Kinema Junpo is a Japanese film magazine that started in 1919. Every decade they compile the top 100 or so Japanese films of all time. This is the top 100 from the list published in 2009. Note: because of how they did the tiers, I will include all 198 films.
Oddly after the first 25 or so films, the group the list into tiers beginning with the earliest films and working towards more recent films. After each tier this process starts again. So all the films they have selected will be entered here.
sleestakk has logged 66 out of 198 movies in Kinema Junpo's Top Japanese Films. Back to Lists Overview.
| Rank | Title | Director(s) | Year Released | Watched | Viewed On |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | Ugetsu | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1953 | Yes | 04/21/2009 |
| 27 | Boiling Point | Takeshi Kitano | 1990 | No | N/A |
| 26 | Fall Guy | Kinji Fukasaku | 1982 | Yes | 08/10/2014 |
| 25 | Fighting Elegy | Seijun Suzuki | 1966 | Yes | 01/16/2016 |
| 24 | Yojimbo | Akira Kurosawa | 1961 | Yes | 06/19/2016 |
| 23 | Humanity and Paper Balloons | Sadao Yamanaka | 1937 | No | N/A |
| 22 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Hayao Miyazaki | 1984 | Yes | 07/11/2023 |
| 21 | Bitterness of Youth | Tatsumi Kumashiro | 1974 | No | N/A |
| 20 | Castle of Sand, The | Yoshitaro Nomura | 1974 | No | N/A |
| 19 | Tokyo Olympiad | Kon Ichikawa | 1965 | No | N/A |