* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Pulse (2001)
2. Cure (1997)
3. Creepy (2016)
4. Tokyo Sonata (2008)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Penance (2012)
(Japanese TV Miniseries)
2. Seance (2000)
(Japanese TV Film)
Japanese Filmmakers
My Favorite Akira Kurosawa Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Ran (1985)
2. High and Low (1963)
3. Seven Samurai (1954)
4. Ikiru (1952)
5. Red Beard (1965)
6. Throne of Blood (1957)
7. Rashomon (1950)
8. Yojimbo (1961)
9. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
10. Stray Dog (1949)
11. Madadayo (1993)
12. Kagemusha (1980)
13. Drunken Angel (1948)
14. Sanjuro (1962)
15. Dersu Uzala (1975)
16. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
17. I Live in Fear (1955)
18. Does’ka-den (1970)
19. The Idiot (1951)
20. The Lower Depths (1957)
21. Scandal (1950)
22. The Quiet Duel (1949)
23. One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
24. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
25. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)
26. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
27. Sanshiro SUgata Part II (1945)
28. The Most Beautiful (1944)
29. Rhapsody in August (1991)
30. Dreams (1990)
(a.k.a. Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams)
My Favorite Hirokazu Koreeda Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. After the Storm (2016)
2. Still Walking (2008)
3. After Life (1998)
4. Like Father, Like Son (2013)
(no relation to the 1987 Dudle Moore film)
5. Nobody Knows (2004)
6. Maborosi (1995)
7. Our Little Sister (2015)
8. I Wish (2011)
My Favorite Masaki Kobayashi Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Human Condition Trilogy (1959/1961)
2. Kwaidan (1964)
3. Samurai Rebellion (1967)
4. Harakiri (1962)
5. Black River (1957)
My Favorite Keisuke Kinoshita Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
2. Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
3. Apostasy (1948)
4. Army (1944)
My Favorite Shoehei Imamura Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Eel (1997)
2. The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
3. Vengeance is Mine (1979)
4. A Man Vanishes (1967)
(Documentary)
5. Black Rain (1989)
(no relation to the Michael Douglas movie)
6. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
7. Dr. Akagi (1998)
8. Eijanaika (1981)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)
9. The Pornographers (1966)
10. Unholy Desire (1964)
(a.k.a. Intentions of Murder)
11. The Insect Woman (1963)
12. Pigs and Battleships (1961)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. 11’09″01 September 11 (2002)
(Segment: “Japan”)
My Favorite Kon Ichikawa Films
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
(Documentary)
2. An Actor’s Revenge (1963)
3. Fires on the Plain (1959)
4. The Burmese Harp (1956)
5. The Makioka Sisters (1983)
6. Odd Obsession (1959)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)
7. Being Two Isn’t Easy (1962)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Anthology Films)
1. Visions of Eight (1973)
(Segment: “The Fastest”)
(Documentary)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Dora-heita (2001)
2. 47 Ronin (1994)
My Favorite Yasujiro Ozu Films (Revised and Updated)
* * * * (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)
* * * * (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)
* * * * (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)
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