broad request for suggestions: recent Japanese films

[Jim Harper]

I'm glad you mentioned Audition- I was considering mentioning a few, and Audition was right behind Battle Royale.

  Depending on how far into genre territory we go, I'd also include Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure (1996) and Pulse (Kairo, 2001). They're both exceptional films.
   
  Jim.
  
Jesse Kalin <kalin at vassar.edu> wrote:
      One has, of course, to shift sensibilites for films of the 90s.  Two suggestions: First, Kitano's Hana-bi ("Fireworks"-1997) and Sonatine (1993); and second (another target on the back?), two films of Miike: Odishon ("Audition"-1999), a horror/ghost film that matches anything from the 50s or 60s (and as beautiful as Kobayashi's Kwaidan), and Visitor Q (2001), which matches the best of Oshima and, perhaps even more comparable, Imamura.

  

  Jesse Kalin



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