Favourite Screenwriters / Directors (+Titles)

Best work: Ikiru, Ran,  Rashomon, The Bad Sleep Well, 

Decent work: High and Low, Dreams, The Idiot, 

Underwhelming work: Drunken Angel

Best work: Soredemo Ikite Yuku, Omameda Towako To Sannin no Motootto, Quartet, Mother, We Made a Beautiful Bouquet, Monster, 

Decent work: Mondai No Aru Restaurant, Tokyo Love Story (1991), Sayonara Bokutachi no Youchien

Underwhelming work: Love That Makes You Cry, Mosaic Japan, In Love and Deep Water

Best work: Brush Up Life, Hot Spot, Trespassers, Sukina Sen Taxi, Shinnyushatachi no Bansan, Satsui No Michinori, 

Decent work: Jigoku-no-Hanazono: Office Royale

Underwhelming work:

Best work: Ore No Ie No Hanashi, Gomenne Seishun, Tiger & Dragon, Go, Ikebukuro West Gate Park, Shinjuku Field Hospital

Decent work: Ryusei No Kizuna, Kisarazu Cat's Eye

Underwhelming work: Rikon Shiyou Yu

Best work: Love Letter, PIcnic, A Bride for Rip Wan Vinkle, All About Lily Chou

Decent work: April Story, Hana & Alice

Underwhelming work:

Must watch movies: Air Doll, Monster, Maborosi

Must watch dramas : Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san

Dramas / Movies that were underwhelming:

Best work: In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels

Underwhelming work:

Best work: Kono Yo No Hate, Kou Kou Kyoushi (1993),  Nanyobi ni Umareta No, Lipstick, Golden Bowl, Ningen Shikkaku, Algernon Ni Hanataba O, Love Shuffle

Decent work: Takane No Hana, Strawberry on the Shortcake, Pride, 49, Ai to Iu Nano Moto Ni

Underwhelming work: Utsukushii Hito, 101st Marriage Proposal, Seija no Koushin, Bara No Nai Hanaya

Best work: Heard it Through the Grapevine, Secret Love Affair

Decent work: Something in the Rain, One Spring Night

Underwhelming work:

Best work: Fence, Soratobu Kouhoushitsu, Juhan Shuttai!, The Diamond Sleeping in the Sea

Decent work: Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu, Unnatural, Okitegami Kyoko no Biboroku, My Love Story!

Underwhelming work: Kemono ni Narenai Watashitachi

Best work: Nijiro Karute, Beach Boys, Zeni Geba, Kimi No Te Ga Sasayaite Iru, If Cats Disappeared from the World, Be With You, In This Corner of the World

Decent work: Neechan No Koibito, Iguana No Musume, The Last 10 Years, Fight Song, Sayonara no Tsuzuki

Underwhelming work: Chance, Romantics Anonymous

Best work: Under the Hawthorne Tree, The Road Home, Raise the Red Lantern

Underwhelming work:

Best work: My Liberation Notes, My Mister

Decent work: Another Miss Oh

Underwhelming work:

Best work: A Scene at the Sea, Sonatine

Decent work:

Underwhelming work:

Best work: Dakara Watashi Wa Oshimashita, Watashi wo Hanasanaide, Byakuyako, JIN, Tenno no Ryoriban, Tengoku to Jigoku: Psychona Futari, Tonbi, 

Decent work: Gibo to Musume no Blues, Sekai no Chuushin de Ai wo Sakebu, Mr Brain

Underwhelming work:

Best work: Woman in the Dunes

Decent work: The Face of Another

Underwhelming work:

Best work: Uchi No Musume Wa Kareshi Ga Dekinai, Aishiteiru to Ittekure, One Million Stars Falling From the Sky, Long Vacation, Over Time, Orange Days,

Decent work:  Tatta Hitotsu No Koi, Beautiful Life, Destiny-like Love, Yugure ni Te wo Tsunagu

Underwhelming work: Saigo No Koi, Chance

Best work: Woman in Dunes, The Face of Another

Underwhelming work:

Best work: Tokyo Story

Underwhelming work:

Best work: Kill Me Heal Me, Chicago Typewriter

Decent work: Moon Embracing the Sun

Underwhelming work: Twinkling Watermelon

Best work: Heard it Through the Grapevine, Secret Love Affair

Decent work: A Wife's Credentials

Underwhelming work: Goodbye Earth

Best work: Someday or One Day, Had I not seen the Sun,

Decent work: MoMo Love, Marry Me or Not, ToGetHer

Underwhelming work: You Light Up My Star, Attention Love, What is Love

Best work: Okaeri Mone, Owakare Hospital, Rich Man Poor Woman, 

Decent work: Kinou Nani Tabeta, Daytime Shooting Star

Underwhelming work:

Best work: Unmet, Saka no Tochu no Ie

Decent work: Ryu to Michi: Futatsu no Kao no Fukushusha, Influence, Nemureru Mori no Jukujo

Underwhelming work:

Best work: Life of Pi, Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Lust Caution

Underwhelming work:

Best work: The Inheritance

Underwhelming work:

Best work: Two In the Shadow, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Yearning, 

Decent work: Floating Clouds, 

Underwhelming work:

Best work: Sabishibindo

Underwhelming work:

Best work: Silent, Umi no Hajimari, Ichiban Sukina Hana 

Decent work:

Underwhelming work:

Best work: MARS, Imperfect Us

Decent work: In Time With You, Q Series: Life Plan A and B

Underwhelming work:

Best work: Mr Nietzsche In the Convenience Centre, Kyou Kara Ore Wa, 1 Pound No Fukuin, 

Decent work: Tokyo DOGS,  Yuusha Yoshihiko to Maou no Shiro, Once Upon a Crime

Underwhelming work: Wotakoi

Best Work: Confessions

Decent Work: The World of Kanako

Underwhelming Work: 

Best work: Ore No Hanashi Wa Nagai, Konto Ka Hajimaru,

Decent work: Hachimitsu to Clover, Sekai Ichi Muzakashii Koi, Boku Unmei No Hito Desu,

Underwhelming work: Koi Wa Kaisha Yasumimasu

Best work: The Rose, It Started with a Kiss, They Kiss Again, MoMo Love

Decent work: In Time With You

Underwhelming work: You Light Up My Star

Best work: Queen In Hyun's Man, Nine: Nine Times Time Travel, Yumi's Cells

Decent work: W, Unstoppable High Kick

Underwhelming work: Coffee House