Kinema Junpo's Top 100 Japanese Films of All Time (1999)

1. Seven Samurai (1954)
2. Floating Clouds (1955)
3. A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
4. Tokyo Story (1953)
5. The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957)
6. Rashomon (1950)
7. Intentions of Murder (1964)
8. Battles Without Honour & Humanity (1973)
9. Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
10. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
11. Ikiru (1952)
12. The Life of Oharu (1952)
13. Vacuum Zone (1952)
14. Harakiri (1962)
15. The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
16. My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
17. Muddy River (1981)
18. Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
19. The Rickshaw Man (1958)
20. Yojimbo (1961)
21. Fall Guy (1982)
22. Boy (1969)
23. All Under the Moon (1993)
24. Early Summer (1951)
25. Vengeance is mine (1979)
26. Family Game (1983)
27. The Castle of Sand (1974)
28. Naked Youth (1960)
29. The Human Condition (1959-61)
30. Till We Meet Again (1950)
31. Ichijo's Wet Lust (1972)
32. Cupola (1962)
33. Fighting Elegy (1966)
34. The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
35. Shall We Dance? (1996)
36. The Insect Woman (1963)
37. Marital Relations (1955)
38. Begging for Love (1998)
39. A Woman with Red Hair (1979)
40. Distant Thunder (1981)
41. Graveyard of Honour (1975)
42. Sonatine (1993)
43. High and Low (1963)
44. Japan's Longest Day (1967)
45. Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
46. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches on (1987)
47. Ryuji (1983)
48. Ball at the Anjo House (1947)
49. Young Brother (1960)
50. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
51. The Thirteen Assassins (1963)
52. Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)
53. Princess Mononoke (1995)
54. Beyond the Green Hills (1963)
55. The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968)
56. Kids Return (1996)
57. The Cherry Orchard (1990)
58. The Youth Killer (1976)
59. Typhoon Club (1984)
60. Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935)
61. Angel Guts Red Classroom (1979)
62. Ballad of Narayama (1958)
63. She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
64. Miyamoto Musashi (1962-65)
65. Ryoma Assassination (1974)
66. Street of Shame (1956)
67. Red Beard (1965)
68. Station (1981)
69. Twisted Path of Youth (1973)
70. Sado (1978)
71. The Makioka Sisters (1983)
72. Narita: Heta Village (1973)
73. Failed Youth (1974)
74. A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
75. Something Like It (1981)
76. Naked Island (1960)
77. Stakeout (1958)
78. Scattered Clouds (1967)
79. The Rendezvous (1972)
80. The Beast to Die (1980)
81. In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
82. Red Lantern (1974)
83. Capricious Young Man (1936)
84. The Devil's Ballad (1977)
85. Lightning (1952)
86. Singing Lovebirds (1939)
87. The Funeral (1984)
88. Kagemusha (1980)
89. House on Fire (1986)
90. Carmen Comes Home (1951)
91. Listen to the Roar of the Ocean (1950)
92. Cure (1997)
93. One Man of the Gambler's Code (1966)
94. Throne of Blood (1957)
95. Juvenile Passion (1956)
96. A Last Note (1995)
97. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
98. Jirocho Sangokuchi (1952-54)
99. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
100. Woman of the Dunes (1964)