KUROSAWA’S TOP 100

From Chapter 3 of A Dream is a Genius, ISBN 4-16-355570. Edited by Bungeishunju. © 1999 Bungeishunju. Translated from Japanese by Nostalghia.com Japan correspondent SATO Kimitoshi.

[ RAW VERSION v0.1 – typos and missing director names, etc. ]

 
1 BROKEN BLOSSOMS 1919
2 DAS CABINET DES DR CALIGARI 19
3 Dr. Mabuse 22
4 gold rush 25
5 LA CHUTE DE LA MAISON USHER 28
6 UN CHIEN ANDALOU 28
7 MOROCCO
8 Der Kongress Tanzt 31
9 Threepenny opera 31
10 Leise Flehen Meine Lieder 33
11 The Thin Man 34
12 Tonari no Yae-chan 34 Shimazu Yasujiro
13 Tange Sazen yowa: Hyakuman ryo no tsubo 35
14 Akanishi Kakita (1936)
15 Grande illusion, La 37
16 Stella Dallas 37
17 Tsuzurikata kyoshitsu (1938) Yamamoto Kajiro
18 Tsuchi (1939) Tom Uchida
19 Ninotchka 39
20 Ivan the Terrible parts I and II 44,46
21 My Darling Clementine (1946)
22 It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
23 The Big Sleep (1946)
24 LADRI DI BICICLETTE 48
25 Aoi Sanmyaku 49 Imai
26 The Third Man (1949)
27 Banshun 49 Ozu
28 ORPHEE 49
29 Carmen Kokyo ni kaeru 51 Kinoshita
30 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
31 Thérèse Raquin (1953)
32 Saikaku Ichidai Onna 52
33 Viaggio in Italia (1953)
34 Gojira (1954)
35 Strada, La (1954)
36 Ukigumo 55 Naruse
37 Pather Panchali 55
38 DADDY LONG LEGS 55
39 THE PROUD ONES 56
40 Bakumatsu Taiyoden 57 Kawashima
41 The Young Lions 57
42 LES COUSINS 59
43 Les Quarte Cents Coups 59
44 A Bout de Souffle 59
45 BEN-HUR 59
46 Ototo (1960)
47 UNE AUSSI LONGUE ABSENCE 60
48 Voyage en ballon, Le (1960)
49 PLEIN SOLEIL 60
50 Zazie dans Le Metro 60
51 L' ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD 60
52 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
53 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
54 Melodie en Sous-sol 63
55 Birds 63
56 Deserto rosso, Il (1964)
57 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
58 Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
59 In The Heat Of Night 67
60      The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
61 Midnight Cowboy (1969)
62 MASH 70
63 Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
64 The French Connection (1971)
65 Espíritu de la colmena, El (1973*)
*The book says the Erice film was made in 1972.
66 Solaris 72
67 The Day of the Jackal (1973)
68 Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (1974)
69 Godfather part II 74
70 Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo (1974)
71 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
72 Thiassos, O (1975)
73 Barry Lindon 75
74 Daichi no komoriuta 76
75 Annie Hall (1977)
76 Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino (1977)
77 Padre padrone (1977)
78 Gloria 80
79 Harukanaru yama no yobigoe 80 Yamada
80 Traviata, La (1982)
81 Fanny och Alexander (1982)
82 Fitzcarraldo (1982)
83 The King of Comedy (1983)
84 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
85 Killing Field 84
86 Stranger than Paradise 84
87 Dongdong de jiaqi (1984) Hsiao-hsien Hou
88 Paris, Texas 84
89 Witness (1985)
90 The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
91 Otac na sluzbenom putu (1985)
92 The Dead 87
93 Khane-ye doust kodjast? (1987)
94 Bagdad Cafe 87
95 The Whales of August (1987)
96 Running on Empty (1988)
97 Tonari no Totoro 88 Miyazaki
98 A Un 89 Furuhata
99 Belle noiseuse, La (1991)
100 HANA-BI 97 end block
 
 
 
 
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