His recommendations

• Akira Kurosawa
  • High and Low
  • Also: Seven Samurai and Yojimbo
• Yasujiro Ozu
  • Late Spring
  • Tokyo Twilight/Tokyo Boshoku
  • Also: Tokyo Story
• Mizoguchi
  • Ugetsu
• Masaki Kobayashi
  • Kwaidan
  • Harakiri/Seppuku
• Nobuo Nakagawa
  • Jigoku
  • The Ghost of Yotsuya
• Kaneto Shindo
  • Onibaba
• Teshigahara
  • Woman in the Dunes – based on a book by Kobo Abe
  • Also: Face of Another