Essential Japanese films
Submitted by kenji on Sun, 09/03/2006 - 04:49
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- 1921 Souls on the Road (Murata)
- 1926 Page of Madness (Kinugasa)
- 1927 Diary of Chuji's Travels (Ito)
- 1928 Crossroads (Kinugasa)
- 1932 I was Born, but (Ozu)
- 1933 The Water Magician (Mizoguchi)
- Japanese Girls at the Harbour (Shimizu)
- Passing Fancy (Ozu)
- 1935 Wife, be Like a Rose (Naruse)
- The Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Yamanaka)
- An Inn at Tokyo (Ozu)
- 1936 The Only Son (Ozu)
- Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi)
- Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi)
- Soshun Kochiyama (Yamanaka)
- Arigato-san (Shimizu)
- 1937 Humanity and Paper Balloons (Yamanaka)
- Straits of Love and Hate (Mizoguchi)
- 1938 Five Scouts (Tasaka)
- 1939 Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
- Earth (Tsuchi)
- 1941 Horses (Yamamoto)
- 1941-2 The Loyal 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi)
- 1942 Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Ozu)
- 1944 Army (Kinoshita)
- 1946 Five Women around Utamaro (Mizoguchi)
- No Regrets for our Youth (Kurosawa)
- Morning for the Osone Family *beep*
- 1947 The Ball at the House of Anjo (Yoshimura)
- Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Ozu)
- 1948 Drunken Angel (Kurosawa)
- 1949 Late Spring (Ozu)
- Stray Dog (Kurosawa)
- My Love has been Burning (Mizoguchi)
- 1950 Rashomon (Kurosawa)
- 1951 Early Summer (Ozu)
- Miss Oyu (Mizoguchi)
- The Lady from Musashino (Mizoguchi)
- Lightning (Naruse)
- Repast (Naruse)
- 1952 The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi)
- Ikiru (Kurosawa)
- Mother (Naruse)
- 1953 Tokyo Story (Ozu)
- Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)
- Where Chimneys are Seen (Gosho)
- Wild Geese (Narusawa)
- A Geisha (Mizoguchi)
- A Japanese Tragedy (Kinoshita)
- 1954 Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
- Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
- Chikamatsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)
- Twenty Four Eyes (Kinoshita)
- Sound of the Mountain (Naruse)
- Late Chrysanthemums (Naruse)
- Gate of Hell (Kinugasa)
- Gojira (Honda)
- Samurai trilogy (Inagaki)
- An Inn at Osaka (Gosho)
- 1955 Tales of the Taira Clan (Mizoguchi)
- Floating Clouds (Naruse)
- Yang Kwei Fei (Mizoguchi)
- Marital Relations (Toyoda)
- 1956 Early Spring (Ozu)
- Street of Shame (Mizoguchi)
- The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa)
- Flowing (Naruse)
- Suzaki Paradise (Kawashima)
- Crazed Fruit (Nakahira)
- 1957 Tokyo Twilight (Ozu)
- Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)
- Snow Country (Toyoda)
- The Lower Depths (Kurosawa)
- 1958 Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa)
- Enjo (Ichikawa)
- Giants and Toys (Masumura)
- Ballad of Narayama (Kinoshita)
- 1959 Floating Weeds (Ozu)
- Fires on the Plain (Ichikawa)
- Good Morning (Ozu)
- 1960 The Island (Shindo)
- When a Woman Ascends the stairs (Naruse)
- Cruel Story of Youth (Oshima)
- Night and Fog in Japan (Oshima)
- 1961 The Human Condition trilogy (Kobayashi)
- The End of Summer (Ozu)
- Yojimbo (Kurosawa)
- Zero Focus (Nomura)
- Pigs and Battleships (Imamura)
- Bad Boys (Hani)
- 1962 Hara-Kiri (Kobayashi)
- An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu)
- Sanjuro (Kurosawa)
- Chushingura (Inagaki)
- Pitfall (Teshigahara)
- Zatoichi (Misumi)
- 1963 High and Low (Kurosawa)
- An Actor's Revenge (Ichikawa)
- Insect Woman (Imamura)
- 1964 Kwaidan (Kobayashi)
- Woman of the Dunes (Teshigahara)
- Intentions of Murder (Imamura)
- Assassination (Shinoda)
- Manji (Masumura)
- Pale Flower (Shinoda)
- 1965 Red Beard (Kurosawa)
- Gate of Flesh (Suzuki)
- Onibaba (Shindo)
- Tokyo Olympiad (Ichikawa)
- The Hoodlum Soldier (Masumura)
- Story of a Prostitute (Suzuki)
- 1966 Red Angel (Masumura)
- Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki)
- Elegy to Violence (Suzuki)
- The Pornographers (Imamura)
- Sword of Doom (Okamoto)
- The Face of Another (Teshigahara)
- 1967 Branded to Kill (Suzuki)
- Rebellion (Kobayashi)
- 1968 Profound Desire of the Gods (Imamura)
- Death by Hanging (Oshima)
- Black Lizard (Fukasaku)
- Inferno of First Love (Hani)
- 1969 Boy (Oshima)
- Double Suicide (Shinoda)
- Tora-San (Yamada)
- Blind Beast (Masumura)
- 1971 The Ceremony (Oshima)
- 1972 Home from the Sea (Yamada)
- 1973 Battles without Honour or Humanity (Fukasaku)
- Lady Snowblood (Foujita)
- 1975 Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa)
- 1976 Ai no Corrida (Oshima)
- Yakuza Graveyard (Fukasaku)
- 1979 Vengeance is Mine (Imamura)
- 1980 Kagemusha (Kurosawa)
- 1981 Muddy River (Oguri)
- Eijanaika (Imamura)
- 1982 Go- Masters (Duan, Sato)
- 1983 The Ballad of Narayama (Imamura)
- The Family Game (Morita)
- The Makioka Sisters (Ichikawa)
- 1984 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki)
- The Funeral (Itami)
- 1985 Ran (Kurosawa)
- Fire Festival (Yanagimachi)
- 1986 Laputa: Castles in the Sky (Miyazaki)
- Tampopo (Itami)
- 1987 A Taxing Woman (Itami)
- The Emperor's Naked Army Marches on (Hara)
- 1988 My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki)
- Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata)
- Akira (Otomo)
- 1989 Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki)
- Black Rain (Imamura)
- Tetsuo (Tsukamoto)
- 1990 The Cherry Orchard (Nakahara)
- Boiling Point (Kitano)
- 1992 Tokyo Decadence (Murakami)
- 1993 Sonatine (Kitano)
- 1995 Maborosi (Kore-eda)
- Ghost in the Shell (Oshii)
- Neon Genesis: Evangelion (Anno)
- 1996 Shall we Dance? (Suo)
- Village of Dreams (Higashi)
- Okaeri (Shinozaki)
- Swallowtail (Iwai)
- 1997 The Eel (Imamura)
- Hana-Bi (Kitano)
- Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki)
- Ring (Nakata)
- Cure (K.Kurosawa)
- Moe no Suzaku (Kawase)
- Perfect Blue (Kon)
- 1998 After the Rain (Koizumi)
- After Life (Kore-eda)
- 1999 Audition (Miike)
- Kikujiro (Kitano)
- Gohatto (Oshima)
- Moonlight Whispers (Shiota)
- 2000 Eureka (Aoyama)
- Visitor Q (Miike)
- Firefly (Kawase)
- 2001 Spirited away (Miyazaki)
- Battle Royale (Fukasaku)
- Distance (Kore-eda)
- Ichi the Killer (Miike)
- All about Lily Chou-chou (Iwai)
- Happiness of the Katakuris (Miike)
- Avalon (Shiro)
- 2002 Snake of June (Tsukamoto)
- Dolls (Kitano)
- Pistol Opera (Suzuki)
- 2003 Twilight Samurai (Yamada)
- Zatoichi (Kitano)
- 2004 Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki)
- Nobody Knows (Kore-eda)
- Tony Takitano (J.Ichikawa)
- Vital (Tsukamoto)
- 2005 Princess Raccoon (Suzuki)
- Directors' total entries:
- Mizoguchi 18
- Kurosawa 16
- Ozu 15
- Naruse 9
- Imamura 9
- Miyazaki 7
- Oshima 7
- Suzuki 7
- Ichikawa 6
- Kitano 6
Author Comments:
An objective list; a lot i've not seen, but understand to be important/essential
I have seen only two from start to finish.
I recommend Tokoyo Story and Nobody Knows.