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{ Reviews of Top Japanese Movies } |
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| Battle Royale (Batoru rowaiaru) |
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Director: Kinji Fukasaku; Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Shin Kusaka, Ren Matsuzawa, Gouki Nishimura, Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Taro Yamamoto
Summary: In the distant future in Japan, nearly 15 million people are out work, the nation’s morale has hit rock bottom, and teen violence has grown rampant. The educational system itself seems to have become dysfunctional... |
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| Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime): Animated feature film |
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Director: Hayao Miyazaki; Cast: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiko Nishimura.
Summary: Deep within the forests of Masaymura, a village inhabited by the Emishi people is attacked by a demon god. Ashitaka, a young prince comes to the aid and while fighting to save his village from the attack, Ashitaka is inflicted with a deadly curse... |
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| Cafe Isobe (Jun kissa Isobe) |
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Director: Keisuke Yoshida; Cast: Hiroyuki Miyasako, Riisa Naka, Kumiko Aso, Mari Hamada, Toshihiro Wada.
Summary: Come on in, sit down, and relax. Pop in the film “Cafe Isobe” and enjoy 90 minutes of light hearted moments and goofy comedy. That’s what I expected from the film “Cafe Isobe” and I was half right. The film does comes across as a breezy comedy .. |
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| Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi) |
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Director: Sion Sono; Cast: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Sakura Ando.
Summary: The movie is ambitious, at times gratuitous, but always mesmerizes with a labyrinth like story that also has this yin and yang like simplicity to it. From the get go, you’ll know “Love Exposure” isn’t your run of the mill film with its... |
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| Memories of Matsuko (Kiraware Matsuko no issho) |
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Director: Tetsuya Nakashima; Cast: Miki Nakatani, Eita, Yusuke Iseya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Mikako Ichikawa, Asuka Kurosawa.
Summary: From the very beginning of the film, Memories of Matsuko had me floored with a mix of admiration, melancholy, and laughter. I have seen the director Tetsuya Nakashima’s prior film Kamikaze Girls... |
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| Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo) |
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Director: Keisuke Yoshida; Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You, Kazuya Takahashi, Shohei Tanaka, Kirin Kiki.
Summary: Hirokazu Koreeda, well known for such film festival favorites as “Nobody Knows” and “After Life,” has struck gold (again) with his latest film “Still Walking“. Koreeda stated the idea for the film came about from his own personal experiences, specifically... |
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| Tokyo Sonata |
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Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Yu Koyanagi, Inowaki Kai, Haruka Igawa.
Summary: There’s only a handful of films that I have seen that compares to “Tokyo Sonata.” Sam Mendez’s “American Beauty” and Toshiaki Toyoda’s “Hanging Garden” quickly comes to mind as they are both wonderful films that also tackle dysfunctional families with aplomb... |
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