I didn't go through the thread at all, but I'm taking a class on Japanese film history right now, and I luckily got a really awesome professor who's hopping back and forth between mainstream films and crazy indie bullshit so we're really getting the whole picture. Today we watched most of Funeral Parade of Roses from 1969, which was a modern retelling of Oedipus Rex in Tokyo's gay underground scene, and it was a part of the Japanese New Wave movement. It was pretty awesome and hilarious. I highly recommend Woman of the Dunes or Zigeunerweisen as well. Woman of the Dunes is a 1964 film based on a 1962 novel about a man who gets trapped in some sand and forced into slavery with a strange woman. It gets really nuts and was awesome. Zigeunerweisen I can't even begin to explain. All I can say is it was really rad. It was early 80's I believe. It was all over the place.
Outside of that class, I gotta throw up the ultimate team of Jenet and Caro, the French duo who made Delicatessin and City of Lost Children, which are both insanely incredible.
And as always, I highly recommend Happiness of the Katakuris by Takashi Miike to anybody who will listen. It's a musical, and it has claymation, and zombies, and it's about a family really learning how to stick together. It's got EVERYTHING. You can't not love it.
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