This is the pool of films for Movie of the Fortnight consideration, along with a list of suggestions for the director and talent (actor, actress, screenwriter, composer, etc) spotlights which occur every month. Admins may occasionally choose something different not on the list, but if it is here it is more likely to be considered and featured!
Suggest as many films, directors and talent as you like. We will update the list when we see a new post.
The films must be obtainable online with English subtitles. You may suggest any and as many movies, directors, actors, actresses, film composers, screenwriters, etc as you want; old, young, experienced, upcoming - the more the better! The directors or other talent you suggest, however, must have at least two films obtainable online with English subtitles.
We would like a wide range of films to be featured if possible. As such, when a directors film is featured, we will not feature another film of theirs for at least three months. Suggestions of pornographic and/or Pinku films is discouraged, but not banned.
20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End
An Actor's Revenge / Revenge of a Kabuki Actor
An Obsession (1997)
Angel's Egg
A Bloody Spear at Mt.Fuji
A Page of Madness
A Scene at the Sea
Affairs within Walls
All Around Us (2008)
AKA Serial Killer
An Inn in Tokyo
Arekara (2012)
Ashita no Joe
Assassination
Battles without Honour & Humanity (1973)
Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Big Man Japan
Big Time Gambling Boss
Blind Beast (1969)
Bounces Ko Girls (1997)
Boy (1969)
Boys on the Run
Cat Soup / Nekojiru-Sou
Children of the Beehive
Children of the Dark (2008)
Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
Cutie Honey
Dandelion (1985)
Dear Doctor
Dogra Magra
Double Suicide (1969)
Eros Plus Massacre
Erotibot
Face (2000)
Fall Guy (1982)
Fires on the Plain
Fireworks
Four Seasons of Children
Funeral (1984)
Funky Forest
Funuke Show Some Love you Losers
G.I. Samurai
G@me
Go Go Second Time Virgin
GS Wonderland
Hanabi
Hanging Garden
Hanzo the Razor: the snare
Harmful Insect (2001)
Heaven and Earth
Heavenly Forest
High and Low
Hitokiri, Tenchu!
Howl's Moving Castle
Hula Girls
Human (1962)
Hush!
I am Flash!
I Graduated, But... (1929)
Ichi the Killer
Ikiru
Intentions of Murder (1964)
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Kisses (1957)
Kimi ni Shika Kikoenai
Last Fragments of Winter
Last Life in the Universe
Late Spring
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars
Like the Clouds, Like the Wind (1990)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
Maboroshi no Hikari
Maborosi
Maid Droid (2008)
Matango (1963)
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Mind Game
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Monsters Club
Mr.Thank You
Mushishi
NANA
New Love in Tokyo (1994)
Night on the Galactic Express (1985)
Ninja Wars (A.K.A. Iga Ninpocho)
Onibaba
Ornamental Hairpin
Paco and the Magical Picture Book
Pale Flower
Paprika
Ran
Rashomon
Rockers
Sada
Samurai I (1954)
Samurai Vendetta (1959)
Sasameyuki (Makioka Sisters)
Seven Samurai
Shoujo / An Adolescent
Shozo, a Cat, and Two Women
Sisters of the Gion
Still Walking
Story of a Prostitute
Sword of the Beast
Tampopo (1986)
Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935)
Tenshi no Koe
The Ambitious (1970)
The Cherry Orchard (1990)
The Crucified Lovers (1954)
The Eel (1997)
The Family Game (1983)
The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (2003)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Lover
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
The Human Vapor
The Life of Oharu
The Man Who Left His Will On Film
The Milk Woman (2005)
The Only Son
The Saga of Anatahan
The Scenery of Tokyo with Cake
The Sound of the Mountain
The Street Fighter (A.K.A. Gekitotsu! Satsujin Ken)
The Sword of Doom
The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)
The Thirteen Assassins (1963)
The Yakuza Brides
The Yakuza Papers
Throne of Blood
Tomie (1999)
Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (2010)
Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
Tokyo Twilight
Tora-san
Unico (1981)
Vacation
Vengeance in Mine (1979)
Warning From Space (1956)
What Did the Lady Forget
What the Snow Brings (2005)
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth
Woman of the Lake
Yearning
Yojimbo
Youth of the Beast
Zatoichi (1989)
I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking "did he fire six shots or only five?" Now to tell you the truth I forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and will blow you head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself a question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
Sorry, I have not recommended a film in a LOOOONG while, so I have forgotten our method of recommendation. Please scold me if I have done it incorrectly!
I have a recommendation: Junichi Mori's two part slice-of-life film series: "Little Forest: Summer/Autumn" and "Little Forest: Winter/Spring".
Little Forest - Summer/Autumn:
Ichiko, a young woman who recently broke up with her city boyfriend, returns to her countryside childhood home and lives off the land, cooking extraordinarily breathtaking Japanese dishes based on the ingredients of the season.
Little Forest - Winter/Spring picks up where Summer/Autumn left off, with Ichiko’s maternal memories of food preparation and a garden covered with snow. The seasonal feasts have become much more focused around preserved foods and warm interactions with her sparse neighbor visitors.
Very organic and completely delightful, though a bit slow for some (not me!). I just watched them yesterday, subtitled, and I highly recommend them. They remind me of a Taste of Tea.
