50 favourite Japanese films
Submitted by kenji on Tue, 02/01/2005 - 05:47
Tags:
- 1.Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
- 2.Maborosi (Kore-eda)
- 3.Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
- 4.Tokyo Story (Ozu)
- 5.Tales of the Taira Clan (Mizoguchi)
- 6.Late Spring (Ozu)
- 7.Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
- 8.Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)
- 9.The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi)
- 10.Tokyo Twilight (Ozu)
- 11.Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa)
- 12.The Loyal 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi)
- 13.Early Summer (Ozu)
- 14.Kwaidan (Kobayashi)
- 15.The Human Condition (Kobayashi)
- 16.Eureka (Aoyama)
- 17.My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki)
- 18.Miss Oyu (Mizoguchi)
- 19.High and Low (Kurosawa)
- 20.Humanity and Paper Balloons (Yamanaka)
- 21.Ai no Corrida (Oshima)
- 22.Woman of the Dunes (Teshigahara)
- 23.Early Spring (Ozu)
- 24.Rashomon (Kurosawa)
- 25.Onibaba (Shindo)
- 26.Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)
- 27.Red Angel (Masumura)
- 28.The Eel (Imamura)
- 29.Twilight Samurai (Yamada)
- 30.Hana-Bi (Kitano)
- 31.After the Rain (Koizumi)
- 32.The End of Summer (Ozu)
- 33.Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki)
- 34.Chikamatsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)
- 35.Branded to Kill (Suzuki)
- 36.Audition (Miike)
- 37.Yang Kwei Fei (Mizoguchi)
- 38.Vengeance is Mine (Imamura)
- 39.Twenty Four Eyes (Kinoshita)
- 40.Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata)
- 41.Red Beard (Kurosawa)
- 42.Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi)
- 43.Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
- 44.Ran (Kurosawa)
- 45.Lady of Musashino (Mizoguchi)
- 46.After Life (Kore-eda)
- 47.The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa)
- 48.Kikujiro (Kitano)
- 49.Five Women around Utamaro (Mizoguchi)
- 50.Nobody Knows (Kore-eda)
Not forgetting Zatoichi, Ring, Battle Royale, Sonatine, Ballad of Narayama, An Actor's Revenge, Firs on the Plain, Ikiru, Yojimbo...
O.K, my list isn't very balanced, misses out some fine/ famous directors and films altogether (mainly through ignorance) and won't appeal much to fans of manga, animé and modern gross-out splatter; but i hope it'll encourage some exploration, esp-ecially of older masterpieces.