A History of Japanese Cinema in 30 YouTube Clips

Teaching an introductory course on Japanese culture has some modest advantages. You get to YouTube all day. Below is this year's list of clips used in the sessions on Japanese cinema. I haven't got the time to annotate the clips in English but the links to the Internet Movie Database should provide sufficient background info. Enjoy.

• Orochi (1925)

  silent chambara film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016185/

• Humanity and paper balloons

  Yamanaka Sadao, Ninjō kamifusen 1937 "a constant endeavour to shatter old stereotypes"
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029314/ http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1937/bm003440.htm

• Osaka Elegy (1936) Kenji Mizoguchi ending

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028021/

• Kurutta Ippeiji - A Page of Madness (1926)

  Teinosuke Kinugasa
  
  independent production, expressionism, Kawabata, junbungaku http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017048/

• Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu)

  Banshun　晩春
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041154/ http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1949/by001250.htm

• TOKYO STORY (Tokyo monogatari, 1953)

  Ozu Yasujiro
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/ http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1953/cc002790.htm

• Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki - When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

  Mikio Naruse 1960 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054144/

• Ugetsu Monogatari - Ending Scene

  Mizoguchi Kenji 1954 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046478/

• Rashomon Trailer (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/

• Carmen Comes Home (1951)

  Kinoshita Keisuke
  First Color Japanese Film
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043699/ http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1951/ca000460.htm

• Fires οn the ΡΙain (1959)

  Ichikawa Kon 1959 Nobi 野火 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053121/

• A Ball at the Anjo House

  1947 Yoshimura Kozaburo Anjō-ke no butōkai http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039154/

• 有田上等兵　Heitai Yakuza

  Masumura Masuzo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187871/

• HARAKIRI (seppuku) - 1962

  Kobayashi Masaki 1962 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056058/

• Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954)

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/

• Nikutai no Mon (1964)

  Suzuki Seijun http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058409/

• Tokyo Drifter

  Tokyo nagaremono 1966 Suzuki Seijun http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061101/

• Crazed Fruit (1956)

  Kurutta kajitsu Kô Nakahira http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160440/

• Shohei Imamura's INTENTIONS OF MURDER

  Akai satsui 1964 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057829/

• Hogs and Warships

  Imamura Shohei 1961 Buta to gunkan http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054709/

• The Insect Woman (1963)

  Imamura Shohei Nippon konchiku http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057363/

• Suna No Onna

  Teshigahara Hiroshi 1964 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058625/

• sho o suteyo machi e deyou

  Shûji Terayama 1971 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228853/
  

• Sogo Ishii's Panic High School

  1978 Kōkō dai panikku http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077816/
  

• Aoyama Shinji Eureka ユリイカ

  2000 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243889/
  

• Swallowtail Butterfly

  Suwarôteiru Shunji Iwai 1996 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117797/

• Minbo No Onna

  Jûzô Itami 1992 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104874/
  

• Blood and Bones "Chi to Hone"

  2004 Sai Yōichi http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419515/
  

• The Most Terrible Time In My Life

  Hayashi Kaizō 1994 Waga jinsei saiaku no toki http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108509/
  

• Fire Festival (1985)

  Himatsuri Mitsuo Yanagimachi http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089275/
  

• Naomi Kawase 河瀨直美 / Sharasojyu 沙羅双樹, 2003

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363060/