I was wondering... Since Fire Emblem is a Japanese game, does anyone here watch any Japanese movies?

I especially like movies from Studio Ghibli, more specifically, ones by Hayo Miazaki (or however you spell his name ><)

Yeah, I was wondering if anyone watches those besides me.

Personally, I am debating between whether the best was Mononoke Hime or Howl's Moving Castle...

And the people who dubbed it to English (namely, Disney) did a decent job, but I think it's still better in Japanese...

Then there's Spirited Away.

I've seen about half of Mononoke Hime and almost all of Sprited Away. Sadly, I haven't been able to see all of it. However, I'm not much for animé movies that are standalone.

However, Tokyo Godfather, a movie not from Studio Ghibli, is one of the greatest movies ever.

The only ones I've seen are...Mononoke, Spirited Away, Nausicaa (if that's Ghibli).

I'll just list some other films that I've seen for no real reason. Haruki Murakami stuff (good samurai film director), Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri (absolutely top notch samurai film) and Samurai Rebellion (fair enough but not spectacular). I would really recommend Hara Kiri to anyone with a mediocre understanding of the Toku shogunate, mainly the relationship between daimyo and samurai (that doesn't really mean ruroni kenshin, because that's the fall of the toku). To really appreciate the film, it'd probably help to get Kobayashi's view of WWII Japan as well by watching The Human Condition, or so I've heard, but said film (trilogy?) is 9 hours long. You can look at history stuff and get a fair grasp.

I've also seen some stuff from Korea and China, mostly fun but not particularly good martial arts films. There's some independent film about Japanese agents and Chinese in China during WWII, but I don't really remember the title (golden or purple butterfly). And Memories of Murder is a pretty creepy Korean independent film; I can laugh through fancy effect and psycho knife-killer murder movies, but Memories is a real unsolved case, mainly because Korea was (as I understand it) totally unequipped to deal with serial killer 'class' crimes, as they had never had to deal with them. A detective does a pretty good job of pushing on methods of investigation, but it doesn't lead to much in the case. I'm not really clear on just how factual it is, but it was interesting on its own.

EDIT-Mononoke is my favorite Ghibli movie...of the three I've seen.