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1920-1940′s

• Orochi (Buntaro Futagawa, 1925)
• A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)
• Tange Sazen (Sadao Yamanaka, 1935)
• Humanity And Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka, 1937)

1950′s

• ✔ Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
• ✔ Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)
• ✔ Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
• ✔ Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
• Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
• Godzilla (Ishiro Honda, 1954)
• Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955)
• The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)
• Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahira, 1956)
• Ballad of Narayama (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1958)
• Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa, 1959)
• The Human Condition (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959-1961)

1960′s

• The Sun’s Burial (Nagisa Oshima, 1960)
• ✔ Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)
• The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo, 1960)
• Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
• Miyamoto Musashi (Tomu Uchida, 1961-1965)
• Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
• Detective Bureau 2-3 (Seijun Suzuki, 1963)
• Thirteen Assassins (1963, Eiichi Kudo)
• An Actor’s Revenge (Kon Ichikawa, 1963)
• Assassination (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964)
• ✔ Endless Desire (Shohei Imamura, 1964)
• Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964)
• Three Outlaw Samurai (Hideo Gosha, 1964)
• Kwaidan (Masaki Kabayashi, 1964)
• Zatoichi: Flashing Sword (Kazuo Ikehiro, 1964)
• Seisaku’s wife (Yasuzo Masumura, 1965)
• Sword Devil (Kenji Misumi, 1965)
• Life of a Tattooed Man (Seijun Suzuki, 1965)
• Sugata Sanshiro (Seiichiro Uchikawa, 1965)
• The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura, 1966)
• ✔ The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966)
• The Ivory Tower (Satsuo Yamamoto, 1966)
• Red Angel (Yasuzo Masumura, 1966)
• Tange Sazen (Hideo Gosha, 1966)
• ✔ Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966)
• The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)
• ✔ Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967)
• Japan’s Longest Day (Kihachi Okamoto, 1967)
• Nemuri Kyoshiro: Mask of the Princess (Akira Inoue, 1967)
• ✔ Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
• The Desert Archipelago (1969, Katsu Kanai)
• Go, Go Second Time Virgin (Koji Wakamatsu, 1969)
• Hitokiri (1969, Hideo Gosha)

1970′s

• The Man Who Left His Will On Film (Nagisa Oshima, 1970)
• Eros + Massacre (Kiju Yoshida, 1970)
• The Ambitious (Daisuke Ito, 1970)
• The Wolves (Hideo Gosha, 1971)
• Shura (Toshio Matsumoto, 1971)
• ✔ Throw Away Your Books, Rally into the Streets (S.Terayama, 1971)
• The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima, 1971)
• Female Convict Scorpion (Shunya Ito, 1972)
• Babycart At The River Styx (Kenji Misumi, 1972)
• Ecstasy of the Angels (Koji Wakamatsu, 1972)
• ✔ Battle Without Honor (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973)
• Bohachi (Teruo Ishii, 1973)
• Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita, 1973)
• Coup d’Etat (Kiju Yoshida, 1973)
• Sex & Fury (Norifumi Suzuki, 1974)
• Last Samurai (Kenji Misumi, 1974)
• Graveyard of Honor (Kinji Fukasaku, 1975)
• ✔ House (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)
• The Man Who Stole The Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa, 1979)
• Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura, 1979)

1980′s

• The Beast to Die (Toru Murakawa, 1980)
• Crazy Thunder Road (Sogo Ishii, 1980)
• Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (Shinji Somai, 1981)
• ✔ The Crazy Family (Sogo Ishii, 1984)
• Farewell to the Ark (Shuji Terayama, 1984)
• Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1985)
• The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara, 1987)
• ✔ Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
• Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
• Noisy Requiem (Yoshihiko Matsui, 1988)
• ✔ Tetsuo (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989)

1990′s

• ✔ Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, 1993)
• Kamikaze Taxi (Masato Harada, 1995)
• A quiet Life (Juzo Itami, 1995)
• ✔ Gonin (Takashi Ishii, 1995)
• ✔ Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1995)
• Tokyo Fist (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1995)
• Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda, 1995)
• ✔ Swallowtail Butterfly (Shunji Iwai, 1996)
• ✔ Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano, 1997)
• ✔ Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)
• ✔ Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1998)
• Porno Star (Toshiaki Toyoda, 1998)
• ✔ Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)

2000′s

• ✔ Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000)
• Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
• ✔ Kairo (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
• ✔ Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
• ✔ Shara (Naomi Kawase, 2003)
• ✔ Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa, 2004)
• ✔ Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006)