111. Death Note ( Desu nôto )
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Adventure/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Asaka Seto, Erika Toda, Shunji Fujimura, Shigeki Hosokawa
Plot: Adapted from a highly popular manga, with original charcters and plot
twists developed only for live-action film.
Ace Student Light Yagami finds the death note a notebook intentionally
drpped by a rouge "shinigami" death god named ryuk. Any human whose name
is written in the notebook dies upset with the current justice system
light takes matters into his own hands and vows to use the power of the
death note to rid the world of all evil, and become "the god of the ne
world." A mysterious detective known as "L" quickly learns the serial
killer, Nicknamed "kira" by the public, is located in japan. Light
realizes that L will be his greatest enemy, and a game of psychological
cat and mouse between the two begins.
112. 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, Youki Kudoh, Li Gong
Plot: The story of how a young fisherman's daughter became a geisha.
113. Ringu
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hideo Nakata
Actors: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato, Yoichi Numata
Plot: A reporter investigates a video tape that is supposed to kill you seven
days after viewing it.
114. 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, Sue Ulu, Tristan MacAvery
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.
115. 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, Miyuki Kuwano, Shinichirô Mikami
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).
116. 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, Shohei Tanaka, Kirin Kiki
117. 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, Kazuhiko Inoue, Risa Mizuno
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.
118. 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, Noriaki Sugiyama, Kentarô Itô
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.
119. Street Fighter, The ( Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken )
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Shigehiro Ozawa
Actors: Sonny Chiba, Goichi Yamada, Yutaka Nakajima, Tony Cetera, Masafumi Suzuki, Masashi Ishibashi
Plot: Terry a tough mercenary and karate master is hired by the Mafia and Yakuza to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy oil magnate. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, he survives the attempt on his life and sells his service to protect the daughter instead.
120. 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, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Chocho Miyako
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.
