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61) Ring
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
日本語
Description
A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror. Reiko (Nanako Matsushima, 'When Marnie Was There'), a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate the shocking phenomenon, and in the process uncovers a creepy urban legend about a supposedly cursed videotape, the contents of which causes anyone who views it to die within a week - unless they can persuade someone...
62) Black Rain
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
日本語
Description
Portrays the lives of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima, five years after the devastating blast. BLACK RAIN follows their struggle to find a husband for their niece amidst the harsh realities of post-war Japan. Imamura's documentary-style approach delves into the marginalized sectors of society, revealing the dichotomy between traditional values and the modern facade of Japan.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
日本語
Description
Somewhere between a modern-day nightmare and a techno-fetishist's ultimate fantasy, this extraordinary film from Shinya Tsukamoto (Vital, A Snake of June) caused a cult sensation when first released. A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he...
64) Giants and Toys
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
日本語
Description
As World Caramel's marketing department faces intense competition, ambitious adman Nishi, along with his boss Goda, sees an opportunity in the naive Kyoko. However, as the rival companies engage in an outrageous advertising war, Kyoko's sudden fame begins to affect her. This snappy and satirical film explores the cutthroat world of advertising while delving into themes of ambition, relationships, and the consequences of fame.
65) Red Angel
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
日本語
Description
Nurse Sakura Nishi tends to war-wounded soldiers in a losing battle during Japan's war with China, while developing a complex relationship with a morphine-addicted surgeon. This harrowing portrayal of women and war is hailed as Masumura's finest work.
66) A snake of June
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
日本語
Description
In an anonymous Japanese metropolis, a dark erotic force infiltrates the lives of a reserved career woman in her thirties and her obsessively clean workaholic husband. Invading the most private aspects of the couple's lives, a mysterious stranger sends an envelope bearing the inscription "Your husband's secrets." A deliriously perverse tale of buried sexual desires, Shinya Tsukamoto's surreal journey to the dark side of obsession is as stylish as...
67) One Missed Call
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
日本語
Description
A mysterious phone curse spreads, leading to horrifying deaths. Yumi and Detective Hiroshi must unravel the mystery before Yumi becomes the next victim. This modern twist on Japanese folklore is filled with terror and suspense, reminiscent of the Ring and Grudge movies.
68) Before We Vanish
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
日本語
Description
Three aliens travel to Earth on a reconnaissance mission in preparation for a mass invasion. Having taken possession of human bodies, the visitors rob the hosts of their essence – good, evil, property, family, belonging – leaving only hollow shells, which are all but unrecognizable to their loved ones.
69) Kishibe no tabi
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
日本語
Description
Mizuki’s husband drowned at sea three years ago. When he suddenly comes back home, she is not that surprised. Instead, Mizuki is wondering what took him so long. She agrees to let him take her on a journey.
70) Wicked City
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
日本語
Description
A secret police force known as the Black Guard protects the boundary between the human world and the demon world.
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
日本語
Description
Revenge, honor and disgrace collide when a samurai's request to commit ritual suicide leads to a tense showdown with his feudal lord. From cult auteur Takashi Miike (*13 Assassins*). Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**. "*It may well be Miike's best film, a patient, ominous piece of epic storytelling that conscientiously rips the scabs off the honorable samurai mythology.*" - Michael Atkinson, ***Village Voice***
72) Apartment 1303
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
日本語
Description
A modern ghost story which turns a love hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror.
Series
Criterion collection volume 302
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Appears on list
Description
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
75) Vital
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
日本語
Description
Hiroshi Takagi (played by the fantastic Tadanobu Asano - Zatoichi, Ichi the Killer), a young man in his 20s, awakens in a hospital bed to find an auto accident has completely wiped his memory away. Back home with his parents and attempting to rebuild his life, he comes across a medical textbook full of detailed drawings of dissection. Utterly fascinated by the subject, Hiroshi is drawn to the medical school to which he was once accepted, but refused...
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
日本語
Description
Takashi Miike’s ICHI THE KILLER has endured as one of the most influential pieces of genre filmmaking of the last two decades, and now it returns in a stunning all-new digitally restored special edition approved by Miike himself. This visceral, bloody, and often hilarious film follows Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano), a notoriously sadistic yakuza enforcer whose search for his boss’ killer brings him into the orbit of a demented costumed assassin known...
Series
Criterion collection volume 159
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2002, c1965
Language
日本語
Description
A vain young doctor learns a valuable lesson from the dedicated director of a clinic for destitute patients.
78) Beyond Outrage
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
日本語
Description
As the police prepare a full-scale crackdown on the yakuza underworld, an anti-gang detective uses the rumored dead boss Otomo to start a war between crime families for their mutual destruction.
Publisher
Crescendo House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
日本語
Description
On the last night of its existence, a small movie theater in Onomichi—the seaside town of Obayashi’s youth where he shot nearly a dozen films—screens an all-night marathon of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theater, three young men are transported into the world onscreen where they experience the violent battles of several wars leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima
80) Rashōmon
Series
Criterion collection volume 138
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
日本語
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
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