Kuşkusuz gelmiş geçmiş en iyi yönetmenlerden biri olan Akira Kurosawa'nın en sevdiği filmleri kızı Kazuko Kurosawa yazdığı "A Dream is a Genius" isimli kitapta derlemiş. Kızı yüz filmden oluşan listeyi babası ile yaptığı sohbetlerde edindiği bilgiler ışığında oluşturmuş.
1. Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (Griffith,
1919)
2. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari] (Wiene, 1920)
3. Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler – Ein Bild der Zeit [Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler] (Lang, 1922)
4. The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925)
5. La Chute de la Maison Usher [The Fall of the House of Usher] (Jean Epstein, 1928)
6. Un Chien Andalou [An Andalusian Dog] (Bunuel, 1928)
7. Morocco (von Sternberg, 1930)
8. Der Kongress Tanzt (Charell, 1931)
9. Die 3groschenoper [The Threepenny Opera] (Pabst, 1931)
10. Leise Flehen Meine Lieder [Lover Divine] (Forst, 1933)
11. The Thin Man (Dyke, 1934)
12. Tonari no Yae-chan [My Little Neighbour, Yae] (Shimazu, 1934)
13. Tange Sazen yowa: Hyakuman ryo no tsubo [Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo] (Yamanaka, 1935)
14. Akanishi Kakita [Capricious Young Men] (Itami, 1936)
15. La Grande Illusion [The Grand Illusion] (Renoir, 1937)
16. Stella Dallas (Vidor, 1937)
17. Tsuzurikata Kyoshitsu [Lessons in Essay] (Yamamoto, 1938)
18. Tsuchi [Earth] (Uchida, 1939)
19. Ninotchka (Lubitsch, 1939)
20. Ivan Groznyy I, Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky Zagovor [Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II] (Eisenstein, 1944-46)
21. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
22. It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
23. The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)
24. Ladri di Biciclette [The Bicycle Thief] [Bicycle Thieves] (De Sica, 1948)
25. Aoi sanmyaku [The Green Mountains] (Imai, 1949)
26. The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
27. Banshun [Late Spring] (Ozu, 1949)
28. Orpheus (Cocteau, 1949)
29. Karumen kokyo ni kaeru [Carmen Comes Home] (Kinoshita, 1951)
30. A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan, 1951)
31. Thérèse Raquin [The Adultress] (Carne 1953)
32. Saikaku ichidai onna [The Life of Oharu] (Mizoguchi, 1952)
33. Viaggio in Italia [Journey to ] (Rossellini, 1953)
34. Gojira [Godzilla] (Honda, 1954)
35. La Strada (Fellini, 1954)
36. Ukigumo [Floating Clouds] (Naruse, 1955)
37. Pather Panchali [Song of the Road] (Ray, 1955) India
38. Daddy Long Legs (Negulesco, 1955)
39. The Proud Ones (Webb, 1956)
40. Bakumatsu taiyoden [Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate] (Kawashima, 1957)
41. The Young Lions (Dmytryk, 1957)
42. Les Cousins [The Cousins] (Chabrol, 1959)
43. Les Quarte Cents Coups [The 400 Blows] (Truffaut, 1959)
44. A bout de Souffle [Breathless] (Godard, 1959)
45. Ben-Hur (Wyler, 1959)
46. Ototo [Her Brother] (Ichikawa, 1960)
47. Une aussi longue absence [The Long Absence] (Colpi, 1960)
48. Le Voyage en Ballon [Stowaway in the Sky] (Lamorisse, 1960)
49. Plein Soleil [Purple Noon] (Clement, 1960)
50. Zazie dans le métro [Zazie on the Subway](Malle, 1960)
51. L’Annee derniere a Marienbad [Last Year in Marienbad] (Resnais, 1960)
52. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Aldrich, 1962)
53. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
54. Melodie en sous-sol [Any Number Can Win] (Verneuil, 1963)
55. The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963)
56. Il Deserto Rosso [The Red Desert](Antonioni, 1964)
57. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols, 1966)
58. Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)
59. In the Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967)
60. The Charge of the Light Brigade (Richardson, 1968)
61. Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger, 1969)2. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari] (Wiene, 1920)
3. Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler – Ein Bild der Zeit [Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler] (Lang, 1922)
4. The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925)
5. La Chute de la Maison Usher [The Fall of the House of Usher] (Jean Epstein, 1928)
6. Un Chien Andalou [An Andalusian Dog] (Bunuel, 1928)
7. Morocco (von Sternberg, 1930)
8. Der Kongress Tanzt (Charell, 1931)
9. Die 3groschenoper [The Threepenny Opera] (Pabst, 1931)
10. Leise Flehen Meine Lieder [Lover Divine] (Forst, 1933)
11. The Thin Man (Dyke, 1934)
12. Tonari no Yae-chan [My Little Neighbour, Yae] (Shimazu, 1934)
13. Tange Sazen yowa: Hyakuman ryo no tsubo [Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo] (Yamanaka, 1935)
14. Akanishi Kakita [Capricious Young Men] (Itami, 1936)
15. La Grande Illusion [The Grand Illusion] (Renoir, 1937)
16. Stella Dallas (Vidor, 1937)
17. Tsuzurikata Kyoshitsu [Lessons in Essay] (Yamamoto, 1938)
18. Tsuchi [Earth] (Uchida, 1939)
19. Ninotchka (Lubitsch, 1939)
20. Ivan Groznyy I, Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky Zagovor [Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II] (Eisenstein, 1944-46)
21. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
22. It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
23. The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)
24. Ladri di Biciclette [The Bicycle Thief] [Bicycle Thieves] (De Sica, 1948)
25. Aoi sanmyaku [The Green Mountains] (Imai, 1949)
26. The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
27. Banshun [Late Spring] (Ozu, 1949)
28. Orpheus (Cocteau, 1949)
29. Karumen kokyo ni kaeru [Carmen Comes Home] (Kinoshita, 1951)
30. A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan, 1951)
31. Thérèse Raquin [The Adultress] (Carne 1953)
32. Saikaku ichidai onna [The Life of Oharu] (Mizoguchi, 1952)
33. Viaggio in Italia [Journey to ] (Rossellini, 1953)
34. Gojira [Godzilla] (Honda, 1954)
35. La Strada (Fellini, 1954)
36. Ukigumo [Floating Clouds] (Naruse, 1955)
37. Pather Panchali [Song of the Road] (Ray, 1955) India
38. Daddy Long Legs (Negulesco, 1955)
39. The Proud Ones (Webb, 1956)
40. Bakumatsu taiyoden [Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate] (Kawashima, 1957)
41. The Young Lions (Dmytryk, 1957)
42. Les Cousins [The Cousins] (Chabrol, 1959)
43. Les Quarte Cents Coups [The 400 Blows] (Truffaut, 1959)
44. A bout de Souffle [Breathless] (Godard, 1959)
45. Ben-Hur (Wyler, 1959)
46. Ototo [Her Brother] (Ichikawa, 1960)
47. Une aussi longue absence [The Long Absence] (Colpi, 1960)
48. Le Voyage en Ballon [Stowaway in the Sky] (Lamorisse, 1960)
49. Plein Soleil [Purple Noon] (Clement, 1960)
50. Zazie dans le métro [Zazie on the Subway](Malle, 1960)
51. L’Annee derniere a Marienbad [Last Year in Marienbad] (Resnais, 1960)
52. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Aldrich, 1962)
53. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
54. Melodie en sous-sol [Any Number Can Win] (Verneuil, 1963)
55. The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963)
56. Il Deserto Rosso [The Red Desert](Antonioni, 1964)
57. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols, 1966)
58. Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)
59. In the Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967)
60. The Charge of the Light Brigade (Richardson, 1968)
62. MASH (Altman, 1970)
63. Johnny Got His Gun (Trumbo, 1971)
64. The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971)
65. El espíritu de la colmena [Spirit of the Beehive] (Erice, 1973)
66. Solyaris [Solaris] (Tarkovsky, 1972)
67. The Day of the Jackal (Zinneman, 1973)
68. Gruppo di famiglia in un interno [Conversation Piece] (Visconti, 1974)
69. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)
70. Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo [Sandakan 8] (Kumai, 1974)
71. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
72. O, Thiassos [The Travelling Players] (Angelopoulos, 1975)
73. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
74. Daichi no komoriuta [Lullaby of the Earth] (Masumura, 1976)
75. Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)
76.Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino [Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano] (Mikhalkov, 1977)
77. Padre Padrone [My Father My Master] (P. & V. Taviani, 1977)
78. Gloria (Cassavetes, 1980)
79. Harukanaru yama no yobigoe [A Distant Cry From Spring] (Yamada, 1980)
80. La Traviata (Zeffirelli, 1982)
81. Fanny och Alexander [Fanny and Alexander] (Bergman, 1982)
82. Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982)
83. The King of Comedy (Scorsese, 1983)
84. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Oshima, 1983)
85. The Killing Fields (Joffe 1984)
86. Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984)
87. Dongdong de Jiaqi [A Summer at Grandpa’s] (Hou, 1984)
88. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
89. Witness (Weir, 1985)
90. The Trip to Bountiful (Masterson, 1985)
91. Otac na sluzbenom putu [When Father was Away on Business] (Kusturica, 1985)
92. The Dead (Huston, 1987)
93. Khane-ye doust kodjast? [Where is the Friend’s Home] (Kiarostami, 1987)
94. Baghdad Cafe [Out of Rosenheim] (Adlon, 1987)
95. The Whales of August (Anderson, 1987)
96. Running on Empty (Lumet, 1988)
97. Tonari no totoro [My Neighbour Totoro] (Miyazaki, 1988)
98. A un [Buddies] (Furuhata, 1989)
99. La Belle Noiseuse [The Beautiful Troublemaker] (Rivette, 1991)
100. Hana-bi [Fireworks] (Kitano, 1997)
63. Johnny Got His Gun (Trumbo, 1971)
64. The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971)
65. El espíritu de la colmena [Spirit of the Beehive] (Erice, 1973)
66. Solyaris [Solaris] (Tarkovsky, 1972)
67. The Day of the Jackal (Zinneman, 1973)
68. Gruppo di famiglia in un interno [Conversation Piece] (Visconti, 1974)
69. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)
70. Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo [Sandakan 8] (Kumai, 1974)
71. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
72. O, Thiassos [The Travelling Players] (Angelopoulos, 1975)
73. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
74. Daichi no komoriuta [Lullaby of the Earth] (Masumura, 1976)
75. Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)
76.Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino [Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano] (Mikhalkov, 1977)
77. Padre Padrone [My Father My Master] (P. & V. Taviani, 1977)
78. Gloria (Cassavetes, 1980)
79. Harukanaru yama no yobigoe [A Distant Cry From Spring] (Yamada, 1980)
80. La Traviata (Zeffirelli, 1982)
81. Fanny och Alexander [Fanny and Alexander] (Bergman, 1982)
82. Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982)
83. The King of Comedy (Scorsese, 1983)
84. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Oshima, 1983)
85. The Killing Fields (Joffe 1984)
86. Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984)
87. Dongdong de Jiaqi [A Summer at Grandpa’s] (Hou, 1984)
88. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
89. Witness (Weir, 1985)
90. The Trip to Bountiful (Masterson, 1985)
91. Otac na sluzbenom putu [When Father was Away on Business] (Kusturica, 1985)
92. The Dead (Huston, 1987)
93. Khane-ye doust kodjast? [Where is the Friend’s Home] (Kiarostami, 1987)
94. Baghdad Cafe [Out of Rosenheim] (Adlon, 1987)
95. The Whales of August (Anderson, 1987)
96. Running on Empty (Lumet, 1988)
97. Tonari no totoro [My Neighbour Totoro] (Miyazaki, 1988)
98. A un [Buddies] (Furuhata, 1989)
99. La Belle Noiseuse [The Beautiful Troublemaker] (Rivette, 1991)
100. Hana-bi [Fireworks] (Kitano, 1997)
