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Cinema
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Honda, Ishiro
Ichikawa, Kon
Imamura, Shohei
Inagaki, Hiroshi
Itami, Juzo
Kobayashi, Masaki
Kurosawa, Akira
Miyazaki, Hayao
Mizoguchi, Kenji
Oshima, Nagisa
Suzuki, Seijun
Teshigahara, Hiroshi
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History of Japan
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| | 1943 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Judo Saga
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| 1944 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's The Most Beautiful
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| 1945 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Judo Saga 2
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| Kurosawa's The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail
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| 1946 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth
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| Kurosawa's One Wonderful Sunday
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| 1948 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Drunken Angel
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| 1949 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Stray Dog
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| Kurosawa's The Quiet Duel
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| 1950 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Rashomon
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| Kurosawa's Scandal
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| 1951 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's The Idiot
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| 1952 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's To Live
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| 1952 | Mizoguchi, Kenji | |
| Kenji Mizoguchi directs The Life of Oharu (Saikaku Ichidai Onna)
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| 1953 | Mizoguchi, Kenji | |
| Kenji Mizoguchi directs Ugetsu (Ugetsu Monogatar)
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| 1954 | Honda, Ishiro | |
| Ishiro Honda releases the anti-Nuclear horror film Gojira, which was translated in the West as Godzilla
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| 1954 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Seven Samurai
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| 1955 | Inagaki, Hiroshi | |
| Hiroshi Inagaki wins an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Part I of his Samurai Trilogy
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| 1955 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's I Live in Fear
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| 1956 | Ichikawa, Kon | |
| Kon Ichikawa directs the anti-war drama The Burmese Harp
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| 1957 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Spider Web Castle
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| Kurosawa's The Lower Depths
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| 1958 | Ichikawa, Kon | |
| Kon Ichikawa directs the anti-war drama Enjo
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| 1958 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress
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| 1959 | Ichikawa, Kon | |
| Kon Ichikawa directs the anti-war drama Fires On The Plain
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| 1960 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well
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| 1961 | Kobayashi, Masaki | |
| Masaki Kobayashi made two of the three films which would collectively become known as the Human Condition Trilogy: No Greater Love (1958), and The Road To Eternity (1959). The trilogy was completed in 1961, with A Soldier's Prayer
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| 1961 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's The Bodyguard
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| 1962 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Sanjuro
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| 1963 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Heaven and Hell
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| 1964 | Teshigahara, Hiroshi | |
| Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes wins the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival
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| 1965 | Kobayashi, Masaki | |
| Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan picks up the Special Jury Prize at Cannes
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| 1965 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Red Beard
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| 1970 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Dodesukaden
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| 1975 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala
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| 1976 | Oshima, Nagisa | |
| Nagisa Oshima directs the Realm of the Senses, a World War II period piece about Sada Abe
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| 1980 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Kagemusha
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| 1980 | Suzuki, Seijun | |
| Seijun Suzuki makes a comeback, beginning with Zigeunerweisen
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| 1983 | Imamura, Shohei | |
| Shohei Imamura wins the Golden Palm at Cannes for The Ballad of Narayama
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| 1984 | Miyazaki, Hayao | |
| Hayao Miyazaki adapts his manga Nausica„ of the Valley of Wind into a feature film
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| 1985 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Ran
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| 1986 | Itami, Juzo | |
| Directs, "Dandelion"
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| 1990 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
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| 1991 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August
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| 1993 | Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's Madadayo
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| 1995 | Itami, Juzo | |
| Directs, "The Great Patient"
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