141. 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, Toshiaki Konoe, Kiyoko Tsuji
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.
142. Picture Bride
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Kayo Hatta
Actors: Youki Kudoh, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tamlyn Tomita, Akira Takayama, Yôko Sugi, Christianne Mays
143. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai ( Ichimei )
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Kôji Yakusho, Naoto Takenaka, Eita, Hikari Mitsushima, Ebizô Ichikawa, Kazuki Namioka
144. Café Lumière ( Kôhî jikô )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hsiao-hsien Hou
Actors: Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo, Nenji Kobayashi
145. Sword of the Stranger ( Sutorejia: Mukô hadan )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Masahiro Andô
Actors: Yûki Chinen, Tomoya Nagase, Akio Ôtsuka, Naoto Takenaka, Kôichi Yamadera
146. Reincarnation ( Rinne )
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Actors: Yûka, Karina, Kippei Shiina, Tetta Sugimoto, Shun Oguri, Marika Matsumoto
Plot: Nagisa Sugiura is a young aspiring actor that lands a role in a horror movie based on a real incident where a man took his familiy on vacation to a hotel. There he first killed his family then he killed the entire staff before he took his own life. From the moment the young actor leaves the audition she begin to see people that nobody else can see.
147. Ju-On: The Grudge
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Actors: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa, Kanji Tsuda, Kayako Shibata
Plot: A house with a violent past curses anyone who steps inside.
148. Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal ( Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan: Tsuioku hen )
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Actors: Mayo Suzukaze, Junko Iwao, Nozomu Sasaki, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Yôko Ogai, Shûichi Ikeda
Plot: A young boy named Shinta is saved from death in the bandit raid by Hiko Seijuro. Hiko offers to properly train him to give him the power to protect. This is the tragic story of how Rurouni Kenshin receives the scar on his face.
149. Raccoon War, The aka Pom Poko ( Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko )
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Isao Takahata
Actors: Shinchô Kokontei, Makoto Nonomura, Shigeru Izumiya, Akira Kamiya, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Yuriko Ishida
Plot: Urban encroachment threatens a magical, shapeshifting raccoons and they launch a desperate struggle in order to prevent their extinction.
150. Twilight Samurai, The ( Tasogare Seibei )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yôji Yamada
Actors: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi, Ren Osugi, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Hiroshi Kanbe
