Favorite non-anime Japanese movies?

What are some of your favorite non-anime Japanese movies? 964 Pinocchio, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Tokyo Story, Fireworks, and House are some of my all time favs, Japanese or not

hmm, that would be tough as I've seen more dramas than movies. But if I were to name a few, Norwegian Wood, Outrage, Battle Royal (not the second, the second kinda sucked). Hmm, I know there are more, but can't think of their names.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man was great, I need to drop some acid and watch it sometime because I already felt like I was tripping from just watching it. Also The Machine Girl, Tokyo Gore Police, Meatball Machine, Mutant Girls Squad, Robo-Geisha, Visitor Q, Gozu, Ichi The Killer, Gothic & Lolita Psycho, Gothic Lolita Battle Bear, Vesus, Death Trance, Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead, Deadball, Splatter: Naked Blood, Audition, Kuchisake-onna, Helldriver, Moonchild, Suicide Club, Azumi, Rurouni Kenshin, etc

The Devil's Experiment, The Flower of Flesh and Blood, and Mermaid in a Manhole are the only ones in the series I've seen. They're a series of slasher films with weird psychological-horror premises. Mermaid in a Manhole was my fav of what I saw because the first two are mostly just straight gore, though some of the monologues in The Flower of Flesh and Blood are pretty neat. There's like seven or eight of them total.

I haven't seen a whole lot (though the few I did see, were very disturbing). But, I will say that one of my favorite movies to come from Japan is Battle Royale. The tension, the suspense, the brutality, the brilliance of it all. Definitely a good watch, just not for the weak-hearted, trust me on that one. Of course, it's nowhere near as crazy as Tokyo Gore Police or The Audition.

DJ T-Tom has just become my favorite person of the day for my favorite is also Battle Royale. However for completely different reasons. I found the movie to be highly amusing for the simple fact that either the Japanese have superb tolerances for pain or something. Cause they were having complete conversations while getting shot to hell. THough over all I liked it if a few more elements from the manga were put in it would be X rated but still pretty fucking amazing like the one chick that seduced people and killed them.

I haven't delved very deep into Japanese cinema, but I did see Battle Royale several times when I was a teenager. It's weird because I never liked gore or uber-violent movies, but something about BR made it work. Now if you want a real journey into the realm of insanity, go watch Wild Zero. It's proof that no matter what country you come from, movies made by musicians are utterly ridiculous.