Japanese Cinema Selections

Films

Early Summer by Yasujiro Ozu (1951)

The Idiot by Akira Kurosawa (1951)

Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa (1951)

Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa (1952)

Tokyo Story by Yasujiro Ozu (1953)

Ugetsu by Kenji Mizoguchi (1952)

Street of Shame by Kenji Mizoguchi (1956)

The Lower Depths by Akira Kurosawa (1959)

Throne of Blood by Akira Kurosawa (1957)

The Hidden Fortress by Akira Kurosawa (1958)

Fires on the Plain by Kon Ichikawa (1959)

Good Morning by Yasujiro Ozu (1959)

The Human Condition, pt. 1: No Greater Love by Masaki Kobayashi (1959)

The Human Condition, pt. 2: The Road to Eternity by Masaki Kobayashi (1959)

The Bad Sleep Well by Akira Kurosawa (1960)

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs by Mikio Naruse (1960)

The Human Condition, pt. 3: A Soldier's Prayer by Masaki Kobayashi (1961)

Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa (1961)

Harakiri by Masaki Kobayashi (1962)

High and Low by Akira Kurosawa (1963)

Kwaidan by Masaki Kobayashi (1964)

Onibaba by Kaneto Shindo (1964)

Woman in the Dunes by Hiroshi Teshigahara (1964)

Branded to Kill by Seijun Suzuki (1966)

Tokyo Drifter by Seijun Suzuki (1966)

Double Suicide by Masahiro Shinoda (1969)

Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa (1980)

Himatsuri by Mitsuo Yanagimachi (1985)

Ran by Akira Kurosawa (1985)

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters by Paul Schrader (1985)

The Ballad of Narayama by Shohei Imamura (1987)

Black Rain by Shohei Imamura (1989)

Maborosi by Hirokazu Koreeda (1995)

Shall We Dance? by Masayuki Suo (1995)

The Eel by Shohei Imamura (1996)

Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1997)

After Life by Hirokazu Koreeda (1998)

Ringu by Hideo Nakata (1998)

Face by Junji Sakamoto (2000)

Nobody Knows by Hirokazu Kore-Eda (2004)

Bibliography

The Films of Akira Kurosawa
by Donald Richie


Japanese Cinema, An Introduction
by Donald Richie

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