Takumi Saitô, Sôsuke Ikematsu, and Riko Narumi in A Cappella (2016)

Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense (1999)

Kanako Enomoto, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Yoshinori Okada, and Akiko Yada in Tokimeki Memorial (1997)

A list of my top 100 favourite Japanese movies, ranging from all ages and all genres ( also including anime), the only criterea for inclusion is that the movie has to be made by a Japanese director.

 Here is also a list of my favourite japanese male actors: 10. Masaharu Fukuyama 9. Tsuyoshi Ihara 8. Hideaki Ito 7. Takeshi Kitano 6.Hiroshi Abe 5. Toshirō Mifune 4. Ken Watanabe 3. Takashi Shimura 2. Koji Yakusho 1. Tatsuya Nakadai

My favourite japanese female actors: 10. Yui Natsukawa 9. Takako Matsu 8. Kinuyo Tanaka 7. Kyôko Kagawa 6.Mariko Okada 5.Machiko Kyô 4.Yoko Tsukasa 3.Hideko Takamine 2.Masami Nagasawa 1. Shima Iwashita

And my favourite directors: 13. Keisuke Kinoshita 12. Kenji Mizoguchi 11. Yoshishige Yoshida 10. Tetsuya Nakashima 9. Yôji Yamada 8.Satoshi Kon 7. Katsuhiro Ōtomo 6.Takashi Miike 5. Hayao Miyazaki 4. Mamoru Oshii 3. Hirokazu Koreeda 2. Akira Kurosawa 1. Masaki Kobayashi

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)

Daniella Pineda and Miles Emmons in Mercy Black (2019)

These are, like, not ALL the movies I've ever watched till the end.  But almost all of them since I started this list in 2013.

Also I watched a lot of movies which were just not worth my time and I've dropped half way, and I didn't add them to this list.

For the ratings, I only started rating them a few years ago, so only about half of the movies in this list are rated.

I usually have this rule: if it was worth my time to watch a movie till the end, even just only to satisfy my curiosity about it and nothing else, I give it a 6. If it was more than just that, I give it progressively more than 6, and if it wasn't worth my time after all, I give it a 5, and less and less depending on how much I disliked the movie.

I usually rate documentaries very high because I think gaining knowledge on a real-life topic is much more valuable than just being entertained for 90 minutes.

Japanese / Japan-related movies (no Anime)

Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation (2003)

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