The Film-Lover's Check List: Kinema Junpo's Top Films of All Time

Kinema Junpo's Top 118 Japanese Films of All Time (1999 list)

1.	The Seven Samurai (1954)
2.	Floating Clouds (1955)
3.	Straits of Hunger (1965)
4.	Tokyo Story (1953)
5.	The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957)
6.	Rashomon (1950)
7.	Intentions of Murder (1964)
8.	The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
9.	Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
10.	Ugetsu (1953)
11.	Ikiru (1952)
12.	Life of Oharu (1952)
13.	Vacuum Zone (1952)
14.	Harakiri (1962)
15.	The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
16.	My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
17.	Muddy River (1981)
18.	Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
19.	The Rickshaw Man (1958)
20.	Yojimbo (1961)
21.	Fall Guy (1982)
22.	Boy (1969)
23.	All Under the Moon (1993)
24.	Early Summer (1951)
25.	Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
26.	The Family Game (1983)
27.	The Castle of Sand (1974)
28.	Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
29.	The Human Condition I (1959)
	The Human Condition II (1959)
	The Human Condition III (1961)
30.	Till We Meet Again (1950)
31.	Sayuri Ichijo: Following Desire (1972)
32.	Foundry Town (1962)
33.	Fighting Elegy (1966)
34.	The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
35.	Shall We Dance? (1996)
36.	The Insect Woman (1963)
37.	Meoto Zenzai (1955)
38.	Begging For Love (1998)
39.	The Woman With Red Hair (1979)

40.	Distant Thunder (1981)
41.	Jingi No Hakaba (1975)
42.	Sonatine (1993)
43.	High and Low (1963)
44.	Japan's Longest Day (1967)
45.	Night and Fog In Japan (1960)
46.	The Emperor's Naked Army Marches (1987)
47.	Ryuji (1983)
48.	The Ball At the Anjo House (1947)
49.	Her Brother (1960)
50.	The Hidden Fortress (1958)
51.	The Thirteen Assassins (1963)
52.	Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)
53.	Princess Mononoke (1997)
54.	Aoi Sanmyaku (1963)
55.	Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
56.	Kizzu Ritan (1996)
57.	The Cherry Orchard (1990)
58.	Young Murderer (1976)
59.	Taifu Club (1985)
60.	Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935)
61.	Angel Guts: Red Classroom (1979)
62.	Ballad of Narayama (1958)
63.	She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
64.	Zen and Sword (1961)
	Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown At Hannyazaka Heights (1962)
	Two-Sword Fencing Is Born (1963)
	Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel At Ichijoji (1964)
	Duel At Ganrule Isle (1965)
65.	The Assassination of Ryoma (1974)
66.	Street of Shame (1956)
67.	Red Beard (1965)
68.	Station (1981)
69.	Twisted Path of Youth (1973)
70.	Third Base (1978)
71.	Makioka Sisters (1983)
72.	Sanrizuka: Heta Buraku (1973)
73.	Seishun No Satetsu (1974)
74.	A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
75.	Something Like It (1981)
76.	The Island (1960)

77.	The Chase (1958)
78.	Two In the Shadow (1967)
79.	The Rendezvous (1972)
80.	The Beast To Die (1980)
81.	In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
82.	Aka Chochin (1974)
83.	Capricious Young Man (1936)
84.	The Devil's Ballad (1977)
85.	Lightning (1952)
86.	Singing Lovebirds (1939)
87.	The Funeral (1984)
88.	Kagemusha (1980)
89.	House On Fire (1986)
90.	Carmen Comes Home (1951)
91.	Kike wadatsumi no koe: Nippon senbotsu gakusei shuki (1950)
92.	Cure (1997)
93.	One Man of the Gambler's Code (1966)
94.	Throne of Blood (1957)
95.	Crazed Fruit (1956)
96.	A Last Note (1995)
97.	An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
98.	Jirocho Sangokushi: Jirocho To Ishimatsu (1953)
99.	Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1968)
100.	Woman In the Dunes (1964)
101.	One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
102.	Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
103.	W's Tragedy (1984)
104.	A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1927)
105.	Zigeunerweisen (1980)
106.	Sanjuro (1962)
107.	Ghost Story of Yotsuya (1959)
108.	Knockout (1989)
109.	The Human Bullet (1968)
110.	Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
111.	A Man Vanishes (1967)
112.	Wet Sand In August (1971)
113.	The River Fuefuki (1960)
114.	Pigs and Battleships (1961)
115.	Darkness At Noon (1956)
116.	Repast (1951)
117.	Drunken Angel (1948)
118.	The Girl I Abandoned (1969)

Kinema Junpo's Top 199 Japanese Films of All Time (2009 list)

1.	Tokyo Story (1953)
2.	The Seven Samurai (1954)
3.	Floating Clouds (1955)
4.	The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957)
5.	The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
6.	Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
7.	Rashomon (1950)
8.	Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935)
9.	The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
10.	The Family Game (1983)
11.	Stray Dog (1949)
12.	Taifu Club (1985)
13.	Ikiru (1952)
14.	Suzaki Paradise Red Light (1956)
15.	High and Low (1963)
16.	Straits of Hunger (1965)
17.	Harakiri (1962)
18.	Intentions of Murder (1964)
19.	Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
20.	The Castle of Sand (1974)
21.	Seishun No Satetsu (1974)
22.	Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (1984)
23.	Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
24.	Yojimbo (1961)
25.	Fighting Elegy (1966)
26.	Fall Guy (1982)
27.	3-4 X Jugatsu (1990)
28.	Ugetsu (1953)
29.	Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)
30.	She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
31.	Flowing (1956)
32.	Samurai Vendetta: A Chronicle of Pale Cherry Blossoms (1959)
33.	Branded To Kill (1967)
34.	Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
35.	Zigeunerweisen (1980)
36.	Here's To the Girls (1949)
37.	The Ball At the Anjo House (1947)
38.	Late Spring (1949)
39.	Till We Meet Again (1950)
40.	Life of Oharu (1952)
41.	A Bloody Spear On Mount Fuji (1955)
42.	The Lower Depths (1957)
43.	The Chase (1958)
44.	Floating Weeds (1959)
45.	Good Morning (1959)
46.	Desperado Outpost (1959)
47.	Her Brother (1960)
48.	Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
49.	The Graceful Brute (1962)
50.	The Yakuza Papers: Proxy War (1973)
51.	The Wanderers (1973)
52.	Young Murderer (1976)
53.	Muddy River (1981)
54.	The Funeral (1984)
55.	Fire Festival (1985)
56.	My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
57.	Cure (1997)
58.	Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
59.	I Was Born, But... (1932)
60.	What Did the Lady Forget? (1937)
61.	Singing Lovebirds (1939)
62.	The Life of Matsu the Untamed (1943)
63.	Carmen Comes Home (1951)
64.	The Human Condition I (1959)
65.	The Human Condition III (1961)
66.	The Human Condition II (1959)

67.	The Human Vapor (1960)
68.	Sanjuro (1962)
69.	The Insect Woman (1963)
70.	Pale Flower (1964)
71.	Yearning (1964)
72.	Tokyo Drifter (1966)
73.	Japan's Longest Day (1967)
74.	Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
75.	The Human Bullet (1968)
76.	Big Time Gambling Boss (1968)
77.	I, the Executioner (1968)
78.	Boy (1969)
79.	Double Suicide (1969)
80.	Tora-San, Our Lovable Tramp (1969)
81.	Take Care, Red Riding Hood (1970)
82.	Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return (1970)
83.	Kaoyaku (1971)
84.	Wet Sand In August (1971)
85.	Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers (1972)
86.	Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market (1974) [tt0071818]
87.	The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
88.	Kagemusha (1980)
89.	Crazy Thunder Road (1980)
90.	Crazed Fruit (1981)
91.	Nippon-Koku Furuyashiki-Mura (1987)
92.	P. P. Rider (1983)
93.	Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
94.	The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
95.	Love Hotel (1985)
96.	Ran (1985)
97.	Comic Magazine (1986)
98.	Laputa: Castle In the Sky (1986)
99.	Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
100.	Moving (1993)
101.	Sonatine (1993)
102.	Kizzu Ritan (1996)
103.	Kureyon Shin-Chan: Arashi Wo Yobu - Mouretsu! Otona Teikoku No Gyakushuu (2001)
104.	Twilight Samurai (2002)
105.	Bright Future (2003)
106.	Ramblers (2003)
107.	Summer Days With Coo (2007)
108.	A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1927)
109.	Capricious Young Man (1936)
110.	Sisters of the Gion (1936)
111.	The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
112.	Judo Saga (1943)
113.	Ware Maboroshi No Sakana O Mitari (1950)
114.	Early Summer (1951)
115.	Lightning (1952)
116.	Mother (1952)
117.	Jirocho Sangokushi: Nagurikomi Kojinyama (1952)
118.	Godzilla (1954)
119.	Street of Shame (1956)
120.	Crazed Fruit (1956)
121.	Throne of Blood (1957)
122.	Tokyo Twilight (1957)
123.	Washi To Taka (1957)
124.	Conflagration (1958)
125.	The Hidden Fortress (1958)
126.	Ghost Story of Yotsuya (1959)
127.	Late Autumn (1960)
128.	When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
129.	Hito Mo Arubeka (1960)
130.	Ten Dark Women (1961)
131.	The Last War (1961)
132.	A Wife Confesses (1961)

133.	Foundry Town (1962)
134.	Kiru (1962)
135.	The Sin (1962)
136.	The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963)
137.	The Thirteen Assassins (1963)
138.	Woman In the Dunes (1964)
139.	Red Beard (1965)
140.	Seisaku's Wife (1965)
141.	Story of a Prostitute (1965)
142.	A Certain Killer (1967)
143.	Velvet Hustler (1967)
144.	A Colt Is My Passport (1967)
145.	Go, Go You Who Are a Virgin For the Second Time (1969)
146.	Violent Virgin (1969)
147.	Dodes'ka-den (1970)
148.	Hakucyu No Syugeki (1970)
149.	Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1972)
150.	The Morning Schedule (1972)
151.	Akai Tori Nigeta? (1973)
152.	Tora-San's Forget Me Not (1973)
153.	Sanrizuka: Heta Buraku (1973)
154.	Street of Joy (1974)
155.	Shiranui Sea (1975)
156.	Jingi No Hakaba (1975)
157.	Preparation For the Festival (1975)
158.	In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
159.	Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
160.	House (1977)
161.	The Devil's Ballad (1977)
162.	Shinjuku Midaregai: Ikumade Matte (1977)
163.	Mount Hakkoda (1977)
164.	Rape! 13th Hour (1977)
165.	Third Base (1978)
166.	Shoujo Shofu: Kemonomichi (1980)
167.	Station (1981)
168.	Attacked Women (1981)
169.	Angel Guts: Red Porno (1981)
170.	Something Like It (1981)
171.	The Imperial Navy (1981)
172.	The Aimed School (1981)
173.	Burst City (1982)
174.	Makioka Sisters (1983)
175.	Inujini Sesi Mono (1986)
176.	The Sea and Poison (1986)
177.	Sono Otoko, Kyobo Ni Tsuki (1989)
178.	The Sting of Death (1990)
179.	A Scene At the Sea (1991)
180.	The Rocking Horsemen (1992)
181.	Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
182.	All Under the Moon (1993)
183.	Shall We Dance? (1996)
184.	Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment (1996)
185.	Gakko III (1998)
186.	Face (2000)
187.	Kaza-Hana (2000)
188.	Swing Girls (2004)
189.	Nobody Knows (2004)
190.	The Reason (2004)
191.	Break Through! (2004)
192.	Who's Camus, Anyway? (2005)
193.	Memories of Matsuko (2006)
194.	Hula Girls (2006)
195.	What the Snow Brings (2005)
196.	Departures (2008)
197.	All Around Us (2008)
198.	Children of the Dark (2008)
199.	Mesunekotachi No Yoru (1972)

Kinema Junpo's Top Anime Films of All Time

1.	The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
2.	Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (1984)
3.	My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
4.	Kureyon Shin-Chan: Arashi Wo Yobu - Mouretsu! Otona Teikoku No Gyakushuu (2001)
5.	Akira (1988)
6.	The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (1969)
7.	Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (1984)
	Little Norse Prince (1968)
	Panda and the Magic Serpent (1958)
10.	Summer Days With Coo (2007)
	Summer Wars (2009)
	Laputa: Castle In the Sky (1986)
	Grave of the Fireflies (1988)