241.	View Larger Image	Cure Actor: Masato Hagiwara Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
		From Amazon.com In the hands of director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a serial-killer movie is not merely a serial-killer movie. Cure doesn't so much scream and shout as drive the audience slowly crazy--much like Kurosawa's subsequent creepfests, Seance and Pulse (a.k.a. Kairo). Koji Yakusho, the happy-foot husband in Shall We Dance, plays a weary detective on a baffling murder case, which paradoxically becomes even more ... more Buy from Amazon

242.	View Larger Image	Son of Godzilla Actors: Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo Director: Jun Fukuda
		From Amazon.com The monster-about-town becomes doting dad when he adopts orphan lizard Minilla, the result of a radioactive storm caused by a scientific experiment gone wrong. This decidedly juvenile affair shows signs of the series' cost-cutting measures and Godzilla himself has been redesigned to reflect his new, younger audience, with an oversize head and big, doll-like eyes. This kindler, gentler lizard king proceeds ... more Buy from Amazon

243.	View Larger Image	Inugami Director: Masato Harada
		From Description The Bonomiya family’s women are the protectors of the Inugami (evil spirits). If the Bonomiya women fail to keep watch over the spirits – or worse, if they decide to use them for revenge – then the Inugami will run wild in the village looking for blood. Middle-aged family member Miki leads a lonely life as a traditional papermaker in a ... more Buy from Amazon

244.	View Larger Image	Blind Beast Director: Yasuzo Masumura
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245.	View Larger Image	Female Prisoner #701 - Scorpion Director: Shunya Ito
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246.	View Larger Image	Calamari Wrestler Director: Minoru Kawasaki
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247.	View Larger Image	Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto - Criterion Collection Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
		From Amazon.com Toshirô Mifune defines the quintessential samurai in Hiroshi Inagaki's 1954 Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, the first feature in a trilogy based on the epic novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. As in Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai, which appeared the same year, Mifune plays a brash and ambitious peasant who desires fame and power as a swordsman. His dreams of glory in war sour ... more Buy from Amazon

248.	View Larger Image	Avalon Actors: Malgorzata Foremniak, Wladyslaw Kowalski Director: Mamoru Oshii
		From Amazon.com Occupying a hazardous fantasy war zone located somewhere between David Cronenberg's eXistenZ and the Matrix trilogy, Mamoru Oshii's Avalon is a must-see entry in the subgenre of virtual-reality thrillers. Combining live-action set in a dystopian near future (filmed in Poland) and digital imagery set within a state-sponsored virtual combat game called Avalon, this sluggishly paced but visually dazzling film is another ... more Buy from Amazon

249.	View Larger Image	The Lower Depths (Kurosawa 1957) / The Lower Depths (Renoir 1936) - Criterion Collection Director: Akira Kurosawa
		From Amazon.com essential video Criterion's two-disc double bill of The Lower Depths provides a scintillating lesson in comparative cinema. When Jean Renoir adapted Maxim Gorky's acclaimed 1902 play in 1936, he changed the setting from Czarist Russia to an unspecified French slum, casting the great Jean Gabin as a thief struggling to rise from his misery, and Louis Jouvet as the benevolent Baron, a flat-broke ... more Buy from Amazon

250.	View Larger Image	Kill! - Criterion Collection Director: Kihachi Okamoto
		From Description In this pitch-black action comedy by Kihachi Okamoto, a pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the ... more Buy from Amazon