i'm trying to find j@p moovies.. anyone know a good one??

I liek Japanese funny movies like Waterboy ahha

I just saw this REALLY good one byt he director of waterboys called "Swing Girls".

I really liked this movie because it made me appreciate jazz/swing music. Go check it out

I liked Azumi and Cure a lot

You have to see these ones for Japanese movies.....

"Battle Royale"

"Azumi" (not part 2 cuz it sucks)

Yeah I saw both movies and they are funny as hell.

Seven Samurais, Kagemusha, and Ran by Akira Kurosawa.

seven samarai is so old but it is one of my favorite movies of all time

anything kitano,

hana-bi & kikujiro

"When the Last Sword Is Drawn", Kiichi Nakai is great

i think this is spelled wrong but it's "Boatashi" ? o.O

"Twilight Samurai" would also have to along with "When the Last sword is drawn"

Good Samurai drama.....very little fights but the drama is good, so it's like watching a cool fighting movie


I liked "Seven Samurai" too.....just an awesome plot.....

I think I'm still too immature to appreciate "Ran" and "Kagemusha"......I found them to be VERY long and boring. I own both of them though 2 What bugged me most of all was that in both movies there were HUNDREDS of armored samurai running around everywhere....but you never saw them fight. Some scenes look nice.......I like how alot of scenes are kinda "epic" looking....I find the movie "Azumi" to have kinda the same looking scenery sometimes too.....


"The Samurai Trilogy" about Musashi Miyamoto is a cool story too......Although I thought the book was way better. A BOOK!

If you're not squeamish, then you should check out some Takashi Miike's movies. Dead or Alive series, The Audition and Ichi the Killer.

Samurai Fiction- HIGHLY RECOMMEND! and Battle Royale


Oh yeah, Moon Child too

AND! I forgot about this one: ZAOTICHI: THE BLINDS SWORDSMAN!

Does anyone know "Heaven's Bookstore" or something like that? Maybe it was "Heaven's Library..." I'm not sure. Anyways, I LOVED that movie. So touching. It was beautiful. I'd appreciate it if anyone can tell me the Japanese name/correct English translation.

Moon child is a great movies, but there are others.. 7 samurais is a Classic

Anything by Kurosawa, really.
Not as popular as his other movies, Ikiru is fantastic in my opinion.

By the way, it's 7 Samurai. No 's'.

Lone wolf and cub

Yeh english has curropted my preception of every thing else, evil language.. despite my lack of ability to type it well its still curropted my grammar in other lanaguages

Anything by Shunji Iwai.

Maybe not totally JAPAN Japanese but......

With all these War tribute movies being made......Dont you think one about the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during WW2 would be a really good idea for a movie??

I know there was an really old one called "Go for Broke" but they need a new movie about it!

BTW, anyone know when that "Hinokio" movie is coming out? (Click for the trailer if you haven't already seen it)

Zatoichi!! ..more preferably the 21st century version.

Versus is a cool action movie
i reckon you've heard of Battle Royale, but dont see battle royale 2, it sucks
All about Lily Chou Chou is nice drama, i think thats the correct title, but not sure
there are so many others too, but when i try remembering them, they all go away

yea I heard about that before, but guess what commercial I just saw on tv? another fu-king japanese POW camp movie trailer

Azumi
Go
All about Lily Chou chou
Battle Royale
Seven Samurai
Tampopo
audition

Bara no Konrei—Mayonaka ni Kawa$hita Yakusoku and Moonchild i havent seen em just seen screen shots and they look beautiful!

have ne of u what *Nobody Knows* my gf said its good and going to lend me it just wondering wat do u ppl think of it =)

I forgot about nobody knows that movie is really good
next on my purchase list

heheh.. THE SCARY ONES!

nobody knows is a good foreign movie to watch, slow moving dialogue, nice cinemotagraphy, nothing that gets mis interpreted drama-ish movie

the only thing that might piss you off though is that mother, its based on a true story

this is one of my fave asian movies.

Hi guys Im quite new here.

I recently put my eyes on Japanese movies. We dont see it in theatres or TV here in Indonesia, we could only find some on DVD stores (very limited collections on legit DVD stores but quite many titles on pirated stores).

After watching some stuffs from Studio Ghibli I checked Ichii The Killer and Visitor Q. Guys, theyre just like SICK but fun. Go watch it. Really.

Now anyone could recommend any thing from this kind of genre?

anything takashi miike, if you liked ichi the killer and vistor q, he also did another famous film called "the audition"

check out the bottled fools, that was sorta cool, its a japanese indepedent film though

battle royale was a pretty good voilent film also

Ill take a note and check them when I go shopping. Ty.

And yes I quite enjoy those 2 films since I quite bored by flat Hollywood movies. Before finding out those 2 I was all on animes and beautiful flicks like Kitano's Dolls and Kurosawa's Dream. Now I'm all for the alternatives. Hey I have this film that I havent watch yet Bastoni. I'll watch it this weekend.

Casshern was a pretty cool action movie... I don't know why so many people like Azumi, i thought it was a 3 on a scale of 1-10, just my opinion. There wasn't any real good sword fighting scene, and there the ending was a little weird i thought.

Yeah, the sword fighting was nothing special. Some of the later fights looked okay though with the 2 assassins at night in the village. I think the Director made good use of the non-martial artists though.

Casshern was super boring and had a lot of weird looking comuter animation I guess. There weren't many action scenes. Many people like it though, I guess if you like Anime and Sci-fi, you'll like it.

how ya doing guys this is my first post in this forum

i was actually thinking of making a japanese movies thread but i guess someone beat me to it haha

anyways the movies that i really liked are

battlle royale .. and wow i had tons of stuff in my head but it all slipped my mind

i thought casshern was a very serious power ranger movie haha

wooow battle royale what a lovely movie. suicide club was good too &gackt's Moon Child

OMG! BATTLE ROYALE ROCKS EVERYONES FACE OFF!! Moon Child is awesome too! My two favorite japanese movies. Though they're different very .. moon child made me cry -_-. And Shadow of Wraith is pretty insane.

the ring i think in japanese version is great

is tokyo friends a movie ?

dunno . but everyone said that the japanese version of the ring is better ( i never watched ) . guess so Oo;;

i think that the japanese movie CUTIE HONEY is good i really like it

where can i download these movies

Moon Child
CUTIE HONEY

and also .. in be with you *or in japanese i ma a i ni ik u*

what is the title of the song that is played at the end of the movie during the credit :P

Some of my favorite Japanese movies :

Dreams
Ran
Kokujiro
9 Souls
L2DK
Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano version)
Kagemusha
Seven Samurai
Yojinbo
Sanjuro
The Hidden Fortress
Brother
Hana Bi
Chaos
Red Shadow
When the Last Sword is Drawn
Samurai Fiction
Twilight Samurai
Alive
The Eel
Inugami
The Water Boys
Love Letter
Ping Pong
A Scene at the Sea
A Snake of June
Suicide Club
Female Prisoner Scorpio 701

water boy was a interstingly funny movie .. that i will never watch again

Moon Child! Moon Child is like, the best movie I have seen... well best Japanese movie I have seen, all the better that it starts Gackt and HYDE... I cry every time!

seishinseii is officially cool moon child is good and its the kinda movie where if you really watch it you never get tired of it and you get the same reactions everytime.

the movie himitsu if anyone saw it

has a very confusing end that i got after watching the ending twice

does anyone think there will be a continuation?

For me the best japanese movies are:
-ju-on series (the best horror i've ever seen)
-tetsuo (come play with my screw b!tch )
-all by Miike (especialy IChi and Visitor Q )
-all by K. Kurosawa (especialy Kairo and Cure)
-Hellevator (prisioners rocks )
-Survive style 5+ (great Asano and great comedy )
-Suicide Circle (how about jumping out of a window ??)
-Uzumaki (god damn psychodelic masterpiece )
-Guine pig series (for it sick, sick, sickness )

There is a lot other great movies from Japan but right now i can't remember any