Ranking Japanese Movies I've Seen
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- DirectorSion SonoStarsTakahiro NishijimaHikari MitsushimaSakura AndôA bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.Sion Sono's 4-Hour Masterpiece .. Instantaneous classic .. Action, comedy, romance, martial-arts, religious undertones, and the art of panty shots .. Sono outdid himself with this one
A story about the meaning of love - both perverse and religious
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The Boy (Master Sinner): raised Catholic . Mother tasked him to find his Virgin Maria . Father goes to the dark side after being dumped by hooker . Boy commits "sins" to get his father's attention and love . Becomes a Master at Upskirt Panty photography , the ultimate sin of "Obscenity" . Becomes the guru sensei for a group of ambitious men . Loses bet and becomes Lady Scorpion for the day only to find his Maria his love ,,
The Girl (Maria): Grows up hating men after being sexually-assaulted by father . Fights and confrontational on a regular basis . Falls in love with Lady Scorpion and believes she's a lesbian . Becomes the sister of Master Panty Shooter , whom she's groomed to hate by ,,
Zero Church Recruiter Girl (Original Sinner): Insane since birth and recruited by a cultist leader "for her worthiness as an original sinner" . She too had an abusive father who's penis she severed . She falls in love with Master Panty Shooter and decides to bring him and his family into Zero Church . She poses as Miss Scorpion , seduces Maria , and exposes Master Panty's photo business . She kidnaps his girl and his family and makes them new recruits for the Zero Church ..
To get the love of his life back, Master Panty Shooter goes undercover as a porno-cameraman and Zero Church recruit .. Only to one day set the bomb off in everybody's face
10/10 - DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsKoji YakushoNana KomatsuSatoshi TsumabukiAs former detective Akikazu searches for his missing daughter, Kanako, he soon learns she has a mysterious secret life.Chan Wook Park 'Revenge Trilogy' meets Quentin T 'Jackie Brown' - 'Grindhouse' Style
Fantastic follow-up to Tetsuya Nakashima's 'Confessions' ;; Bloody, stylish, beautiful, Insane .
Kanako lives in a world fulled with drugs, gangs, prostitution, and loneliness . She has the ability to allure anyone she pleases into a melodic trance of excitement and bliss , and she slowly destroys them within
Her father , ex-detective and fulltime drunk , is summoned to find his missing daughter whom he hasn't seen for 3 years . The father, with buried secrets of his own past, secretly wants to kill his daughter himself
Story about an angelic demon - whom everyone knows is evil, yet everyone still falls for her lustful trap
10/10 - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneYutaka SadaTatsuya NakadaiAn executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.A honest businessman is the center of a scandal after his housekeeper's child is kidnapped overnight ---- He pays the ransom and he hires detectives to track down the kidnappers
Highly intelligent movie - DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsTakako MatsuYoshino KimuraMasaki OkadaA psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.Incredible story shot black,white,and tinted greys
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A teacher's daughter is murdered and she already knows the culprits .. A movie about the aftermath and consequences of an unjust murder as the teacher (mother) decides to take the law into her own hands - fore it is her job "to make sure these students learn their lesson."
"Confessionals" show insight into the teller's mind , their view on the story (murdered child) .. Mom's, star pupil, the killers, and the killer's mom hold down the confession booth . They all have their own story to tell .
10/10 Revenge Movie - DirectorToshiya FujitaStarsMeiko KajiToshio KurosawaMasaaki DaimonA strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.The movie that inspired Kill Bill, Rurouni Kenshin, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, and Red Dead Redemption
Based off a manga; a child is born for the sole purpose of avenging her family's murder and humiliation by four bandits. Born to a mother serving a life sentence, she's cared by a strict priest honing her assassin skills, and she has all the tool needed to carry out her mission - the long bloody tale that drags police, a news reporter, brothels, and rivals , blood sprayiage everywhere for her mother's redemption - DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsTatsuya NakadaiMichiyo AratamaYûzô KayamaThrough his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.Bloody tale of a Ronin gone mad , entrusting all faith of humanity into an evil sword that he uses to chop down anybody standing in his way.
As he treks his path of merciless slayings he gathers allies, enemies, and vengeful spirits along the way: a pair of pilgrims and a compassionate thief, the fornicated wife from a slain husband and a brother seeking revenge, group of masterless samurai strongarming Shogunate officials, and the rival master swordsman whom only swings his sword for justice and honor - contradictory to the main character's beliefs.
Typical villainous movie . Simple plot filled with tension and evil deeds, excellent choreographed sword fights. Supreme body count for the era of Japanese Golden Cinema. Original in the killer samurai genre. - DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsToshirô MifuneYôko TsukasaGô KatôThe mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.Another superb collaboration between Kobayashi and Hashimoto (other being Harakiri) , attacking the samurai tradition, the contradictions behind the meaning of "honor", and hypocrisy of justice to high ranking feudal lords and stewards surrounding them.
After a fiery altercation, the feudal lord orders his mistress to become the wife of his leading swordman's son. Two years later, the lord selfishly wants her back, and the son and father are having none of it. They refuse, and the lord kidnaps her anyways. Now somebody has to pay .. - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMachiko KyôMasayuki MoriThe rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.An account of rape told to the High Court from three different perspectives: the raper, the woman, and her prince who failed to protect her
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMisa UeharaMinoru ChiakiLured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.Classic Action Adventure movie about a Master General guiding his exiled princess into safe lands: he's accompanied with two petty thieves who know the layout of the land
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira IshihamaShima IwashitaWhen a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.Anti-Samurai film
A man rises to a Samurai Dojo after the wrongful death to his son-in-law, during an era when the Shogunate were disbanding clans and creating impoverished ronins for rich merchants to feed off
A movie tackling all samurai traditions , the hearts of men leave everything on the surface a fascade - DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsKen KanekoMasanobu AndôLeo MorimotoDropping out of high school, two friends at first find success, one as a up-and-coming boxer and one as a low level gangster. Yet, their life decisions still find a way of catching up with them.Underlying message of the movie is to not let bad seeds, doubters, downers, and peer pressure hamper your progress to become great -- they are tests to see if you have what it takes to push forward
Kitano's comeback film after his suicide attempt
Follows two friends from high school who bullied kids . One fateful day they get jumped by a boxer and decide to adjust their lifestyles with the heart (some passionate some timid) of champions - DirectorKeishi OtomoStarsTakeru SatohEmi TakeiYû AoiA former assassin who has resolved to never kill again has his vow sorely tested.Beginning of Rurouni Kenshin Saga (early anime episodes), with a few glimpses and flashbacks into his past - The Manslayer (aka Trust and Betrayal) ,, his duty in the army
A one-eyed swordsman finds the lost blade of the Manslayer and commits crimes in his name . A business typhoon with a Gatling gun is terrorizing the small town - DirectorShun'ya ItôStarsMeiko KajiRie YokoyamaYayoi WatanabeAfter being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.Arthouse experimental movie with themes of sadistic prison tortures, eroticism, revenge on ex-lovers and inmates, and major boobage
Matsu (#701) is in jail for attempted murder after her cop boyfriend feeds her to the yakuza to get raped so he can bust them and get a promotion. While in jail, she receives abuse both from the prison guards and a five female inmate gang. She puts up with the abuse for one sole purpose - revenge.
Features: prison break intro, burning people with soup, baton vag abuse, backstory of her and inconsiderate cop boyfriend, hole digging punishment, shower knife fight, seducing lady cop, Yuki kills cop, prison riot, hostage holdup, trojan horse fire finale, Matsu escape and revenge spree - DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeshi KitanoKayoko KishimotoRen ÔsugiNishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.Highly Poetic Film .. Arthouse cinema
Story follows an ex-cop suffering from severe losses wanting to spend his remaining days with his dying wife - enjoying each other's company before her terminal illness claims her life .
Story flashes back to a botched investigation that leads to a shooting leaving one partner dead and the other permanently crippled . His crippled partner decides to spend his remaining days as a painter , and Kitano takes a family vacation with his wife with stolen bank money and travels the mountain-side
Very beautiful movie ,, 9/10 - DirectorSion SonoStarsMiki MizunoMakoto TogashiMegumi KagurazakaA grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo - a love hotel district - a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment. Kazuko (Miki Mizuno) is a police officer called to investigate on this case, she will discover the story of two women who, despite appearing respectable on the outside have all manner of darkness hidden away.Follows three call-girls and their intertwining lives inside the Castle Love Hotel
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A bored housewife decides to live life on the wild side .. She's introduced to the sex world through nude modeling , and after a scary encounter in the Love Hotel District she becomes attracted to a bold proud call-girl who takes her under her wing .
She teaches the housewife to cherish her body as a play-toy , and charge every man when there's sex involved not out of love .. The housewife's life slowly degenerates until she and call-girl pasts come colliding together ..
A police detective (who's also call-girl on side), investigates the murder of one of the women , as the case sheds some insight on the life she's living aswell
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NC-21 :: Highly adult , Highly perverse .. Do not watch around children or elders
8.5/10 - DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsTetsuya WatariChieko MatsubaraHideaki NitaniAfter his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.The cinematography that inspired Quentin Tarantino , Johnnie To , and Takeshi Kitano ... Violent, cool, jazzy, colorful, gangster, clubs, shootouts, guns with codes of honor
- DirectorShun'ya ItôStarsMeiko KajiFumio WatanabeYukie KagawaAfter spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.Prisoner Scorpion: Django Edition . The Western of the series; Scorpion breaks out of a prison van with six other girls and they're all on the run from newly promoted Inspector Goda. Their adventure takes them through wooded forests, cursed witches, stakeout cabins in mountains, rapists by the rapids, bus jacking, police shootout, second breakout, and Goda's demise
Less boobage, more humiliation, dumber cops, less violence, more anime, still sexy, still bloody, still art-house - DirectorSion SonoStarsJun KunimuraFumi NikaidôShin'ichi TsutsumiA renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.Action Comedy with stylistic blood sprayage everywhere
Movie follows two groups of people. The F-Bombers , guerilla film crew, and two Yakuza gangs battling for top position .. The F-Bombers want to film a gang war , and the yakuza clans want to make the perfect movie .. Holy matrimony
Fast forward ten years later and everybody gets their wish
Features a Bruce Lee look-alike , and a clueless Director who never wanted the position in the first place , a cute girl dancing in a pool of blood and yakuza memories still reliving the moment 10 years later
The actual "filming" takes place in final 30 minutes - DirectorKenji MisumiStarsTomisaburô WakayamaKayo MatsuoMinoru ÔkiTrailed by a clan of female ninja, Ogami is paid to assassinate a clan traitor accompanied by three killers known as the Gods of Death.Just for the beginning and the ending .. Masterclass Blood Spray .. Elegant, the blood sprays with the wind creating a mist on cam, the blood fusing in the sand
Supposedly one of Quentin T's favorite bloodspray movies
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Lone Wolf and Cub are living up the assassin life and Yagyu monks hunt him everywhere he goes. Yagyu hires Sayaka and her band of female assassin's to kill Ogami, currently employed in her town Akashi.
The Awa Domain hires Ogami to kill a traitor of their underground Indigo business. The traitor escaped to the next Domain over, awaiting the arrival of the Shogunate escorts, BenTenRai, to safely bring him to Edo.
Before Ogami faces the Three Brothers he must first take out Sayaka, her band of assassin's, and Kurokuwa-Yagyu monks. - DirectorKenji MisumiStarsTomisaburô WakayamaFumio WatanabeGô KatôThe story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures.Story broken into two parts: the Yagyû Shadow Clan plots to overthrow Ogami for his position of Lead Exectioner for the Shogunate. They claim a group of rogue samurai of a fallen lord are seeking revenge on Ogami's familiy and frame him as a traitor to the Shogunate. Ogami does battle with the Shogunate, and they allow him to leave Edo unharmed after he defeats Yagyû leading swordsman in a duel.
Second part begins two years later, Lone Wolf gets contracted to kill a Elder Lord and three bodyguards because the Elder Lord plots to kill their aging clan leader. Elder Lord hires a group of assassin's and bandits whom hole themselves up in a hot springs villa on standby for the ambush. Lone Wolf infiltrates the camp, awaiting the perfect opportunity to slaughter them all - DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsBunta SugawaraHiroki MatsukataKunie TanakaDuring the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.The "Japanese Godfather" Part 1
Follows Shozo and Tetsu and their group of 8 friends as they rise through the Doi and Yamamori clans , only to be used as pawns for Yamamori's double crossing schemes which eventually double cross them - DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsBunta SugawaraTsunehiko WataseYuriko HishimiSugawara is Kuroda, an itinerant gambler who steps in when a hit by drug-addicted assassin Kusunoki goes wrong, and takes the fall on behalf of the Owada family, but when the gang fails to make good on financial promises to him, Kuroda targets the family bosses with a ruthless vengeance."Yakuza Papers Pt. 7"
Follows the life of Kuroda: his 7-year sentence for murder, bonding loyalty with Boss Owada, his rivalry with Aihara, and his love for a mistress caught between two factions
He is a wanderer, an outsider to the Owada family, but a gangster none the less who will not tolerate disrespect. - DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsSeizô FukumotoNobuo KanekoJô ShishidoWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.Final installment of Yakuza Papers Saga
Takeda decides to drop yakuza customs and become a political party , but old habits die hard. All the older guys are getting replaced by new blood , and evven though the times have changed, the violence stays the same - DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeshi KitanoAya KokumaiTetsu WatanabeSeveral yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war then escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach.A yakuza and his clan are profiting in an affluent business turf . Their greedy boss sends them to Okinawa to end a gang war ... But when they arrive they learn there's no gang war to begin with .
The yakuza are suspicious of their boss because his last assignment led to several members being slain , and the patterns are repeating again during their new mission . They decide to lay low on the beach and enjoy some peace time in their everyday violent lives .
The beginning of Kitano "poetic art-house" movies - DirectorKeishi OtomoStarsTakeru SatohEmi TakeiTatsuya FujiwaraKenshin Himura goes up against pure evil Makoto Shishio who is attempting to overthrow the Meiji government. The fate of the country hangs in the balance as Kenshin Himura takes up the sword that he vowed to never draw again.