Reviews from Japan

Superlative - everyone should see this

Great, a must-see if you like the genre

Good, a decent example of the genre

Watchable, but only for serious genre fans

Unwatchable

Half stars could have gone either way depending on mood.

Movie Name / Release Year	Summary	Date	Reviewer
City Of Lost Souls (2000)	Best use of CGI in a movie ever!	2001-10-13	Simon
Space Travellers (2000)	Very enjoyable hostage-based capers	2001-10-15	Simon
Blue Spring (2001)	Beautiful	2002-03-17	Simon
Sharkskin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998)	Clever, funny and well-made	2002-03-17	Simon
Dead Or Alive 2: Birds (2000)	Another great movie from Takashi Miike	2002-06-27	Simon
Adrenaline Drive (1999)	Highly recommended!	2003-02-01	Simon
Bird People Of China (1997)	Not necessarily a must-see movie, but undoubtedly worth seeing.	2003-02-01	Simon
Dead Or Alive 3: Final (2002)	Decent finale	2003-03-07	Simon
When The Last Sword Is Drawn (2003)	Excellent Samurai film	2003-12-27	Simon
Gozu (2003)	Wonderful creativity	2004-06-05	Simon
Kamikaze Taxi (1994)	A very quirky, contemplative film that is never predictable	2004-12-10	Simon
The Great Yokai War (2005)	Miike unleashes his imagination in less deviant lands	2005-11-13	Simon
Kill! (1968)	Kept me entertained from start to finish	2006-01-23	Simon
Hanging Garden (2005)	Complex and rich, defying easy description or summary	2006-02-09	Simon
Face (Kao) (2000)	fascinating and unpredictable	2006-09-28	Simon
Robogeisha (2009)	A vehicle for an amazing imagination	2010-10-14	Simon
MPD Psycho (2000)	Essential viewing for the Miike fan	2012-05-22	Simon
The Streetfighter (1974)	Highly (but selectively) recommended!	2012-05-22	Simon
Ugetsu (1953)	Recommended	2012-05-22	Simon
Visitor Q (2001)	Definitely not a film for the easily offended.	2012-05-22	Simon
Spirited Away (2001)	A fine piece of imaginative strangeness	2012-09-29	Simon
Audition (1999)	A more sophisticated film than it is given credit for	2012-10-15	Simon
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)	Beautiful contemplation on the bittersweet years of adolescence	2013-02-02	Simon
Fish Story (2009)	Can music save the world?	2013-05-03	Simon
Sonatine (1993)	Beautifully meditative take on the yakuza film	2013-12-15	Simon
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (2014)	Just as enjoyable and well made as the first film	2016-01-31	Simon
Tokyo Fist (1995)	Peak Shinya Tsukamoto	2020-05-23	Simon
The Virgin Psychics (2015)	It's outrageous	2020-06-25	Simon
Boiling Point (1990)	Stylish and whimsical	2020-07-24	Simon
Hana and Alice (2004)	...read review...	2020-08-11	Simon