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Japanese Film Recommendations

Please give me your Japanese film recommendations.

by Anonymousreply 24May 24, 2025 9:37 PM

Grave of the Fireflies

by Anonymousreply 1April 12, 2025 4:01 PM

Tokyo Story

by Anonymousreply 2April 12, 2025 4:01 PM

I just watched Departed free on YouTube. I recommend it.

by Anonymousreply 3April 12, 2025 4:02 PM

Godzilla

by Anonymousreply 4April 12, 2025 4:03 PM

Rashomon

by Anonymousreply 5April 12, 2025 4:05 PM

High and Low

Good Morning

House

Ran

by Anonymousreply 6April 12, 2025 4:07 PM

Dodes'ka-den

by Anonymousreply 7April 12, 2025 4:08 PM

Battle Royale

by Anonymousreply 8April 12, 2025 4:08 PM

R3,

Do you mean DEPARTURES? I think that was the last Japanese film to win what is now known as the International Best Film Oscar before DRIVE MY CAR, which won recently.

Both are gorgeous films that should be seen.

My other recommendations:

HIGH AND LOW: A Kurosawa film that is currently being remade by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington. See this original first.

RAN: Another Kurosawa film, this one a re-telling of King Lear. Superb on every level.

PERFECT DAYS: A nominee last year for Best International Film. Sublime.

AUDITION: If you can deal with horror, this one will shake you to your core. Still haunts me to this day.

by Anonymousreply 9April 12, 2025 4:08 PM

An Autumn Afternoon

by Anonymousreply 10April 12, 2025 4:08 PM

Spirited Away

by Anonymousreply 11April 12, 2025 4:09 PM

Harakiri

by Anonymousreply 12April 12, 2025 4:13 PM

Tokyo Twilight

Lone Wolf and Cub

All About Lily Chou Chou

Drive My Car

by Anonymousreply 13April 12, 2025 4:13 PM

Shogun with Richard Chamberlain

by Anonymousreply 14April 12, 2025 4:23 PM

My Friend Totoro

by Anonymousreply 15April 12, 2025 6:12 PM

Sanjuro

Yojimbo

by Anonymousreply 16April 12, 2025 6:15 PM

Outrage (2010)

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

by Anonymousreply 17April 12, 2025 8:08 PM

Tampopo!

by Anonymousreply 18May 24, 2025 7:52 PM

Throne of Blood

The Hidden Fortress

by Anonymousreply 19May 24, 2025 7:57 PM

Not Japanese, but Australian.

Japanese Story starring Toni Colette.

Do not read about it, just watch it.

Toni should have been nominated for an Academy Award

by Anonymousreply 20May 24, 2025 8:11 PM

Tampopo Perfect Blue Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Throne of Blood

by Anonymousreply 21May 24, 2025 8:17 PM

Seven Samurai

Mr. Thank You

Children in the Wind

Ornamental Hairpin

The Ball at the Anjo House

by Anonymousreply 22May 24, 2025 8:48 PM

Love Exposure, Tetsuo The Iron Man, Audition, Jigoku, Hausu, Onibaba.

by Anonymousreply 23May 24, 2025 9:19 PM

Pixellated genitalia!!!

by Anonymousreply 24May 24, 2025 9:37 PM
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