any zatoichi movie, gunhed, shark skin man and peach hip girl, and returner

Uhhhh I saw a movie something along the lines of "Queen of Blades"? It involved a woman running away from a clan of assasins that used to be her family but betrayed her, she fell in love with some guy but it ended tragicaly, anyone know the name of the movie? Was I right in my assumption?

I like alot of the old japanese movies in black and white and I mean sure color introduced a whole new world of showing the colors of what people wore and all, but with black and white the director had to work really hard to make a movie without color by change of light etc.

Old samurai movies are great.

has any one ever seen tetsuo
its probably the best film you will ever see

The Guinea Pig Films
Junk
Rubber's Lover
Pinnochio 964
Red Room 1 & 2
Versus
Battle Royal
Naked Blood
Visitor Q
Super Natural Beast City
Urotsokidoji Series
Evil Dead Trap
Wild Zero


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I've totally flipped over Ghost Kayako. If only I can meet a gal like her in real life...

i haven't got the chance to see ong bak when it was shown in the philippines, but i really really wanted to see it. anyways, was it about muay thai or something? what's the story? i've seen another movie quite like it-it's called star runner

On top of the ones listed, I have to reccomend Cutie Honey...for just over the top silliness...also check out Casshern...which is a flawed movie, but is visually stunning with the green screen...plus robots..i mean come on..robot stompy boOOm good. Aside for japanese....if anyone hasn't checked out park chanwook from korea, you are missing out, while Sympathy for Mr. Vengence is amazing...nothing hits you as hard as watching Oldboy for the first time. I envy you...

hmmm its got to be returner, Ong Bak The Thai Fighter(I think he is the next bruce lee), and damm all the jackie chan movies, i know he is not japanese but his justa bad ass

takashi miike is the god of direction. izo is my favorite so far.

Japanese anime is one of my favorites from SF/Fantasy/Horror because of its originality.

I love Vampire Hunter D and Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust.

Princess Monoke and Ghost in the Shell are really great, too.

-LadyJem

Like a few listed though love the horror movies. Ringu's great, watch them all! Suicide Club takes the cake though, what's better for the wee hours of the morning than a movie where everyone kills themselves from listening to pop music?

Versus
Audition
Ju-On
Wild Zero


great, great films

They're all good and some other good ones:

Battle Royal
Ring
Grudge

uhmm..i don't know if i have seen an akira kurosawa film..is the anime movie Tokyo Godfathers his work?

here are some of my favorite Japanese films:

Rockers
Kamachi
Hana and Alice
The Love Letter

i remember seeing a Japanese movie about teenage vampires..i don't know tha title though but i never forgot it

Ichi the Killer
Freeze Me
Audition
Devilman and most other anime to movie adaptations.
Vs.
The Seven Samurai