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Movie Name
Country
Release Year
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)
Eureka
Japan
2000
Shinji Aoyama (Director, Writer) Koji Yakusho Aoi Miyazaki Masaru Miyazaki Yoichiro Saito Sayuri Kokusho Ken Mitsuishi Yutaka Matsushige Eihi Shiina
Too long (Sunday, July 21, 2002)
Party 7
Japan
2000
Katsuhito Ishii (Director, Writer) Tadanobu Asano Masatoshi Nagase Keisuke Horibe Yoshinori Okada Akemi Kobayashi Yoshio Harada Ryo Kase Ren Osugi
Bizarre, creative and hilarious (Tuesday, August 5, 2003)
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 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)
Vital
Japan
2004
Shinya Tsukamoto (Director, Writer, Cinematographer) Tadanobu Asano Nami Tsukamoto Kazuyoshi Kushida Hana Kino Jun Kunimura Ittoku Kishibe Chū Ishikawa (Soundtrack)
An unclassifiable enigma (Tuesday, July 6, 2021)
Undo
Japan
1994
Shunji Iwai (Director, Writer) Etsushi Toyokawa Tomoko Yamaguchi Tomoro Taguchi Noboru Shinoda (Cinematographer) Remedios (Soundtrack)
Love unravelling (Thursday, August 5, 2021)
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)
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)
Ley Lines
Japan
1999
Takashi Miike (Director) Kazuki Kitamura Dan Li Michisuke Kashiwaya Tomoro Taguchi Naoto Takenaka Sho Aikawa Samuel Pop Aning Yukie Itou Takeshi Caesar Ren Osugi Tetsu Watanabe Ichiro Ryu (Writer) Naosuke Imaizumi (Cinematographer) Koji Endo (Soundtrack)
One of Miike's least plot-driven film (Thursday, August 12, 2021)