We list ten essential movies to know the wonderful Japanese cinema in this article. Below are some of the works of major importance for Japanese cinema, covering different decades, themes, genres and directors. They are fantastic films and they explain why Japanese cinema is one of the most celebrated in the seventh art. Let’s go to the list!
10ยบ – Dodes’ka-den (Akira Kurosawa, 1970)
We have here a film about life in all its scopes. There are 140 minutes of characters disintegrating inserted in an ungrateful social reality, often impossible to live, showing their ways of conducting their daily lives and habits. Undoubtedly, the most touching film in the filmography of Akira Kurosawa.
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