This 2009 version includes almost 200 films; meaning more classics (Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi), more films from the 70/80′s (Somai, Obayashi, Kumashiro) and very few films from the past decade….
How many have you seen in there? Let me guess, not much!
1. Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)
2. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
3. Floating Clouds (1955, Mikio Naruse)
4. The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957, Y. Kawashima)
5. Battles Without Honour & Humanity (1973, Kinji Fukasaku)
6. Twenty-Four Eyes (1954, Keisuke Kinoshita)
7. Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
8. Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935, S. Yamanaka)
9. The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979, Kazuhiko Hasegawa) (trailer)
10. Family game (1983, Yoshimitsu Morita)
11. Stray Dog (1949, Akira Kurosawa)
12. Typhoon Club (1984, Shinji Somai)
13. Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa)
14. Suzaki Paradise Red Light (1956, Y. Kawashima)
15. High and Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa)
16. A Fugitive from the Past (1965, Tomu Uchida)
17. Harakiri (1962, Masaki Kobayashi)
18. Intentions of Murder (1964, Shohei Imamura)
19. Tokyo Olympiad (1965, Kon Ichikawa)
20. The Castle of Sand (1974, Yoshitaro Nomura)
21. Failed Youth (1974, Tatsumi Kumashiro)
22. Nausicaa (1984, Hayao Miyazaki)
23. Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937, Sadao Yamanaka)
24. Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa)
25. Fighting Elegy (1966, Seijun Suzuki)
26. Fall Guy (1982, Kinji Fukasaku)
27. Boiling Point (1990, Takeshi Kitano)
28. Tales of Ugetsu (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
29. The Crucified Lovers (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
30. She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955, Keisuke Kinoshita)
31. Flowing (1956, Mikio Naruse)
32. Samurai Vendetta (1959, Kazu Mori) (trailer)
33. Branded to Kill (1967, Seijun Suzuki)
34. Vengeance is mine (1979, Shohei Imamura)
35. Zigeunerweisen (1980, Seijun Suzuki)
36. Here’s to the Girls (1949, Keisuke Kinoshita)
37. Ball at the Anjo House (1947, Kozaburo Yoshimura)
38. Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu) (new)
39. Till We Meet Again (1950, Tadashi Imai)
40. The Life Of Oharu (1952, Kenji Mizoguchi)
41. A Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (1955, Tomu Uchida)
42. The Lower Depths (1957, Akira Kurosawa)
43. The Chaser (1958, Yoshitaru Nomura) (trailer)
44. Floating Weeds (1959, Yasujiro Ozu)
45. Good Morning (1959, Yasujiro Ozu)
46. Desperate Outpost (1959, Kihachi Okamoto) (trailer)
47. Her Brother (1960, Kon Ichikawa) (trailer)
48. Cruel Story of Youth (1960, Nagisa Oshima)
49. The Graceful Brute (1962, Yuzo Kawashima)
50. Proxy War (1973, Kinji Fukasaku)
51. The Wanderers (1973, Kon Ichikawa)
52. The Youth Killer (1976, Kazuhiko Hasegawa)
53. Muddy River (1981, Kohei Oguri)
54. The Funeral (1984, Juzo Itami)
55. Himatsuri (1985, Mitsuo Yanagimachi)
56. My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Hayao Miyazaki)
57. Cure (1997, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
58. Noriko’s Dinner Table (2005, Sion Sono)
59. I was born, but… (1932, Yasujiro Ozu)
60. What did the lady forget? (1937, Yasujiro Ozu)
61. Singing Lovebirds (1939, Masahiro Makino)
62. The Live of Matsu the Untamed (1943, Hiroshi Inagaki)
63. Carmen comes home (1951, Keisuke Kinoshita)
64. The Human Condition (1959-61, Masaki Kobayashi)
65. The Human Vapor (1960, Ishiro Honda)
66. Sanjuro (1962, Akira Kurosawa)
67. The Insect Woman (1963, Shohei Imamura)
68. Pale Flower (1964, Masahiro Shinoda)
69. Yearning (1964, Mikio Naruse)
70. Tokyo Drifter (1966, Seijun Suzuki)
71. Japan’s Longest Day (1967, Kihachi Okamoto)
72. The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968, S. Imamura) (trailer)
73. The Human Bullet (1968, Kihachi Okamoto) (trailer)
74. Big Time Gambling Boss (1968, Kosaku Yamashita)
75. I, The Executioner (1968, Tai Kato)
76. Boy (1969, Nagisa Oshima)
77. Double Suicide (1969, Masahiro Shinoda)
78. Tora-san (1969-95, Yoji Yamada)
79. Take Care, Red Riding Hood (1970, Shori Moritani)
80. Red Peony Gambles Her Life (1970, Tai Kato)
81. Kaoyaku (1971, Shintaro Katsu)
82. Wet Sand in August (1971, Toshiya Fujita)
83. Three Mad Dog Brothers (1972, Kinji Fukasaku)
84. Confidential: Secret Market (1974, Noboru Tanaka)
85. Castle of Gagliostro (1979, Hayao Miyazaki)
86. Kagemusha (1980, Akira Kurosawa)
87. Crazy Thunder Road (1980, Sogo Ishii)
88. Crazed Fruit (1981, Kichitaro Negishi)
89. A Japanese Village, Furuyashikimura (1982, Shinsuke Ogawa)
90. P. P. Rider (1983, Shinji Somai)
91. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983, Nagisa Oshima)
92. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983, Nobuhiko Obayashi)
93. Love Hotel (1985, Shinji Somai)
94. Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
95. No More Comics (1986, Yojiro Takita) (trailer)
96. Castle in the Sky (1986, Hayao Miyazaki)
97. Tetsuo (1989, Shinya Tsukamoto)
98. Moving (1993, Shinji Somai)
99. Sonatine (1993, Takeshi Kitano)
100. Kids Return (1996, Takeshi Kitano)
101. Crazyon Shin-chan (2001, Tsutomu Mizushima)
102. The Twilight Samurai (2002, Yoji Yamada)
103. Bright Future (2003, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
104. Rambler (2003, Nobuhiro Yamashita)
105. Summer Days With Coo (2007, Keiichi Hara)
106. A Diary of Chuji’s Travels (1927, Daisuke Ito)
107. Capricious Young Man (1936, Mansaku Itami)
108. Sisters of the Gion (1936, Kenji Mizoguchi)
109. Story of the Last Chrysantemum (1939, Kenji Mizoguchi)
110. Sanshiro Sugata (1943, Akira Kurosawa)
111. Ware Maboroshi No Sakana O Mitari (1950, Daisuke Ito)
112. Early Summer (1951, Yasujiro Ozu)
113. Lightning (1952, Mikio Naruse)
114. Mother (1952, Mikio Naruse)
115. Jirocho Sangokuchi (1952-54, Masahiro Makino)
116. Godzilla (1954, Ishiro Honda)
117. Street of Shame (1956, Kenji Mizoguchi)
118. Crazed Fruit (1956, Ko Nakahira)
119. Throne of Blood (1957, Akira Kurosawa)
120. Tokyo Twilight (1957, Yasujiro Ozu)
121. Washi to Taka (1957, Umetsugu Inoue)
122. Enjo (1958, Kon Ichikawa)
123. The Hidden Fortress (1958, Akira Kurosawa)
124. Ghost Story of Yotsuya (1959, Nobuo Nakagawa)
125. Late Autumn (1960, Yasujiro Ozu)
126. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960, Mikio Naruse)
127. Hito Mo Arukeba (1960, Yuzo Kawashima)
128. Ten Dark Woman (1961, Kon Ichikawa)
129. The Last War (1961, Shue Matsubayashi)
130. A Wife Confesses (1961, Yasuzo Masumura
131. Foundry Town (1962, Kiriro Urayama)
132. Destiny’s Son (1962, Kenji Misumi)
133. The Outcast (1962, Kon Ichikawa)
134. The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963, Kihachi Okamoto)
135. The Thirteen Assassins (1963, Eiichi Kudo) (trailer)
136. Woman In The Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
137. Red Beard (1965, Akira Kurosawa)
138. Seisaku’s Wife (1965, Yasuzo Masumura)
139. Story of a Prostitute (1965, Seijun Suzuki)
140. The Hitman (1967, Kazuo Mori)
141. Like a Shooting Star (1967, Toshio Masuda)
142. A Colt Is My Passport (1967, Takashi Nomura)
143. Tora-san: It’s Tough Being A Man (1969, Yoji Yamada)
144. Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969, Koji Wakamatsu) (soundtrack)
145. Violence Without a Cause (1969, Koji Wakamatsu)
146. Dodes’ka-den (1970, Akira Kurosawa)
147. Hakucyu No Syugeki (1970, Kiyoshi Noshimura)
148. Minata (1972, Noriaki Tsuchimoto)
149. The Morning Schedule (1972, Susumu Hani)
150. Night of the Felines (1972, Noboru Tanaka)
151. Akai Tori Nigeta? (1973, Toshiya Fujita)
152. Tora-san’s Forget Me Not (1973, Yoji Yamada)
153. Narita: Heta Village (1973, Shinsuke Ogawa)
154. Street of Joy (1974, Tatsumi Kumashiro)
155. Shiranui Sea (1975, Noriaki Tsuchimoto)
156. Graveyard of Honor (1975, Kinji Fukasaku)
157. Preparation for the Festival (1975, Kazuo Kuroki)
158. In The Realm of the Senses (1976, Nagisa Oshima)
159. Lullaby of the Earth (1976, Yasuzo Masumura)
160. House (1970, Nobuhiko Obayashi)
161. The Devil’s Boucing Ball Song (1977, Kon Ichikawa)
162. Shinjuku midaregai: Ikumade matte (1977, Chusei Sone)
163. Mount Hakkoda (1977, Shiro Moritani)
164. Rape! 13th Hour (1977, Yasuharu Hasebe)
165. Third Base (1978, Yoichi Higashi) (trailer)
166. Path of the Beast (1980, Tatsumi Kumashiro)
167. Station (1981, Yasuo Furuhata)
168. Attacked Women (1981, Banmei Takahash)
169. Angel Guts: Red Prono (1981, Toshiharu Ikeda)
170. Something Like It (1981, Yoshimitsu Morita)
171. The Imperial Navy (1981, Shue Matsubayashi)
172. Transfer Student (1982, Nobuhiko Obayashi)
173. Burst City (1982, Sogo Ishii)
174. The Makioka Sister (1983, Kon Ichikawa)
175. Inujini Sesi Mono (1986, Kazuyuki Izutsu)
176. The Sea and Poison (1986, Kei Kumai)
177. Violent Cop (1989, Takeshi Kitano)
178. The Sting of Death (1990, Kohei Oguri)
179. A Scene at the Sea (1991, Takeshi Kitano)
180. The Rocking Horsemen (1992, Nobuhiko Obayashi)
181. Tetsuo 2 (1992, Shinya Tsukamoto)
182. Where is the Moon? (1993, Yoichi Sai)
183. Shall We Dance? (1996, Masayuki Suo)
184. Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment (1996, Jun Ichikawa)
185. Gakko 3: The New Voyage (1998, Yoji Yamada)
186. Face (2000, Jun Sakamoto)
187. Kaza-Hana (2000, Shinji Somai)
188. Swing Girls (2004, Shinobu Yaguchi)
189. Nobody Knows (2004, Hirokazu Koreeda)
190. The Reason (2004, Nobuhiko Obayashi)
191. Break Through! (2004, Kazuyuki Izutsu)
192. Who’s Camus Anyway? (2005, Mitsuo Yanagimachi)
193. Memories of Matsuko (2006, Tetsuya Nakashima)
194. Hula Girls (2006, Sang-il Lee)
195. What the Snow Brings (2005, Kichitaro Negishi)
196. Departures (2008, Yojiro Takita)
197. All Around Us (2008, Ryosuke Hashiguchi)
198. Children of the Dark (2008, Junji Sakamoto)
And here’s he 1999 version!
Thanks Kenji – via Kinejun
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That’s more like it! While Yoshida, for example, is still not represented, they now have some Shinoda, Masumura, and even Wakamatsu in there. I have only seen around 40% of the list, but it’s good to know there’s still so much left to explore.
Still no Terayama, Gosha, or Sono? Tsukamoto finally makes it but for both Tetsuo films but not A Snake Of June?
Sono’s got Noriko’s Dinner Table in there at #58. Anyway, why is Tora-san represented by both the whole series at #78, and individual movies at #143 and #152? And look at the years on 37-58, 59-105 and 106-198. I guess they’ve arranged chronologically all the movies with the same amount of votes, which would mean that those are the movies that got three votes, two and one vote, so only the places down to #30 represent any sort of consensus anyway.
strange, i thought ‘a crazy family’ by sogo ishii was much better than his crazy thunder road or burst city. i highly recommend it.
no akira? ghost in the shell? i dont understand the love that Hayao Miyazaki gets. also i’ll have to recommend ‘mind game’.
in these top 100 lists, i dont take much opinion on rank, since its hard to rank a comedy against a yakuza or drama anyways. in other words, ignore the numbers and focus on the movies.
I miss Kawase’s unbearable emotions and Miike’s raging insanity, but that’s a truly fine list. Departures on 196th is an extremely precise placing.
This is indeed a strange list. But since they’ve have Himatsuri on it I can’t complain. It’s also given me some good ideas for movies to track down. For example I didn’t know that a live action movie of ‘The Girl Who Leapt Through Time’ was made in the 80′s, and if I had known I probably would have assumed it was bad.
Tora-san having a ‘series’ entry and individual film entries is weird, but also ‘Battles Without Honor and Humanity’ and ‘Proxy War’ get separate entries and there is no ‘series’ entry. Was ‘Proxy War’ that much better than the other sequels? Why did that one get singled out?
Also, #101 is written “Crazyon Shin-chan” above, it should be “Crayon Shin-chan”. And why multiple people chose that as one of greatest Japanese ‘films’ of all time is beyond me. For me this is the weirdest entry on the list.
It is an interesting list though many fillms are hard to find.
i am surprised by the abscence of Kinugasa s Page of Madness.
I would also like to see The face of another (Teshigahara),
The Funeral Parade of the Roses (Matsumoto) or Death by
Hanging (Oshima).
“i dont understand the love that Hayao Miyazaki gets.”
Because he makes actual, meaningful movies, loved by both audiences and critics, and not violent pornography for otakus.
Burmese Harp?
Fires on the Plain?
After Life?
The Face of Another?
Those are like amongst my favorite movies from anywhere!
Forgot Kikujiro as well…
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