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Japanese Films (Original Language)   (193 Most Notable)

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# 1 Japanese, # 9 Overall Seven Samurai 1954 Kurosawa, Akira Japan BD
# 2 Japanese, # 17 Overall Rashômon 1950 Kurosawa, Akira Japan BD
# 3 Japanese, # 40 Overall Tokyo Story 1953 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
# 4 Japanese, # 50 Overall Ran 1985 Kurosawa, Akira Japan / France BD
# 5 Japanese, # 52 Overall Ikiru 1952 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
# 6 Japanese, # 87 Overall Ugetsu 1953 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
# 7 Japanese, # 126 Overall Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan BD
# 8 Japanese, # 206 Overall Throne of Blood 1957 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
# 9 Japanese, # 209 Overall Spirited Away 2001 Miyazaki, Hayao Japan DS
# 10 Japanese, # 377 Overall Yojimbo 1961 Kurosawa, Akira Japan BD
# 11 Japanese, # 443 Overall Woman in the Dunes 1964 Teshigahara, Hiroshi Japan D
# 12 Japanese, # 464 Overall Floating Weeds 1959 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
# 13 Japanese, # 473 Overall The Burmese Harp 1956 Ichikawa, Kon Japan D
# 14 Japanese, # 502 Overall Kagemusha 1980 Kurosawa, Akira Japan BD
# 15 Japanese, # 656 Overall Tampopo 1985 Itami, Juzo Japan Y
# 16 Japanese, # 715 Overall Ring 1998 Nakata, Hideo Japan D
# 17 Japanese, # 775 Overall The Life of Oharu 1952 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan Y
# 18 Japanese, # 812 Overall Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Eastwood, Clint USA BD
# 19 Japanese, # 832 Overall Akira 1988 Ôtomo, Katsuhiro Japan BDS
# 20 Japanese, # 875 Overall Kwaidan 1964 Kobayashi, Masaki Japan Y
# 21 Japanese, # 876 Overall Audition 1999 Miike, Takashi South Korea / Japan D
# 22 Japanese, # 894 Overall Late Spring 1949 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan BD
# 23 Japanese, # 909 Overall In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Oshima, Nagisa Japan / France BD
# 24 Japanese, # 957 Overall Gate of Hell 1953 Kinugasa, Teinosuke Japan BD
# 25 Japanese, # 987 Overall Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Takahata, Isao Japan BD
# 26 Japanese, # 993 Overall My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Miyazaki, Hayao Japan / USA D
# 27 Japanese, # 1120 Overall Battle Royale 2000 Fukasaku, Kinji Japan DS
# 28 Japanese, # 1126 Overall Ghost in the Shell 1995 Oshii, Mamoru Japan / USA DS
# 29 Japanese, # 1139 Overall The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums 1939 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan Y
# 30 Japanese, # 1143 Overall An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
# 31 Japanese, # 1166 Overall The Ballad of Narayama 1983 Imamura, Shohei Japan BD
# 32 Japanese, # 1263 Overall Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Schrader, Paul USA D
# 33 Japanese, # 1274 Overall Onibaba 1964 Shindô, Kaneto Japan D
# 34 Japanese, # 1283 Overall Godzilla 1954 Honda, Ishirô Japan BDS
# 35 Japanese, # 1388 Overall The Blind Swordsman: Zatôichi 2003 Kitano, Takeshi Japan D
# 36 Japanese, # 1421 Overall After Life 1998 Koreeda, Hirokazu Japan D
# 37 Japanese, # 1450 Overall Departures 2008 Takita, Yojiro Japan D
# 38 Japanese, # 1474 Overall Vengeance Is Mine 1979 Imamura, Shohei Japan D
# 39 Japanese, # 1484 Overall Princess Yang Kwei Fei 1955 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan / Hong Kong Y
# 40 Japanese, # 1488 Overall High and Low 1963 Kurosawa, Akira Japan BD
# 41 Japanese, # 1542 Overall Revenge of a Kabuki Actor 1963 Ichikawa, Kon Japan D
# 42 Japanese, # 1547 Overall I Was Born, But... 1932 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
# 43 Japanese, # 1592 Overall Shall We Dance? 1996 Suo, Masayuki Japan Y
# 44 Japanese, # 1613 Overall The Hidden Fortress 1958 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
# 45 Japanese, # 1616 Overall Tokyo orimpikku 1965 Ichikawa, Kon Japan D
# 46 Japanese, # 1622 Overall A Taxing Woman 1987 Itami, Juzo Japan Y
# 47 Japanese, # 1759 Overall Fires on the Plain 1959 Ichikawa, Kon Japan D
# 48 Japanese, # 1786 Overall Red Beard 1965 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
# 49 Japanese, # 1796 Overall Stray Dog 1949 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
# 50 Japanese, # 1804 Overall Late Chrysanthemums 1954 Naruse, Mikio Japan V
# 51 Japanese, # 1813 Overall Tetsuo: The Iron Man 1988 Tsukamoto, Shinya Japan D
# 52 Japanese, # 1820 Overall Fireworks 1997 Kitano, Takeshi Japan Y
# 53 Japanese, # 1829 Overall Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto 1954 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan BD
# 54 Japanese, # 1836 Overall Drunken Angel 1948 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
# 55 Japanese, # 1857 Overall Death by Hanging 1968 Oshima, Nagisa Japan
# 56 Japanese, # 1862 Overall Chushingura 1962 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
# 57 Japanese, # 1887 Overall Tokyo Drifter 1966 Suzuki, Seijun Japan BD
# 58 Japanese, # 1927 Overall Maborosi 1995 Koreeda, Hirokazu Japan Y
# 59 Japanese, # 1975 Overall Utamaro and His Five Women 1946 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan Y
# 60 Japanese, # 1976 Overall The Saga of Anatahan 1954 von Sternberg, Josef Japan
# 61 Japanese, # 1994 Overall Kôhî jikô 2003 Hou, Hsiao-hsien Japan / Taiwan
# 62 Japanese, # 2002 Overall Street of Shame 1956 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan V
# 63 Japanese, # 2004 Overall Early Summer 1951 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
# 64 Japanese, # 2010 Overall The Only Son 1936 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
# 65 Japanese, # 2012 Overall Harakiri 1962 Kobayashi, Masaki Japan BD
# 66 Japanese, # 2017 Overall 13 Assassins 2010 Miike, Takashi Japan / UK BD
# 67 Japanese, # 2036 Overall Chikamatsu monogatari 1954 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
# 67 Japanese, # 2036 Overall The 47 Ronin 1941 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
# 68 Japanese, # 2124 Overall Sonatine 1993 Kitano, Takeshi Japan D
# 69 Japanese, # 2127 Overall Double Suicide 1969 Shinoda, Masahiro Japan D
# 70 Japanese, # 2145 Overall Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple 1955 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan BD
# 70 Japanese, # 2145 Overall Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island 1956 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan BD
# 71 Japanese, # 2155 Overall Taboo 1999 Oshima, Nagisa France / UK / Japan DS
# 72 Japanese, # 2156 Overall Floating Clouds 1955 Naruse, Mikio Japan
# 73 Japanese, # 2158 Overall Tokyo Godfathers 2003 Kon, Satoshi / Furuya, Shôgo Japan D
# 74 Japanese, # 2169 Overall The Twilight Samurai 2002 Yamada, Yoji Japan Y
# 75 Japanese, # 2173 Overall When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 1960 Naruse, Mikio Japan D
# 76 Japanese, # 2177 Overall The Ceremony 1971 Oshima, Nagisa Japan
# 77 Japanese, # 2200 Overall Pale Flower 1964 Shinoda, Masahiro Japan BD
# 77 Japanese, # 2200 Overall Samurai Rebellion 1967 Kobayashi, Masaki Japan D
# 78 Japanese, # 2210 Overall The Island 1960 Shindô, Kaneto Japan
# 79 Japanese, # 2216 Overall Flowing 1956 Naruse, Mikio Japan
# 79 Japanese, # 2216 Overall Night and Fog in Japan 1960 Oshima, Nagisa Japan
# 80 Japanese, # 2219 Overall Eijanaika 1981 Imamura, Shohei Japan Y
# 81 Japanese, # 2225 Overall Enjo 1958 Ichikawa, Kon Japan
# 81 Japanese, # 2225 Overall Kiki's Delivery Service 1989 Miyazaki, Hayao Japan D
# 81 Japanese, # 2225 Overall Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx 1972 Misumi, Kenji Japan BD
# 81 Japanese, # 2225 Overall MacArthur's Children 1984 Shinoda, Masahiro Japan
# 81 Japanese, # 2225 Overall The Outcast 1962 Ichikawa, Kon Japan
# 81 Japanese, # 2225 Overall Sisters of Nishijin 1952 Yoshimura, Kozaburo Japan
# 82 Japanese, # 2229 Overall Sanjuro 1962 Kurosawa, Akira Japan BD
# 83 Japanese, # 2246 Overall A Geisha 1953 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan Y
# 84 Japanese, # 2249 Overall The Family Game 1983 Morita, Yoshimitsu Japan
# 84 Japanese, # 2249 Overall A Taxing Woman's Return 1988 Itami, Juzo Japan Y
# 85 Japanese, # 2273 Overall Passing Fancy 1933 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
# 86 Japanese, # 2279 Overall Odd Obsession 1959 Ichikawa, Kon Japan Y
# 87 Japanese, # 2286 Overall Akira Kurosawa's Dreams 1990 Kurosawa, Akira / Honda, Ishirô Japan / USA Y
# 88 Japanese, # 2296 Overall Branded to Kill 1967 Suzuki, Seijun Japan BD
# 89 Japanese, # 2297 Overall Cure 1997 Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Japan D
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# 89 Japanese, # 2297 Overall Eureka 2000 Aoyama, Shinji Japan
# 89 Japanese, # 2297 Overall The Most Terrible Time in My Life 1994 Hayashi, Kaizo Japan / China / Taiwan D
# 89 Japanese, # 2297 Overall Sisters of the Gion 1936 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan V
# 90 Japanese, # 2300 Overall Violent Cop 1989 Kitano, Takeshi Japan D
# 91 Japanese, # 2311 Overall Dodes'ka-Den 1970 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
# 92 Japanese, # 2317 Overall Still Walking 2008 Koreeda, Hirokazu Japan BD
# 93 Japanese, # 2322 Overall Immortal Love 1961 Kinoshita, Keisuke Japan
# 93 Japanese, # 2322 Overall Muddy River 1981 Oguri, Kôhei Japan
# 93 Japanese, # 2322 Overall Portrait of Chieko 1967 Nakamura, Noboru Japan
# 93 Japanese, # 2322 Overall Sandakan No. 8 1974 Kumai, Kei Japan
# 93 Japanese, # 2322 Overall Twin Sisters of Kyoto 1963 Nakamura, Noboru Japan
# 94 Japanese, # 2327 Overall The Eel 1997 Imamura, Shohei Japan Y
# 95 Japanese, # 2328 Overall Muhomatsu no issho 1958 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan
# 96 Japanese, # 2342 Overall Eyes of Children 1956 Kawazu, Yoshiro Japan
# 96 Japanese, # 2342 Overall Roses on the Arm 1956 Kinoshita, Keisuke Japan
# 96 Japanese, # 2342 Overall Twenty-Four Eyes 1954 Kinoshita, Keisuke Japan D
# 96 Japanese, # 2342 Overall Yellow Crow 1957 Gosho, Heinosuke Japan
# 97 Japanese, # 2346 Overall The Bad Sleep Well 1960 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
# 98 Japanese, # 2351 Overall Mogari no mori 2007 Kawase, Naomi France / Japan
# 98 Japanese, # 2351 Overall Shi no Toge 1990 Oguri, Kûhei Japan
# 99 Japanese, # 2352 Overall Achilles to kame 2008 Kitano, Takeshi Japan S
# 99 Japanese, # 2352 Overall Dolls 2002 Kitano, Takeshi Japan Y
# 99 Japanese, # 2352 Overall Gonin no Sekkohei 1938 Tasaka, Tomotaka Japan
# 99 Japanese, # 2352 Overall Himizu 2011 Sono, Shion Japan
# 99 Japanese, # 2352 Overall Mushi-Shi 2006 Ôtomo, Katsuhiro Japan D
# 99 Japanese, # 2352 Overall Norwegian Wood 2010 Tran, Anh Hung Japan D
# 99 Japanese, # 2352 Overall Outrage Beyond 2012 Kitano, Takeshi Japan
# 99 Japanese, # 2352 Overall Paprika 2006 Kon, Satoshi Japan BD
# 99 Japanese, # 2352 Overall Saideke Balai 2011 Wei, Te-Sheng Taiwan
# 99 Japanese, # 2352 Overall The Sky Crawlers 2008 Oshii, Mamoru Japan BDS
# 100 Japanese, # 2354 Overall The New Earth 1936 Fanck, Arnold / Itami, Mansaku Japan / Germany
# 101 Japanese, # 2358 Overall Metropolis 2001 Rintaro Japan D
# 102 Japanese, # 2359 Overall Good Morning 1959 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan Y
# 103 Japanese, # 2365 Overall My Enemy, The Sea 1963 Ichikawa, Kon Japan
# 104 Japanese, # 2369 Overall Boy 1969 Oshima, Nagisa Japan
# 105 Japanese, # 2375 Overall The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family 1941 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan
# 105 Japanese, # 2375 Overall A False Student 1960 Masumura, Yasuzo Japan
# 105 Japanese, # 2375 Overall The Funeral 1984 Itami, Juzo Japan Y
# 105 Japanese, # 2375 Overall A Hen in the Wind 1948 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan
# 105 Japanese, # 2375 Overall Kikujiro 1999 Kitano, Takeshi Japan Y
# 105 Japanese, # 2375 Overall Kisses 1957 Masumura, Yasuzo Japan
# 105 Japanese, # 2375 Overall Narita: Heta Village 1971 Ogawa, Shinsuke Japan
# 105 Japanese, # 2375 Overall A Page of Madness 1926 Kinugasa, Teinosuke Japan
# 105 Japanese, # 2375 Overall Pistol Opera 2001 Suzuki, Seijun Japan Y
# 105 Japanese, # 2375 Overall Red Angel 1966 Masumura, Yasuzo Japan D
# 105 Japanese, # 2375 Overall Rhapsody in August 1991 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
# 105 Japanese, # 2375 Overall Shin heike monogatari 1955 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
# 105 Japanese, # 2375 Overall That Night's Wife 1930 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan
# 105 Japanese, # 2375 Overall A Wife Confesses 1961 Masumura, Yasuzo Japan
# 106 Japanese, # 2377 Overall Shinran: Path to Purity 1987 Mikuni, Rentaro Japan
# 107 Japanese, # 2378 Overall Big Man Japan 2007 Matsumoto, Hitoshi Japan D
# 107 Japanese, # 2378 Overall Black Rain 1989 Imamura, Shohei Japan D
# 107 Japanese, # 2378 Overall I Wish 2011 Koreeda, Hirokazu Japan D
# 107 Japanese, # 2378 Overall Like Someone in Love  New at Films101! 2012 Kiarostami, Abbas France / Japan T
# 107 Japanese, # 2378 Overall Memories of Tomorrow 2006 Tsutsumi, Yukihiko Japan
# 107 Japanese, # 2378 Overall Nobody Knows 2004 Koreeda, Hirokazu Japan D
# 107 Japanese, # 2378 Overall Tokyo Sonata 2008 Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Japan / Netherlands / Hong Kong DS
# 108 Japanese, # 2382 Overall Bangkok Dangerous 1999 Pang, Oxide Chun / Pang, Danny Thailand D
# 108 Japanese, # 2382 Overall X 1996 Rintaro Japan D
# 109 Japanese, # 2389 Overall Bright Future 2003 Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Japan
# 110 Japanese, # 2398 Overall The Idiot 1951 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
# 111 Japanese, # 2400 Overall The Lower Depths 1957 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
# 112 Japanese, # 2401 Overall Early Autumn 1961 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan
# 112 Japanese, # 2401 Overall The Pornographers 1966 Imamura, Shohei Japan D
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Among the Ruins 1923 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Dreams of Youth 1928 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Hiroshima 1953 Sekigawa, Hideo Japan
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Human Condition III - A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Kobayashi, Masaki Japan D
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Humanity and Paper Balloons 1937 Yamanaka, Sadao Japan
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Jogashima 1924 Itô, Daisuke Japan
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Jujiro 1928 Kinugasa, Teinosuke Japan
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall The Mysterians 1957 Honda, Ishirô Japan D
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall The Neighbor's Wife and Mine 1931 Gosho, Heinosuke Japan
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Nishizumi senshacho-den 1940 Yoshimura, Kozaburo Japan
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Rodan 1956 Honda, Ishirô Japan D
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Scandal 1950 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Seisaku's Wife 1924 Murata, Minoru Japan
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Street Sketches 1925 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Taii no musume 1917 Inoue, Masao Japan
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Tokyo March 1929 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Two Stone Lanterns 1933 Kinugasa, Teinosuke Japan
# 113 Japanese, # 2402 Overall Wild Geese 1953 Toyoda, Shirô Japan
# 114 Japanese, # 2405 Overall The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On 1987 Hara, Kazuo Japan
# 114 Japanese, # 2405 Overall I, the Executioner 1968 Kato, Tai Japan
# 114 Japanese, # 2405 Overall The Insect Woman 1963 Imamura, Shohei Japan
# 114 Japanese, # 2405 Overall Kochiyama soshun 1936 Yamanaka, Sadao Japan
# 114 Japanese, # 2405 Overall Minamata: Kanja-san to sono sekai 1972 Tsuchimoto, Noriaki Japan
# 114 Japanese, # 2405 Overall Miss Oyu 1951 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
# 114 Japanese, # 2405 Overall My Love Has Been Burning 1949 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
# 114 Japanese, # 2405 Overall Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo 1935 Yamanaka, Sadao Japan
# 114 Japanese, # 2405 Overall Sound of the Mountain 1954 Naruse, Mikio Japan
# 114 Japanese, # 2405 Overall The Straits of Love and Hate 1937 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
# 114 Japanese, # 2405 Overall Subete Ga Kurutteru 1960 Suzuki, Seijun Japan
# 114 Japanese, # 2405 Overall Suzaki Paradise 1956 Kawashima, Yuzo Japan
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