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Essential Japanese New Wave Movies
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Out of all the “new waves” that sprung up around the world in the wake of France’s revolutionary Nouvelle Vague in the 1960s, perhaps none was as explosive — politically, morally and aesthetically — and offered such a thorough repudiation of what had come before, as Japan’s Nuberu Bagu. While Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura remain far and away the best-known directors associated with this movement, many other filmmakers have been unfairly lurking in their shadows for too long. I therefore limited myself to one title per director in this list of what I consider a dozen essential Japanese New Wave movies. -
Hideko Takamine filmography
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. All the movies Hideko Takamine played in. -
Hideo Gosha filmography
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. The filmography of director Hideo Gosha, the largely unsung hero of samurai cinema. This list includes his entire filmography, from the samurai films early in his career, to the yakuza and geisha films in the latter half of his career. -
Hideo Kojima's Closet Picks
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. The pioneering video game designer throws a spotlight on treasures of 1950s and ’60s Japanese cinema. 2023 Criterion Collection feature. -
J-Horror: An Alternative Guide
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. There's a lot more to Japanese horror than the vengeful, lank-haired spook-girls of Ring, Ju-on and their legion of imitators. Sure, the West may have only recently woken up to its charms, but J-horror has been around for a mighty long time. The first Japanese novel, The Tale of Genji – now nearly a millennium old – is positively packed with ghosts and gruesome revenge. Noh and Kabuki are some of the most haunted theatrical traditions on Earth, and Edo period playwrights were constantly fighting to outdo one another in the gore, murder and supernatural vengeance stakes. Pretty much as soon as the first motion picture camera came off the boat here, someone picked it up and started making horror movies. Jizo the Spook [Bake Jizo] and Resurrection of a Corpse [Shinin no Sosei], both filmed in 1898, predate Nosferatu (1922) by decades. Since then, Japanese horror has come to us in a number of guises: sometimes grotesque, sometimes scary, sometimes erotic, funny or even beautiful. Let's take a look at a few examples... -
Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. A work in progress list of Japanese Cyberpunk films. -
Japanese Films
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. Favourite Japanese films -
Japanese films I need to watch
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. These are a must. -
Japanese Top 101 Films
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Personal favorites from Japan. Not in ranking, chronological or alphabetical order. They just are in this order for now. -
Ken'ichi Matsuyama Filmography
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. -
Kinema Junpo Annual Top 10s
Favs/dislikes: 50:0. Each year, Kinema Junpo magazine publishes a list of the top 10 Japanese films of the year. This is not the complete list because some of the films are missing from IMDb. You can see a longer list and rankings for each year at the [url=http://www.rinkworks.com/checklist/list.cgi?u=crimsong&U=crimsong&p=kinemajunpotop10s]list source[/url]. -
Kinema Junpo's Top Japanese Movies: 2000 onwards
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. Six films missing from IMDb: Roshin (dir. Tazuko Makitsubo) Jumin ga sentaku shita machi no fukushi (dir. Sumiko Haneda) Hiratsuka Raicho no shogai (dir. Sumiko Haneda) Owari yokereba subete yoshi (dir. Sumiko Haneda) Fusa (dir. Kon Ichikawa) Ah manmo kaitakudan (dir. Sumiko Haneda) -
Mamoru Oshii Movies
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. A filmography of eclectic Japanese director Mamoru Oshii, either as director or screenwriter. -
Minifestival "Big in Japan"
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. [b][u]Programmering[/u][/b] [b]Donderdag 4 oktober 2012[/b] 20.00: Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980) [b]Vrijdag 5 oktober 2012[/b] 15.00: Zatôichi (Takeshi Kitano, 2003) 20.00: Tôkyô nagaremono (Seijun Suzuki, 1966) [b]Zaterdag 6 oktober 2012[/b] 15.00: Tengoku to jigoku (Akira Kurosawa, 1963) 20.00: Hotaru no haka (Isao Takahata, 1988) 22.00: animated shorts 00.00: Akira (Katsuhiro Ôtomo, 1988) [b]Zondag 7 oktober 2012[/b] 15.00: Tôkyô monogatari (Yasujirô Ozu, 1953) -
Minoru Kawasaki Filmography
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. A list for the full Minoru Kawasaki filmography. -
MyAnimeList: Top 50 Standalone Films
Favs/dislikes: 47:0. Top 50 standalone films taken from MyAnimeList.net's rankings. No previous knowledge necessary to enjoy these. -
Ofuji Noburo Award for Best Animated Film
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. The Ōfuji Noburō Award is one of the awards at the Mainichi Film Concours, and it honor excellence in Japanese animation. In the 1980s, big budget films started to dominate the award. In 1989, they established the Animation Grand Award to reward big budget films, which allowed the Ōfuji Noburō Award to focus on lower budget independent films. Missing from IMDb: Murder (1964) The Chair (1964) Two Pikes (1961) The Ugly Duckling (1968) The Kindly Lion (1970) The Flower and the Mole (1970) Home, My Home (1970) Tenma no Torayan (1971) Praise be to Small Ills (1973) The Water Seed (1975) Towards the Rainbow (1977) The Magic Fox (1982) Mizu no Sei Kappa Hyakuzu (1998) The Moon that Fell into the Sea (2013) Crazy Little Thing (2014) -
Paste Magazine's 50 Best Samurai Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. What is it about the samurai that captivates Westerners? The armor and swords, the reverent attitude and the reputation for supreme competence in warfare are all pretty impressive, but they don’t get to the heart of it. I believe it might be that at the core of every samurai is the code of bushido, the feudal Japanese equivalent of chivalry, with its one edict above all else: If the time should call for it, protect your lord with your life. That self-abnegation in service of something greater than oneself is the question at the heart of the works of generation after generation of directors as they revisit the samurai film. And it’s why we’re so excited to present Paste’s list of the 50 Best Samurai Films of All Time. This is a broad genre, just from a the standpoint of how much history falls within it. The American Western falls more or less within the bounds of the 19th Century, yet samurai films offer centuries of warfare, palace intrigue and a drawn-out end of an era for the history and film buff to chew on. Samurai flicks really have something for everyone. Fans of period pieces will love the intricate set design, costuming and portrayals of towering historical figures in the midst of epic conflict. If operatic drama is more your speed, you can sit back and watch committed actors dine upon lavish scenery. Action junkies get to watch riveting combat with cool-looking swords. And fans of film history in general will delight in tracing the lineage of some of the West’s cinematic touchstones to their forebears in the East, as well as some stellar Eastern adaptations of Western canon. It is with solemn bushido reverence that I invite you to join us as we dive into 50 films that exemplify this mightiest of genres. We’ve formed this list with a careful eye toward the classic jidaigeki (Age of Civil War period piece) and chambara (swordfighting) films that typify the genre in Japan, but also to some of the weird and subversive outliers that challenge audience expectations or the mythic idea of the samurai code. And because this genre is so deeply steeped in the history of its homeland, we’ve also arranged this list in a loose sort of historical chronological order and added some context that might help clarify the settings of some of the movies. -
Paste's 50 Best Samurai Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. What is it about the samurai that captivates Westerners? The armor and swords, the reverent attitude and the reputation for supreme competence in warfare are all pretty impressive, but they don’t get to the heart of it. I believe it might be that at the core of every samurai is the code of bushido, the feudal Japanese equivalent of chivalry, with its one edict above all else: If the time should call for it, protect your lord with your life. That self-abnegation in service of something greater than oneself is the question at the heart of the works of generation after generation of directors as they revisit the samurai film. And it’s why we’re so excited to present Paste’s list of the 50 Best Samurai Films of All Time. This is a broad genre, just from a the standpoint of how much history falls within it. The American Western falls more or less within the bounds of the 19th Century, yet samurai films offer centuries of warfare, palace intrigue and a drawn-out end of an era for the history and film buff to chew on. Samurai flicks really have something for everyone. Fans of period pieces will love the intricate set design, costuming and portrayals of towering historical figures in the midst of epic conflict. If operatic drama is more your speed, you can sit back and watch committed actors dine upon lavish scenery. Action junkies get to watch riveting combat with cool-looking swords. And fans of film history in general will delight in tracing the lineage of some of the West’s cinematic touchstones to their forebears in the East, as well as some stellar Eastern adaptations of Western canon. It is with solemn bushido reverence that I invite you to join us as we dive into 50 films that exemplify this mightiest of genres. We’ve formed this list with a careful eye toward the classic jidaigeki (Age of Civil War period piece) and chambara (swordfighting) films that typify the genre in Japan, but also to some of the weird and subversive outliers that challenge audience expectations or the mythic idea of the samurai code. And because this genre is so deeply steeped in the history of its homeland, we’ve also arranged this list in a loose sort of historical chronological order and added some context that might help clarify the settings of some of the movies. In the interest of keeping things tight, we’ve excluded anime entries, but for a definitive list that includes some animated samurai action, check out Paste’s 100 Best Anime Films. Published August 2017 -
Pink Grand Prix for Best Film
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. The Pink Grand Prix (ピンク大賞, pinku taishō) or PG Film Prize (PG映画大賞, PG eiga taishō, "Pink film festival" or "Pink Prize") is an annual Japanese film award ceremony which recognizes excellence in the pink film genre. —Wikipedia -
Samurai Films
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. A list featuring samurai themed films. -
Samurai Films
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Films from the book "Samurai Films" by Roland Thorne (2008). ISBN: 9781842432556. This list contains the movies analyzed in Roland Thorne's book. -
Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook
Favs/dislikes: 12:0. This list is a viewer's guide to Patrick Galloway's book of the same name: "Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves is a critical guide to over 50 top samurai films, including such masterworks as the Oscar-winning Gate of Hell, Yojimbo (remade five times, including A Fistful of Dollars), the influential Lady Snowblood, and newly released hits like Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi." -
Studio Ghibli
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Filmography of the Studio Ghibli -
Takashi Miike filmography
Favs/dislikes: 20:0. All films, miniseries and shorts directed by the prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike (1960-.)
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