I particularly love Mizoguchi and Japanese cinema.So would like to list &gt;60 essential films(quite a few i've not seen,i must admit).My 10 favourites are asterisked:
Mizoguchi:Sansho the Bailiff*,Ugetsu Monogatari*,Story of the Late Chrysanthemums,The Life of Oharu*,Tales of the Taira Clan*,Sisters of the Gion,Chikamatsu Monogatari,The Loyal 47 Ronin,Yang Kwei Fei.
Kurosawa:Seven Samurai*,Rashomon,Ran,Throne of Blood,Yojimbo,Ikiru,Hidden Fortress*,High and Low,Dersu Uzala,Kagemusha
Ozu:Tokyo Story*,Late Spring,I was Born But,Early Summer,An Autumn Afternoon,Early Spring
Oshima:Ai no Corrida*,Death by Hanging,The Ceremony,Night and Fog in Japan
Imamura:The Ballad of Narayama,The Eel,Vengeance is Mine,Profound Desire of the Gods,Intentions of Murder
Ichikawa:The Burmese Harp,Fires on the Plain,An Actor's Revenge,Enjo
Kitano:Sonatine,Hana-Bi,Kikujiro
Miyazaki:My Neighbour Totoro,Princess Mononoke,Laputa;Castles in the Air
Naruse:Floating Clouds,Wife be Like a Rose,Repast
Kobayashi:Kwaidan*,The Human Condition
Koreeda:Maborosi*,After Life
Kinugasa:Page of Madness,Gate of Hell
Nakata:Ring
Teshigahara:Woman of the Dunes
Shindo:Onibaba
Shinoda:Double Suicide
Kinoshita:Twenty Four Eyes
Yamanaka:Humanity and Paper Balloons
Itami:Tampopo
Takahata:Grave of the Fireflies
Miike:Audition
Aoyama:Eureka
Otomo:Akira
Suzuki:Tokyo Drifter
And Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour might count?
Which other films should i have included?Have i got the number of films per director about right?Opinions on the best/worst of those i've listed would be appreciated(No doubt Kurosawa will do well?).