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Akira Kurosawa’s 100 Favorite Films

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Before his death in 1998, famed Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa discussed his top 100 films with his daughter, Kazuo. Kurosawa limited himself to one title per director, giving a unique perspective on the best world directors and his personal favorites.

This list and discussion was published in Chapter 3 of A DREAM IS A GENIUS, ISBN 4-16-355570. Edited by Bungeishunju. © 1999 Translated by Noriyo Hoozawa-Arkenau, “Please excuse any errors, English is not Mr Hoozawa-Arkenau’s native tongue. [...] I hope that readers will still enjoy Kurosawa’s comments.”
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Movies on Akira Kurosawa’s 100 Favorite Films List
Rank	Title	Director(s)	Year Released
1	Broken Blossoms	D.W. Griffith	1919
2	Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The	Robert Wiene	1920
3	Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler	Fritz Lang	1922
4	Gold Rush, The	Charlie Chaplin	1925
5	Fall of the House of Usher, The	Jean Epstein	1928
6	Un Chien Andalou	Luis Buñuel	1929
7	Morocco	Josef von Sternberg	1930
8	Congress Dances, The	Erik Charell	1931
9	3 Penny Opera, The	G.W. Pabst	1931
10	Lover Divine	Willi Forst	1933
11	Thin Man, The	W.S. Van Dyke	1934
12	Our Neighbor, Miss Yae	Yasujirô Shimazu	1934
13	Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo	Sadao Yamanaka	1935
14	Akanishi Kakita	Mansaku Itami	1936
15	Grand Illusion	Jean Renoir	1937
16	Stella Dallas	King Vidor	1937
17	Composition Class	Kajirô Yamamoto	1938
18	Earth	Tomu Uchida	1939
19	Ninotchka	Ernst Lubitsch	1939
20	Ivan the Terrible, Part I	Sergei Eisenstein	1944
21	Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot	Sergei Eisenstein	1958
22	My Darling Clementine	John Ford	1946
23	It's a Wonderful Life	Frank Capra	1946
24	Big Sleep, The	Howard Hawks	1946
25	Bicycle Thieves	Vittorio De Sica	1948
26	Blue Mountains: Part I, The	Tadashi Imai	1949
27	Third Man, The	Carol Reed	1949
28	Late Spring	Yasujirō Ozu	1949
29	Orpheus	Jean Cocteau	1950
30	Carmen Comes Home	Keisuke Kinoshita	1951
31	Streetcar Named Desire, A	Elia Kazan	1951
32	Thérèse Raquin	Marcel Carné	1953
33	Life of Oharu, The	Kenji Mizoguchi	1952
34	Journey to Italy	Roberto Rossellini	1954
35	Godzilla	Ishirō Honda	1954
36	La Strada	Federico Fellini	1954
37	Floating Clouds	Mikio Naruse	1955
38	Pather Panchali	Satyajit Ray	1955
39	Daddy Long Legs	Jean Negulesco	1955
40	Proud Ones, The	Robert D. Webb	1956
41	Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era, A	Yuzo Kawashima	1957
42	Young Lions, The	Edward Dmytryk	1958
43	Cousins, The	Claude Chabrol	1959
44	400 Blows, The	François Truffaut	1959
45	Breathless	Jean-Luc Godard	1960
46	Ben-Hur	William Wyler	1959
47	Her Brother	Kon Ichikawa	1960
48	Long Absence, The	Henri Colpi	1961
49	Stowaway in the Sky	Albert Lamorisse	1960
50	Purple Noon	René Clément	1960
51	Zazie dans le Métro	Louis Malle	1960
52	Last Year at Marienbad	Alain Resnais	1961
53	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	Robert Aldrich	1962
54	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	1962
55	Any Number Can Win	Henri Verneuil	1963
56	Birds, The	Alfred Hitchcock	1963
57	Red Desert	Michelangelo Antonioni	1964
58	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Mike Nichols	1966
59	Bonnie and Clyde	Arthur Penn	1967
60	In the Heat of the Night	Norman Jewison	1967