Japanese Cinema Recommendations

[LangfordBarrow]

Watched any pinku eiga?

Nope but I'll look it up.

Just looked up the term but I'm mostly looking for the best films to round out my collection. If you have any specific movie to recommend I'll check it out.

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

Nope but I'll look it up.

Just looked up the term but I'm mostly looking for the best films to round out my collection. If you have any specific movie to recommend I'll check it out.

Fun and easy...

I Love It From Behind! (1981)

A soon-to-be-married woman goes to Tokyo to beat multiple sexual world records before her freedom expires.

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Basic staple of pinku eiga, amoral as fuck...

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight​

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973)

A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin who are wrapped up in a clan war over local prostitution.

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The Naked Seven aka Sengoku Rock Female Warriors

The Naked Seven (1972)

Scantily clad female warriors battle thieves to save a small village. Director Yasuharu Hasebe crossed the Seven Samurai legends of Shichinin No Samurai with his own popular Naraneko Rokku series and dressed it up with some of the most popular softcore pinup queens of the day.

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Be warned besides the first one there is some nasty stuff in these movies, read up on what pinku eiga is before jumping in.

 

[LangfordBarrow]

Fun and easy...

I Love It From Behind! (1981)

A soon-to-be-married woman goes to Tokyo to beat multiple sexual world records before her freedom expires.

letterboxd.com

Basic staple of pinku eiga, amoral as fuck...

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight​

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973)

A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin who are wrapped up in a clan war over local prostitution.

letterboxd.com

The Naked Seven aka Sengoku Rock Female Warriors

The Naked Seven (1972)

Scantily clad female warriors battle thieves to save a small village. Director Yasuharu Hasebe crossed the Seven Samurai legends of Shichinin No Samurai with his own popular Naraneko Rokku series and dressed it up with some of the most popular softcore pinup queens of the day.

letterboxd.com

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Be warned besides the first one there is some nasty stuff in these movies, read up on what pinku eiga is before jumping in.

I'll see if I can find these streaming or on cheap dvds. It doesn't sound like these are the types of movies I'm collecting but now you've piqued my interest.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

No, you guys have given me a lot to research, I basically started out as just a Kurosawa fan. From my list you can see I've mostly picked up the more well known samurai period movies and I've recently started watching the Ghibli animations but there's still a lot out there I'm completely unaware about.

In that case, no point in offering up Noriko's Dinner Table if you haven't seen Suicide Club, NDT being the sequel/prequel/parallel story. Suicide Club is a decently well known film, but the sequel adds all kinds of layers to the narrative, doesn't get near as much love. Honestly, anything by director Sion Sono is worth a watch. He's really made a name for himself over the last 25 years or so.

Conversely to yourself, I only recently started sitting down and watching Kurosawa (though I did watch Yojimbo many years ago, now). I came up on kaiju and anime, my love for Japanese cinema grew organically out of that.

 

[Strychnine]

How about Sonny Chiba's Street Fighter and Zatoichi series?

Are they good?

If you want a visceral, action packed, antihero film?

You cannot go wrong with

The Streetfighter

Return of Streetfighter

Sister Streetfighter

The Streetfighter's Last Revenge. Bear in mind that this was the 70's and some of the effects are REALLY dated, but the story/action holds up.


I CANNOT recommend the Zatoichi series enough. The remake with Takeshi Kitano is good in its own right too.

The Lone Wolf And Cub series is a staple.

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

In that case, no point in offering up Noriko's Dinner Table if you haven't seen Suicide Club, NDT being the sequel/prequel/parallel story. Suicide Club is a decently well known film, but the sequel adds all kinds of layers to the narrative, doesn't get near as much love. Honestly, anything by director Sion Sono is worth a watch. He's really made a name for himself over the last 25 years or so.

Conversely to yourself, I only recently started sitting down and watching Kurosawa (though I did watch Yojimbo many years ago, now). I came up on kaiju and anime, my love for Japanese cinema grew organically out of that.

Sion Sono is not for anyone. It is fun weird but not for the average consumer.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Sion Sono is not for anyone. It is fun weird but not for the average consumer.

Depends. Not everything he directs is crazy

 

[GSP_37]

Damn, G. I prefer Shin Godzilla to Minus One. I saw it a few months ago at the theater and it was so live

Maybe I'll give it another try later. Didn't watch much of it since it was disorienting.

 

[Tank_Kam]

I really like the movie Brother with Takeshi Kitano and Omar Epps, not sure if that's considered English or Japanese because its a mix of both. Great fun little gangster flick with some cool ass characters.

Brother (2000) ⭐ 7.1 | Crime, Drama, Thriller

1h 54m

www.imdb.com

I watched a bunch of other Takeshi Kitano movies but found a lot of them too artsy. Reminded me I absolutely loved this one and need to rewatch it.
Kid's Return

Kids Return (1996) ⭐ 7.4 | Crime, Drama, Sport

1h 47m

www.imdb.com

 

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[PBAC]

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