Suggestions for crazy J-movie?
 

I have been watching a lot of Japanese movie lately and I have to say I am loving them. The best ones are those that you watch for 2 hours and then think about for a week haha. I am talking about those movies where you have to think about life or others that just really screw with your mind.
My favorites so far are:

Suicide Club 1,2
Premonition
1 Litre of Tears

All four of those made me think a lot. Soo basicaly I am asking you if you know any other titles that really put you into deep thaught. Any genre works (thriller, drama, horror etc.) as long as its mind blowing xD.

Please share your favorites, so that I can watch and disscuss them with you.

:D

"Deep thought."
That would somewhat depend on what one values most in life.
People have different interests, so different things would provoke thought for different people.

I don't really have any recommendations at the moment. This is just something I thought you should consider.

well i can't think of any crazy japanese movies, but for korean movies there's oldboy and janghwa, hongryeon

Every month the Japanese embassy here puts on a free J-movie for people to go and see.

The last one I saw was titled in English "The face of Jizo". In Japanese it was called 父と暮らせば or "living with dad" (?)

The cool thing about this movie for me was that when I left the embassy I only thought it was only an OK movie... but for some reason the movie stuck with me and now that I think about it and the characters and the situation it was really touching.

I don't know if you'll have the same experience but that's my two cents :)

Oh, I've had that happen to me too.
... And that's pretty cool what your Japanese embassy is doing...

Cool! Yeah I get that experience with most Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Gibli movies which I also suggest the Original poster check out! :)

omg i adore miyazaki and studio ghibli!! i even used to wanna move to japan and work for them when i was lil :D

For sure!

I really can't pick a favourite as each movie is special and good in it's own way.

The movies I've seen of theirs are

-Spiritied away
-Princess Mononoke
-Only Yesterday
-Grave of the Fireflies
-Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind
-My Neighbour Totoro
-Kiki's Delivery Service

According to my Japanese friend studying here a new one has just been released in Japan!!!

OMG you haven't seen howl's moving castle yet?! =O it was pretty great ^^ but yeah it's pretty much impossible for me to pick a fav too. if anything i think i'd go with spirited away cuz it's the one i saw first and i've seen it the most. but outta your list the only one's i haven't seen are only yesterday and nausicaa. i should probably get on that soon o_O lol

Oh yeah... I don't know how I let Howl's slip. I'll see it this weekend. Thanks for the reminder! :D

lol no problem! first time i saw it was in japan actually. good times ^^

Tokyo Zombie

Dead or Alive series

Unlucky Monkey

Monday

Audition

Hanabi

Thaks a lot for all the replies.

I love the Miyazaki movies as well. Specialy Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. Its so awesome how he presents the shinto gods.

Audition is a great one as well I agree. The ending is way creepy and unexpected.

umm in case you haven't watched it yes I would recommen "nobody knows".
Really good movie

you can count on any Takashi Miike movie to be crazy, but for the very *craziest* i'd check out Visitor Q or Gozu. Absolutely off the handle, without being ultra gory.

Alternatively, there's always Frog River, or The Machine Girl etc. for some full on hilarious insanity.

The Secret (Hirosue, Kobayashi and Kishimoto)
 

It is very interesting to hear what foreign people feel on Japanese movies.

Then, I want you all to check "The Secret" or "Himitsu" as shown at URL below.

The Secret - DVD Rentals - TigerCinema

Because it is made based on Japanese point of view for love and sex, I want to know what you foreign people feel on seeing this movie.

And of course, this is kind of crazy movie.



FYI, as the last scene was changed from original nobel "Himitsu" by Keigo Higashino, there were hot discussions in Japan against the change.

kamikaze girls was fun..all those lolita frills :mtongue:
also i didn't expect to be in tears when we watched TokiKake..:o
princess mononoke & tokyo godfathers good to watch also:)
ninja scroll counts for adults:D

and I was gonna mention Ichi the Killer, and Sukiyaki Western Django (both Takashi Miike films)

Movies

Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu (Tokyo Gore Police)

Full Metal gokudô (Takashi Miike)

Versus

One Chanbara

Odishon (Audition)

Sakigake!! Kuromati K

Sakigake!! Otokojuku

Apartment 1303

Alive

1942

Batoru Rowaiaru (Battle Royale)

Batoru Rowaiaru II ((Battle Royale II)

Jisatsu saakuru (Suicide Circle)

Noriko no shokutaku (Suicide Circle II)

Bloody Reunion (Korean)

Wishing Stairs (Korean)

Inhyeongsa (The Doll Master) (Korean)

Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters) (Korean)

Hau mo chu (The Haunted School) (Chinese)

Anime

Elfen Lied

Blood+

Gantz

Hellsing

Berserk

Tokyo Gore Police and Machine Girl. Crazy + gore = awesome

Suspect X
This wasn't really that crazy, but it was one of those nice twisty thrillers
I also just watched the live version of Death note, and i liked it

letters from iwojima.

2LDK << a funny movie that isn't too heavy on violence.

Big Dreams Little Tokyo

I saw a seriously weird one, I think it was just called Tokyo. It was three stories by three different directors (one was the guy who did eternal sunshine of a spotless mind). I liked the first and third one alright, but not the second.

Man, a lot of you don't know much about Japanese movies it seems.

Because from the recommendations....it's always the same films listed, or the popular anime/horror films which only makes up a small portion of all Jfilms.

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind? O_O That's a quote from an Epik High song.. *cough* Anyway..

Let's see...

Koizora
1 Liter of Tears
Ghost Train
Tamami

Wow, I just realized all my movies are Korean.

Battle Royal a good movie and so is Audition

@ Nan

Is this the one you mean?

Ghost Train Korean Movie - Copyright 2005. Encore Films Pte. Ltd.

Because there's also a Japanese one, which has Oguri Shun in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Train_(2006_film)

Mf@ No, the one I mean is a Japanese one about a dead woman haunting a specific tunnel.

Ok. Do you know of a site with information about it?

(sorry about hitting edit instead of quote)