| What are your favorite Japanese movies? For me, it would be: Battle Royale Godzilla Kamen Rider (sorry for my poor English) |
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| Hana-Bi is my all time favorite. Other Japanese movies I really enjoy are Cure, and Battle Royale |
| Japanese movies that I enjoyed would be all the ones I've seen (which isn't a whole lot): Seven Samurai (1954) Ichi the Killer (2001) House (1977) My favorite Eastern Asian film, however, would be Oldboy (2003). |
| Can't say I've seen too many live-action Japanese films, so I guess I'll go with '13 Assassins'. I enjoy Chinese films much more than Japanese. |
Nithirel said: Can't say I've seen too many live-action Japanese films, so I guess I'll go with '13 Assassins'. I enjoy Chinese films much more than Japanese. Sure, a lot of Chinese cinema are now showing in my country, Serbia, due to my country great relationship with China, and also show some films from South Korea. My father loves Akira Kurosawa films, but he isn't aware about Chinese films being shown in Serbia and often mistakes them as Japanese due to langauge issues and being born and raised with classic Japanese movies. (sorry for my poor English) |
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| • All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai, 2001) • Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano, 1999) • 0.5mm (Momoko Ando, 2014) • Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008) • Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) • Adrift in Tokyo (Satoshi Miki, 2007) • A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (Shunji Iwai, 2016) • Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano, 1997) • Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985) • Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima, 2010) • Hana and Alice (Shunji Iwai, 2004) • 100 Yen Love (Masaharu Take, 2014) • Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961) • The Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada, 2002) • Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, 1993) • The Man Who Stole the Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa, 1979) • The Bird People in China (Takashi Miike, 1998) • Departures (Yojiro Takita, 2008) • April Story (Shunji Iwai, 1998) • Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005) • A Story of Yonosuke (Shuichi Okita, 2013) • Air Doll (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2009) • Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1951) • Moving (Shinji Somai, 1993) • Why Don't You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono, 2013) |
| Dissapearance of Haruhi Suzumiya Madoka Magica movie 3 Sakasama no Patenma are my favorite japanese movies. |
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| Hachiko Monogatari is one of my top favourite movies. |
| Late Spring homie, frigging masterpiece in my opinion. I for sure gotta watch more Ozu |
| Battle Royal Why don't you play in Hell? Lady Snowblood Zatoichi Ichi the Killer I need to watch House, everyone says it's a good movie and the clips I have seen from it look really cool |
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| Before getting into other movies and directors, I'd like to give a shout-out to Teinosuke Kinugasa, a director I have happened to watch a few from (there are not many available with subs) and he deserves some more love. In his silent period, A page of madness was one of the most, if not the most, hypnotizing experiences I ever witnessed with fascinating editing techniques and an overall fitting tone of madness and frenzy, and his later Crossroads is more conventional and quiet, less impressive, but still with some great experimental sequences. From his sound films I watched Gate of hell and Bronze Magician and I'm specially fond of the latter, which is as well the last Japanese film I watched that made a huge impression on me, and the reason why I want to enter this thread talking about this director. These ones are more classic in narrative structure, but what really makes them special is the aesthetic approach. They are unusually beautiful films, incredibly polished in the way they make use of the visual language. Color in Gates of hell, compositions in Bronze Magician. They are both impressive in their own ways. From what I watched, I can say that there's a unique identity in Kinugasa's movies that sets him as an author that to me feels very interesting and underappreciated, be it in the wild experimental and avant-garde bursts of his silent films, or his highly aesthetic style in later works. I can't say for sure that this is true to his entire filmography, but the stuff I watched certainly is. Check him out if you want to explore classic Japanese cinema. |
jal90 said: Before getting into other movies and directors, I'd like to give a shout-out to Teinosuke Kinugasa, a director I have happened to watch a few from (there are not many available with subs) and he deserves some more love. In his silent period, A page of madness was one of the most, if not the most, hypnotizing experiences I ever witnessed with fascinating editing techniques and an overall fitting tone of madness and frenzy, and his later Crossroads is more conventional and quiet, less impressive, but still with some great experimental sequences. From his sound films I watched Gate of hell and Bronze Magician and I'm specially fond of the latter, which is as well the last Japanese film I watched that made a huge impression on me, and the reason why I want to enter this thread talking about this director. These ones are more classic in narrative structure, but what really makes them special is the aesthetic approach. They are unusually beautiful films, incredibly polished in the way they make use of the visual language. Color in Gates of hell, compositions in Bronze Magician. They are both impressive in their own ways. From what I watched, I can say that there's a unique identity in Kinugasa's movies that sets him as an author that to me feels very interesting and underappreciated, be it in the wild experimental and avant-garde bursts of his silent films, or his highly aesthetic style in later works. I can't say for sure that this is true to his entire filmography, but the stuff I watched certainly is. Check him out if you want to explore classic Japanese cinema. I never watch Kinugasa's films, but i'll definetly watch them and i'll put it on my My Drama List account it. |
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| Seven samurai, though there are a few other Kurosawa films that are almost as good, like Ran, Yojimbo and Rashomon. |
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Fuchsia said: Seven samurai, though there are a few other Kurosawa films that are almost as good, like Ran, Yojimbo and Rashomon. My father is Kurosawa's addicted cinema's too as well. |
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hotsushikun said: Fuchsia said: Seven samurai, though there are a few other Kurosawa films that are almost as good, like Ran, Yojimbo and Rashomon. My father is Kurosawa's addicted cinema's too as well. I would say that Kurosawa films are hard to get in to, but they're the closest you're going to get to perfection in Japanese cinema. |
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| Most of the Japanese films I've seen are just anime/manga adaptations: Rurouni Kenshin 1: Origins (2012) Rurouni Kenshin 2: Kyoto Inferno (2014) Rurouni Kenshin 3: The Legend Ends (2014) Death Note (2006) Death Note: The Last Name (2006) Beck (2010) Space Battleship Yamato (2010) Gantz (2011) Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011) Blade of the Immortal (2017) |
| "Laws exist only for those who cannot live without clinging onto them." -Souske Aizen "Bleach"  |
| Seven Samurai The Hidden Fortress Tokyo Story Yojimbo Sanjuro |
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| The Human Condition trilogy Seven Samurai Love Exposure Rashomon Confessions Yojimbo and Sanjuro Audition Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 All About Lily Chou Chou Battle Royale Bobby2Hands said: Battle Royal Why don't you play in Hell? Lady Snowblood Zatoichi Ichi the Killer I need to watch House, everyone says it's a good movie and the clips I have seen from it look really cool It's fucking wild. You haven't lived till you've seen someone get eaten by a piano. |
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| I think anime live action could also be considered as Japanese movies so Gintama and will probably like Bleach if i ever watched it. |
| For anime movies, I loved Koe no Katachi, Byousoku 5 Centimeter, Flanders no Inu (Movie), Hotaru no Haka and Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni. For non-anime movies, at the moment I can only think of Last Winter, We Parted. It was really powerful and I loved it. I don't think I've watched very many non-anime Japanese movies. |
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| Is it me or feature film adaptations of anime/manga are either total cringefest or very good? From what I've watched so far, I really like Koroshiya Ichi (2001) and Himizu (2011), both adaptations of amazing manga. Ichi's manga is still better than the movie, but Himizu the movie is as good as manga imo, and that's a great achievement. I also like Hentai Kamen movie adaptation (HK: Hentai Kamen; 2013). It's not a masterpiece or anything, but a still a major upgrade of original story. Love that shitty humor and wacky characters, what can I say. |
| Nobody Knows Swing girls (music oriented) Tampopo Kamikaze girls (most recent one i saw) Ima Boku Wa (film about a NEET. difficult to find, so pm me i have youtube link) i thought love exposure was boring so i never finished it |
p0ckyySep 22, 2018 10:03 PM
something like this |
 la critique de l'intention pure |
| Battle Royale Series Kimi no na wa |
You are really quite Japanese cinema obessed guy, man! I love your collections of your favorite films. |
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| I like the live actions of Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan and ReLIFE. |
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| Yojimbo is still by far at the top of my list. |
| “Loddfafnir, listen to my counsel: You will fare well if you follow it, It will help you much if you heed it. If aware that another is wicked, say so: Make no truce or treaty with foes.” - Havamal 127 |
Hatifnatik said: Is it me or feature film adaptations of anime/manga are either total cringefest or very good? From what I've watched so far, I really like Koroshiya Ichi (2001) and Himizu (2011), both adaptations of amazing manga. Ichi's manga is still better than the movie, but Himizu the movie is as good as manga imo, and that's a great achievement. I also like Hentai Kamen movie adaptation (HK: Hentai Kamen; 2013). It's not a masterpiece or anything, but a still a major upgrade of original story. Love that shitty humor and wacky characters, what can I say. I preferred the Himizu manga to Sion Sono's version, but it was still decent. There are some good manga adaptations in Japan. Miike has done a couple, most notably Ichi the Killer. I thought Crows Zero was okay, but I heard bad things about Blade of the Immortal. The movie versions of I Am a Hero and Rurouni Kenshin are supposedly decent, and Taiyo Matsumoto's work has been adapted well (Ping Pong and Blue Spring). This year there's River's Edge, which I've heard great things about. Going to give it a watch later this week. All in all, Hirokazu Koreeda has probably had the most success adapting manga, with Air Doll and Our Little Sister. |
| I love Japanese horrors - Pulse and The Grudge. And someone mentioned Hentai Kamen - it's hilarious |
| I haven't seen many but the ones I've seen were very good. These are: Audition Ichi the Killer Seven Samurai Zatoichi (the Takeshi Kitano movie) Battle Royale Suicide Club |
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| Seven Samurai Audition Confessions On the beach at home alone at night His motorbike, her island Hidedn Fortress Ikuru |
| Outrage Battle Royale Ichi the Killer |
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