日本
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These are some of the movies I have lined up to watch, though I keep seeing more on Toronto J-Film Powow and Nippon Cinema. Curse these sites for constantly highlighting my complete ignorance of Japanese films! The additions to this list will far outnumber those that I add to my Watched list.
I keep coming back to this list and adding things I’ve forgotten as well – I basically never watch movies from any other country!
Note: Every film by Akira Kurosawa is being taken as a given, there’s no need to remind myself
Ah, and not all of these films are necessarily Japanese-related, but most of them are.
- 69 (2004)
- Adrift in Tokyo (2007)
- After Life (1998)
- All Around Us (2008)
- Big Dreams Little Tokyo (2006)
- Choshyu Five (2006)
- Chameleon (2008/I)
- Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001)
- Fish Story (2009)
- God Speed You! Black Emperor (1976)
- Ikiru (1952)
- Invisible Waves (2006)
- Kabei: Our Mother (2008)
- Kakera: a Piece of Our Life (2009)
- Kamikaze Girls (2004)
- Kamui gaiden (2009)
- Kanikosen (2009)
- Koi no mon (2004)
- Koroshiya 1 (2001)
- Kuroi ame (1989)
- Last Life in the Universe (2003)
- Love Ghost (2001)
- Mei Lanfang (2008)
- Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
- Nippon tanjo (1959)
- Okuribito (2008)
- Onibaba (1964)
- Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
- Princess Raccoon (2005)
- Rampo jigoku (2005)
- Red Shadow: Akakage (2001)
- Sakuran (2006)
- Samurai Assassin (1965)
- Sayonara CP (1972)
- Scrap Heaven (2005)
- Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998)
- Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)
- Survive Style 5+ (2004)
- Tokyo 10+01 (2003)
- Tori (2004)
- Tsurugidake: Ten no ki (2009)
- Vital (2004)
- Whispering of the Gods (2005)
- Wings of Defeat (2007)
- Woman of Water (2002)
- Sway (2006)
- Zenigeba (TV) (2009)
