131. Tony Takitani
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jun Ichikawa
Actors: Issei Ogata, Rie Miyazawa, Shinohara Takahumi, Hidetoshi Nishijima
132. Millenium Actress ( Sennen joyû )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Satoshi Kon
Actors: Miyoko Shôji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa, Shôzô Îzuka
Plot: After 30 years, a reclusive, aged actress grants an interview with a journalist as the studio she worked for is torn down. Her tales of cinema are interweaved with the story of finding a young artist she met as a young girl.
133. Premonition ( Yogen )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Norio Tsuruta
Actors: Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai, Maki Horikita, Mayumi Ono
134. Death Note: The Last Name ( Desu nôto: The last name )
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Erika Toda, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Shunji Fujimura
135. Ichi the Killer ( Koroshiya 1 )
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun
Plot: A sadistic Yakuza gangster searches for the man responsible of killing his boss. An ex-cop has a deranged killer of his own and between the two, the streets will run red with blood.
136. Nana 2
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kentarô Ôtani
Actors: Mika Nakashima, Yui Ichikawa, Kanata Hongô, Yuna Ito
137. Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice, The ( Ochazuke no aji )
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Actors: Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Koji Tsuruta, Chikage Awashima
Plot: An upper-class woman finds herself becoming rather bored of her life to her rather dull middle-class husband (by arranged marriage) even while encouraging her niece to go along with her own arranged meetings.
138. Violent Cop, The ( Sono otoko, kyôbô ni tsuki )
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Actors: Takeshi Kitano, Maiko Kawakami, Makoto Ashikawa, Shirô Sano
139. Inuyasha the Movie 4: Fire on the Mystic Island ( Inuyasha - Guren no houraijima )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Toshiya Shinohara
Actors: Kappei Yamaguchi, Satsuki Yukino, Ken Narita, Kumiko Watanabe
140. Life of Oharu, The ( Saikaku ichidai onna )
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Actors: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai, Toshirô Mifune
Plot: An aging prostitute, finding it harder and harder to attract any men - reflects on her life and how it came to be: once a lady-in-waiting at the Imperial Court, she found herself falling in love with a samurai - a man well below her station. Once discovered, her entire family was exiled and thus began her fall.
