r/JapaneseMovies

I love the aesthetics of his movies, I would love to see that in Japan. Like Lost in Translation

Go watch this or go grab a copy of it if you haven't.

I'm a diehard fan of the original, and this adaptation really went above and beyond with it. The original director was also really impressed, and many fans like me were moved to tears at this film.

You don't have to watch the original, just give this movie some more love.

Please recommend movies that are similar to Himizu and All about Lily Chou Chou

I just saw this Japanese masterpiece, and two questions stick with me.

One, why is the film called Woman in the Dunes and not Man in the Dunes?

Two, I get that the woman says why she would want to live where she does. But i'm not clear about whether she's free to go or if she's imprisoned there like the man is? Is she, in other words, a victim, too?

Ok, I'm from America, but I generally watch Asian cinema as a hobby starting from when I was 12 and getting help from a lot of friend who are obsessed with cinema or Japan or both. I haven't seen it all or anything, but Japan produces far less movies and cinema than America or otherwise there's a disparity of what we can get here, but what I'm getting to is this:

Wasn't there this long era in Japanese cinema where everyone who fell in love, inevitably one half of the pair would die or otherwise be separated and, or suffer a terrible string of tragedies, or just one tragedy with a lot of focus on that, or death generally, or basically how everything is just terrible and you sort of have these moments and, or people and, or points of view that are not terrible amidst all the tragedy.... or is that happening in my mind?

I feel like I could predict like clockwork by the time the first Final Fantasy movie came out how if two people fell in love one of them would inevitably die..

Looking for a few Toshiro Mifune films

1.elegy

2. Love and hate

3. No time for tears

If you know a website besides internet archive, or any Google search engine sites I think I'll need more international or other country search and film viewing platforms thank you !

Hi guys can you recommend websites that is similar to the old kissasian?

I love Japanese culture and I think most films/anime created there have such interesting ideas and I've always been drawn to it but I've noticed that when I'm watching Japanese horror films from 98-2008 I'm just so drawn into so much of all aspects of it. The dated somewhat grainy wash it has, the dated early versions of cell phones, computers, electronics in general, the sort of primitive physical props used. I noticed the draw I had during this one movie about a guy who creates some kind of medicine and it gives people pleasure when they should experience pain and there is a scene in it that's sort of famousish where a woman fries her hand and I think eats it. I forget the name of the film. No idea why I wanted to post this but 🤷🏼‍♂️

Hello

I am kind of new to japanese movies and wanted if there is a active community discussing japanese movies, culture etc. Thank you for reading my query.

Not huge fantasy/adventure films. More like:

- modern-day setting

- emotional romance

- dreamy atmosphere

- one magical/surreal element

- cozy, bittersweet, comforting vibe

Movies similar in feeling to:

- About Time

- Your Name

-Weathering with you

- Amélie

- Japanese/Korean contemporary romance films

I especially love films that feel warm, cinematic, emotional, and quietly magical throughout.

I know there was another post about the film, but it was six months old and I didn’t want to reply to a zombie post. I just watched Air Doll yesterday.

I thought it started out really slowly and was a little boring until she started interacting more with humans. But then it got sad after she “accidentally” killed the guy who she worked in the store with. There was something about that seeing that made me wonder if it was really accidental or maybe intentional. I wondered about her pent-up rage at being a sex doll that even if she consented to be being deflated that she may have secretly resented what she was and her submissiveness because it was humiliating. How did you interpret that scene? I felt like it was a metaphor for prostitution.

I'm almost done watching all of his films and wanted to see what everones top three films by him are.

My top 3 so far: sonatine, a scene at the sea, kids return

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Just finished Netflix's "Straight to Hell" (地獄に堕ちるわよ),

a Japanese biographical series about Hosoki Kazuko — a fortune

teller who dominated Japanese television and publishing for

roughly 20 years, from the 1990s until her death in 2021.

Toda Erika plays her from age 17 to 67.

https://www.netflix.com/jp/title/81700182

A few things stuck with me, and I'm curious what others think.

First, this is biopic territory that English-language prestige TV

has been exploring for a while — The Crown, Pam & Tommy, Inventing

Anna — but applied to a Japanese subject most viewers outside Japan

won't know. Hosoki was simultaneously: a self-made woman who

clawed out of postwar Tokyo, a brilliant operator of postwar TV

culture, and someone whose business practices included what most

would now call spiritual fraud. The show refuses to settle the

question of which of these she "really" was.

What I found interesting: the show is patient with her in a way

American biopics rarely are. There's no third-act reckoning, no

moment where the music shifts and we're told how to feel. The

camera just keeps watching as she negotiates, lies, charms,

threatens, and survives. It trusts viewers to do their own moral

math.

This raises something I've been thinking about with the "difficult

woman" biopic genre. In English-language versions, there's almost

always a structural insistence on framing — Pam Anderson as

victim, Anna Delvey as performance, the Queen as duty-bound.

"Straight to Hell" feels more like a Japanese aesthetic move:

refuse the frame, let the viewer sit with discomfort.

I'd be curious whether anyone who watched this had a different

read. Did the show's restraint feel like respect for the viewer,

or evasion of taking a position? And if you've seen other

Japanese biographical dramas in this vein (思いつくのは「凪のあすから」

or anything by Hirokazu Kore-eda's biographical work), how does

this compare?

8 episodes, streaming worldwide on Netflix. If you liked Pachinko,

Tokyo Vice, or The Crown, the texture will feel familiar — but the

ethical framing is interestingly different.

(Tokyo-based editor btw, watch a lot of these — happy to recommend

more Japanese stuff if anyone's interested.)😀

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