Best Japanese Language Movies by Rank
4
1
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
8
2
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi
Action / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
11
3
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
43
4
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Japan / France
Japanese
53
5
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri
Drama
Japan
Japanese
75
6
Kenji Mizoguchi
Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarô Ozawa, Ikio Sawamura
Drama / Thriller / Fantasy / Romance / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
103
7
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
108
8
Hayao Miyazaki
Miyu Irino, Rumi Hîragi, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naitô
Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Drama / Family
Japan
Japanese
186
9
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
War / Drama / Action / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
Japan
Japanese
405
11
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida
Drama / Experimental
Japan
Japanese
447
12
Yasujiro Ozu
Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
458
13
Kon Ichikawa
Rentaro Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Jun Hamamura
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
463
14
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Drama / War / Epic / History
Japan
Japanese
465
15
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
581
16
Hayao Miyazaki
Noriko Hidaka, Hitoshi Takagi, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Adventure
Japan / USA
Japanese
653
17
Juzo Itami
Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Kôji Yakusho
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
801
18
Hideo Nakata
Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
835
19
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
836
20
Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda
Animation / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult / Comic
Japan
Japanese
882
21
Hirokazu Koreeda
Lily Franky, Kirin Kiki, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka
Crime / Drama
Japan
Japanese
884
22
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada
Drama / Comedy / Romance
Japan
Japanese
890
23
Masaki Kobayashi
Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Kenjirô Ishiyama
Horror / Fantasy / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
894
24
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyô, Isao Yamagata, Yataro Kurokawa
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
947
25
Isao Takahata
Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi
Animation / War / Drama
Japan
Japanese
973
26
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Yoo-rim Park, Dae-Young Jin
Drama
Japan
Japanese
984
27
Nagisa Oshima
Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui, Meika Seri
Drama / Adult / Romance
Japan / France
Japanese
1023
28
Clint Eastwood
Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Shido Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase
Drama / War / History
USA
Japanese
1055
29
Takashi Miike
Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller
South Korea / Japan
Japanese
1190
30
Ishirô Honda
Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror / Cult
Japan
Japanese
1235
31
Kenji Mizoguchi
Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kôkichi Takada
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan
Japanese
1242
32
Kinji Fukasaku
Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki Kuriyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto
Action / Sci-Fi / Sports / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
1249
33
Mamoru Oshii
Atsuko Tanaka, Richard Epcar, Akio Ôtsuka, Tamio Ôki, Iemasa Kayumi
Animation / Action / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Thriller
Japan / USA
Japanese
1347
34
Kaneto Shindô
Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama
Drama / Horror
Japan
Japanese
1411
35
Hirokazu Koreeda
Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô, Kyôko Kagawa
Drama / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
1438
36
Shohei Imamura
Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Aki Takejo, Tonpei Hidari, Seiji Kurasaki
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1482
37
Paul Schrader
Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda
Drama / Biography
USA
Japanese
1544
38
Hayao Miyazaki
Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Takuya Kimura, Aimyon, Kô Shibasaki
Animation / Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Action
Japan
Japanese
1555
39
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir
Japan
Japanese
1613
40
Kenji Mizoguchi
Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura
Drama / History / Epic
Japan / Hong Kong
Japanese
1667
41
Yojiro Takita
Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Kimiko Yo
Drama
Japan
Japanese
1679
42
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Ookusu, Gadarukanaru Taka
Action / Drama / Crime / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
1697
43
Kon Ichikawa
Abebe Bikila, Jack Douglas, Hirohito
Documentary / Sports / History
Japan
Japanese
1702
44
Yasujiro Ozu
Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
1787
45
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Epic
Japan
Japanese
1789
46
Yasujiro Ozu
Tatsuo Saito, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
1824
47
Masayuki Suo
Kôji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
1828
48
Shohei Imamura
Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho
Drama / Thriller / Crime
Japan
Japanese
1834
49
Juzo Itami
Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masahiko Tsugawa
Comedy / Romance / Crime / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
1837
50
Kon Ichikawa
Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1892
51
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentaro Mikuni
Action / Adventure / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
1896
52
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Detective
Japan
Japanese
1920
53
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1956
54
Hiroshi Inagaki
Koshiro Matsumoto, Yuzo Kayama, Tatsuya Mihashi, Akira Takarada, Yosuke Natsuki
Drama / Epic / History
Japan
Japanese
2048
55
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2056
56
Nagisa Oshima
Kei Sato, Fumio Watanabe, Toshirô Ishidô, Masao Adachi
Comedy / Crime / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2063
57
Masaki Kobayashi
Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentaro Mikuni, Shima Iwashita
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2075
58
Shinya Tsukamoto
Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Renji Ishibashi, Naomasa Musaka
Horror / Sci-Fi / Action / Experimental
Japan
Japanese
2079
59
Hayao Miyazaki
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Martin Short, Stanley Tucci
Animation / Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
2163
60
Kon Ichikawa
Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis, Mantarô Ushio, Kyu Sazanaka
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2175
61
Mikio Naruse
Haruko Sugimura, Sadako Sawamura, Chikako Hosokawa, Yûko Mochizuki
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2179
62
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
Action / Adventure / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2196
63
Josef von Sternberg
Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura
Drama / War / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2219
64
Yasujiro Ozu
Chouko Iida, Shinichi Himori, Masao Hayama, Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2225
65
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2241
66
Takashi Miike
Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya, Gorô Inagaki
Action
Japan / UK
Japanese
2257
67
Akira Kurosawa
Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami
Drama / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
2258
68
Hirokazu Koreeda
Makiko Esumi, Tadanobu Asano, Akira Emoto, Minori Terada
Drama / Mystery
Japan
Japanese
2291
69
Masahiro Shinoda
Shima Iwashita, Kichiemon Nakamura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Jun Hamamura
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2308
70
Seijun Suzuki
Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Ryuji Kita, Tsuyoshi Yoshida
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2310
71
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiyo Kogure
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2310
71
Hiroshi Inagaki
Koji Tsuruta, Toshirô Mifune, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiko Saga, Mariko Okada
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2329
72
Satoshi Kon, Shôgo Furuya
Toru Emori, Aya Okamoto, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Shôzô Îzuka
Adventure / Animation / Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2347
73
Yasujiro Ozu
Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishu Ryu, Kuniko Miyake
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2364
74
Kaneto Shindô
Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Shinji Tanaka
Drama
Japan
Japanese (No Dialogue)
2371
75
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo
Drama
Japan / Taiwan
Japanese
2373
76
Nagisa Oshima
Takeshi Kitano, Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Koji Matoba
Drama / History / Period Film
France / UK / Japan
Japanese
2376
77
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2381
78
Kenji Mizoguchi
Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Michiyo Kogure, Kumeko Urabe
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2386
79
Yoji Yamada
Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi, Ren Osugi
Action / Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2403
80
Kenji Mizoguchi
Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô
Drama / Biography / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2408
81
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe, Masanobu Katsumura
Action / Drama / Crime / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2417
82
Takashi Yamazaki
Minami Hamabe, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Sakura Ando, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Munetaka Aoki
Action / Adventure / Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
Japan
Japanese
2436
83
Wim Wenders
Kôji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi Yamada, Yumi Asô
Drama
Japan / Germany
Japanese
2450
84
Mikio Naruse
Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2456
85
Mikio Naruse
Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada, Isao Yamagata
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2457
86
Kenji Mizoguchi
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2461
87
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kôji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa
Crime / Thriller / Detective
Japan
Japanese
2476
88
Hirokazu Koreeda
Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You, Kazuya Takahashi, Shohei Tanaka, Kirin Kiki
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2493
89
Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda
Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada
Fantasy / Drama / Adventure
Japan / USA
Japanese
2501
90
Keisuke Kinoshita
Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2501
90
Masahiro Shinoda
Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki, Chisako Hara
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster / Post-Noir
Japan
Japanese
2501
90
Masaki Kobayashi
Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Etsuko Ichihara
Drama / History / Period Film / War / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2507
91
Kenji Mizoguchi
Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2513
92
Yoshimitsu Morita
Yusaku Matsuda, Juzo Itami, Saori Yuki, Ichirota Miyagawa
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2513
92
Juzo Itami
Nobuko Miyamoto, Rentaro Mikuni, Masahiko Tsugawa, Tetsuro Tamba
Comedy / Crime
Japan
Japanese
2515
93
Kon Ichikawa
Machiko Kyô, Ganjiro Nakamura, Junko Kano
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2531
94
Makoto Shinkai
Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryô Narita, Aoi Yuki
Animation / Drama / Romance / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
2547
95
Nagisa Oshima
Kenzo Kawarazaki, Atsuko Kaku, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Sato, Maki Takayama
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
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2592
96
Nagisa Oshima
Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Shinko Ujiie, Akiko Koyama
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2596
97
Shohei Imamura
Kaori Momoi, Shigeru Izumiya, Ken Ogata, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2600
98
Kon Ichikawa
Raizô Ichikawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ganjiro Nakamura, Yoichi Funaki
Drama / Religion
Japan
Japanese
2600
98
Hayao Miyazaki
Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi, Keiko Toda, Mieko Nobusawa
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Comedy / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2600
98
Kenji Misumi
Tomisaburo Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Akiji Kobayashi, Minoru Ohki, Shin Kishida
Action
Japan
Japanese
2600
98
Masahiro Shinoda
Takaya Yamauchi, Yoshiyuki Omori, Shiori Sakura, Masako Natsume, Hideji Otaki
Comedy / Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2600
98
Kon Ichikawa
Raizô Ichikawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shiho Fujimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2600
98
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Yumiko Miyagino, Mitsuko Miura, Yuko Tsumura, Kinuyo Tanaka, Jukichi Uno
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2616
99
Keisuke Kinoshita
Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Nobuko Otowa
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2616
99
Kôhei Oguri
Takahiro Tamura, Mariko Kaga, Nobutaka Asahara
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2616
99
Noboru Nakamura
Tetsuro Tamba, Shima Iwashita, Eiji Okada
Drama / Biography
Japan
Japanese
2616
99
Kei Kumai
Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2616
99
Noboru Nakamura
Shima Iwashita, Hiroyuki Nagato, Seiji Miyaguchi, Teruo Yoshida
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2623
100
Akira Kurosawa
Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2627
101
Hirokazu Koreeda
Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki, Lily Franky
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2628
102
Yasujiro Ozu
Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Obinata, Chouko Iida
Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2634
103
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2639
104
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kaoichi Katsuragi, Yoshisuke Koizumi, Haruko Sawamura, Kaichi Yamamoto
Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2639
104
Yasujiro Ozu
Junko Matsui, Kenji Oyama, Chishu Ryu, Tatsuo Saito, Takeshi Sakamoto
Comedy
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2639
104
Hideo Sekigawa
Takashi Kanda, Masao Mishima, Eiji Okada, Isuzu Yamada
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2639
104
Masaki Kobayashi
Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yusuke Kawazu, Tamao Nakamura, Chishu Ryu
Drama / History / War
Japan
Japanese
2639
104
Sadao Yamanaka
Tsuruzo Nakamura, Emitaro Ichikawa, Shizue Yamagishi, Choemon Bando
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2639
104
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Akiko Chihaya, Junosuke Bando, Yukiko Ogawa, Ippei Sohma, Misao Seki
Drama / Crime
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2639
104
Ishirô Honda
Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / War
Japan
Japanese
2639
104
Heinosuke Gosho
Atsushi Watanabe, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Ichimura, Satoko Date, Shinichi Himori
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2639
104
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Shozaburo Abe, Munenobu Aburai, Shôtarô Fujimatsu, Toyama Fumio
War
Japan
Japanese
2639
104
Ishirô Honda
Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Akio Kobori, Yasuko Nakata
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Action
Japan
Japanese
2639
104
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2639
104
Kenji Mizoguchi
Hiroki Hoshino, Yoshiko Okada
Short / Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2639
104
Kenji Mizoguchi
Reiji Ichiki, Takako Irie, Takaya Ito, Gunnosuke Kanahira, Shunji Kanda
Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2639
104
Shirô Toyoda
Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Jukichi Uno, Eijirô Tono, Chouko Iida
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2640
105
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Masao Inoue, Yoshi Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima, Kyosuki Takamatsu
Drama / Experimental
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2646
106
Shinji Aoyama
Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaru Miyazaki, Yoichiro Saito, Sayuri Kokusho
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2646
106
Kaizo Hayashi
Masatoshi Nagase, Shirô Sano, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Yang Haitin, Hou De Jian
Drama / Comedy / Mystery / Post-Noir / Detective
Japan / China / Taiwan
Japanese
2646
106
Kenji Mizoguchi
Isuzu Yamada, Yôko Umemura, Benkei Shiganoya, Eitarô Shindô
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2656
107
Arnold Fanck, Mansaku Itami
Setsuko Hara, Sessue Hayakawa, Ruth Eweler, Isamu Kosugi
Drama
Japan / Germany
Japanese
2662
108
Satoshi Kon
Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Furuya
Animation / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Detective
Japan
Japanese
2664
109
Seijun Suzuki
Jo Shishido, Mariko Ogawa, Annu Mari, Koji Nambara
Action / Crime / Drama / Gangster / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2668
110
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Maiko Kawakami, Makoto Ashikawa, Shirô Sano, Sei Hiraizumi
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Detective
Japan
Japanese
2675
111
Shohei Imamura
Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, Akira Emoto
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2684
112
Naomi Kawase
Yoichiro Saito, Machiko Ono, Kanako Masuda, Shigeki Uda, Makiko Watanabe
Drama / Romance
France / Japan
Japanese
2684
112
Kûhei Oguri
Keiko Matsuzaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Midori Kiuchi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2692
113
Rentaro Mikuni
Junkyu Moriyama, Michiyo Ookusu
Drama / Religion
Japan
Japanese
2693
114
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2694
115
Yoshiro Kawazu
Hiroshi Akutagawa, Yatsuko Tan'ami, Minoru Ohki, Chishu Ryu, Koji Shitara
unknown
Japan
Japanese
2694
115
Toshio Matsumoto
Pītâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshimi Jô, Koichi Nakamura, Flamenco Umeji
Drama / Romance / Experimental
Japan
Japanese
2694
115
Keisuke Kinoshita
Katsuo Nakamura, Sadako Sawamura, Noriko Arita, Akira Ishihama, Yoshiko Kuga
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2694
115
Keisuke Kinoshita
Hideki Goko, Hideko Takamine, Yukio Watanabe
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2694
115
Heinosuke Gosho
Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô, Kinuyo Tanaka
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2699
116
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Hitoshi Omika, Ryô Nishikawa, Ryûji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani
Drama / Music
Japan
Japanese
2701
117
Tadashi Imai
Kinnosuke Nakamura, Eijirô Tôno, Kyôko Kishida, Masayuki Mori
Action / Drama / Adventure / History
Japan
Japanese
2705
118
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2706
119
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Drama / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2706
119
Rintaro
Yuka Imoto, Kei Kobayashi, Kouki Okada, Jamieson Price, Robert Axelrod
Adventure / Animation / Sci-Fi / Action / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2707
120
Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang
Pawalit Mongkolpisit, Premsinee Ratanasopha, Patharawarin Timkul
Action / Crime / Thriller / Romance / Drama
Thailand
Japanese
2709
121
Kei Kumai
Eiji Okuda, Ken Watanabe, Takahiro Tamura, Kyôko Kishida, Mikio Narita
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2711
122
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Kanako Higuchi, Yûrei Yanagi, Kumiko Aso
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2711
122
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Ryo Kase, Toshiyuki Nishida, Shun Sugata, Tomokazu Miura
Action / Crime
Japan
Japanese
2711
122
Takeshi Kitano
Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tatsuya Mihashi, Chieko Matsubara
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2711
122
Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Rirî Furankî, Tatsuya Nakamura, Yûko Nakamura, Dean Newcombe
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2711
122
Tomotaka Tasaka
Isamu Kosugi, Shirô Izome, Bontarô Miyake
War / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2711
122
Shion Sono
Shôta Sometani, Fumi Nikaidô, Tetsu Watanabe, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Drama / Comic
Japan
Japanese
2711
122
Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Yû Aoi, Kohji Katoh
Action / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2711
122
Hirokazu Koreeda
Ryô Ikeda, Miyu Sasaki, Maho Yamada, Natsuki Deguchi, Aju Makita
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2711
122
Kôji Fukada
Fumino Kimura, Kento Nagayama, Tetta Shimada, Atom Sunada, Hirona Yamazaki
Drama
Japan / France
Japanese
2711
122
Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Jô Odagiri, Makiko Esumi, Nao Omori
Horror / Fantasy / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2711
122
Anh Hung Tran
Rinko Kikuchi, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kiko Mizuhara, Kengo Kora, Tetsuji Tamayama
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2711
122
Te-Sheng Wei
Da-Ching, Umin Boya, Landy Wen, Lo Mei-ling, Masanobu Ando, Irene Luo
Drama / War / History / Epic / Action
Taiwan
Japanese
2711
122
Mamoru Oshii
Rinko Kikuchi, Chiaki Kuriyama, Shosuke Tanihara, Ryo Kase
Animation / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2711
122
Hirokazu Koreeda
Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, Suzu Hirose, Isao Hashizume
Drama | Mystery / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2711
122
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Yû Aoi, Masahiro Higashide, Hyunri, Issey Takahashi, Ryôta Bandô
Drama / War / History / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2713
123
Kon Ichikawa
Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka
Adventure / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2727
124
Hitoshi Matsumoto
Hitoshi Matsumoto, Riki Takeuchi, Ua, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Haruka Unabara
Comedy / Sci-Fi
Japan
Japanese
2727
124
Shohei Imamura
Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara, Shoichi Ozawa, Norihei Miki
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2727
124
Hirokazu Koreeda
Koki Maeda, Ohshirô Maeda, Ryôga Hayashi, Cara Uchida
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2727
124
Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Ken Watanabe, Kanako Higuchi, Kenji Sakaguchi, Kazue Fukiishi, Asami Mizukawa
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2727
124
Hirokazu Koreeda
Yûya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura, Momoko Shimizu, Hanae Kan, You
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2727
124
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi, Inowaki Kai
Drama
Japan / Netherlands / Hong Kong
Japanese
2734
125
Rintaro
Tomokazu Seki, Ken Narita, Junko Iwao, Toni Barry, Rupert Degas
Animation / Action / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Japan
Japanese
2745
126
Josef Kubota Wladyka
Rinko Kikuchi, Alberto Guerra, Alejandro Edda, You, Yoh Yoshida
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi
USA
Japanese
2746
127
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Jô Odagiri, Tadanobu Asano, Tatsuya Fuji, Takashi Sasano, Marumi Shiraishi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2747
128
Mamoru Hosoda
Kaho Nakamura, Ryô Narita, Shôta Sometani, Tina Tamashiro, Lilas Ikuta
Animation / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Music / Musical / Sci-Fi / Family
Japan
Japanese
2754
129
Kazuo Hara
Kenzo Okuzaki, Emperor Hirohito
Documentary / War / History
Japan
Japanese
2761
130
Kinuyo Tanaka
Yumeji Tsukioka, Ryôji Hayama, Junkichi Orimoto, Hiroko Kawasaki
Biography / Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2763
131
Nagisa Oshima
Tetsuo Abe, Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita
Drama / Crime
Japan
Japanese
2767
132
Yasujiro Ozu
Tatsuo Saito, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2767
132
Yasuzo Masumura
Ayako Wakao, Jerry Fujio, Jun Fujimaki, Eiji Funakoshi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2767
132
Juzo Itami
Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai, Hideji Otaki
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2767
132
Yasujiro Ozu
Kinuyo Tanaka, Shuji Sano, Chieko Murata, Chishu Ryu
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2767
132
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Kayoko Kishimoto, Yuuko Daike
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2767
132
Yasuzo Masumura
Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Aiko Mimasu, Eitarô Ozawa
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2767
132
Seijun Suzuki
Makiko Esumi, Sayoko Yamaguchi, Kan Hanae, Masatoshi Nagase
Crime / Action / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2767
132
Yasuzo Masumura
Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yusuke Kawazu, Ranko Akagi
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2767
132
Akira Kurosawa
Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Mitsunori Isaki, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2767
132
Kenji Mizoguchi
Raizô Ichikawa, Michiyo Kogure, Mitsusaburô Ramon
Drama / History / Epic
Japan
Japanese
Affiliate Link
2767
132
Yasujiro Ozu
Tokihiko Okada, Fuyuki Yamamoto, Emiko Yagumo, Mitsuko Ichimura
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2767
132
Yasuzo Masumura
Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Eitarô Ozawa, Haruko Mabuchi
Drama / Mystery
Japan
Japanese
2772
133
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura, Hiromi Demura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2772
133
Mikio Naruse
Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, Mitsuko Kusabue, Mitsuko Mori
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2776
134
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Yuji Hori, Kiyoko Hirai, Reiko Kondo
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2777
135
Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki
Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura, Kotono Mitsuishi
Animation / Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2781
136
Satoshi Kon, Kô Matsuo
Miyoko Shôji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa, Shôzô Îzuka
Animation / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2781
136
Satoshi Kon
Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masaaki Ôkura
Animation / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2784
137
Kore-eda Hirokazu
Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi, Mitsuki Takahata
Drama / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2788
138
Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Documentary / History / Biography
Japan
Japanese
2789
139
Yasujirô Ozu
Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga, Keiji Sada, Teiji Takahashi
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2790
140
Yasujiro Ozu
Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Michiyo Aratama
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2790
140
Shohei Imamura
Shoichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Masaomi Kondo, Keiko Sagawa, Ganjiro Nakamura
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2792
141
Tai Kato
Chieko Baisho, Yuki Kawamura, Sanae Nakahara, Ran Fan O
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Japan
Japanese
2792
141
Shohei Imamura
Sachiko Hidari, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Nagato
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2792
141
Sadao Yamanaka
Chojuro Kawarasaki, Utaemon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2792
141
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2792
141
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2792
141
Mikio Naruse
Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2792
141
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Masao Shimizu
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2792
141
Yuzo Kawashima
Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
NR
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Abbas Kiarostami
Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase, Denden, Reiko Mori, Kaneko Kubota
Drama / Romance
France / Japan
Japanese