Let’s see what movies Akira Kurosawa liked:
1919 – Broken Blossoms, USA, D.W. Griffith
1919 – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Ger, R. Wiene
1922 – Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler, Ger, Fritz Lang
1925 – The Gold Rush, USA, C. Chaplin
1928 – The Fall of the House of Usher, France, Jean Epstein
1928 – An Andalusian Dog, France, Luis Buñuel
1930 – Morocco, USA, Joseph Von Sternberg
1931 – Der Kongress tanzt, Ger, Eric Charell
1931 – The Threepenny Opera, Ger, Georg W. Pabst
1933 – Lover Divine, Ger-Au, Willi Forst
1934 – The Thin Man, USA, W.S. II Van Dyke
1934 – Our Neighbor, Japan, Yasujiro Shimazu
1935 – Tange Sazen, Japan, Sadao Yamanaka
1936 – Capricious Young Man, Japan, Mansaku Itami
1937 – The Grand Illusion, France, Jean Renoir
1937 – Stella Dallas, USA, King Vidor
1938 – Composition Class, Japan, Kajiro Yamamoto
1939 – Earth, Japan, Tomu Uchida
1939 – Ninotchka, USA, Ernst Lubitsch
1944 – Ivan the Terrible, URSS, Sergueï Eisenstein
1946 – My Darling Clementine, USA, John Ford
1946 – It’s a Wonderful Life, USA, Frank Capra
1946 – The Big Sleep, USA, Howard Hawks
1948 – The Bicycle Thief, Italy, Vittorio DeSica
1949 – The Green Mountains, Japan, Tadashi Imai
1949 – The Third Man, UK, Carol Reed
1949 – Late Spring, Japan, Yasujiro Ozu
1950 – Orpheus, France, Jean Cocteau
1951 – Carmen comes home, Japan, Keisuke Kinoshita
1951 – A Streetcar Named Desire, USA, Elia Kazan
1952 – The Adultress, France, Marcel Carné
1952 – Life of Oharu, Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi
1954 – Journey to Italy, Italy, Roberto Rossellini
1954 – Godzilla, Japan, Ishiro Honda
1954 – The Road, Italy, Federico Fellini
1955 – Floating Clouds, Japan, Mikio Naruse
1955 – Pather Panchali, India, Satyajit Ray
1955 – Daddy Long Legs, USA, Jean Negulesco
1956 – The Proud Ones, USA, Robert D. Webb
1958 – The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era, Japan, Y. Kawashima
1957 – The Young Lions, USA, Edward Dmytryk
1959 – The Cousins, France, Claude Chabrol
1959 – The 400 Blows, France, François Truffaut
1959 – Breathless, France, Jean-Luc Godard
1959 – Ben-Hur, USA, William Wyler
1960 – Her Brother, Japan, Kon Ichikawa
1960 – The Long Absence, France, Henri Colpi
1960 – Stowaway in the Sky , France, Albert Lamorisse
1960 – Purple Noon, France, René Clément
1960 – Zazie, France, Louis Malle
1960 – Last Year at Marienbad, France, Alain Resnais
1962 – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, USA, Robert Aldrich
1962 – Lawrence of Arabia, USA, David Lean
1963 – Any Number Can Win, France, Henri Verneuil
1963 – The Birds, USA, Alfred Hitchcock
1964 – The Red Desert, Italy, Michelangelo Antonioni
1966 – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, USA, Mike Nichols
1967 – Bonnie & Clyde, USA, Arthur Penn
1967 – In the Heat of the Night, USA, Norman Jewinson
1968 – The Charge of the Light Brigade, UK, T. Richardson
1969 – Midnight Cowboy, USA, John Schlesinger
1970 – M.A.S.H., USA, Robert Altman
1971 – Johnny Got His Gun, USA, Donald Trumbo
1971 – French Connection, USA, William Friedkin
1972 – The Spirit of the Beehive, Espagne, Victor Erice
1972 – Solaris, URSS, Andreï Tarkovski
1973 – The day of the Jackal, USA, Fred Zinnemann
1974 – Conversation Piece, Italy, Luchino Visconti
1974 – The Godfather, part 2, USA, Francis Ford Coppola
1974 – Sandakan N°8, Japan, Kei Kumai
1975 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, USA, Milos Forman
1975 – The Travelling Players , Greece, Theo Angelopoulos
1975 – Barry Lyndon, USA, Stanle Kubrick
1976 – Lullaby of the Earth, Japan, Yasuzo Masumura
1977 – Annie Hall, USA, Woody Allen
1977 – An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano, URSS, Nikita Mikhalkov
1977 – Padre Padrone, Italy, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
1980 – Gloria, USA, John Cassavetes
1980 – A Distant Cry From Spring, Japan, Y. Yamada
1982 – La Traviata, Italy, Franco Zefirelli
1982 – Fanny and Alexander, Sue-FR-Ger, Ingmar Bergman
1982 – Fitzcarraldo, Ger, Werner Herzog
1983 – The King of Comedy, USA, Martin Scorsese
1983 – Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence) Japan, Nagisa Oshima
1984 – Killing Fields, UK, Roland Joffé
1984 – Stranger Than Paradise, USA, Jim Jarmush
1984 – Tung-tung de jiaqi, Taiwan, Hou Hsiao Hsien
1984 – Paris, Texas, Ger, Wim Wenders
1985 – Witness, USA, Peter Weir
1985 – The Trip to Bountiful, USA, Peter Masterson
1985 – When Father Was Away on Business, Yug, Emir Kusturica
1987 – The Dead, USA, John Huston
1987 – Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Iran, Abbas Kiarostami
1987 – Bagdad Cafe, Ger, Percy Adlon
1987 – The Whales of August, USA, Lindsay Anderson
1988 – Running on Empty, USA, Sidney Lumet
1988 – My Neighbor Totoro, Japan, Hayao Miyazaki
1989 – A-Un, Japan, Yasuo Furuhata
1991 – La belle Noiseuse, France, Jacques Rivette
1997 – Hana-bi, Japan, Takeshi Kitano
Thanks K-Chan!
Sources: Published in Positif, a french mag – Also check here
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Interesting list…
I could relate to only a few out of the list of 100! I was a little amazed not to find a quite a few as well which I did expect. Nevertheless, it’s a very personal choice. Our likings and dislikings are based on such psychological things, which probably even we are not aware off as well! Films are no exception! Therefore, I wonder, if we could have got to know the reasons attached with his choices. It would have done a world of good for people like us who eat cinema!
Grand fan d’Akira Kurosawa, quand je vois cette liste, j’ai juste envie de prendre mes deux mains et de pleurer.
Incroyable éclectisme de Tenho , malgrès sa grande culture et son amour pour la littérature anglais et russe, le bonhomme était avant tout un sacré cinéphile.
Un exemple à suivre pour tous les cinéastes en herbes.
what a bizarre mindset to come up with this motley selection of movies. can’t say i agree or disagree, went through my Kurosawa infatuation in college. i do like the premise though, but i would like an included reason’ d’etre (sic) for the thinking behind it. does anyone have the link to the “fake Spielberg” list? i would like to try my own hand at this using, perhaps, Hitchcock or Cronenberg, to name but two…
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