Tommy Leazaq's Favorite Japanese Movies

A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. (207 mins.)

An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom. (143 mins.)

An elder ronin samurai arrives at a feudal lord's home and requests an honorable place to commit suicide. But when the ronin inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him things take an unexpected turn. (133 mins.)

In the middle of her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters; where humans are changed into animals; and a bathhouse for these creatures. (125 mins.)

In the World War II, the pacifist and humanist Japanese Kaji accepts to travel with his wife Michiko... (208 mins.)

An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him. (162 mins.)

In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake Biwa in the Province of Omi... (96 mins.)

In mediaeval Japan a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him... (124 mins.)

A 19th-century samurai tries to protect a battered wife. (129 mins.)

A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all. (115 mins.)

When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking home. (119 mins.)

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. (110 mins.)

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wonderous forest spirits who live nearby. (86 mins.)

A hit-man, with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice, fumbles his latest job, putting him into conflict with his treacherous wife, with a mysterious woman eager for death and with the phantom-like hit-man known only as Number One. (98 mins.)

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji... (181 mins.)

A mother and her 6 year old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water. (101 mins.)

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child. (140 mins.)

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psionics can stop. (124 mins.)

This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money... (183 mins.)

With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town's wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle... (93 mins.)

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest Samurai, Takezo returns to Kyoto... (104 mins.)

The daughter of a politically disgraced university professor struggles to find a place for herself in love and life, in the uncertain world of Japan leading into WWII. (110 mins.)

A family chooses a match for their 28-year-old daughter Noriko, but she surprisingly has her own plans. (124 mins.)

In 18th Century in Japan, the paper merchant Jihei (Kichiemon Nakamura) falls in love for the courtesan Koharu (Shima Iwashita)... (142 mins.)

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun... (105 mins.)

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act. (114 mins.)

During World War II, the management of a war industry of optical instruments for weapons requests an... (85 mins.)