ESSENTIAL JAPANESE FILMS

IN TIERS, EACH IN REVERSE YEAR ORDER.. Do explore Japan’s golden age of the 1950s and the dynamic New Wave of the 60s. It was in the 80s that Japanese anime became world famous.

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MY 20 FAVOURITES:
Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)- the peak of cinema
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Late Spring (Ozu)
Happy Hour (Hamaguchi)
Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Yamanaka)
Maborosi (Koreeda)
My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
Harakiri...