Excursions to Japan

A list of the films I’ve seen from Japan, listed alphabetically (including those made by foreigners in Japan).

This list is dedicated to Alexandra Michel Hopkins, because she asked it to be.

Clint Eastwood
-Letters from Iwo Jima: This was the first Japanese film (or, film in Japanese) that I ever saw. I had been much more curious for this film than for Eastwood’s other from that year, and so, when I put it on, my eyes eagerly awaited brilliance. The film portrayed the Japanese as soldiers dedicated to their cause, but who were also wary of the war, and who were very much so human....