The Criterion Collection

Sweet Movie

Dušan Makavejev

Nihon_no_Gasa: “Because the human body can be amazing and terrifying in all it can do.”

WR: Mysteries of the Organism

Dušan Makavejev

The Makioka Sisters

Kon Ichikawa

Pale Flower

Masahiro Shinoda

Nihon_no_Gasa: “Seductive and all-too-addictive... is that what love can be?”

Dodes’ka-den

Akira Kurosawa

Nihon_no_Gasa: “Years later, are our lives heading to this neighborhood?”

Eclipse Series 18: Dušan Makavejev—Free Radical

Dušan Makavejev

Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko

Larisa Shepitko

Nihon_no_Gasa: “I remain haunted by The Ascent, with its bleak winter setting and even bleaker parable...”

For All Mankind

Al Reinert

Nihon_no_Gasa: “The NASA space mission films have been with us for the longest time, but it took Al Reinert to explain the larger story. This is why we went.”

Z

Costa-Gavras

Nihon_no_Gasa: “Still the ultimate political thriller, never bested.”

The Red Shoes

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Nihon_no_Gasa: “One of the rare classics in color that raises the bar(re) on dance movies - and breaks your heart at the same time.”

Twenty-Four Eyes

Keisuke Kinoshita

An Autumn Afternoon

Yasujiro Ozu

The Sword of Doom

Kihachi Okamoto

Nihon_no_Gasa: “"An evil mind, an evil sword." And the anti-hero is ready to crank it. ”

Patriotism

Yukio Mishima and Domoto Masaki

Nihon_no_Gasa: “You may never listen to Richard Wagner's Liebestod (from Tristan und Isolde) the same way ever again.”

The Music Room

Satyajit Ray

Monsoon Wedding

Mira Nair

Onibaba

Kaneto Shindo

Nihon_no_Gasa: “This is not the Japanese cinema you thought you knew. This is movie making at its most raw and feral.”

Kwaidan

Masaki Kobayashi

Nihon_no_Gasa: “If The Twilight Zone had been birthed in Japan and in widescreen, this is what it would look like. You're definitely no longer in Kansas.”

Branded to Kill

Seijun Suzuki

Tokyo Drifter

Seijun Suzuki

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta

Nihon_no_Gasa: “One of the first German films I ever saw (when I was finally legal enough to see R-rated films in an art house cinema), and it remains devastating.”

F for Fake

Orson Welles

Nihon_no_Gasa: “Because you will always have charlatans in culture. And because deep down, each of is also one. Sobering, isn't it?”

House

Nobuhiko Obayashi

Nihon_no_Gasa: “No amount of digital VFX could match the wild imagination of Obayashi-sensei - and his daughter. Big budgets are no substitute for being wild-eyed.”

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa