Best Movies from Japan

TOP FILMS FROM JAPAN

1 . The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa

2 . Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa

3 . Rashomon 1950 Akira Kurosawa

4 . Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki

5 . Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa

6 . Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki

7 . To Live 1952 Akira Kurosawa

8 . Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa

9 . *Cowboy Bebop 1998 Hajime Yatate

10 . Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata

11 . *Dragon Ball Z 1989 Daisuke Nishio

12 . The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa

13 . Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo

14 . Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu

15 . Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku

16 . The Human Conditions (1,2,3) 1959 Masaki Kobayashi

17 . My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki

18 . Tales of Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi

19 . Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Hayao Miyazaki

20 . High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa

21 . Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984 Hayao Miyazaki

22 . Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi

23 . Castle in the Sky 1986 Hayao Miyazaki

24 . Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi

25 . I Was Born, But… 1932 Yasujiro Ozu

26 . Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa

27 . Evangelion 1995 Hideaki Anno

28 . Kabamaru the Ninja 1983 Tameo Kohanawa

29 . *Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 Seiji Mizushima

30 . A Story of Floating Weeds 1934 Yasujiro Ozu

31 . Late Spring 1949 Yasujiro Ozu

32 . *Ghost in the Shell (1,2) 1995 Mamoru Oshii

33 . Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara

34 . *Dragon Ball (1,2 1986 Daisuke Nishio

35 . Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa

36 . Ghost in the Shell 1995 Yoshimasa Mizuo

37 . The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi

38 . Early Summer 1951 Yasujiro Ozu

39 . Sisters of the Gion 1936 Kenji Mizoguchi

40 . Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior 1980 Akira Kurosawa

41 . Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi

42 . The Burmese Harp 1956 Kon Ichikawa

43 . Kozure Ôkami (1,2,3,4,5,6,7) 1972 Kenji Misumi

44 . *Death Note 2006 Takeshi Obata

45 . *Berserk 1997 Kentaro Miura

46 . The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi

47 . Tokyo Twilight 1957 Yasujiro Ozu

48 . Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Richard Fleischer

49 . *Shogun 1980 Jerry London

50. 1966 Kihachi Okamoto

51 . Samurai Rebellion 1967 Masaki Kobayashi

52 . Bleach 2004 Tite Kubo

53 . Fires on the Plain 1959 Kon Ichikawa

54 . *Samurai Champloo 2004 Shinichirō Watanabe

55 . The Naked Island 1960 Kaneto Shindô

56 . The Crucified Lovers 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi

57 . Late Autumn 1960 Yasujiro Ozu

58 . When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 1960 Mikio Naruse

59 . Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujiro Ozu

60 . *FLCL 2000 Kazuya Tsurumaki

61 . An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujiro Ozu

62 . A Fugitive from the Past 1965 Tomu Uchida

63 . Floating Clouds 1955 Mikio Narus

64 . The End of Summer 1961 Yasujiro Ozu

65 . Stranger's Face 1966 Hiroshi Teshigahara

66 . Street of Shame 1956 Kenji Mizoguchi

67 . *Elfen Lied 2004 Lynn Okamoto

68 . The Twilight Samurai 2002 Yôji Yamada

69 . Barefoot Gen 1983 Mori Masaki

70 . Fireworks 1997 Takeshi Kitano

71 . 47 Samurai 1962 Hiroshi Inagaki

72 . Mobile Suit Gundam (1,2,3,4) 1981 Yoshiyuki Tomino

73 . The Ring 1998 Hideo Nakata

74 . Audition 1999 Takashi Miike

75 . Nobody Knows 2004 Hirokazu Koreeda

76 . Ballad of Narayama 1958 Keisuke Kinoshita

77 . *Naruto 2002 Masashi Kishimoto

78 . *Serial Experiments: Lain 1998 Ryutaro Nakamura

79 . Departures 2008 Yōjirō Takita

80 . Shall we dansu? 1996 Masayuki Suo

81 . Ana-ta-han 1953 Josef von Sternberg

82 . An Actor's Revenge 1963 Kon Ichikawa

83 . Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story 1999 Kazuhiro Furuhashi

84 . Paprika 2006 Satoshi Kon

85 . Death by Hanging 1968 Nagisa Ôshima

86 . Branded to Kill 1967 Seijun Suzuki

87 . Sea Prince and the Fire Child 1981 Masami Hata

88 . Millennium Actress 2001 Satoshi Kon

89 . The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 2006 Mamoru Hosoda

90 . Swan Lake 1981 Kimirou Yabuki

91 . Innocence 2004 Mamoru Oshii

92 . 5 Centimeters per Second 2007 Makoto Shinkai

93 . The House of Small Cubes 2008 Kunio Katō

94 . Metropolis 2001 Rintaro

95 . 1 Litre of Tears 2005 Riki Okamura

96 . Still Walking 2008 Hirokazu Koreeda