My Japanese Film and Director of the Year

1933: Japanese Girls at the Harbor
1939: The Story of the Last Chrysantheums
1943: Suguta Sanshiro
1946: Utamaro and his Five Women
1948: Drunken Angel
1949: Stray Dog
1950: Rashomon
1952: The Life of Oharu
1953: Ugetsu
1954: Godzilla
1956: Street of Shame
1957: Throne of Blood
1958: The Hidden Fortress/The Ballad of Narayama
1959: Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan
1960: The Naked Island
1962: Harakiri
1964: Gates of Flesh
1966: Violence at (High) Noon
1967: Branded to Kill
1968: Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell
1969: Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
1970: Dodeska-den
1971: The Ceremony
1973: Coup D'etat
1974: Himiko
1977: House, Ballad of Orin
1980: The Young Rebels, Kagemusha, Eijanaika
1981: Mobile Suit Gundam I
1983: Children of Nagasaki
1984: Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind
1985: Ran, Mishima: Life in Four Chapters
1988: Grave of the Fireflies 2. Akira 3. Father

Most I didn't watch. I'm a New Wave type person.

1989: Black Rain
1991: Heat Wave
1995: Ghost in the Shell
1997: The End of Evangelion/Jungle Emperor Leo/The Eel/Moonlight Serenade
1998: Spriggan/Perfect Blue/Sade
1999:

1. Jin-Roh
2. Betrayal & Trust
3. Street Fighter Alpha

2000: Battle Royale
2002: Voices of a Distant Star
2003: Kill Bill
2005: Kamen Rider the First
2007: 5 cm per second
2009: Yatterman, Ultraman Galaxy
2010: Colorful, Outrage
2011: Harakiri: Death of a Samurai, 13 Assassins
2012: 009 Re:Cyborg, Parasite Dolls
2013: The Wind Rises
2014: The Tale of Princess Kaguya
2015: Kamen Rider Taisen GP

Director:

1933: Japanese Girls at the Harbor
1939: Kenji
1943: Akira Kurosawa
1946: Kenji
1948: Akira Kurosawa
1949: Akira Kurosawa
1950: Akira Kurosawa
1952: Kenji
1953: Kenji
1954: Ishiro Honda
1956: Kenji
1957: Akira Kurosawa
1958: The Ballad of Narayama
1959: Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan
1960: Nagisa Oshima
1962: Masaki Kobayashi
1964: Seijin Suzuki
1966: Seijin Suzuki
1967: Seijin Suzuki
1968: Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell
1969: Nagisa Oshima
1970: Dodeska-den
1971: Nagisa Oshima
1973: Coup D'etat
1974: Himiko
1977: House
1980: Akira Kurosawa Eijanaika
1981: Yoshiyuki Tomino
1983: Nagisa Oshima
1984: Hayao Miyazaki
1985: Akira Kurosawa Mishima: Life in Four Chapters
1988: Akira 2. Father

Most I didn't watch. I'm a New Wave type person.

1989: Black Rain
1991: Heat Wave
1995: Mamoru Oshii
1997: The End of Evangelion/Jungle Emperor Leo/The Eel/Moonlight Serenade
1998: Spriggan/Perfect Blue/Sade
1999: Nagisa Oshima
2000: Kinji Fujasaki
2002: Voices of a Distant Star
2003: Satoshi Kon
2005: Kamen Rider the First
2007: 5 cm per second
2009: Yatterman, Ultraman Galaxy
2010: Colorful, Outrage
2011: Harakiri: Death of a Samurai, 13 Assassins
2012: Kenji Kamiyama
2013: Hayao Miyazaki
2014: Isao Takahata
2015: Kamen Rider Taisen GP