My Favorite Yasujiro Ozu Films (Revised and Updated)

09 Wednesday Dec 2015

Posted by John Charet in 1920's Cinema, 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Lists, Romance, Top 100, Yasujiro Ozu

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A Story of Floating Weeds, An Autumn Afternoon, Dragnet Girl, Early Spring, Early Summer, Equinox Flower, Floating Weeds, Good Morning, I Was Born But..., Late Autumn, Late Spring, Passing Fancy, That Night's Wife, The End of Summer, The Only Son, There Was a Father, Tokyo Chorus, Tokyo Story, Tokyo Twilight, Walk Cheerfully

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1. Tokyo Story (1953)

2. Late Spring (1949)

3. I Was Born, But… (1932)

4. A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)

5. Floating Weeds (1959)

6. Early Summer (1951)

7. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

8. The End of Summer (1961)

9. Good Morning (1959)

10. Early Spring (1956)

11. Late Autumn (1960)

12. Tokyo Twilight (1957)

13. Equinox Flower (1958)

14. There Was a Father (1942)

15. The Only Son (1936)

16. Passing Fancy (1933)

17. Dragnet Girl (1933)

18. Tokyo Chorus (1931)

19. That Night’s Wife (1930)

20. Walk Cheerfully (1930)

My Favorite Kenji Mizoguchi Films (Revised and Updated)

01 Sunday Nov 2015

Posted by John Charet in 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, Action, Cinema, Drama, Greatest, History, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Kenji Mizoguichi, Lists, Romance, Top 100

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Osaka Elegy, Princess Yang Kwei-Fei, Sansho the Bailiff, Sisters of the Gion, Street of Shame, The 47 Ronin, The Downfall of Osen, The Life of Oharu, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, Ugetsu

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1. Ugetsu (1953)

2. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

3. The Life of Oharu (1952)

4. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)

5. Osaka Elegy (1936)

6. The 47 Ronin (1941)

7. Sisters of the Gion (1936)

8. The Downfall of Osen (1935)

9. Street of Shame (1956)

10. Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955)

My Favorite Hayao Miyazaki Films (Revised and Updated)

01 Sunday Nov 2015

Posted by John Charet in 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Adventure, Animation, Anime, Biography, Cinema, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Greatest, Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Lists, Romance, Top 100, War

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Castle in the Sky, Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Ponyo, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, The Castle of Cagliostro, The Wind Rises

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1. Spirited Away (2001) (Anime)

2. My Neighbor Totoro (1988) (Anime)

3. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) (Anime)

4. Princess Mononoke (1997) (Anime)

5. Castle in the Sky (1986) (Anime)

6. Porco Rosso (1992) (Anime)

7. Ponyo (2008) (Anime)

8. The Wind Rises (2013) (Anime)

9. Howl’s Moving Castle (2005) (Anime)

10. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) (Anime)

11. The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) (Anime)

My Favorite Akira Kurosawa Films (Revised and Updated)

02 Friday Oct 2015

Posted by John Charet in 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, Action, Adventure, Akira Kurosawa, Biography, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Film Noir, Greatest, History, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Lists, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Top 100, War

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Dersu Uzala, Dodes'ka-den, Dreams, Drunken Angel, High and Low, I Live in Fear, Ikiru, Kagemusha, Madadayo, No Regrets for Our Youth, One Wonderful Sunday, Ran, Rashomon, Red Beard, Rhapsody in August, Sanjuro, Sanshiro Sugata, Sanshiro Sugata Part II, Scandal 1950, Seven Samurai, Stray Dog, The Bad Sleep Well, The Hidden Fortress, The Idiot, The Lower Depths 1957, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail, The Most Beautiful, The Quiet Duel, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo

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1. Seven Samurai (1954)

2. Ran (1985)

3. Madadayo (1993)

4. Throne of Blood (1957)

5. Ikiru (1952)

6. Rashomon (1950)

7. High and Low (1963)

8. Kagemusha (1980)

9. Yojimbo (1961)

10. The Hidden Fortress (1958)

11. Sanjuro (1962)

12. Stray Dog (1949)

13. Red Beard (1965)

14. Dersu Uzala (1975)

15. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

16. The Idiot (1951)

17. I Live in Fear (1955)

18. Rhapsody in August (1991)

19. Dreams (1990)

20. The Lower Depths (1957)

21. Dodes’ka-den (1970)

22. Scandal (1950)

23. The Quiet Duel (1949)

24. Drunken Angel (1948)

25. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

26. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)

27. Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945)

28. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

29. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)

30. The Most Beautiful (1944)

My Favorite Shohei Imamura Films (New)

27 Sunday Sep 2015

Posted by John Charet in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Greatest, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Lists, Shohei Imamura, Top 100

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A Man Vanishes, Black Rain 1989 Japan Non-American Non-Anime, Dr. Akagi, Intentions of Murder, Pigs and Battleships, September 11, The Ballad of Narayama, The Eel, The Insect Woman, The Pornographers, Vengeance is Mine, Water Under a Red Bridge

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1. Vengeance is Mine (1979)

2. A Man Vanishes (1967)
(Part Documentary)

3. The Pornographers (1966)

4. The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

5. Dr. Akagi (1998)

6. The Insect Woman (1963)

7. Black Rain (1989)
(Not to be confused with the Michael Douglas)
(There is also an Anime version of this same plot released the same year)

8. Intentions of Murder (1964)

9. The Eel (1997)

10. Pigs and Battleships (1961)

11. Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1. September 11 (2002)
(Segment: Japan)

Once Upon a Time in 2013

07 Tuesday Jan 2014

Posted by John Charet in 2010-Present Cinema, Abbas Kiarostami, Abdellatif Kechiche, Action, Alain Resnais, Alexander Payne, Alfonso Cuaron, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Andrew Bujalski, Australian Filmmakers, Austrian Cinema, Austrian Filmmakers, British Cinema, British Filmmakers, Canadian Cinema, Canadian Filmmakers, Chicago Film Critics Association, Chinese Cinema, Chinese Filmmakers, Claire Denis, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Edgar Wright, Film Directors, Frederick Wiseman, French Cinema, French Filmmakers, German Cinema, Greatest, Harmony Korine, Hong Kong Cinema, Hong Kong Filmmakers, Horror, Iranian Filmmakers, James Ponsoldt, Jane Campion, Japanese Cinema, Jem Cohen, Jia Zhang-ke, Joel and Ethan Coen, Johnnie To, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Joss Whedon, Kathryn Bigelow, Malaysian Filmmakers, Martin Scorsese, Mexican Filmmakers, Michael Apted, Mini-Series, Music, Mystery, New Zealand Cinema, New Zealand Filmmakers, Nimrod Antal, Noah Baumbach, Park Chan-wook, Peter Strickland, Richard Linklater, Rodney Ascher, Roger Ebert, Romance, Sarah Polley, Science Fiction, Spike Jonze, Steve James, Television, Terrence Malick, Thriller, Tunisian Filmmakers, Werner Herzog

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12 Years a Slave, 20 Feet from Stardom, 42, 47 Ronin 2013, 56 Up, A Touch of Sin, Aftershock, All is Lost, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, American Hustle, Ass Backwards, At Any Price, At Berkeley, August: Osage County, Bastards, Before Midnight, Berberian Sound Studio, Blackfish, Blancanieves, Blue Is the Warmest Color, Blue Jasmine, Bullet to the Head, Captain Phillips, Computer Chess, Dallas Buyers Club, Don Jon, Drug War, Enough Said, Escape Plan, Fast & Furious 6, Frances Ha, Freeloaders, From Up on Poppy Hill, Frozen, Fruitvale Station, Gravity, Grudge Match, Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, Her, In a World..., InAPPropriate Comedy, Inside Llewyn Davis, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, John Dies at the End, Life Itself, Like Someone in Love, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Metallica Through the Never, Monsters University, Movie 43, Much Ado About Nothing 2012, Mud, Museum Hours, Nebraska, Oz the Great and Powerful, Pacific Rim, Pain & Gain, Paranoia, Passion, Philomena, Prisoners, R.I.P.D., Riddick, Romeo and Juliet 2013, Room 237, Runner Runner, Saving Mr. Banks, Scary Movie 5, Short Term 12, Spring Breakers, Stoker, Stories We Tell, The Act of Killing, The Armstrong Lie, The Big Wedding, The Conjuring, The Counselor, The Croods, The Great Gatsby, The Hangover Part III, The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hunt, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, The Iron Lady, The Last Days on Mars, The Last Stand, The Lone Ranger, The Spectacular Now, The Wind Rises, The Wolf of Wall Street, The World's End, This Is the End, To the Wonder, Top of the Lake, Upside Down, Upstream Color, Wadjda, Warm Bodies, World War Z, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, Zero Dark Thirty

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My Favorite Alain Resnais Films (Final Revision)

16 Wednesday Oct 2013

Posted by John Charet in 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, Alain Resnais, Comedy, Documentary Shorts, Drama, Film Directors, French Cinema, French Filmmakers, Greatest, History, Japanese Cinema, Lists, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Top 101

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Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad, Melo, Mon Oncle d'Amerique, Muriel, Night and Fog, Private Fears in Public Places, Same Old Song, Wild Grass, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1. Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

2. Private Fears in Public Places (2006)

3. Melo (1986)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Documentary Shorts)

1. Night and Fog (1955)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1. Hiroshima mon amour (1959)

2. Mon Oncle d’Amerique (1980)

3. Muriel (1963)

4. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (2012)

5. Same Old Song (1997)

6. Wild Grass (2009)

My Favorite Yasujiro Ozu Films (Final Revision)

12 Saturday Oct 2013

Posted by John Charet in 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Lists, Silent Cinema, Top 101, Yasujiro Ozu

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A Story of Floating Weeds, An Autumn Afternoon, Early Spring, Early Summer, Equinox Flower, Floating Weeds, Good Morning, I Was Born But..., Late Autumn, Late Spring, Passing Fancy, The End of Summer, The Only Son, There Was a Father, Tokyo Chorus, Tokyo Story, Tokyo Twilight

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1. Tokyo Story (1953)

2. Late Spring (1949)

3. I Was Born, But… (1932)

4. Early Summer (1951)

5. A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)/Floating Weeds (1959)

6. The End of Summer (1961)

7. Good Morning (1959)

8. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1. Late Autumn (1960)

2. Tokyo Chorus (1931)

3. Tokyo Twilight (1957)

4. Equinox Flower (1958)

5. Early Spring (1956)

6. The Only Son (1936)/There Was a Father (1942)

7. Passing Fancy (1933)

My Favorite Kenji Mizoguichi Films (Final Revision)

10 Thursday Oct 2013

Posted by John Charet in 1930's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, Greatest, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Kenji Mizoguichi, Lists, Romance, Top 101

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A Geisha, Osaka Elegy, Sansho the Bailiff, Sisters of the Gion, The Life of Oharu, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, Ugetsu

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

1. Ugetsu (1953)

2. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

3. The Life of Oharu (1952)

4. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1. Sisters of the Gion (1936)

2. A Geisha (1953)

3. Osaka Elegy (1936)

My Favorite Hayao Miyazaki Films (Final Revision)

10 Thursday Oct 2013

Posted by John Charet in 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, 2000's Cinema, Animation, Anime, Film Directors, Greatest, Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Filmmakers, Lists, Top 101

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Castle in the Sky, Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, Ponyo, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Animation/Anime)

1. My Neighbor Totoro (1988) (Anime)

2. Spirited Away (2001) (Anime)

3. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) (Anime)

4. Princess Mononoke (1997) (Anime)

5. Porco Rosso (1992) (Anime)

6. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) (Anime)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *) (Animation/Anime)

1. Ponyo (2008) (Anime)

2. Castle in the Sky (1986) (Anime)

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My Favorite Yasujiro Ozu Films (Revised and Updated)

My Favorite Kenji Mizoguchi Films (Revised and Updated)

My Favorite Hayao Miyazaki Films (Revised and Updated)

My Favorite Akira Kurosawa Films (Revised and Updated)

My Favorite Shohei Imamura Films (New)

Once Upon a Time in 2013

My Favorite Alain Resnais Films (Final Revision)

My Favorite Yasujiro Ozu Films (Final Revision)

My Favorite Kenji Mizoguichi Films (Final Revision)

My Favorite Hayao Miyazaki Films (Final Revision)