JAPAN, CINEMA & MYSELF

By: Cedric

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• 01
  Where Chimneys are Seen
  Heinosuke Gosho
• 02
  Maborosi
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 03
  Eureka
  Shinji Aoyama
• 04
  An Autumn Afternoon
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 05
  A Japanese Village
  Shinsuke Ogawa
• 06
  Yearning
  Mikio Naruse
• 07
  Ikiru
  Akira Kurosawa
• 08
  A Fugitive from the Past
  Tomu Uchida
• 09
  A Dedicated Life
  Kazuo Hara
• 10
  The Life of Oharu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 11
  Moving
  Shinji Sômai
• 12
  Profound Desires of the Gods
  Shôhei Imamura
• 13
  Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
  Yasujiro Shimazu
• 14
  A Page of Madness
  Teinosuke Kinugasa
• 15
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 16
  The Sting of Death
  Kôhei Oguri
• 17
  An Inn at Osaka
  Heinosuke Gosho
• 18
  Harakiri
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 19
  Sound of the Mountain
  Mikio Naruse
• 20
  Sans soleil
  Chris Marker
• 21
  Princess Mononoke
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 22
  What Made Her Do It?
  Shigeyoshi Suzuki
• 23
  Night and Fog in Japan
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 24
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 25
  Charisma
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• 26
  The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 27
  Zigeunerweisen
  Seijun Suzuki
• 28
  The Burmese Harp
  Kon Ichikawa
• 29
  Ballad of Narayama
  Keisuke Kinoshita
• 30
  Scattered Clouds
  Mikio Naruse
• 31
  Sweet Little Lies
  Hitoshi Yazaki
• 32
  Narita: Heta Village
  Shinsuke Ogawa
• 33
  Woman in the Dunes
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 34
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 35
  When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
  Mikio Naruse
• 36
  Wait and See
  Shinji Sômai
• 37
  Daughters, Wives and a Mother
  Mikio Naruse
• 38
  Sonatine
  Takeshi Kitano
• 39
  Humanity and Paper Balloons
  Sadao Yamanaka
• 40
  Ran
  Akira Kurosawa
• 41
  Kwaidan
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 42
  The Crucified Lovers
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 43
  Diary of a Yunbogi Boy
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 44
  Twenty-four Eyes
  Keisuke Kinoshita
• 45
  The Cherry Orchard
  Shun Nakahara
• 46
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 47
  The Sea and Poison
  Kei Kumai
• 48
  Floating Clouds
  Mikio Naruse
• 49
  The Nineteen Year-Old's Map
  Mitsuo Yanagimachi
• 50
  Double Suicide
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 51
  The Ball at the Anjo House
  Kozaburo Yoshimura
• 52
  August in the Water
  Sogo Ishii
• 53
  Heat-Haze Theatre
  Seijun Suzuki
• 54
  Flowing
  Mikio Naruse
• 55
  Early Summer
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 56
  Intentions of Murder
  Shôhei Imamura
• 57
  Ghost in the Shell
  Mamoru Oshii
• 58
  Mr. Thank You
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 59
  Fires on the Plain
  Kon Ichikawa
• 60
  A Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
  Tomu Uchida
• 61
  United Red Army
  Kôji Wakamatsu
• 62
  Street of Shame
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 63
  Pitfall
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 64
  Mother
  Mikio Naruse
• 65
  My Neighbor Totoro
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 66
  Late Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 67
  Postman Blues
  Hiroyuki Tanaka
• 68
  Children in the Wind
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 69
  Still Walking
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 70
  Kuroneko
  Kaneto Shindô
• 71
  Black Rain
  Shôhei Imamura
• 72
  Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  Paul Schrader
• 73
  Bullet Ballet
  Shinya Tsukamoto
• 74
  Boy
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 75
  Dispersed Clouds
  Heinosuke Gosho
• 76
  Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 77
  Café Lumière
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 78
  Sisters of the Gion
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 79
  Brothel No. 8
  Kei Kumai
• 80
  The Human Condition
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 81
  Himatsuri: Fire Festival
  Mitsuo Yanagimachi
• 82
  Japanese Girls at the Harbor
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 83
  High and Low
  Akira Kurosawa
• 84
  Earth
  Tomu Uchida
• 85
  In the Realm of the Senses
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 86
  Rashômon
  Akira Kurosawa
• 87
  Muddy River
  Kôhei Oguri
• 88
  The Insect Woman
  Shôhei Imamura
• 89
  Silence
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 90
  Repast
  Mikio Naruse
• 91
  Cure
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• 92
  Letters from Iwo Jima
  Clint Eastwood
• 93
  Princess Yang Kwei-fei
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 94
  Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
  Sadao Yamanaka
• 95
  She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
  Keisuke Kinoshita
• 96
  The Sun
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 97
  The Naked Island
  Kaneto Shindô
• 98
  The Shiinomi School
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 99
  Vengeance Is Mine
  Shôhei Imamura
• 100
  Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 101
  The Koumiko Mystery
  Chris Marker
• 102
  Typhoon Club
  Shinji Sômai
• 103
  Susaki Paradise: Red Light District
  Yuzo Kawashima
• 104
  Notes of an Itinerant Performer
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 105
  The Only Son
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 106
  Tetsuo, the Iron Man
  Shinya Tsukamoto
• 107
  Caterpillar
  Kôji Wakamatsu
• 108
  Lightning
  Mikio Naruse
• 109
  Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 110
  The Saga of Anatahan
  Josef von Sternberg
• 111
  The Record of a Tenement Gentleman
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 112
  Madadayo
  Akira Kurosawa
• 113
  Four Seasons of Children
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 114
  Pastoral: To Die in the Country
  Shûji Terayama
• 115
  Crossroads
  Teinosuke Kinugasa
• 116
  Grave of the Fireflies
  Isao Takahata
• 117
  Spring Awakens
  Mikio Naruse
• 118
  The End of Summer
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 119
  Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 120
  Shuffle
  Sogo Ishii
• 121
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 122
  The Lower Depths
  Akira Kurosawa
• 123
  Ornamental Hairpin
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 124
  Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
  Mikio Naruse
• 125
  She and He
  Susumu Hani
• 126
  Dojoji Temple
  Kihachiro Kawamoto
• 127
  Fireworks
  Takeshi Kitano
• 128
  Tokyo Twilight
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 129
  The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
  Kazuo Hara
• 130
  Late Autumn
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 131
  Noisy Requiem
  Yoshihiko Matsui
• 132
  Dodes'ka-den
  Akira Kurosawa
• 133
  A Story of Floating Weeds
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 134
  Narita: Peasants of the Second Fortress
  Shinsuke Ogawa
• 135
  Burden of Life
  Heinosuke Gosho
• 136
  Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw
  Kôji Wakamatsu
• 137
  With Beauty and Sadness
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 138
  A Scene at the Sea
  Takeshi Kitano
• 139
  Pandemonium
  Toshio Matsumoto
• 140
  Her Brother
  Kon Ichikawa
• 141
  To Shoot Without Shooting
  Kihachiro Kawamoto
• 142
  Ballad of Narayama
  Shôhei Imamura
• 143
  Mr. Shosuke Ohara
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 144
  Throne of Blood
  Akira Kurosawa
• 145
  The Face of Another
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 146
  License to Live
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• 147
  The Long Darkness
  Kei Kumai
• 148
  Castle in the Sky
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 149
  Level Five
  Chris Marker
• 150
  House of Flames
  Kihachiro Kawamoto
• 151
  Snow Country
  Shirô Toyoda
• 152
  5 Centimeters per Second
  Makoto Shinkai
• 153
  Connection
  Toshio Matsumoto
• 154
  Introspection Tower
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 155
  Alone on the Pacific
  Kon Ichikawa
• 156
  Sing a Song of Sex
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 157
  The Oil-Hell Murder
  Hideo Gosha
• 158
  Dersu Uzala
  Akira Kurosawa
• 159
  Kids Return
  Takeshi Kitano
• 160
  Home from the Sea
  Yôji Yamada
• 161
  An Actor's Revenge
  Kon Ichikawa
• 162
  A Humble Life
  Aleksandr Sokurov