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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Warm Water Under A Red Bridge Japan 2001 Shohei Imamura (Director) Koji Yakusho Misa Shimizu Quirky yet touching (Saturday, June 15, 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)
	Avalon Japan 2001 Mamoru Oshii (Director) Kenji Kawai (Soundtrack) Unique aesthetic experience (Sunday, March 17, 2002)
	Face (Kao) Japan 2000 Junji Sakamoto (Director, Writer) Naomi Fujiyama Etsushi Toyokawa Michiyo Ookusu Riho Makise Jun Kunimura Misako Watanabe Ittoku Kishibe Koichi Sato Isamu Uno (Writer) Norimichi Kasamatsu (Cinematographer) fascinating and unpredictable (Thursday, September 28, 2006)
	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)
	Gojoe Japan 2000 Gakuryu Ishii (Director) Tadanobu Asano Daisuke Ryu Jun Kunimura Masatoshi Nagase Beautiful (Saturday, August 23, 2003)
	Gozu Japan 2003 Takashi Miike (Director) Sho Aikawa Yûta Sone Kimika Yoshino Sakichi Sato (Actor, Writer) Kenichi Endo Renji Ishibashi Masaya Katô Hitoshi Ozawa Kazuyoshi Ozawa Tetsuro Tamba Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi Kôji Endô (Soundtrack) Kazunari Tanaka (Cinematographer) Wonderful creativity (Saturday, June 5, 2004)
	The Guys From Paradise Japan 2000 Takashi Miike (Director) Tsutomu Yamazaki Koji Kikkawa (Actor, Soundtrack) Kenichi Endo (Actor, Actor) Kazuhiko Kanayama Naoto Takenaka Hua Rong Weng Kenji Mizuhashi Nene Otsuka Mai Oikawa Monsour Del Rosario Izo Hashimoto (Writer) Itaru Era (Writer) Yôji Hayashi (Writer) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Further confirmation of Miike's extraordinary film-making talent (Monday, June 23, 2003)
	Hanging Garden Japan 2005 Toshiaki Toyoda (Director, Writer) Kyoko Koizumi Seiji Chihara Eita Masahiro Hirota Asami Imajuku Itsuji Itao Jun Kunimura Anne Suzuki Mitsuyo Kakuta (Writer) Junichi Fujisawa (Cinematographer) Complex and rich, defying easy description or summary (Thursday, February 9, 2006)
	Kuroneko Japan 1968 Kaneto Shindo (Director, Writer) Toho Co. (Production Company) Kichiemon Nakamura Nobuko Otowa Kiwako Taichi Kei Satō Taiji Tonoyama Kiyomi Kuroda (Cinematographer) Hikaru Hayashi (Soundtrack) Masterpiece of ghostly style and atmosphere (Saturday, May 22, 1999)