What's your favorite Japanese kino?
HARD MODE: No porn, anime, or Kurosawa
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What's your favorite Japanese kino? HARD MODE: No porn, anime, or Kurosawa
Kuroneko
>No porn, anime, or Kurosawa
uh
ichi the killer, then
Cold Fish
anything hamabe minami
>We will never be able to watch animated porn directed by Kurosawa.
Still sobbing they wouldn't let him direct an animated Godzilla porno.
Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi and Naruse
House/Hausu
Tetsuo the Iron Man
Tetsuo II Body Hammer
The Inugami Family (1976)
Zeiram
Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Kwaidan
Harakiri
Samurai Reincarnation/Makai Tensho
Legend of the Eight Samurai
You like Body Hammer that much!?
NTA but surprised as well, body hammer is the same shit but stripped from any soul
Frick your rules, its Throne of Blood. Barring anything fron Kurosawa its probably Harakiri though or maybe Tokyo Twilight.
love exposure
The Yakuza Papers saga. It's top classic Asian crime kino, everyone else is really downstream from Fukasaku
same here, good series
Narayama Bushiko, dir. Imamura Shôhei
there was this obscure movie i saw on netflix once called fish story, its about a song that saved the world from an astroid, im a sucker for that kind of thing
13 Assassins (Mike remake)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
Tetsuo Iron Man
Sword of Doom
Kairo
I Am a Hero
Noriko's Dinner Table
Cold Fish
>Ctrl-F
>Sword Of Doom
>There it is
Good job.
Haven't seen many in the hard mode but there was this mockumentary I saw riffing on ultraman with an overweight middle aged man in his underwear getting sized up to fight monsters
Actually does watching sumo wrestling count as a kino? the sumo is my favorite japanese kino if so
You know, I've never seen a movie about sumo. The only time I've ever seen it even featured was that part of Freakonomics.
I think there was a recent one about some upcoming star being a bit of a piece of shit or something
Sumo is kino
>Haven't seen many in the hard mode but there was this mockumentary I saw riffing on ultraman with an overweight middle aged man in his underwear getting sized up to fight monsters
Big Man Japan, written, directed and stars Hitoshi Matsumoto. It's actually a decent allegory of the WWII generation, the post-war generation, and then the generation that grew up during the 80's economic bubble.
He also does a reality show on Amazon Prime called 'Documental' that is absolutely fricking insane and is one of the funniest shows I've ever seen.
Now you mention amazon I realized I completely forgot peep time, although I never actually finished it I should do so, I have had that documental in my watch list too
Wild Zero
My Brother's Husband
lol looks like jav cover.
I knew there was something wrong
BARUTO, NO!
she's a big girl
its so great how this one shot perfectly communicates all their characters. anno sama i kneel
All three
Would
Surprisingly many good ones already posted ITT. I'd add:
After Life / Wonderful Life
Before We Vanish
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Onibaba
Ugetsu
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Ningen No Joken
Battle Royale
Anything by Mikio Naruse
Recommend me some 80's bubble-era comfy kino, focusing on slice-of-life or lite-romance films with cute girls in Tokyo.
>80's bubble-era comfy kino
The 1980s are the most notoriously weak decade in Japanese cinema. The best film from the 1980s is Ran, and then followed by Tetsuo and Violent Cop which might as well be 1990.
Everyone was too busy selling each other overinflated real estate to care about cinema, the money went to anime and softcore porn
>The 1980s are the most notoriously weak decade in Japanese cinema. The best film from the 1980s is Ran, and then followed by Tetsuo and Violent Cop which might as well be 1990.
I think this is over-stated, the 80's was undeniably weak for international distribution for Japanese films, and Japanese distributors were only interested in releasing films internationally that had festival or award clout (like Kurosawa's 80's films), but there's a ton of direct-to-video cult and horror films that still have never gotten official releases in the West, as well as a lot of films made for a general audience in the domestic Japanese market (the horror cult-classic Sweet Home never got an international release, despite having production values and special effects on-par with 80's Hollywood productions). As popular as Obayashi's House is now, none of his lite romantic comedy or slice-of-life drama films from the 80's or 90's have been released outside of Japan officially.
You have a good point but I have a set of four 80s Obayashi films that came to the UK a year or so ago. It includes:
School in the Crosshairs
The Girl who Leapt Through Time
The Island Closest To Heaven
His Motorbike, Her Island
Some, or maybe all of these films are included in Amazon Prime Video at the moment.
>a ton of direct-to-video cult and horror films
No offense, but nobody cares about that geek shit.
Tampopo?
These might not be exactly what you are looking for, but they are comfy and 80s:
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
School in the Crossfire
The Girl who Leaped Through Time
For Kayako
His Motorbike, Her Island
Miss Lonely
Muddy River
Tampopo
Tree Without Leaves
Typhoon Club
Okaruto or some shit like that
Seven Samurai: the anime (xxx porn parody)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa (uncredited)
Late Spring
Kwaidan
Noroi
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Fish story.
Sonatine.
Hausu.
Zatoichi movies.
This movie has become one of my favorites.
Dairobu Mai Kaa is also my favorite
I also drive a Saab so this movie spoke to me on another level.
Tokyo Drift
I drove a turbo Saab last week. Worst driving experience of my life.
47 ronin
>No porn, anime, or Kurosawa
Should have added Kitano to your list as well.
Anyway the two that come to mind for me are Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, not Akira) and Blue Spring
Came here to post Blue Spring. Pure kino.
Also
>hard mode
>no Kurosawa
If you rate Kurosawa as the best japanese director and/or one of his movies as the best then you are a pleb. Simple as.
>look at me and my special snowflake opinion i am so smart tehehe
Not at all, but thank you for being triggered.
>He's not the best because he's the most popular
Ask a normie movie watcher about "Kurosawa" and they'll ask what the hell you just said. I don't think he's the best but High and Low is a top shelf film.
What a load of nothing your post ended up being.
This is a good movie and not a love story
80s japanese films were kino
Anything by junzo itami especially tampopo
Anything with ken ogata too especially the catch
Anything by kaneto shindo like the naked island
Anything by Shohei Imamura like ballad of narayama, vengeance will be mine,
Some films with koji yakusho especially the ones made in the 90s
There is so much more to japanese film than just kurosawa, you are missing out by just watching him.
koji yakusho is the most kino living japanese actor and i won't hear any other opinions.
Nakadai is still alive so no.
Ok so not only is he still alive he is also still active. I thought he was dead.
Ok fine. Second most kino then.
Late Spring
Harakiri
Hana-bi
Battle Royale
This could only be a more generic post if you included Ugetsu
Its generic because they are essentials
Nobody Knows
nonce
suitcase :'(
Battle Royale for me. First viewing blew my mind
Cure
Harakiri
Tetsuo the Iron Man lives rent free in my head, then either miike or kitano's works
>Takashi Shimura
How can one actor be one of the greatest actors to ever live in, some of the greatest films ever made (Ikiru, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Godzilla) and still be underrated?
Eros + Massacre
Fires on the Plain
Gate of Hell
Hana-bi
Harakiri
In the Realm of the Senses
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Onibaba
Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
Tokyo Story
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
The World of Kanako
Linda Linda Linda
why is arnold randomly there?
he did a lot of japanese commercials
The Japanese are unhinged. I love it
I watched one recently about a husband and wife who move to the sticks and open up a bakery/cafe. Was comfykino
what was it called?
Bread of Happiness
>winner of the kino awards for biggest kino of the year
ok, shill.
>has no kinos to post
Ok, israelite.
I mean it obviously catered to western cliches but I really liked it
im curious what japanese people think of this movie? I could imagine most ppl hate the franchize?
Happiness of the Katakuris
August in the Water
Angel Dust
Tokyo Fist
The Woman in the Dunes
The Face of Another
Branded to Kill
Tokyo Drifter
The Colt is My Passport
Female Prisoner Scorpion
tokyo decadence
Abarenbou Shogun (暴れん坊将軍)
Shogun Iemitsu Shinobi Tabi (将軍家光忍び旅)
Mito Komon (水戸黄門)
Toyama no Kin-san (遠山の金さん)
Oouka Echizen (大岡越前)
Momotarou Zamurai (桃太郎侍)
Happyaku Yachou Yume Nikki (八百八町夢日記)
Zenigata Heiji Torimono Hikae (銭形平次捕物控)
Onihei Hankachou (鬼平犯科帳)
Zatoichi (座頭市)
Hissatsu series (必殺シリーズ)
Kogarashi Monjirou (木枯し紋次郎)
Nemuri Kyoshiro (眠狂四郎)
Lone Wolf and Cub (子連れ狼)
Yaburegasa Toushou akunin-gari (破れ傘刀舟悪人狩り)
Sanbiki ga Kill! (三匹が斬る!)
Yagyuu Jubei Abaretabi (柳生十兵衛あばれ旅)
Tonderu! Hiraga Gennai (翔んでる!平賀源内)
Edo o kiru Azusa Ukon Onmitsu-chou (江戸を斬る 梓右近隠密帳)
Ooedo Sousamou (大江戸捜査網)
Choshichiro Edo Nikki (長七郎江戸日記)
Yabure Bugyou (破れ奉行)
Kage no Gundan (影の軍団)
Kouya no Surounin (荒野の素浪人)
Edo no Kaze (江戸の旋風)
Isshin Tasuke (一心太助)
Umontori Monochou (右門捕物帖)
Kumogiri Nizaemon (雲霧仁左衛門)
Tange Sazen (丹下左膳)
Denshichitori Monochou (伝七捕物帳)
Hatamoto Taikutsu Otoko (旗本退屈男)
Autoreiji or Kitano’s Zatoichi
>Kitano's Zatoichi
good movie but would be better without the cheaply done CGI blood
looks kino gonna check it out tonight.
Enjoy. It's crazy good.
The Crazy Family
I'm not a weeb but this film was the only Japanese piece of media that made me wish I had grown up in that country. This and "Miss Lonely". "BU-SU" was also great
This and also Swing Girls
Swing Girls was mogged hard by Waterboys, which was the same movie with more soul.
vagabond
the manga
The Yakuza (1974)
Ichi the killer
A lot of films by Hideaki Anno, Sion Sono, Toshiaki Toyoda and Takeshi Miike are good/great. I'll vouch for a few that come to mind.
His Motorbike, Her Island
Pale Flower
The Human Condition trilogy
Kids Return
The Twilight Samurai
Departures
Go
Himizu
Cold Fish
Battle Royale (the book is better though)
>The Human Condition trilogy
i haven't watched this because I assume it's 9 hours of depression. Is this true?
Howl's Moving Castle. It almost singlehandedly makes up for how dogshit berserk is, and that makes it the greatest piece of art ever created. Too bad it couldn't wipe out all the mixed race 80iq cuckold fans too.
Also, Howl's Moving Castle isn't anime. Anime is subhuman dogshit that serves no purpose other than to help loser cuckolds retcon their lives with headcanon about how they're "LE STRUGGLERRRR" so they don't have to face the truth that they're just cuckolds. Every anime fan is essentially eren yeager irl.
Outrage series
Shinjuku Triad Society
Tetsuo & Tetsuo II
A Snake of June
Samurai Reincarnation
for starters
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Golgo 13, the one with Sonny Chiba, does it count?
Does
>Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
count?
It's a biopic of one of japan's most famous authors and it's fricking great. Go watch it.
Versus
Deadball is moron-kino
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
Better than the 1978 version.
kids return
this is one of my favourite endings in cinema. i watched it when i was a NEET in my late twenties and it really made me want to get off my ass. i'm not really where i want to be yet but i'm pretty much a normie now and still trying to improve.
Tampopo was fun.
Harakiri
And if novels are allowed then monogatari series
>b-but anime
Don't care.
I too like boobies
any movie where Minami Hamabe, Hashimoto Kanna or Nana Komatsu are not in it
can anyone recommend modern japanese kino?
i dont want a history lesson or a colorblind simulator
but I also dont want modern japanese cyber cringe
one-cut of the dead
how modern? Came out in the last 5 years? 10? 20? 30?
>Anno
A hack
>Sono
A hack
>Miike
A hack
>Toyada
Yeah ok i'll give you that one.
Does anyone here know the name of the film with the feudal lords looking for a woman to buy in the market? I recall they say things like "too tall, too old, nose too ugly".
Meh, Korean movies are objectively better.
Most Japanese movies have a weird cultural vibe that doesn't sync with me.
gannibal
Survive Style 5+
Blue Spring
Tokyo Drifter
Tokyo Sonata
Ichi The Killer
Branded to Kill
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Cure
Violent Cop
The face of another. It is very true about the mindset of a society going from traditionalism to "modernity" - both with their pros/cons.
Runner ups: Scattered clouds, Kagemusha, Perfect Blue.
>Kinoshita
>shits out kino
BRAVO NOLAN
City of Lost Souls
Marebito
Ichi The Killer
The Happiness of the Katakuris
lone wolf and cub
the face of another
the best new wave film set in an urban city. existentialist in a way but no shitty pretentiousnessfor the most parts unlike pedantic new wave/postmodern(-ish) shit like fassbinders the third generation, godars week-end
woman in the dunes
harakiri
the og godzilla
fires on the plain (1959)
kagemusha
etc
Wood Job
Nobody knows
I watched High and Low. Boring as frick.
go get a brain scan, something's wrong with yours.
weeb
i don't care much for samurais honestly
Ok well then definitely Kurosawa
Tampopo
The Funeral
A Supermarket Woman (so sue me)
Empire of Passion
The Human Condition Trilogy
Harakiri
Kwaidan
The Makioka Sisters
Fires on the Plain
The Burmese Harp
Gate of Hell
Ugetsu
The Ballad of Narayama (1958 - I still need to see the Imamura 1983 version)
The Eel
The Woman of the Dunes
>The Eel
only good thing that disgusting commie frick ever did, maybe vengeance too.
Fires on the Plain (1959)
Natsko No Sake.
I recommend it.
It showed the potential of Japanese live action.
they had a lot of good ones up through the 90s, tons for many decades before that
i have no clue what happened but i think the easiest answer is the influence of anime
>is kino in your path
Easy Mode: Spirited Away
Hard Mode: Samurai Spy
Pigs and Battleships
my favourite is that one porn anime by Kurosawa
Love Exposure