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criscoJovan

allisoncm:
"Too bad"?!? You should love that there are 200 films. That just means more Japanese goodness for our eyes to see!
11 years 11 months ago
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Paper_Okami

Despite my limited knowledge of Japanese cinema I think there are many important films missing. Like:

Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
The Face of Another
Pitfall
Empire of Passion
Fires on the Plain
Sansho the Bailiff ( WTF?)
Samurai Rebellion
Akira
and
An Autumn Afternoon
12 years ago
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edward5

@Malick663
Kinema Junpo voted top 100 Japanese films at 1999, and voted top 200 Japanese films at 2009. And the list didn't change name in time.
10 years 5 months ago
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Malick663

Do the Japanese count differently? 100 = 199?
13 years 9 months ago
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A Blue Roar

In the 50's and 60's, Japan surely was the super power of the world concerning movies.
13 years 11 months ago
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Melvelet

Apparently only a handful of critics were asked, #106 has the same number of votes as #199
10 years 8 months ago
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Local Hero -- aka MestnyiGeroi

Why are so many East Asian films on iCheck not given English translations? I can understand wanting to systematize all films primarily by their original-language titles-- that makes sense -- but the fact that so many are not given secondary, English-language titles strikes me as ridiculous.
14 years ago
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Buksemannen

Where is the Burmese Harp?
12 years 9 months ago
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UnEnfantPerdu

No Sansho. I cant get over that. At least underrated Sisters of Gion is included.
9 years 7 months ago
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St. Gloede

@Kiku-E
I skimmed through the list by year and saw that there are 46 movies from the 60s on it, from the 50s there were only 38. And many of these films, from both decades, belong to the Japanese New Wave.
12 years 2 months ago
Local Hero -- aka MestnyiGeroi's avatar

Local Hero -- aka MestnyiGeroi

Fair enough, but that's not true of all the titles. A number of titles I have had to look up on imdb only to find that I have actually seen them. But now I can't remember what I've looked up, and I'm not going to look up titles over and over whenever I see them, nor am I going to memorize the meaning of every untranslated title I see on here. I am just surprised that it functions this way and others don't find it a problem. I mean, I'm a bit of a polyglot and I am voracious about exploring other cultures, but I find it irritating and limiting.

Anyway, I wouldn't want my very specific complaint to be confused with a complaint about the site in general. I have only just discovered this free site and find it a lot of fun.
14 years ago
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linyok

Ichijo's Wet Lust (Ichijo Sayuri: Nureta yokujo, 1972) is on the list. Don't see it here
6 years 9 months ago
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Kiku-E

No Yoshishige Yoshida??? Hideo Gosha? Shuji Terayama? This must be a joke.

I understand all the love from the Japanese critics for the 50s and the classics (Ozu, Mizoguchi, Naruse etc.), I love them too, but the 60s and the Nuberu Bagu are very ignored.
12 years 2 months ago
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Ninjagodzilla

Swing Girls? realllly?
12 years 4 months ago
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Knaldskalle

@Ninjagodzilla: Apparently there were a lot of ties. A lot.
12 years 4 months ago

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