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Bfi's the Best Japanese Film of Every Year – From 1925 to Now - Page 2

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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A Fugitive From the Past (1965)
A Fugitive From the Past (1965)
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Silence Has No Wings (1966)
Silence Has No Wings (1966)
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Branded to Kill (1967)
Branded to Kill (1967)
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Death by Hanging (1968)
Death by Hanging (1968)
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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
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Eros + Massacre (1969)
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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
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The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
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Sandakan No. 8 (1974)
Sandakan No. 8 (1974)
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The Shiranui Sea (1975)
The Shiranui Sea (1975)
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The Watcher in the Attic (1979)
The Watcher in the Attic (1979)
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The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
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The Demon (1978)
The Demon (1978)
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The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
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Zigeunerweisen (1980)
Zigeunerweisen (1980)
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Muddy River (1981)
Muddy River (1981)
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I Are You, You Am Me (1982)
I Are You, You Am Me (1982)
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The Family Game (1983)
The Family Game (1983)
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The Funeral (1984)
The Funeral (1984)
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Fire Festival (1985)
Fire Festival (1985)
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To Sleep So as to Dream (1986)
To Sleep So as to Dream (1986)
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The Emperor's Naked Army Marches on (1987)
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches on (1987)
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Akira (1988)
Akira (1988)
Rotten Tomatoes®   90%
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
Rotten Tomatoes®   82%
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The Cherry Orchard (1990)
The Cherry Orchard (1990)
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Only Yesterday (1991)
Only Yesterday (1991)
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Porco Rosso (1992)
Porco Rosso (1992)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
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Sonatine (1993)
Sonatine (1993)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
70
Katatsumori (1994)
Katatsumori (1994)
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Like Grains of Sand (1995)
Like Grains of Sand (1995)
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Shall We Dance? (1996)
Shall We Dance? (1996)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
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Cure (1997)
Cure (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
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Ringu (1998)
Ringu (1998)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
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Audition (1999)
Audition (1999)
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Eureka (2000)
Eureka (2000)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
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Spirited Away (2001)
Spirited Away (2001)
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The Twilight Samurai (2002)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
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Wild Berries (2003)
Wild Berries (2003)
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Nobody Knows (2004)
Nobody Knows (2004)
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