 Godzilla 2000 1999  PG, 97 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi / Action / Horror / Thriller
Director: Takao Okawara
Cast: Takehiro Murata, Naomi Nishida, Mayu Suzuki, Hiroshi Abe, Shiro Sano, Tsutomu Kitagawa, Natalia Adams, Koichi Ueda, Shelley Sweeney, Amy Hill, Ron Yuan
This Japanese version of Godzilla strikes back against US productions–horrible dubbing included. In this Godzilla flick, over 500 digital effects are on screen contributing to the story of Godzilla fighting against a new monster, Orga (voice of Natalia Adams), an alien blasted from a 60-million-year-old rock!
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Happiness of the Katakuris 2001  R, 113 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Kenji Sawada, Naomi Nishida, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Tetsuro Tamba, Naoto Takenaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano, Moeko Ezawa, Tamaki Miyazaki, Takashi Matsuzaki, Kenichi Endo, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Yoshiki Arizono, Chihiro Asakawa, Yumeki Kanazawa
This dark musical comedy concerns the dysfunctional Katakuri family as they renovate and then open a lodge in a remote part of Japan. It is expected that tourism will boom when the projected highway is built. But the problems start with the first guest, a sickly man, who commits suicide. Not wanting bad publicity, they bury the body in the backyard. The next guest, likewise, dies–of a heart attack, and so it goes with guest after guest, and the ground fills with bodies. Still no highway, but the nearby volcano adds to their problems.
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2. Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
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