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)
Happy Hour (Hamaguchi)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Late Spring (Ozu)
Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
Maborosi (Koreeda)
My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki)
Harakiri (Kobayashi)
Floating Clouds (Naruse)
Ugetsu Monogatari...