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Second year in this challenge. Here are the original rules. I’ll be doing only Japanese movies again this year and no rewatches. Last year I hit 100, going to be tough to do again as some of those early years have so few movies translated (most having been destroyed altogether) that I may have seen everything easily available. 🤞 that I can!

Progress 47/52

• Flunky, Work Hard!
• Mr. Thank You
• Sanshiro Sugata
• Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
• Phoenix
• Carmen Comes Home
• Love Letter
• Sansho the Bailiff
• Forever a Woman
• Pure Emotions of the Sea

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Like I did last year for the 4s, I’m doing a 5s challenge this year. What the hell does that mean? It means I’ll watch 5 movies from every year ending with a 5 from 1935-2025 (35, 45, 55, etc). Try to make them all Japanese if I can find enough from 1935!

• Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
• Forever a Woman
• So Young, So Bright
• The Dancer and Two Warriors
• Frankenstein Conquers the World
• Ironfinger
• Murder Unincorporated
• Invasion of Astro-Monster
• Terror of Mechagodzilla
• New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the Japanese Live Action movies I’ve seen since starting Letterboxd

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• A1012K
• Abarenbo Shogun II – New Year’s Special
• Abnormal Family
• An Actor's Revenge
• Adventures of Zatoichi
• Agi, the Fury of Evil
• Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
• Angel Dust
• Any Crybabies Around?

...plus 488 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

It’s my favorite streaming service and here’s a list of everything I’ve watched here in 2025. I did 124 movies there last year, how many will I get to this year??

• Good Morning
• Thirst for Love
• Terror of Mechagodzilla
• Samaritan Zatoichi
• Kwaidan
• House
• The Face of Another
• Cruel Story of Youth
• Self Divination
• A Taxing Woman

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Hey, I had fun doing this last year for the wonderful Arrow Player and as I’ll likely get another annual subscription, let’s do it again for 2025! =)

I got to 59 watched in 2024, how many for 2025? If I go ahead with trying to watch every Japanese movie on the platform, it should be higher…

• New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
• Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter
• Black Rain
• Shikoku
• Killing
• Cops vs. Thugs
• Women Hell Song
• Wolf Guy
• Warning from Space
• Graveyard of Honor

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I love Arrow Player, and I love Japanese movies. Here’s a list of all Japanese movies available on Arrow Player both for Great Britain and the US.

Current as of early March 2025. Sorted by release date. Arrow has stopped listed what movies are leaving, so if you notice something on the list that isn’t on the service - mention in the comments and I’ll fix!

• The Invisible Man Appears
• Hiroshima
• Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
• Warning from Space
• The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly
• Giants and Toys
• Black Test Car
• The Mad Fox
• Wolves, Pigs & Men
• A Fugitive from the Past

...plus 159 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Inspired by this challenge from last year, I’ll watch 25 movies to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the year 1975! All Asian movies, because why not?

• Terror of Mechagodzilla
• New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
• Cops vs. Thugs
• Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
• Wolf Guy
• 13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats
• Graveyard of Honor
• Tora-san, the Intellectual

Original rules 

I’m doing all first time watch Japanese movies for the challenge, with all the Zaroichi I have to watch Z should be easy!

Progress: 23/27

# - 13 Steps of Maki 
A - April Story
B - Black Rain
C - Cruel Story of Youth
D - Danger Pays
E - Evil Does Not Exist
F - Face of Another, The
G - Good Morning
H - House
I - Imprint
J
K - Kwaidan
L - Love Letter
M - Miss ZOMBIE
N - New Battles Without Honor or Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
O - Our Little Sister
P - Pure Emotions of the Sea
Q
R - Riverside Mukolitta
S - Samaritan Zatoichi
T - Thirst for Love
U
V
W - When A Woman Ascends the Stairs
X - XX: Beautiful Beast
Y - Yumeno Kyusaku’s Girl Hell
Z - Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

• 13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats
• April Story
• Black Rain
• Cruel Story of Youth
• Danger Pays
• Evil Does Not Exist
• The Face of Another
• Good Morning
• House
• Imprint

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is a list of the top 250 Japanese live action movies. I’ve taken out animation and also co-productions where the director and/or cast is primarily non-Japanese. This leads to a few omissions like “Mishima” and “Perfect Days” both of which had a primarily or completely Japanese cast but were directed by non-Japanese directors. Also “Dersu Uzala” which is a Japanese director on a fully Russian production (it hurt me not to add it)

These are all sorted by Letterboxd’s “most popular” sort which isn’t about ratings but about the most active movies (i.e. Those with most logs and views).

I kept in some that others might see not quite fitting those previously mentioned criteria (like “Tora Tora Tora” “Norwegian Wood” and “Prisoners of the Ghostland”). Feel free to leave comments if you disagree with those choices, I may very well agree and remove it. :)

Current as of March 8, 2025

• Godzilla Minus One
• Seven Samurai
• Drive My Car
• House
• Monster
• Harakiri
• Shoplifters
• Cure
• Battle Royale
• Audition

...plus 240 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

It’s my second Japanuary, the best challenge ever.

Here are the original rules Thanks to Ben for this challenge!

Progress 42/43

We’ll see if I get all of them and if I do I have ideas for extra bonus categories.

• Killing
• Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
• Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01: Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman
• Imprint
• Porco Rosso
• A Taxing Woman
• Samurai Wolf
• Thirst for Love
• House
• Pure Emotions of the Sea

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Love the Criterion Channel! Here’s an ongoing list of all the movies I’ve watched on it in 2024

• A Hen in the Wind
• Crocus
• Shogun Assassin
• Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
• Daisies
• Lines of the Hand
• Supermarket Woman
• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• Marvel Mon Amour
• Zatoichi on the Road

...plus 114 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I enjoyed the 52 years in 52 Weeks challenge, so decided to expand it and try to get it to 100 years of Japanese cinema in 52 weeks. Should be fun!

• Tale of a Boy: Noble Heart
• A Page of Madness
• Skull
• Crossroads
• The Dawning Sky
• Walk Cheerfully
• Jirokichi the Rat
• Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
• Japanese Girls at the Harbor
• Our Neighbor, Miss Yae

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I’ve been having fun filling out my yearlong “Watch 50 movies from 1974” challenge and thought doing a similar but lower scale thing for all the “4 years” (I.e. 1984, 1994. Etc) from 1934-2024. My goal will be to get 5 movies from each of those years and I’m dating the challenge back to the start of the year so I’m starting 2/5 of the way completed.

• Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
• A Story of Floating Weeds
• Street Without End
• A Mother Should Be Loved
• My Elder Brother
• Jubilation Street
• Miyamoto Musashi
• The Most Beautiful
• The Way of Drama
• Army

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I turn 50 in May of this year and I thought it’d be a fun thing to try to watch 50 movies from my birth year of 1974 throughout 2024.

• Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
• Sister Street Fighter
• Evil of Dracula
• The Executioner
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
• The Street Fighter
• Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
• Demon Spies
• Return of the Street Fighter

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Arrow Player is my #2 favorite official streaming channel after Criterion. Here’s what I’ve watched there in 2024

• Ju-on: The Curse
• Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity
• The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
• Shinjuku Triad Society
• Eight Hours of Terror
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
• Tokyo Knights
• The Incorrigible
• Sister Street Fighter

...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Woman in the Mist
2. Family Diary
3. The 47 Ronin
4. Rainbow Hill
5. New Woman Question and Answer
6. Akanishi Kakita
7. Devoted Servant Naosuke
8. Sky of Hope
9. Sincerity
10. Mother of the Red Hands

...plus 93 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the horror movies and shorts that I watch during October 2024. Want to make it to 31

• Blood
• Maniac Driver
• Exte: Hair Extensions
• New Religion
• The Mummy's Hand
• Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night
• Lady Morgan's Vengeance
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch
• A Page of Madness
• Vampire Clay

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

It’s the watch 52 movies from 52 different years challenge. Here’s the original post

Here’s my list. Some from my watchlist, a few I’ve bought but not seen yet and some I’d never heard of until putting this list together. I made up this list beforehand and will work my way through it.

it’s all Japanese movies as well. Been enjoying Japanuary so much want to keep that going. My ultimate goal for 2024 is 100 different years of Japanese movies in 2024 as it’ll give me a much broader understanding of Japanese film.

No rewatches.

#52years24

PROGRESS: 51/52

• Jirokichi the Rat
• Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
• The Masseurs and a Woman
• Zoku Shimizu Minato
• Woman
• Ginza Cosmetics
• Lightning
• Sincere Heart
• The Crucified Lovers
• Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Cape’ril superhero/graphic novel challenge. 14/20 of my list are based on manga and comic and the other seven are action movies that are comic adjacent.

Progress 20/20

Original rules here:

A month for the enjoyment of superheroes. sci-fi/fantasy, and action-- rewatches are totally cool, so if you want to revisit some of your favorites, or give a movie a second chance, feel free to do so!
If you choose to participate, comment below with a link to your list. Tag lists and reviews with Caperil24.
Challenge: Watch between 10-30 superhero, sci-fi/fantasy, or action movies in April.
Guidelines:-- At least half of the movies you watch for this challenge should be superhero movies or movies adapted from graphic novels. So if you watch 10, 5 should be superhero movies, if you watch 30, 15 should be superhero movies.-- The remaining movies should be movies that are sci-fi/fantasy or action.

• Alita: Battle Angel
• Attack on Titan
• Attack on Titan II: End of the World
• Blade of the Immortal
• Bohachi Bushido: The Villain
• The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
• Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon
• Hanzo, the Razor
• Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
• Lady Snowblood

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I only found out “Japanuary” was a thing on the 19th of January when I’d already had 20 some Japanese movies watched this month. After the 19th I got the original rules and tried to fill out the categories. I got 41 movies and 20 of the categories. I’d hoped to get one movie for each decade from the 1930s-2020s, but the 2000s just didn’t happen (much like in my own life, they were a “lost decade”). The list is sorted in the order I watched them.

This challenge was a great way to get a better sense of a wider range of directors. Found some real gems here and even the few I didn’t like gave me a broader sense of the width and breadth of Japanese films. I watched movies in Bangkok, Hong Kong and Taipei for the challenge. And special shout out to illness that confined me to bed for a few days which really added to the overall number of movies watched.

Thanks so much to Ben for organising this amazing challenge. Now on to February where I can get back to watching more Japanese movies.

Here’s a list of the categories I hit. I hope to get them all crossed off in 2025!

1- Teruo Ishii (Bohachi)
2- Shinya Tsukamoto (Kotoko)
3- Takashi Miike (Rainy Dog)
5- Hayao Miyazaki (Boy and Heron)
10- Masahiro Shinoda (Pale Flower)
11- Seijun Suzuki (Go To she’ll Bastards)
12- Kinji Fukasaku (Doberman Cop)
13- Shinji Somai (Sailor Suit and Machine Gun)
17- Keisuke Kinoshita (Woman)
19- Kinuyo Tanaka (Girls of the Night)
25- Ishiro Honda (Rodan)
26- Hiroshi Shimizu (Masseurs and a Woman)
29- Yasujiro Ozu (Hen in the Wind)

33- Pink Violence (Delinquent Girl Boss)
34- Samurai (Zatoichi on the Road)
35- J-Horror (Snake Girl and the Silver Haired Witch)
37- Tokusatsu (Along with Ghosts)
38- Short Film (Gamera 2015)
41- Yakuza (Woman Gambler’s Iron Rule)
42- Recommendations by Ben (On-Gaku)

• A Hen in the Wind
• Shogun Assassin
• Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
• Supermarket Woman
• Zatoichi on the Road
• Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
• Play It Cool
• The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
• It's Tough Being a Man
• Truck Rascals: No One Can Stop Me

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Ranking the Full Moon/Empire Pictures/Random Charles Band produced movies I’ve seen since 2021

• Bloodstone: Subspecies II
• Puppet Master 4
• Puppet Master III
• Puppet Master II
• Puppet Master
• Trancers
• Subspecies
• Dark Angel: The Ascent
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• Head of the Family

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

From www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a35169/the-50-best-horror-films-from-the-1980s/

• The Shining
• The Thing
• Aliens
• Possession
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Evil Dead II
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
• The Fog
• Tenebre
• Videodrome

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

From Wikipedia list en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Full_Moon_Features_productions

The “golden years” with Paramount money

• Crash and Burn
• Puppet Master II
• Dollman
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• Puppet Master III
• Subspecies
• Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth
• Bad Channels
• Demonic Toys
• Doctor Mordrid

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

From Wikipedia list: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Full_Moon_Features_productions

• Puppet Master
• Meridian
• Shadowzone

• Shoeshine
• Monsieur Vincent
• Bicycle Thieves
• The Walls of Malapaga
• Rashomon
• Forbidden Games
• Gate of Hell
• Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
• La Strada
• Nights of Cabiria

...plus 63 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

To the best of my ability I’ll be watching one Halloween-ish movie or short a day from 10/1/21 through 10/31/21

• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
• Hellraiser
• Frankenstein
• Frankenstein
• Midnight Offerings
• The Spiral
• The Vampire Doll
• Coven
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Muppets Haunted Mansion

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.