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Top Japanese Films

A list of 100 Japanese movies that have stuck with me, from favorite to still favorites but not as much as the first ones. Work in progress.

  • Woman in the Dunes

    1

  • Spirited Away

    2

  • Tokyo Story

    3

  • Akira

    4

  • Seven Samurai

    5

  • Perfect Blue

    6

  • Rashomon

    7

  • Funeral Parade of Roses

    8

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    9

  • Cure

    10

  • Kwaidan

    11

  • House

    12

  • Mind Game

    13

  • Angel's Egg

    14

  • Belladonna of Sadness

    15

  • Harakiri

    16

  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man

    17

  • High and Low

    18

  • Barefoot Gen

    19

  • The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

    20

  • Onibaba

    21

  • Kuroneko

    22

  • Ugetsu

    23

  • Junk Head

    24

  • A Page of Madness

    25

  • Lady Snowblood

    26

  • Ghost in the Shell

    27

  • Throne of Blood

    28

  • Kamikaze Girls

    29

  • Ring

    30

  • My Neighbor Totoro

    31

  • Demons

    32

  • The Face of Another

    33

  • Go, Go Second Time Virgin

    34

  • Monster

    35

  • Dreams

    36

  • Yojimbo

    37

  • Empire of Passion

    38

  • Battle Royale

    39

  • Sanjuro

    40

  • Gate of Hell

    41

  • Godzilla Minus One

    42

  • A Silent Voice: The Movie

    43

  • Perfect Days

    44

  • Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan

    45

  • Exit 8

    46

  • Tokyo Godfathers

    47

  • Violated Angels

    48

  • One Cut of the Dead

    49

  • Helter Skelter

    50

  • Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare

    51

  • 5 Centimeters per Second

    52

  • Antiporno

    53

  • Muscle

    54

  • I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur

    55

  • Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

    56