181. Family Game, The
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Actors: Yusaku Matsuda, Juzo Itami, Saori Yuki, Ichirota Miyagawa, Junichi Tsujita, Yoneko Matsukane
182. Funeral, The ( Ososhiki )
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Juzo Itami
Actors: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai, Hideji Otaki, Isao Bitoh, Midori Ebina
183. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Actors: Richard Epcar, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Crispin Freeman, William Knight, Michael McCarty, Joey D'Auria
Plot: Batô, the living cyborg working for Public Security Section 9, investigates a case where a pleasure model female robot has killed her owner. But in 2032, the line between humanity and cybernetics is becoming more and more blurred as humans live out there every whim - in all this a lonely ghost of man seeks to reclaim his own humanity.
184. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs ( Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki )
Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mikio Naruse
Actors: Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Ganjiro Nakamura
185. Tokyo Drifter ( Tôkyô nagaremono )
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Actors: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Ryuji Kita, Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Hideaki Esumi
Plot: A man joins his yakuza boss by going on the straight and narrow, but when a rival gang threatens to pull the men back into a life of crime and gang warfare he must become a drifter and keep his old boss out of that life.
186. Rhapsody in August ( Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku )
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Sachiko Murase, Hisashi Igawa, Narumi Kayashima, Tomoko Otakara, Richard Gere, Mitsunori Isaki
187. Afrosamurai
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Takashi Okazaki
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Kelly Hu, Ron Perlman, Jason Marsden, Tara Strong, Yuri Lowenthal
188. Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, The ( Zangiku monogatari )
Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Actors: Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kôkichi Takada, Gonjurô Kawarazaki, Kakuko Mori, Tokusaburo Arashi, Yôko Umemura
Plot: Tokyo, 1888, Kikunosuke Onoue is the adopted son of a famous actor who learns that all his praise is due to his father and that behind his back no one takes him seriously. His only true friend is Otoku, a wet-nurse, but the relationship is frowned upon and she is fired. But Kikunosuke follows her despite the scandal. She encourages him to become a true actor and regain the family name.
189. Cure
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Actors: Kôji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Yoriko Douguchi, Yukijiro Hotaru
Plot: A series of gruesome murders sweeps Tokyo - each murderer is found near the victim with no recollection of having killed anyone. A young, strange man is the only tentative link to the crimes and he starts having an effect on the people around him.
190. Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue
Actors: Steve Burton, Rachel Leigh Cook, Mena Suvari, Crispin Freeman, George Newbern, Christy Carlson Romano
Plot: A planet is ravaged by the "Geostigma" disease and an ex-mercenary decides to fight again when three mysterious men begin kidnapping children sticken with the sickness.
