hengcs certainly likes to tease us, doesn't he?! 

Anyway, here are a few recently released Japanese films that I'd like to see (preferably sooner than later):

It's Only Talk (from Ryuichi Hiroki, the director of the masterful 2003 film, Vibrator)

The Soup One Morning (A DV-shot indie from Takahashi Izumi)

Un Couple Parfait (Nobuhiro Suwa; yes it's majority French but who cares.)

The Taste of Tea (from Katsuhito Ishii, featuring Tadanobu Asano)

Tarachime (from Naomi Kawase, a Japanese master yet to be fully discovered by the west.)