Also, if you like samurai movies, Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins. Available on DVD sometime in July. Uncut version was on Amazon.
I normally don’t like subtitled films either, but I was fascinated by “Ran”. Have you seen it?
subtitled sleepers
Shall we Dance? (original in Japanese, american remake wasn’t that great)
La Femme Nikita (The remake with Brigette Fonda was almost a pure copy)
Fitzcarraldo