All time best Japanese movies. All time best live-action Japanese movies. Anime deserves a separate list, which is here.
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Seven Samurai (1954)
Aka Shichinin no samurai.
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times.
Rashomon (1950)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Ikiru (1952)
Tôkyô monogatari (1953)
Sanshô dayû (1954)
Kumonosu jô (1957)
Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (1958)
Yojimbo (1961)
Seppuku (1962)
Sanjuro (1962)
Tengoku to jigoku (1963)
Lady Snowblood (1973)
Bodigaado Kiba (1973)
The Street Fighter (1974)
Return of the Street Fighter (1974)
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf (1979)
Shogun Assassin (1980)
Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984)
Tampopo (1985)
Ran (1985)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Hotaru no haka (1988)
Akira (1988)
Tonari no Totoro (1988)
Violent Cop (1989)
Kôkaku kidôtai (1995)
Shall We Dansu? (1996)
Perfect Blue (1997)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
After Life (1998)
Brother (2000)
Koroshiya 1 (2001)
Suicide Club (2001)
Visitor Q (2001)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004)
Paprika (2006)
Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)
Okuribito (2008)
Love Exposure (2008)
THE BORROWERS 2010
CONFESSIONS 2010
KISEKI aka I WISH 2011
LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (ABBAS KIAROSTAMI, 2012)
THE LAND OF HOPE 2012
Like Father, Like Son (2013)
13 ASSASSINS
TOKYO Family 2013
THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA
ISAO TAKAHATA, 2013
WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE 2014
OUR LITTLE SISTER 2015
THE BOY AND THE BEAST 2015
MISS HOKUSAI 2015
HAPPY HOUR 2015
HARMONIUM
Kimi no na wa (2016)
AFTER THE STORM 2016
Koe no katachi (2016)
ONE CUT OF THE DEAD 2017
Shoplifters (2018)
