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Why I đź’“ East Asian Cinema

An ever-expanding list of noteworthy live action East Asian films (including documentaries) that I both deeply appreciate and strongly recommend. Sorted by release date.

  • Serpent
  • The Cave of the Silken Web
  • Castle of Wind and Clouds
  • Red Heroine
  • Walk Cheerfully
  • The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
  • A Woman Crying in Spring
  • The Goddess
  • New Women
  • Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
  • Mr. Thank You
  • Fighting Soldiers
  • A Color Print of Edo
  • Kobayashi Issa
  • Palace of the Singing Raccoon-Dogs
  • Sanshiro Sugata
  • Port of Flowers
  • This Happy Life
  • The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
  • Morning for the Osone Family
  • Both You and I
  • Marriage
  • Record of a Tenement Gentleman
  • The Ball at the Anjo House
  • Temptation
  • Children of the Beehive
  • A Woman in the Typhoon Area
  • Tomorrow Will Be Fine Weather
  • A Hometown in Heart
  • Ginza Cancan Girls
  • Late Spring
  • Broken Drum
  • White Beast
  • A Mother's Love
  • Wedding Ring
  • The Munekata Sisters
  • Rashomon
  • Portrait of Madame Yuki
  • Clothes of Deception
  • Dispersed Clouds
  • The Idiot
  • Dancing Girl
  • Early Summer
  • Okuni and Gohei
  • Carmen's Innocent Love
  • The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
  • Tower of Lilies
  • Ugetsu
  • A Japanese Tragedy
  • Tokyo Profile
  • Sincere Heart
  • Love Letter
  • Girls in the Orchard
  • Sound of the Mountain
  • The Golden Demon
  • Sansho the Bailiff
  • An Inn at Osaka
  • Seven Samurai
  • Five Sisters
  • The Woman in the Rumor
  • Twenty-Four Eyes
  • Godzilla
  • A Story from Chikamatsu
  • The Moon Has Risen
  • Sisters
  • Growing Up
  • Twilight Saloon
  • Women of Ginza
  • So Young, So Bright
  • I Live in Fear
  • Forever a Woman
  • Lightning Karate Blow
  • Undercurrent
  • Flowing
  • Kisses
  • Throne of Blood
  • Last Days of the Samurai
  • Birth of a Jazz Maiden
  • Untamed Woman
  • When It Rains, It Pours
  • Elegy of the North
  • Black River
  • On This Earth
  • Danger Stalks Near
  • Night Drum
  • The Ballad of Narayama
  • Firefly Light
  • The Snow Flurry
  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • Love Letter
  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • Image of a Mother
  • The Ghost of Yotsuya
  • Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan
  • Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
  • The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
  • Spring Dreams
  • A Woman's Testament
  • When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
  • The Lost Alibi