Best Japanese Language Movies by Year
1563
39
2023
Hayao Miyazaki
Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Takuya Kimura, Aimyon, Kô Shibasaki
Animation / Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Action
Japan
Japanese
2414
82
2023
Takashi Yamazaki
Minami Hamabe, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Sakura Ando, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Munetaka Aoki
Action / Adventure / Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
Japan
Japanese
2433
83
2023
Wim Wenders
Kôji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi Yamada, Yumi Asô
Drama
Japan / Germany
Japanese
2688
116
2023
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Hitoshi Omika, Ryô Nishikawa, Ryûji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani
Drama / Music
Japan
Japanese
2768
135
2023
Kore-eda Hirokazu
Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi, Mitsuki Takahata
Drama / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2699
121
2022
Kôji Fukada
Fumino Kimura, Kento Nagayama, Tetta Shimada, Atom Sunada, Hirona Yamazaki
Drama
Japan / France
Japanese
974
26
2021
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Yoo-rim Park, Dae-Young Jin
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2693
118
2021
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2731
126
2021
Mamoru Hosoda
Kaho Nakamura, Ryô Narita, Shôta Sometani, Tina Tamashiro, Lilas Ikuta
Animation / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Music / Musical / Sci-Fi / Family
Japan
Japanese
2699
121
2020
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Yû Aoi, Masahiro Higashide, Hyunri, Issey Takahashi, Ryôta Bandô
Drama / War / History / Romance
Japan
Japanese
882
21
2018
Hirokazu Koreeda
Lily Franky, Kirin Kiki, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka
Crime / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2699
121
2018
Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Yû Aoi, Kohji Katoh
Action / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2699
121
2017
Hirokazu Koreeda
Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, Suzu Hirose, Isao Hashizume
Drama | Mystery / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2525
94
2016
Makoto Shinkai
Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryô Narita, Aoi Yuki
Animation / Drama / Romance / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
2756
131
2015
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura, Hiromi Demura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2699
121
2014
Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Rirî Furankî, Tatsuya Nakamura, Yûko Nakamura, Dean Newcombe
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2080
59
2013
Hayao Miyazaki
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Martin Short, Stanley Tucci
Animation / Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
2617
101
2013
Hirokazu Koreeda
Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki, Lily Franky
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2699
121
2012
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Ryo Kase, Toshiyuki Nishida, Shun Sugata, Tomokazu Miura
Action / Crime
Japan
Japanese
NR
-
2012
Abbas Kiarostami
Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase, Denden, Reiko Mori, Kaneko Kubota
Drama / Romance
France / Japan
Japanese
2699
121
2011
Shion Sono
Shôta Sometani, Fumi Nikaidô, Tetsu Watanabe, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Drama / Comic
Japan
Japanese
2699
121
2011
Te-Sheng Wei
Da-Ching, Umin Boya, Landy Wen, Lo Mei-ling, Masanobu Ando, Irene Luo
Drama / War / History / Epic / Action
Taiwan
Japanese
2712
123
2011
Hirokazu Koreeda
Koki Maeda, Ohshirô Maeda, Ryôga Hayashi, Cara Uchida
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2238
66
2010
Takashi Miike
Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya, Gorô Inagaki
Action
Japan / UK
Japanese
2699
121
2010
Anh Hung Tran
Rinko Kikuchi, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kiko Mizuhara, Kengo Kora, Tetsuji Tamayama
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
1669
41
2008
Yojiro Takita
Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Kimiko Yo
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2473
88
2008
Hirokazu Koreeda
Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You, Kazuya Takahashi, Shohei Tanaka, Kirin Kiki
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2699
121
2008
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Kanako Higuchi, Yûrei Yanagi, Kumiko Aso
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2699
121
2008
Mamoru Oshii
Rinko Kikuchi, Chiaki Kuriyama, Shosuke Tanihara, Ryo Kase
Animation / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2712
123
2008
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi, Inowaki Kai
Drama
Japan / Netherlands / Hong Kong
Japanese
2673
112
2007
Naomi Kawase
Yoichiro Saito, Machiko Ono, Kanako Masuda, Shigeki Uda, Makiko Watanabe
Drama / Romance
France / Japan
Japanese
2712
123
2007
Hitoshi Matsumoto
Hitoshi Matsumoto, Riki Takeuchi, Ua, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Haruka Unabara
Comedy / Sci-Fi
Japan
Japanese
1022
28
2006
Clint Eastwood
Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Shido Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase
Drama / War / History
USA
Japanese
2651
108
2006
Satoshi Kon
Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Furuya
Animation / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Detective
Japan
Japanese
2699
121
2006
Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Jô Odagiri, Makiko Esumi, Nao Omori
Horror / Fantasy / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2712
123
2006
Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Ken Watanabe, Kanako Higuchi, Kenji Sakaguchi, Kazue Fukiishi, Asami Mizukawa
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2712
123
2004
Hirokazu Koreeda
Yûya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura, Momoko Shimizu, Hanae Kan, You
Drama
Japan
Japanese
1681
42
2003
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Ookusu, Gadarukanaru Taka
Action / Drama / Crime / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2326
72
2003
Satoshi Kon, Shôgo Furuya
Toru Emori, Aya Okamoto, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Shôzô Îzuka
Adventure / Animation / Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2368
75
2003
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo
Drama
Japan / Taiwan
Japanese
2730
125
2003
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Jô Odagiri, Tadanobu Asano, Tatsuya Fuji, Takashi Sasano, Marumi Shiraishi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2383
79
2002
Yoji Yamada
Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi, Ren Osugi
Action / Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2699
121
2002
Takeshi Kitano
Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tatsuya Mihashi, Chieko Matsubara
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
108
8
2001
Hayao Miyazaki
Miyu Irino, Rumi Hîragi, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naitô
Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Drama / Family
Japan
Japanese
2694
119
2001
Rintaro
Yuka Imoto, Kei Kobayashi, Kouki Okada, Jamieson Price, Robert Axelrod
Adventure / Animation / Sci-Fi / Action / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2751
130
2001
Seijun Suzuki
Makiko Esumi, Sayoko Yamaguchi, Kan Hanae, Masatoshi Nagase
Crime / Action / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2765
134
2001
Satoshi Kon, Kô Matsuo
Miyoko Shôji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa, Shôzô Îzuka
Animation / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Japan
Japanese
1241
32
2000
Kinji Fukasaku
Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki Kuriyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto
Action / Sci-Fi / Sports / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2635
106
2000
Shinji Aoyama
Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaru Miyazaki, Yoichiro Saito, Sayuri Kokusho
Drama
Japan
Japanese
1053
29
1999
Takashi Miike
Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller
South Korea / Japan
Japanese
2370
76
1999
Nagisa Oshima
Takeshi Kitano, Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Koji Matoba
Drama / History / Period Film
France / UK / Japan
Japanese
2719
124
1999
Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang
Pawalit Mongkolpisit, Premsinee Ratanasopha, Patharawarin Timkul
Action / Crime / Thriller / Romance / Drama
Thailand
Japanese
2751
130
1999
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Kayoko Kishimoto, Yuuko Daike
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
800
18
1998
Hideo Nakata
Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
1411
35
1998
Hirokazu Koreeda
Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô, Kyôko Kagawa
Drama / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
2048
55
1997
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2458
87
1997
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kôji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa
Crime / Thriller / Detective
Japan
Japanese
2664
111
1997
Shohei Imamura
Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, Akira Emoto
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2761
133
1997
Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki
Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura, Kotono Mitsuishi
Animation / Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2765
134
1997
Satoshi Kon
Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masaaki Ôkura
Animation / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
1828
47
1996
Masayuki Suo
Kôji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2719
124
1996
Rintaro
Tomokazu Seki, Ken Narita, Junko Iwao, Toni Barry, Rupert Degas
Animation / Action / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Japan
Japanese
1248
33
1995
Mamoru Oshii
Atsuko Tanaka, Richard Epcar, Akio Ôtsuka, Tamio Ôki, Iemasa Kayumi
Animation / Action / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Thriller
Japan / USA
Japanese
2255
68
1995
Hirokazu Koreeda
Makiko Esumi, Tadanobu Asano, Akira Emoto, Minori Terada
Drama / Mystery
Japan
Japanese
2635
106
1994
Kaizo Hayashi
Masatoshi Nagase, Shirô Sano, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Yang Haitin, Hou De Jian
Drama / Comedy / Mystery / Post-Noir / Detective
Japan / China / Taiwan
Japanese
2405
81
1993
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe, Masanobu Katsumura
Action / Drama / Crime / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2751
130
1991
Akira Kurosawa
Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Mitsunori Isaki, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2490
89
1990
Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda
Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada
Fantasy / Drama / Adventure
Japan / USA
Japanese
2673
112
1990
Kûhei Oguri
Keiko Matsuzaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Midori Kiuchi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2591
98
1989
Hayao Miyazaki
Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi, Keiko Toda, Mieko Nobusawa
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Comedy / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2657
110
1989
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Maiko Kawakami, Makoto Ashikawa, Shirô Sano, Sei Hiraizumi
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Detective
Japan
Japanese
2712
123
1989
Shohei Imamura
Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara, Shoichi Ozawa, Norihei Miki
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
581
16
1988
Hayao Miyazaki
Noriko Hidaka, Hitoshi Takagi, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Adventure
Japan / USA
Japanese
834
20
1988
Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda
Animation / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult / Comic
Japan
Japanese
947
25
1988
Isao Takahata
Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi
Animation / War / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2076
58
1988
Shinya Tsukamoto
Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Renji Ishibashi, Naomasa Musaka
Horror / Sci-Fi / Action / Experimental
Japan
Japanese
2507
92
1988
Juzo Itami
Nobuko Miyamoto, Rentaro Mikuni, Masahiko Tsugawa, Tetsuro Tamba
Comedy / Crime
Japan
Japanese
1838
49
1987
Juzo Itami
Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masahiko Tsugawa
Comedy / Romance / Crime / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2681
113
1987
Rentaro Mikuni
Junkyu Moriyama, Michiyo Ookusu
Drama / Religion
Japan
Japanese
2738
127
1987
Kazuo Hara
Kenzo Okuzaki, Emperor Hirohito
Documentary / War / History
Japan
Japanese
2697
120
1986
Kei Kumai
Eiji Okuda, Ken Watanabe, Takahiro Tamura, Kyôko Kishida, Mikio Narita
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
43
4
1985
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Japan / France
Japanese
746
17
1985
Juzo Itami
Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Kôji Yakusho
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
1483
37
1985
Paul Schrader
Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda
Drama / Biography
USA
Japanese
2591
98
1984
Masahiro Shinoda
Takaya Yamauchi, Yoshiyuki Omori, Shiori Sakura, Masako Natsume, Hideji Otaki
Comedy / Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2751
130
1984
Juzo Itami
Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai, Hideji Otaki
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
1438
36
1983
Shohei Imamura
Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Aki Takejo, Tonpei Hidari, Seiji Kurasaki
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2507
92
1983
Yoshimitsu Morita
Yusaku Matsuda, Juzo Itami, Saori Yuki, Ichirota Miyagawa
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2587
97
1981
Shohei Imamura
Kaori Momoi, Shigeru Izumiya, Ken Ogata, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2606
99
1981
Kôhei Oguri
Takahiro Tamura, Mariko Kaga, Nobutaka Asahara
Drama
Japan
Japanese
466
14
1980
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Drama / War / Epic / History
Japan
Japanese
1832
48
1979
Shohei Imamura
Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho
Drama / Thriller / Crime
Japan
Japanese
983
27
1976
Nagisa Oshima
Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui, Meika Seri
Drama / Adult / Romance
Japan / France
Japanese
2606
99
1974
Kei Kumai
Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2591
98
1972
Kenji Misumi
Tomisaburo Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Akiji Kobayashi, Minoru Ohki, Shin Kishida
Action
Japan
Japanese
2772
136
1972
Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Documentary / History / Biography
Japan
Japanese
2541
95
1971
Nagisa Oshima
Kenzo Kawarazaki, Atsuko Kaku, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Sato, Maki Takayama
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2254
67
1970
Akira Kurosawa
Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami
Drama / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
2288
69
1969
Masahiro Shinoda
Shima Iwashita, Kichiemon Nakamura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Jun Hamamura
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2683
115
1969
Toshio Matsumoto
Pītâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshimi Jô, Koichi Nakamura, Flamenco Umeji
Drama / Romance / Experimental
Japan
Japanese
2747
129
1969
Nagisa Oshima
Tetsuo Abe, Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita
Drama / Crime
Japan
Japanese
2057
56
1968
Nagisa Oshima
Kei Sato, Fumio Watanabe, Toshirô Ishidô, Masao Adachi
Comedy / Crime / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2776
139
1968
Tai Kato
Chieko Baisho, Yuki Kawamura, Sanae Nakahara, Ran Fan O
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Japan
Japanese
2498
90
1967
Masaki Kobayashi
Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Etsuko Ichihara
Drama / History / Period Film / War / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2606
99
1967
Noboru Nakamura
Tetsuro Tamba, Shima Iwashita, Eiji Okada
Drama / Biography
Japan
Japanese
2653
109
1967
Seijun Suzuki
Jo Shishido, Mariko Ogawa, Annu Mari, Koji Nambara
Action / Crime / Drama / Gangster / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2756
131
1967
Mikio Naruse
Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, Mitsuko Kusabue, Mitsuko Mori
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2305
70
1966
Seijun Suzuki
Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Ryuji Kita, Tsuyoshi Yoshida
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2751
130
1966
Yasuzo Masumura
Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yusuke Kawazu, Ranko Akagi
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2774
138
1966
Shohei Imamura
Shoichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Masaomi Kondo, Keiko Sagawa, Ganjiro Nakamura
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
1699
43
1965
Kon Ichikawa
Abebe Bikila, Jack Douglas, Hirohito
Documentary / Sports / History
Japan
Japanese
1923
53
1965
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
405
11
1964
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida
Drama / Experimental
Japan
Japanese
891
23
1964
Masaki Kobayashi
Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Kenjirô Ishiyama
Horror / Fantasy / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1347
34
1964
Kaneto Shindô
Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama
Drama / Horror
Japan
Japanese
2498
90
1964
Masahiro Shinoda
Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki, Chisako Hara
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster / Post-Noir
Japan
Japanese
1554
38
1963
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir
Japan
Japanese
1841
50
1963
Kon Ichikawa
Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2606
99
1963
Noboru Nakamura
Shima Iwashita, Hiroyuki Nagato, Seiji Miyaguchi, Teruo Yoshida
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2690
117
1963
Tadashi Imai
Kinnosuke Nakamura, Eijirô Tôno, Kyôko Kishida, Masayuki Mori
Action / Drama / Adventure / History
Japan
Japanese
2700
122
1963
Kon Ichikawa
Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka
Adventure / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2776
139
1963
Shohei Imamura
Sachiko Hidari, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Nagato
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
884
22
1962
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada
Drama / Comedy / Romance
Japan
Japanese
1958
54
1962
Hiroshi Inagaki
Koshiro Matsumoto, Yuzo Kayama, Tatsuya Mihashi, Akira Takarada, Yosuke Natsuki
Drama / Epic / History
Japan
Japanese
2064
57
1962
Masaki Kobayashi
Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentaro Mikuni, Shima Iwashita
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2178
62
1962
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
Action / Adventure / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2591
98
1962
Kon Ichikawa
Raizô Ichikawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shiho Fujimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
387
10
1961
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai
Drama / Action / Crime / Thriller / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2606
99
1961
Keisuke Kinoshita
Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Nobuko Otowa
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2628
104
1961
Masaki Kobayashi
Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yusuke Kawazu, Tamao Nakamura, Chishu Ryu
Drama / History / War
Japan
Japanese
2751
130
1961
Yasuzo Masumura
Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Eitarô Ozawa, Haruko Mabuchi
Drama / Mystery
Japan
Japanese
2774
138
1961
Yasujiro Ozu
Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Michiyo Aratama
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2361
74
1960
Kaneto Shindô
Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Shinji Tanaka
Drama
Japan
Japanese (No Dialogue)
2447
84
1960
Mikio Naruse
Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2584
96
1960
Nagisa Oshima
Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Shinko Ujiie, Akiko Koyama
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2694
119
1960
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Drama / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2751
130
1960
Yasuzo Masumura
Ayako Wakao, Jerry Fujio, Jun Fujimaki, Eiji Funakoshi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
449
12
1959
Yasujiro Ozu
Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2162
60
1959
Kon Ichikawa
Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis, Mantarô Ushio, Kyu Sazanaka
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2344
73
1959
Yasujiro Ozu
Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishu Ryu, Kuniko Miyake
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2509
93
1959
Kon Ichikawa
Machiko Kyô, Ganjiro Nakamura, Junko Kano
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
1793
45
1958
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Epic
Japan
Japanese
2498
90
1958
Keisuke Kinoshita
Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2591
98
1958
Kon Ichikawa
Raizô Ichikawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ganjiro Nakamura, Yoichi Funaki
Drama / Religion
Japan
Japanese
2682
114
1958
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2773
137
1958
Yasujirô Ozu
Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga, Keiji Sada, Teiji Takahashi
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
186
9
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
War / Drama / Action / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
Japan
Japanese
2624
103
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2628
104
1957
Ishirô Honda
Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / War
Japan
Japanese
2683
115
1957
Heinosuke Gosho
Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô, Kinuyo Tanaka
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2751
130
1957
Yasuzo Masumura
Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Aiko Mimasu, Eitarô Ozawa
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
460
13
1956
Kon Ichikawa
Rentaro Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Jun Hamamura
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2307
71
1956
Hiroshi Inagaki
Koji Tsuruta, Toshirô Mifune, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiko Saga, Mariko Okada
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2378
78
1956
Kenji Mizoguchi
Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Michiyo Kogure, Kumeko Urabe
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2584
96
1956
Mikio Naruse
Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine, Mariko Okada, Haruko Sugimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2628
104
1956
Ishirô Honda
Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Akio Kobori, Yasuko Nakata
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Action
Japan
Japanese
2683
115
1956
Yoshiro Kawazu
Hiroshi Akutagawa, Yatsuko Tan'ami, Minoru Ohki, Chishu Ryu, Koji Shitara
unknown
Japan
Japanese
2683
115
1956
Keisuke Kinoshita
Katsuo Nakamura, Sadako Sawamura, Noriko Arita, Akira Ishihama, Yoshiko Kuga
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2776
139
1956
Yuzo Kawashima
Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
1613
40
1955
Kenji Mizoguchi
Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura
Drama / History / Epic
Japan / Hong Kong
Japanese
2307
71
1955
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiyo Kogure
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2453
85
1955
Mikio Naruse
Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada, Isao Yamagata
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2745
128
1955
Kinuyo Tanaka
Yumeji Tsukioka, Ryôji Hayama, Junkichi Orimoto, Hiroko Kawasaki
Biography / Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2751
130
1955
Kenji Mizoguchi
Raizô Ichikawa, Michiyo Kogure, Mitsusaburô Ramon
Drama / History / Epic
Japan
Japanese
8
2
1954
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi
Action / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
103
7
1954
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1190
30
1954
Ishirô Honda
Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror / Cult
Japan
Japanese
1896
51
1954
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentaro Mikuni
Action / Adventure / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2174
61
1954
Mikio Naruse
Haruko Sugimura, Sadako Sawamura, Chikako Hosokawa, Yûko Mochizuki
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2194
63
1954
Josef von Sternberg
Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura
Drama / War / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2373
77
1954
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2683
115
1954
Keisuke Kinoshita
Hideki Goko, Hideko Takamine, Yukio Watanabe
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2776
139
1954
Mikio Naruse
Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
4
1
1953
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
75
6
1953
Kenji Mizoguchi
Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarô Ozawa, Ikio Sawamura
Drama / Thriller / Fantasy / Romance / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
895
24
1953
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyô, Isao Yamagata, Yataro Kurokawa
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2502
91
1953
Kenji Mizoguchi
Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2628
104
1953
Hideo Sekigawa
Takashi Kanda, Masao Mishima, Eiji Okada, Isuzu Yamada
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2628
104
1953
Shirô Toyoda
Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Jukichi Uno, Eijirô Tono, Chouko Iida
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
53
5
1952
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri
Drama
Japan
Japanese
833
19
1952
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2591
98
1952
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Yumiko Miyagino, Mitsuko Miura, Yuko Tsumura, Kinuyo Tanaka, Jukichi Uno
Drama
Japan
Japanese
1705
44
1951
Yasujiro Ozu
Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2613
100
1951
Akira Kurosawa
Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2760
132
1951
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Yuji Hori, Kiyoko Hirai, Reiko Kondo
Drama
Japan
Japanese
11
3
1950
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2628
104
1950
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku
Drama
Japan
Japanese
468
15
1949
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
1900
52
1949
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Detective
Japan
Japanese
2776
139
1949
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2223
65
1948
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2751
130
1948
Yasujiro Ozu
Kinuyo Tanaka, Shuji Sano, Chieko Murata, Chishu Ryu
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2400
80
1946
Kenji Mizoguchi
Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô
Drama / Biography / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2454
86
1941
Kenji Mizoguchi
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2751
130
1941
Yasujiro Ozu
Tatsuo Saito, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2628
104
1940
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Shozaburo Abe, Munenobu Aburai, Shôtarô Fujimatsu, Toyama Fumio
War
Japan
Japanese
1234
31
1939
Kenji Mizoguchi
Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kôkichi Takada
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2699
121
1938
Tomotaka Tasaka
Isamu Kosugi, Shirô Izome, Bontarô Miyake
War / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2628
104
1937
Sadao Yamanaka
Tsuruzo Nakamura, Emitaro Ichikawa, Shizue Yamagishi, Choemon Bando
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2776
139
1937
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Masao Shimizu
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2217
64
1936
Yasujiro Ozu
Chouko Iida, Shinichi Himori, Masao Hayama, Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2635
106
1936
Kenji Mizoguchi
Isuzu Yamada, Yôko Umemura, Benkei Shiganoya, Eitarô Shindô
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2645
107
1936
Arnold Fanck, Mansaku Itami
Setsuko Hara, Sessue Hayakawa, Ruth Eweler, Isamu Kosugi
Drama
Japan / Germany
Japanese
2776
139
1936
Sadao Yamanaka
Chojuro Kawarasaki, Utaemon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2776
139
1935
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2618
102
1933
Yasujiro Ozu
Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Obinata, Chouko Iida
Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
1795
46
1932
Yasujiro Ozu
Tatsuo Saito, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2628
104
1931
Heinosuke Gosho
Atsushi Watanabe, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Ichimura, Satoko Date, Shinichi Himori
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2751
130
1930
Yasujiro Ozu
Tokihiko Okada, Fuyuki Yamamoto, Emiko Yagumo, Mitsuko Ichimura
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2628
104
1929
Kenji Mizoguchi
Reiji Ichiki, Takako Irie, Takaya Ito, Gunnosuke Kanahira, Shunji Kanda
Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2628
104
1928
Yasujiro Ozu
Junko Matsui, Kenji Oyama, Chishu Ryu, Tatsuo Saito, Takeshi Sakamoto
Comedy
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2628
104
1928
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Akiko Chihaya, Junosuke Bando, Yukiko Ogawa, Ippei Sohma, Misao Seki
Drama / Crime
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2629
105
1926
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Masao Inoue, Yoshi Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima, Kyosuki Takamatsu
Drama / Experimental
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2628
104
1925
Kenji Mizoguchi
Hiroki Hoshino, Yoshiko Okada
Short / Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2628
104
1923
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kaoichi Katsuragi, Yoshisuke Koizumi, Haruko Sawamura, Kaichi Yamamoto
Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
