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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Takashi Shimura, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Masaki Kobayashi • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentaro Mikuni, Shima Iwashita
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Foreign Language Film
3
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
4
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura
Action • Drama • Ensemble Film
5
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katô
Action • Adventure • Costume Adventure
6
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Minoru Chiaki
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
7
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
8
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-Shakespeare
9
Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi
Adventure • Animation • Anime
10
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Action • Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama
11
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Foreign Language Film
12
Kenji Mizoguchi • Starring: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka
Costume Romance • Drama • Fantasy
13
Isao Takahata • Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara
Animation • Anime • Drama
14
Hiroshi Teshigahara • Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida, Hiroko Ito
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
15
Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Sumi Shimamoto, Ichirô Nagai, Mahito Tsujimura
16
Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Rumi Hîragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki
17
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Chishu Ryu
18
Kenji Mizoguchi • Starring: Kyoko Kagawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Period Film
19
Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka
20
Katsuhiro Ôtomo • Starring: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Tesshô Genda
Action • Animation • Anime
21
Satoshi Kon • Starring: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji
Animation • Anime • Crime Thriller
22
Makoto Shinkai • Starring: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Masami Nagasawa
Animation • Anime • Coming-of-Age
23
Masaki Kobayashi • Starring: Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Keiko Kishi
Anthology Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror
24
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi • Starring: Kimiko Ikegami, Kumiko Ohba, Yôko Minamida
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy • Fantasy Comedy
25
Kinji Fukasaku • Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Chiaki Kuriyama, Aki Maeda
Action Thriller • Action • Dystopian Film
26
Kaneto Shindô • Starring: Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura
Costume Horror • Drama • Folk Horror
27
Satoshi Kon • Starring: Toru Furuya, Akio Ohtsuka, Hideyuki Tanaka
28
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyoko Kagawa
Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama • Foreign Language Film
29
Ishirô Honda • Starring: Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Horror
30
Masaki Kobayashi • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima .
Anti-War Film • Drama • Foreign Language Film
31
Kihachi Okamoto • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama, Michiyo Aratama
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
32
Takashi Miike • Starring: Ryo Ishibashi, Miyuki Matsuda, Eihi Shiina
Foreign Language Film • Horror • Sadistic Horror
33
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Ayako Wakao
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
34
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Akira Terao, Mitsunori Isaki, Chishu Ryu
Adventure • Anthology Film • Drama
35
Masaki Kobayashi • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Takeshi Kato
Action Thriller • Drama • Foreign Language Film
36
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada
37
Masaki Kobayashi • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura
38
Takashi Miike • Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Susumu Terajima
Based-on-Comics • Based-on-Manga • Black Comedy
39
Masaki Kobayashi • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Keiji Sada
Anti-War Film • Combat Films • Drama
40
Seijun Suzuki • Starring: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani
Action • Crime Thriller • Crime
41
Kenji Mizoguchi • Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
42
Isao Takahata • Starring: Aki Asakura, Kengo Kora, Takeo Chii
43
Kaneto Shindô • Starring: Kichiemon Nakamura, Kiwako Taichi, Kei Sato
Costume Horror • Folk Horror • Foreign Language Film
44
Seijun Suzuki • Starring: Jo Shishido, Mariko Ogawa, Anne Mari
45
Takeshi Kitano • Starring: Tetsu Watanabe, Susumu Terajima, Takeshi Kitano
Action Thriller • Action • Crime
46
Kon Ichikawa • Starring: Jun Hamamura, Rentaro Mikuni, Shôji Yasui
47
Hiroshi Inagaki • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Kuroemon Onoe
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story
48
Kenji Misumi • Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Fumio Watanabe, Akihiro Tomikawa
Action • Based-on-Comics • Based-on-Manga
49
Hideo Nakata • Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Foreign Language Film • Ghost Film
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Hiroshi Teshigahara • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijiro Hira, Kyoko Kishida
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Japanese New Wave
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