111. Shall We Dance? ( Shall we dansu? )
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Masayuki Suo
Actors: Kôji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eriko Watanabe
Plot: A staid Japanese businessman secretly joins a ballroom dancing class, where he bonds with a kindly group of misfits. Meanwhile, his wife begins to wonder what he is up to and hires a private detective to find out.
112. End of Evangelion ( Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Air/Magokoro wo, kimi ni )
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki
Actors: Spike Spencer, Amanda Winn Lee, Tiffany Grant, Allison Keith
Plot: With the angels defeated, SEELE begins their Human Instrumentality Project, but are betrayed by Gendo Ikari who has plans of his own. A brutal attack on NERV HQ commences and it's up to a broken Shinji to act before humanity is destroyed.
113. Late Autumn ( Akibiyori )
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Actors: Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada
Plot: A widowed mother works to marry off her daughter (who is not interested in dating, let alone marriage) with the help of three friends of her late husband (all who carry an unrequited love for the daughter).
114. Memoirs of a Geisha
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rob Marshall
Actors: Ziyi Zhang, Suzuka Ohgo, Ken Watanabe, Kôji Yakusho
Plot: The story of how a young fisherman's daughter became a geisha.
115. Still Walking ( Aruitemo aruitemo )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Actors: Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You, Kazuya Takahashi
116. Place Promised in Our Early Days, The ( Kumo no mukô, yakusoku no basho )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Actors: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masato Hagiwara, Yuka Nanri, Unshô Ishizuka
Plot: In an alternate timeline, two teenage friends begin to construct an aircraft to investigate a mysterious tower separating the northern and southern provinces of Japan. Over time they drift apart, however, sparked by their mutual affections for a girl. All three are drawn back together when the girl falls deathly ill and destiny calls them to action one last time.
117. Bleach: Memories of Nobody
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Noriyuki Abe
Actors: Masashi Ebara, Masakazu Morita, Chiwa Saito, Fumiko Orikasa
Plot: The appearance of numerous souls, called "Blanks" in Karakura town has Ichigo and Rukia scrambling for answers. They find it in a mysterious Shinigami named Senna, who holds the key to preventing the real world and Soul Society from merging.
118. Vengeance is Mine ( Fukushû suruwa wareniari )
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shohei Imamura
Actors: Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho
Plot: Iwao Enokizu is, for an intents and purposes, a normal middle-aged Japanese man. But he harbors a dark secret - he's a sociopath with an inexplicable urge to murder. Though the police finally track him down, he eludes pursuit, eventually finding himself in a relationship with a brothel owner. But his cannot suppress his urges, not even for love.
119. Dolls
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Actors: Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tatsuya Mihashi, Chieko Matsubara
120. Kamikaze Girls ( Shimotsuma monogatari )
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Actors: Kyôko Fukada, Anna Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Sadao Abe
Plot: Momoko wears frilly dresses and wishes she'd been born in 17th-century France. Ichigo rides a motorcycle and prefers the "Yanki" (gangster) style of dress. These two very different teen girls get into many crazy adventures together an eventually become best friends.
