Kinema Junpo's number one Japanese films, 1931-1940
The top 3 according to 56 votes from people: The Neighbor's Wife and Mine · Passing Fancy · Endless Advance. (Updated Feb 26, 2021.)
From The Neighbor's Wife and Mine and I Was Born, But... to Sisters of the Gion, Earth and Spring on Leper's Island: the ten films that topped Kinema Junpo's Japanese Best Ten from 1931 to 1940 (1930, split into categories, left out).
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Top 10
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1
The Neighbor's Wife and Mine
1931 Best Ten. Heinosuke Gosho. Japan's first full-length talkie.
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2
Passing Fancy
1933 Best Ten. Yasujirō Ozu. The first of his "Kihachi" films.
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3
Endless Advance
1937 Best Ten. Tomu Uchida. A salaryman facing retirement.
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4
A Story of Floating Weeds
1934 Best Ten. Yasujirō Ozu. A travelling theatre troupe.
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5
Five Scouts
1938 Best Ten. Tomotaka Tasaka. A war film set in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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6
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935 Best Ten. Mikio Naruse. A daughter visits the father who left home.
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7
Sisters of the Gion
1936 Best Ten. Kenji Mizoguchi. Two geisha sisters in Gion.
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8
Earth
1939 Best Ten. Tomu Uchida. From Takashi Nagatsuka's novel.
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9
I Was Born, But...
1932 Best Ten. Yasujirō Ozu. A silent comedy about two brothers.
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10
Spring on Leper's Island
1940 Best Ten. Shirō Toyoda. From the memoir of a doctor at a leprosy sanatorium.
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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