My top 25 films from Japan

Submitted by citizendarko on Thu, 12/16/2004 - 02:22
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  1. Grave of the Fireflies “Hotaru no haka” (Isao Takahata, 1988)
  2. The Seven Samurai “Shichinin no samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
  3. Living “Ikiru” (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
  4. My Neighbor Totoro “Tonari no Totoro” (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
  5. The Bailiff “Sanshô dayû” (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
  6. Castle in the Sky “Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta” (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986)
  7. Branded to Kill “Koroshi no rakuin” (Seijun Suzuki, 1967)
  8. I Was Born, But….. “Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo” (Yasujiro Ozu, 1932)
  9. Fire on the Plains “Nobi” (Kon Ichikawa, 1959)
  10. The Human Condition I, II, & III “Ningen no joken III” (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959 & 1961)
  11. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
  12. Spirited Away “Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi” (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
  13. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums “Zangiku monogatari” (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
  14. In The Woods “Rashômon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
  15. Tales of Ugetsu “Ugetsu monogatari” (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
  16. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds “Kaze no tani no Naushika” (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984)
  17. Throne of Blood “Kumonosu jô” (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
  18. Ichi the Killer “Koroshiya 1” (Takashi Miike, 2001)
  19. Late Spring “Banshun (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
  20. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs “Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki” (Mikio Naruse, 1960)
  21. Fireworks “Hana-bi” (Takeshi Kitano, 1997)
  22. Life of Oharu “Saikaku ichidai onna” (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)
  23. Akira (Katsuhiro Ôtomo, 1988)
  24. After Life “Wandafuru raifu” (Hirokazu Koreeda, 1998)
  25. Woman in the Dunes “Suna no onna” (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
Author Comments: 

Other than the US, Japan has had and continues the greatest film industry and culture. Miyazaki, Kurosawa, and Mizoguchi are my top directors from Japan. I'm a bit of an asian film buff and have seen several hundred films from all asian countries.

DarkmanPoe07/25/2006

Great list. Just narrowing down the Kurosawa films would have been a chore for me. Probably why I've never cloned this list.