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Man on the Moon
1999 film by Miloš Forman
Audition
1999 film by Takashi Miike
Kikujiro
is a 1999 Japanese road drama film written, directed and co-edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in the film with Yusuke Sekiguchi. Its score was composed by Joe Hisaishi. The film was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
Taboo
, also known as Taboo, is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. Its subject is homosexuality in the Shinsengumi during the bakumatsu period, the end of the samurai era in the mid-19th century. The production was Õshima's final film before his death, thirteen years after Gohatto's premiere.
Blackboards
Blackboards (, Takhté siah; ) is a 2000 Iranian film directed by Samira Makhmalbaf. It focuses on a group of Kurdish refugees after the chemical bombing of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. The screenplay was co-written by Makhmalbaf with her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The dialogue is entirely in Kurdish. Makhmalbaf describes it as "something between reality and fiction. Smuggling, being homeless, and people's efforts to survive are all part of reality... the film, as a whole, is a metaphor."
Godzilla 2000
1999 Japanese sci-fi/action film by Takao Okawara
Ring 2
1999 film by Hideo Nakata
Pola X
1999 film directed by Leos Carax
After the Rain
1999 Japanese film directed by Takashi Koizumi
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
1999 film by Shūsuke Kaneko
Gen-X Cops
1999 film by Benny Chan
Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe
1999 film by Tsutomu Shibayama
Dead or Alive
1999 film by Takashi Miike
Poppoya
, also known as The Railroad Man, is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Yasuo Furuhata. It was Japan's submission to the 72nd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. The film was the third-highest-grossing film of the year in Japan.
Reptilian
1999 South Korean film directed by Shim Hyung-rae
Wild Zero
1999 film by Tetsurō Takeuchi
Himitsu
1999 Japanese film directed by Yōjirō Takita
Ley Lines
1999 film by Takashi Miike
Gemini
1999 film by Shinya Tsukamoto
Charisma
1999 film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Keiho
is a 1999 Japanese courtroom drama psychological thriller film directed by Yoshimitsu Morita. It stars Shinichi Tsutsumi as an actor standing trial for a gruesome double murder. The film also stars Kyōka Suzuki, Ittoku Kishibe and Naoki Sugiura. Shochiku released Keiho on February 17, 1999, in Japan. The film was nominated for and won several major awards.
Will to Live
1999 film by Kaneto Shindō
Shikoku
1999 film by Shunichi Nagasaki
Jigoku: Japanese Hell
1999 film by Teruo Ishii
Moonlight Whispers
1999 film by Akihiko Shiota
Salaryman Kintarō
1999 film by Takashi Miike
Adrenaline Drive
1999 film by Shinobu Yaguchi
Silver
1999 film by Takashi Miike
Owls' Castle
1999 film directed by Masahiro Shinoda
Moonlight Express
1999 film by Daniel Lee
Red Room
1999 film by Daisuke Yamanouchi
Spellbound
1999 Japanese film by Masato Harada