative strangeness (Saturday, September 29, 2012)
St John's Wort
Japan
2001
I didn't get the point (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)