Japanuary 2024... Back again for another year of Ben's challenge, to watch some Japanese films in January. Target = 30 films.
Line-Up:
✅ 1. Teruo Ishii
✅ 2. Shinya Tsukamoto
✅ 3. Takashi Miike
✅ 4. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
✅ 5. Hayao Miyazaki
6. Mamoru Oshii
✅ 7. Toshiaki Toyoda
✅ 8. Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
✅ 9. Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
✅ 10. Masahiro Shinoda
✅ 11. Seijun Suzuki
✅ 12. Kinji Fukasaku
✅ 13. Shinji Sōmai
✅ 14. Hirokazu Koreeda
✅ 15. Nagisa Ōshima
✅ 16. Gakuryū Ishii
17. Keisuke Kinoshita
✅ 18. Takeshi Kitano
19. Kinuyo Tanaka
✅ 20. Yukiko Mishima
✅ 21. Miwa Nishikawa
✅ 22. Mikio Naruse
23. Kenji Mizoguchi
✅ 24. Shunji Iwai
25. Ishirō Honda
✅ 26. Hiroshi…
Japanuary 2024... Back again for another year of Ben's challenge, to watch some Japanese films in January. Target = 30 films.
Line-Up:
✅ 1. Teruo Ishii
✅ 2. Shinya Tsukamoto
✅ 3. Takashi Miike
✅ 4. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
✅ 5. Hayao Miyazaki
6. Mamoru Oshii
✅ 7. Toshiaki Toyoda
✅ 8. Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
✅ 9. Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
✅ 10. Masahiro Shinoda
✅ 11. Seijun Suzuki
✅ 12. Kinji Fukasaku
✅ 13. Shinji Sōmai
✅ 14. Hirokazu Koreeda
✅ 15. Nagisa Ōshima
✅ 16. Gakuryū Ishii
17. Keisuke Kinoshita
✅ 18. Takeshi Kitano
19. Kinuyo Tanaka
✅ 20. Yukiko Mishima
✅ 21. Miwa Nishikawa
✅ 22. Mikio Naruse
23. Kenji Mizoguchi
✅ 24. Shunji Iwai
25. Ishirō Honda
✅ 26. Hiroshi Shimizu
27. Shōhei Imamura
28. Hiroshi Teshigahara
✅ 29. Yasujirō Ozu
30. Masaki Kobayashi
31. Akira Kurosawa
Bonus categories:
✅ 32. Anime
✅ 33. Pinku/Pink Violence
✅ 34. Samurai
35. J-Horror
✅ 36. Directed by Women
✅ 37. Tokusatsu
38. Short film
39. Documentary
✅ 40. Cyberpunk
✅ 41. Yakuza
✅ 42. Released by Third Window Films
✅ 43. Recommendations from Ben
Previous challenges: 2022 | 2023
