# The best foreign films of the 1990s (Kinema Junpo)

Kinema Junpo's top ten foreign films of the 1990s, chosen for the Japanese magazine's centenary: from number one, A Brighter Summer Day, to Unforgiven, Pulp Fiction and Days of Being Wild (with ties).

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- Dec 29, 2019 · 吉田 美咲
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## Top 12

1. **A Brighter Summer Day (1991)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Edward Yang. Teenagers in 1960s Taipei. Number one.
2. **Unforgiven (1992)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Clint Eastwood. A retired gunfighter's last job. Number two.
3. **Pulp Fiction (1994)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Quentin Tarantino. Intertwined stories of LA criminals. Number three.
4. **Days of Being Wild (1990)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Wong Kar-wai. Leslie Cheung as a young man searching for his birth mother. Number four.
5. **Underground (1995)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Emir Kusturica. Yugoslavia kept in a cellar for fifty years. Palme d'Or. Number five.
6. **Thelma & Louise (1991)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ridley Scott. Two women on the run. Joint sixth.
7. **Fargo (1996)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Joel Coen. A staged kidnapping in snowy Minnesota. Joint sixth.
8. **Farewell My Concubine (1993)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chen Kaige. Two Peking Opera actors across half a century. Palme d'Or. Number eight.
9. **Goodfellas (1990)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Martin Scorsese. Thirty years in the Mob. Joint ninth.
10. **Chungking Express (1994)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Wong Kar-wai. Two heartbroken cops. Joint ninth.
11. **The Shawshank Redemption (1994)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Frank Darabont. An innocent banker's life in prison. Joint ninth.
12. **Reservoir Dogs (1992)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Quentin Tarantino. A botched jewel heist and the hunt for the rat. Joint ninth.

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