🇯🇵 FILMS - JAPANESE CINEMA ----------------------------------------- ❗= letterbox ⓒ = criterion 🔪 = horror 🌏= foreign ♻️ = rewatch 🔕 = silent 🎄= holiday ⭐= priority 🤪= psychotronic ❤️ = liked 👩🏻=ann 🇯🇵 = japanuary challenge The Most Comprehensive List of Japanese Movies Ever…Maybe https://letterboxd.com/mishima24/list/the-most-comprehensive-list-of-japanese-movies/ Japanuary (Japanese Cinema Round #5) - January 2027 - [ ] Yojimbo (1961) 110m 8.2 ♻️ crit - [ ] Linda Linda Linda (2005) ♻️ ⭐️👩🏻 7.5 114m - [ ] Throne of Blood (1957) ♻️ 110m 8.0 - [ ] Junk Head (2017) 100m 7.3 - [ ] Love Exposure (2008) 237m 8.0 ❗ - [ ] The Woodsman and the Rain (2011) 129m 7.1 - [ ] Typhoon Club (1985) 115m 7.0 - [ ] Twilight Samurai (2002) 129m 8.1 - [ ] A Boy and His Samurai (2010) 7.0 108m 👩🏻dl - [ ] Happy-Go-Lucky (1997) 73m 7.0 - [ ] Boiling Point (1990) 96m 6.8 - [ ] Gamera the Brave (2005) 6.6 96m ⭐️ prime - [ ] Spring Dreams (1960) - j screwball 103m 6.8 crit - [ ] Gate of Hell (1953) 86m ⓒ 7.1 ❗crit 🇯🇵 - [ ] As the Gods Will (2014) 117m 6.3 🔪 prime/crunchy - [ ] Survive Style 5+ (2004) 120m 7.4 - [ ] Shin Ultraman (2022) 112m 6.4 - [ ] Shin Kamen Rider (2023) 121m 6.1 - [ ] A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (1977) 93m 6.7 - [ ] A Taxing Woman’s Return (1988) 127m 6.7 - [ ] The Last Dance (1993) 116m 6.9 - [ ] The Magic Hour (2008) 136m 7.2 - [ ] Cold Fish (2010) 146m 7.1 ❗🔪 - [ ] Retribution (2006) 6.4 104m ❗🔪 - [ ] Gozu (2003) 129m 6.9 ❗🔪 - [ ] The Taste of Tea (2004) - [ ] Sing a Song of Sex (1967) 103m 6.5 crit - [ ] The Crazy Family (1984) 107m 7.0 amc/shud ⭐ - [ ] Before We Vanish (2017) 129m 6.2 - [ ] Kikujiro (1999) 122m 7.7 - [ ] Hana-bi / Fireworks (1997) ⭐️ 103m 7.7 ❗ arrow - [ ] Antarctica (1983) 143m 7.6 - [ ] The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi 1979 113m 5.9 - [ ] Instant Swamp (2009) 6.8 - [ ] The Life of Oharu (1952) 133m 8.1 ⓒ❗crit - [ ] Vengeance Is Mine (1979) 139m 7.7 ⓒ❗crit - [ ] The Naked Island (1960) 92m ⓒ🇯🇵 🔕 crit - [ ] Haru (1996) 118m 7.5 - [ ] Silence (1971) ⭐️ 129m 7.2 - [ ] As the Gods Will (2014) 6.3 117m - [ ] Ghost Cat Anzu (2024) 94m 6.6 hbo - [ ] Inu-Oh (2021) 98m 7.1 - [ ] Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987) 105m dl 🤪 - [ ] Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (1970) 85m 6.3 - [ ] Kekko Kamen (1991) 60m 🤪 - [ ] Dance with Me (2019) 103m 6.8 👩🏻(wood job, swing girls, water boys) - [ ] The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon (1963) 86m 7.1 ⭐ - [ ] Capone Cries a Lot (1985) 130m 6.2 Short - [ ] Magic Candies (2024) 21m - [ ] Modest Heroes (2018) 6.6 54m Japanuary (Japanese Cinema Round #4 + Japanuary Challenge) 🇯🇵 - January 2026 - [x] Angel Dust (1994) 117m 6.7 ❗🔪 - [x] The Calamari Wrestler (2004) 95m 6.9 - [x] Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999) 6.0 99m prime - [x] Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) 6.1 105m - [x] 2LDK (2003) 70m 6.8 ⭐️ 🔪 - [x] Door (1988) 94m 6.6 🔪 - [x] Gemini (1999) 84m 6.7❗🔪 - [x] Kotoko (2011) 91m 6.8❗🔪 - [x] Strange Circus (2005) 108m 6.9 ❗🔪 - [x] Pulse (2001) 6.5 119m ❗🔪 - [x] Round About Midnight (1999) 110m 7.5 ⭐ yt - [x] Messengers (1999) 118m 7.0 YouTube dl - [x] Ichi the Killer (2001) 129m 6.9 🇯🇵 arrow 🔪 - [x] Summer Time Machine Blues (2005) 107m 7.1 - [x] A Taxing Woman (1987) 127m 7.2 - crit - [x] Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992) - 123m 7.3 crit 🇯🇵 - [x] Woman in Witness Protection (1997) 131m 7.1 - crit - [x] Séance (2000) 96m 6.7 - [x] The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985) 100m 6.6 🇯🇵 arrow - [x] We Are Little Zombies (2019) 120m 6.8 ⭐️ - [x] School in the Crosshairs (1981) 90m 6.4 - [x] Sweet Home (1989) 101m 6.5 - [x] Mermaid Legend (1984) 110m 7.0 - [x] Fall Guy (1982) 108m 6.9 - crit - [x] Moving (1993) 7.6 125m crit - [x] Hachiko (1987) 7.9 107m - [x] Bread of Happiness (2012) 6.5 114m - [x] Paprika (2006) 90m 7.7 ♻️ 👩🏻 🇯🇵 - [x] Belle (2021) 121m 7.0 🇯🇵 hbo Japanuary (Japanese Cinema Round #3) 🇯🇵 - January 2025 - [x] The Boy and the Heron (2023) 124m 7.4 👩🏻❗⭐🇯🇵 max - [x] The Mad Fox / Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow (1962) 109m 7.2 ⭐ arrow - [x] Himiko (1974) 100m 7.0 🇯🇵 crit - [x] Demons (1971)❗134m 7.9 🔪 - [x] Demon Pond (1979) 124m ⓒ 7.1 ⭐🇯🇵 - [x] An Actor’s Revenge (1963) 115m 7.3 ⓒ ❗crit - [x] Look Back (2024) 7.9 58m❗x 2 prime - [x] A Silent Voice (2016) 130m 8.1❗x 4 - [x] Double Suicide (1969) 7.6 105m crit - [x] Evil Does Not Exist (2023) 106m 7.0 crit 🇯🇵 - [x] Supermarket Woman (1996) 127m 7.3 ⭐🇯🇵 crit - [x] The Rocking Horsemen (1992) 132m 7.2 🇯🇵 - [x] One Cut of the Dead (2017) ♻️ 7.6 96m - [x] House (1977)♻️ 7.3 88m crit / max - [x] Perfect Days (2023) 124m 7.9 ⓒ ⭐❗x 3 Hulu kan - [x] An Autumn Afternoon (1962) 113m 8.0❗x 3 ⭐ max cri - [x] Drive My Car (2021) 179m 7.5 ⓒ❗⭐ max - [x] Dreams (1990) 119m 🍄ⓒ kan - [x] Ikiru (1952) ♻️ 👩🏻 crit / bluray 143m - [x] In the Realm of the Senses (1976) ⭐️ 6.6 109m - [x] Ikiru (1952) ♻️ 👩🏻 crit / bluray - [x] One Cut of the Dead (2017) ♻️ 7.6 96m - [x] House (1977)♻️ 7.3 88m crit / max - [x] Evil Dead Trap (1988) 🍄 102m 6.2 Japanuary 2024 / Japanese Cinema Round #2 🇯🇵 - January 2024 - [x] Gate of Flesh (1964) 90m ⭐️7.2 - [x] Wolf Guy (1975) ⭐️ 86m 6.3 - [x] Everything Goes Wrong (1960) 71m ⭐️ 6.8 crit - [x] Confessions (2010) ⭐️ 7.7 106m - [x] Kagemusha (1980) 180m ⭐️ 7.9 162m - [x] The Vampire Doll (1970) 71m 6.6 - [x] Lake of Dracula (1971) 82m 6.2 - [x] Evil of Dracula (1974) 83m 6.3 - [x] The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) 147m ⭐️ 7.6 - [x] Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) 99m 6.5 ⭐️ - [x] Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995) ⭐️ 6.4 62m - [x] Blind Beast (1969) 86m 7.1 - [x] Swing Girls (2004) ⭐️ 105m 7.5 👩🏻 - [x] Killers on Parade (1961) 82m 6.5 crit - [x] The Funeral (1984) ⭐️ 124m 7.2 cri 👩🏻 - [x] Weather Woman (1995) 85m 5.5 - [x] Tag (2015) 85m 6.1 - [x] Tokyo Drifter (1966) 83m 7.1 ⭐️ 🌏 - [x] Water Boys (2001) 90m 7.1 ⭐️👩🏻 - [x] Wood Job! (2014) - [x] Tampopo (1985) 115m 7.9 ♻️ ⭐️👩🏻 - [x] The Ballad of Narayama (1983) ⭐️ 130m 7.8 - [x] Empire of Passion (1978) 105m 7.0 - [x] The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959) 76m 7.0 crit - [x] The Golden Bat (1966) 73m - [x] Black Lizard (1968) 86m 6.9 - [x] Rubber’s Lover (1996) ⭐️ 6.3 91m - [x] Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968) 79m 6.5 - [x] Yokai Monsters: The Great Yokai War (1968) 6.4 79m - [x] Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969) 78m 6.3 - [x] Blind Woman’s Curse (1970) 85m 6.5 - [x] Kaito Ruby (1988) 96m 7.1 - [x] The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (1968) 82m 6.6 - [x] River (2023) ⭐️ 86m 👩🏻 - [x] Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers (2005) 👩🏻6.5 90m ?? - [x] His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) ⭐️ 7.3 90m ?? - [x] Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968) 84m 6.1 cri - [x] Gamera: The Giant Monster (1965) 81m 5.2 ♻️ - [x] Gamera vs. Barugon (1966) 5.1 106m 🧪 - [x] Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967) 5.1 87m 🧪 - [x] Gamera vs. Viras (1968) 4.5 75m - [x] Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) 4.3 ⭐️ 80m 🧪 - [x] Gamera vs. Jiger (1970) 5.3 ⭐️83m 🧪 - [x] Gamera vs. Zigra (1971) 3.6 87m 🧪 - [x] Gamera: Super Monster (1980) 3.6 92m - [x] Gorath (1962) 5.7 83m ⭐️ - [x] Visitor Q (2001) ⭐️ 6.5 84m - [x] Cat Soup (2001) 34m - [x] Barefoot Gen (1983) 83m 8.0 ⭐️👩🏻 ?? - [x] Fish Story (2009) ⭐️ 7.5 113m 👩🏻 ? - [x] University of Laughs (2004) 121m 👩🏻 7.4 ?? - [x] Mind Game (2004) ⭐️ 103m 7.7 - [x] Angel’s Egg (1985) 7.1 75m - [x] August in the Water (1995) 117m ⭐️7. - [x] Samurai Rebellion (1967) 121m 8.3 cri - [x] Cure (1997) 111m 7.5 ⭐️ - [x] Floating Weeds (1959) 119m 7.9 ⭐️ Round 1 - [x] Harakiri (1962) - [x] Branded to Kill (1967) - [x] Your Name (2016) - [x] Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (2019) - [x] Shall We Dance? (1996) - [x] Belladonna of Sadness (1973) - [x] Manji (1964) - [x] School of the Holy Beast (1974) - [x] A Page of Madness (1926) - [x] Audition (Ôdishon) (1999) - [x] Wolf Children (2012) - [x] Millennium Actress (2001) - [x] Good Morning (1959) - [x] Onibaba (1965) - [x] Yojimbo (1961) - [x] Kwaidan (1965) - [x] Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972) - [x] Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972) - [x] Sansho The Bailiff (1954) - [x] Giants and Toys (1958) - [x] Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) - [x] Ugetsu (1954) - [x] Antiporno (2016) - [x] Woman in the Dunes (1964) - [x] High and Low (1963) - [x] Kuroneko (1968) - [x] Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972) - [x] Pale Flower (1964) - [x] Stray Dog (1949) - [x] Tokyo Story (1953) - [x] Tokyo Olympiad (1965) - [x] The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001) - [x] Late Spring (1949) - [x] Mr. Thank You (1936) - [x] Pigs and Battleships (1961) - [x] Sanjuro (1962) - [x] Tetsuo: The Ironman (1989) - [x] Departures (2008) - [x] Shoplifters (2018) - [x] Matango (1963) - [x] I Was Born, But (1932) - [x] The Ballad of Narayama (1958) - [x] Throne of Blood (1957) - [x] Red Beard (1965) - [x] Rashomon (1950) - [x] Osaka Elegy (1936) -------------------------------------- Letterbox Horror List - [x] Strange Circus (2005) 108m 6.9 ❗🔪 - [x] Kotoko (2011) 91m 6.8❗🔪 - [ ] Gozu (2003) 129m 6.9 ❗🔪 - [ ] Noroi: The Curse (2005) 115m 6.8 ❗🔪 - [ ] Guilty of Romance (2011) 145m 6.8 ❗🔪 - [ ] Cold Fish (2010) 146m 7.1 ❗🔪 - [x] Pulse (2001) 6.5 119m ❗🔪 - [ ] Retribution (2006) 6.4 104m ❗🔪 Sono - [ ] Love Exposure (2008) 237m 8.0 ❗ - [x] Strange Circus (2005) 108m 6.9 - [ ] Guilty of Romance (2011) 145m 6.8 ❗🔪 - [ ] Cold Fish (2010) 146m 7.1 ❗🔪 - [ ] Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (2013) 130m 7.1 - [x] Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021) - [x] Anti-porno (2016) - [x] Tag (2015) Masaki Kobayashi - [x] Samurai Rebellion (1967) 121m 8.3 - [ ] The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) 188m 8.5 - [ ] The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) 180m 8.5 - [ ] The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961) 190m 8.8 - [x] Hari Kiri - [x] Kwaidan Masashi Yamamoto - [ ] What's Up Connection (1990) 120m 6.6 - [ ] Robinson’s Garden (1987) 119m 6.3 - [ ] Wonderful Paradise (2020) 95m 5.9 Stray Cat Rock - [ ] Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss (1970) 80m 6.1 - [ ] Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo (1970) 84m 6.0 - [ ] Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (1970) 85m 6.3 - [ ] Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970) 82m 6.3 - [ ] Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71 (1971) 86m 5.9 Kiyoshi Kurosawa - [x] Cure (1997) 111m 7.5 ⭐️ - [x] Pulse (2001) 6.5 119m - [x] Séance (2000) 96m 6.7 - [x] Sweet Home (1989) 101m 6.5 - [ ] Creepy (2016) 6.4 130m - [ ] Before We Vanish (2017) 129m 6.2 Yasujiro Ozu - [x] An Autumn Afternoon (1962) 113m 8.0 ⭐️ - [ ] Tokyo Twilight (1957) 141m 8.1 - [ ] A Hen in the Wind (1948) 84m 7.4 - [ ] Equinox Flower (1958) 7.8 118m - [ ] Early Spring (1956) 145m 7.8 - [ ] Dragnet Girl (1933) 100m 7.0 - [ ] Early Summer (1951) 125m 8.1 - [ ] The Only Son (1936) 7.7 87m - [x] Floating Weeds (1959) 119m 7.9 - [x] Good Morning (1959) - [x] Tokyo Story (1953) - [x] Late Spring (1949) 108m 8.2 - [x] I Was Born But.. (1932) Jūzō Itami - [x] A Taxing Woman (1987) 127m 7.2 - [x] Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992) 123m 7.3 - [x] Woman in Witness Protection (1997) 131m 7.1 - [ ] A Taxing Woman’s Return (1988) 127m 6.7 - [ ] The Last Dance (1993) 116m 6.9 - [ ] A Quiet Life (1995) 121m 6.9 - [x] Tampopo (1985) - [x] The Funeral (1984) - [x] Supermarket Woman (1996) 127m 7.3 Masahiro Shinoda - [x] Demon Pond (1979) 124m ⓒ 7.1 ⭐🇯🇵 - [x] Double Suicide (1969) 105m - [x] Himiko (1974) ⭐️ 100m 7.0 - [ ] Silence (1971) ⭐️ 129m 7.2 - [ ] With Beauty and Sorrow (1965) 106m 6.8 - [x] Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975) - [x] Killers on Parade (1961) - [x] Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964) Takeshi Kitano - [x] Fireworks (1997) ⭐️ 7.7 103m - [ ] Kikujiro (1999) 122m 7.7 ⭐️ - [ ] Boiling Point (1990) 96m 6.8 ⭐️ - [ ] Violent Cop (1989) 103m 7.1 ⭐️ - [x] Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) Takashi Miike - [x] Ichi the Killer (2001) - [ ] Gozu (2003) 129m 6.9 - [ ] As the Gods Will (2014) - [x] Visitor Q (2001) Hiroshi Shimizu - [ ] Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933) 6.9 72m - [ ] Children in the Wind (1937) 7.4 88m - [ ] Ornamental Hairpin (1941) 7.1 70m - [ ] Four Seasons of Children (1939) 141m 7.2 - [ ] Children of the Beehive (1948) 88m 7.4 - [ ] The Masseurs and a Woman (1938) 7.1 66m - [x] Mr. Thank You (1936) 7.3 Shōhei Imamura - [ ] Vengeance Is Mine (1979) - [ ] Intentions of Murder (1964) - [ ] The Insect Woman (1963) - [ ] Profound Desires of the Gods (1968) 173m - [ ] Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) - [x] The Ballad of Narayama (1983) Kenji Mizoguchi - [ ] The Life of Oharu (1952) 133m 8.1 - [ ] The Crucified Lovers (1954) 102m crit 8.0 - [ ] The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) 148m 7.8 cri ❗ Nagisa Ōshima - [x] In the Realm of the Senses (1976) ⭐️ - [ ] Sing a Song of Sex (1967) ⭐️ - [ ] Cruel Story of Youth (1960) - [ ] Death by Hanging (1968) - [x] Empire of Passion (1978) - [x] Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) Anime - [ ] Gauche the Cellist (1982) - [ ] Summer Days with Coo (2007) 138m - [x] Belle (2021) - [x] Barefoot Gen (1983) ⭐️👩🏻 83m 8.0 - [x] Angel’s Egg (1985) 7.1 75m - [x] Cat Soup (2001) 34m - [x] Mind Game (2004) ⭐️ 103m 7.7 Mamoru Oshii - [x] Angel’s Egg (1985) 7.1 75m - [ ] The Red Spectacles (1987) Toshiaki Toyoda - [ ] 9 Souls (2003) Ryusuke Hamaguchi - [x] Drive My Car (2021) ⭐️ 179m 7.5 - [ ] Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2011) - [ ] Happy Hours (2015) Ishirō Honda - [ ] The Human Vapor (1960) 6.3 81m ⭐️ - [x] The H-Man (1958) 6.0 79m ⭐️ - [ ] Battle in Outer Space (1959) 5.7 90m - [ ] Varan (1958) 5.3 87m - [ ] Varan the Unbelievable (1962) 4.5 70m - [ ] Half Human (1955) 5.5 94m - [ ] City in the Sea (1965) 84m 5.3 - [ ] The War in Space (1977) 5.0 91m - [ ] The X from Outer Space (1967) - [x] Gorath (1962) 5.7 83m ⭐️ Transforming Human Series - [x] The H-Man (1958) 6.0 79m ⭐️ - [ ] The Secret of the Telegian (1960) - [ ] The Human Vapor (1960) 6.3 81m ⭐️ Godzilla - [x] Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999) 6.0 99m amazon - [x] Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) 6.1 105m - [ ] Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956) 6.3 80m - [ ] Godzilla 1985 (1985) 87m 6.1 Kaiju (other) - [ ] Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon (1994) 105m - [ ] Shin Ultraman (2022) 118m - [ ] Warning from Space (1956) - [ ] Message from Space (1978) Shinobu Yaguchi - [x] Swing Girls (2004) - [x] Water Boys (2001) 90m 7.1 - [x] Wood Job! (2014) - [ ] Dance With Me (2019) Shinji Sōmai - [ ] Typhoon Club (1985) 115m 7.0 - [ ] Moving (1993) - [ ] Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981) 131m 6.3 - [ ] Love Hotel (1985) Gakuryu Ishii - [x] August in the Water (1995) 117m ⭐️7.3 - [x] Angel Dust (1994) 117m ⭐️6.7 - [ ] Burst City (1982) 115m ⭐️ 6.0 - [ ] Labyrinth of Dreams (1997) 90m 7.3 Toshiharu Ikeda - [x] Evil Dead Trap (1988) 🍄 102m 6.2 - [x] Mermaid Legend (1984) 110m 6.8 Hirokazu Kore-eda - [ ] Maborosi (1995) ⭐️ - [ ] Still Walking (2008) - [x] Shoplifters (2018) - [x] After Life (1998) Akira Kurosawa - [x] Kagemusha (1980) 180m - [x] Dreams (1990) 119m 🍄⭐️ - [ ] Dodes’ka-den (1970) 140m crit Seijun Suzuki - [x] Everything Goes Wrong (1960) 71m crit - [x] Tokyo Drifter (1966) 93m crit - [x] Gate of Flesh (1964) 7.2 90 - [ ] A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (1977) 93m 6.7 - [ ] Youth of the Beast (1963) 92m 7.3 ⭐️ Jo Shishido - [ ] Youth of the Beast (1963) 92m 7.3 ⭐️ - [ ] Cruel Gun Story (1964) 87m - [ ] Rusty Knife (1958) 90m 6.7 - [ ] Massacre Gun (1967) 89m - [x] Branded to Kill (1967) - [x] A Colt is My Passport (1967) - [x] Gate of Flesh (1964) 7.2 90 ⭐️ Yasuzō Masumura - [ ] Love for an Idiot (1967) - [ ] Black Test Car (1962) - [ ] Irezumi (1966) - [x] Blind Beast (1969) - [x] Manji (1964) - [x] Giants and Toys (1958) Toho Vampire Trilogy aka "The Bloodthirsty Trilogy" - [x] The Vampire Doll (1970) 71m 6.6 🌏 - [x] Lake of Dracula (1971) 82m 6.2 🌏 - [x] Evil of Dracula (1974) 83m 6.3 🌏 🍄 Daiei Yokai Trilogy - [x] Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968) 79m 6.5 - [x] Yokai Monsters: The Great Yokai War (1968) 6.4 79m - [x] Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969) 78m 6.3 Rampo Edogawa (writer) - [x] Blind Beast (1969) - [x] Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) 99m 6.5 ⭐️ - [x] Black Lizard (1968) Teruo Ishii - [x] Blind Woman’s Curse (1970) 85m 6.5 - [x] Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) 99m 6.5 ⭐️ Rewatches - [ ] Yojimbo (1961) 110m 8.2 ♻️ ⭐️👩🏻 - [ ] Linda Linda Linda (2005) ♻️ ⭐️👩🏻 - [x] Tampopo (1985) 115m ♻️ ⭐️ 👩🏻 - [x] Afterlife ♻️ ⭐️👩🏻 - [x] Ikiru (1952) ♻️ ⭐️👩🏻 - [x] One Cut of the Dead (2017) ♻️ 7.6 96m Pinku - [ ] Day-Dream (1964) 92m 6.1 - [ ] Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (1970) 85m 6.3 arrow - [ ] Muscle (1989) 58m 6.3 - [ ] Violated Angels (1967) 6.8 56m - [ ] Love Hotel (1985) 88m 6.8 - [ ] Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (1967) 85m 5.7 Sonny Chiba - [x] Wolf Guy (1975) ⭐️ - [x] The Golden Bat (1966) 73m - [ ] The Bullet Train (1975) Satoshi Miki - [x] Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers (2005) - [ ] Adrift in Tokyo (2007) - [ ] What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? (2022) Minoru Kawasaki - [x] The Calamari Wrestler (2005) - [ ] Executive Koala (2006) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi - [x] The Rocking Horsemen (1992) 132m 7.2 - [x] House (1977) - [x] His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) - [x] The Drifting Classroom (1987) - [x] School in the Crosshairs (1981) 90m 6.4 - [ ] Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012) - [ ] Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (1986) - [ ] Beijing Watermelon (1989) Slice of Life - [ ] Bread of Happiness (2012) 6.5 114m - [ ] A Boy and His Samurai (2010) 7.0 108m 👩🏻 - [x] Summer Time Machine Blues (2005) 107m 7.1 - [ ] The Taste of Tea (2004) - [ ] A Story of Yonosuke (2013) - [x] Fish Story (2009) ⭐️ 7.5 113m 👩🏻 - [x] Kaito Ruby (1988) 96m 7.1 Comedies / Weird - [ ] Funky Forest (2005) - [ ] Cyborg She (2008) - [ ] A Farewell to Jinu (2015) - [x] Warai no Daigaku (2004) - [ ] Survival Style 5+ (2004) - [x] The Calamari Wrestler (2005) - [ ] R100 (2013) - [ ] Symbol (2009) - [ ] Tremble All You Want (2017) - [ ] Dead Sushi (2012) - [x] The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985) Kinji Fukasaku - [ ] Virus (1980) 108m 6.2 - [ ] Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) - [x] Black Lizard (1968) - [x] Battle Royale (2000) - [x] Green Slime (1968) J-Horror 🔪 - [ ] Gozu (2003) 129m 6.9 - [ ] As the Gods Will (2014) 6.3 117m - [ ] Creepy (2016) 6.4 130m - [ ] Uzumaki (2000) 90m 6.1 - [ ] Virus (1980) 108m 6.2 - [x] Ichi the Killer (2001) 7.0 129m - [x] Pulse (2001) 6.5 119m - [x] Door (1988) 94m 6.6 - [x] Gemini (1999) 6.7 84m - [x] Demons (1971) 8.0 134m - [x] Angel Dust (1994) 6.7 116m - [x] 2LDK (2003) 6.8 70m - [x] Evil Dead Trap (1988) 🍄 102m 6.2 - [x] Cure (1997) 111m 7.5 ⭐️ - [x] Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968) 84m 6.1 - [x] The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (1968) 82m 6.6 - [x] Blind Woman’s Curse (1970) 85m 6.5 - [x] Rubber’s Lover (1996) ⭐️ - [x] Confessions (2010) ⭐️ - [x] Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) 99m 6.5 ⭐️ - [x] Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995) ⭐️ - [x] Tag (2015) 85m 6.1 - [x] The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959) 76m 7.0 crit J-Noir - [ ] Youth of the Beast (1963) 92m 7.3 🌏 - [ ] Rusty Knife (1958) 90m 6.7 🌏 - [ ] Cruel Gun Story (1964) 87m 7.2 🌏 - [ ] I Am Waiting (1957) 91m 7.0 🌏 - [ ] The Pornographers (1966) 🌏 - [ ] Violence at Noon (1966) 99m 7.1 🌏 - [ ] The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965) 104m 6.9 🌏 - [ ] Underworld Beauty (1958) 87m 7.0 🌏 - [ ] Zero Focus (1961) 95m 7.0 🌏 - [ ] Crazed Fruit (1956) 86m 7.3 🌏ⓒ - [ ] Intimidation (1960) 65m 7.2 🌏 - [ ] The Man Without a Map (1968) 118m 6.6 🌏 - [ ] Endless Desire (1958) 101m 7.2 🌏 - [ ] Black Test Car (1962) 🌏 - [ ] Take Aim at the Police Van (1960) 79m 6.6 🌏 - [ ] Massacre Gun (1967) 89m 🌏 - [ ] Dragnet Girl (1933) 🌏 - [ ] Black Sun (1964) 95m 6.8 🌏⭐️ - [x] Killers on Parade (1961) 82m - [x] Gate of Flesh (1964) 90m ⭐️🌏 - [x] Tokyo Drifter (1966) 93m 7.1 ⭐️ 🌏 - [x] A Colt is My Passport (1967) 🌏 - [x] Branded to Kill (1967) 🌏 - [x] Pale Flower (1964) 🌏 - [x] High and Low (1963) 🌏 - [x] Drunken Angel (1948) 🌏 - [x] Pigs and Battleships (1961) 🌏 - [x] Stray Dog (1949) 🌏 - [x] The Bad Sleep Well (1960) 🌏 Other - [ ] Day-Dream (1964) - [ ] Tonari no Yae-chan (1934) Gamera - [x] Gamera: The Giant Monster (1965) 81m 5.2 ♻️ - [x] Gamera vs. Barugon (1966) 5.1 106m 🧪 - [x] Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967) 5.1 87m 🧪 - [x] Gamera vs. Viras (1968) 4.5 75m - [x] Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) 4.3 ⭐️ 80m 🧪 - [x] Gamera vs. Jiger (1970) 5.3 ⭐️83m 🧪 - [x] Gamera vs. Zigra (1971) 3.6 87m 🧪 - [x] Gamera: Super Monster (1980) 3.6 92m - [x] Gamera, the Guardian of the Universe (1995) - [x] Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion (1996) - [x] Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999) - [ ] Gamera the Brave (2005) 6.6 96m ⭐️ ----------------- NOTES ----------------- The cinema of Japan has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2010 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that earned 54.9% of a box office total of US$2.338 billion. Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived. In a ranking of the best films produced in Asia by Sight & Sound, Japan made up eight of the top twelve, with Tokyo Story ranked number one. Japan has won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film four times, again more than any other country in Asia. Over 90% of Japanese films made before World War II don't exist anymore. There are several reasons for this: The destruction of film archives due to the Great Kantō Earthquake in 1923 and the U.S. firebombing attacks during WWII. Furthermore the destruction of anti-ideological films by the Japanese military government during WWII and the destruction of overly propagandistic films by the U.S. authorities during the occupation of Japan. Three Masters of Japanese Cinema * Kenji Mizugochi * Yasujirō Ozu * Akira Kurosawa Setsuko Hara Late Spring Tokyo Story Yasujiro Ozu Millennium Actress (2001), directed by Satoshi Kon, is partly based on her life Hikimayu - practice of removing the natural eyebrows and painting smudge-like eyebrows on the forehead in pre-modern Japan Ohaguro - black teeth The destruction of film archives due to the Great Kantō Earthquake in 1923 and the U.S. firebombing attacks during WWII. The word shomin-geki (庶民劇, "ordinary people drama[s]") refers to a genre in Japanese cinema that depicts small contemporary plots about the common people. Shomin-geki is a term created by the Academia: in Japan, these movies were called shōshimin eiga (小市民 映画), meaning "films abouts the petite bourgeoisie"; or homu dorama (ホム ドラマ), from English "home drama". Top Japanese Directors https://theculturetrip.com/asia/japan/articles/from-ozu-to-kitano-the-ten-best-japanese-directors/ 🇯🇵🌊 JAPANESE NEW WAVE (1950s-1970s) ------------------------------------------------------------------ - [ ] Crazed Fruit (Kō Nakahira, 1956) - [x] Woman In The Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964) - [x] Branded To Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967) - [x] Go, Go Second Time Virgin (Koji Wakamatsu, 1969) - [ ] Intentions Of Murder (Shohei Imamura, 1964) - [ ] God Speed You! Black Emperor (Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 1976) - [ ] A Wife Confesses (Yasuzo Masumura, 1961) - [ ] Thirst For Love (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1966) - [x] Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964) Nuberu Bagu’ was a film movement that occurred in Japan from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s Scent of a Woman (1992) Son In Law (1993) Tokyo Decadence (1992) Intimidation (1960) 65m 7.2 Violence at Noon (1966) 7.1 99m * Crazed Fruit (1956) 7.3 86m The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965) 104m 6.9 Shōhei Imamura Pinku Eiga is a classic japanese subgenre of sexploitation films; these colorful greasy, but avantgardistic films can be described as a mixture of art and softporn, often combined with bloody gore effects. There were (and still are) two big companies producing a shitload of Pinku Eiga films, mainly in the 60s and 70s: while films from production company "Toei" are classified as PINKY VIOLENCE, films from company "Nikkatsu" are known by the term ROMAN PORNO (short for "romantic pornography"). Movies from other companies are labeld PINK FILM and Japanese SEXPLOITATION. (Click on "Read notes" to see categorization.) https://letterboxd.com/hank_chinaski/list/pinku-eiga-pinky-violence-roman-porno-japanese/by/popular/ https://letterboxd.com/obscureness/list/pinku/by/popular/ - [ ] A Man Escaped (1956) - [ ] The Driver (1978) - [ ] Corn Island (2014) - [ ] In this Corner of the World (2016) - [ ] Hanagatami (2017) - [ ] Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (2013) - [ ] The Tale of Iya (2013) - [ ] Eureka (2000) - [ ] Love Exposure (2008) - [ ] Like Someone in Love (2012) - [ ] Letter from the Mountain (2002) - [ ] Muddy River (1981) - [ ] The Family Game (1983) - [ ] Zatoichi (2003) - [ ] Sharkskin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1999) * - [ ] The Demon’ (1978) - [ ] Nobody Knows (2004) - [ ] United Red Army (2007) - [ ] The Mourning Forest (2007) - [ ] Tokyo Sonata (2008) - [ ] Departures (2008) - [ ] 13 Assassins (2010) - [ ] Silence (1971) ⭐️ 129m 7.2 - [ ] Plan 75 (2022) 113m - [ ] Death by hanging (1968) 118m - crit - [ ] Guilty of Romance (2011) 145m 6.8 ❗ - [ ] Eureka (2000) 218m 7.7 - [ ] Massacre Gun (1967) 89m 7.0 - [ ] Edo Porn (1981) 119m 6.4 - [ ] Wonderful Paradise (2020) 95m 5.9 - [ ] Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (1970) 85m 6.3 arrow - [ ] Day-Dream (1964) 92m 6.1 - [ ] Muscle (1989) 58m 6.3 - [ ] Violated Angels (1967) 6.8 56m - [ ] Abnormal Family (1984) 63m 5.8 - [ ] Fall Guy (1982) 6.9 109m crit - [ ] Dodes’ka-den (1970) 140m crit - [ ] Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005) 150m - [ ] Haru (1996) 118m 7.5 - [ ] Retribution (2006) 104m 6.4 - [ ] Ritual (2000) 128m 7.5 ❗ - [ ] Youth of the Beast (1963) 92m 7.3 ⭐️ - [ ] The Human Vapor (1960) 92m - [ ] Dance With Me (2019) - [ ] The H-Man (1958) 6.0 79m - [ ] The Taste of Tea (2004) - [ ] 100 Yen Love (2014) 113m - [ ] Oh Lucy! (2017) 6.8 95m - [ ] Violent Cop (1989) 103m 7.1 - [ ] The Warped Ones (1960) 76m 🇯🇵 crit - [ ] A Hen in the Wind (1948) 84m 7.4 crit - [ ] I Am Waiting (1957) 🇯🇵 crit - [ ] Black Sun (1964) 95m 6.8 🌏 crit - [ ] Anatahan (1953) 91m 7.0 - [ ] Nezura 1964 (2020) - [ ] The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) 148m 7.8 cri ❗ - [ ] The Crucified Lovers (1954) 102m crit 8.0 - [ ] The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon (1963) 86m 7.1 ⭐ - [ ] Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987) 105m dl - [ ] Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933) 6.9 72m 🔕 - [ ] A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) 86m 7.6 🔕 ozu - [ ] Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981) 131m 6.3 🇯🇵 arrow - [ ] We Are Little Zombies (2019) 120m 6.8 kan - [ ] The Twilight Samurai (2002) 8.1 129m - [ ] Love Exposure (2008) 237m 8.0 - [ ] Intentions of Murder (1964) 150m 7.7 ⓒ crit - [ ] The Insect Woman (1963) 123m 7.4 ⓒ crit - [ ] Crazed Fruit (1956) 86m 7.3 ⓒ crit - [ ] Ritual (2000) 128m - [ ] 9 Souls 2003 - [ ] Maborosi 1995 - [ ] Japanese Girls at the Harbor 1933 - [ ] Close-Knit 2017 - [ ] Crazed Fruit 1956 - [ ] Woman of the Lake (1966) - [ ] The Twilight Samurai 2002 - [ ] Demons 1971 - [ ] Kamikaze Girls 2004 - [ ] A Gentle Breeze in the Village (2007) - [ ] Still Walking (2008) - [ ] r100 (2013) - [ ] The Taste of Tea (2004) - [ ] Love Exposure (2008) 8.1 237m - [ ] This Transient Life (1970) - [x] The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013) 137m 8.0 - [ ] The Twilight Samurai (2002) 129m 8.1 - [x] Tampopo (1985) 115m 8.0 rewatch - [x] Hidden Fortress (1958) 126m 8.1 rewatch - [ ] Kagemusha (1980) 162m 8.0 - [ ] Muddy River (1981) 7.8 105m - [ ] Confessions (2010) 7.7 106m - [ ] Hula Girls (2006) 7.0 108m - [x] The Ballad of Narayama (1983) 7.9 130m - [x] Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) 7.3 123m - [ ] Love Exposure (2008) 8.1 237m - [ ] Violent Cop (1989) 103m 7.2 - [ ] Hana-Bi (1997) 103m 7.8 - [ ] Kikujiro (1999) 122m 7.8 - [x] Rubber's Lover (1996) 91m 6.3 - [ ] Demons (1971) 8.0 134m - [ ] Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) 86m 7.7 - [ ] Weathering with You (2019) - [x] The Wind Rises (2013) - [ ] Onimasa (1982) - [ ] 100 Yen Love (2014) - [x] Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) ** 7.9m 90m - [ ] The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) - [ ] The Funeral (1984) 124m 7.1 - [ ] The Taste of Tea (2004) * 7.7 143m - [x] Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) 82m - [ ] As the Gods Will (2014) - [ ] Mothra (1961) - [ ] Waterboys (2001) 90m 7.1 - [ ] Early Summer (1951) 8.2 125m - [ ] The Life of Oharu (1952)136m - [ ] Close-Knit (2017) - [x] Fish Story (2009) - [x] Shin Godzilla (2016) - [ ] Tokyo Drifter (1966) 83m - [ ] The Tale of Zatoichi (1962) - [ ] The Insect Woman (1963) - [ ] A Story of Yonosuke (2013) - [ ] Floating Clouds (1955) - [x] Jigoku (1960) - [x] Whisper of the Heart (1995) - [ ] The Man with a Shotgun (1961) - [x] Mind Game (2004) - [ ] In This Corner of the World (2016) - [ ] The Boy and the Beast (2015) - [ ] Hotarubi no Mori e (2011) - [ ] The Scythian Lamb (2017) - [ ] The Yellow Handkerchief (1977) - [ ] History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970) - [ ] The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) - [ ] A Letter to Momo (2011) - [x] From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) - [ ] Souls on the Road (1921) 91m - [ ] Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) 72m - [ ] I Flunked, But… (1930) 65m - [ ] Versus (2000) - [x] Black Lizard (1968) - [ ] Tag (Riaru Onigokko) (2015) - [ ] The Burmese Harp (1956) - [ ] A Fugitive from the Past (1965) - [ ] The Face of Another (1966) - [ ] Instant Swamp (2009) - [ ] Bitter Honey (2016) - [ ] Crazed Fruit (Kō Nakahira, 1956) - [ ] Intentions Of Murder (1964) - [ ] God Speed You! Black Emperor (1976) - [ ] A Wife Confesses (1961) - [ ] Thirst For Love (1966) - [ ] The Hit-and-Run Family (1992) - [ ] In the Realm of the Senses (1976) - [ ] Ecstasy of the Angels (1972) - [ ] Kamikaze Girls - [ ] All About Lily Chou Chou - [ ] 2LDK (2003) - [ ] Fall Guy (1982) - [ ] Visitor Q (2001) - [ ] Symbol (2009) - [ ] The Garden Of Words (2013) - [ ] Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971) - [ ] When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) - [ ] Shogun’s Shadow (1989) - [x] Godzilla (Gojira) (1954) - [x] Lady Snowblood (1973) - [x] Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969)