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Bfi's the Best Japanese Film of Every Year – From 1925 to Now

This approach brings drawbacks of its own, of course. If there's generally at least one great film to be discovered in any given year, there are also vintages where the agony of selection just proves unpleasant. 1936, 1953, most years of the early 1960s, 1985 and 1997 were all especially headache-inducing, whereas 1954 has some claim to being any nation's greatest ever cinematic year. To choose between Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Kenji Mizoguchi's Sansho Dayu – to say nothing of Mizoguchi's Chikamatsu Monogatari, Mikio Naruse's Sound of the Mountain and Late Chrysanthemums, Keisuke Kinoshita's Twenty-Four Eyes, Heinosuke Gosho's An Inn at Osaka and the first part of Hiroshi Inagaki's samurai trilogy – is a Sophie's choice made only more ludicrous in that it's one we set ourselves. This was also the mighty year that a certain atomic reptile first emerged out of Tokyo Bay, for Godzilla's sake.
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Orochi (1925)
Orochi (1925)
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A Page of Madness (1926)
A Page of Madness (1926)
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A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1927)
A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1927)
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Crossroads (1928)
Crossroads (1928)
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Days of Youth (1929)
Days of Youth (1929)
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What Made Her Do It? (1930)
What Made Her Do It? (1930)
7
The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1931)
The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1931)
8
I Was Born, But..... (1932)
I Was Born, But..... (1932)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
9
Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933)
Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933)
10
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (1934)
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (1934)
11
Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
Rotten Tomatoes®   80%
12
Sisters of the Gion (1936)
Sisters of the Gion (1936)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
13
Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
14
Fallen Blossoms (1938)
Fallen Blossoms (1938)
15
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
16
Spring on Leper's Island (1940)
Spring on Leper's Island (1940)
17
Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
18
The War at Sea From Hawaii to Malaya (1942)
The War at Sea From Hawaii to Malaya (1942)
19
The Life of Matsu the Untamed (1943)
The Life of Matsu the Untamed (1943)
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Army (1944)
Army (1944)
21
Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors (1945)
Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors (1945)
22
Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
23
The Ball at the Anjo House (1947)
The Ball at the Anjo House (1947)
24
Children of the Beehive (1948)
Children of the Beehive (1948)
25
Late Spring (1949)
Late Spring (1949)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
26
Rashomon (1950)
Rashomon (1950)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
27
Repast (1951)
Repast (1951)
28
The Life of Oharu (1952)
The Life of Oharu (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
29
Tokyo Story (1953)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
30
Seven Samurai (1954)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
31
The Eternal Breasts (1955)
The Eternal Breasts (1955)
32
Crazed Fruit (1956)
Crazed Fruit (1956)
33
A Sun-Tribe Myth From the Bakumatsu Era (1957)
A Sun-Tribe Myth From the Bakumatsu Era (1957)
34
Giants and Toys (1958)
Giants and Toys (1958)
35
Fires on the Plain (1959)
Fires on the Plain (1959)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
36
The Naked Island (1960)
The Naked Island (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
37
Bad Boys (1961)
Bad Boys (1961)
38
Harakiri (1962)
Harakiri (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
39
The Insect Woman (1963)
The Insect Woman (1963)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
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Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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