Japanese Movies/Discussion/Recommendations

bmwracer wrote:
Christmas on July 24th Avenue (w/ Nakatani Miki) and Udon (w/Konishi Manami) were pretty good... Not particularly deep or though provoking, but light and enjoyable in their own way. :)

Thanks for the recs! I think I'll be putting my new hd to good use. :thumbsup:

cori wrote:Thanks for the recs! I think I'll be putting my new hd to good use. :thumbsup:

I have both, BTW. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
I have both, BTW. :victory:

I could only find Christmas, but not Udon. Maybe you can put it on my list? :mrgreen:

cori wrote:I could only find Christmas, but not Udon. Maybe you can put it on my list? :mrgreen:

Of course. :thumbsup:

Okay, I finally got Sakebi hardsubbed... :sweat:

Now I've gotta encode it and author a DVD and I'll be set. :)

bmwracer wrote:Okay, I finally got Sakebi hardsubbed... :sweat:

Now I've gotta encode it and author a DVD and I'll be set. :)

I've already done that: Next up. Yomogaeri for Wyn-chan :)

Speaking of Yomigaeri, does anyone know for sure if there is another movie called Yomigaeri Resurrection? Or is it the same movie retitled for different markets?

Not a romance, but I'd recommend

"Warai no Daigaku " ("University of Laughs")

Koji Yakusho and Goro Inagaki

It takes place during WWII. Koji is the official government censor, and Goro plays a young comedy writer trying to get approval for his latest script.

It's taken from a two man stage play and it'll give you a chance to see what an amazing actor Koji really is.

Kind of a boring Saturday, so I dug into the archives and watched Nobuko Miyamoto and Tsutomu Yamazaki lock horns in A Taxing Woman :applaud: [/list:u] Can't go wrong with the classics :victory:

gaijinmark wrote:Kind of a boring Saturday, so I dug into the archives and watched Nobuko Miyamoto and Tsutomu Yamazaki lock horns in A Taxing Woman :applaud: [/list:u] Can't go wrong with the classics :victory:

Itami Juzo's followup to the wonderful Tampopo... :thumbsup:

Geezer wrote:Not a romance, but I'd recommend

"Warai no Daigaku " ("University of Laughs")

Koji Yakusho and Goro Inagaki

It takes place during WWII. Koji is the official government censor, and Goro plays a young comedy writer trying to get approval for his latest script.

It's taken from a two man stage play and it'll give you a chance to see what an amazing actor Koji really is.

Don't forget the screenplay is by the immensely talented Koki Mitani.

And yeah, Koji Yakusho is a great actor. He can play any type of role in any genre. The sad thing is, while he is a big star in Japan, most of the people who post on this site probably don't know who he is, and most of the ones who do probably just know him from his roles in the Kiyoshi Kurosawa horror movies. Those roles are just a portion of his impressive body of work.

bmwracer wrote:
Itami Juzo's followup to the wonderful Tampopo... :thumbsup:

After which he made A Taxing Woman Returns which again starred his wife Nobuko Miyamoto as the dogged tax inspector, this time pitted against one of the best actors of his generation, Rentaro Mikuni.

Itami made perhaps a half-dozen more films after this, several of them pretty good (Mimbo no Onna, Marutai no Onna, Super no Onna) before jumping off a building, the victim of suicide or the work of yakuza, depending on whom you believe.

shin2 wrote:before jumping off a building, the victim of suicide or the work of yakuza, depending on whom you believe.

Itai.

I didn't know that. :sweat:

Time to log in to Wikipedia.

Anime Dad wrote:Speaking of Yomigaeri, does anyone know for sure if there is another movie called Yomigaeri Resurrection? Or is it the same movie retitled for different markets?

Yeah it's the same movie, "Resurrection" is the english title. Yuko has actually done 3 movies with a "sci-fi" twist to them in a 3 year span(2002-2004); Be With You, Heaven's Bookstore and Resurrection, all were very good films.

sucigam wrote:

Yeah it's the same movie, "Resurrection" is the english title. Yuko has actually done 3 movies with a "sci-fi" twist to them in a 3 year span(2002-2004); Be With You, Heaven's Bookstore and Resurrection, all were very good films.

Arigatou!

DVD Beaver review/comparison of Linda, Linda, Linda:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews34/linda_linda_linda.htm

Geezer wrote:Not a romance, but I'd recommend

"Warai no Daigaku " ("University of Laughs")

Koji Yakusho and Goro Inagaki

It takes place during WWII. Koji is the official government censor, and Goro plays a young comedy writer trying to get approval for his latest script.

It's taken from a two man stage play and it'll give you a chance to see what an amazing actor Koji really is.

This movie, which I also recommend, is now available at CR...
http://www.crunchyroll.com/showseries?id=7337

DVD Beaver comparison of Kurosawa Akira's Drunken Angel... The film that put Mifune Toshiro on the map to cinema greatness:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews15/drunken_angel_dvd_review.htm

runpup wrote:

This movie, which I also recommend, is now available at CR...
http://www.crunchyroll.com/showseries?id=7337

I agree with you! This show has a good story and i found that it was funny

Hmm.. Let's see some of the Japanese movies I would recommend would be:-

Action
Nightmare Detective
Bayside Shakedown 1&2
Shinobi(popcorn fun.)
Ichi the Killer(for those who like violent movies.)
Brother( One of Beat Takeshi's great movies.)
Battle Royale

Romance
Seekai no chuusin de ai wo sakebu
Su-ki-da
Heavenly Forest
Tokyo Tower

Drama
Taiyou no Uta
Dead Run
Yureru

that's some of the movies i would recommend