SATO TADAO'S FAVOURITE FILMS

By: Kenji

Chunhyang

The distinguished Japanese film critic’s different selections over the years. He has submitted an unsurpassed 5 separate top 10s to Sight and Sound’s major international polls, in 72, 82, 92, 02 and 12.

2012 ,top 10 are listed here first- with exception of Ferocious Saint Lord of Gobi (Nyamgavaara), Man of the Story/Kapakurushnan (Gopalakrishnan), not on mubi.

Results of S&S 2012 poll here

Sato on Mizoguchi:
“The master among masters in the Japanese film world…to talk about this man is at the same time to talk about the path upon which the Japanese film has progressed”

• 01
  The Bogeyman
  Govindan Aravindan
• 02
  Mandara
  Im Kwon-taek
• 03
  Where Is the Friend's Home?
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 04
  Banana Paradise
  Wang Tung
• 05
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 06
  Line of Destiny
  Lester James Peries
• 07
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 08
  Children of Heaven
  Majid Majidi
• 09
  The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 10
  Crows and Sparrows
  Zheng Junli
• 11
  My Neighbor Totoro
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 12
  Chunhyang
  Im Kwon-taek
• 13
  A Woman of Paris
  Charlie Chaplin
• 14
  The Life of Oharu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 15
  Ordet
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 16
  Wild Strawberries
  Ingmar Bergman
• 17
  Red Sorghum
  Zhang Yimou
• 18
  A Day in the Country
  Jean Renoir
• 19
  Brief Encounter
  David Lean
• 20
  Germany Year Zero
  Roberto Rossellini
• 21
  Pather Panchali
  Satyajit Ray
• 22
  Antonio das Mortes
  Glauber Rocha
• 23
  Battleship Potemkin
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 24
  A Diary of Chuji's Travels
  Daisuke Itô
• 25
  Paisan
  Roberto Rossellini
• 26
  Maskerade
  Willi Forst
• 27
  Minamata: The Victims and Their World
  Noriaki Tsuchimoto
• 28
  Ashes and Diamonds
  Andrzej Wajda
• 29
  Last Year at Marienbad
  Alain Resnais
• 30
  West Side Story
  Jerome Robbins
• 31
  Red Persimmon
  Wang Tung
• 32
  This Life of Mine
  Shi Hui
• 33
  The Insect Woman
  Shôhei Imamura
• 34
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi