What are essential Japanese movies?

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>Kurosawa
One Wonderful Sunday
The Idiot
Ikiru
Seven Samurai
The Hidden Fortress
Yojimbo
Red Beard
Ran
Dreams
Madadayo
>Ozu
I Was Born, But...
The Only Son
Late Spring
Tokyo Story
An Autumn Afternoon
>anime
My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service
Only Yesterday
Whisper of the Heart
Princess Mononoke
My Neighbors the Yamadas
Spirited Away
Arrietty
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Millennium Actress
Tokyo Godfathers
Paprika
Angel's Egg
Ghost in the Shell
Wolf Children
Mind Game
Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Your Name
A Silent Voice
In This Corner of the World

Rashomon
Seven Samurai
Tokyo Story
Godzilla (1954)
Tampopo
Akira

The uncensored ones.

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Virgin Psychics

Our little sister
What if cats disappeared from this world
Detroit metal city
Nobunaga concerto
The miracles of namiya store
Can I eat your pancreas?
My tomorrow your yesterday

>Japanese movies
>posts a music video

A Colt is my Passport. Rest can be skipped.

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The entire postwar generation is a golden age.
Nips had technical talent but limited creative freedom during the 大日本帝國 and they applied that talent to much more liberalized film in the late 40's/50's.

Onibaba

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MIDE-201
MIDE-248

Crows Zero
Ping pong
Chihayafuru
Rurouni Kenshin
Hentai Kamen
Daytime Shooting Star
Tori Girl

Live action adaptations are the future of Japanese cinema

Dragon Ball Super: Broly

Sonatine

Girls und Panzer der Film

Anything by Takashi Miike

AVOP-403
BBAN-212
BBAN-218
HND-602

To name a few

RAN
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Still Walking is a lovely movie that I highly recommend.

Wood Job!
>comfy, feel good
youtube.com/watch?v=-ykkmueiMHs

Swing Girls
>comedy, feel good, comfy
youtube.com/watch?v=Pmo9pWr9Bxk

Linda Linda Linda
>slice of life
youtube.com/watch?v=nNEeKAJQ-qY

Departures
>comedy, drama
youtube.com/watch?v=RXTP_wRSHQw

Sonatine
>yakuza movie
youtube.com/watch?v=hFQTU8CFkm4

Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Harakiri

>anime
Spirited Away
Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade
The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
Ghost in the Shell
Millennium Actress

Battle Royale
Shin Godzilla
Fireworks (Hana-bi)
Zatoichi
Shoplifters

One cut of the dead

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tora tora tora was kind of shit

>Kikujiro
Is that the one where Takeshi Kitano helps a boy look for his parent?
Boy that was really sad.

Electric dragon 80000 volts

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anything recent?

Kuru

Shoplifters was last year

i love koreeda

Shoplifters just came out and it is literally kino

Shin Godzilla
Shoplifters
Your Name

Anything with Shinobu Terajima in it, like Oh Lucy! which I actually really loved.

madoka magica

>Oh Lucy!
forgot about that, but its only a semi-japanese movie considering most of it is in English and a lot of it takes place in LA

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I watched that and became sad, though the ending gives hope.

She gets hugged by Koji Yakusho.
That more than makes up for literally any of her troubles.

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The actors and actresses are pretty good. Josh Hartnett is a welcome surprise.

>but its only a semi-japanese movie

That's like saying Saidoweizu is only a semi-Japanese movie. Completely idiotic hair splitting.

Kino Exposure

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Symbol

>No Nausicaa
Feels bad man

How can you possibly forget Rashomon in this?
Or Sansho the Bailiff?

how bout one where a character doesn't die in the end due to illness?

>watch/read Japanese romance
>right after confession characters are separated, die, and/or forget about each other.
Why do they do this?

Most don't. That motif died in Japanese cinema with the advent of Muramasa's women-centric melodramas.

Try something like Tokyo Sonata

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You can't appreciate Japanese cinema until you watch gay tranny kino like Funeral Parade

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oh woops, that's the shitty trailer

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manbiki kazoku is pure nip kino. you'll never say japs can't act ever again.

The Japanese movie industry literally only started adopting storyboarding techniques since like fucking 2008

They've been making pretty decent movies since then with relatively good acting.
And nobody would ever doubt the acting chops of Kitano or Koji, it's just that there was an obvious overinflation of actors/actresses in Japanese movies because idol culture sort of spilled over into it and most idols/nip TV stars can't act worth a shit

The Human Condition(trilogy)
Seven Samurai

Did someone say Japanese?

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No horror fans, eh?

piss off
On a side note, I cringed hard at this part in the movie because deep down I knew explicitly it was featured because a lot of capeshit fans are also dually """""japanimation""""" weeb faggots that love seeing Japanese shit thrown into their comic book movies for no real reason

Japanese horror is both kino and garbage

Pulse and Audition are two good examples that are hit or miss.

Peak Japanese comedy-horror right here.

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>the part where the fat sumo and his underaged gf come and have sex in their room and he has a heart attack on top of her and dies and she suffocates to death under him and they have to bury them in their backyard.

Hadn’t legitimately laughed to a movie as I did for some parts of this in a long while.

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Sanjuro
Hidden fortress
Any anime movies made around 1980 to 1995

>anime

Entire post disregarded

There are plenty of anime films that are legitimate you know, with directors/writers that are actual film directors/writers.
Bot everything is the pedo seasonal harem garbage you see on Yea Forums

Now watch the original Korean version that's way more subtle and dark movie, instead of an over the top, laugh out loud comedy.

No because I liked it as a comedy.
And dark korean films are fucking dark as shit and make me wanna kms. Good Samaritan comes to mind.

It's still a dark comedy, dude, it's just not so absurdly over the top.

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射精大好きマサオ君と欲求不満お姉ちゃんのHなお留守番 沖田杏梨

JとL 超乳W真性中出し

巨乳女教師の誘惑 沖田杏梨

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Maybe I’ll give it a try. Just Korean dramas/horrors that are depressing/dark are probably the worst feeling movies in the world. Like watching a documentary about some poor bloke in a slav country, just makes you feel nothing but awful.

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this picture is why I made the thread, glad someone posted it.

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All movies from the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Are Japanese people the worst in the world at acting?

Maybe. There’s a few good ones, but a lot of them that are trash.

They're good at acting like japanese people. Which are emotionless like robots so any time they try to show they felt something it comes out super fake.

>No Echizen Bamboo Cutter

>literally taking the pictures from mubi

ahhahaha how pathetic, did the person who make this just copy and paste one of their curations?

This reminds me of a great quote by masamura

>I’m on the side of the direct, the unnatural, the selfish expression. Why – because the Japanese suppress their own desires too much, and they tend to lose sight of their own fundamental psychology. At times, intoxicated by the act of self-suppression, in the auspices of a sacrifice- psychology – they often kill their own desires. It is not the case that there was no democracy in pre-war Japan. At least the Meiji people enjoyed some freedom. But the Meiji government increased its oppression and
they began to abandon freedom. In the Taisho and Showa periods treasured desires such as freedom and love- even human life, were coolly – no joyously sacrificed to the Emperor. Therefore we Japanese have to forego self-abandonment and begin to learn from that which we advocate deeply. . . . For these reasons I find no interest or charm in emotions that are intoxicated with defeat and sacrifice

Geez where to start?
Seven Samurai
Totoro
Boku no Pico
Dragonball Z
Dragonball GT
Dragonball
Bible black
Really theres so much you just have to pick whatever you like and start from there. There's a whole other world out there bro, enjoy

Another quote branched off this:

>I hate emotion. Why – because emotion in Japanese films means
suppression of emotion, harmonizing emotions, giving up on emotions, suffering from unfulfilled emotions, the defeat of emotions, running away from emotions. Dynamic actions, confrontation, fight to the death, or joy in emotion, the victory of emotion, the pursuit of emotional fulfillment, are not associations Japanese make with emotion. [16]

Anyone who recommends Koreeda to someone deserves to be punched. Boring ass pretentious faggot with long ass movies about nothing. Nobody Knows is easily, and i say EASILY, the most pretentious boring slog i had to sit through in my entire life

Uzumaki is the only one I give a shit about

Same can be said for Mizoguchi
Last Chrysanthemum is garbage save for the final scene or two

>no Blind Beast

Lame-o

these are dead accurate assessments
the japs really dont have any souls

Your name

kagemusha
female prisoner scorpion series
blade of the immortal
letters from iwo jima

fuck that movie

Where's Persona 4: the animation?

Pure kino at 1:36

>blade of the immortal
that movie is complete garbo
its only redeeming quality is a cute girl protag groupie and the excessively gratuitous gore

GUINEA PIG series

>The Human Condition(trilogy)
Only seen the first one.
Are the others equally good?

t. coldsteel

Why did Japan only use cute girls now

>theres also a movie called I Want to Eat Your Pancreas and Lets Share Our Pancreas Together

what the hell is this another weird japanese fetish or something

sometimes the movie didn't make much sense and the reason for that is because a lot from the original material from the extensive manga didn't make it into the script
I had fun with what I got without knowing that it's an adaption

>no one mentioned Kamen rider generations

Serious answer: both UGETSU and SANSHO THE BAILIFF are amazing.

The End of Evangelion (series needs to be watched first)
Paprika
Perfect Blue
Ghost in the Shell

Artsy and obscure stuff:
Mind Game
Angel's Egg
Memories
Belladonna of Sadness

Lot of anime has better direction and stories than popular western works. Especially the psychological genre.

It's just that lot of anime is also absolute garbage made for kids and teens. Stay away from the cringe, find the art.

Ozu's failure as an artist is a reflection of the Japanese people as a collective lacking empathy and conception of the numinous. His films lack 'that spark of emotive connection' because his people lack the internal awareness and emotional volatility that permit European art to communicate on a more profound and abstract level, just as they lack the ability to relativise their experience of reality. The results – as women are incapable of making art about anything other than their vaginas, so too are the Japs incapable of making art about anything other than being Japs.

Yes

Fuck you, the first Tetsuo was great

are there any good jap action movies made in 2000s like capeshit or star wars?

No it's different translation of the same title

Yeah there is and you just quoted it

Kochikame-The Movie: Save The Kachidiki Bridge!

Inuyashiki
20th century boys

>Japanese people lack empathy
What are you basing this on other than a shitty meme

Since people already named most kinos, i will name the ones that i know left
Bullet ballet
a page of madness
i live in fear
love & Pop

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Also Fires on the Plain and Cat Soup

>Fires on the Plain
1950s one or the new one?

This right here. One of the best movies of all time, unironically.

shitty kimiuso clone

50s

This is a 18 and up website. No one watches power ranger past 16.

Cure
Hausu
A Page of Madness

based Godzillachads

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