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Kinema Junpo's Best Ten Japanese Films (1926-2019)

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Thus Another Day
There Was a Father
After Life
Audition
What Is Love?
Lying to Mom
Killing
My Friend "A"
The Chaplain
Before We Vanish
Bangkok Nites
Big Joys, Small Sorrows
And Then
Fire Festival
Affair in the Snow
Eros Eterna
Across a Gold Prairie
The Castle of Sand
Lullaby of the Earth
Not Forgotten
Muddy River
Drunken Angel
Evil Spirits of Japan
Death of a Tea Master
Gonin Saga
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Bounce Ko Gals
Distant Thunder
Gonza the Spearman
With Beauty and Sorrow
A Class to Remember
A Sandcastle Model Family Home
800 Two Lap Runners
Demons
Sex Is No Laughing Matter
Sabu
Painful Bliss: Final Twist
119
Play It Cool
Children Drawing Rainbows
Charisma
Love Letter
The Matsugane Potshot Affair
Vengeance for Sale
Bluestockings
United Red Army
Best Wishes for Tomorrow
Women of the Night
The Village
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
Confessions of a Dog
A Mermaid on Land
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Where Spring Comes Late
Dreamy Fifteen
Actress
The Homeless
Ryuji
Children of the Dark
Revenge
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
A Night in Nude
The Conspirator
Bright Future
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Switching – Goodbye Me
God Speed You! Black Emperor
Battle Cry
My Way
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Letter from the Mountain
Night and Fog in Japan
Seven Samurai
Zen
An Inn at Osaka
Our Little Sister
Owls' Castle
Elephant Song
Everyday Mom
The Warped Ones
The Kirishima Thing
My Neighbors the Yamadas
Seven Weeks
A
The Silk Tree Ballad
Wilderness: Part 1
BU・SU
Gu Gu, the Cat
Double Suicide
Eros + Massacre
Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!
The Garden of Women
The Choice of Hercules
My Man
Vital
My Back Page
A Girl Missing
The Incident
Talk, Talk, Talk
Vibrator
A Chorus of Angels
Railroad Man
Tokyo Fist
Will to Live
This Transient Life
Keiko
Shoplifters
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Adrift in Tokyo
A Scene at the Sea
The Burmese Harp
Railways
The Story of Pure Love
An Innocent Witch
Dodes'ka-den
The Discarnates
She and He
The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
Bad Boys
Dear Etranger
The Goofball
Coquille
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
Chikamatsu Monogatari
The Man Without a Map
The Affair
A Snake of June
A Bride for Rip Van Winkle
The Castle of Cagliostro
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
Gray Sunset
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
My Second Brother
Porco Rosso
Daimajin
Shin Godzilla
The Village Album
A Fugitive from the Past
License to Live
Silence
Pom Poko
Vacuum Zone
Rape! 13th Hour
Fighting Elegy
0.5 mm
Desperado Outpost
No Life King
The False Student
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Outrage
Tampopo
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Yakuza Graveyard
Phoenix
Kagero-za
Children of Hiroshima
Untamed Woman
The Sea of Genkai
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
Lonely Heart
Ecstasy of the Angels
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
Welcome Home
Hymn to a Tired Man
The Lower Depths
The Man Who Stole the Sun
Typhoon Club
The Makioka Sisters
Heat Wave Island
Composition Class
Flashback Memories 3D
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
Irezumi
Cold Fish
The Woodsman and the Rain
The Motive
A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring
The Friends
Adrenaline Drive
Permanent Nobara
Waiting in the Dark
Playful White Fingers
A Stranger of Mine
Ponyo
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Dreams for Sale
The World of Geisha
Tracked
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
Summer Wars
Stray Dog
Memories of Tomorrow
What Did the Lady Forget?
Children of the Beehive
Kaachan
Yamato
Pleasures of the Flesh
Paradise View
Portrait of the Wind
Nuclear Gypsies
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Every Day a Good Day
Creepy
Jazz Daimyo
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Fly with the Gold
Empire of Kids
Dying at a Hospital
I Are You, You Am Me
Being Two Isn't Easy
Thirst for Love
Horus: Prince of the Sun
Every-Night Dreams
Patlabor: The Movie
Her Brother
GO
Three Stories of Love
Bad Company
Lost Paradise
Aiki
Sawako Decides
Caterpillar
Woman
The Tale of the White Serpent
In This Corner of the World
Chuji's Travel Diary: The Chuji Patrol Episode
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Boyhood
Blue
Ikiru
The Youth Killer
Buddha
Kaza-hana
A Long Walk
The Kiss
The Drudgery Train
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Moonlight Serenade
Fires on the Plain
An Actor's Revenge
100 Yen Love
Magino Village: A Tale
Tokyo Godfathers
Shall We Dance?
Hoodlum Soldier
Kamui
The Good Fairy
The Blood of Wolves
Seisaku's Wife
Modern People
The Stars Converge
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2/Duo
Cops vs. Thugs
Tsugumi
War and Youth
Helpless
Child of the Sun
The Watcher in the Attic
Dear Summer Sister
A Hen in the Wind
A Chain of Islands
The Triple Cross
Hana & Alice
The Beast to Die
Fireworks Over the Sea
Remembrance
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
The Dancing Girl of Izu
April Story
Topo Gigio and the Missile War
Whiteout
Nowhere Man
The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
You Can Succeed, Too
The Land of Hope
Late Chrysanthemums
Yasukuni
Atlanta Boogie
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Our Family
Teacher and Three Children
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
Sing a Song of Sex
The Black House
Spring Snow
Humanity and Paper Balloons
Mount Hakkoda
The Third Murder
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Woman in the Dunes
Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
Our Happiness Alone
Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
Hokuriku Proxy War
Distance
The Broken Commandment
Mud and Soldiers
Puppets Under Starry Skies
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: Forbidden Love
Throne of Blood
Destruction Babies
A New Love in Tokyo
Quartet for Two
The Waves
Over the Fence
Mahjong Horoki
The Scarlet Camellia
Boiling Point
Tora-san's Love Call
Doing Time
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
Dispersed Clouds
Furuyashiki: A Japanese Village
Gonin 2
A Scream from Nowhere
Sisters of the Gion
KT
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Third Base
The Ball at the Anjo House
The Egoists
Red Beard
P. P. Rider
Robinson's Garden
Tokyo Sonata
Village of Dreams
Eijanaika
Gassan
Kiki's Delivery Service
Down the Drain
The Idiot
Wedding Ring
Band of Ninja
Taro the Dragon Boy
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
The Long Excuse
Year One in the North
Side Job
The Inheritance
Fall Guy
Admiral Yamamoto
Takeshi: Childhood Days
Ecstasy of the Black Rose
Close-Knit
Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!
Crazed Fruit
Golden Slumber
The 47 Ronin
Time and Tide
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Oh, My Buddha!
Woods Are Wet
Ping Pong
The Hidden Fortress
Zero Focus
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Rashomon
Kwaidan
Station
Kamome Diner
Phone Call to the Bar
Almost Transparent Blue
Tokyo Fair Weather
Kisses
Wilderness: Part 2
Tokyo Chorus
Villon's Wife
Ugetsu
Dearest
Hero of the Red Light District
Kappa
Spring on Leper's Island
The Rose on His Arm
Ran
Haru
Foundry Town
Theatre 2
Birds Without Names
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Robot Contest
Early Summer
A Gentle Breeze in the Village
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
Tokyo Bordello
Keiho
Laundry
The Letter
Mother
A Touch of Fever
Profound Desires of the Gods
The Love of the Actress Sumako
Sorry
Listen to the Universe
From Miyamoto to You
Dr. Akagi
The Heart
A Tale of Africa
What the Snow Brings
The Deserted City
Sharaku
Kotoko
Jirokichi the Rat
Tales of a Golden Geisha
Pitfall
Something Like It
Angel Guts: Red Porno
Retribution
To Love Again
Pride
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
The Tale of Nishino
Gensen-Kan Inn
Scenery to Remember
One Wonderful Sunday
Rise, Fair Sun
The River Fuefuki
The Insect Woman
One Summer's Day
The Young Rebels
The Alaska Story
Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
Rape!
Stepbrothers
A Whistle in My Heart
Aegis
The Last War
A Public Benefactor
Spring Bell
Still Walking
The Silk Road
Women in the Mirror
Morning for the Osone Family
Confessions
A Legend or Was It?
Sway
A Geisha
Crest of Betrayal
Street of Shame
Scoutman
Undercurrent
Sketches of Kaitan City
A Yakuza in Love
Suzaku
A Trap
My SO Has Got Depression
The Geisha House
River of Fireflies
The Face of Jizo
Only Yesterday
A Lone Scalpel
Violated Angels
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Twenty-Four Eyes
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Mental
Hotel Hibiscus
Four Seasons: Natsuko
The Shiranui Sea
Kids Return
Amagi Pass
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
Rape and Death of a Housewife
Minamata: The Victims and Their World
Hanging Garden
Wet Sand in August
Moment of Demon
Apostasy
Four Love Stories
Whisper of the Heart
Heaven's Story
Metropolitan Symphony
Village of Eight Gravestones
Alone in the Night
The Half Moon
8000 Miles
Elegant Beast
The Sky Crawlers
Late Spring
Capone Cries a Lot
Floating Clouds
To Sleep So as to Dream
Our Marriage
Breakable
Music
The Wild Geese
Grass Labyrinth
Begging for Love
Wandering Home
Blood Type: Blue
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Fish Story
Patlabor 2: The Movie
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Intentions of Murder
The Pig's Retribution
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Untamagiru
The Eel
Akame 48 Waterfalls
Rage
Pink Tush Girl
A Woman's Testament
Doctor's Day Off
Shogun's Samurai
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
Feel the Wind
Floating Weeds
Ichijo's Wet Lust
Himizu
Kagemusha
Canary
Ten Dark Women
Moonlight Whispers
Circus Boys
A Woman Called Sada Abe
Flowing
Wild Berries
Red Angel
Giants and Toys
Street of Joy
Instant Swamp
Shadow of China
House
The Story of Yanagawa's Canals
A2
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
The Rickshaw Man
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Luminous Woman
Bayside Shakedown
The Terminal Trust
One Million Yen Girl
Pure Asia
Galaxy Express 999: The Movie
Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market
Tokyo Lullaby
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
All My Children
Nobody To Watch Over Me
What Made Her Do It?
Five Scouts
Violent Panic: The Big Crash
Swimming Upstream
Fires on the Plain
No More Easy Life
Last Scene
Buddies
Original Sin
Sukiyaki Western Django
Love and Honor
Madadayo
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Roujin Z
One Night
Edo Porn
The Tale of Genji
Rhapsody in August
Boy
Okoto and Sasuke
The Geisha
Cure
Another Battle
Hymn
A Class to Remember II
Taira Clan Saga
Dogs & Cats
Ring
Pickpocket
Summer Days with Coo
Kikujiro
Freeze Me
Happy-Go-Lucky
Dog in a Sidecar
Awakening
Sincere Heart
The Shadow Within
The Sea Is Watching
Assault! Jack the Ripper
All About Lily Chou-Chou
The Human Bullet
Traffic Jam
Decapoda Shock
The Yamabiko School
First Love
Here's to the Young Lady
Sanjuro
13 Assassins
Hospitalité
It Feels So Good
Miss Oyu
The Woman in the Rumor
A Taxing Woman
Oar
Pistol Opera
Woman in Witness Protection
The Inugami Family
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Moment of Terror
Empire of Passion
The Little House
The Crowded Train
Hula Girls
Postcard
The Blue Light
47 Ronin
Marriage
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Kamikaze Girls
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
Song of the Spring Pony
Breathe In, Breathe Out
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Lesson of the Evil
Young Thugs: Nostalgia
The Yen Family
The Blue Mountains: Part I
The Rendezvous
Flame of My Love
Let Him Rest in Peace
Stakeout
The Ceremony
Haunted School 4
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
Sandakan No. 8
Crazy Thunder Road
Yojimbo
Yellow Crow
Tokyo Heaven
The Stranger Within a Woman
Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
Pale Moon
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
The Sun's Burial
Another World
The Woman with Red Hair
Tarch Trip
History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
To the Bracken Fields
9 Souls
Mother
The Gentle 12
East Meets West
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
A Taxing Woman's Return
Guilty of Romance
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Hachiko
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
Antarctica
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
A Slope in the Sun
Snow Trail
First Steps Ashore
The Rebirth
Asako I & II
Introspection Tower
Nomugi Pass
Key of Life
The Bird People in China
Nobody Knows
Memories of Matsuko
This Country's Sky
Kanawa
The Wind Rises
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
After School
The Naked Island
Dear Doctor
The Twilight Samurai
Hanagatami
Tony Takitani
Maborosi
The Bad Sleep Well
The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
Osaka Story
The Long Darkness
Odd Obsession
A Samurai Chronicle
My Sons
Human
Farewell to the Land
Cut
Wait and See
Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion
Two in the Shadow
The Sea and Poison
Sad Vacation
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Face
Violence at Noon
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
The Scent of Incense
Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
No More Comics!
Portrait of Chieko
Another Lonely Hitman
Summer Clouds
Yearning
Don't Look Back
Love on Sunday
All About Our House
The Stormy Times
Samurai Rebellion
The Whispering of the Gods
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
Bare Essence of Life
Osaka Elegy
For Kayako
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Japan's Longest Day
Chronicle of My Mother
The Battle of Okinawa
A Crowd of Three
Crayon Shin-chan: The Adult Empire Strikes Back
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Cafe Isobe
My Grandpa
The Legend of the White Serpent
The Kingdom
Times of Joy and Sorrow
Theatre 1
Oh, My Son!
The Family
Repast
The Assassination of Ryoma
The Girl I Loved
G.I. Samurai
Pacchigi! Love & Peace
Nana
The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
We Shall Overcome Someday
Waterboys
Miyuki
MARKS
Life Back Then
I Just Didn't Do It
Moving
Tokyo Trash Baby
Love Hotel
Tokyo Olympiad
I Wish
Darkness in the Light
Fireworks
The Only Son
The Empty Table
Beijing Watermelon
Punishment Room
Taboo
Assassination
An Ocean to Cross
The Mourning Forest
Onmyoji
The Hot Little Girl
Like Grains of Sand
Strangers in the City
Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
Mandala
Postman Blues
Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy
The Unbroken
Noriko's Dinner Table
Spy Sorge
Dogra Magra
A Japanese Tragedy
A Quiet Life
The Quiet Duel
A Story from Echigo
Early Spring
The Sting of Death
My Neighbor Totoro
Angel Guts: Red Classroom
Red Peony Gambler
Uneasy Encounters
Darkness at Noon
Crossroads
I Live in Fear
Strawberry Shortcakes
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
The Wanderers
Sonatine
Fusa
Dolls
And Your Bird Can Sing
Akitsu Hot Springs
Odayaka
Mother
For Business
A Stranger Among Us
Farewell Song
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Takeshis'
Tokarev
For Love's Sake
I Am an S+M Writer
Submersion of Japan
The Light Shines Only There
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
The Secret World of Arrietty
Tsugaru Folksong
Linda Linda Linda
The Witch of the West Is Dead
Kisaragi
One Step on a Mine, It's All Over
To the Ends of the Earth
Like Someone in Love
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
Snow Country
Deep River
The War of the 16 Year Olds
Ain't No Tomorrows
Eureka
Ichi the Killer
Castle in the Sky
Onibi: The Fire Within
Choji Snack Bar
Coup d'Etat
The Morning Schedule
Blood End
Gravity's Clowns
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Tada's Do-It-All House
I Want to Be a Shellfish
Kaoyaku
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Pigs and Battleships
Immortal Love
Aido: Slave of Love
The Ballad of Narayama
Air Doll
Twinkle
The Straits of Love and Hate
The Pale Hand
Tomorrow
When the Last Sword Is Drawn
Tamako in Moratorium
Gate of Youth
Unloved
The Pornographers
The Last Ronin
Inn of Evil
Preparation for the Festival
Out
Focus
Tora-san's Pure Love
The Go Masters
The Great White Tower
Demon
Late Autumn
Ringing in Their Ears
Love Exposure
Have You Seen the Barefoot God?
Conflagration
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
High and Low
Bullet Ballet
Dark Room
Passing Fancy
August: Scent of Eros
Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer
Blood and Bones
Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan
Glasses
Bayside Shakedown 2
Abacus and Sword
To Love
A Dedicated Life
Unlucky Monkey
The Samurai That Night
Sakuran
Suite Dreams
Ginza Cosmetics
Always - Sunset on Third Street
Café Lumière
Island of Hell
Silence Has No Wings
Vacation
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
Heroic Purgatory
The Tattered Wings
Backwater
The Wandering Princess
The Voice of Water
Lullaby to Kill
The Strangling
The Brutal Hopelessness of Love
Red Lion
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Sleeping Man
Let's Make the Teacher Have a Miscarriage Club
Good Morning
Bicycle Sighs
Climber's High
Departures
Wolf Children
Rainy Dog
All Under the Moon
Summer Vacation 1999
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Sun Scarred
Happiness of Us Alone
Apart from You
The Buried Forest
Gonin
Alone Across the Pacific
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
The Heart
Spirited Away
The Ravine of Goodbye
Supermarket Woman
The Girl in the Rumor
Dora-heita
Wife
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
After the Rain
A Story of Floating Weeds
The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon
The Blue Bird
Loft
A Certain Killer
Tora-san's Runaway
Your Friend
A Page of Madness
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
No Regrets for Our Youth
A.K.A. Serial Killer
Battle Royale
Summer Soldiers
Rikyu
The End of Summer
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Irezumi
Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Himiko
Path of the Beast
Boy's Choir
Ley Lines
Till We Meet Again
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Zatoichi
The Abe Clan
I Was Born, But...
Tokyo Trial
An Osaka Story
Burden of Life
Children of Nagasaki
Did the Red Bird Escape?
The City of Lost Souls
The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
Being Good
A Distant Cry from Spring
Tekkonkinkreet
Wife's Sexual Fantasy: Before Husband's Eyes
Howl's Moving Castle
Like Father, Like Son
Princess Raccoon
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
The Portrait
Doppelgänger
Curtain Call
Our Homeland
The Wiser Age
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Spring Awakens
An Inn in Tokyo
Grave of the Fireflies
A Night In Nude: Salvation
A Pool Without Water
Ballad of Orin
Harakiri
Villain
The Catch
Disciples of Hippocrates
Farewell to the Ark
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
A Story Written with Water
Captive's Island
Mind Game
House on Fire
South Bound
Tokyo Park
Who's Camus Anyway?
Zegen
The Family Game
Apart from Life
Carmen's Innocent Love
Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
Red Paper Lantern
Harmonium