what are some good japanese movies?
post em here'

and also any good romantic japanese suggestions?
on the other thread i saw a BUNCH of samurai stuff
not that im not interested
but id like to see ahot japanese chick here and there

http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=35669

Look here....

Anyways, the more memorable ones I liked are

Azumi
Battle Royale
Twilight Samurai
When the Last Sword is Drawn

Famous ones well liked by other people are:

Zatoichi (2003)
Ultimate Versus
Casshern
Seven Samurai
Ichi the Killer

uhhhh....can't think right now

BTW, anyone know if "Zebraman" is any good??? What a whacked looking superhero

Ichi the Killer that was some sick stuff

My all time favorite: Waterboys

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY! Watch it, and you will NOT regret it! 2 2 2

Does this include anime as well?

no ...lol

The only Japanese film I've ever watched was The Grugde(sp) 2 and I didn't even get it.

Really good Japanese romantic movies are...

Ima Ai ni Yukimasu (Be with you)

Sekai No Chuushin De, Ai Wo Sakebu (Crying Out, In The Center Of The World)...the dorama for this was better but the movie is good too.

Can you link me to the Sekachuu movie with English subtitles? I finished the drama recently and I've been dying to watch the movie, although I'm not expecting much from it. The original novel is coming out in English sometime this year too.

Anyone know where you can turn in movie ideas for filmmakers?

US need to make a "Go for Broke" remake.....A WW2 movie featuring the Japanese-American battalion.

Also, Japan, with all these crazy movie Ideas, should make a cool historical type movie about the Mongol Invasion. Maybe put in a love story or some crap in between with the main character....but mostly I wanna see Mongols, VS Samurai, and have a cool night scene where the Japanese sneak into the Mongol ships to slaughter mongols.

^ Too big a production for a Japanese movie.

Hollywood basically wiped out big-budget Japanese moviemaking in the 1980s. Japan can no longer sustain a mega-budget movie industry that can compete with Hollywood.

Of course they can...everyday they are making stupid movies with CGI and all that crazy crap....some are actually kinda good...

How hard is it to make a NORMAL historical movie about the mongol invasion.

actually now that you mention hollywood........HOLLYWOOD NEEDS to make a mongol invasion movie....taking place in Europe. The mongols would be the perfect bad guys!

Anyways, anyone seen "Zebraman" yet?

How bout "Godzilla Final wars" ?
I'm not a Godzilla fan (never seen one except back when I was little) but I hear it's actually good. Can't wait for it to come out on EBAY! 2

I heard "Waterboys" is a gay movie....literally gay, meaning homosexual, not bad.....is it?

It's already on the other thread, but let me post it again

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

Can someone tell me what Casshern was about in a nutshell please?

It was so boring....

I thought it was gonna be a cool action Sci-fi movie with a beautiful world in the background....well it was kinda....but it was so boring! And the action was dumb too!
Maybe Anime lovers like it...

CGI hasn't reached a level where it's so real it could fool you, but Asian CGI is crap compared to American. No offense...but it really is....That's why it's only good when used in moderation....

Heavens Bookstore
Battle royale
Azumi
Akira Kurosawa fims
Miyazaki films
Ichi the killer
Kamikaze Girls
Platonic Sex (not a porno)
Hana and Alice
Love letter

err..

japanese movie totally sucks, never saw a good one,though there r a couple j@p movie in blockbuster, just from the cover u can tell they r really gay

definitely check-out BATTLE ROYALE. it is great entertainment... about a bunch of high schools kids that need to kill each other to survive.

Akira Kurosawa’s Ran, Kagemusha, and Seven Samurai. That’s the only Japanese movies I watched apart from Godzilla, Gamera, and Rodan Movies. If you like massive samurai battles, I would recommend Ran and Kagemusha. They’re better than the historically inaccurate Last Samurai movie. There’s also another movie called “Heaven and Earth” about Takeda Shingen’s army and Uesugi Kenshin’s army battling it out in the Kawanakajima plain in the Shinano province during the Sengoku Jidai. I haven’t seen the movie but the screenshots on this site have massive battles in it.
http://www.thegline.com/dvd-of-the-week/2005/01-05-2005.htm
I think YesAsia sells DVD copies but this store sells a bunch of Samurai and Ninja/Shinobi DVDs.
http://www.ninjadojo.com/

i thought Great teacher onizuka the movie was kinda good

Some of my favs:

Riri Shushu no subete (All About Lily Chou-Chou)
Dare mo shiranai (Nobody Knows)
Cha no aji (The Taste Of Tea)
Akarui Mirai (Bright Future)
Chuugoku no Choujin (The Bird People in China)

This has to be one of the best Japanese films I've ever seen. Definitely in my top 10 of favourite films.

yes! I second your choices. Those 3 are very great.
By Kiyoshi Kurosawa, I'd add Kairo, Charisma. I still haven't seen License to Live, I've just checked the beginning and I know it's supposed to be a good one. Cure and Korei was okay, but I prefer the ones I've mentioned.

Also another two that I loved Eureka by Shinji Aoyama and Shara by Naomi Kawase.

I've heard Japanese make some pretty hectic porn.

Battle Royal is the shiz. Anyone know where i can get BR 2?