Hidenori Okada
Curator, National Film Archive of Japan
Japan
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| The Wind | 1928 | Victor Sjöström |
| Red River | 1947 | Howard Hawks |
| French Cancan | 1955 | Jean Renoir |
| UKIGUMO | 1955 | Mikio Naruse |
| Lola Montès | 1955 | Max Ophuls |
| Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles |
| I Am Cuba | 1964 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| L' albero degli zoccoli | 1978 | Ermanno Olmi |
| ROUTE ONE/USA | 1990 | Robert Kramer |
| A Brighter Summer Day | 1991 | Edward Yang |
Comments
Every film in this list has surely made the most powerful impact on my views on cinema in various ways, but the act of selecting films could be also be a betrayal of the great ones not chosen. I can't explain to myself why there's no Sadao Yamanaka, no Yasuzo Masumura, no Jacques Becker, no Guru Dutt, no Kim Ki-young, no Glauber Rocha, no Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, no Hou Hsiao-hsien… But I just accept the inevitable.