Me gustó mucho esta lista en su momento, aunque no comparta algunas entradas (que sospecho más ideológicas que otra cosa). Especialmente sangrante la de 1969, un año repleto de películas formidables (Portrait of Hell, Blind Beast, Goyokin, Hitokiri, Tengu-to...). En cualquier caso ahí queda por si alguien no la conoce y le resulta útil.
From Kurosawa to Koreeda, we make some tough choices about the finest film of every year of Japanese film history going back to 1925.
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1925: Orochi, de Buntaro Futagawa
1926: A Page of Madness, de Teinosuke Kinugasa
1927: A Diary of Chuji’s Travels, de Daisuke Ito
1928: Crossroads, de Teinosuke Kinugasa
1929: Days of Youth, de Yasujiro Ozu
1930: What Made Her Do It?, de Shigeyoshi Suzuki
1931: The Neighbour’s Wife and Mine, de Heinosuke Gosho
1932: I Was Born, But…, de Yasujiro Ozu
1933: Japanese Girls at the Harbour, de Hiroshi Shimizu
1934: Our Neighbour, Miss Yae, de Yasujiro Shimazu
1935: Wife! Be like a Rose!, de Mikio Naruse
1936: Sisters of the Gion, de Kenji Mizoguchi
1937: Humanity and Paper Balloons, de Sadao Yamanaka
1938: Fallen Blossoms, de Tamizo Ishida
1939: The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, de Kenji Mizoguchi
1940: Spring on Leper’s Island, de Shiro Toyoda
1941: Ornamental Hairpin, de Hiroshi Shimizu
1942: The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya, de Kajiro Yamamoto
1943: The Life of Matsu the Untamed, de Hiroshi Inagaki
1944: Army, de Keisuke Kinoshita
1945: Momotaro, Sacred Sailors, de Mitsuyo Seo
1946: Utamaro and His Five Women, de Kenji Mizoguchi
1947: The Ball at the Anjo House, de Kozaburo Yoshimura
1948: Children of the Beehive, de Hiroshi Shimizu
1949: Late Spring de, Yasujiro Ozu
1950: Rashomon de, Akira Kurosawa
1951: Repast, de Mikio Naruse
1952: The Life of Oharu, de,Kenji Mizoguchi
1953: Tokyo Story, de Yasujiro Ozu
1954: Seven Samurai, de Akira Kurosawa
1955: The Eternal Breasts, de Kinuyo Tanaka
1956: Crazed Fruit, de Ko Nakahira
1957: A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era, de Yuzo Kawashima
1958: Giants and Toys, de Yasuzo Masumura
1959: Fires on the Plain, de Kon Ichikawa
1960: The Naked Island, de Kaneto Shindo
1961: Bad Boys, de Susumu Hani
1962: Harakiri, de Masaki Kobayashi
1963: The Insect Woman, de Shohei Imamura
1964: Woman of the Dunes, de Hiroshi Teshigahara
1965: A Fugitive from the Past, de Tomu Uchida
1966: Silence Has No Wings, de Kazuo Kuroki
1967: Branded to Kill, de Seijun Suzuki
1968: Death by Hanging, de Nagisa Oshima
1969: Funeral Parade of Roses, de Toshio Matsumoto
1970: Eros + Massacre, de Yoshishige Yoshida
1971: Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets de Shuji Terayama
1972: Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, de Shunya Ito
1973: Battles without Honour and Humanity, de Kinji Fukasaku
1974: Sandakan No. 8, de Kei Kumai
1975: The Shiranui Sea, de Noriaki Tsuchimoto
1976: Watcher in the Attic, de Noboru Tanaka
1977: The Yellow Handkerchief, de Yoji Yamada
1978: The Demon, de Yoshitaro Nomura
1979: The Man Who Stole the Sun, de Kazuhiko Hasegawa
1980: Zigeunerweisen, de Seijun Suzuki
1981: Muddy River, de Kohei Oguri
1982: I Are You, You Am Me, de Nobuhiko Obayashi
1983: The Family Game, de Yoshimitsu Morita
1984: The Funeral, de Juzo Itami
1985: Fire Festival, de Mitsuo Yanagimachi
1986: To Sleep So as to Dream, de Kaizo Hayashi
1987: The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On, de Kazuo Hara
1988: Akira, de Katsuhiro Otomo
1989: Tetsuo: The Iron Man, de Shinya Tsukamoto
1990: The Cherry Orchard, de Shun Nakahara
1991: Only Yesterday, de Isao Takahata
1992: Porco Rosso, de Hayao Miyazaki
1993: Sonatine, de Takeshi Kitano
1994: Katatsumori, de Naomi Kawase
1995: Like Grains of Sand, de Ryosuke Hashiguchi
1996: Shall We Dance?, de Masayuki Suo
1997: Cure, de Kiyoshi Kurosawa
1998: Ring, de Hideo Nakata
1999: Audition, de Takashi Miike
2000: Eureka, de Shinji Aoyama
2001: Spirited Away, de Hayao Miyazaki
2002: The Twilight Samurai, de Yoji Yamada
2003: Wild Berries, de Miwa Nishikawa
2004: Nobody Knows, de Hirokazu Koreeda
2005: Linda Linda Linda, de Nobuhiro Yamashita
2006: Paprika, de Satoshi Kon
2007: United Red Army, de Kôji Wakamatsu
2008: Love Exposure, de Sion Sono
2009: Summer Wars, de Mamoru Hosoda
2010: Villain, de Lee Sang-il
2011: I Wish, de Hirokazu Koreeda
2012: Flashback Memories 3D, de Tetsuaki Matsue
2013: Tale of Iya, de Tetsuichiro Tsuta
2014: The Light Shines Only There, de Mipo Oh
2015: Happy Hour, de Ryusuke Hamaguchi
2016: Harmonium, de Kôji Fukada
2017: Hanagatami, de Nobuhiko Obayashi
2018: Shoplifters, de Hirokazu Koreeda
2019: Domains, de Natsuka Kusano