Quick List, Japanese Best Movies

TuskCracker

後輩

17 Jan 2004

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• 1 Jul 2005

• #1

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After Life
(this is fantastic, a unique idea)

Maborosi (Maboroshi no hikari,1995)
(you really get a sense of japanese culture)

Tampopo (1985)
(this is actually good)

Dr. Akagi (1999)
(this is Ok, interesting)

Taxing Women (Marusa no onna, 1987)

Shall We Dance
(better than the Ameican remake)

Tragedy Of Japan/Tragedy Of Japan ((1953)
(have not seen this, many good reviews)

The Sea Is Watching (2002)
(this is Ok)

Café Lumière
(have not seen this, good revies for
showing modern tokyo)

Black Rain, (Kuroi ame, 989)
(The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing,
based on Masuji Ibuse's novel. Not the Michael Douglas movie).


Old Movies, but classics
The Life of Oharu (1952)
Sansho the Bailiff (1955)
Floating Weeds (Ukigusa, 1959)
The Sisters of the Gion (1936)
Street of Shame (Akasen chitai 1956)
Osaka Elegy (1936)
Ikiru (1952)
(rumours of remake with Tom Hanks)

Something Unusual; Martin Scorsese, From His Favourite 90's movies
- - > A Borrowed Life (1994)
- - > Horse Thief (Dao ma zei, 1986)

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ralian

長靴をはいた猫やねん

1 Sep 2003

540

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• 1 Jul 2005

• #2

I would like to add "Twilight Samurai".

 

Kara_Nari

Angel of Life

13 May 2005

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• 1 Jul 2005

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Im going to add my two favourites:

Zatoichi (I think most people know this one)
Kikujiro (This is absolutely my favourite movie ever... great soundtrack)

 

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SuperGenki

後輩

8 Mar 2005

6

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• 3 Jul 2005

• #4

I would like to second that "Shall We Dance" is not even close to the American remake. Funny and touching movie.

 

lonesoullost3

Economist in Residence

1 Jul 2005

221

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• 4 Jul 2005

• #5

I just watched Swallowtail Butterfly and Poppoya-Railroad Man. Excellent pair of films! Swallowtail Butterfly is about the Yentowns (take your pick of people or place). It's a very intense movie and very very good. Zatoichi was good - the music with sounds thing was pretty cool too (but out of place).

 

Tsuyoiko

DON'T PANIC!

11 Mar 2005

3,136

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• 5 Jul 2005

• #6

Kara_Nari said:

Im going to add my two favourites:

Zatoichi (I think most people know this one)
Kikujiro (This is absolutely my favourite movie ever... great soundtrack)

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Kitano Takeshi san ga daisuki! No-one can make you cry one second and crack up laughing the next like him!

 

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666Arigato

Sweet666

14 May 2005

53

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• 30 Jul 2005

• #7

Classics:
Tampopo
Seven Samurai
Rashomon
Yojimbo
Woman in the Dunes
Anything with Toshiro Mifune in it(always a safe bet)

Modern Classics:
Bird People fo China
Audition
Gozu/Fudoh
Bullet Ballet
Hana Bi(Fireworks)
A Snake of June

Cant go wrong with any of these......

Honarable mention(s):
Kamakaze Taxi

 

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Lunabenz

後輩

16 Mar 2005

29

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• 16 Aug 2005

• #8

I loved Onmyoji, and Postman's Blues, and Kagen no Tsuki. Maybe not the "best" movies, but I've seen them all more than once.

 

Kara_Nari

Angel of Life

13 May 2005

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• 16 Aug 2005

• #9

Tsuyoiko said:

Kitano Takeshi san ga daisuki! No-one can make you cry one second and crack up laughing the next like him!

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Sorry, This is a super duper late reply to your comment. I too love this guy, he is fantastic! Every film he has made, or been in that I have seen, I have loved! I owned both when I was in New Zealand, and currently they have been playing Zatoichi alot here in Korea.
Dont you just love 'Merry Christmas Mr Rollins'? Thats the beautiful orchestra opening in the film Kikujiro.
Oh dear I could go on and on and on...... but I wont.

Hehe who is sick and likes 'The Audition'? I think I have written about this elsewhere however....

If anyone decides to make a thread of 'Worst Japanese movies' please dont be shy and put 'Otenki onesan 1&2' on the top. I just thought that these movies were only any good for laughing at the ridiculousness of them

 

Tsuyoiko

DON'T PANIC!

11 Mar 2005

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• 17 Aug 2005

• #10

Kara_Nari said:

Dont you just love 'Merry Christmas Mr Rollins'? Thats the beautiful orchestra opening in the film Kikujiro.
Oh dear I could go on and on and on...... but I wont.

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Kikujiro no natsu is a beautiful film.

 

TuskCracker

後輩

17 Jan 2004

531

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• 17 Aug 2005

• Thread starter
• #11

Kikujiro no natsu is a beautiful film.

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The English title is; Kikujiro no natsu (Japan: English title)

 

Void

born in the USSR

20 Mar 2005

409

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• 27 Sep 2005

• #12

Just finished When the last sword is drawn
very beautiful, touching, with snowflakes over the bare heart
Genuine story of one`s life and life of the generation. Nothing to compare with narration. Three points of view on one man.

Just a few days before watched anime Peacemaker, also about Shisengune (sp?) But they are apart, different stories

and another one japanese after which i cried like a baby "Nobody knows"

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oops, one more
I couldn`t finish "Blood and bone" (not sure about translation). Kitano indeed managed to create an image of "purely bad guy" as one of my friends said

 

Last edited: 28 Sep 2005

budd

先輩

10 Jul 2003

2,069

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• 28 Sep 2005

• #13

onibaba and frog river come to mind first off

 

xerxes99

Robot/Ninja

28 Aug 2005

299

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• 28 Sep 2005

• #14

Hidden Fortress, High and Low