Cinema Japonês - Os Melhores por Gênero: Samurai, Terror, Pink, Yakuza (Gangster), Animação, Kaiju (Monstros Gigantes), Jidai-geki, New wave, Crime, Dramas de Guerra e Pós-Guerra, Drama Familiar, Cult, Fantasia, Ninja

Os filmes estão em ordem cronológica dentro do respectivo gênero:

(1 a 9) Jidai-geki
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1953)
Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse, 1954)
Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954)
The Ballad of Narayama (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1958)
Jigoku-hen (Shiro Toyoda, 1969)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)

(10 a 27) Samurai
The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1941)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (Hiroshi Inagaki, 1954)
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (Hiroshi Inagaki, 1955)
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (Hiroshi Inagaki, 1956)
Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962, Japan)
Samurai Assassin (Kihachi Okamoto, 1965)
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)
Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi, 1967)
Kill! (Kihachi Okamoto, 1968)
Hitokiri (Hideo Gosha, 1969)
Goyokin (Hideo Gosha,1969)
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven In Hell (Yoshiyuki Kuroda, 1974)
Samurai Fiction (Hiroyuki Nakano, 1998)
The Twilight Samurai (Yamada, 2002)
13 Assassins (Takashi Miike, 2011)

(28 a 30) Drama Existencial
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
Mishima (Schrader, 1985)

(31 a 38) Dramas de Guerra e Pós-guerra
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)
The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa, 1958)
Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa, 1959)
The Human Condition Trilogy (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959, 1959, 1961)
Black Rain (Shohei Imamura, 1989)

(39 a 43) New Wave Japonesa
The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo, 1960)
Woman In The Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966)
Eros Plus Massacre (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1969)
Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)

(44 a 48) Pink
Irezumi (Yasuzo Masumura, 1966)
Go, Go Second Time Virgin (Koji Wakamatsu, 1969)
A Woman Called Sada Abe (Noboru Tanaka, 1975)
In The Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1976)
Empire of Passion (Nagisa Oshima, 1978)

(49 a 63) Terror & J-Horror (J-Horror é tipo thriller psicológico)
A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)
Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindo, 1968)
Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989)
Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000)
Suicide Club (Sion Sono, 2001)
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 2001)
Dark Water (Hideo Nakata, 2002)
Gozu (Takashi Miike, 2003)
Kotoko (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2011)

(64 a 72) Yakuza
Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa, 1948)
Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964)
Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967)
A Colt is My Passport (Takashi Nomura, 1967)
The Wolves (Hideo Gosha, 1971)
Battles Without Honour and Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973)
Ryuji (Tôru Kawashima, 1983)
Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001)
Why Don't You Play In Hell? (Sion Sono, 2013)
(73 a 78) Crime
Dragnet Girl (Yasujiro Ozu, 1933)
I am Waiting (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1957)
The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa, 1960)
Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962)
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano, 1997)

(79 a 83) Cult
Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki, 1964)
Fighting Elegy (Seijun Suzuki, 1966)
The Embryo Hunts in Secret (Koji Wakamatsu, 1966)
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion by Shunya Ito (Toei, 1972)
Lady Snowblood by Toshiya Fujita (Tokyo Eiga/Toho, 1973)

(84 a 90) Dramas Familiares Contemporâneos
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004)
The Taste of Tea (Katsuhito Ishii, 2004)
Always Sunset on Third Street (Takashi Yamazaki, 2005)
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)
Departures (Yojiro Takita, 2008)
Rebirth (Izuru Narushima, 2011)
Umimashi Diary (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2015)

(91) Romance Drama
Dolls (Takeshi Kitano, 2002)

(92 a 106) Animação
Taro the Dragon Boy (Kirio Urayama, 1979)
Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1982)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Studio Ghibli - Hayao Miyzaki, 1984)
Vampire Hunter D (Toyoo Ashida, 1985)
Grave of the Fireflies (Studio Ghibli - Isao Takahata, 1988)
Ninja Scroll (Yoshiaki Kawajiri, 1993)
Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1995)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997)
Princess Mononoke (Studio Ghibli - Hayao Miyazaki, 1999)
Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust (Yoshiaki Kawajiri, 2000)
Spirited Away (Studio Ghibli - Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
Metropolis (Rintaro, 2001)
Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006)
Tekkon Kinkreet (Michael Arais, 2006)
Tale of Princess Kaguya (Studio Ghibli - Isao Takahata, 2013)

(107 a 110) Kaiju (Bestas Gigantes)
Godzilla (Ishiro Honda, 1954)
Mothra - A Deusa Selvagem (Ishiro Honda, 1961)
Daimajin (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1966)
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (Shusuke Kaneko, 1995)

(111 e 113) Fantasia
Goke, The Body Snatcher From Hell (Hajime Sato, 1968)
Versus (Ryuhei Kitamura, 2000)
Tokyo Gore Police (Yoshihiro Nishimura, 2008)

(114 a 116) Ninja
Ninja, a Band of Assassins (Satsuo Yamamoto, 1962)
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance (Satsuo Yamamoto, 1963)
Shadow Hunters ( Ishihara Yujiro, Masuda Toshio, 1972)

(117 e 121) "Estranhos, esquisitos e bizarros"
Belladonna of Sadness (Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973)
Himiko (Masahiro Shinoda, 1974)
Funky Forest: The First Contact (Katsuhito Ishii, Shunichiro Miki, Hajime Ishimine, 2005)
Executive Koala (Minoru Kawasaki, 2006)
Big Man Japan (Hitoshi Matsumoto, 2007)