Kinema Junpo's Top 200 Japanese Films of All Time (2009)

1. Tokyo Story (1953)
2. Seven Samurai (1954)
3. Floating Clouds (1955)
4. The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957)
5. Battles Without Honour & Humanity (1973)
6. Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
7. Rashomon (1950)
8. Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935)
9. The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
10. Family Game (1983)
11. Stray Dog (1949)
12. Typhoon Club (1984)
13. Ikiru (1952)
14. Suzaki Paradise Red Light (1956)
15. High and Low (1963)
16. A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
17. Harakiri (1962)
18. Intentions of Murder (1964)
19. Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
20. The Castle of Sand (1974)
21. Failed Youth (1974)
22. Nausicaä: Of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
23. Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
24. Yojimbo (1961)
25. Fighting Elegy (1966)
26. Fall Guy (1982)
27. Boiling Point (1990)
28. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
29. Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)
30. She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
31. Flowing (1956)
32. Samurai Vendetta (1959)
33. Branded to Kill (1967)
34. Vengeance is mine (1979)
35. Zigeunerweisen (1980)
36. Here's to the Girls (1949)
37. Ball at the Anjo House (1947)
38. Late Spring (1949)
39. Till We Meet Again (1950)
40. The Life of Oharu (1952)
41. A Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (1955)
42. The Lower Depths (1957)
43. The Chase (1958)
44. Floating Weeds (1959)
45. Good Morning (1959)
46. Desperate Outpost (1959)
47. Her Brother (1960)
48. Naked Youth (1960)
49. The Graceful Brute (1962)
50. Proxy War (1973)
51. The Wanderers (1973)
52. The Youth Killer (1976)
53. Muddy River (1981)
54. The Funeral (1984)
55. Himatsuri (1985)
56. My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
57. Cure (1997)
58. Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
59. I Was Born, But... (1932)
60. What Did the Lady Forget? (1937)
61. Singing Lovebirds (1939)
62. The Live of Matsu the Untamed (1943)
63. Carmen Comes Home (1951)
64. The Human Condition (1959-61)
65. The Human Vapor (1960)
66. Sanjuro (1962)
67. The Insect Woman (1963)
68. Pale Flower (1964)
69. Yearning (1964)
70. Tokyo Drifter (1966)
71. Japan's Longest Day (1967)
72. The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968)
73. The Human Bullet (1968)
74. Big Time Gambling Boss (1968)
75. I, the Executioner (1968)
76. Boy (1969)
77. Double Suicide (1969)
78. Tora-san (1969-95)
79. Take Care, Red Riding Hood (1970)
80. Red Peony Gambles Her Life (1970)
81. Kaoyaku (1971)
82. Wet Sand in August (1971)
83. Three Mad Dog Brothers (1972)
84. Confidential: Secret Market (1974)
85. Castle of Gagliostro (1979)
86. Kagemusha (1980)
87. Crazy Thunder Road (1980)
88. Crazed Fruit (1981)
89. A Japanese Village (1982)
90. P. P. Rider (1983)
91. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
92. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983)
93. Love Hotel (1985)
94. Ran (1985)
95. No More Comics (1986)
96. Castle in the Sky (1986)
97. Tetsuo (1989)
98. Moving (1993)
99. Sonatine (1993)
100. Kids Return (1996)
101. Crazyon Shin-chan (2001)
102. The Twilight Samurai (2002)
103. Bright Future (2003)
104. Rambler (2003)
105. Summer Days with Coo (2007)
106. A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1927)
107. Capricious Young Man (1936)
108. Sisters of the Gion (1936)
109. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
110. Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
111. Ware Maboroshi No Sakana O Mitari (1950)
112. Early Summer (1951)
113. Lightning (1952)
114. Mother (1952)
115. Jirocho Sangokuchi (1952-54)
116. Godzilla (1954)
117. Street of Shame (1956)
118. Juvenile Passion (1956)
119. Throne of Blood (1957)
120. Tokyo Twilight (1957)
121. Washi to Taka (1957)
122. Enjo (1958)
123. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
124. Ghost Story of Yotsuya (1959)
125. Late Autumn (1960)
126. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
127. Hito Mo Arukeba (1960)
128. Ten Dark Women (1961)
129. The Last War (1961)
130. A Wife Confesses (1961)
131. Foundry Town (1962)
132. Destiny's Son (1962)
133. The Outcast (1962)
134. The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963)
135. The Thirteen Assassins (1963)
136. Woman of the Dunes (1964)
137. Red Beard (1965)
138. Seisaku's Wife (1965)
139. Story of a Prostitute (1965)
140. The Hitman (1967)
141. Like a Shooting Star (1967)
142. A Colt Is My Passport (1967)
143. Tora-san: It's Tough Being a Man (1969)
144. Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969)
145. Violence Without a Cause (1969)
146. Dodes'ka-den (1970)
147. Hakucyu No Syugeki (1970)
148. Minata (1972)
149. The Morning Schedule (1972)
150. Night of the Felines (1972)
151. Akai Tori Nigeta? (1973)
152. Tora-san's Forget Me Not (1973)
153. Narita: Heta Village (1973)
154. Street of Joy (1974)
155. Shiranui Sea (1975)
156. Graveyard of Honour (1975)
157. Preparation for the Festival (1975)
158. In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
159. Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
160. House (1977)
161. The Devil's Boucing Ball Song (1977)
162. Shinjuku Midaregai: Ikumade Matte (1977)
163. Mount Hakkoda (1977)
164. Rape! 13th Hour (1977)
165. Third Base (1978)
166. Path of the Beast (1980)
167. Station (1981)
168. Attacked Women (1981)
169. Angel Guts: Red Prono (1981)
170. Something Like It (1981)
171. The Imperial Navy (1981)
172. Transfer Student (1982)
173. Burst City (1982)
174. The Makioka Sisters (1983)
175. Inujini Sesi Mono (1986)
176. The Sea and Poison (1986)
177. Violent Cop (1989)
178. The Sting of Death (1990)
179. A Scene at the Sea (1991)
180. The Rocking Horsemen (1992)
181. Tetsuo 2 (1992)
182. Where is the Moon? (1993)
183. Shall We Dance? (1996)
184. Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment (1996)
185. Gakko 3: the New Voyage (1998)
186. Face (2000)
187. Kaza-Hana (2000)
188. Swing Girls (2004)
189. Nobody Knows (2004)
190. The Reason (2004)
191. Break Through! (2004)
192. Who's Camus Anyway? (2005)
193. Memories of Matsuko (2006)
194. Hula Girls (2006)
195. What the Snow Brings (2005)
196. Departures (2008)
197. All Around Us (2008)
198. Children of the Dark (2008)