Hey Hung Fist, I vaguely recall you being interested in my wanted-list from “The Midnight Eye’s Guide to New Japanese Film”. Now that I’m finally through, here’s my list of movies I still need to see (movies from the book that I’ve watched already, I’ve crossed out):
- Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki)
- Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki)
- Battles without Honor and Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku)
- The Triple Cross (Kinji Fukasaku)
- Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
- Crazy Thunder Road (Sogo Ishii)
- August in the Water (Sogo Ishii)
- Bounce Ko Gals (Masato Harada)
- Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- Grave of the Fireflies (Studio Ghibli)
- Only Yesterday (Studio Ghibli)
- The most terrible Time in my Life (Kaizo Hayashi)
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinja Tsukamoto)
- Tokyo Fist (Shinja Tsukamoto)
- A Snake of June (Shinja Tsukamoto)
- Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano)
- A Scene at the Sea (Takeshi Kitano)
- Ley Lines (Takashi Miike)
- Audition (Takashi Miike)
- Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike)
- Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)
- Dangan Runner (Sabu)
- The Ring (Hideo Nakata)
- The sleeping Bride (Hideo Nakata)
- Moonlight Whispers (Akihiko Shiota)
- Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota)
- The Man who stole the Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa)
- Family Game (Yoshimitsu Morita)
- Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
- The Mystery of Rampo (Rintaro Mayuzumi, Kazuyoshi Okuayama)
- Love Letter (Shunji Iwai)
- Memories (Koji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura, Katsuhiro Otomo)
- Organ (Kei Fujiwara)
- Shall we Dance? (Masayuki Suo)
- Kichiku (Kazuyoshi Kumakiri)
- Onibi: The Fire within (Rokuro Mochizuki)
- Raigyo (Takahisa Zeze)
- Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
- Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (Shusuke Kaneko)
- Scoutman (Masato Ishioka)
- Uzumaki (Higuchinsky)
- Avalon (Mamoru Oshii)
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits within (Hironobu Sakaguchi)
- Kaza-Hana (Shinji Somai)