OVERLOOKED, UNDERAPPRECIATED JAPANESE FILMS
If
you're looking for substance over style, attention to detail,
casting that isn't beholding to marketing, films that shed light
on the human condition; and if you can live without special effects
and gratuitous violence for a couple of hours, the films listed
below (from past and present) promise to satisfy.
HARAKIRI
(Masaki Kobayashi)
LOVE AND HONOUR (Yôji Yamada)
DEPARTURES (Yôjirô Takita)
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (Hirokazu Koreeda)
TOKYO SONATA (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
NOBYD KNOWS (Hirokazu Koreeda)
WOMEN IN THE DUNES (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
RASHOMON
(Akira Kurosawa)
SHOPLIFTERS (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
THE MOURNING FOREST (Naomi Kawase)
HENEZU
(Naomi Kawase)
WILD BERRIES (Miwa Nishikawa)
SONATINE (Takeshi Kitano)
FIRE FESTIVAL (Mitsuo Yanagimachi)
TOKYO
DRIFTER (Seijun Suzuki)
INFERNO OF FIRST LOVE (Susumu Hani)
EUREKA (Shinji Aoyama)
THE BURIED FOREST (Kôhei
Oguri)
THE MAKIOKA SISTERS (Kon Ichikawa)
HARMONIUM
(Kôji Fukada)
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