From The Land Of The Rising Sun: Japanese Films I've Seen

By: trolley freak

The list is roughly chronological and I’ve included films that were not made and/or financed in Japan, but are primarily in the Japanese language, e.g. Schrader’s Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters and Eastwood’s Letters From Iwo Jima. See separate list for my favourite 50…

Tokyo Story (1953). My favourite of numerous brilliant Ozu films…

Films seen NOT on MUBI:

1. Okichi, Mistress Of A Foreigner (1930) Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi (surviving fragment)

• 01
  Days of Youth
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 02
  Fighting Friends
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 03
  I Graduated, But...
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 04
  A Straightforward Boy
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 05
  Walk Cheerfully
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 06
  I Flunked, But...
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 07
  That Night's Wife
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 08
  Flunky, Work Hard!
  Mikio Naruse
• 09
  The Lady and the Beard
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 10
  I Was Born, But...
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 11
  Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 12
  No Blood Relation
  Mikio Naruse
• 13
  Apart from You
  Mikio Naruse
• 14
  Every-Night Dreams
  Mikio Naruse
• 15
  Japanese Girls at the Harbor
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 16
  The Water Magician
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 17
  Woman of Tokyo
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 18
  Dragnet Girl
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 19
  Passing Fancy
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 20
  A Mother Should Be Loved
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 21
  A Story of Floating Weeds
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 22
  Street Without End
  Mikio Naruse
• 23
  An Inn in Tokyo
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 24
  Oyuki the Virgin
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 25
  Poppies
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 26
  Wife! Be Like a Rose!
  Mikio Naruse
• 27
  The Lion Dance
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 28
  The Only Son
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 29
  Mr. Thank You
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 30
  Osaka Elegy
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 31
  Sisters of the Gion
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 32
  Avalanche
  Mikio Naruse
• 33
  Children in the Wind
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 34
  Humanity and Paper Balloons
  Sadao Yamanaka
• 35
  The Straits of Love and Hate
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 36
  What Did the Lady Forget?
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 37
  The Masseurs and a Woman
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 38
  The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 39
  Traveling Actors
  Mikio Naruse
• 40
  Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 41
  The 47 Ronin
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 42
  Hideko the Bus Conductress
  Mikio Naruse
• 43
  Ornamental Hairpin
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 44
  There Was a Father
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 45
  Sanshiro Sugata
  Akira Kurosawa
• 46
  The Most Beautiful
  Akira Kurosawa
• 47
  Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
  Akira Kurosawa
• 48
  The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
  Akira Kurosawa
• 49
  Five Women Around Utamaro
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 50
  No Regrets for Our Youth
  Akira Kurosawa
• 51
  The Love of Sumako the Actress
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 52
  One Wonderful Sunday
  Akira Kurosawa
• 53
  The Record of a Tenement Gentleman
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 54
  Drunken Angel
  Akira Kurosawa
• 55
  A Hen in the Wind
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 56
  Women of the Night
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 57
  Flame of my Love
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 58
  Late Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 59
  The Quiet Duel
  Akira Kurosawa
• 60
  Stray Dog
  Akira Kurosawa
• 61
  The Munekata Sisters
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 62
  Portrait of Madame Yuki
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 63
  Scandal
  Akira Kurosawa
• 64
  Rashômon
  Akira Kurosawa
• 65
  Early Summer
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 66
  The Idiot
  Akira Kurosawa
• 67
  Miss Oyu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 68
  The Lady of Musashino
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 69
  Children of Hiroshima
  Kaneto Shindô
• 70
  Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 71
  Ikiru
  Akira Kurosawa
• 72
  The Life of Oharu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 73
  Gate of Hell
  Teinosuke Kinugasa
• 74
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 75
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 76
  A Geisha
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 77
  Godzilla
  Ishirô Honda
• 78
  Late Chrysanthemums
  Mikio Naruse
• 79
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 80
  The Crucified Woman
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 81
  The Crucified Lovers
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 82
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 83
  Sound of the Mountain
  Mikio Naruse
• 84
  Twenty-four Eyes
  Keisuke Kinoshita
• 85
  Floating Clouds
  Mikio Naruse
• 86
  The Heart
  Kon Ichikawa
• 87
  I Live in Fear
  Akira Kurosawa
• 88
  Princess Yang Kwei-fei
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 89
  Taira Clan Saga
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 90
  The Burmese Harp
  Kon Ichikawa
• 91
  Crazed Fruit
  Kô Nakahira
• 92
  Early Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 93
  Street of Shame
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 94
  Black River
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 95
  Kisses
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 96
  Throne of Blood
  Akira Kurosawa
• 97
  The Lower Depths
  Akira Kurosawa
• 98
  Tokyo Twilight
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 99
  Ballad of Narayama
  Keisuke Kinoshita
• 100
  Conflagration
  Kon Ichikawa
• 101
  Equinox Flower
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 102
  Giants and Toys
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 103
  The Hidden Fortress
  Akira Kurosawa
• 104
  Floating Weeds
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 105
  Good Morning
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 106
  Fires on the Plain
  Kon Ichikawa
• 107
  The Human Condition
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 108
  The Bad Sleep Well
  Akira Kurosawa
• 109
  Her Brother
  Kon Ichikawa
• 110
  Jigoku
  Nobuo Nakagawa
• 111
  Late Autumn
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 112
  The Naked Island
  Kaneto Shindô
• 113
  When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
  Mikio Naruse
• 114
  The End of Summer
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 115
  Yojimbo
  Akira Kurosawa
• 116
  An Autumn Afternoon
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 117
  Harakiri
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 118
  Pitfall
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 119
  Sanjuro
  Akira Kurosawa
• 120
  An Actor's Revenge
  Kon Ichikawa
• 121
  Alone on the Pacific
  Kon Ichikawa
• 122
  High and Low
  Akira Kurosawa
• 123
  The Insect Woman
  Shôhei Imamura
• 124
  Assassination
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 125
  Manji
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 126
  Onibaba
  Kaneto Shindô
• 127
  Pale Flower
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 128
  Woman in the Dunes
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 129
  Kwaidan
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 130
  Red Beard
  Akira Kurosawa
• 131
  Samurai Spy
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 132
  Seisaku's Wife
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 133
  A Story Written with Water
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 134
  The Face of Another
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 135
  Fighting Elegy
  Seijun Suzuki
• 136
  Irezumi
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 137
  Red Angel
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 138
  Branded to Kill
  Seijun Suzuki
• 139
  Samurai Rebellion
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 140
  Kuroneko
  Kaneto Shindô
• 141
  Blind Beast
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 142
  Portrait of Hell
  Shirô Toyoda
• 143
  Double Suicide
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 144
  Dodes'ka-den
  Akira Kurosawa
• 145
  Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
  Kihachi Okamoto
• 146
  Zatoichi: The Festival of Fire
  Kenji Misumi
• 147
  Silence
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 148
  Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
  Kenji Misumi
• 149
  Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 150
  Sex and Fury
  Noribumi Suzuki
• 151
  Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
  Yoshio Inoue
• 152
  Dersu Uzala
  Akira Kurosawa
• 153
  Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
  Kaneto Shindô
• 154
  Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 155
  In the Realm of the Senses
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 156
  House
  Nobuhiko Obayashi
• 157
  Double Suicide at Sonezaki
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 158
  Vengeance Is Mine
  Shôhei Imamura
• 159
  Kagemusha
  Akira Kurosawa
• 160
  Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 161
  Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  Paul Schrader
• 162
  Ran
  Akira Kurosawa
• 163
  Dreams
  Akira Kurosawa
• 164
  Rhapsody in August
  Akira Kurosawa
• 165
  Madadayo
  Akira Kurosawa
• 166
  Fireworks
  Takeshi Kitano
• 167
  Letters from Iwo Jima
  Clint Eastwood