"Stubborn but worth it"

I was watching "Mr. Baseball" while eating dinner tonight. I guess the blog title is a fitting sentiment to take away from the film. It's a baseball movie set in Japan - fading American baseball player gets traded to a Japanese team. Misunderstandings and bad karaoke ensue. It's really not as bad as I make it sound. It's actually a decent film. And that got me to thinking - in a Rob Gordon kind of way - what my top ten films set in Japan are.

• Lost in Translation
• Shall We Dansu?
• Tampopo
• You Only Live Twice
• Seven Samurai
• Ran
• Yojimbo
• Rashomon
• Tokyo Pop
• Black Rain

Check them out if you've never seen them.