Kato Shigeaki's recommendations

[x_natsumi]

Hi guys!

I finally ended this "project" that I began years ago.

Here is a list of Shige's recommendations of books, movies, manga & anime, I did this after reading spilledmilk25 's translations (2009 - 2015), so, it's not an actualized list U_U

I added the year, director and the country of the movies. I apologize if I added any of the countries wrongly (Please, tell me if that happens, to could fix it). I already read some books and watched some movies, but I still have a long way to go ^^U.

I highly recommend Shige's recommendations lol



[Books]

• “Smoke, Soil or Sacrifices” by Maijo Outaro (JP)
• "Minshuku Yukiguni" by Higuchi Takehiro (JP)
• "Hokanaranu Hito e" by Shiraishi Kazufumi (JP)
• "Mariabeetle" by Isaka Kotaro (JP)
• “Wagahai neko de aru" by Natsume Soseki (JP)
• "Genocide" by Takano Kazuaki (JP)
• “Norvegian Wood” by Haruki Murakami (JP)
• “Minoue Banashi” by Sato Shogo (JP)
• “Kiraware Matsuko no Issho" by Muneki Yamada (JP)
• "Ashura Gāru" by Maijo Outaro (JP)
• "Ningen Shikkaku" by Dazai Osamu (JP)
• "Froth on the Daydream" by Boris Vian (FR)
• “The Door into Summer" by Robert A. Heinlein (USA)
• "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury (USA)
• "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury (USA)
• "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway (USA)
• "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger (USA)
• “Catcher in the rye” by J. D. Salinger (USA)
• "The door into summer" by Robert Anson Heinlein (USA)
• "The Arrival" by Shaun Tan (Australia)

[Movies]

• “Shame” (2011, Steve McQueen, UK)
• “The skin I live in” (2011, Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
• “Drive” (2011, Nicolas Winding Refn, USA)
• “Kirishima, bukatsu yameru tteyo” (2012, Daihachi Yoshida, Japan)
• “The Yellow Sea” (2010, Na Hong-jin, Korea)
• “Arirang” (2011, Kim Ki-duk, Korea)
• "The Intouchables" (2011, Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano, France)
• "Midnight in Paris" (2011, Woody Allen, USA)
• "Sunny" (2011, Kang Hyeong-cheol, Korea)
• “Paper Moon” (1973, Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
• “J.Edgar” (2011, Clint Eastwood, USA)
• “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (2011, David Fincher, USA, Sweden, UK)
• “Melancholia” (2011, Lars von Trier)
• "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006, Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton, USA)
• “Blue Valentine” (2010, Derek Cianfrance, USA)
• “The Social Network” (2010, David Fincher, USA)
• “I Saw the Devil” (2010, Kim Ji-Woon, Korea)
• “The Fighter” (2010, David O. Russell, USA)
• “The Devil's Double” (2011, Lee Tamahori, Belgian-Dutch)
• “A Single Man” (2009, Tom Ford, USA)
• “Himizu” (2011, Sono Shion, Japan)
• “Punch-Drunk Love” (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
• “(500) Days of Summer” (2009, Marc Webb, USA)
• “Adaptation” (2002, Charlie Kaufman, USA)
• "Pan's Labyrinth" (2006, Guillermo del Toro, Mexico, Spain)
• "Magnolia" (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
• “50/50” (2011, Jonathan Levine, USA)
• “Tokyo Monogatari" (1953, Yasujirō Ozu, Japan)
• “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975, Jim Sharman, USA, UK)
• “Josee, the Tiger and the Fish” (2003, Isshin Inudo, Japan)
• “Oasis” (2002, Lee Chang-dong, Korea)
• "3-IRON" (2004, Kim Ki-duk, Korea)
• “Let the Right One In” (2008, Tomas Alfredson, Sweden)
• “War Horse” (2011, Steven Spielberg, British-American)
• "7 samurai" (1954, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
• "Taxi Driver" (1976, Martin Scorsese, USA)
• “A Clockwork Orange” (1971, Stanley Kubrick, USA, UK)
• “Aku no Kyōten” (2012, Takashi Miike, Japan)
• "Battle Royale" (2000, Kinji Fukasaku, Japan)
• "Les Miserables" (2012, Tom Hooper, USA, UK)
• “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” (1964, Jacques Demy, France)
• "Bronson" (2008, Nicolas Winding Refn, British)
• “Silver Linings Playbook” (2012, David O. Russell, USA)
• "Django Unchained" (2012, Quentin Tarantino, USA)
• "The Cabin in the Woods" (2011, Drew Goddard, USA)
• "Flashback Memories 3D" (2012, Tetsuaki Matsue, Japan)

[Manga]

• “AKIRA” by Katsuhiro Otomo
• "Nijigahara Holograph" by Asano Inio
• “Solanin” (ソラニン, Soranin)” by Asano Inio
• "Subarashii Sekai" by Asano Inio
• “Mushi to uta" by Ichikawa Haruko
• “I"s” by Masakazu Katsura
• “Aku no Hana" by Oshimi Shuzo
• “Poe no Ichizoku" by Moto Hagio
• “Oyasumi Punpun” by Asano Inio
• “Slam Dunk” by Takehiko Inoue.
• “Saint Oniisan” by Hikaru Nakamura

[Anime's Movies]

• “Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki” (2012, Mamoru Hosoda)
• “Summer Wars (2009, Mamoru Hosoda)
• “5 Centimeters per Second" (2007, Makoto Shinkai)
• "Porco Rosso" (1992, Hayao Miyazaki)
• “The Castle of Cagliostro” (1979, Hayao Miyazaki)
• “Laputa: Castle in the Sky” (1986, Hayao Miyazaki)
• “Perfect Blue” (1997, Satoshi Kon)
• "Paprika" (2006, Satoshi Kon)

How many of these things have you already watched/read? Do you have similar tastes with Shige? Please tell me :)

I hope that you are doing well despite everything that is happening in the world right now, and that you can stop for a moment, take something from this list and enjoy the moment.