Haven't seen Night Watch...

... so yes, that is pretty much the problem. I don't imagine I've seen enough non-English-language movies to not put Zatoichi in my personal top 100. I don't even know if I'd *get* to a top 100, i.e. whether I've actually seen as many as 100. So yes, I don't actually know if all those other movies are as good as I assume they are. Perhaps a lot of them are crap and far worse than Zatoichi, which as I said was decent enough. All I can say is, I saw it in the cinema (in Canada, ironically), and I wasn't really wowed.

I at least don't exactly have much of a head start, seeing how there are no Belgian movies on the list any more than British ones. But of course, yeah, non-English-language movies are more likely to be shown or known in Belgium than in the UK - not Belgian ones, which are fairly limited even if there's a revival in Flemish movies lately, but foreign language movies in general. No doubt a movie like Goodbye Lenin, for instance, is easier to have seen here than in the UK. Still, the large majority of the movies we get are American or less often other English-language ones, so the difference is not as big as you might think. No doubt it's different in France, and to a lesser extent in Germany.