vengeorgeb
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Registered: 2008-12-22
Posts: 308
Hi everyone,
I am opening this topic to hear recommendations on movies about Japan and its culture. For example, "Lost in Translation" or "Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift"
Those two movies, show you around Japan and even if just a little they work because they are set in Japan. Actually, if you allow me, I hated "Fast and Furious 3" and have little respect for the whole franchise but that's another story.
So if you are recommending Japanese films, dramas, anime, or Western / European / Whatever, documentaries, etc., please consider the following sole request:
Realistic: Shows you a real view of Japan.
Like, I watched this movie, "Shinigami no seido", and is pretty cool but really no helpful to my goal which is get a "feeling" of what Japan is really about, unless there are actually shinigami's everywhere lol
Thanks.
Last edited by jorgebucaran (2009 May 14, 3:51 am)
kyotokanji
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From: Kyoto
Registered: 2007-03-20
Posts: 160
I think that "Nobody Knows" hits the nail on the head, a perefect tale of where the Japanese attitude of leaving others to their own buisness goes terribly wrong.
Also, "Afterlife" is very good, a film about the space between life and the afterlife. Shows the evryday life and experience of normal folk in Japan.
If you ask me, don't bother with that Tokyo Drift rubbish, looked to me like a deluded American teenager's fantasy of what they dream Japan to be like. The "actors" in it didn't even look Japanese or act like Japanese at all.
