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Cinema of
Japan
List of Japanese films
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1930s 1940s
1950s
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1960s
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East Asian cinema
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
Godzilla (Ishirō Honda)
Godzilla (Ishirō Honda)
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano)
Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano)

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Korean cinema encompasses the motion picture industries of North Korea and South Korea. The Cinema of Mongolia has been strongly influenced by the Cinema of Russia, which differentiates it from cinematic developments in the rest of Asia is the last film completed by Japanese filmmaker Sadao Yamanaka. was a Japanese Film director and Writer who directed 24 films during a seven-year period in the 1930s is a 1953 Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu. It tells the story of a mother and father who travel to the bustling metropolis of Tokyo to visit their grown children was an influential Japanese Filmmaker. Marriage and family were among the most persistent themes in his body of work ('Tales of Moonlight and Rain' or 'Tales Of The Pale And Silvery Moon After The Rain' is a 1953 film by Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi. Kenji Mizoguchi (溝口 健二 Mizoguchi Kenji; May 16, 1898 &ndash August 24, 1956) was a prominent Japanese film is a 1954 Japanese film co-written edited and directed by Akira Kurosawa. is a successful landmark 1954 Japanese Science fiction film directed and co-written by Ishiro Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya Ishirō Honda (本多 猪四郎 Honda Ishirō) sometimes miscredited in foreign releases as "Inoshiro Honda" ( May 7 1911 in Yamagata Prefecture is a 1988 Japanese anime film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. is a Hana-bi is a 1997 Japanese film starring written directed and edited by Japanese Filmmaker Takeshi Kitano. is a Japanese Filmmaker, Comedian, Actor, Film editor, Presenter, Screenwriter, Author, Poet For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.

Contents

Genres

History

The Silent Era

The first films produced in Japan were Bake Jizo (Jizo the Spook) and Shinin no sosei (Resurrection of a Corpse), both from 1898[1]. The short Geisha no teodori (芸者の手踊り) was the first documentary, made in June 1899.

Japan's first star was Matsunosuke Onoe, a kabuki actor who appeared in over 1,000 films, mostly shorts, between 1909 and 1926. ( September 12, 1875 – September 11, 1926) sometimes known as Medama no Matchan ( "Eyeballs" Matsu), was a Japanese is a form of traditional Japanese theatre. Kabuki theatre is known for the stylization of its drama and for the elaborate Make-up worn by some of its performers An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works He and director Shozo Makino helped to popularize the jidaigeki genre. is a Genre of Film, Television, and Theatre in Japan. The name means "period drama" and the period is usually the Edo period [2]

The first female Japanese performer to appear in a film professionally was the dancer/actress Tokuko Nagai Takagi, who appeared in four shorts for the American-based Thanhouser Company between 1911 and 1914. Dance (from French danser, perhaps from Frankish) is an Art form that generally refers to movement of the body usually rhythmic The Thanhouser Company (later the Thanhouser Film Corporation) was a motion picture studio founded in 1909 by Edwin Thanhouser (November 11 1865 - March 21 1956 [3]

Some of the most discussed silent films from Japan are those of Kenji Mizoguchi, whose later works (e. Kenji Mizoguchi (溝口 健二 Mizoguchi Kenji; May 16, 1898 &ndash August 24, 1956) was a prominent Japanese film g. , The Life of Oharu) are still highly regarded today. is a 1952 Film by director Kenji Mizoguchi starring Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu a one-time concubine of a daimyō (and

Most Japanese cinema theatres at the time employed benshi, narrators whose dramatic readings accompanied the film and its musical score which, like in the West, was often performed live. Benshi (弁士 in Japanese) or Katsudō-Benshi (活動弁士 were Japanese performers who provided live narration for Silent films The term Western world, the West or the Occident ( Latin: occidens -sunset -west as distinct from the Orient) can have multiple meanings [4]

The 1923 earthquake, the Allied bombing of Tokyo during World War II, as well as the natural effects of time and Japan's humidity on the then more fragile filmstock have all resulted in a great dearth of surviving films from this period. The struck the Kantō plain on the Japanese main island of Honshū at 1158 on the morning of September 1, 1923. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air In daily language the term "humidity" is normally taken to mean Relative humidity. Celluloid is the name of a class of compounds created from Nitrocellulose and Camphor, plus dyes and other agents

A study of the gendaigeki (contemporary/modern film drama) and writing for film in Japan in the 1910s to early 1920s, with select translations of scripts (complete as well as excerpts) is available in "Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement" (Joanne Bernardi, Wayne State University Press, 2001).

The 1930s

Unlike Hollywood, silent films were still being produced in Japan well into the 1930s. Notable talkies of this period include Kenji Mizoguchi's Sisters of the Gion (Gion no shimai, 1936), Osaka Elegy (1936) and The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), along with Sadao Yamanaka's Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) and Mikio Naruse's Wife, Be Like A Rose! (Tsuma Yo Bara No Yoni, 1935), which was one of the first Japanese films to gain a theatrical release in the U. A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image as opposed to a Silent film. is a 1936 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, probably the first well-known film from his middle period 1939) is a Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. The film is regarded as one of Mizoguchi's greatest pre-war achievements was a Japanese Film director and Writer who directed 24 films during a seven-year period in the 1930s is the last film completed by Japanese filmmaker Sadao Yamanaka. was a Japanese Film director, Writer and producer who directed some 89 films spanning from the end of the silent era (1930 through the sixties (1967 S. However, with increasing censorship, the left-leaning tendency films of directors such as Daisuke Ito also began to come under attack. A is a name given to the socially-conscious left-leaning films produced in Japan during the 1920s and 30s A few Japanese sound shorts were made in the 1920s and 1930s, but Japan's first feature-length talkie was Fujiwara Yoshie no furusato (1930), which used the Mina Talkie System.

The 1940s

Akira Kurosawa made his feature film debut with Sugata Sanshiro in 1943. was the directorial debut of the Oscar -winning Japanese Film director Akira Kurosawa. With the SCAP occupation following the end of WWII, Japan was exposed to over a decade's worth of American animation that had been banned under the war-time government. Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers ( SCAP) was the title held by General Douglas MacArthur during the Occupation of Japan following World War II World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames Yasujiro Ozu directed the critically and commercially successful Late Spring in 1949. was an influential Japanese Filmmaker. Marriage and family were among the most persistent themes in his body of work is a 1949 Japanese film by Yasujirō Ozu. Many consider this extremely chaste film between a father and his marriageable daughter his finest achievement

The 1950s

The 1950s were the zenith of Japanese cinema, and three of its films (Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Tokyo Story) made the Sight & Sound's 2002 Critics and Directors Poll for the best films of all time. is a 1950 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with Cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. is a 1954 Japanese film co-written edited and directed by Akira Kurosawa. is a 1953 Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu. It tells the story of a mother and father who travel to the bustling metropolis of Tokyo to visit their grown children Sight & Sound ( is a British monthly Film Magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI [5] The decade started with Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and marked the entrance of Japanese cinema onto the world stage. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars handed out annually by the U It was also the breakout role for legendary star Toshirō Mifune. Toshirō Mifune (ja 三船 敏郎 Mifune Toshirō toɕiɺoː 1 April, 1920 – 24 December, 1997) was a Japanese [6] 1952 and 1953 saw another Kurosawa film, Ikiru, as well as Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. is a 1952 Japanese film written and directed by the acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

Also released in 1953, was Gate of Hell directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Gate of Hell ( Japanese: 地獄門 Jigokumon) is a 1953 film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. ( 1 January 1896 - 26 February 1982) was a Japanese Film director. This was the first movie that filmed using Eastmancolor film, Gate of Hell was both Daiei's first color film and the first Japanese color movie to be released outside of Japan, receiving an Oscar in 1954 for Best Costume Design created by Sanzo Wada. Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation is a Japanese Movie studio. History Founded in 1942 as, the studio went bankrupt in 1971. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. This Academy Award was first given for movies made in 1948 when separate awards were given for black-and-white and color movies Sanzo Wada ( 3 March, 1883 &ndash 22 August, 1967) is a painter and a Costume designer who won the Academy Award for

The year 1954 saw two of Japan's most influential films released. The first was the Kurosawa epic Seven Samurai, about a band of hired samurai who protect a helpless village from a rapacious gang of thieves, which was remade in the West as The Magnificent Seven. is a 1954 Japanese film co-written edited and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 Western film directed by John Sturges about a group of hired gunmen protecting a Mexican village from

That same year Ishirō Honda released the anti-nuclear horror film Gojira, which was translated in the West as Godzilla. Ishirō Honda (本多 猪四郎 Honda Ishirō) sometimes miscredited in foreign releases as "Inoshiro Honda" ( May 7 1911 in Yamagata Prefecture is a successful landmark 1954 Japanese Science fiction film directed and co-written by Ishiro Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya Etymology Name "Godzilla" is a combination of two Japanese words and. Though it was severely edited for its Western release, Godzilla became an international icon of Japan and spawned an entire industry of Kaiju films. is a Japanese word that means "strange beast" but often translated in English as " Monster. In 1955, Hiroshi Inagaki won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Part I of his Samurai Trilogy. Hiroshi Inagaki (稲垣浩 Inagaki Hiroshi 30 December 1905 &ndash 21 May 1980) was a Japanese filmmaker most known for the (released in the United States as Samurai I Musashi Miyamoto) is a 1954 film by Hiroshi Inagaki starring Toshirô Mifune. The Samurai Trilogy is a film Trilogy directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring Toshiro Mifune as Miyamoto Musashi and Koji Tsuruta

Kon Ichikawa directed two anti-war dramas: The Burmese Harp (1956), and Fires On The Plain (1959), along with Enjo (1958), which was adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel Temple Of The Golden Pavilion. was a prominent Japanese Film director. Early career In the 1930s Ichikawa attended a technical school in Osaka. (aka Harp of Burma) is a 1956 Black-and-white Japanese Film directed by Kon Ichikawa. is a 1959 Japanese War film directed by Kon Ichikawa, starring Eiji Funakoshi. is a 1958 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa and adapted from the Yukio Mishima novel The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. was the pseudonym of, a Japanese author poet and

Masaki Kobayashi made two of the three films which would collectively become known as the The Human Condition Trilogy: No Greater Love (1958), and The Road To Eternity (1959). was a Japanese director. Among his films is Kwaidan (1965 a collection of four ghost stories drawn from the book by Lafcadio The Human Condition (人間の條件 Ningen no jōken) is a Japanese Epic film trilogy made between 1959 and 1961. The trilogy was completed in 1961, with A Soldier's Prayer.

Kenji Mizoguchi directed The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953) and Sansho the Bailiff (1954). ('Tales of Moonlight and Rain' or 'Tales Of The Pale And Silvery Moon After The Rain' is a 1953 film by Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi. Sansho the Bailiff ( Japanese: |山椒大夫| Sanshō Dayū) is a 1954 film by Japanese Film director Kenji He won the Silver Bear at the Venice Film Festival for Ugetsu. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest Film festival in the world

Mikio Naruse made Repast (1950), Late Chrysanthemums (1954), The Sound of the Mountain (1954) and Floating Clouds (1955). is a 1951 Film by Mikio Naruse, starring Setsuko Hara. It is set in postwar Osaka and it is about a woman who has moved from Tokyo

Yasujiro Ozu directed Good Morning (1959) and Floating Weeds (1958), which was adapted from his earlier silent A Story of Floating Weeds (1934), and was shot by Rashomon/Sansho the Bailiff cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. is a 1959 Comedy Film by director Yasujiro Ozu. It is a loose Remake of his own 1932 Silent film I Was is a 1959 film directed by Yasujiro Ozu and shot in colour by Kazuo Miyagawa, one of Japan's most highly regarded cinematographers is a 1934 Silent film directed by Yasujiro Ozu which he later remade as Floating Weeds in 1959 is generally recognized as having been one of the finest Japanese Cinematographers Miyagawa is best known for his superbly refined tracking shots particularly those in

The 1960s

Akira Kurosawa directed the 1961 classic Yojimbo, which is considered a huge influence on the Western. is a 1961 Jidaigeki (period drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa. Yasujiro Ozu made his final film, An Autumn Afternoon, in 1962. (1962 was the final film directed by Yasujiro Ozu, who died the following year Mikio Naruse directed the widescreen melodrama When a Woman Ascends the Stairs in 1960; his final film was Scattered Clouds, the second of two films he completed in 1967. is a 1960 Japanese Drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. Keiko a young widow becomes a bar hostess in Ginza to make ends meet

Technicolor arrived in Japan in the 1960s. Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation Kon Ichikawa captured the watershed 1964 Olympics in his three-hour documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965). The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, were an International Multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Olympiad (東京オリンピック Tōkyō Orinpikku) is a 1965 Documentary film directed by Kon Ichikawa which documents the Seijun Suzuki was fired by Nikkatsu for "making films that don't make any sense and don't make any money" after his surrealist yakuza flick Branded to Kill (1967). born Seitaro Suzuki (鈴木 清太郎 Suzuki Seitarō) on May 24, 1923, is a Japanese Film director. is Japanese entertainment company well known for its Film and Television productions Yakuza eiga, or yakuza films, is a popular Film genre in Japanese cinema which focuses on the lives and dealings of Yakuza is a 1967 Japanese Yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Joe Shishido, Koji Nanbara, Annu Mari and Mariko

Nagisa Oshima, Kaneto Shindo, Susumu Hani and Shohei Imamura emerged as major filmmakers during the decade. in Hiroshima, Japan is a Japanese Film director. He was married to actress Nobuko Otowa (1925–1994 who appeared in several of his films is a Japanese Film director, and one of the most prominent representatives of the 1960s Japanese New Wave. was a Japanese Film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards and is regarded as one of the most important and idiosyncratic filmmakers Oshima's Cruel Story of Youth, Night and Fog in Japan and Death By Hanging became three of the better-known examples of Japanese New Wave filmmaking, alongside Shindo's Onibaba, Hani's She And He and Imamura's The Insect Woman. ( 1960) was the second film directed by Nagisa Oshima. Oshima who was only 28 at the time made extensive use of hand-held cameras and location shooting and the results is a 1960 film from Japanese director Nagisa Oshima. It is an intensely political film- both in subject matter ( Zengakuren opposition in 1950 and is a 1968 film directed by Nagisa Oshima, acclaimed for its innovative Brechtian techniques and complex treatments of guilt and consciousness justice and the The Japanese New Wave, or, is the term for a group of Japanese Film directors emerging from the late 1950s through the early 1970s ( 1964) is a Japanese horror film based on a Buddhist Parable. is a 1963 film directed by Japanese director Shōhei Imamura.

Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes (1964) won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film Oscars. was an Avant-garde Japanese filmmaker. He was born in Tokyo, son to the famous Sofu Teshigahara, founder and grand master of the Sogetsu The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing (Best Director is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS to "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan (1965) also picked up the Special Jury Prize at Cannes. is a 1964 Japanese Anthology film directed by Masaki Kobayashi; the title means 'ghost story'

The 1970s

Nagisa Oshima directed In the Realm of the Senses (1976), a World War II period piece about Sada Abe. is a 1976 Franco - Japanese Film directed by Nagisa Oshima. It is a fictional and sexually explicit treatment of a true story which occurred in World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including is infamous in Japan for erotically asphyxiating her lover, on May 18, 1936, and then cutting off his Penis and Testicles Staunchly anti-censorship, he insisted that the film would contain hardcore pornographic material; as a result the exposed film had to be shipped to France for processing, and an uncut version of the film has still, to this day, never been shown in Japan. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. However, the pink film industry became the stepping stone for young independent filmmakers of Japan. is a style of Japanese softcore pornographic theatrical film Films of this genre first appeared in the early 1960s and dominated the Japanese domestic cinema from the mid-1960s

Yoji Yamada introduced the commercially successful Tora-San series, while also directing other films, notably the popular The Yellow Handkerchief. Yoji Yamada (山田 洋次 Yamada Yōji, born September 13 1931 in Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese director Otoko wa tsurai yo (男はつらいよ "It's tough being a man" is a Japanese film series starring Kiyoshi Atsumi as " Tora-san

Kinji Fukasaku completed the epic Battles Without Honor and Humanity series of yakuza films. was a Japanese film actor writer and best known as a celebrated and innovative director. is a 1973 Yakuza film by Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku and adapted from a series of newspaper articles by Koichi Iiboshi, a Journalist

New wave filmmakers Susumu Hani and Shohei Imamura retreated to documentary work, though Imamura made a dramatic return to feature filmmaking with Vengeance Is Mine (1979). Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality Vengeance Is Mine ( Japanese title 復讐するは我にあり fukushū suru wa ware ni ari) is a 1979 film directed by Shohei Imamura,

The 1980s

Hayao Miyazaki adapted his manga Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind into a feature film in 1984. is a ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly This article is about a manga For the film of the same name see Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. is a 1984 film by Japanese Writer, Illustrator, and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, based on his Manga of the same Katsuhiro Otomo followed suit with his Akira in 1988. is a Japanese Manga artist and director He is perhaps best known for being the creator of the manga Akira and its anime adaptation, which are extremely is a 1988 Japanese animated Film co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his manga of the same name New anime movies were run every summer and winter with characters from popular TV anime.

Shohei Imamura won the Golden Palm at Cannes for The Ballad of Narayama (1983). is a 1983 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. It stars Sumiko Sakamoto as Orin Ken Ogata, and Shoichi Ozawa.

Akira Kurosawa directed Kagemusha (1980) and Ran (1985). is a 1980 film by Akira Kurosawa. The title (which means "Shadow Warrior" in Japanese) is a term used for an Impersonator. is a 1985 film written and directed by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Likewise, Seijun Suzuki made a comeback, beginning with Zigeunerweisen in 1980. is a 1980 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and based on Hyakken Uchida's novel Disk of Sarasate.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to Akira Kurosawa) debuted, initially with pink films and genre horror, though growing beyond this (and generating international attention) beginning in the mid 1990s. is a Japanese filmmaker best known for his many contributions to the J-horror genre

The 1990s

Shohei Imamura again won the Golden Palm (shared with Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami), this time for The Eel (1997), joining Alf Sjöberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Bille August as only the fourth two-time recipient. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. Abbas Kiarostami ( `Abbās Kiyārostamī born 22 June 1940 is an internationally acclaimed Iranian Film director, Screenwriter, and Film producer The Eel ( Japanese: うなぎ Unagi) is a 1997 film directed by Shohei Imamura starring Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu Alf Sjöberg ( 21 June 1903 &ndash 16 April 1980) was a Swedish Theatre and Film director. Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award -winning American Film director, Bille August (born November 9, 1948) is a Danish Film and Television director.

Takeshi Kitano emerged as a significant filmmaker with works such as Sonatine (1993), Kids Return (1996) and Hana-bi (1997), which was given the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. is a Japanese Filmmaker, Comedian, Actor, Film editor, Presenter, Screenwriter, Author, Poet is a 1993 Japanese film written directed edited by and starring Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano. is a 1996 Japanese film written edited and directed by Japanese Filmmaker Takeshi Kitano. Hana-bi is a 1997 Japanese film starring written directed and edited by Japanese Filmmaker Takeshi Kitano.

Takashi Miike launched a prolific career, making up to 50 films in a decade, building up an impressive portfolio with titles such as, Audition (1999), Dead or Alive (1999) and The Bird People in China (1998). (born August 24, 1960) is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese Filmmaker. abbreviated as DOA ( Dii ō ei) is a 1999 Japanese yakuza action Film directed by Takashi Miike. The Bird People in China (中国の鳥人 Chûgoku no chôjin) is a 1998 Japanese movie directed by Takashi Miike.

Former documentary filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda launched an acclaimed feature career with Maborosi (1996) and After Life (1999). Hirokazu Kore-Eda (是枝裕和 Kore-Eda Hirokazu, born in 1962 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese Film director. Maborosi, known in Japan as Maboroshi no Hikari (幻の光 literally "phantasmic light" ( 1995) is a Japanese is a 1998 Film by Japanese director Koreeda Hirokazu starring Arata, Oda Erika and Terajima Susumu.

Hayao Miyazaki directed two mammoth box office and critical successes, Porco Rosso (1992) which beat E.T. (1982) as the highest-grossing film in Japan, and Princess Mononoke (1997) which also claimed the top box office spot until Titanic (1997) beat it. is the sixth Anime film by Hayao Miyazaki, released in 1992, about an Italian World War I fighter ace now living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing This article is about the 1982 film For the term "ET" which redirects here see ET. is a 1997 Japanese Anime film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. Titanic is a 1997 Disaster film directed written co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''

In addition, several new anime directors rose to widespread recognition, bringing with them newfound notions of anime as not only entertainment, but modern art:

2000 and after

Battle Royale was released, based on a popular novel by the same name. is a 2000 Japanese film based on the novel of the same name and directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It gained cult film status in Japan and in Britain. A cult film is a Film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. Hayao Miyazaki came out of retirement to direct Spirited Away (2001), breaking Japanese box office records and winning the U. is a 2001 film by the Japanese Anime studio Studio Ghibli, written and directed by famed animator Hayao Miyazaki. S. Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is one of the annual Awards given by the Los Angeles -based professional organization the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and In 2002, Dolls was released, followed by a high-budget remake, Zatoichi in 2003, both directed and written by Takeshi Kitano. is a 2002 Japanese film written edited and directed by Japanese director Takeshi Kitano. is a 2003 Japanese samurai drama and Action film, directed written co-edited and starring Japanese entertainment legend Takeshi Kitano ( The J-Horror films Ringu, Kairo, Dark Water, Yogen, and the Grudge series were remade in English and met with commercial success. J-Horror is a term used to refer to Japanese contributions to Horror fiction in popular culture is a 1998 Japanese horror mystery Film from director Hideo Nakata, adapted from the novel of the same name is a 2001 J-Horror Film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The film was based on his novel of the same name and was released in the US in 2005 Dark Water is a 2002 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, the director of Ring and Ring 2 is a 2004 Japanese Film directed by Tsuruta Norio. Yogen is based on the Manga Kyoufu Shinbun ("Newspaper of is the title of a series of Horror films by Japanese director Takashi Shimizu. In 2004, Godzilla: Final Wars, directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, was released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Godzilla. is the fiftieth anniversary film and the twenty-eighth film in the ''Godzilla'' film series. (born May 30, 1969) is a Japanese Film director growing in popularity in Japan and in the international Japanese film community In 2005, director Seijun Suzuki made his 56th film, Princess Raccoon. is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. The " Raccoon " of the English title is actually a translation for the Tanuki. Hirokazu Koreeda claimed film festival awards around the world with two of his films Distance and Nobody Knows. Distance is a 2001 movie by Japanese director Koreeda Hirokazu, starring Arata, Asano Tadanobu Nobody Knows (誰も知らない Dare mo shiranai) is a 2004 Japanese Film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. In 2004, Mamoru Oshii released Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (known in Japan simply as "Innocence",) which, like the first film, received noteworthy critical praise around the world. is the 2004 sequel to the Anime Film Ghost in the Shell. Released in Japan on March 6, 2004, with a U Suicide Circles maverick director Sion Sono released four films, Strange Circus, Exte: Hair Extensions, HAZARD and the prequel/sequel to Suicide Circle, Noriko's Dinner Table. Suicide Club, known in Japan as is a 2002 Japanese Independent film and part of a trilogy that gained a considerable amount HAZARD is a 2005 Japanese film mostly shot in New York, written and directed by Sono Sion, starring Joe Odagiri and is the follow-up to the Cult movie Suicide Club ( Jisatsu Sākuru) a Japanese film concerning a mass suicide of 54 schoolgirls and how it leads the law Satoshi Kon also released three quieter, but nonetheless highly successful films in 2001, 2003 and 2006 respectively: Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, and Paprika. is a 2001 Japanese animated film by director Satoshi Kon and animated by the Studio Madhouse. is a 2003 Anime film by Japanese director Satoshi Kon. Tokyo Godfathers is Kon's third animated movie which he wrote and is a Japanese animated Science fiction film based on Yasutaka Tsutsui 's 1993 novel of the same name, about a research psychologist

Japanese films

References

  1. ^ Seek Japan | J-Horror: An Alternative Guide
  2. ^ Who's Who in Japanese Silent Films (html). This is a list of Films produced in Japan in year order ordered by decade on separate pages Matsuda Film Productions. Retrieved on 2007-01-05. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1477 - Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
  3. ^ Cohen, Aaron M. . Tokuko Nagai Takaki: Japan's First Film Actress (html). Bright Lights Film Journal 30 (October 2000). Retrieved on 2007-01-05. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1477 - Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
  4. ^ For more on benshi, see the books:
  5. ^ BFI | Sight & Sound | Top Ten Poll 2002
  6. ^ Prince, Stephen (1999). The Warrior's Camera. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01046-3.  , p. 127.

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