Favorite Japanese movies and TV shows

[kiroshime]

Moonchild
Number Six

[allie2590]

Probablu Shinobi. I love that movie.

[AkiraChambela]

I have quite a few favorites
Here are 10 ones from the top of my head...

1 Moon Child
2 Casshern
3 Kagen No Tsuki
4 Nana
5 Battle Royal
6 Death Note
7 Death Note: The Last Name
8 L Change The World
9 Audition
10 Shinobi

[GacktIsGod]

^ super cool list!

1Moon child
2kagen no tsuki
3ai no kotodama
4appartment
5- Nana
6Itsuka no kimi e
7-sukitomo
8 sky of love
9 prince of tennis
10Kanojo to no Tadashii Asobikata

[minimin]

Not in any particular order

One missed Call
Nana
Toni Takitani
Three...Extremes
Ichi The Killer
Takashi Miike, makes some awesome movies I want to watch all of em' haha

[Miyavifan]

I do too. His and Kurosawa's.

[minimin]

Originally Posted by Miyavifan

I do too. His and Kurosawa's.

Hmm....Which movies does Kurosawa make??? I wonder if i seen any, hmm....

[Miyavifan]

I can't remember the titles. But it's Samurai films. I think. All I know for sure is I'd like to see them all. to see if I like them.

[minimin]

Originally Posted by Miyavifan

I can't remember the titles. But it's Samurai films. I think. All I know for sure is I'd like to see them all. to see if I like them.

Hmm that sounds interesting I like samurai flicks I just got through watching One Missed Call 2 which I DVRed like weeks ago, not as good as the first one but has a spot on my list

[MMM]

Originally Posted by Sangetsu

If you are in America, you can usually find "Kikujiro" at Blockbuster, it's a pretty good movie which shows an interesting side of Japan. Another movie which I like is called "Enlightenment Guaranteed". It's not a Japanese movie, but a German movie filmed in Japan. It's hilarious, I've watched it several times, and I still like to see it from time to time.

Otherwise, there aren't a great deal of good Japanese movies. I too enjoyed the Zatoichi films, and a couple of the other ones mentioned here, but the majority of Japanese films are too contrived, or bizarrely neurotic. Thankfully most theaters here show many western films, which are generally more popular than films produced in Japan.

But some of the best directors in the world are from Japan. At least they were. "Seven Samurai" is one of my favorite movies of all time, and is certainly one of the world's masterpiece cinematic treasures. Almost all of the Kurosawa/Mifune movies were hard to find fault with, but Seven Samurai is the cream of the crop.

It almost doesn't feel right in a thread that has "One Missed Call 2" and "Three Extremes" in it, but here would be my list:

1. Seven Samurai

2. Tampopo

3. High and Low

4. Yojimbo

5. Red Beard

6. Ikiru

7. The Hidden Fortress.

8. Kazoku Geemu (The Family Game)

9. Hanabi

10. Monday

11. Unlucky Monkey

12 Sonatine

13 Audition

14 Boiling Point