THE JAPANESE MOVIE [DONALD RICHIE'S COMPENDIUM]

A list of all films featured in Donald Richie’s expansive publication “The Japanese Movie” (Kodansha Int’l, 1966, revised 1982) This list is still in progress, and I know it’s been years, but I really will finish off this list some day when I get some free time.

Many of the films mentioned in the book have not yet been added to mubi, but as they are, this list should grow, with intent to list them all in order of appearance in the book. This listing will ignore mentions of non-Japanese films as well as casual mentions (i.e. despite “Ugetsu” being mentioned during his 1920s coverage, will...