At SCFZ, we conducted a poll to discover our community's favourite films from Japan, and the results of that poll are here:
letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list/top-100-japanese-films-scfz-poll/
The films of four directors - Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse and Kenji Mizoguchi - made up almost half of that list. So to highlight some more films by lesser-known directors, I thought it might be interesting to use the poll ballots to make another top 100 list, which purposely excluded Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi and Naruse. So here it is, SCFZ's favourite Japanese films when the country's four most famous directors are left out.
the top ten:
1. Woman of the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
2. Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)
3. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)…
At SCFZ, we conducted a poll to discover our community's favourite films from Japan, and the results of that poll are here:
letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list/top-100-japanese-films-scfz-poll/
The films of four directors - Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse and Kenji Mizoguchi - made up almost half of that list. So to highlight some more films by lesser-known directors, I thought it might be interesting to use the poll ballots to make another top 100 list, which purposely excluded Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi and Naruse. So here it is, SCFZ's favourite Japanese films when the country's four most famous directors are left out.
the top ten:
1. Woman of the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
2. Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)
3. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
4. Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka, 1937)
5. An Inn at Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho, 1954)
6. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
7. Mr Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936)
8. The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)
9. The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1938)
10. Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964)
