15 best Japanese films

Rashomon

• Drama, Crime, Detective.
• 1950.
• 88 min.
• IMDb: 8,3.

It is this film about the mysterious crime introduced foreign audience with the Japanese cinema in the distant 50s. And spawned a powerful cinematic technique: a story told from different points of view, each character has their own truth, and each subsequent episode completely changes the perception of the story.

battle Royale

• Fiction, thriller, drama.
• year 2000.
• 114 min.
• IMDb: 7,7.

Long before "The Hunger Games" and other teenage dystopia was "Battle Royale" - a brutal story about school children who are forced to kill each other to survive. Surprisingly, despite the abundance of a variety of violent deaths, which you will see on the screen, the film is quite reassuring. Bright role Takeshi Kitano adds something special, and this film is still in the top personal Quentin Tarantino.

Be with you

• Fantasy, Drama, Romance.
• 2004.
• 119 min.
• IMDb: 8,0.

Husband and young son Mio feel guilty for her death and take hard loss. One day on a walk on a rainy day, they meet a woman who looks just exactly like Myo - but does not remember anything about himself completely. Could this be true, and as the Mio is connected with these events the book that my mother left the boy before he died?

Fireworks

• Thriller, Drama, Crime.
• 1997.
• 103 min.
• IMDb: 7,9.

crime Takeshi Kitano drama in which he played a major role. A police officer Yoshitaka Nishi caring for patients with leukemia and his wife dismissed from work after the tragic accident: his partner was killed, and another detective was severely wounded. In order to help widows and Disabled colleague Nishi commit bank robbery and becomes a clash with the Yakuza.

Twilight samurai

• Drama, History.
• 2002.
• 129 min.
• IMDb: 8,1.

This film starts samurai trilogy directed by Yoji Yamada. Seybey serving the lowest rank, he takes care of the mother and daughter, and he was so poor that he had to sell his samurai sword to pay for his wife's funeral. Japanese opinion on "the little man" - a violent clash with the feelings and circumstances of the individual principles.

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• Drama, comedy.
• 2015.
• 128 min.
• IMDb: 7,6.

The film is about the ties of kinship, based on the eponymous manga. Three girls come to the funeral of his father, who left the family for another woman when they were children. Here they first met his half little sister learn that she has no other relatives, and offer the girl to move in with him.

Heaven and Hell

• Thriller, Drama, Detective.
• 1963.
• 143 min.
• IMDb: 8,4.

Akira Kurosawa's film based on the novel by American writer Ed McBain. Tense detective the story of the abduction of the child turns philosophical story in the spirit of Dostoevsky's works - about the nature of good and evil, and the choice between "heaven" and "hell", which has to do man.

Nobody will know

• Drama.
• 2004.
• 141 min.
• IMDb: 8,1.

Mother leaves four children a little money and a note in which he asks the older son Akira (he was only twelve) to look after the rest - it needs a while to go. Month after month passes, my mother does not come back, and the children are left to themselves. The story is based on real events.

Kagemusya: shadow warrior

• Drama, War, History.
• 1980.
• 180 min.
• IMDb: 8,0.

Another film of the legendary Akira Kurosawa in our collection. Beggar thief sentenced to death, suddenly grant a pardon, and then take him to the palace: it turned out that apparently it is indistinguishable from the ruler of Shingen, powerful and strong man. Soon the governor dies from enemy shots and Takeda clan, not to lose influence, decides to hide his death and put on the double throne.

Like Father, Like Son

• Drama.
• year 2013.
• 120 min.
• IMDb: 7,8.

Shocking news completely changes the life of a young family. It turned out that six years ago in the hospital mixed up the two children and the biological son of the architect Roty and his wife, Midori is growing in another family, and they bring non-native child. Despite the string in the style of Brazilian soap operas, filmmakers avoided melodramatic cliches, and the story turned out very fine and touching.

Departures

• Drama.
• 2008.
• 130 min.
• IMDb: 8,1.

Philosophical drama that tells of the death of beautifully - as a natural completion of earthly journey and what you do not need to be afraid. Young cellist remains without work and returns to his native town, where coincidentally arranged in a funeral agency: now his duty - to prepare the body for burial. The picture won the "Oscar" in the category "Best Foreign Language Film."

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Kvaydan: the story of a mysterious and terrible

• Horror, fantasy, drama.
• 1964.
• 163 min.
• IMDb: 8,0.

Anthology film consisting of four stories ( "Black hair", "Snow Woman", "Earless Hoichi" "A cup of tea"), each of which originates from Japanese fairytales and legends. Heroes meet with the world of the supernatural, alien and frightening and mysterious atmosphere of great events passed inventive approach to the scenery and special effects.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

• Drama, War.
• 1983.
• 123 min.
• IMDb: 7,3.

The exception in our selection - an English-language film directed by Nagisa Oshima. The Japanese POW camp gets Selliers Major Jack (David Bowie), a fearless iconoclast who is not going to obey the strict rules of the camp commander, a young captain Onoi. Parallel to develop other unique relationship: between the cruel Sergeant Hara (Takeshi Kitano) and Lt. Col. Lawrence - the only one of all the prisoners, who knows Japanese.

Foot-foot

• Drama.
• 2008.
• 115 min.
• IMDb: 8,0.

On the anniversary of the death of the eldest son to honor his memory, an elderly couple going home adult children, each of whom have long lived their lives. Before the audience appears complicated story of family relationships, woven of table talk and memories.

Linda, Linda, Linda

• Comedy.
• 2005 year.
• 114 min.
• IMDb: 7,7.

Girls from the school band really want to perform at the music festival covers of Blue Hearts lyrics - Japanese punk rock band 80. But their idea is close to failure, when a few days before the show left the band vocalist. The only hope for girls - a pupil exchange of Korea, which hardly speaks Japanese.