# Kinema Junpo's number one Japanese films of the 2000s

From Face to The Twilight Samurai, Nobody Knows and Departures: the ten films that topped Kinema Junpo's Japanese Best Ten from 2000 to 2009.

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- Feb 2, 2020 · kobeeiga
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## Top 10

1. **Go** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2001 Best Ten. Isao Yukisada. Yōsuke Kubozuka as a Korean-Japanese high-school boy.
2. **A Boy's Summer in 1945** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2003 Best Ten. Kazuo Kuroki. A boy in Kirishima at the end of the war.
3. **Break Through!** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2005 Best Ten. Kazuyuki Izutsu. Kyoto, 1968.
4. **I Just Didn't Do It** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2007 Best Ten. Masayuki Suo. A trial over a false groping accusation.
5. **Dear Doctor** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2009 Best Ten. Miwa Nishikawa. Shōfukutei Tsurube as a village doctor.
6. **Face** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2000 Best Ten. Junji Sakamoto. Starring Naomi Fujiyama.
7. **The Twilight Samurai** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2002 Best Ten. Yōji Yamada. Hiroyuki Sanada as a low-ranking samurai.
8. **Nobody Knows** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2004 Best Ten. Hirokazu Kore-eda. Four abandoned siblings.
9. **Hula Girls** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2006 Best Ten. Lee Sang-il. Hula dancing in a mining town.
10. **Departures** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2008 Best Ten. Yōjirō Takita. A cellist who becomes an encoffiner. Foreign-language Oscar.

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