Well I dont know how many of you watch movies like I do but I'm just wondering if anyone has favorite Japanese movies they have seen?

Recently I've been watching a lot of Japanese movies instead of the usual recycled hollywood junk. So I'm looking for any suggestions of good movies that I may have missed, I'll list some that i've enjoyed and recommend. Keep in mind some of these are violent and are rated R.

Ringu (The Ring)
Jian Gui (The Eye)
Batoru rowaiaru (Battle Royal)
Oodishon (Audition)
Akira
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

Just saw the movie The Returner tonight but I wasnt all that impressed by it. Just cant think of the name but I have a few more I wanted to add anyways please share your favorite.

Since my family are huge movie buffs i've seen these 2:

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Ringu (The Ring)

I absolutely loved Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and had to see the first movie in the series. I did like it, but not as much as the second one. Just a warning...if you're going to watch Vampire Hunter D (the first movie) please escort your children from the room. Not appropriate for small eyes. I also watched The Ring (both in English and Japanese) and i liked it though i saw some things that weren't very well planned out. If you like the anime Japanese things go check out Blood: The Last Vampire. It's similar to bloodlust and many of the other vampire/anime movies.

I also agree with:
Ringu
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If u want real good japanese movies but that are somewhat old take any movie from the director Kurosawa. He is really great at interpretations of life, truth and many other subjects

I watched Shall we Dansu... it was a real good movie... in some movie festival..

If you count Anime movies, then I've seen both Inuyasha movies and Gundam Wing, Endless Waltz.

lol i agree with gt inuyasha owns all.. tri gun is cool to i also like princess sumthing reather i cant spell lol.. and anything with jackie chan and bruce lee corny or not the fight scenes rock

cept jackie chan and bruce lee arent japanese

Bruce Lee is from Cantonese origin and was born in San Francisco in Chinatown where his dad was performing.

Jackie Chan was born in hong kong.

lol OH YAH i forgot lol anways so yah umm*changes subject* i like this anime called naruto

Akira is awsome I have it on DVD. Now for THE best Japanese movies Godzila no contest !!!! I mean hell he has nuke breath and kicks giant boulders !!!! lol good fun

u mean the original Godzilla movie in black and white where the creature looks like a big muppet? lol

lol any of them well except the americanized one where he looks like an iguana and well that movie just blows on so many levels.... LOL

aww i think gigantic iguanas rock lol j/p you might kill me for this but i never seen any of them

its okay. Godzilla was never my favorite. uhm...I cant think of a lot more other japanese films. Ive mostly seen american versions of japanese themes. INteresting.

hehe 1954 Gojira (Godzilla) is awesome i agree its probably the best of all the ones i've seen... for its time its amazing. The latest one for Hollywood was so bad i was laughing during the entire movie hehe... another funny thing happened when i went to see that movie hehehe ahhh ok i'll tell you guys quickly. I went to get popcorn, I was with about 10 friends and when i got back i sat in my seat next to what i thought was my friend and punched him in the shoulder. By this time the light where already dimmed down hehe so he sort of looked over and ignored me then i started talking and calling him names because he was acting weird it took almost 4 min of this before i realized all my friends where just 2 rows in front of me. The guy thought i was obviously psychotic hehehe i just got up and moved then told my friend and of course all of us are laughing at me and pissing everyone off.

but wasnt godzilla cheesy?? and has lame visual effects? i personally wont watch old movies cuz most of them had bad actors and no visual intesity wich i look for in a movie.. lol and also it doesnt have hot guys hehe

For 1954 it did amazing things and none of the visual where considered (Lame) in the 50's of course now its all different but they managed to make a classic with the first Jap Godzilla. Hot guys well i cant help you there but i hope you dont look for that in movies hehe...

erotic ghost story

a movie should be based upon its plot, acting and shooting, how the frames were placed, etc...not how hot an actor is. Im afraid thats a big missconception.

Not all old movies were good but a lot of black and white films are actually pretty good and people dont take a look at them simply BECAUSE they are in black and white.

Oh as for the Kurosawa movie, the one on the relative truth is called Rashomon. Definately great to go see.