Japan 100

By: Mono No Aware

This will eventually be a list of my favourite hundred films from my current homestead. A detailed introduction and explanation (defence?) will appear in due course.

• 01
  A Page of Madness
  Teinosuke Kinugasa
• 02
  Crossroads
  Teinosuke Kinugasa
• 03
  Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
  Yasujiro Shimazu
• 04
  I Was Born, But...
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 05
  Japanese Girls at the Harbor
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 06
  Children in the Wind
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 07
  Humanity and Paper Balloons
  Sadao Yamanaka
• 08
  The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 09
  Ornamental Hairpin
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 10
  Late Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 11
  Stray Dog
  Akira Kurosawa
• 12
  Rashômon
  Akira Kurosawa
• 13
  Early Summer
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 14
  Repast
  Mikio Naruse
• 15
  Ikiru
  Akira Kurosawa
• 16
  The Life of Oharu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 17
  Children of Hiroshima
  Kaneto Shindô
• 18
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 19
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 20
  Godzilla
  Ishirô Honda
• 21
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 22
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 23
  Twenty-four Eyes
  Keisuke Kinoshita
• 24
  Floating Clouds
  Mikio Naruse
• 25
  She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
  Keisuke Kinoshita
• 26
  The Burmese Harp
  Kon Ichikawa
• 27
  Crazed Fruit
  Kô Nakahira
• 28
  Flowing
  Mikio Naruse
• 29
  Punishment Room
  Kon Ichikawa
• 30
  Street of Shame
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 31
  Throne of Blood
  Akira Kurosawa
• 32
  Conflagration
  Kon Ichikawa
• 33
  Ballad of Narayama
  Keisuke Kinoshita
• 34
  Kisses
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 35
  Giants and Toys
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 36
  The Human Condition
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 37
  The Naked Island
  Kaneto Shindô
• 38
  Night and Fog in Japan
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 39
  When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
  Mikio Naruse
• 40
  Immortal Love
  Keisuke Kinoshita
• 41
  Pigs and Battleships
  Shôhei Imamura
• 42
  Akitsu Springs
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 43
  An Autumn Afternoon
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 44
  Harakiri
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 45
  Pitfall
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 46
  An Actor's Revenge
  Kon Ichikawa
• 47
  The Insect Woman
  Shôhei Imamura
• 48
  Manji
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 49
  Assassination
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 50
  Onibaba
  Kaneto Shindô
• 51
  Yearning
  Mikio Naruse
• 52
  Pale Flower
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 53
  The Pornographers
  Shôhei Imamura
• 54
  Woman in the Dunes
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 55
  Kwaidan
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 56
  With Beauty and Sadness
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 57
  The Face of Another
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 58
  Red Angel
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 59
  The Affair
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 60
  Branded to Kill
  Seijun Suzuki
• 61
  Flame and Women
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 62
  A Man Vanishes
  Shôhei Imamura
• 63
  Boy
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 64
  Death by Hanging
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 65
  Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 66
  Double Suicide
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 67
  The Human Bullet
  Kihachi Okamoto
• 68
  Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
  Susumu Hani
• 69
  Blind Beast
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 70
  Eros plus massacre
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 71
  Funeral Parade of Roses
  Toshio Matsumoto
• 72
  Emperor Tomato Ketchup
  Shûji Terayama
• 73
  This Transient Life
  Akio Jissoji
• 74
  Pandemonium
  Toshio Matsumoto
• 75
  The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor and Humanity
  Kinji Fukasaku
• 76
  Coup d'état
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 77
  Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
  Shûji Terayama
• 78
  Pastoral: To Die in the Country
  Shûji Terayama
• 79
  Brothel No. 8
  Kei Kumai
• 80
  God Speed You! Black Emperor
  Mitsuo Yanagimachi
• 81
  In the Realm of the Senses
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 82
  Vengeance Is Mine
  Shôhei Imamura
• 83
  The Funeral
  Jûzô Itami
• 84
  Tampopo
  Jûzô Itami
• 85
  Castle in the Sky
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 86
  Akira
  Katsuhiro Ôtomo
• 87
  Grave of the Fireflies
  Isao Takahata
• 88
  My Neighbor Totoro
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 89
  Sonatine
  Takeshi Kitano
• 90
  Maborosi
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 91
  Fireworks
  Takeshi Kitano
• 92
  After Life
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 93
  Eureka
  Shinji Aoyama
• 94
  Distance
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 95
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 96
  Tony Takitani
  Jun Ichikawa
• 97
  The Mourning Forest
  Naomi Kawase
• 98
  United Red Army
  Kôji Wakamatsu
• 99
  Still Walking
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 100
  Tokyo Sonata
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa