What are the most kino Japanese films? Particularly interested in yakuza movies, but I'll take any suggestions

this isn't kids return

Yojimbo

youtube.com/watch?v=vCg6zJC-Ubo

They're great but they're not Japanese. Incidentally a few years back there were reports that Johnnie To was set to make a 3rd Election film. I wonder what happened.

anything takashi miike

>yakuza movies
Ichi the Killer obviously.

Youth of the Beast is the best conventional yakuza-kino. Branded to Kill is the final boss of yakuza kino that you watch after all others.

Sion Sono Movie

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Is that fucking Hamada?

Yeah.

Zatoichi.

Gozu
Hausu
Woman in the Dunes
Grass Labyrinth
Kwaidan
Onibaba
Angel's Egg
Ran
Anything by Ozu

Dersu Uzala

What’s the movie with “boy” in the title

Every Kinji Fukasaku yakuza movie, especially

Shin Gojira
Kagemusha
Throne of Blood
Ran
The Human Condition
EoE

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Is that a porn?

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

Also has Beat Takeshi

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the yakuza theme is so overdone, you have to be a npc to be into that shit

>anything

I don't know about that. He's made some absolute kino but he also made a lot of trash in his younger days. entertaining trash but still.

I love the Black Society trilogy though they do vary in tone a bit.

Speaking of his earlier films, do you know where I can download Young Thugs: Innocent Blood or his version of Bodyguard Kiba? I've looked everywhere..

Oh nvm I remember it was Oldboy
Is it worth a watch?

>but I'll take any suggestions
my favorite Japanese move is Rashomon

Not Japanese. It's a fun flick though

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harakiri

I was born, but...

>Gozu
>Hausu
>Onibaba
>Angel's Eg
>Ran
>Kwaidan

Absolutely patrician taste.

I must watch the other two you listed which I haven't seen.

I haven't watched that much Japanese films, but the directors I recommend:
Akira Kurosawa
Yasujiro Ozu
Masaki Kobayashi
Takeshi Kitano
Hirokazu Koreeda

no. I'd like to watch a lot of stuff too and it's not even on a site I can't mention which usually has everything

The most kino Japanese film ever was made by an American

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this, but depressing af

This and Sonatine. Both based.

BASED ANRI
Yuki from Yakuza 0 is still best girl though

A Tokyo story is my favorite Japanese film

I did some digging and came up with

Sonatine
Hana-bi
Outrage / Autoreiji
Sympathy for the underdog
but then again these are all listen in any top 10-20-50 lists, most anons gave good recommendations already

shoplifters, it won the palme d'or

hardly watchable desu

Yes.

The girl on the left is jealous.

The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

one of the best movies I've ever seen

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Nothing
they are all dry garbage and anyone saying otherwise is a psuedo pleb
they are all fucking shit

>MY PARENTS DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO ME SOMEONE GIVE (You)s PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I'M SO LONELY

oldboy
the host
lost in translation
rush hour 2

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Nice retort, they are all trash movies with trash soulless bugmen acting.
Go watch some anime and game of thrones now too you pleb shitter

who hurt you sweatie?

>he lets his political views influence his viewing choice
>he calls others plebs

>political views
What the fuck are you even talking about you idiotic sack of shit. I'm not talking about politics
im talking about japanese people have no emotion on screen and with their directing. Their movies are all shit, even the praised ones.

You've been politically influenced to disregard japanese cinema completely, this makes you not in control of your own views, this makes you a plebeian

Here you go OP

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Source?

>You've been politically influenced to disregard japanese cinema completely
No I haven't, this has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with me watching japanese movies, all kinds and finding them all unengaging shit.

Suspect X

gorigori-ra hehe

Ah so there was no politics behind "trash soulless bugmen"

Shin Gojira was ok but I didn't liked the monster design and the truck shit at the end.

Try Drunken Angel by Akira Kurosawa

Watch The Profound Desire from the Gods. It's from the same director. Nobody make movies like that anymore.

youtube.com/watch?v=Zu0DZztRuKM

This

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kids return is good. but your webm confused me

Mishima a life in 4 chapters

*laughs in ronin*

Name your favorite films, faggot

*embodies the spirit of a samurai*

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for me, it's ABNOMAL-014

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Harakiri (1962 one) is great. People talk about Yojimbo, Ran, Rashambo and 7 Samarui for Akira Kurosawa, which are all great films, but I'm partial to Ikiru.

cool, will check it out. I haven't had the time to see it yet. I have it in the box set for Shohei Imamura released by Eureka. It's out of print now but I found it on ebay.

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Love Exposure.

Based in a true story

Samurai Fiction

is there anyone else making movies in japan besides kitano?

I went into this knowing nothing about it and I was blown away. Everything about it was very sensual and the imagery was very evocative, really a surprisingly great movie.

Is there anything new that came out in recent years?

The female prisoner scorpion trilogy (the 4th one is mediocre)

Seems like they're caught up in their own capeshit era, pumping out anime/manga adaptions left and right, so a lot of that.
I really liked Liverleaf though, but I also love weirdo shit, bleak misery porn and kids brutally murdering eachother so.

Others seem to really like Shoplifters.

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not a yakuza movie but watch Kurosawa's Kagemusha and Ran

it's eye candy, ever shot is beautiful.

it's on PTP ofc

I like his violent action stuff like Fudoh. Tried to watch Gozu but I was lost in that, couldn't figure it out
Not a fan anything post Zebraman and I think his best movie is The Happiness of the Katakuris and Audition

Ichi the Killer is normie shit everyone knows

Sion Sono movies, like Coldfish

too bad it's mostly famous for that one scene and people who hear about it think it's some trash movie

Probably my favorite Japanese film.

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well hot damn buddy I better get a name

Unironically The End of Evangelion

S O N A T I N E

OP watch everything Kurosawa. It's very accessible to westerners and the guy was really a genious. I mean, just watch Seven Samurai, entry level shit and you'll be amazed how modern it looks and feels and it's a perfect movie, 30min of action, 30min of drama, romance, philosophy... masterpiece

Harakiri (1962)
and Kwaidan (1965)

Kill Ugly TV

It;s about a female incel who who suffers from social anxiety and never leaves her apartment. The entire film takes places in her apartment.

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>CTRL+F "Mizoguchi"
>0/0
Serfs, all of you.

>scenes in flicks that made you leave the cinema
youtube.com/watch?v=op0b7AyaQn0

of his Yakuza films, the lesser known Yakuza Demon is my favorite.

I only watched Kill Bill, what are some other Meiko Kaji movies I should watch

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Where do you watch this, i’ve been looking but can only find the actual dvds for sale

The pussy worshiping?

Lady Snowblood

is Kwaidan aviable on blu ray anywhere?

dog pussy worshiping

ffs it even happens of screen. Shame people wont see a good movie just because of that.

>Kwaidan
What did you like about it? I like all of Kobayashi's other movies, but I didn't care for this one.

>OMG some guy fucks a dog, don't watch it! 1/4

literally every review on the net

Animas Trujano

Hopefully there's some patricians on Yea Forums who've seen this kino

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Kitano's best imho

so they are ok with the dead baby in the field?

he hasn't made a good movie in years

spooky

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Is this worth a shot? Is it more revenge or more bullying? I prefer the former.

I especially like those, three in its genre.

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what are you on about, this is 100% pure unadultered KI(ta)NO

Harakiri is the best Japanese kino ever made. Ran is a close second.

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Good one, but it’s not yakuza flick. Japanese industry had been making whole series of gangsta flick just like western genre. Some of them are manly but brainless. I say it’s kinda hard to find ones that go with good story, tho.

I don't give a fuck if it's a yakuza movie, bitch.

I liked it a lot, and it's more revenge I guess, but the bullying is brutal and continuous. It's a comic kind of evil like stomping some kid's puppy to death then forcing them to lick the dog guts and shit off your shoes because their worthless trash dog got them dirty. That's not in the movie but it's that kind of tone that could only come from edgelord manga.
like a lot of violent jap movies it's a very fine line between "too over the top to be effective" and actually fucked up.

Watch your language, cunt.

This always sounds really lame and vague, but it's the atmosphere. I get a similar vibe from silent films like Caligari and Der Golem, where all the sets are so fake and the performances so stylised they're sort of off-real. It's like when you're dreaming but you know you're dreaming. IDK if that makes sense.

Alright, I'll give it another watch.

liverleaf is adapted from a manga though. At least thats what i read, i havent watched the movie yet. I think their entire media, including manga, tv, anime, film, shifted as a whole since they are not interested in making movies to sell toys anymore. If thats the case i think we will see more original works from the japanese film makers and a resurgence of experimentation just like in the 90's.

yakuza shit is boring

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nice

This movie was really bleak in how it did the bullying and revenge scenes. I was surprised how effective it was in making me feel but I must admit just about everyone in this movie is fucking weird.

Japs can't act for shit, whether it's movie or j-drama, looks unnatural.

That's your fault for watching bad films

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It's meta commentary on how they hate communicating their emotions through anything other than killing.

agree with this

Outrage trilogy is kino

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The Japanese movie industry has depend heavely on adaptations since the early 70s when people stopped going to movie theaters for TV. That's why Nagisa Oshima called Kon Ichikawa an ilustrator rather than a director, he was very active during the 70s and part of the 80s for working in adaptations from books and even mangas (pic related it's his very underrated Phoenix adaptation). It's just that people have internet nowadays and they can find out that the movies have original sources

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Considering Your Name became so popular in the west, you guys should check out Nobuhiko Obayashi's Tenkousei. Similar premise but a darker and vulgar

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>I will never fuck and impregnate Anri
give me one good reason not to kill myself

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avop-072

Just finished Ikiru

death is so lonely bros

youtube.com/watch?v=pwuqaVHxA7M

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Blind Woman's Curse. See Meiko Kaji as a tatted yakuza boss.

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Violent Cop
Sonatine
Boiling Point
Gonin
Hana-bi
Cops vs thugs
Doberman cop
Black society trilogy
Kids return
Kikujiro
9 souls
Pornostar/Tokyo rampage
Blue spring
Crows 1 and 2
just some jap kino

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Can someone suggest FIVE really great Japanese films, preferably not all black and white (i am not against black and white but I would prefer a mixture), they dont all have to be feudal japan or yakuza. Would really like one that really expresses and immerses you in Jap life and culture so even a good drama

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all about lily chou chou
eureka
hana bi, kikujiro
still walking, after life, maborosi (most kore-eda really)

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Watch all 3 Outrage movies.

love exposure
hana bi
mishima life in four chapters
hiroshi inagaki's samurai trilogy

all are in colour and certified kino

Robotech
Musashi Gundoh
Bible Black
Boku no Pico
Shonen Maid Kuro-kun

Just watch all the Kore-eda films.
Shoplifters
Air Doll
Nobody Knows
After the Storm
Still Walking

You could watch Dead Or Alive by takashii like but it's pretty fucking stupid

shit thread

Lastly OP you might enjoy, The Life of Kanako. Why Dont You Go Play In Hell has some good parts.

This is really great and underrated. The audience at the Venice festival 2004 were confused and even uncomfortable because they were expecting a cool samurai flick from the first collaboration of Takashi Miike and Takeshi Kitano, not a reflection about Japan being unable to escape from the cycle of violence

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It's The World of Kanako.

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Not a Yakuza film but look up one called Tompopo. It's been on my rewatch list sinces college, but from my own observations it doesn't seem to have had a lot of attention in America, so it might be hard to find.

>its the last scene

IN-DEED

Post more Takeshi webms

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カメラを止めるな

Did you mean Tampopo? If so it's easy to find as its pretty well known. Almost positive Criterion did a 4k of it.

When did Criterion grab it? It has been a while since I looked so, but every time I have I've never been able to find anyone(other than people actually from Japan) who had heard of it or a copy to watch on my own.

I can believe that. Japanese films can be a niche category in the states. I watched a friend's copy a few years ago. Can't remember if it was Criterion or not.

This is a good image.

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I read that doujin. I'm glad it was adapted into a porn movie.

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does live action Jojo count?

saved

Shall we dance
Millennium actress
Departures
A taxing woman
Shanghai rhapsody
Twilight samurai

Oh that's right. Thanks user-san

Hanzo the razor. All 3 movies are good.

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>Woman in the Dunes
Is it as good as the novel?

No

>no Teinosuke Kinugasa
>no Nobuhiko Obayashi
>no Shinya Tsukamoto
>no In The Realm Of The Senses under Oshima

Still, not bad.

What is it?

Absolutely patrician. In addition to "Woman in the Dunes", I would also add "Face of Another". It's by the same director and while it's not quite as good as Woman imo it's still kino.

Yes

I hope so. I plan on watching it tomorrow.