FIlmmakers' Best Ten (E+J)

[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

The issue of Kinema Junpo that just hit the news stands (no. 1294) 
features the results of their poll of Japanese filmmakers (not critics) 
on the best Japanese films of all time.  This issue is the second 
commemorating their 80th anniversary (the previous issue did the foreign 
films).

The results are:

1. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
2. Floating Clouds (Naruse, 1955)
3. Hunger Straits (Uchida, 1964)
4. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
5. Sun Legend at the End of the Shogunate (Kawashima, 1957)
5. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
7. Intentions of Murder (Imamura, 1964)
8. Battle Without Honor series (Fukasaku, 1973-74)
9. Twenty-four Eyes (Kinoshita, 1954)
10. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953)

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7. ???? (??, 1964)
8. ??????????? (??, 1973-74)
9. ????? (??, 1954)
10. ???? (??, 1953)

Interesting that Hunger was picked above Tokyo Story and that at least 
three choices--Hunger, Sun Legend, and Battle--have barely ever been 
shown abroad.  Comparing the list with critics' choices is also 
interesting.  And you can also look up the best ten list of your favorite 
filmmaker.


Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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