Guizi lai le [Devils on the Doorstep] (2000) - China

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245929/

Plot & Summary

During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?

Rating

8.2/10 from 2,593 users


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Tony Takitani (2004) - Japan

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420260/

Plot & Summary

Due to his Western name, Tony was shunned by other kids and spent a solitary childhood. Though gifted as an artist, his drawings lacked feeling, so as an adult, he carved a career as a technical illustrator. Then in middle age, Tony suddenly falls for a pretty young woman, Eiko Konuma, who visits him one day on business. Eiko is like an angel in Tony's daily existence, and for the first time in his life, he feels connected to the outside world. However, Eiko does have one fault: she's a clothing shopaholic. Confusion also begins to develop when it appears that Eiko has a double.

Rating

7.3/10 (2,285 votes)


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Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio [Map of the Sounds of Tokyo] (2009) - Spain

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185376/usercomments

Plot & Summary
The director portrays a different perspective of Tokyo where the city becomes just an excuse to show the loneliness of its two protagonists, who are literally lost in a decaying world and don't know how to get out of it. Ryu, the Japanese girl, is an assassin who gets paid for its job, and David is an Spanish living in Tokyo, who has lost his wife recently and feels his life has nothing but emptiness. Both found themselves alone and feel they need each other, but things are not easy and there are some scars that will never be healed.

This is NOT "Lost in Translation" and this is NOT about Tokyo but about human feelings. If you want to see a more realistic movie about Japanese culture and you think you might like this movie because you're a fan of everything related to it, you might be very disappointed. If you go there with no expectations and you just want to get immersed by its story, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

That being said, it contains very explicit sex scenes, so be careful little children. I don't think it's a movie any kid would like to see or appreciate, anyways.

Rating

5.8/10 (480 votes)


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The Goddess of 1967 (2000) - Australia

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255195/

Plot & Summary

"Goddess" stands for French "Déesse", the nickname of Citroën DS, the name of a famous car designed in the fifties. A young and well-situated Japanese man is dreaming of such a car, and one fine day he finds an offering on the net. He calls the seller (a man living in Australia), they agree upon the price and so he travels to Australia in order to buy the car. But when he reaches his destination, there's chaos all around: The seller as well as his wife lay dead in their house and a 17 year old girl lets him in and offers him something to eat. He walks out with horror but then comes back because he forgot to ask about the car... The girl lets him see the car, and then they start a 5 day trip through the outback, and, at the same time, a trip back in time into the early youth of the girl and into her family's chronicle.

Rating

7.0/10 1,088 votes


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Dare mo shiranai [Nobody Knows] (2004) - Japan

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408664/

Plot & Summary

Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers and have never been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the landlord. One day, the mother leaves behind a little money and a note, charging her oldest boy to look after the others. And so begins the children's odyssey, a journey nobody knows. Though engulfed by the cruel fate of abandonment, the four children do their best to survive in their own little world, devising and following their own set of rules. When they are forced to engage with the world outside their cocooned universe, the fragile balance that has sustained them collapses. Their innocent longing for their mother, their wary fascination toward the outside world, their anxiety over their increasingly desperate situation, their inarticulate cries, their kindness to each other, their determination to survive on wits and courage.

Rating

8.1/10 7,702 votes


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John Rabe (2009) - Germany

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124377/

Plot & Summary

John Rabe is, up till a few years ago, a forgotten figure. What happened a few years ago was the late Iris Chang's seminal nonfiction work "The Rape of Nanking", dramatising (some scholars would prefer the word 'exaggerating') the events of late 1937 when the Japanese troops essentially massacred up to 300,000 Chinese citizens – in a matter of weeks. Most of Chang's description – or more likely, what people remember most – focusses on the gleeful methods the Japanese used to dispose of the people at the time, but one thing from her book that struck many was how closely the story of the Nazi businessman John Rabe resembles that of Oskar Schindler. (The book was released within the memory of those who've seen Spielberg's Schindler's List.)

As such, it is inevitable that a movie would be made about John Rabe. Made in four languages (Germans speaking German, Chinese speaking German, Steve Buscemi speaking Mandarin impressively well, Japanese speaking Japanese, all nationalities speaking English to each other), this film seems to have receive funding from everywhere.

Rating

7.4/10 917 votes


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Batoru rowaiaru [Battle Royale] (2000) - Japan

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/

Plot & Summary

In the beginning of the 21st Century, the economy of Japan is near a total collapse, with high rates of unemployment and students boycotting their classes. The government approves the Battle Royale Act, where one class is randomly selected and the students are sent to an island wearing necklaces with few supplies and one weapon. After three days, they have to kill each other and the survivor wins his or her own life as a prize. The 42 students of a ninth-grade class are selected to participate in the survival game and abducted while traveling in their bus. Under the command of their former teacher Kitano, they have to eliminate each other following the rules of the sadistic game where only one wins.

Rating

7.9/10 49,770 votes

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2046 [2004] - China

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212712/

Plot & Summary 

2046 is the latest slice of cinematic pie from the singular vision of Wong Kar Wai, one of those directors who you can look at a shot from any of his movies and know that he's the creator. He's very specific about camera, lighting, set and costume design, using these elements to wrap his very human dramas in very heightened surroundings. His most common subject is love, particularly love that fails.

In 2046, Tony Leung plays a man broken up by failed love. He engages in a series of relationships, often with similarly wounded women. These entanglements have an emotionally cumulative effect, creating a complex portrait of how love makes us sad. (A brilliant line refers to memories as "the trails left behind by tears.")

However it may sound, this is not a depressing picture, but an intellectually engaging one. Admittedly not for everyone, 2046 is drenched in romanticism, but you observe the characters more than you feel their pain. That doesn't mean the film is emotionally cold. The performances are all superb and you may recognize a bit of yourself in their actions.

Rating 

7.5/10 18,874 votes

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Ai no mukidashi [Love Exposure] (2008) - Japan

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1128075/

Plot & Summary 

A four-hour plus movie with themes surrounding Catholic guilt, love, up-skirt fetishism, and transvestism. The film tackles many of these heavy hitting themes and ideas with a sense of humor found very little in much of the mainstream fluff produced today. The balance of subtle often crude humor and darker, heavier, more dramatic aspects of the story really works well. The movie is well made with good cinematography, decent acting, and a great script with fully fleshed out characters. The director is able to create an effective commentary on religion, loneliness, Japanese society all the while mixing in a lot of body humor, up-skirt shots, and a few lesbian kissing scenes for good measure. Overall highly recommended, ignore the 4 hour runtime because it is the fastest 4 hour movie you will see. Ultimately a funny, sad, uplifting, and depressing movie all at the same time.

Rating

8.2/10 927 votes

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Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai wo misero [Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!] (2007) Japan

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910888/

Plot & Summary

Offbeat family drama starring Eriko Sato. When their parents are killed in a bizarre cat-rescuing incident, the dysfunctional Wago siblings are reluctantly forced to endure each other once more under the same roof.

Sumika (Sato) is a selfish wannabe actress, only returning to her quiet, rural home to collect her inheritance. When she finds there's no money and she cannot return to Tokyo for fear of a ruthless loan shark, she immediately recommences terrorizing her younger sister Kyomi and elder stepbrother Shinji, and his new and relentlessly upbeat and optimistic wife Machiko (a wonderful turn by Hiromi Nagasaku).

While being a black comedy from the get-go, 'Funuke' soon gets darker and more demented, as the family's history of violence, prostitution and dark secrets are revealed. While it's no classic, it's a good looking flick made with style and bolstered by some well measured and memorable performances.

Rating

7.5/10; 256 votes

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Dare mo mamotte kurenai [Nobody to Watch Over Me] (2008) Japanese with English subtitles

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1147686/

Plot & Summary

For all its orderliness and politeness in Japanese society, if what Nobody to Watch Over Me portrayed is accurate, then there's the other side of the same society that we on the outside would seldom see, and that's how they would react to serious crimes committed by minors. While you would expect identities to be kept secret in order to aid in the investigations and to offer some protection to the perpetrator and/or the victims, there's this constant digging to fish information in order to inform, ridicule and condemn, and compromise any police protection programme.

Detective Katsura (Koichi Sato) is assigned to protect his charge, the 15 year old student Saori Funamura (Mirai Shida), whose brother was arrested for the senseless murder of 2 young girls. The two don't hit it off instantly, given that they're on opposites, one resenting the case as being in the way of his own family vacation and reconciliation with his estranged (and offscreen) wife, while the other just doesn't trust cops because of the way they conduct themselves in that one confusing night. You would expect them to bond at some point, but this long and arduous journey to regain trust is one of the highlights of the film.

This movie is Japan's contender to the Best Foreign Film 2010 Oscar Academy Awards. DareMamo, as it is popularly known, was released in Japan in January this year. It is directed by Ryoichi Kimizuka, well-known for the horror titles Parasite Eve and Kansen (Infection), as well as Japan’s record-breaking box-office film, “Odoru Daisosasen”.

Rating

7.3/10 120 votes

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Tasogare Seibei [The Twilight Samurai] (2002) DVDRip Japan

Nominated for Oscar - Best Foreign Film 2004

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351817/

Plot & Summary

In the Nineteenth Century, in Unasaka, Province of Yamagata, in the Feudal Japan, the widow samurai Seibei Iguchi works in the warehouse of the local Commissioner during the day and handicraftsman building cages in the night to have an income of 50 koku (meaning "a quantity of rice, historically defined as enough rice to feed one person for one year"). Seibei raises alone his two daughters, the five year-old Ito and the ten year-old Kayano and his senile mother in a simple property, and has a debt of 20 koku due to the expensive funeral of his wife, who died of tuberculosis, imposed by her family and can not afford to have another wife. His colleagues in the warehouse pejoratively call him "The Twilight Samurai" to express his life without glory. When Seibei meets Michinojo Iinuma, his childhood friend tells him that his sister Tomoe Iinuma has just divorced from he brutal husband Toyotarou Kouda. Seibei reencounters Tomoe, for whom he has been in love since he was a child, but Tamoe is member of a family of 400 koku and Seibei believes their difference of classes makes their marriage impossible. When Kouda challenges Iinuma to a duel, Seibei accepts to replace his old friend and needs to use his skills of swordsman again.

Rating

8.1/10   8,453 votes

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Okuribito [Departures] (2008) Japan - Japanese with English subtitles

Winner of the Oscar 2008 Best Foreign Language Film of the Year.

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Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of "Nokanshi," acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.

Rating:
8.4/10

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Run time: 130 minutes
Type: Avi (2 CDs, 8 files)
File size: CD1: 700 MB, CD2 700 MB
Video: 624 x 336

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