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

The top 3 according to 6 votes from people: Go · A Boy's Summer in 1945 · Break Through!. (Updated Feb 2, 2020.)

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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Top 10

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    Go

    2001 Best Ten. Isao Yukisada. Yōsuke Kubozuka as a Korean-Japanese high-school boy.

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    A Boy's Summer in 1945

    2003 Best Ten. Kazuo Kuroki. A boy in Kirishima at the end of the war.

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    Break Through!

    2005 Best Ten. Kazuyuki Izutsu. Kyoto, 1968.

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  4. 4

    I Just Didn't Do It

    2007 Best Ten. Masayuki Suo. A trial over a false groping accusation.

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  5. 5

    Dear Doctor

    2009 Best Ten. Miwa Nishikawa. Shōfukutei Tsurube as a village doctor.

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    Face

    2000 Best Ten. Junji Sakamoto. Starring Naomi Fujiyama.

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    The Twilight Samurai

    2002 Best Ten. Yōji Yamada. Hiroyuki Sanada as a low-ranking samurai.

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    Nobody Knows

    2004 Best Ten. Hirokazu Kore-eda. Four abandoned siblings.

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  9. 9

    Hula Girls

    2006 Best Ten. Lee Sang-il. Hula dancing in a mining town.

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  10. 10

    Departures

    2008 Best Ten. Yōjirō Takita. A cellist who becomes an encoffiner. Foreign-language Oscar.

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