100 Films of Kurosawa's Choice


Taken from the 1999 book A Dream Is a Genius, based on conversations between Kurosawa Akira and his daughter Kazuko.

  • Broken Blossoms (1919)
  • The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
  • Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
  • The Gold Rush (1925)
  • The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) [Epstein]
  • Un Chien Andalou (1929)
  • Earth (1930)
  • Morocco (1930)
  • Der Kongress Tanzt (1931)
  • The Threepenny Opera (1931)
  • Lover Divine (1933)
  • Our Neighbour (1934)
  • The Thin Man (1934)
  • Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935)
  • Capricious Young Man (1936)
  • La Grande Illusion (1937)
  • Stella Dallas (1937)
  • Composition Class (1938)
  • Ninotchka (1939)
  • The Big Sleep (1946)
  • It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946)
  • My Darling Clementine (1946)
  • Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  • The Green Mountains (1949)
  • Late Spring (1949)
  • The Third Man (1949)
  • Orpheus (1950)
  • Carmen Comes Home (1951)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  • The Life of Oharu (1952)
  • Thérèse Raquin (1953)
  • Godzilla (1954)
  • La Strada (1954)
  • Viaggio in Italia (1954)
  • Daddy Long Legs (1955)
  • Floating Clouds (1955)
  • Pather Panchali (1955)
  • The Proud Ones (1956)
  • The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957)
  • The Young Lions (1958)
  • Ben-Hur (1959)
  • The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
  • Les Cousins (1959)
  • À Bout de Souffle (1960)
  • Her Brother (1960)
  • Plein Soleil (1960)
  • Stowaway in the Sky (1960)
  • Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
  • Last Year in Marienbad (1961)
  • The Long Absence (1961)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
  • The Big Snatch (1963)
  • The Birds (1963)
  • The Red Desert (1964)
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  • In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
  • Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  • MASH (1970)
  • French Connection (1971)
  • Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
  • Solaris (1972)
  • The Day of the Jackal (1973)
  • The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
  • Conversation Piece (1974)
  • The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  • Sandakan 8 (1974)
  • Barry Lyndon (1975)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  • The Travelling Players (1975)
  • Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
  • Annie Hall (1977)
  • Padre Padrone (1977)
  • An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano (1977)
  • A Distant Cry from Spring (1980)
  • Gloria (1980)
  • Fanny and Alexander (1982)
  • Fitzcarraldo (1982)
  • The King of Comedy (1982)
  • La Traviata (1982)
  • Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
  • The Killing Fields (1984)
  • Paris, Texas (1984)
  • Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
  • A Summer at Grandpa's (1984)
  • The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
  • When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
  • Witness (1985)
  • Bagdad Cafe (1987)
  • The Dead (1987)
  • The Whales of August (1987)
  • Where Is My Friend's House? (1987)
  • My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
  • Running on Empty (1988)
  • Buddies (1989)
  • La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
  • Hana-Bi (1997)
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