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Top 200 Japanese Films — Kinema Junpō

Kinema Junpō, also known as Kinejun is Japan's oldest and premiere film magazine began publication in July 1919.
It represents one of the oldest and most respected film magazines in the world, and is also known for the fact that it has been awarding an annual film award since 1927, one of the oldest in the history of world cinema.
In 2009, Junpō gathered a bunch of film critics, asked them for their favorite movies to made the top 200 Japanese movies poll, second time and latest time they've done this, first time being in 1999.

For some reason there is 199 movies.

Kinema Junpo's Top 10 Anime Films of All Time:
1. The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
2. Nausicaa of…

  • Tokyo Story
  • Seven Samurai
  • Floating Clouds
  • The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate
  • Battles Without Honor and Humanity
  • Twenty-Four Eyes
  • Rashomon
  • Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
  • The Family Game
  • The Man Who Stole the Sun
  • Stray Dog
  • Typhoon Club
  • Ikiru
  • Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
  • High and Low
  • A Fugitive from the Past
  • Harakiri
  • Intentions of Murder
  • Tokyo Olympiad
  • The Castle of Sand
  • Bitterness of Youth
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  • Humanity and Paper Balloons
  • Yojimbo
  • Fighting Elegy
  • Fall Guy
  • Boiling Point
  • Ugetsu
  • A Story from Chikamatsu
  • You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
  • Flowing
  • Samurai Vendetta
  • Branded to Kill
  • Vengeance Is Mine
  • Zigeunerweisen
  • Here's to the Young Lady
  • The Ball at the Anjo House
  • Late Spring
  • Till We Meet Again
  • The Life of Oharu
  • Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
  • The Lower Depths
  • Stakeout
  • Floating Weeds
  • Good Morning
  • Desperado Outpost
  • Her Brother
  • Cruel Story of Youth
  • Elegant Beast
  • Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
  • The Wanderers
  • The Youth Killer
  • Muddy River
  • The Funeral
  • Fire Festival
  • My Neighbor Totoro
  • Cure
  • Noriko's Dinner Table
  • I Was Born, But...
  • What Did the Lady Forget?
  • Singing Lovebirds
  • The Life of Matsu the Untamed
  • Carmen Comes Home
  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
  • The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
  • The Human Vapor
  • Sanjuro
  • The Insect Woman
  • Pale Flower
  • Yearning
  • Tokyo Drifter
  • Japan's Longest Day
  • Profound Desires of the Gods
  • The Human Bullet
  • Big Time Gambling Boss
  • I, the Executioner
  • Boy
  • Double Suicide
  • Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
  • Take Care, Red Riding Hood
  • Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
  • Kaoyaku
  • Wet Sand in August
  • Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
  • Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market
  • The Castle of Cagliostro
  • Kagemusha
  • Crazy Thunder Road
  • Crazed Fruit
  • Furuyashiki: A Japanese Village
  • P. P. Rider
  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
  • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
  • Love Hotel
  • Ran
  • No More Comics!
  • Castle in the Sky
  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man
  • Moving