Few film maker have leftas indelible a patsy on cinemaas iconic Japanese director , screenwriter , and manufacturer Akira Kurosawa . The follow list discover which pic had a lasting wallop on him .
“ I have get wind more from him , ” Steven Spielberg has said of Kurosawa , “ than from almost any other filmmaker on the face of the earth . ” Indeed , Akira Kurosawa ’s influence on 20th Century Cinema is apparent . manager ranging from Martin Scorsese to George Lucas to Francis Ford Coppola have proclaim Kurosawa asone of the most pregnant figure in cinematic history .
But which films did Kurosawa himself get laid best ? The following list seem in the third chapter of Kurosawa ’s posthumously published bookYume wa tensai de aru(A Dream is a Genius ) , and is extract from a section entitle 100 Films of Kurosawa ’s Choice . The tilt was edit and compiled by Kazuko Kurosawa , the theatre director ’s daughter .
“ My sire always allege that the films he loved were too many to count , and to make a top ten rank . That explain why you may not find in this list many of the titles of the films he regarded as tremendous , ” Kurosawa writes in her foreword , wherein she identify her curation process . “ The principle of the choice is : one film for one director , entry of the unforgettable films about which I and my father had a lovely talk , and of some ideas on movie house that he had cherished but did not express in populace . This is the way I made a list of 100 films of Kurosawa ’s selection . ”
“ rivet on this study , sometimes I burst into bout because I could not resist from the indirect request to see my begetter again , ” she continues , “ sometimes I rue that I should have asked him about many more things . ”
100 Films of Kurosawa’s Choice
1 . Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl ( Griffith , 1919 ) USA
2 . Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari [ The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ] ( Wiene , 1920 ) Germany
3 . Dr. Mabuse , der Spieler – Ein Bild der Zeit [ Dr. Mabuse , the Gambler ] ( Lang , 1922 ) Germany
4 . The Gold Rush ( Chaplin , 1925 ) USA
5 . La Chute de la Maison Usher [ The Fall of the House of Usher ] ( Jean Epstein , 1928 ) France
6 . Un Chien Andalou [ An Andalusian Dog ] ( Bunuel , 1928 ) France
7 . Morocco ( von Sternberg , 1930 ) USA
8 . Der Kongress Tanzt ( Charell , 1931 ) Germany
9 . Die 3groschenoper [ The Threepenny Opera ] ( Pabst , 1931 ) Germany
10 . Leise Flehen Meine Lieder [ Lover Divine ] ( Forst , 1933 ) Austria / Germany
11 . The Thin Man ( Dyke , 1934 ) USA
12 . Tonari no Yae - chan [ My Little Neighbour , Yae ] ( Shimazu , 1934 ) Japan
13 . Tange Sazen yowa : Hyakuman ryo no tsubo [ Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo ] ( Yamanaka , 1935 ) Japan
14 . Akanishi Kakita [ Capricious Young Men ] ( Itami , 1936 ) Japan
15 . La Grande Illusion [ The Grand Illusion ] ( Renoir , 1937 ) France
16 . Stella Dallas ( Vidor , 1937 ) USA
17 . Tsuzurikata Kyoshitsu [ Lessons in Essay ] ( Yamamoto , 1938 ) Japan
18 . Tsuchi [ Earth ] ( Uchida , 1939 ) Japan
19 . Ninotchka ( Lubitsch , 1939 ) USA
20 . Ivan Groznyy I , Ivan Groznyy II : Boyarsky Zagovor [ Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II ] ( Eisenstein , 1944 - 46 ) Soviet Union
21 . My Darling Clementine ( Ford , 1946 ) USA
22 . It ’s a tremendous Life ( Capra , 1946 ) USA
23 . The Big Sleep ( Hawks , 1946 ) USA
24 . Ladri di Biciclette [ The Bicycle Thief ] [ Bicycle Thieves ] ( De Sica , 1948 ) Italy
25 . Aoi sanmyaku [ The Green Mountains ] ( Imai , 1949 ) Japan
26 . The Third Man ( Reed , 1949 ) UK
27 . Banshun [ Late Spring ] ( Ozu , 1949 ) Japan
28 . Orpheus ( Cocteau , 1949 ) France
29 . Karumen kokyo ni kaeru [ Carmen Comes Home ] ( Kinoshita , 1951 ) Japan
30 . A Streetcar Named Desire ( Kazan , 1951 ) USA
31 . Thérèse Raquin [ The Adultress ] ( Carne 1953 ) France
32 . Saikaku ichidai onna [ The Life of Oharu ] ( Mizoguchi , 1952 ) Japan
33 . Viaggio in Italia [ Journey to Italy ] ( Rossellini , 1953 ) Italy
34 . Gojira [ Godzilla ] ( Honda , 1954 ) Japan
35 . La Strada ( Fellini , 1954 ) Italy
36 . Ukigumo [ Floating Clouds ] ( Naruse , 1955 ) Japan
37 . Pather Panchali [ Song of the Road ] ( Ray , 1955 ) India
38 . Daddy Long Legs ( Negulesco , 1955 ) USA
39 . The Proud Ones ( Webb , 1956 ) USA
40 . Bakumatsu taiyoden [ Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate ] ( Kawashima , 1957 ) Japan
41 . The Young Lions ( Dmytryk , 1957 ) USA
42 . Les Cousins [ The Cousins ] ( Chabrol , 1959 ) France
43 . Les Quarte Cents Coups [ The 400 Blows ] ( Truffaut , 1959 ) France
44 . A bout de Souffle [ Breathless ] ( Godard , 1959 ) France
45 . Ben - Hur ( Wyler , 1959 ) USA
46 . Ototo [ Her Brother ] ( Ichikawa , 1960 ) Japan
47 . Une aussi longue absence seizure [ The Long Absence ] ( Colpi , 1960 ) France / Italy 48 . Le Voyage en Ballon [ Stowaway in the Sky ] ( Lamorisse , 1960 ) France
49 . Plein Soleil [ Purple Noon ] ( Clement , 1960 ) France / Italy
50 . Zazie dans le métro [ Zazie on the Subway](Malle , 1960 ) France / Italy
51 . L’Annee derniere a Marienbad [ Last Year in Marienbad ] ( Resnais , 1960 ) France / Italy
52 . What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ? ( Aldrich , 1962 ) USA
53 . Lawrence of Arabia ( Lean , 1962 ) UK
54 . Melodie en sous - sol [ Any Number Can Win ] ( Verneuil , 1963 ) France / Italy
55 . The Birds ( Hitchcock , 1963 ) USA
56 . Il Deserto Rosso [ The Red Desert](Antonioni , 1964 ) Italy / France
57 . Who ’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? ( Nichols , 1966 ) USA
58 . Bonnie and Clyde ( Penn , 1967 ) USA
59 . In the Heat of the Night ( Jewison , 1967 ) USA
60 . The Charge of the Light Brigade ( Richardson , 1968 ) UK
61 . Midnight Cowboy ( Schlesinger , 1969 ) USA
62 . MASH ( Altman , 1970 ) USA
63 . Johnny Got His Gun ( Trumbo , 1971 ) USA
64 . The French Connection ( Friedkin , 1971 ) USA
65 . elevated espíritu de la colmena [ Spirit of the Beehive ] ( Erice , 1973 ) Spain
66 . Solyaris [ Solaris ] ( Tarkovsky , 1972 ) Soviet Union
67 . The Day of the Jackal ( Zinneman , 1973 ) UK / France
68 . Gruppo di famiglia in un interno [ Conversation Piece ] ( Visconti , 1974 ) Italy / France
69 . The Godfather Part II ( Coppola , 1974 ) USA
70 . Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo [ Sandakan 8 ] ( Kumai , 1974 ) Japan
71 . One Flew Over the Cuckoo ’s Nest ( Forman , 1975 ) USA
72 . O , Thiassos [ The Travelling Players ] ( Angelopoulos , 1975 ) Greece
73 . Barry Lyndon ( Kubrick , 1975 ) UK
74 . Daichi no komoriuta [ Lullaby of the Earth ] ( Masumura , 1976 ) Japan
75 . Annie Hall ( Allen , 1977 ) USA 76 . Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino [ Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano ] ( Mikhalkov , 1977 ) Soviet Union
77 . Padre Padrone [ My Father My sea captain ] ( P. & V. Taviani , 1977 ) Italy
78 . Gloria ( Cassavetes , 1980 ) USA
79 . Harukanaru yama no yobigoe [ A Distant Cry From Spring ] ( Yamada , 1980 ) Japan
80 . La Traviata ( Zeffirelli , 1982 ) Italy
81 . Fanny och Alexander [ Fanny and Alexander ] ( Bergman , 1982 ) Sweden / France / West Germany
82 . Fitzcarraldo ( Herzog , 1982 ) Peru / West Germany
83 . The King of Comedy ( Scorsese , 1983 ) USA
84 . Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence ( Oshima , 1983 ) UK / Japan / New Zealand
85 . The Killing Fields ( Joffe 1984 ) UK
86 . Stranger Than Paradise ( Jarmusch , 1984 ) USA/ West Germany
87 . Dongdong de Jiaqi [ A Summer at Grandpa ’s ] ( Hou , 1984 ) Taiwan
88 . Paris , Texas ( Wenders , 1984 ) France/ West Germany
89 . Witness ( Weir , 1985 ) USA
90 . The Trip to Bountiful ( Masterson , 1985 ) USA
91 . Otac na sluzbenom putu [ When Father was off on Business ] ( Kusturica , 1985 ) Yugoslavia
92 . The Dead ( Huston , 1987 ) UK / Ireland / USA
93 . Khane - ye doust kodjast ? [ Where is the Friend ’s house ] ( Kiarostami , 1987 ) Iran
94 . Baghdad Cafe [ Out of Rosenheim ] ( Adlon , 1987 ) West Germany / USA
95 . The Whales of August ( Anderson , 1987 ) USA
96 . Running on Empty ( Lumet , 1988 ) USA
97 . Tonari no totoro [ My Neighbour Totoro ] ( Miyazaki , 1988 ) Japan
98 . A un [ Buddies ] ( Furuhata , 1989 ) Japan
99 . La Belle Noiseuse [ The Beautiful Troublemaker ] ( Rivette , 1991 ) France / Switzerland
100 . Hana - bi [ Fireworks ] ( Kitano , 1997 ) Japan
Additional Reading
We found this list atOpen Cultureby way ofAlan Henry . Several of the films on this leaning can be found in Open Culture ’s collection700 Free Movies Online : Great classic , Indies , Noir , Westerns , etc .
See alsothis adaptation of the listat Criterion Forum , in which each debut is accompanied by a quote from Kurosawa that encapsulates his appreciation for the film .
See herefor a translated excerpt from Kurosawa ’s book , in which he discusses his relationship with Andrei Tarkovsky , conductor of Solaris – number 66 on the above list .
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