91. |
![]() View Larger Image |
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie Director: Gisaburo Sugii | |
Buy from Amazon |
92. |
![]() View Larger Image |
Lone Wolf and Cub-Baby in the Land of Demons Director: Kenji Misumi | |
Buy from Amazon |
93. |
![]() View Larger Image |
Akira Actors: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo | |
From Amazon.com essential video Artist-writer Katsuhiro Ôtomo began telling the story of Akira as a comic book series in 1982 but took a break from 1986 to 1988 to write, direct, supervise, and design this animated film version. Set in 2019, the film richly imagines the new metropolis of Neo-Tokyo, which is designed from huge buildings down to the smallest details of passing vehicles or ... more Buy from Amazon |
94. |
![]() View Larger Image |
Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie Director: Kazunori Ikegami | |
From Amazon.com True to its Sega video-game roots, this futuristic 60-minute movie includes a lot of yelling, crashing, and exploding on the way to saving the world. Sonic and his sidekicks are determined to thwart a plan that would turn their Land of the Sky into the equivalent of The Land of Darkness, which lurks beneath the surface (and is obviously the former ... more Buy from Amazon |
95. |
![]() View Larger Image |
Early Summer - Criterion Collection Director: Yasujiro Ozu | |
From Amazon.com Like any of Yasujiro Ozu's best-known films, Early Summer is a marvel of cinematic simplicity, revealing layers of depth through multiple viewings. It may seem at first that Ozu's family tale is too simple, but looks are deceiving, and closer study reveals an intensely structured, highly formalized example of Ozu's transcendental realism, focusing on the dilemma of 28-year-old Noriko (played by ... more Buy from Amazon |
96. |
![]() View Larger Image |
Crazed Fruit (Criterion Collection) Director: Kô Nakahira | |
From Amazon.com Crazed Fruit ushered in a new era for Japanese cinema. Shot in 17 days (extravagant by Nikkatsu Studio standards), the film's strong language, intimations of casual sex, and complete disregard for authority, would unsettle an entire nation, while blazing a path for the likes of Seijun Suzuki and Nagisa Oshima. (Even François Truffaut was impressed.) It begins one leisurely summer as ... more Buy from Amazon |
97. |
![]() View Larger Image |
One Missed Call Actor: Kou Shibasaki | |
Buy from Amazon |
98. |
![]() View Larger Image |
Dark Water Director: Hideo Nakata | |
From Amazon.com Dark Water is Japanese horror auteur Hideo Nakata's return to the genre after his Ring cycle made you too scared to watch television ever again. Where Ringu dealt with a supernatural force wreaking revenge via technology, this film is a much more traditional ghost story. After winning a custody battle for her daughter, single mother Yoshimi moves into what she thinks ... more Buy from Amazon |
99. |
![]() View Larger Image |
Lady Snowblood Director: Toshiya Fujita | |
From Amazon.com A flamboyantly blood-spattered samurai revenge picture with a twist: the implacable seeker of retribution is a slender female (Meiko Kaji) with a flawless ivory complexion and a dead-center killer stare. Born in prison, Snowblood is raised by a martial priest and trained to fulfill a single purpose: tracking down, and dismembering (or bisecting), the four cackling fiends who killed her father ... more Buy from Amazon |
100. |
![]() View Larger Image |
Destroy All Monsters Director: Ishirô Honda | |
From Amazon.com When a malevolent race of Moonwomen try to put the big hurt on Earth, it's up to (take a deep breath) Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Anguilas, Minya, Manda, Baragon, and Spigas to resist their evil mind control and make the world safe for monster (and human) kind! Long unavailable on video, Destroy All Monsters is the crowning achievement of the Japanese monster ... more Buy from Amazon |