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mizoguchi's "101 Essential Japanese Films"

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My alternative list, year order. I’ve picked some films i’ve not seen rather than some well known ones that disappointed me/not to my taste. I expect to make changes. So, sorry if some of your favourites are missing- yes, i’ve left out a lot of anime and recent hits- but i’m open to suggestions and may have missed some by mistake.

  1. 1.
    A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji)(1926)
    by Teinosuke Kinugasa
  2. 2.
    ?
    A Diary of Chuji's Travels
    by Daisuke Ito
  3. 3.
    I Was Born, But...
    by Yasujiro Ozu
  4. 4.
    ?
    Japanese Girls at the Harbour
    by Hiroshi Shimizu
  6. 6.
    ?
    The Only Son (Hitori musuko)
    by Yasujiro Ozu, dir.
  7. 7.
    Osaka Elegy (Naniwa Ereji) - 1936
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  9. 9.
    ?
    Children of the Wind (Shimizu)
    by Hiroshi Shimizu
  10. 10.
    ?
    A Pot Worth a Million Ryo

  11. 11.
    Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Zangiku monogatari)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  12. 12.
    Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
    by Hiroshi Shimizu
  13. 13.
    The 47 Ronin

  14. 14.
    ?
    The Ball at the Anjo House (1947)
    by Kozaburo Yoshimura
  15. 15.
    Late Spring (The Criterion Collection)
    by Wim Wenders
  16. 16.
    Rashomon (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  17. 17.
    ?
    Vacuum Zone
    by Satsuo Yamamoto
  18. 18.
    Early Summer (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu
  19. 19.
    Repast [Meshi] (1951)
    by Mikio Naruse
  20. 20.
    The Life of Oharu
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  21. 21.
    Ikiru (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  22. 22.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu
  23. 23.
    Ugetsu (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  24. 24.
    Sound of the Mountain [Yama no oto] (1954)
    by Mikio Naruse
  25. 25.
    Chikamatsu monogatari (The Crucified Lovers) (1954)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  26. 26.
    ?
    Gojira (1954)
    by Ishirô Honda
  27. 27.
    Sansho the Bailiff (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  28. 28.
    Twenty-Four Eyes (The Criterion Collection)
    by Keisuke Kinoshita
  29. 29.
    Seven Samurai (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  30. 30.
  31. 31.
    Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) (1955)
    by Mikio Naruse
  32. 32.
    ?
    Suzaki Paradise (1956)
    by Yuzo Kawashima
  33. 33.
    Burmese Harp - Criterion Collection
    by Kon Ichikawa
  34. 34.
    Crazed Fruit (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kô Nakahira
  35. 35.
    Throne of Blood (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  36. 36.
    Tokyo Twilight (1957)
    by Yasujiro Ozu
  37. 37.
    ?
    The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era
    by Yuzo Kawashima
  38. 38.
    Enjo (1958)
    by Kon Ichikawa
  39. 39.
    Giants & Toys
    by Yasuzo Masumura
  41. 41.
    The Rickshaw Man
    by Hiroshi Inagaki
  42. 42.
    The Human Condition (The Criterion Collection)
    by Masaki Kobayashi
  43. 43.
  45. 45.
    Bitter End of a Sweet Night (Amao yoru no hate)
    by Yoshishige Yoshida (1961)
  46. 46.
    Yojimbo: Remastered Edition (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  48. 48.
    ?
    Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru (A Wife Confesses) (1961)
    by Yasuzo Masumura
  49. 49.
    Harakiri (The Criterion Collection)
    by Masaki Kobayashi
  50. 50.
    The Insect Woman [Nippon-konchûki] (1963)
    by Shohei Imamura
  51. 51.
    High and Low (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  52. 52.
    Kwaidan (The Criterion Collection)
    by Masaki Kobayashi
  53. 53.
    Intentions of Murder
    by Shohei Imamura
  54. 54.
    Onibaba (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kaneto Shindô
  55. 55.
    Woman in the Dunes
    by Hiroshi Teshigahara
  56. 56.
    Pale Flower
    by Masahiro Shinoda
  57. 57.
    Kiga Kaikyo (A Fugitive From The Past)
    by Tomu Uchida
  58. 58.
    Tokyo Drifter (The Criterion Collection)
    by Seijun Suzuki
  59. 59.
    Red Angel
    by Yasuzo Masumura
  60. 60.
    ?
    The Affair (Yoshida)

  61. 61.
    Branded to Kill (The Criterion Collection)
    by Seijun Suzuki
  62. 62.
    Death by Hanging (Koshikei) (1968)
    by Nagisa Oshima
  63. 63.
    Eros + Massacre (1969)
    by Yoshishige Yoshida
  64. 64.
    Shonen (Boy) (1969)
    by Nagisa Oshima
  66. 66.
    Battles Without Honor and Humanity
    by Kinji Fukasaku
  67. 67.
    ?
    Narita: Heta Village (1973)
    by Shinsuke Ogawa
  68. 68.
    ?
    Ruined Youth/Twisted Path of Youth (1973)
    by Tatsumi Kumashiro
  69. 69.
    The Castle of Sand
    by Yoshitaro Nomura
  70. 70.
    Graveyard of Honor
    by Kinji Fukasaku
  72. 72.
    ?
    The Yellow Handkerchief

  73. 73.
    Vengeance Is Mine (The Criterion Collection)
    by Shôhei Imamura
  74. 74.
    The Man Who Stole the Sun(Taiyo o nusunda otoko)
    by Kazuhiko Hasegawa
  75. 75.
    ?
    Crazy Thunder Road
    by Sogo Ishii
  76. 76.
    ?
    Muddy River (1981)

  77. 77.
    The Funeral
    by Juzo Itami
  78. 78.
    Ran (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  79. 79.
    The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
    by Kazuo Hara
  80. 80.
    A Taxing Woman
    by Juzo Itami
  81. 81.
    My Neighbor Totoro
    by Hayao Miyazaki
  82. 82.
    Grave of the Fireflies
    by Isao Takahata
  83. 83.
    Black Rain
    by Shohei Imamura
  84. 84.
    Tetsuo: The Iron Man
    by Shinya Tsukamoto
  85. 85.
    ?
    All Under the Moon
    by Yoichi Sai
  86. 86.
    Sonatine [Region 3]
    by Beat Takeshi Kitano
  87. 87.
    Maborosi
    by Hirokazu Koreeda
  88. 88.
    Princess Mononoke
    by Hayao Miyazaki
  89. 89.
    Hana-bi
    by Takeshi Kitano
  90. 90.
    The Eel
    by Shôhei Imamura
  91. 91.
    After Life

  92. 92.
    Audition (Uncut Special Edition)
    by Takashi Miike
  93. 93.
    Eureka
    by Aoyama Shinji
  94. 94.
    Spirited Away
    by Hayao Miyazaki
  95. 95.
    The Twilight Samurai

  96. 96.
    A Snake of June
    by Shinya Tsukamoto
  97. 97.
    Pistol Opera
    by Seijun Suzuki
  98. 98.
    Howl's Moving Castle
    by Hayao Miyazaki
  99. 99.
    Nobody Knows
    by Hirokazu Koreeda
  100. 100.
    The Mourning Forest (2007)
    by Naomi Kawase
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Created by mizoguchi on Sep 04, 2009.
 

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