Japanese Cinema
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Let's talk about the progression of the Japanese film industry and create a list of what films you need to watch to understand its progression.
Here's my temp list.
I was Born, but... - Ozu Yasujiro (1932)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums - Mizoguchi Kenji (1936)
Army - Kinoshita Keisuke (1944)
Late Spring - Ozu Yasujiro (1949)
Rashamon - Kurosawa Akira (1950)
Sansho The Bailiff - Mizoguchi Kenji (1954)
Crazed Fruit - Nakahira Ko (1956)
Black River - Kobayashi Masaki (1956)
The Ballad of Narayama - Kinoshita Keisuke (1958)
The Warped Ones - Kurahara Koreyoshi (1960)
Cruel Story of Youth - Oshima Nagisa (1960)
Yojimbo - Kurosawa Akira (1961)
Harakiri - Kobayashi Masaki (1962)
Youth of the Beast - Suzuki Seijun (1963)
Pale Flower - Sinoda Masahiro (1964)
Woman in the Dunes - Teshigahara Hiroshi (1964)
Branded to Kill - Suzuki Seijun
Profound Desire of the Gods - Imamura Shohei (1968)
Death By Hanging - Oshima Nagisa (1968)
Heroic Purgatory - Yoshida Yoshishige (1970)
The Ceremony - Oshima Nagisa (1971)
Coup D'etat - Yoshida Yoshishige (1973)
Empire of Passion - Oshima Nagisa (1978)
Vengeance is Mine - Imamura Shohei (1979)
Ballad of Narayama - Imamura Shohei (1983)
Ran - Kurosawa Akira (1985)
Madadayo - Kurosawa Akira (1993)
Sonatine - Kitano Takeshi (1993)
This board is reserved for star wars. Take your pretentious shit and go to /lit/
Why do they act like anime characters? or why do anime characters act like japanese actors?
>>64065596
For Kurosawa you have to include drunken angel it started yakuza film.
I'd also add
>tetsuo the iron man
>noroi
As important parts of japanese cinema. The Japanese horror genre is among the best in the world. I think those two films transcend the genre for different reasons.
書を捨てよ町へ出よう (寺山, 1971)
少女革命ウテナ アドゥレセンス黙示録 (幾原, 1999)
I don't wanna by that guy but you should probably include Akira, GITS or a Ghibli film.
>>64066616
I don't know Chinese
>>64065596
I would be willing to participate in this thread except for the churn of /tv/. This is a thread which would require about 4 days to truly blossom, and it can't, so why bother?
needs representation of golden age horror
>>64066698
In addition to this, you need at least one Godzilla movie on there. These may not be great movies in themselves, but they have a lot of cultural importance.
Why is japanese cinema dead? The only modern directors I can think of are Takeshi Miike and Sion Sono and even those guys haven't done anything above the ordinary besides maybe Love Exposure.
