Muddy River 1981

The top 100 Japanese movies of all time as chosen by the Kinema Junpo magazine.

Missing:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287648/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071111/

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20120330015712/http://www.kinejun.jp/special/90alltimebest/index.html

List created and maintained by https://listrr.pro

:popcorn: :jp:
Updated Jan 2022
Top Japanese Movies manually curated based on:
- cinemaescapist.com
- asianmoviepulse.com
- letterbox.com
- bfi.org.uk
- kinejun.jp

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (Winners & Nominees)

Source: https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/best-japanese-film-every-year

"The best Japanese film of every year – from 1925 to now"
—

via /
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/best-japanese-film-every-year

All nominees including the winners of the Honorary Award.

Note: Un lugar en el mundo (1992) was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees_for_Best_Foreign_Language_Film#Winners_and_nominees

Slowly adding nominations from older editions. In the meantime, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees_for_Best_Foreign_Language_Film

Collection of additional "must-see" Danny Perry's movies, presented in the back of his "Guide for the Film Fanatic"

546 movies missing. Imported from external source.

List of Nominees and Winners.

• Actor in a Leading Role

Warren Beatty in "Reds"
Henry Fonda in "On Golden Pond" - WINNER
Burt Lancaster in "Atlantic City"
Dudley Moore in "Arthur"
Paul Newman in "Absence of Malice"

• Actor in a Supporting Role

James Coco in "Only When I Laugh"
John Gielgud in "Arthur" - WINNER
Ian Holm in "Chariots of Fire"
Jack Nicholson in "Reds"
Howard E. Rollins, Jr. in "Ragtime"

• Actress in a Leading Role

Katharine Hepburn in "On Golden Pond" - WINNER
Diane Keaton in "Reds"
Marsha Mason in "Only When I Laugh"
Susan Sarandon in "Atlantic City"
Meryl Streep in "The French Lieutenant’s Woman"

• Actress in a Supporting Role

Melinda Dillon in "Absence of Malice"
Jane Fonda in "On Golden Pond"
Joan Hackett in "Only When I Laugh"
Elizabeth McGovern in "Ragtime"
Maureen Stapleton in "Reds" - WINNER

• Art Direction

"The French Lieutenant’s Woman" Art Direction: Assheton Gorton; Set Decoration: Ann Mollo
"Heaven’s Gate" Art Direction: Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Jim Berkey
"Ragtime" Art Direction: John Graysmark, Patrizia Von Brandenstein, Anthony Reading; Set Decoration: George de Titta, Sr., George de Titta, Jr., Peter Howitt
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" Art Direction: Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley; Set Decoration: Michael Ford - WINNER
"Reds" Art Direction: Richard Sylbert; Set Decoration: Michael Seirton

• Cinematography

"Excalibur" Alex Thomson
"On Golden Pond" Billy Williams
"Ragtime" Miroslav Ondricek
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" Douglas Slocombe
"Reds" Vittorio Storaro - WINNER

• Costume Design

"Chariots of Fire" Milena Canonero - WINNER
"The French Lieutenant’s Woman" Tom Rand
"Pennies from Heaven" Bob Mackie
"Ragtime" Anna Hill Johnstone
"Reds" Shirley Russell

• Directing

"Atlantic City" Louis Malle
"Chariots of Fire" Hugh Hudson
"On Golden Pond" Mark Rydell
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" Steven Spielberg
"Reds" Warren Beatty - WINNER

• Documentary (Feature)

"Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey" Suzanne Bauman, Paul Neshamkin and Jim Burroughs, Producers
"Brooklyn Bridge" Ken Burns, Producer
"Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott" Mary Benjamin, Susanne Simpson and Boyd Estus, Producers
"El Salvador: Another Vietnam" Glenn Silber and Tete Vasconcellos, Producers
"Genocide" Arnold Schwartzman and Rabbi Marvin Hier, Producers - WINNER

• Documentary (Short Subject)

"Americas in Transition" Obie Benz, Producer
"Close Harmony" Nigel Noble, Producer - WINNER
"Journey for Survival" Dick Young, Producer
"See What I Say" Linda Chapman, Pam LeBlanc and Freddi Stevens, Producers
"Urge to Build" Roland Hallé and John Hoover, Producers

• Film Editing

"Chariots of Fire" Terry Rawlings
"The French Lieutenant’s Woman" John Bloom
"On Golden Pond" Robert L. Wolfe
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" Michael Kahn - WINNER
"Reds" Dede Allen, Craig McKay

• Foreign Language Film

"The Boat Is Full" Switzerland
"Man of Iron" Poland
"Mephisto" Hungary - WINNER
"Muddy River" Japan
"Three Brothers" Italy

• Makeup

"An American Werewolf in London" Rick Baker - WINNER
"Heartbeeps" Stan Winston

• Music (Original Score)

"Chariots of Fire" Vangelis - WINNER
"Dragonslayer" Alex North
"On Golden Pond" Dave Grusin
"Ragtime" Randy Newman
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" John Williams

• Music (Original Song)

"Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)" from "Arthur" Music and Lyric by Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross and Peter Allen - WINNER
"Endless Love" from "Endless Love" Music and Lyric by Lionel Richie
"The First Time It Happens" from "The Great Muppet Caper" Music and Lyric by Joe Raposo
"For Your Eyes Only" from "For Your Eyes Only" Music by Bill Conti; Lyric by Mick Leeson
"One More Hour" from "Ragtime" Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

• Best Picture

"Atlantic City" Denis Heroux and John Kemeny, Producers
"Chariots of Fire" David Puttnam, Producer - WINNER
"On Golden Pond" Bruce Gilbert, Producer
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" Frank Marshall, Producer
"Reds" Warren Beatty, Producer

• Short Film (Animated)

"Crac" Producer - WINNER
"The Creation" Will Vinton, Producer
"The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin" Janet Perlman, Producer

• Short Film (Live Action)

"Couples and Robbers" Christine Oestreicher, Producer
"First Winter" John N. Smith, Producer
"Violet" Paul Kemp and Shelley Levinson, Producers - WINNER

• Sound

"On Golden Pond" Richard Portman, David Ronne
"Outland" John K. Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass, Jr., Robert M. Thirlwell, Robin Gregory
"Pennies from Heaven" Michael J. Kohut, Jay M. Harding, Richard Tyler, Al Overton
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Roy Charman - WINNER
"Reds" Dick Vorisek, Tom Fleischman, Simon Kaye

• Visual Effects

"Dragonslayer" Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett, Ken Ralston, Brian Johnson
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" Richard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson, Joe Johnston - WINNER

• Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

"The French Lieutenant’s Woman" Harold Pinter
"On Golden Pond" Ernest Thompson - WINNER
"Pennies from Heaven" Dennis Potter
"Prince of the City" Jay Presson Allen, Sidney Lumet
"Ragtime" Michael Weller

• Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

"Absence of Malice" Kurt Luedtke
"Arthur" Steve Gordon
"Atlantic City" John Guare
"Chariots of Fire" Colin Welland - WINNER
"Reds" Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths

Thanks to all who’ve made this a very popular list, in spite of glitches causing dozens of fans to suddenly disappear :(

A big welcome to the land of cinematic wonders!

I’ve aimed for a rounded overview to include not only personal favourites but popular hits and international award winners, animé landmarks, avant-
garde films, the New Wave, erotic “pink films” and the great classics that are still the glory of world cinema.

Much of silent cinema before the 1930s has been lost, its Benshi narrators displaced but good finally to have the landmark film Souls on the Road on Mubi. In the 20s directors were able to learn their trade through prolific practice, aware of and encorporating developments in both the Soviet Union and the West… and then, what a wealth of wonders! Older masters: the unequalled aesthetic refinement of Mizoguchi, the charm of Shimizu, the quiet observational wisdom of Ozu, the tragically curtailed promise of Yamanaka, the balanced restraint of Naruse, the muscular humanism of Kurosawa… Then, a new generation from the late 50s, in full swing in the sexually freer 60s: the idealism of Kobayashi, the political bite of Oshima, the earthy subversion of Imamura, the cool of Suzuki and Masumura. the avant-garde Terayama.. So many to explore: Yoshida, Ichikawa Kon, Teshigahara, Shinoda, Wakamatsu, Kumai, the documentaries of Ogawa and Hara, the stop motion master Kawamoto, the blood soaked Fukasaku.. the rise of animé, with the international success of Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki’s beautiful flights of fancy, the spiky Tsukamoto, the popular appeal of Kitano, the prolific shocker Miike.. up to the present with Koreeda, Naomi Kawase, Sono, Kurosawa Kiyoshi… oh and i almost went without mentioning Samurai and Godzilla.

Source: http://mubi.com/lists/kenjis-japanese-canon

Missing on TMDB as of now:
ID: tt0242845, Title: Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress, Year: -

After doing Top 10's for many years, the Japanese magazine Kinema Junpo released a list of their Top 200 Japanese movies in 2009.

Source: http://www.kinejun.jp/special/90alltimebest/index.html

For those interested, here are many of the individual years Top 10s:
http://www.rinkworks.com/checklist/list.cgi?u=crimsong&U=crimsong&p=kinemajunpotop10s

PART 1 (1929-1946)
PART 2 (1947-1964)
PART 4 (1985-2002)
PART 5 (2003-2019)
PART 6 (2020-2024)

1-13 — 1965 Winners
14-56 — 1965 Nominees

57-71 — 1966 Winners
72-108 — 1966 Nominees

109-120 — 1967 Winners
121-160 — 1967 Nominees

161-174 — 1968 Winners
175-207 — 1968 Nominees

208-224 — 1969 Winners
225-258 — 1969 Nominees

259-272 — 1970 Winners
273-303 — 1970 Nominees

304-318 — 1971 Winners
319-351 — 1971 Nominees

352-364 — 1972 Winners
365-399 — 1972 Nominees

400-411 — 1973 Winners
412-446 — 1973 Nominees

447-459 — 1974 Winners
460-492 — 1974 Nominees

493-505 — 1975 Winners
506-541 — 1975 Nominees

542-553 — 1976 Winners
554-595 — 1976 Nominees

596-607 — 1977 Winners
608-645 — 1977 Nominees

646-657 — 1978 Winners
658-694 — 1978 Nominees

695-708 — 1979 Winners
709-742 — 1979 Nominees

743-755 — 1980 Winners
756-796 — 1980 Nominees

797-808 — 1981 Winners
809-844 — 1981 Nominees

845-855 — 1982 Winners
856-886 — 1982 Nominees

887-899 — 1983 Winners
900-933 — 1983 Nominees

934-944 — 1984 Winners
945-979 — 1984 Nominees

All the Oscar nominees in the Best International Feature Film category (1956 - to date, reverse chronological order display).
Winners list > https://trakt.tv/users/oropher_e/lists/academy-awards-best-international-feature-film-winners?sort=rank,desc

Japan's oldest film award. Awarded yearly by Kinema Junpo magazine since 1927.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinema_Junpo_Award_for_Best_Film_of_the_Year

Movies I need to see

Academy award winners and nominees best film all catagories,

Movies released during the 1980s to watch