Kinema Junpo's Top 100 Japanese Films of the 20th Century (1995)

1. Tokyo Story (1953)
2. Seven Samurai (1954)
3. Floating Clouds (1955)
4. Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
5. The Life of Oharu (1952)
6. A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
7. Rashomon (1950)
8. Ikiru (1952)
9. Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935)
10. The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957)
11. Early Summer (1951)
12. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
13. Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
14. A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1927)
15. Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)
16. The Life of Matsu the Untamed (1943)
17. Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
18. Yojimbo (1961)
19. Naniwa Elegy (1936)
20. The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959)
21. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches on (1987)
22. Battles Without Honour & Humanity (1973)
23. Crimson Comet (1967)
24. Naked Youth (1960)
25. Late Autumn (1960)
26. Intentions of Murder (1964)
27. Till We Meet Again (1950)
28. Kagirinaki Zenshin (1937)
29. Naked Island (1960)
30. The Insect Woman (1963)
31. Kiru (1962)
32. Muddy River (1981)
33. Capricious Young Man (1936)
34. High and Low (1963)
35. Big Time Gambling Boss (1968)
36. Sisters of the Gion (1936)
37. Vacuum Zone (1952)
38. The Garden of Women (1954)
39. Fighting Elegy (1966)
40. Fire Festival (1985)
41. In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
42. Zigeunerweisen (1980)
43. Godzilla (1954)
44. Drunken Angel (1948)
45. A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
46. Meoto Zenzai (1955)
47. Samurai Vendetta (1959)
48. Harakiri (1962)
49. The Husband Witnessed (1964)
50. One Man of the Gambler's Code (1966)
51. The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
52. The Green Mountains (1949)
53. The Human Condition (1959-61)
54. Stray Dog (1949)
55. Yearning (1964)
56. I Was Born, But... (1932)
57. A Woman with Red Hair (1979)
58. Sansho Dayu (1954)
59. Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
60. Cupola (1962)
61. The Graceful Brute (1962)
62. Narita: Heta Village (1973)
63. Enjo (1958)
64. The Loyal 47 Ronin of the Genroku Era (1941)
65. The Song Lantern (1943)
66. The Army (1994)
67. Younger Brother (1960)
68. Repast (1951)
69. She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
70. Confidential: Secret Market (1974)
71. The Ceremony (1971)
72. Ichijo's Wet Lust (1972)
73. 18 Who Cause a Storm (1963)
74. Zirou Takeshi Kingdoms (1952-54)
75. The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968)
76. Stakeout (1958)
77. Singing Lovebirds (1939)
78. The Ball at the Anjo House (1947)
79. Boy (1969)
80. Throne of Blood (1957)
81. Magino Village: A Tale (1987)
82. Graveyard of Honour (1975)
83. Branded to Kill (1967)
84. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
85. The Thirteen Assassins (1963)
86. Genta Coast Sleeping with a Dagger (1932)
87. Sandakan 8 (1974)
88. Family Game (1983)
89. Kaoyaku (1971)
90. Once upon a Song (1939)
91. Mr. Thank You (1936)
92. Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers (1972)
93. Tokyo Drifter (1966)
94. Eros Plus Massacre (1969)
95. Nausicaä: Of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
96. Tokyo Brothers (1995)
97. Vengeance is mine (1979)
98. The Age of Assassins (1967)
99. Ballad of Narayama (1958)
100. Scattered Clouds (1967)