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The cinema of Japan (日本映画, Nihon eiga), also known domestically as hōga (邦画, "domestic cinema"), has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. [4] In 2011, Japan produced 411 feature films ...
The 1950s are considered the "Golden Age of Japanese Cinema" by many film scholars and in the 1960s the number of films produced in Japan reached its peak. That's why there are so many classics in these two decades.
The 55 best Japanese movies of all time. There’s more to Japanese movies than Kurosawa, Ozu and Miyazaki. That’s not to downplay their contributions to the country’s cinematic history – or...
Some of the most critically acclaimed Japanese films of all time were produced during this period. These are the top 35 most popular films from the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema.
10 great Japanese films of the 21st century. To celebrate a bumper year for Japanese cinema at the BFI London Film Festival, we look out some of the best movies to come out of Japan since the turn of this century.
The nineteen-fifties brought worldwide acclaim to a Mount Rushmore of Japanese auteurs. Kurosawa, who revived the samurai film, “did for cinema as a whole was what most filmmakers hope, at some point, to do”: bridging “the gap between one’s artistry and mainstream appeal.”.
From Akira Kurosawa's epic samurai tales, Yasujirō Ozu's poignant family portraits, to Hayao Miyazaki's enchanting animated narratives, each Japanese film serves as a narrative lens that offers invaluable insights into Japan's unique heritage, evolving traditions, and intricate social dynamics.
Discover the top Japanese movies of 2021 across genres like comedy, action, romance, anime, and more—streaming links included.
But one can find examples just as rich and even more various in lesser-known films from Japan such as Shūji Terayama’s engagé experimental drama Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets, Kaizō Hayashi’s oneiric silent-film pastiche To Sleep as to Dream, and Gakuryū Ishii’s subtly psychedelic and science-fictional coming-...
Japan Society Film screens a diverse selection of classic and contemporary Japanese cinema throughout the year—including retrospectives, thematic series, and special screenings of premieres—and organizes JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film.