Monday, June 15, 2009

Japanese Cinema Blogathon


What fun! It's been a while since I've seen a blogathon, and this one looks enjoyable. Wildgrounds is hosting, and the list of participants and the comments promise lots of interesting reading.

Here are a couple of online resources:
Bright Lights Film Journal has links to their articles on Japanese film.
Wikipedia has a chronological list.

I'll link here to Japanese movies (many of which are available online) I've watched and have blog posts on, and I'll add new ones here in future as I watch more:

1920s:

A Page of Madness (1926)

1930s:

An Inn in Tokyo (1936)
Osaka Elegy (1936)
Sisters of the Gion (1936)

1940s:

Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
Sanshiro Sugato (1943)
No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Here's to the Young Lady (1949)
Late Spring (1949)
Nora Inu (1949)

1950s:

Rashomon (1950)
Scandal (1950)
Wedding Ring (1950)
Repast (1951)
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
Ikiru (1952)
Life of Oharu (1952)
Lightning (1952)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Ugetsu (1953)
Gojira (1954)
Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Sound of the Mountain (1954)
I Live in Fear (1955)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
Warning from Space (1956)
Ghost in the Well (1957)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Ghost of Chibusa Enoki (1958)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan (1959)

1960s:

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Jigoku (1960)
The Naked Island (1960)
Ghost of Oiwa (1961)
Yojimbo (1961)
Harakiri (1962)
Matango (1963)
Evil Brain from Outer Space (1964) (and Attack from Space)
Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
Kwaidan (1964)
Onibaba (1964)
Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)
Gamera: The Giant Monster (1965)
The Sword of Doom (1966)
The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
Cruel Ghost Legend (1968)
Goke: Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)

1970s:

Silence (1971)
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
Hausu (1977)
The Little Match Girl (1977 animated short)
Empire of Passion (1978)
The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)

1980s:

Kagemashu (1980)
Virus (1980)
Angel's Egg (1985)
Ran (1985)
Castle in the Sky (1986)
Princess from the Moon (1987)
Akira (1988)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

1990s:

Dreams (1990)
Ninja Scroll (1993)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Cure (1997)
Perfect Blue (1997)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Ringu (1998)
Audition (1999)

2000+

Cowboy Bebop: the Movie (2001)
Metropolis (2001)
Pulse (2001)
Spirited Away (2001)
Suicide Club (2002)
Appleseed (2004)
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Steamboy (2004)
Paprika (2006)
Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007)
Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)

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