The Film-Lover's Check List: Japanese Directors' Filmographies

Kinji Fukasaku (1930-2003)

1.	Furaibo Tantei: Misaki O Wataru Kuroi Kaze (1961)
2.	Vigilante In the Funky Hat: 200,000 Yen Arm (1961)
3.	Vigilante In the Funky Hat (1961)
4.	High Noon For Gangsters (1961)
5.	Drifting Detective: Tragedy In the Red Valley (1961)
6.	The Proud Challenge (1962)
7.	Gang vs. G-Men (1962)
8.	Gyangu 7 (1963)
9.	Jakoman and Tetsu (1964)
10.	Wolves, Pigs and People (1964)
11.	Hokkai No Abare-Ryu (1966)
12.	Showa Saidai No Kaoyaku (1966)
13.	Odoshi (1966)
14.	Kamikaze Yaro (1966)
15.	Kaisan Shiki (1967)
16.	Call Me Blackmail! (1968)
17.	Bakuto Kaisan-Shiki (1968)
18.	The Green Slime (1968)
19.	Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969)
20.	Black Rose Mansion (1969)

21.	Black Lizard (1968)
22.	Chi-Zome No Daimon (1970)
23.	Our Dear Buddies (1970)
24.	Gamblers In Okinawa (1971)
25.	Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
26.	Modern Yakuza: Outlaw Killer (1972)
27.	Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers (1972)
28.	The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
29.	The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 2: Deadly Fight In Hiroshima (1973)
30.	The Yakuza Papers: Proxy War (1973)
31.	The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 4: Police Tactics (1974)
32.	The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 5: Final Episode (1974)
33.	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 (1974)
34.	Shikingen Godatsu (1975)
35.	Jingi No Hakaba (1975)
36.	Cops vs. Thugs (1975)
37.	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Boss's Head (1975)
38.	Yakuza Burial: Jasmine Flower (1976)
39.	Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976)
40.	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Boss's Last Days (1976)
41.	Hokuriku: Proxy War (1977)

42.	Detective Doberman (1977)
43.	Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (1978)
44.	Message From Space (1978)
45.	The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
46.	The End (1980)
47.	The Gate of Youth (1981)
48.	Samurai Reincarnation (1981)
49.	Lovers Lost (1982)
50.	Fall Guy (1982)
51.	Theatre of Life (1983)
52.	Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983)
53.	Shanghai Rhapsody (1984)
54.	House On Fire (1986)
55.	Sure-Fire Death 4: We Will Avenge You (1987)
56.	The Rage of Love (1988)
57.	Double Cross (1992)
58.	Crest of Betrayal (1994)
59.	Graveyard of Honour (1999)
60.	Battle Royale (2000)
61.	Battle Royale II (2003)

Ishiro Honda (1911-1993)

1.	A Story of a Co-Op (1949)
2.	Ise Island (1950)
3.	The Blue Pearl (1951)
4.	The Skin of the South (1952)
5.	The Man Who Came To Port (1952)
6.	Adolescence Part II (1953)
7.	Eagle of the Pacific (1953)
8.	Farewell Rabaul (1954)
9.	Godzilla (1954)
10.	Love Makeup (1955)
11.	Cry-Baby (1955)
12.	Beast Man Snow Man (1955)
13.	Young Tree (1956)
14.	Night School (1956)
15.	People of Tokyo, Goodbye (1956)
16.	Rodan! The Flying Monster (1956)

17.	Be Happy, These Two Lovers (1957)
18.	A Rainbow Plays In My Heart (1957)
19.	A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye (1957)
20.	A Farewell To the Woman Called My Sister (1957)
21.	The Mysterians (1957)
22.	Song For a Bride (1958)
23.	The H-Man (1958)
24.	Varan the Unbelievable (1958)
25.	An Echo Calls You (1959)
26.	Inao: Story of an Iron Arm (1959)
27.	Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers (1959)
28.	Battle In Outer Space (1959)
29.	The Human Vapor (1960)
30.	Mothra (1961)
31.	The Scarlet Man (1961)
32.	Gorath (1962)
33.	King Kong Vs. Godzilla (1962)

34.	Matango (1963)
35.	Atragon (1963)
36.	Godzilla Vs. Mothra (1964)
37.	Dagora, the Space Monster (1964)
38.	Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
39.	Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
40.	Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
41.	King Kong Escapes (1967)
42.	Come Marry Me (1967)
43.	War of the Gargantuas (1966)
44.	Destroy All Monsters (1968)
45.	Latitude Zero (1969)
46.	Godzilla's Revenge (1969)
47.	Yog: Monster From Space (1970)
48.	Miraman (1973)
49.	Escape of Mechagodzilla (1975)

Kon Ichikawa (1915-2008)

1.	Kachikachi Yama (1934)
2.	A Girl At Dojo Temple (1946)
3.	A Thousand and One Nights With Toho (1947)
4.	A Flower Blooms (1948)
5.	Sambyakurokujugo Ya - Tokyo-Hen (1948)
6.	Sambyakurokujugo Ya - Osaka-Hen (1948)
7.	Passion Without End (1949)
8.	Human Patterns (1949)
9.	365 Nights (1949)
10.	Police and Small Gangsters (1950)
11.	Heat and Mud (1950)
12.	Ginza Sanshiro (1950)
13.	Stolen Love (1951)
14.	Nightshade Flower (1951)
15.	The Lover (1951)
16.	River Solo Flows (1951)
17.	Wedding March (1951)
18.	The Man Without a Nationality (1952)
19.	Mr. Lucky (1952)
20.	Young People (1952)
21.	The Woman Who Touched the Legs (1952)
22.	This Way, That Way (1952)
23.	Mr. Pu (1953)
24.	The Blue Revolution (1953)
25.	Youth of Heiji Senigata (1953)
26.	The Lovers (1953)
27.	Twelve Chapters About Women (1954)
28.	All About Me (1954)

29.	A Billionaire (1954)
30.	Kokoro (1955)
31.	Ghost Story of Youth (1955)
32.	The Burmese Harp (1956)
33.	Punishment Room (1956)
34.	Bridge of Japan (1956)
35.	The Crowded Streetcar (1957)
36.	The Men of Tohoku (1957)
37.	Hole In One (1957)
38.	Conflagration (1958)
39.	Goodbye, Hello (1959)
40.	Odd Obsession (1959)
41.	Fires On the Plain (1959)
42.	Bonchi (1960)
43.	Her Brother (1960)
44.	Ten Dark Women (1961)
45.	The Sin (1962)
46.	Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)
47.	The Money Dance (1963)
48.	An Actor's Revenge (1963)
49.	The Enemy, the Sea (1963)
50.	Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
51.	The Tale of Genji (1966)
52.	Topo Gigio and the Missile War (1967)
53.	Seishun (1968)
54.	Kyoto (1969)
55.	Japan and the Japanese (1970)
56.	To Love Again (1971)

57.	The Wanderers (1973)
58.	I Am a Cat (1975)
59.	Between Women and Wives (1976)
60.	The Inugami Family (1976)
61.	The Devil's Ballad (1977)
62.	The Devil's Island (1977)
63.	Queen Bee (1978)
64.	Firebird: Daybreak Chapter (1978)
65.	The House of Hanging (1979)
66.	Koto, the Ancient City (1980)
67.	Lonely Heart (1981)
68.	Makioka Sisters (1983)
69.	Ohan (1984)
70.	The Burmese Harp (1985)
71.	High Society of Meiji (1986)
72.	Actress (1987)
73.	Princess From the Moon (1987)
74.	Crane (1988)
75.	Noh Mask Murders (1991)
76.	Fusa (1993)
77.	Kaettekite Kogarashi Monjiro (1993)
78.	47 Ronin (1994)
79.	The 8-Tomb Village (1996)
80.	Shinsengumi (2000)
81.	Alley Cat (2000)
82.	Big Mama (2001)
83.	Ten Nights of Dreams (2006)
84.	The Inugamis (2006)

Shohei Imamura (1926-2006)

1.	Stolen Desire (1958)
2.	Nishi Ginza Station (1958)
3.	Endless Desire (1958)
4.	My Second Brother (1959)
5.	Pigs and Battleships (1961)
6.	The Insect Woman (1963)
7.	Intentions of Murder (1964)

8.	The Pornographers (1966)
9.	A Man Vanishes (1967)
10.	Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
11.	History of Postwar Japan As Told By a Bar Hostess (1970)
12.	Karayuki-San, the Making of a Prostitute (1975)
13.	Vengeance Is Mine (1979)

14.	Why Not? (1981)
15.	Ballad of Narayama (1983)
16.	Zegen (1987)
17.	Black Rain (1989)
18.	The Eel (1997)
19.	Dr. Akagi (1998)
20.	Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)

Hiroshi Inagaki (1905-1980)

1.	The Wandering Gambler (1928)
2.	Peace On Earth (1928)
3.	Ginbyo Samon (1928)
4.	Zoku Banka Jigoku: Dai Nihen (1929)
5.	Zoku Banka Jigoku: Kanketsu Hen (1929)
6.	Oshidori Tabinikki (1929)
7.	A Samurai's Career (1929)
8.	Kaigyaku Sanroshi (1930)
9.	The Image of a Mother (1931)
10.	Otokodate-Bayari (1931)
11.	Ippon-Gatana Dohyo Iri (1931)
12.	Travels Under the Blue Sky (1932)
13.	Bad Luck (1933)
14.	Kunisada Chuji: Ruro Ruten No Maki (1933)
15.	Kunisada Chuji: Hareru Akagi No Maki (1933)
16.	White Snows of Fuji (1935)
17.	Daibosatsu Toge: Dai-Ippen - Kogen Itto-Ryu No Maki (1935)
18.	The White Hood (1936)
19.	Daibosatsu Toge: Suzuka-Yama No Maki - Mibu Shimabara No Maki (1936)
20.	Journey of a Thousand and One Nights (1936)
21.	Spirit of the Wilderness (1937)
22.	Ketto Takadanobaba (1937)
23.	A Great World Power Rising (1938)
24.	Shadows of Darkness (1938)
25.	Mazo (1938)

26.	Zoku Mazo - Ibara Ukon (1939)
27.	Musashi Miyamoto (1940)
28.	Miyamoto Musashi: Dai-San-Bu - Kenshin Ichiro (1940)
29.	The Last Days of Edo (1941)
30.	Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijoji ketto (1942)
31.	The Hawk of the North (1942)
32.	The Life of Matsu the Untamed (1943)
33.	Signal Fires of Shanghai (1944)
34.	The Last Abdication (1945)
35.	Tokai Suikoden (1945)
36.	Te O Tsunagu Kora (1948)
37.	Kuro-Uma No Danshichi (1948)
38.	Forgotten Children (1949)
39.	I'm the Bodyguard (1950)
40.	Gunto Nambansen (1950)
41.	Sasaki Kojiro (1950)
42.	Zoku Sasaki Kojiro (1951)
43.	Pirates (1951)
44.	Conclusion of Kojiro Sasaki: Duel On Ganryu Island (1951)
45.	Inazuma Soshi (1951)
46.	Sword For Hire (1952)
47.	Woman of Shanghai (1952)
48.	Fuun Senryobune (1952)
49.	Omatsuri Hanjiro (1953)
50.	Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)

51.	Samurai II: Duel At Ichijoji Temple (1955)
52.	The Lone Journey (1955)
53.	Samurai III: Duel On Ganryu Island (1956)
54.	Rebels On the High Sea (1956)
55.	Arashi (1956)
56.	Yagyu Secret Scrolls, Part I (1957)
57.	A Geisha In the Old City (1957)
58.	Yagyu Secret Scrolls, Part II (1958)
59.	The Rickshaw Man (1958)
60.	Rat Kid On Journey (1958)
61.	Samurai Saga (1959)
62.	Nippon Tanjo (1959)
63.	Life of a Country Doctor (1960)
64.	The Story of Osaka Castle (1961)
65.	The Youth and His Amulet (1961)
66.	Bandits On the Wind (1961)
67.	Tatsu (1962)
68.	47 Samurai (1962)
69.	Young Swordsman (1963)
70.	Whirlwind (1964)
71.	The Rabble (1964)
72.	Rise Against the Sword (1966)
73.	Kojiro (1967)
74.	Under the Banner of Samurai (1969)
75.	The Ambush: Incident At Blood Pass (1970)

Keisuke Kinoshita (1912-1998)

1.	Magoroku Is Alive (1943)
2.	A Blooming Port (1943)
3.	Jubilation Street (1944)
4.	The Army (1944)
5.	The Girl I Love (1946)
6.	Morning For the Osone Family (1946)
7.	Kekkon (1947)
8.	Phoenix (1947)
9.	Woman (1948)
10.	Apostasy (1948)
11.	The Portrait (1948)
12.	Here's To the Girls (1949)
13.	The Yotsuda Phantom (1949)
14.	Yotsuya Kaidan, Part II (1949)
15.	A Broken Drum (1949)
16.	Engage Ring (1950)
17.	Carmen Comes Home (1951)

18.	The Good Fairy (1951)
19.	A Record of Youth (1951)
20.	Fireworks Over the Sea (1951)
21.	Carmen Falls In Love (1952)
22.	A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
23.	Woman's World (1954)
24.	Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
25.	Distant Clouds (1955)
26.	Flaming Sunset (1956)
27.	The Rose On His Arm (1956)
28.	Hanging By a Thread (1957)
29.	Times of Joy and Sorrow (1957)
30.	Ballad of Narayama (1958)
31.	The Rainbow of This Sky (1958)
32.	Snow Flurry (1959)
33.	The Bird of Springs Past (1959)

34.	Thus Another Day (1959)
35.	Spring Dreams (1960)
36.	She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
37.	The River Fuefuki (1960)
38.	Immortal Love (1961)
39.	The Seasons We Walked Together (1962)
40.	This Year's Love (1962)
41.	Sing, Young People! (1963)
42.	Legend of a Duel To the Death (1963)
43.	The Scent of Incense (1964)
44.	Lovely Flute and a Drum (1967)
45.	Love and Separation In Sri Lanka (1976)
46.	My Son! My Son! (1979)
47.	Chichi Yo Haha Yo! (1980)
48.	These Children Survive Me (1983)
49.	Big Joys, Small Sorrows (1986)
50.	Father (1988)

Takeshi Kitano (1947-)

1.	Sono Otoko, Kyobo Ni Tsuki (1989)
2.	3-4 X Jugatsu (1990)
3.	A Scene At the Sea (1991)
4.	Sonatine (1993)
5.	Minna-Yatteruka! (1995)

6.	Kizzu Ritan (1996)
7.	Hana-Bi (1997)
8.	Kikujiro No Natsu (1999)
9.	Brother (2000)
10.	Dolls (2002)

11.	Zatoichi (2003)
12.	Takeshis' (2005)
13.	Glory To the Filmmaker! (2007)
14.	Achilles and the Tortoise (2008)
15.	Outrage (2009)

Masaki Kobayashi (1916-1996)

1.	My Sons' Youth (1952)
2.	The Thick-Walled Room (1953)
3.	Sincerity (1953)
4.	Three Loves (1954)
5.	Somewhere Under the Broad Sky (1954)
6.	Beautiful Days (1955)
7.	The Spring (1956)

8.	I'll Buy You (1956)
9.	Black River (1957)
10.	The Human Condition I (1959)
11.	The Human Condition II (1959)
12.	The Human Condition III (1961)
13.	The Inheritance (1962)
14.	Harakiri (1962)
15.	Kwaidan (1964)

16.	Samurai Rebellion (1967)
17.	Hymn To a Tired Man (1968)
18.	Inn of Evil (1971)
19.	The Fossil (1975)
20.	Glowing Autumn (1979)
21.	Tokyo Trial (1983)
22.	Family Without a Dinner Table (1985)

Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)

1.	Judo Saga (1943)
2.	The Most Beautiful (1944)
3.	The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail (1945)
4.	Judo Saga II (1945)
5.	No Regrets For Our Youth (1946)
6.	One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
7.	Drunken Angel (1948)
8.	The Quiet Duel (1949)
9.	Stray Dog (1949)
10.	Scandal (1950)

11.	Rashomon (1950)
12.	The Idiot (1951)
13.	Ikiru (1952)
14.	The Seven Samurai (1954)
15.	I Live In Fear (1955)
16.	Throne of Blood (1957)
17.	The Lower Depths (1957)
18.	The Hidden Fortress (1958)
19.	The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
20.	Yojimbo (1961)

21.	Sanjuro (1962)
22.	High and Low (1963)
23.	Red Beard (1965)
24.	Dodes'ka-den (1970)
25.	Dersu Uzala (1975)
26.	Kagemusha (1980)
27.	Ran (1985)
28.	Dreams (1990)
29.	Rhapsody In August (1991)
30.	Madadayo (1993)

Takashi Miike (1960-)

1.	Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)
2.	Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)
3.	Young Thugs: Innocent Blood (1997)
4.	Rainy Dog (1997)
5.	The Bird People In China (1998)
6.	Andromedia (1998)
7.	Blues Harp (1998)
8.	Young Thugs: Nostalgia (1998)
9.	Ley Lines (1999)
10.	Dead Or Alive (1999)
11.	White Collar Worker Kintaro (1999)
12.	Audition (1999)
13.	The City of Lost Souls (2000)
14.	The Guys From Paradise (2000)
15.	Dead Or Alive 2: Birds (2000)

16.	Kumamoto monogatari (2001)
17.	Zuiketsu Genso - Tonkararin Yume Densetsu (2001)
18.	Family (2001)
19.	Ichi the Killer (2001)
20.	Agitator (2001)
21.	The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
22.	Dead Or Alive: Final (2002)
23.	Onna Kunishuu Ikki (2002)
24.	Graveyard of Honor (2002)
25.	Shangri-La (2002)
26.	Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)
27.	The Man In White (2003)
28.	Gozu (2003)
29.	One Missed Call (2003)
30.	Zebraman (2004)

31.	Izo (2004)
32.	The Great Yokai War (2005)
33.	Big Bang Love, Juvenile a (2006)
34.	Waru (2006)
35.	Sun Scarred (2006)
36.	Yakuza: Like a Dragon (2007)
37.	Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)
38.	Detective Story (2007)
39.	Crows Zero (2007)
40.	God's Puzzle (2008)
41.	Yatterman (2009)
42.	Crows Zero II (2009)
43.	Zebraman 2: Attack On Zebra City (2010)
44.	13 Assassins (2010)
45.	Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)

Kenji Misumi (1921-1975)

1.	Asa Taro Garasu (1956)
2.	Freelance Samurai (1957)
3.	The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall (1958)
4.	Kagero-Gasa (1959)
5.	Senbazuru Hicho (1959)
6.	Yotsuya Ghost Story (1959)
7.	Sen-Hime Goten (1960)
8.	Shirokoya Komako (1960)
9.	Satan's Sword: Great Buddha Pass (1960)
10.	Satan's Sword II (1960)
11.	Buddha (1961)
12.	Onnakeizu (1962)
13.	The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)
14.	Kiru (1962)
15.	Kyojin Okuma Shigenobu (1963)

16.	Shinsengumi Chronicles: I Want To Die a Samurai (1963)
17.	Nyokei Kazoku (1963)
18.	Mushuku Mono (1964)
19.	Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Adventure (1964)
20.	Ken (1964)
21.	Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964)
22.	Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Fire (1965)
23.	Life of Matsu the Untamed (1965)
24.	Sword Devil (1965)
25.	Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)
26.	The Virgin Witnessed (1966)
27.	Wrath of Daimajin (1966)
28.	Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Villainy (1966)
29.	Yuki No Mosho (1967)
30.	Namida Gawa (1967)

31.	Zatoichi Challenged (1967)
32.	Tomuraishi Tachi (1968)
33.	Nihiki No Yojimbo (1968)
34.	Samaritan Zatoichi (1968)
35.	Devil's Temple (1969)
36.	The Magoichi Saga (1969)
37.	Zatoichi: The Festival of Fire (1970)
38.	Woman Gambler's Iron Rule (1971)
39.	Kitsune No Kureta Akanbo (1971)
40.	The Razor: Sword of Justice (1972)
41.	Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
42.	Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart At the River Styx (1972)
43.	Shogun Assassin 2: Lightning Swords of Death (1972)
44.	Shogun Assassin 4: Five Fistfuls of Gold (1973)
45.	The Last Samurai (1977)

Hayao Miyazaki (1941-)

1.	The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
2.	Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (1984)
3.	Laputa: Castle In the Sky (1986)

4.	My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
5.	Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
6.	Porco Rosso (1992)
7.	Princess Mononoke (1997)

8.	Spirited Away (2001)
9.	Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
10.	Ponyo (2008)

Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956)

1.	The Resurrection of Love (1923)
2.	Kokyo (1923)
3.	The Dream Path of Youth (1923)
4.	City of Desire (1923)
5.	Failure's Song Is Sad (1923)
6.	The Adventures of Arsene Lupin (1923)
7.	Foggy Harbour (1923)
8.	In the Ruins (1923)
9.	The Night (1923)
10.	Blood and Soul (1923)
11.	Song of the Pass (1923)
12.	Song of the Sad Idiot (1924)
13.	Death At Dawn (1924)
14.	The Queen of Modern Times (1924)
15.	Strong Is the Female (1924)
16.	This Dusty World (1924)
17.	The Trace of a Turkey (1924)
18.	Ito Junsa No Shi (1924)
19.	A Chronicle of the May Rain (1924)
20.	The Axe That Interrupted Love (1924)
21.	A Woman of Pleasure (1924)
22.	Queen of the Circus (1924)
23.	Ah, the Special Service Vessel (1925)
24.	No Money, No Fight (1925)
25.	Out of College (1925)
26.	The White Lily Laments (1925)
27.	Shining In the Red Sunset (1925)
28.	The Song of Home (1925)
29.	Street Scenes (1925)
30.	The Human Being (1925)

31.	General Nogi and Kumasan (1925)
32.	The Copper Coin King (1926)
33.	A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring (1926)
34.	My Fault, New Version (1926)
35.	The Passion of a Woman Teacher (1926)
36.	Children of the Sea (1926)
37.	Money (1926)
38.	The Imperial Grace (1927)
39.	The Cuckoo (1927)
40.	The Life of Man (1928)
41.	Hito No Issho - Ukiyo Wa Tsurai Ne No Maki: Dai Nihen (1928)
42.	Hito No Issho - Kuma To Tora Saikai No Maki: Dai Sampen (1928)
43.	My Lovely Daughter (1928)
44.	The Nihon Bridge (1929)
45.	The Morning Sun Shines (1929)
46.	Tokyo March (1929)
47.	Metropolitan Symphony (1929)
48.	Home Village (1930)
49.	Mistress of a Foreigner (1930)
50.	Despite All They Advance (1931)
51.	Man of the Moment (1932)
52.	The Dawn of Mongolia (1932)
53.	The Water Magician (1933)
54.	Gion Festival (1933)
55.	The Jinpu Group (1934)
56.	The Pass of Love and Hate (1934)
57.	The Downfall of Osen (1935)
58.	Oyuki, the Virgin (1935)
59.	Miss Okichi (1935)
60.	Poppies (1935)

61.	Osaka Elegy (1936)
62.	Sisters of the Gion (1936)
63.	The Straits of Love and Hate (1937)
64.	The Song of the Camp (1938)
65.	Ah, My Home Town (1938)
66.	The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
67.	A Woman of Osaka (1940)
68.	The Life of an Actor (1941)
69.	The 47 Ronin (1941)
70.	Three Generations of Danjuro (1944)
71.	Miyamoto Musashi (1944)
72.	The Famous Sword Bijomaru (1945)
73.	Victory Song (1945)
74.	The Victory of Women (1946)
75.	Five Women Around Utamaro (1946)
76.	The Love of Sumako the Actress (1947)
77.	Women of the Night (1948)
78.	My Love Has Been Burning (1949)
79.	A Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950)
80.	Miss Oyu (1951)
81.	The Lady of Musashino (1951)
82.	Life of Oharu (1952)
83.	Ugetsu (1953)
84.	Gion Bayashi (1953)
85.	Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
86.	The Woman In the Rumor (1954)
87.	Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)
88.	Princess Yang Kwei Fei (1955)
89.	Shin Heike Monogatari (1955)
90.	Street of Shame (1956)

Kazuo Mori (1911-1989)

1.	Yuten Yoshimatsu (1937)
2.	The Color Print of Edo: Hatamoto To Machiyakko (1939)
3.	Zoku awa tanuki-gassen (1940)
4.	Omura Masujiro (1942)
5.	Vendetta of a Samurai (1952)
6.	Kinsei mei shobu monogatari: Hana no Kodokan (1953)
7.	Koina no Ginpei (1954)
8.	Midori no nakama (1954)
9.	Hotaru no hikari (1955)
10.	Tojuro no koi (1955)
11.	Marason-zamurai (1956)
12.	Suzakumon (1957)
13.	Yataro gasa (1957)
14.	Nichiro senso shori no hishi: Tekichu odan sanbyaku-ri (1957)
15.	Hitohada kujaku (1958)
16.	Akado Suzunosuke: Mitsume no chojin (1958)
17.	Wakaki hi no Nobunaga (1959)
18.	Jirocho Fuji (1959)
19.	Samurai Vendetta: A Chronicle of Pale Cherry Blossoms (1959)

20.	Zoku Jirocho Fuji (1960)
21.	Secrets of a Court Masseur (1960)
22.	Tadanao kyo gyojoki (1960)
23.	Kaze To kumo To toride (1961)
24.	Okese utaeba (1961)
25.	Satan's Sword 3: The Final Chapter (1961)
26.	Ghost Story of Kakui Street (1961)
27.	Shin Genji monogatari (1961)
28.	New Bad Reputation (1962)
29.	Edo e hyaku-nana-ju ri (1962)
30.	The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962)
31.	Akumyo ichiba (1963)
32.	Tenya wanya jirocho docho (1963)
33.	Akumyo hatoba (1963)
34.	Ninja 3 (1963)
35.	Dokonjo monogatari: Zuputo iyatsu (1964)
36.	Kino kieta otoko (1964)
37.	Suruga yukyoden: Toba arashi (1964)
38.	Akumyo daiko (1964)
39.	Abare inu (1965)

40.	Suruga yukyoden: Dokyo garasu (1965)
41.	Shinobi No Mono 6 (1965)
42.	Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (1965)
43.	Heitai yakuza datsugoku (1966)
44.	Shinobi No Mono 7 (1966)
45.	Rikugun Nakano gakko: Kumoichigo shirei (1966)
46.	The Return of the Giant Majin (1966)
47.	A Certain Killer (1967)
48.	Waka oyabun kyojo tabi (1967)
49.	Aru koroshiya no kagi (1967)
50.	Yoshiwara Story (1968)
51.	Akumyo juhachi-ban (1968)
52.	Teppo denraiki (1968)
53.	The Oiwa Phantom (1969)
54.	Kanto onna akumyo (1969)
55.	Kanto onna gokuda (1969)
56.	Nemuri Kyoshiro engetsu sappo (1969)
57.	Zatoichi At Large (1972)
58.	Shinobi no shu (1972)

Mikio Naruse (1905-1969)

1.	A Record of Shamless Newlyweds (1930)
2.	Junjo (1930)
3.	Hard Times (1930)
4.	Intimate Love (1930)
5.	Love Is Strength (1930)
6.	Fickleness Gets On the Train (1931)
7.	Under the Neighbours' Roof (1931)
8.	Screams From the Second Floor (1931)
9.	Now Don't Get Excited (1931)
10.	The Strength of a Moustache (1931)
11.	Flunky, Work Hard! (1931)
12.	Ladies, Be Careful of Your Sleeves (1932)
13.	Moth-eaten Spring (1932)
14.	Be Great! (1932)
15.	Chocolate Girl (1932)
16.	Crying To the Blue Sky (1932)
17.	The Stepchild (1932)
18.	A Man With a Married Woman's Hairdo (1933)
19.	After Our Separation (1933)
20.	Every Night Dreams (1933)
21.	Two Eyes (1933)
22.	Street Without End (1934)
23.	Five Men In the Circus (1935)
24.	The Actress and the Poet (1935)
25.	Three Sisters With Maiden Hearts (1935)
26.	Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
27.	The Girl In the Rumour (1935)
28.	Tochuken Kumoemon (1936)
29.	The Road I Travel With You (1936)

30.	Morning's Tree-Lined Street (1936)
31.	A Woman's Sorrows (1937)
32.	Learn From Experience, Part I (1937)
33.	Learn From Experience, Part II (1937)
34.	Avalanche (1937)
35.	Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938)
36.	A Working Family (1939)
37.	Sincerity (1939)
38.	Travelling Actors (1940)
39.	A Face From the Past (1941)
40.	Shanghai Moon (1941)
41.	The Conductress (1941)
42.	Mother Never Dies (1942)
43.	The Song Lantern (1943)
44.	This Happy Life (1944)
45.	The Way of Drama (1944)
46.	Until Victory Day (1945)
47.	A Tale of Archery At the Sanjusangendo (1945)
48.	The Descendents of Taro Urashima (1946)
49.	Both You and I (1946)
50.	Spring Awakens (1947)
51.	The Bad Girl (1949)
52.	Conduct Report On Professor Ishinaka (1950)
53.	Angry Street (1950)
54.	White Beast (1950)
55.	Battle of Roses (1950)
56.	Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
57.	The Dancer (1951)

58.	Repast (1951)
59.	Okuni and Gohei (1952)
60.	Mother (1952)
61.	Lightning (1952)
62.	Husband and Wife (1953)
63.	Wife (1953)
64.	Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953)
65.	The Thunder of the Mountain (1954)
66.	Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
67.	Floating Clouds (1955)
68.	Sudden Rain (1956)
69.	A Wife's Heart (1956)
70.	Flowing (1956)
71.	Untamed Woman (1957)
72.	Little Peach (1958)
73.	Herringbone Clouds (1958)
74.	Whistle In My Heart (1959)
75.	When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
76.	Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960)
77.	Evening Stream (1960)
78.	Autumn Has Already Started (1960)
79.	A Woman's Place (1962)
80.	Poignant Story (1962)
81.	A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
82.	A Woman's Story (1963)
83.	Yearning (1964)
84.	The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
85.	Hit and Run (1966)
86.	Two In the Shadow (1967)

Kihachi Okamoto (1923-2005)

1.	All About Marriage (1958)
2.	Young Daughters (1958)
3.	Boss of the Underworld (1959)
4.	One Day I... (1959)
5.	Desperado Outpost (1959)
6.	The Last Gunfight (1960)
7.	Daigaku No Sanzokutachi (1960)
8.	Westward Desperado (1960)
9.	Blueprint of Murder (1961)
10.	Big Shots Die At Dawn (1961)
11.	Procurer of Hell (1961)
12.	Operation Sewer Rats (1962)
13.	Gekkyu Dorobo (1962)

14.	Warring Clans (1963)
15.	The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963)
16.	Aa Bakudan (1964)
17.	Samurai Assassin (1965)
18.	Fort Graveyard (1965)
19.	The Sword of Doom (1966)
20.	Epoch of Murder Madness (1967)
21.	Japan's Longest Day (1967)
22.	Kill! (1968)
23.	The Human Bullet (1968)
24.	Red Lion (1969)
25.	Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
26.	The Battle of Okinawa (1971)

27.	Nippon Sanjushi: Osaraba Tokyo No Maki (1972)
28.	Nippon Sanjushi: Hakata Obi Shime Ippon Dokko No Maki (1973)
29.	Aoba Shigereru (1974)
30.	Tokkan (1975)
31.	Sanshiro Sugata (1977)
32.	Dynamite Bang Bang (1978)
33.	UFO Blue Christmas (1978)
34.	The Last Game (1979)
35.	At This Late Date, the Charleston (1981)
36.	Jazz Daimyo (1986)
37.	Rainbow Kids (1991)
38.	East Meets West (1995)
39.	Vengeance For Sale (2001)

Nagisa Oshima (1932-2013)

1.	Tomorrow's Sun (1959)
2.	A Street of Love and Hope (1959)
3.	Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
4.	The Sun's Burial (1960)
5.	Night and Fog In Japan (1960)
6.	The Catch (1961)
7.	The Revolutionary (1962)
8.	It's Me Here, Bellett (1964)
9.	A Small Child's First Adventure (1964)

10.	The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
11.	Yunbogi's Diary (1965)
12.	Violence At High Noon (1966)
13.	Tales of the Ninja (1967)
14.	Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
15.	Double Suicide: Japanese Summer (1967)
16.	Death By Hanging (1968)
17.	Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)
18.	Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1968)
19.	Boy (1969)

20.	Man Who Left His Will On Film (1970)
21.	The Ceremony (1971)
22.	Dear Summer Sister (1972)
23.	In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
24.	Empire of Passion (1978)
25.	Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
26.	Max, Mon Amour (1986)
27.	Kyoto, My Mother's Place (1991)
28.	Taboo (1999)

Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963)

1.	Sword of Penitence (1927)
2.	Dreams of Youth (1928)
3.	Wife Lost (1928)
4.	Pumpkin (1928)
5.	A Couple On the Move (1928)
6.	Body Beautiful (1928)
7.	Treasure Mountain (1929)
8.	Days of Youth (1929)
9.	Fighting Friends: Japanese Style (1929)
10.	I Graduated But... (1929)
11.	The Life of an Office Worker (1929)
12.	A Straightforward Boy (1929)
13.	That Night's Wife (1930)
14.	Walk Cheerfully (1930)
15.	Introduction To Marriage (1930)
16.	I Flunked But... (1930)
17.	The Revengeful Spirit of Eros (1930)
18.	The Luck Which Touched the Leg (1930)

19.	The Humorous Samurai (1930)
20.	The Lady and the Beard (1931)
21.	Beauty's Sorrows (1931)
22.	Tokyo Chorus (1931)
23.	Spring Comes From the Ladies (1932)
24.	I Was Born, But... (1932)
25.	Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth (1932)
26.	Until the Day We Meet Again (1932)
27.	Woman of Tokyo (1933)
28.	Dragnet Girl (1933)
29.	Passing Fancy (1933)
30.	A Mother Should Be Loved (1934)
31.	A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
32.	An Innocent Maid (1935)
33.	An Inn In Tokyo (1935)
34.	Kagamijishi (1936)
35.	College Is a Nice Place (1936)
36.	The Only Son (1936)

37.	What Did the Lady Forget? (1937)
38.	Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
39.	There Was a Father (1942)
40.	Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
41.	A Hen In the Wind (1948)
42.	Late Spring (1949)
43.	The Munekata Sisters (1950)
44.	Early Summer (1951)
45.	Tea Over Rice (1952)
46.	Tokyo Story (1953)
47.	Early Spring (1956)
48.	Tokyo Twilight (1957)
49.	Equinox Flower (1958)
50.	Good Morning (1959)
51.	Floating Weeds (1959)
52.	Late Autumn (1960)
53.	The End of Summer (1961)
54.	An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

Kaneto Shindo (1912-)

1.	Story of a Beloved Wife (1951)
2.	Avalanche (1952)
3.	Children of Hiroshima (1952)
4.	Shukuzu (1953)
5.	Onna No Issho (1953)
6.	Dobu (1954)
7.	Wolf (1955)
8.	Gin Shinju (1956)
9.	Ryuri No Kishi (1956)
10.	An Actress (1956)
11.	Umi No Yarodomo (1957)
12.	Kanashimi Wa Onna Dakeni (1958)
13.	Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)
14.	Hanayome-San Wa Sekai-Ichi (1959)
15.	The Island (1960)

16.	Ningen (1962)
17.	Mother (1963)
18.	Onibaba (1964)
19.	The Conquest (1965)
20.	Lost Sex (1966)
21.	Libido (1967)
22.	The Black Cat (1968)
23.	Strong Women, Weak Men (1968)
24.	Heat Wave Island (1969)
25.	Strange Affinity (1970)
26.	Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970)
27.	Kanawa (1972)
28.	Sanka (1972)
29.	The Heart (1973)
30.	My Way (1974)

31.	Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)
32.	The Life of Chikuzan (1977)
33.	The Strangling (1979)
34.	Edo Porn (1981)
35.	The Horizon (1984)
36.	Black Board (1986)
37.	Tree Without Leaves (1986)
38.	Sakura-Tai Chiru (1988)
39.	The Strange Tale of Oyuki (1992)
40.	A Last Note (1995)
41.	Will To Live (1999)
42.	By Player (2000)
43.	Owl (2003)
44.	Ishiuchi Jinjo Koto Shogakko: Hana Wa Chiredomo (2008)
45.	Ichimai No Hagaki (2010)

Isao Takahata (1935-)

1.	Little Norse Prince (1968)
2.	Chie the Brat (1981)

3.	Goshu the Cellist (1982)
4.	Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
5.	Only Yesterday (1991)

6.	Pom Poko (1994)
7.	My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)

Kunio Watanabe (1899-1981)

1.	Nikkatsu Koshinkyoku: Kan'Nin (1929)
2.	France Omasa (1933)
3.	Haha No Bisho (1934)
4.	Sakura Ondo (1934)
5.	Shoshurei (1935)
6.	Uramachi No Kokyogaku (1935)
7.	Jazz No Machikado (1935)
8.	Tange Sazen (1937)
9.	Kenji To Sono Imoto (1937)
10.	Tetsuwan Toshi (1938)
11.	Shinpen Tange Sazen: Yoto-Hen (1938)
12.	Byakuran No Uta (1939)
13.	Ungetsu No Kudan No Haha (1940)
14.	Haru Yo Izuko (1940)
15.	Niitsuma Kagami Part 1 (1940)
16.	Kingoro No Aa Mujo (1940)

17.	Vow In the Desert (1940)
18.	Musashibo Benkei (1942)
19.	Ongaku Dai-Shingun (1943)
20.	A Man (1943)
21.	Ikoku No Oka (1949)
22.	Legend of Ghost Cat In Nabeshima (1949)
23.	Lady Sanshiro (1950)
24.	Enoken No Happyakuya-Danuki Oabare (1950)
25.	Inugami-Ke No Nazo: Akuma Wa Odoru (1954)
26.	He Had To Die (1956)
27.	Harikiri Shacho (1956)
28.	Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed (1956)
29.	Bloody River (1958)
30.	Onna-Za Murai Tadaima Sanjo (1958)
31.	The Gay Revengers (1958)
32.	Nichiren To Moko Daishurai (1958)

33.	Ambush At Iga Pass (1958)
34.	Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1958)
35.	The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958)
36.	Kinokuniya Bunzaemon (1959)
37.	Hebihime Sama (1959)
38.	Tenka Gomen (1960)
39.	Kyokaku Harusame Gasa (1960)
40.	Futari No Musashi (1960)
41.	Yoru No Emmacho (1961)
42.	Mito Komon Umi O Wataru (1961)
43.	The Devil's Ballad (1961)
44.	Nagadosu Chushingura (1962)
45.	Cosmetic Sales Competition (1963)
46.	The Birth of Judo (1965)
47.	Dorifutazu Desu Yo! Tokkun Tokkun Mata Tokkun (1969)
48.	Sanshiro Sugata (1970)