Kaidan aka Kwaidan (Japan , 1964)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.0

Release Year - 1964
Country - Japan
Genres - Fantasy | Horror

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Synopsis : Kwaidan is a 1964 Japanese portmanteau film directed by Masaki Kobayashi; the title means 'ghost story'. It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folk tales. The film consists of four separate and unrelated stories.

"Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The Woman in the Snow": Stranded in a snowstorm, a woodcutter meets an icy spirit in the form of a woman spares his life on the condition that he never tell anyone about her. A decade later he forgets his promise. "Hoichi the Earless": Hoichi is a blind musician, living in a monastery who sings so well that a ghostly imperial court commands him to perform the epic ballad of their death battle for them. But the ghosts are draining away his life, and the monks set out to protect him by writing a holy mantra over his body to make him invisible to the ghosts. But they've forgotten something. "In a Cup of Tea": a writer tells the story of a man who keep seeing a mysterious face reflected in his cup of tea.

Awards

• Won the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival
• Nominated for Oscar in Best Foreign Language Film category

Special Mention

• Rated by more than 5k users on IMDb

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Ônibus 174 aka Bus 174 (Brazil , 2002)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.9 | Metacritic - 83

Release Year - 2002
Country - Brazil
Genres - Documentary | Crime

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Synopsis : Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

On June 12th, 2000, a bus full of passengers was kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro in broad daylight. The kidnapper, Sandro do Nascimento, terrorized his victims and when he finally agreed to surrender and the episode was close to an end, a policeman tried to shoot him, killing one of the hostages instead, a young woman. The whole episode was broadcast live, causing revolt among the population. The documentary is about the incident, with interviews, focusing on Sandro do Nascimento, his childhood, and how unavoidably he was doomed to become a bandit.

Awards

• Won over 23 prizes worldwide, including an Emmy Award for Outstanding Cultural & Artistic Programming in 2005 (after being shown on HBO/Cinemax with great success), and the Amnesty Award in the Netherlands.

Special Mention

• Bus 174 was voted "one of the ten best films of the year" by The New York Times
• With 73 reviews written, Bus 174 achieved a rare 100% critics rating at Rotten Tomatoes

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M (Germany , 1931)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.6

Release Year - 1931
Country - Germany
Genres - Film-Noir | Thriller
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Synopsis : When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

Someone is murdering children in Berlin. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.

Films Basis - M is supposedly based on the real-life case of serial killer Peter Kürten, the "Vampire of Düsseldorf", whose crimes took place in the 1920s, although Lang denied that he drew from this case. "At the time I decided to use the subject matter of M there were many serial killers terrorizing Germany — Haarmann, Grossmann, Kürten, Denke," Lang told film historian Gero Gandert in a 1963 interview.

Lists

• Ranked #33 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
• Roger Ebert Top 100
• IMDb Top 250 #50

Special Mention

• The film has become a classic which Lang himself considered his finest work
• The film was one of the first to use a leitmotif (a recurring theme, associated with a particular person, place, or idea) associating "In the Hall of the Mountain King" with the Lorre character.This association of a musical theme with a particular character or situation, a technique borrowed from opera, is now a film staple.
• Rated by more than 51k users on IMDb

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Tengoku to jigoku aka High and Low (Japan , 1963)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.3

Release Year - 1963
Country - Japan
Genres - Crime | Drama | Thriller
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Synopsis: An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.


An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control of the National Shoe Company, with the intent of keeping the company out of the hands of incompetent and greedy executives. He needs the same money, though, to pay the ransom that will possibly save a child's life. His resolution of that dilemma -- the certain loss of the company vs. the probable loss of the child -- makes for one distinct drama, and an ensuing elaborate police procedure makes for a second.


Awards

• Won Mainichi Film Award for Best Film
• Nominated for Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

Special Mention - Rated by more than 9k users on IMDb

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Yip Man aka Ip Man (Hong Kong , 2008)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1
Release Year - 2008
Country - Hong Kong
Genres - Action | Biography | Drama
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Synopsis: First part of the two sets of films - Ip Man & Ip Man 2


A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun.

Ip Man is the award winning film adaptation about the life story of Ip Man, the grand master of the Wing Chun style of kung fu and sifu (master) of legendary kung fu superstar Bruce Lee. The film focuses on events in Ip's life that supposedly took place in the city of Foshan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Awards

• Won Best Film & Best Action Choreography at Hong Kong Film Awards. Another 10 nominations
• Won Best Action Choreography at the Golden Horse Film Awards
• Won Best Picture at Iron Elephant Awards
• Won Silver Prize: Best Asian Film at Fantasia Festival
• Won Film of Merit at Shanghai Film Critics Awards

Lists

• IMDb Top 250 #233

Special Mention

• Rated by ~38k users on IMDb

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Rashômon aka Rashomon (Japan , 1950)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.4
Release Year - 1950
Country - Japan
Genres - Crime | Drama | Mystery
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Synopsis: A crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.


A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon. The priest and the woodcutter are recounting the story of a murdered samurai whose body the woodcutter discovered three days earlier in a forest grove. Both were summoned to testify at the murder trial, the priest who ran into the samurai and his wife traveling through the forest just before the murder occurred. Three other people who testified at the trial are supposedly the only direct witnesses: a notorious bandit named Tajômaru, who allegedly murdered the samurai and raped his wife; the white veil cloaked wife of the samurai; and the samurai himself who testifies through the use of a medium. The three tell a similarly structured story - that Tajômaru kidnapped and bound the samurai so that he could rape the wife - but which ultimately contradict each other...


Films Basis - Two short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, "Rashōmon" (for the setting) and "Yabu no naka", otherwise known as "In a Grove" (for the story line).


Tagline - The great, exciting Japanese production that brings a new experience to the cinema.


Awards

• Won Oscar - Best Foreign Language Film
• Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
• Italian Critics Award
• National Board of Review - Best Director and Best Foreign Film
• Blue Ribbon Awards - Best Screenplay

Lists

• Ranked #5 in Top ten list in 1950, Kinema Junpo 
• Among Top 10 - Directors' Top Ten Poll in 1992 & 2002, Sight & Sound
• Ranked #22 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
• Ranked #290 in The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time in 2008, Empire
• 50 Klassiker, Film by Nicolaus Schröder in 2002
• 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider in 2003
• IMDB Top 250 #78

Special Mention

• The film led to the coining of the term "Rashomon Effect" in psychology. The effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.
• Rated by ~ 51k users on IMDb

Films Influence

• Other Films - The film's concept has influenced a variety of subsequent films, such as Hero, Vantage Point, Courage Under Fire, Basic, One Night at McCool's and U Mong Pa Meung (Thai Movie)
• Television - The multiple-perspective concept has also been used, sometimes with over-the-top exaggeration for comedic expression, in episodes of many television programs like All in the Family  - "Everybody Tells the Truth" , CSI - "Rashomama" , Ed, Edd, n Eddy - "Once upon an Ed" , The Dick Van Dyke Show - "The Night the Roof Fell In" , Diff'rent Strokes  - "Rashomon II" , Mama's Family  - "Rashomama" to name a few

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Incendies (Canada , 2010)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.2 | Metacritic - 82
Release Year - 2010
Country - Canada
Genres - Drama | Mystery | War
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Synopsis: A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots.


Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Scorched, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.



Tagline - The search began at the opening of their mother's will.

Awards

• Nominated for Oscar - Best Foreign Language film
• Won eight awards at the 31st Genie Awards - including Best Motion Picture, Best Actress (Lubna Azabal), Best Director
• Best Canadian Film, Toronto Film Critics Association
• Adelaide Film Festival: 10 awards including Best Feature Film 2011
• Nominated for BAFTA - Best Film not in the English Language

Special Mention 

• Both Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper picked the film as their favorites to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. However, it lost to In a Better World from Denmark.
• Rated by more than 13k users on IMDb

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Yôjinbô aka Yojimbo (Japan , 1961)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.4

Release Year - 1961

Country - Japan

Genres – Action | Crime | Drama

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Synopsis: First part of the Yojimbo - Sanjuro two films set


A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Sanjuro, a wandering samurai enters a rural town in nineteenth century Japan. After learning from the innkeeper that the town is divided between two gangsters, he plays one side off against the other. His efforts are complicated by the arrival of the wily Unosuke, the son of one of the gangsters, who owns a revolver. Unosuke has Sanjuro beaten after he reunites an abducted woman with her husband and son, then massacres his father's opponents. During the slaughter, the samurai escapes with the help of the innkeeper; but while recuperating at a nearby temple, he learns of innkeeper's abduction by Unosuke, and returns to the town to confront him.

Awards – Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins

Lists - Ranked at #95 in Empire magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Films of All Time
IMDB Top 250 #115


Special Mention - Rated by more than 37k users on IMDb


Trivia - In both the films, the lead actor Toshirō Mifune takes the name Sanjuro (meaning "Thirtysomething") but he takes a different "surname" (in both films, he takes his surname from the plants he happens to be looking at when asked his name)

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Shichinin no samurai aka Seven Samurai (Japan , 1954)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.8 | Metacritic - 99
Release Year - 1954
Country - Japan
Genres - Adventure | Drama
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Synopsis: A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.


A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.

Awards

• Won Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival - 1954
• Nominated for BAFTA award - Best Film and Foreign Actor

Lists

• Ranked #1 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
• Sight & Sound's list of the ten greatest films of all time in 1982, and to the directors' top ten films in the 1992 and 2002 polls
• Roger Ebert Top 100
• IMDB Top 250 #14

Special Mention - Described as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made

• Innovated the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Ocean's Eleven, The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven
• Single largest undertaking by a Japanese filmmaker at the time, Seven Samurai went on to become Japan's highest-grossing movie and set a new standard for the industry
• Rated by more than 120k users on IMDb

Legacy - Film spawned several sequels and there was also a short-lived 1998 television series

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Tsubaki Sanjûrô aka Sanjuro (Japan , 1962)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1
Release Year - 1962
Country - Japan
Genres - Action | Drama | Thriller
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Synopsis : Second part of the Yojimbo - Sanjuro two films set (sequel of Yojimbo)


A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.


A group of idealistic young men, determined to clean up the corruption in their town, are aided by a scruffy, cynical samurai who does not at all fit their concept of a noble warrior.


Special Mention - Rated by more than 10k users on IMDb

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