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Japanese Cinema Review Archives

This is the JCA archives, which is to say, a complete list of all our reviews. Our goal at Japanese Cinema Archives is to make this site the most extensive resource on Japanese film reviews online. And yes, we are fully aware that we have a looong way to go. We started out publishing new reviews every couple of weeks, but we soon calmed down. At the moment, JCA publishes new reviews on a bi-monthly basis.

  1. After Life (1998) Hirokazu Kore-eda

  2. Audition (1999) Takashi Miike

  3. Battle Royale (2000) Kinji Fukasaku

  4. Blue Spring (2001) Toshiaki Toyoda

  5. Funuke: Show Some Love, You Losers! (2007) Daihachi Yoshida

  6. Grave of the Fireflies (1988) Isao Takahata

  7. Guilty of Romance (2011) Sion Sono

  8. Gunbuster the Movie (1988) Hideaki Anno

  9. Harakiri (1962) Masaki Kobayashi

  10. Kamikaze Girls (2004) Tetsuya Nakashima

  11. Kamome Diner (2006) Naoko Ogigami

  12. Kyrie (2023) Shunji Iwai

  13. Love Exposure (2008) Sion Sono

  14. Metropolis (2001) Rintaro

  15. My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Hayao Miyazaki

  16. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) Hideaki Anno

  17. Ninja Scroll (1993) Yoshiaki Kawajiri

  18. Nobody Knows (2004) Hirokazu Kore-eda

  19. Onibaba (1964) Kaneto Shindô

  20. Osaka Elegy (1936) Kenji Mizoguchi

  21. Our Little Sister (2015) Hirokazu Kore-eda

  22. Outrage (2010) Takeshi Kitano

  23. Paprika (2006) Satoshi Kon

  24. Paranoia Agent (2004) Satoshi Kon

  25. Pecoross' Mother and Her Days (2013) Azuma Morisaki

  26. Perfect Blue (1997) Satoshi Kon

  27. Pigs and Battleships (1961) Shohei Imamura

  28. Princess Mononoke (1997) Hayao Miyazaki

  29. Rashômon (1950) Akira Kurosawa

  30. Rent-A-Cat (2012) Naoko Ogigami

  31. Sakuran (2006) Miki Ninagawa

  32. Sazen Tange and The Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935) Sadao Yamanaka

  33. Shoplifters (2018) Hirokazu Kore-eda

  34. Spirited Away (2001) Hayao Miyazaki

  35. Still Walking (2008) Hirokazu Kore-eda

  36. Swallowtail Butterfly (1996) Shunji Iwai

  37. Symbol (2009) Hitoshi Matsumoto

  38. The Ballad of Narayama (1983) Shohei Imamura

  39. The Boy and The Beast (2015) Mamoru Hosoda

  40. The Burmese Harp (1956) Kon Ichikawa

  41. The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) Hayao Miyazaki

  42. The End of Evangelion (1997) Hideaki Anno & Kazuya Tsurumaki

  43. The Garden of Words (2013) Makoto Shinkai

  44. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) Mamoru Hosoda

  45. The Loyal 47 Retainers of the Genroku Era (1941) Kenji Mizoguchi

  46. The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) Hiromasa Yonebayashi

  47. The Sword of Doom (1966) Kihachi Okamoto

  48. The Twilight Samurai (2002) Yôji Yamada

  49. The World of Kanako (2014) Tetsuya Nakashima

  50. Tokyo Chorus (1931) Yasujirô Ozu

  51. Tokyo Godfathers (2003) Satoshi Kon

  52. Tokyo Story (1953) Yasujirô Ozu

  53. Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988) Akio Jissôji

  54. Woman of the Dunes (1964) Hiroshi Teshigahara

  55. Yearning (1964) Mikio Naruse

  56. Yojimbo (1961) Akira Kurosawa

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