Kinema Junpo's number one Japanese films of the 1950s
The top 3 according to 24 votes from people: Ikiru · Until We Meet Again · Nigorie. (Updated Feb 20, 2020.)
From Until We Meet Again, Early Summer and Ikiru to Twenty-Four Eyes, Floating Clouds and The Ballad of Narayama: the ten films that topped Kinema Junpo's Japanese Best Ten from 1950 to 1959.
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Top 10
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1
Ikiru
1952 Best Ten. Akira Kurosawa. Starring Takashi Shimura.
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2
Until We Meet Again
1950 Best Ten. Tadashi Imai. Young lovers in wartime.
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3
Nigorie
1953 Best Ten. Tadashi Imai. Three short stories by Ichiyō Higuchi.
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4
Early Summer
1951 Best Ten. Yasujirō Ozu. Starring Setsuko Hara.
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5
Twenty-Four Eyes
1954 Best Ten. Keisuke Kinoshita. A teacher and her twelve pupils on Shōdoshima.
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6
Kiku and Isamu
1959 Best Ten. Tadashi Imai. The story of two mixed-race siblings.
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7
Darkness at Noon
1956 Best Ten. Tadashi Imai. A wrongful-conviction drama based on the Yakai case.
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8
The Ballad of Narayama
1958 Best Ten. Keisuke Kinoshita. From Shichirō Fukazawa's novel.
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9
The Rice People
1957 Best Ten. Tadashi Imai. Set in a farming village on Lake Kasumigaura.
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10
Floating Clouds
1955 Best Ten. Mikio Naruse. From Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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