JAPANESE CINEMA Kurosawa Rashomon (1950), m Ikuru (1952) Seven Samurai (1954) Yojimba (1961) m Kagemusha (1980) Ran

Ran (1985) I Was Born, But (1932) Story of Floating Weeds (1934) (R1, with re-make 17.64) An Inn in Tokyo (1935)1 There Was A Father (1942)2 Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) (+ Green Tea, 15 Sendit) Late Spring (1949) (+Early Summer, Tokyo Story, = Noriko Trilogy 18 Sendit) Early Summer (1951)3 R1 13 The Flavour of Green Tea over Rice (1952) Tokyo Story (1953)4 (R1, 17.40) Early Spring (1956) Tokyo Twilight (1957) (+ Equinox Fl, Good Morning, 28;) Equinox Flower (1958) Good Morning (1959) R1, 13.37 Floating Weeds (1959) Late Autumn (1960) End of Summer (1961) An Autumn Afternoon (1962) Onibaba (1964) Red Angel (1966) Lady of Musahino (1952) 13.49

Yasujiro Ozu

Kaneto Shind Yasuzo Masumura Kenji Mizoguchi

Hiroshi Teshigahara Pitfall (1962), 12.87 Woman in the Dunes (1964), n/a The Face of Another (1966), 12.87 Toshiya Fujita Kinji Fukasaku
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Lady Snowblood (1973)5 The Black Lizard (1968) The Green Slime (1968)

Ozus last silent film. This together with Late Spring and Tokyo Story were Ozus personal favourites among his films. 3 Use of house equalled only by Resnaiss Marienbad, Playtime and Tarkovskys Ivan the Terrible. From this period Ozu begins simplifying form 4 Use of ellipsis. 5 Major influence on Kill Bill.

Street Mobster (1972) The Yakuza Papers/Battles without Honour and Humanity (1973)6 Yakuza Graveyard (1976) Battle Royale (2000) Battle Royale II (200?) Nagisa Oshima7 Etsuraku/Pleasures of the Flesh (1965) Hakuchu no torima/Violence at Noon (1966) Band of Ninja (1967) Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967) The Diary of Shinjuku Burglar (1968) Death by Hanging (1968) Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)8 Shonen/Boy (1969) A secret post-Tokyo war story (1970) Gishiki/The Ceremony (1971) Natsu no imoto/Dear Summer Sister (1972) Ai no corrida (1976)9 Ai no borei (1978) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) Max, mon amour (1986) Kyoto, My Mothers Place (1991) Gohatto/Taboo (1999)

Contemporary Japanese Shinya Tsukamoto Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1988) Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer (1992) A Snake of June (2002) Vital (2004) Shinjuku Triad Society (1995) Audition (1999) Dead of Alive (1999) City of Lost Souls (2000) Visitor Q (2001) Ichi the Killer (2001)11 Agitator (2002) Gozu (2003)

Takashi Miike10

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Followed by four sequels 1973-1974. Worked with Godard. Many of his films seem highly interesting and innovative. 8 Homage to Godard in its style. 9 ET: The realm of the senses, but a literal translation is something like the the bullfight of love, corrida being a Spanish word, which means a run or rush, or a bullfight in the phrase corrida des torres, can also mean orgasm. The actual title, thus, points to the ending of the film. 10 Screenclick also has some of his early TV and video work. 11 Stars Shinya Tsukamoto.

Toshiki Sato Hayay Miyazaki Shinji Aoyama Takeshi Kitano

Tandem (1994) Mononoke-hime (1997)12 Eureka (2000) Hana-Bi (1997) Brother (2000) Dolls (2002) Zatoichi (2003) (Osama Tezukas) Metropolis (2001) Ju-on: The Grudge (2003) Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (2003) Marebito (2004) The Grudge (2004)13 Rinne/Re-incarnation (2005)14 The Grudge 2 (2006) Ringu (1998) Ringu 2 (1999) Last Scene (2002) Dark Water (2002) The Ring 2 (2005) Tony Takitani (2004) Flower and Snake (2004)

Rintaro Takashi Shimizu

Hideo Nakata

Jun Ichikawa Takashi Ishii

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Animated. IMDB comments that it takes animation to a new level. The US remake with Sarah Michelle Gellar. 14 Psychological horror.