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Best Japanese Films

A Fugitive from the Past (1965)

Ugetsu (1953)

Harakiri (1962)

Rashomon (1950)

The Life of Oharu (1952)

Vengeance Is Mine (1979)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Branded to Kill (1967)

Hero of the Red-Light District (1960)

Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)

Blind Beast (1969)

Stray Dog (1949)

Tokyo Drifter (1966)

Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

Street of Shame (1956)

Akira (1988)

Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (1955)

Séance (2000)

Kids Return (1996)

Giants and Toys (1958)

Onibaba (1964)

Millennium Actress (2001)

Cure (1997)

Kwaidan (1964)

Tokyo Story (1953)

Ikiru (1952)

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)

The Sword of Doom (1966)

Sonatine (1993)

Bright Future (2002)

Gate of Hell (1953)

Yojimbo (1961)

The Burmese Harp (1956)

A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)

Throne of Blood (1957)

A Scene at the Sea (1991)

The Insect Woman (1963)

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

A Wife Confesses (1961)

High and Low (1963)

The Castle of Sand (1974)

Death by Hanging (1968)

Tokyo Sonata (2008)

Ran (1985)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)

Hiroshima Death Match (1973)

Proxy War (1973)

The Key (1959)

My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

Carmen Comes Home (1951)

Woman in the Dunes (1964)

Metropolis (2001)

The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)

Memories of Matsuko (2006)

Seisaku's Wife (1965)

Samurai Rebellion (1967)

A Geisha (1953)

Kikujiro (1999)

Tampopo (1985)

Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)

Lady Snowblood (1973)

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)

The Ring (1998)

The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Perfect Blue (1997)

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973)

Fires on the Plain (1959)

Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)

Dark Water (2002)

Intentions of Murder (1964)

In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

Drunken Angel (1948)

Memories (1995)

Shall We Dance? (1996)

Violent Cop (1989)

Love Letter (1995)

Godzilla (1954)

Spirited Away (2001)

The Pornographers (1966)

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)

April Story (1998)

The Inugami Family (1976)

Boiling Point (1990)

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Ninja Scroll (1993)

Pigs and Battleships (1961)

Princess Mononoke (1997)

License to Live (1998)

Area 88 (1985)

Irezumi (1966)

The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

Paprika (2006)

Taira Clan Saga (1955)