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Kinema Junpo's Top 200 Japanese Films

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The top 100 Japanese movies of all time as chosen by the Kinema Junpo magazine.

Missing:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287648/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071111/

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20120330015712/http://www.kinejun.jp/special/90alltimebest/index.html

1
80%

Tokyo Story

 

 

2
84%

Seven Samurai

 

 

3
75%

Floating Clouds

 

 

4
70%

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

 

 

5
74%

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

 

 

6
73%

Twenty-Four Eyes

 

 

7
79%

Rashomon

 

 

8
70%

Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo

 

 

9
69%

The Man Who Stole the Sun

 

 

10
65%

The Family Game

 

 

11
78%

Stray Dog

 

 

12
59%

Typhoon Club

 

 

13
82%

Ikiru

 

 

14
66%

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

 

 

15
83%

High and Low

 

 

16
76%

A Fugitive from the Past

 

 

17
85%

Harakiri

 

 

18
67%

Intentions of Murder

 

 

19
79%

Tokyo Olympiad

 

 

20
78%

The Castle of Sand

 

 

21
57%

Bitterness of Youth

 

 

22
81%

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

 

 

23
72%

Humanity and Paper Balloons

 

 

24
81%

Yojimbo

 

 

25
64%

Fighting Elegy

 

 

26
65%

Fall Guy

 

 

27
71%

Boiling Point

 

 

28
78%

Ugetsu

 

 

29
79%

The Crucified Lovers

 

 

30
68%

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

 

 

31
74%

Flowing

 

 

32
72%

Samurai Vendetta

 

 

33
70%

Branded to Kill

 

 

34
75%

Vengeance Is Mine

 

 

35
70%

Zigeunerweisen

 

 

36
50%

Here's to the Young Lady

 

 

37
66%

The Ball at the Anjo House

 

 

38
81%

Late Spring

 

 

39
50%

Till We Meet Again

 

 

40
76%

The Life of Oharu

 

 

41
71%

Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji

 

 

42
73%

The Lower Depths

 

 

43
65%

Stakeout

 

 

44
78%

Floating Weeds

 

 

45
78%

Good Morning

 

 

46
61%

Desperado Outpost

 

 

47
61%

Her Brother

 

 

48
70%

Cruel Story of Youth

 

 

49
60%

Elegant Beast

 

 

50
70%

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

 

 

51
62%

The Wanderers

 

 

52
61%

The Youth Killer

 

 

53
75%

Muddy River

 

 

54
69%

The Funeral

 

 

55
54%

Fire Festival

 

 

56
82%

My Neighbor Totoro

 

 

57
74%

Cure

 

 

58
70%

Noriko's Dinner Table

 

 

59
73%

I Was Born, But...

 

 

60
70%

What Did the Lady Forget?

 

 

61
60%

Singing Lovebirds

 

 

62
66%

The Life of Matsu the Untamed

 

 

63
57%

Carmen Comes Home

 

 

64
82%

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

 

 

65
83%

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

 

 

66
86%

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

 

 

67
60%

The Human Vapor

 

 

68
80%

Sanjuro

 

 

69
67%

The Insect Woman

 

 

70
76%

Pale Flower

 

 

71
77%

Yearning

 

 

72
74%

Tokyo Drifter

 

 

73
75%

Japan's Longest Day

 

 

74
75%

Profound Desires of the Gods

 

 

75
70%

The Human Bullet

 

 

76
68%

Big Time Gambling Boss

 

 

77
62%

I, the Executioner

 

 

78
70%

Boy

 

 

79
67%

Double Suicide

 

 

80
75%

It's Tough Being a Man

 

 

81
56%

Take Care, Red Riding Hood

 

 

82
50%

Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return

 

 

83
50%

Kaoyaku

 

 

84
53%

Wet Sand in August

 

 

85
73%

Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers

 

 

86
78%

Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro

 

 

87
78%

Kagemusha

 

 

88
64%

Crazy Thunder Road

 

 

89
64%

Crazed Fruit

 

 

90
50%

Furuyashiki: A Japanese Village

 

 

91
64%

P. P. Rider

 

 

92
75%

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

 

 

93
63%

The Little Girl Who Conquered Time

 

 

94
56%

Love Hotel

 

 

95
80%

Ran

 

 

96
56%

No More Comics!

 

 

97
81%

Castle in the Sky

 

 

98
70%

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

 

 

99
66%

Moving

 

 

100
74%

Sonatine

 

 

101
77%

Kids Return

 

 

102
78%

Crayon Shin-chan: Storm-invoking Passion! The Adult Empire Strikes Back

 

 

103
80%

The Twilight Samurai

 

 

104
66%

Bright Future

 

 

105
61%

Ramblers

 

 

106
72%

Summer Days with Coo

 

 

107
67%

Chuji's Travel Diary: The Chuji Patrol Episode

 

 

108
54%

Akanishi Kakita

 

 

109
72%

Sisters of the Gion

 

 

110
75%

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

 

 

111
64%

Sanshiro Sugata

 

 

112
0%

I Saw a Phantom Fish

 

 

113
80%

Early Summer

 

 

114
70%

Lightning

 

 

115
76%

Mother

 

 

116
0%

Jirocho's Home-Coming

 

 

117
74%

Godzilla

 

 

118
80%

Street of Shame

 

 

119
67%

Crazed Fruit

 

 

120
79%

Throne of Blood

 

 

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