# Kinema Junpo's number one Japanese films of the 1970s

From Where Spring Comes Late and The Ceremony to The Yellow Handkerchief and Vengeance Is Mine: the ten films that topped Kinema Junpo's Japanese Best Ten from 1970 to 1979.

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- Jan 25, 2021 · 浩二
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## Top 10

1. **Sandakan No. 8** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1974 Best Ten. Kei Kumai. An old woman recalls her life as a karayuki-san in Borneo.
2. **The Yellow Handkerchief** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1977 Best Ten. Yōji Yamada. Starring Ken Takakura.
3. **The Ceremony** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1971 Best Ten. Nagisa Ōshima. A clan's postwar history told through its weddings and funerals.
4. **Shinobugawa** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1972 Best Ten. Kei Kumai. From Tetsuo Miura's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel.
5. **Tsugaru Jongara-bushi** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1973 Best Ten. Kōichi Saitō. Set in a fishing village in Tsugaru.
6. **Young Murderer** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1976 Best Ten. Kazuhiko Hasegawa's first feature.
7. **Vengeance Is Mine** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1979 Best Ten. Shōhei Imamura. Based on a real serial killer.
8. **Third** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1978 Best Ten. Yōichi Higashi. A boy in a juvenile reformatory.
9. **Where Spring Comes Late** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1970 Best Ten. Yōji Yamada. A family moving from Nagasaki to Hokkaido.
10. **Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — 1975 Best Ten. Kaneto Shindō. A documentary on Kenji Mizoguchi.

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