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I'm bored, so time to start a topic. I've seen a decent number of Movies and TV shows from Japan, but I'm always looking for some new ones...
So what are your favorite tv shows and Movies from asia? I'm looking for some new stuff to watch.

Noteable movies...
Battle Royale (duh)

The H!P movies. Pinch Runner (fav movie), Seishun Bakachin Ryorijuku, the soccer movie forget the name lol, Last Present (FREAKING SAD ASS MOVIE! depressing as hell, at least when you know a bunch about the actresses and like them a bunch. Can Abe Natsumi get some love? lol)

RPG, good murder mystery featuring Goto Maki as a crazy killer girl, awesome movie lol.

many more

Tv shows...
UTABAN! (freaking rocks so hard, fav show ever)
Hello Morning
HEY HEY HEY music Champ
Mechaike
Gakou e Ikou
Ayu Ready
Guru Guru ninety nine

others, but that's the main ones. Watching Hello Morning New years special right now, so priceless lol.

My favorite was a show called endurance. It was the first exteme game show i had ever seen and is still probably the funniest.

When I was in Japan like, 2 years ago, I watched this game show on TV called 'Sumo Rider,' at least I think that's what it was called. They had a bunch of guys dressed up like 50's bikers, driving these little motorcycles around in a circle, and they had to like, improv rap one after the other, I think continuing on what the person before them was saying. I'm not really sure of the premise of it, but when someone screwed up, a full sized sumo wrestler would run out of this door, kick their ass up and down the stage, then run back into his hideout.
So, essentially, I was watching a bunch of japanese guys get their asses kicked by a fat dude. It doesn't matter what the premise was, because it was damn funny.

I'm going to go left-field and suggest my absolute favorite japanese movie, which is neither very crazy or unusual: Ping-Pong. Very obvious what it involves, following a group of players through their high school years. Great stuff. Aside from that, I'll stand behind any of Miike's movies (of course, some better than others) and Higuchinsky's work with Junji Ito (Uzumaki, Long Dream). If you're into the cute girls angle, go with Shimotsumo Monogatari; most recent japanese flick I've watched, and definitely worth seeing.

Bionix wrote:My favorite was a show called endurance. It was the first exteme game show i had ever seen and is still probably the funniest.

they did the endurance on a Morning Musume Christmas special a few years ago with dacho club. Those guys are hilarious, as was the show.
Morning Musume 13 gakari Christmas special. Something like that.

If you guys are into crazy Japanese game shows then I'd highly recommend you getting ahold of the Japanarama series of videos. There's three volumes and each one is two hours of hilarious Japanese craziness.