261.	View Larger Image	Twelve Kingdoms - Chapter 6 - Oppression Director: Tsuneo Kobayashi
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262.	View Larger Image	The Sea Is Watching Actors: Misa Shimizu, Nagiko Tono, Masatoshi Nagase, Hidetaka Yoshioka Director: Kei Kumai
		From Amazon.com To film lovers around the world, The Sea Is Watching is a welcome parting gift from Akira Kurosawa, who wrote the screenplay based on two short stories by one of his favorite authors, Syugoro Yamamoto, but was unable to make the film prior to his death in 1998. Kurosawa left detailed storyboards and production notes, entrusting veteran director Kei Kumai to ... more Buy from Amazon

263.	View Larger Image	Tokyo Olympiad - Criterion Collection Director: Kon Ichikawa
		From Amazon.com essential video The 1964 Olympics in Tokyo were a milestone as much for the intense athletic competition as the joyous commemoration of Japan's recovery following its defeat in World War II. Director Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp, Fires on the Plain) created an epic film of the event, a documentary that covered the entire athletic competition while also capturing the surrounding atmosphere. Early ... more Buy from Amazon

264.	View Larger Image	Ringu 2 Director: Hideo Nakata
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265.	View Larger Image	Godzilla Vs Hedorah Director: Yoshimitsu Banno
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266.	View Larger Image	Warm Water Under A Red Bridge Actors: Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu Director: Shohei Imamura
		From Amazon.com This strange fable of a movie, like other movies by Japanese director Shohei Imamura (The Eel, Dr. Akagi), is both enchanting and perplexing. After being laid off, a salesman (Koji Yakusho) travels to a small town to seek out a treasure hidden by an elderly friend of his. Instead, he finds a young woman who has a peculiar condition: she releases ... more Buy from Amazon

267.		Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage Directors: Takeshi Shirado, Toshio Masuda
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268.	View Larger Image	Eko Eko Azarak - Wizard of Darkness Director: Shimako Sato
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269.	View Larger Image	Tokyo Godfathers Actors: Toru Emori, Aya Okamoto, Yoshiaki Umegaki Directors: Shôgo Furuya, Satoshi Kon
		From Amazon.com Satoshi Kon's third feature (following Perfect Blue and Millennium Actress) confirms his status as one of the most interesting directors working in anime. Tokyo Godfathers centers on three homeless people: Hana, a flamboyant ex-drag entertainer; Gin, an alcoholic former bicycle racer; and Miyuki, a sullen teenage runaway. Their tenuous existence becomes more chaotic when they set out to find the parents ... more Buy from Amazon

270.	View Larger Image	Steamboy (UMD Mini For PSP) Actors: Anna Paquin, Patrick Stewart, Alfred Molina Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo
		From Amazon.com The first feature Katsuhiro Otomo has written and directed since his watershed Akira (1988), Steamboy offers a fantastic, sepia-toned vision of the past-as-future. In place of the dystopic Neo-Tokyo of Akira, Steamboy is set in England in 1866. Young Ray Steam receives a Steam Ball, a mysterious, powerful device, from his inventor grandfather. Governments and businesses covet the Steam Ball, and ... more Buy from Amazon