What are some essential Japanese Kino?

Samurai is kino but op asked for modern.

I've been doing the same thing. Burning through Kurosawa movies.

I'd recommend Lone Wolf and Cub movies. there are six of them and they are awesome .

Another good one is Incident at Blood Pass.

Rainy Dog is good if you're interested in a grounded Miike film. That was the first film of his that I watched, and I was so disappointed to find out afterwards that most of his other films are very different stylistically

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Departures is kino

Tekeshi's Outrage films are pretty great

I coughed up 70$ for the criterion bluray set of lone wolf, and it was worth every cent. Incident was kinda boring in my opinion tho.
This is funny and weird, Space Brothers is pretty good to if you havnt seen it.

Im an idiot, I thought space brothers had something to do with Hitoshi Matsumoto. It's entertaining but my bringing it was irrelevant.

jap movies suck
always have shit pacing, make you remember 4000 different characters who all have the same names, scenes just often happen with no connecting scenes between them
only good jap movies i watched were blue spring and harakiri

Shit take user. I bet you've watched all of 4 jap movies, and only liked 2.

(You)

ive seen closer to 10, no reason to watch more when most of them were shit

You are a moron.

Love Exposure

Not that user but let's be real people overrate the shit out of Japanese movies on Yas Forums and other websites dominated by westerners.

Yas Forums is weeb central so i don't expect people to not praise anything Japanese made.

Imagine watching only 10 American films, and then judging all American films based on those 10

>overrate the shit out of Japanese movies
what the fuck are you on about? There are bad Japanese movies and good ones. Just like with every other nation.

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Yeah definitely. Only Yas Forums knows how shit asians are at making.

You can still overrate a Japanese movie? I don't know how this is confusing. I'm saying people are going to overrate shit anyway just because its Japanese. It has nothing to do with my opinion of the movie. Obviously there are a katrillion Japanese movies that I've never seen..

I liked Shoplifters

>I'm saying people are going to overrate shit anyway just because its Japanese
Maybe on this website, but not on many others. Some places like Letterboxd will overrate films because they're not American, but not specifically Japanese films. Also, a lot of Americans will tend to only watch the famous and popular foreign films because they're famous, and usually those ones are good

Unfortunately i have to phonepost, internet get set up tomorrow but heres a shitty picture of my jap folders.

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You're definitely right this phenomenon isn't unique to Japan. People also underrate American movies, as an inverse. I saw this article that was so upsetting once, something like, "great praise of great directors from other directors". And the way it worked was each director (Fellini, Ozu, Kurosawa, etc) would have their own section, and in their section, there would be the quotes from the other directors. And Orson Welles had so many lovely and insightful things to say, and obviously he's great, but he didn't get his own section. No American filmmakers did. It was so silly.

I'm not saying I'm much better on the subject of watching just the most famous or interesting films from a different country. Generally I just watch what looks good to me for that day but I'm sure there's a ton of secret masterpieces from Japan and other countries that I haven't seen.