I love jap films so i know ill love this.I just saw it in my local blockbuster and i intend on renting soon.Can anyone tell me any other great jap horror flicks i need to see.Here are a few movies ive seen that u gotta see
story of riki-oh
ju-on:the grudge
wild zero
little match stick girl
gozu
ichi the killer
versus
battle royale 1 & 2
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Uzumaki and the Tomie films. Uzumaki is much better in my opinion than the Tomie films but it is something to check out if you are looking for japanese horror.
shareyeah i just downloaded uzumaki so ill check that out soon.check out battleground baseball its a great jap flick it's more comedy horror then straight horror but still good
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alright i will check it out when i get a chance. thanks for the info
st. john's wort would be one i'd recommend, and its nice to see a battle royale enthusiest :) the first one is just awesome, i have yet to see the sequel.
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I also like,
From Japan:
Cure
Audition
Onibaba
Kakashi
Dark Water
From Asia, Korea and what not
A Tale of two sisters
Tell Me Something
Hmm..others..can't name them all.
"Hey, nice marmot."
Atleast there's one person here with some sense, thanks kaamea
shareI don't think he was intending to be racist by saying "Jap". Perhaps over there, they say "Those Amer.!" or something. Perhaps he couldn't spell "Japanese". Too many syllables.
Anyway, I don't have anything to add except that Battle Royale 2 was AWFUL. One of the worst films EVER. The first one is great though.
I too loved the original, and have heard that the second one is horrendous. i nearly bought a copy for 5 pound today from a memorabilia show but couldn't bring myself to do it, and sully the greatness that is battle royale. The original director Fukasaku died shortly after filming began, which explains greatly why the sequel is widely considered to be *beep*
i thought wild zero was horrible, i was so hyped to see that movie, and it really, really let me down.
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so, did you like this great 'jap' movie?
i couldn't even finish it. HORRIBLE MOVIE.
dear craigisgod4, *beep* OFF.
I've seen the original Tomie and Tomie: Replay, and I hated them both. They're shoddily made, non-sensical, not scary and basically just feel like a TV-movie of the week. One film that no one here has mentioned though, that I LOVE, is Suicide Club. Fantastic movie. Also, The Eye is pretty good (that one is Chinese).
shareI kept falling asleep every time i tried to watch this movie! I mean, dont get me wrong, it IS interesting, but its so DAMN BORING!
It's all wrapped up in a big bag like disco fudge! It just doesn't get much better than that.-Tyres
These are not all Japanese films, but here is a decent list of good overall Asian films I have seen. Some are horror, some are not.....
Suicide Club (Circle)*
Visitor Q
Audition
Whispering Corridors
Memento Mori *
Wishing Stairs
Oldboy *
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance *
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance *
A Tale Of Two Sisters
The Eye *
The Eye 2
Koma
Phone *
The Locker
The Locker 2
Ringu
Ju-On
Another Heaven
Joint Security Area
Men Behind The Sun *
Battle Royale *
2LDK *
All About Lily Chou Chou
Bangkok Haunted
Face
Uzumaki
Audition
Nang Nak
Gozu
Ichi The Killer *
Fudoh
Versus
Omen
I could go on and on, but this is a good list to get you started. I love foreign movies (I am an American) and I especially love Asian horror. All of these films I have listed are Asian, but not all are horror, as I stated before. Any film that I put a star beside is what I consider a "must see" film.
If you want to, send me a p.m. and kind of give me an idea of the styles of movies you are interested in; horror, drama, comedy, action, love story, etc, and I can probably give you a more detailed list of foreign movies you might be interested in checking out.
Take it easy friend!!!
You also got the lanes going straight to Hell-L.I.E.
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Try to find this movie called Death Note...it's pretty clever and stars the lead of Battle Royale.
*Common sense is not so common
Note that Suicide Club's director Sion Sono has a nominal sequel Noriko's Dinner Table with a fascinating concept I won't spoil here, already at Amazon but not Netflix or Greencine. Part three, unmade yet, may be a prequel. His Strange Circus, while not horror, may also please. I haven't seen his horror parody Ekusute (Hair Extensions), but can hardly wait.
Another subway terror film missing yet in this thread is Sogo Ishii's Angel Dust. From there, for some real terror and possible inspiration to some J-terror creators, you might seek out and read Haruku Murakami's interviews with Aum members and victims, Underground. Angel Dust came out before the incident, but Ishii in person confessesses embarassment for its parallels. Koreeda's 2001 Distance, more mediation than terror, like Bunel's Exterminating Angel, does seem inspired by Murakami's interviews, though, confined as I am to translations, I can't be sure.
You might check out, as well, two fat dark manga translatons by (yes "the") Osamu Tezuka, Ode to Hirohito, about a doctor and others slowly transformed into canines by a virus, Apollo's Song about a cynic forced to pay in a cyclical hell on earth for his rejection of love. Ode is the better of the two.
For animated terror, just a couple of many are the sublime Serial Experiments: Laine and the less perfect but really creepy (and again subway related) Gantz.
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