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Add it nowNo, thanksThis is a list of films produced in Japan in year order ordered by decade on separate pages. For an A-Z of films see :Category:Japanese films. Also see cinema of Japan.
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- ‘Late Spring’ (1949) Director Yasujirō Ozu’s Late Spring falls into the Shomin-geki genre, a type of Japanese film that realistically depicts the ordinary lives of modern working-class and middle-class people.
- ‘Rashomon’ (1950) Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon was one of the most daring films of its era. It recounts how a heinous crime was interpreted from the different perspectives of a bandit, a samurai, the samurai’s wife, and a woodcutter, before ending on a stunning climax that questions the nature of humanity.
- ‘Seven Samurai’ (1954) Seven Samurai, another Kurosawa opus, is one of the most thrilling and emotionally resonant action films of all time, and a work of some philosophical depth.
- ‘Harakiri’ (1962) The action of Harakiri takes place between 1619 and 1630 and follows a ronin (masterless) elder samurai. He arrives at a feudal lord’s home requesting to commit harakiri, a ritualistic type of suicide reserved only for samurai, in the hope of receiving alms from other feudal lords.
- Late Spring (1949) Director: Yasujirō Ozu. There is a slew of beautiful, moving films about families coming to terms with Japan after World War II. Late Spring, featuring one of legendary actress Setsuko Hara’s finest performances, is one of the best examples.
- Ikiru (1952) Director: Akira Kurosawa. Two years removed from the groundbreaking 1950 film Rashomon, Kurosawa was officially on a creative roll by this point.
- Ugetsu (1953) Director: Kenji Mizoguchi. The consequences of ambition, which can include love, shows up in a lot of the best Japanese movies. That theme isn’t exclusive to the country, but filmmakers like Kenji Mizoguchi have nonetheless directed films that explores the subject in decidedly singular ways.
- Seven Samurai (1954) Director: Akira Kurosawa. Six samurai, and then one lunatic with something to prove. These are the men who must defend a small village from a gang of bandits, who promise to destroy the village if the village doesn’t produce a certain amount of food for them.
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Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2010, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that earned 54.9% of a box office total of US$2.338 billion. Films have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived.
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The following is a list of the highest-grossing films in Japan.This list only accounts for the films' box office earnings at cinemas and not their ancillary revenues (i.e. home video sales, video rentals, television broadcasts, or merchandise sales).
RankTitleGross (¥ billion)Year0 139.7820200 231.6820010 326.2019970 425.482014Rin (Sho Hirano), Yuu (Hinako Sakurai), Koyomi (Tina Tamashiro) and Keita (Hayato Isomura) are friends at high school. They all live in the same apartment bu...
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