Japanese Movies/Discussion/Recommendations

Can't go wrong with Love Letter and Eureka

Sure! I'll list some movies.

- Hatsukoi, First Love
- Shall we Dance
- Ringu
- WaterBoys
- Bounce KoGals
- Give it all, Gambatte
- Ping Pong Bath Station
- Love Letter

These are wonderful movies! Pick 5 of them. I highly recommend watchin the movies :applaud:

Well u can learn alot from 'Brother' Blood,violence those kind of things ne :hehe:

Ran is also great Learn....u should not kill ur own brother take his wive and spell out your own Father.. ;)

Last Zatoichi Samurai kind of things..Still have blood ne :naughty:

Check them out man..U'll learn ne

Can't really go wrong with any Akira Kurosawa's Movie.
1. Seven Samurai
2.Hidden Fortress
3.Ran

I don't sound like a blood violence movie kind of fan do I? :sweat:

Yep Akira Kurosawa is Da legend in Jmovie...Seven samurai and all that ren kun mention is some of his masterpiece :mrgreen:

u know what stay away from the movie Ichi the killer though. Man that movie gives me nightmare i so wasn't prepared for that one. It was really disturbing i thought i was ready for anything but man was i wrong...........

Watari...Ring a bell? :mrgreen:

You can do a comparison of films with Die Hard (U.S.) and Whiteout (JPN).

Ju on is my last Jmovie...........If u like watching movie in the dark this is the one for you ...But not reccomended for someone with heart attack ne :mrgreen:

Ju on i can handle. :mrgreen:

Ren wrote:Ju on i can handle. :mrgreen:

i definitely cannot.. i can't watch horror movies.. my last horror movie was scream 3.. hahaha.. very pathetic right..

Well don't feel too bad i watch movie with my light sometime on.

Personally i find battle royale a very good movie... It caught my attention for the whole show. I don't really like the bloody scenes in there, but i think the development was full of suspense and that was the best element of the show... not to mention that it a very unique, though quite lame plot.

Yep JU on is one movie that can make u scare ne Arashi no koto chan..I also not into scarry movie..watch it by accident..then after a while so tempted to buy Da dvd..Strange ne..

For BAttle royale yep is cool Da one I don't feel so comfy is TOO much Blood men. :sweat:

Well..I could not pick just five but I can recommend you these:

1. Returner (Takeshi Kaneshiro, Ann Suzuki)
2. Swallotail Butterfly (Chara, Atsuro Watabe, Yosuke Eguchi)
3. Seoul (Tomoya Nagase, Choi Min Sik)
4. 13 Kaidan (Takashi Sorimachi, Tsutomu Yamazaki)
5. Laundry (Yosuke Kubozuka, Koyuki)
6. Go (Yosuke Kubozuka, Kou Shibasaki)
7. Space Travellers (Takeshi Kaneshiro, Ando Masanobu, Eri Fukatsu)
8. Transparent/Satorare (Ando Masanobu, Suzuki Kyoka)
9. Red Shadow (Ando Masanobu, Megumi Okina)
10. Moho-han (Masahiro Nakai, Kimura Yoshino, Tsutomu Yamazaki)
11. Postman Blues (Tsutsumi Shinichi)
12. Yomigaeri (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Yuko Takeuchi)
13. Calmi Cuori Appassionatti (Yutaka Takenouchi, Kelly Chen)
14. Mayonaka Made (Hiroyuki Sanada, Michelle Reiss)
15. Ping Pong (Yosuke Kubozuka, Arata, Sam Lee)
16. Chaos (Miki Nakatani)
17. Samurai Fiction (Fumiya Fuji)
18. Senrigan (Miki Mizuno, Kuroki Hitomi)
19. Onmyoji (Hideaki Ito, Hiroyuki Sanada)
20. Versus (Tak Fujimoto)
21. 2009 Lost Memories (Jang Dong Gun, Toru Nakamura)
22. Rendan (Naoto Takenaka, Yuki Amami)
23. Bayside Shakedown (Yuji Oda, Tatsuro Yanagiba, Eri Fukatsu)
24. Doraheita (Koji Yakusho)
25. Shall we dance (Koji Yakusho)
26. Waterboys (Satoshi Tsumabuki)
27. Whiteout (Yuji Oda, Nanako Matsushima)
28. Go-Con (Rina Uchiyama)
29. All Akira kurosawa's samurai film
30. Misty (Takeshi Kaneshiro, Toyokawa Etsushi, Yuki Amami)


Phew.. :sweat: That's what I've watched and they are good so you can pick five of them he..he..he..If you need some info or hint on any of them you can pm me.

As recommended already, Kurosawa Akira films are usually quite good. You may even want to try some Kurosawa Kiyoshi films like "Cure", "Kourei" (Seance), and "Kairo" (Pulse). I have yet to see his movie "Bright Future". I've found myself liking Takashi Miike films a great deal, too even though they're a bit disturbing like "Audition" and "Visitor Q".

Midnight Eye is good place to visit: http://www.midnighteye.com

Ren wrote:Can't really go wrong with any Akira Kurosawa's Movie.
1. Seven Samurai
2.Hidden Fortress
3.Ran

Agreed.

There's also:

Kagemusha
Rashomon
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
Red Beard
High and Low
Ikiru
and many more...

Hey thanx ppl!! Keep more coming in..Cos I would have to pick a few to watch!! :) ;)

Thanx :say_thanx:

I haven't seen many but I still feel there are some that should really be seen! (although some said if not all said already, but that means lots of people liked! so good thing!)

-Go! (I liked this one the most I think, really good, you must see it I think, good story! and awesome starting :) )
-Battle Royale (lol, even though it's kinda dumb it's good at least the first time!)
-Ping Pong (great soundtrack at the very least lol!)
-Waterboys (haha, funny but you see all the guys in speedos, so if that not good for you ^ your loss)
another I liked was Platonic Sex; not sure if it's widely liked, but I thought it was a pretty good movie and will watch it again. I've seen all the other movies at least 3 times each (I like watching a lot of movies more than once ^)

although I must admit, I have hard time recommending japanese movies, I have seen very few but as a whole also I've generally liked a lot more Korean movies, you should try those out too, a good number I'd really recommend ^ still have so many to find and watch tho~

hey wow, good first impression for that Midnight Eye link! thanks for linking! I go look around that site some more, worth bookmarking I'd say so far! go see how their reviews are ^

Is Love Letter available as an .avi? I've never seen it at my local stores but a few of you recommended and I want to try it