I recommend "Love Letter". Kinda old though (1995), but I would definitely say this is a better movie than the more popular "Be With You". My old time favourite--I never feel tired or bored watching it over and over again.
The defining moment is the ending :applaud: It really distincts this movie from another similar romantic movies.
i like both of these movies and yes the ending of 'love letter' is poignant.
i've been recommended 'twilight samurai' by amazon. i like hiroyuki sanada so i might take them up on their offer. anyone seen it?
I second that. Won most of the Japan Academy Awards when it came out. Also nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
A prime example of why I think Yamada Yoji is a great filmmaker. The quality and quantity of movies he's made is remarkable. He has over 100 film credits as a screenwriter, over 70 film credits as a director. And, to repeat myself for the umpteenth time, his films have collectively won more Japan Academy Awards than the work of any other Japanese filmmaker.
I second that. Won most of the Japan Academy Awards when it came out. Also nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
A prime example of why I think Yamada Yoji is a great filmmaker. The quality and quantity of movies he's made is remarkable. He has over 100 film credits as a screenwriter, over 70 film credits as a director. And, to repeat myself for the umpteenth time, his films have collectively won more Japan Academy Awards than the work of any other Japanese filmmaker.
One of my favorite Japanese films. Excellent movie...I actually saw it twice when it aired locally in the theater many years ago.
I don't think Takashi Miiki is one of them. In fact, he's one of my least favorite directors, regardless of country of origin.
But because the cast list looked terrific, I gave "Sukiyaki Western Django" a try the other night. I shouldn't have wasted the time.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0906665/
It's the poser's... er ah... Miiki's attempt at a Segio Leone style Western.
It stank. And not just because he saddled his cast with the decision to do the whole movie in English. (Yeah, I had to have the English subtitles running through out the movie in order to understand what they were trying to say.)
The story itself was half-assed. Heck, the whole produciton was half-assed. But as always, Miiki will get away with it because his fans will call it artistic.
Geezer wrote:And not just because he saddled his cast with the decision to do the whole movie in English. (Yeah, I had to have the English subtitles running through out the movie in order to understand what they were trying to say.)
This past February, TBS released the film "Team Batista no Eikou," based on a medical mystery novel by Takeru Kaido. Due to its success, TBS immediately opted to produce a sequel, which has been dated for March 7, 2009.
"Team Batista" starred Yuko Takeuchi and Hiroshi Abe as a doctor and a government official investigating a series of deaths at a university hospital. The movie made 1.6 billion yen at the box office, and it was turned into a television drama starring Atsushi Ito, which is currently getting decent ratings.
The sequel is adapted from "General Rouge no Gaisen," which is the third book in the same novel series as "Team Batista." Considered to be the best of the series, the novel follows the same main characters as they deal with the issue of emergency medical treatment, which has become a hot topic in recent years. Takeuchi and Abe will again play the starring duo, while Masato Sakai has been cast as the antagonist, the director of an emergency medical center. Other supporting cast members, including Shiro Sano and Tetsuji Tamayama, will reprise their roles.
Yoshihiro Nakamura is again directing. Filming already started on November 19 and is scheduled to wrap up by the end of the year.
i'm not that familiar with the japanese movie industry and i dont know where to start nor which ones to watch. the only one that i saw was hana kimi :shamefulcry: ... can anybody recommend a good movie that has a mixture of comedy+romance+slice of life? :woot:
middlepower wrote:i'm not that familiar with the japanese movie industry and i dont know where to start nor which ones to watch. the only one that i saw was hana kimi :shamefulcry: ... can anybody recommend a good movie that has a mixture of comedy+romance+slice of life? :woot:
Tu-triky-sama wrote about one movie in this thread that could fit the bill:
Tu_triky wrote:Thanks to 8thSin's fansub I was able to watch the film Tenkousei (Transfer student). It's a quirky film about old childhood friends who literally have out of body experiences...it's fun and quirky with a healthy dose of melodrama.
It reveals quite a bit regarding expectations of gender, filial piety, and traditional familial expectations of parent toward child.
Just watched 'the Magic Hour'. Wow, as expected from Mitani Koki, very enjoyable with a genuinely creative storyline and tremendous line of cast. It made my day; I laughed out a lot in certain occasions.
Overall, I have watched most of Mitani Koki's pieces, but by far, to my opinion Radio no Jikan (a.k.a Welcome Back Mr McDonald) is still the best at its simplest and most understandable storyline.
Two movies recounting the life and rise to power of Genghis Khan came out in 2007.
The first one I saw was titled;
Mongol (2007)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416044/
It stared Tadanobu Asano and a largely Mongolian / Chinese cast and it was as close to brilliant as you can get.
It's actually a Russian movie, done in cooporation with German and Mongolian film companies... and I can't recommend it highly enough.
While the film is listed as the first of a trilogy based on the Khan's life, this movie stands on it's own and the thing went by in a flash. Definately something I'll rewatch.
The other movie:
Genghis Khan: The the Ends of the Earth and Sea(2007)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770722/
is about as far from brilliant as you can get.
This one stars Sorimachi Takashi, and though it's colorful, and it looks like the production company spent some money on stunt men for the big battle scenes... the thing might have been written, directed, and acted by a bunch of Junior High School students as a class project.
Even with liberal use of the FF button it seemed like this thing would never end.
Watched Otokotachi no Yamato (Men of the Yamato) yesterday. Marginal thumbs up. The battle scenes were not very well done. You'd think with todays computer graphics they could have come up with something better. Maybe it looks better on the big screen.[/list:u] The best parts of the movie were the scenes on shore when they're on leave before their final mission and near the end which occurs in 2005 when they arrive at the site where it sunk. Plus, it didn't help to have Shido Nakamura in it. Ever since he got caught screwing around on Takeuchi while she was pregnant, every time I see him I think to myself, "Oh, there's that a**hole."
heyyy...
I really enjoyed watching crows zero...
can u guys give me any reccomendation that similar to that (action-comedy stuff with great casts)???
thanks :victory: