• Late Autumn
  • The Scent of Green Papaya
  • In the Mood for Love
  • Tokyo Drifter
  • Sakuran

Direct My Art!

Great art direction in Asian cinema: some of these are cinematic masterpieces, others not so much. But all of them…

  • Late Autumn
  • Late Spring
  • Tokyo Chorus
  • Tokyo Story
  • The Only Son

A Ozu List

The top five movies by Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu

  • Sansho the Bailiff
  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • The Rickshaw Man
  • Tokyo Story
  • Rashomon

Japanese cinema of the 1950's - 10 films

The 10 essential films from one of the most fruitful periods of world cinema.

  • Citizen Kane
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Tokyo Story
  • Vertigo
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  • Sonatine
  • Rashomon
  • Sansho the Bailiff
  • Graveyard of Honor
  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Japanese Directors - 10 films

10 essential Japanese directors and they're must see films.

  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • The Kid
  • Sherlock Jr.
  • Greed
  • The Gold Rush
  • Floating Weeds
  • Tokyo Story
  • Late Spring
  • The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
  • An Autumn Afternoon
  • Late Spring
  • Equinox Flower
  • Early Summer
  • An Autumn Afternoon
  • Late Autumn
  • A Geisha
  • A Man Vanishes
  • A Scene at the Sea
  • A Taxing Woman
  • A Woman Called Sada Abe

best japanese films you may have seen (or not)

I'm a lover of Asian cinema as a result i ran my college anime club and spent 3 semesters in…

  • An Autumn Afternoon
  • Tokyo Story
  • Late Autumn
  • Early Summer
  • Late Spring

Yasujiro Ozu

I love everything about Ozu. From the titles he chooses to name his films with, his unique directing style, to…

  • Late Spring
  • Tokyo Story
  • A Story of Floating Weeds
  • Record of a Tenement Gentleman
  • I Was Born, But...

Ranked: Yasujiro Ozu

Edwin Davies
Edwin Davies 6 films

A ranked listing of the films of the great Yasujiro Ozu, starting from best to "worst."

List is based on…

  • Late Spring
  • When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
  • The Life of Oharu
  • Equinox Flower
  • Yearning

As I traversed across the landscape of Japanese cinema, I encountered three women who showed me grace and beauty in the face of adversity

They are Setsuko Hara, Hideko Takamine and Kinuyo Tanaka. May new film lovers continue to discover them.