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Japanese New Wave Filmography

This list is from the book 'Eros plus Massacre' (David Desser, 1988) which is a study on common themes used in japanese new waves films such as youth, identity and sexuality.

The list is presented in the same order as in the book. Below you can see the director of each movie.

After years of missing entries on Letterboxd, the list is now finally complete!

1: Adachi Masao
2-9: Hani Susumu
10-24: Imamura Shohei
25: Kurahara Koreyoshi
26-30: Masumura Yasuzo
31-32: Matsumoto Toshio
33-42: Ogawa Shinsuke
43-60: Oshima Nagisa
61-63: Shindo Kaneto
64-83: Shinoda Masahiro
84-89: Suzuki Seijun
90-91: Takahashi Osamu
92: Tamura Tsutomu
93-97: Teshigahara Hiroshi
98-99: Tsuchimoto Noriaki
100-105: Wakamatsu Koji
106-121: Yoshida Yoshishige

  • Sexual Play

    1

  • Children in the Classroom

    2

  • Children Who Draw

    3

  • Bad Boys

    4

  • A Full Life

    5

  • She and He

    6

  • The Song of the Bwana Toshi

    7

  • Bride of the Andes

    8

  • Nanami: The Inferno of First Love

    9

  • Stolen Desire

    10

  • Nishi Ginza Station

    11

  • Endless Desire

    12

  • My Second Brother

    13

  • Pigs and Battleships

    14

  • The Insect Woman

    15

  • Intentions of Murder

    16

  • The Pornographers

    17

  • A Man Vanishes

    18

  • Profound Desires of the Gods

    19

  • History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess

    20

  • Karayuki-San, the Making of a Prostitute

    21

  • Vengeance Is Mine

    22

  • Eijanaika

    23

  • The Ballad of Narayama

    24

  • The Warped Ones

    25

  • Kisses

    26

  • Warm Current

    27

  • Giants and Toys

    28

  • Irezumi

    29

  • Red Angel

    30

  • Funeral Parade of Roses

    31

  • Demons

    32

  • Sea of Youth

    33

  • The Oppressed Students

    34

  • Report from Haneda

    35

  • Summer in Sanrizuka

    36

  • Sanrizuka: The Three-Day War

    37

  • Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress

    38

  • Sanrizuka: The Building of Iwayama Tower

    39

  • Sanrizuka: Heta Village

    40

  • Dokkoi! Songs from the Bottom

    41

  • Furuyashiki: A Japanese Village

    42

  • Street of Love and Hope

    43

  • Cruel Story of Youth

    44

  • The Sun's Burial

    45

  • Night and Fog in Japan

    46

  • The Catch

    47

  • Diary of Yunbogi

    48

  • Pleasures of the Flesh

    49

  • Violence at Noon

    50

  • Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

    51

  • Sing a Song of Sex

    52

  • Three Resurrected Drunkards

    53

  • Death by Hanging

    54

  • Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

    55

  • Boy

    56

  • The Man Who Left His Will on Film

    57

  • The Ceremony

    58

  • Dear Summer Sister

    59

  • In the Realm of the Senses

    60

  • Onibaba

    61

  • Lost Sex

    62

  • Kuroneko

    63

  • One Way Ticket to Love

    64

  • Youth in Fury

    65

  • Killers on Parade

    66

  • Love New and Old

    67

  • A Flame at the Pier

    68

  • Our Marriage

    69

  • Pale Flower

    70

  • Assassination

    71

  • With Beauty and Sorrow

    72

  • Samurai Spy

    73

  • Captive's Island

    74

  • Clouds at Sunset

    75

  • Double Suicide

    76

  • The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

    77

  • Silence

    78

  • Himiko

    79

  • Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

    80

  • Ballad of Orin

    81

  • Demon Pond

    82

  • MacArthur's Children

    83

  • Kanto Wanderer

    84

  • Gate of Flesh

    85

  • Story of a Prostitute

    86

  • Tattooed Life

    87

  • Fighting Elegy

    88

  • Tokyo Drifter

    89

  • Only She Knows

    90

  • Shisha to no kekkon

    91

  • Volunteering for Villainy

    92

  • Pitfall

    93

  • Woman in the Dunes

    94

  • The Face of Another

    95

  • The Man Without a Map

    96

  • Summer Soldiers

    97

  • Prehistory of the Partisans

    98

  • Minamata: The Victims and Their World

    99

  • Secrets Behind the Wall

    100