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Highest-ranking Asian Films

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The highest-ranking Asian film in the 1982 Sight & Sound Critics' Poll of greatest films was Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa, Japan).

The highest-ranking Asian films in the 1992 Sight & Sound Critics' Poll of greatest films were:

  • 1. Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirō Ozu, Japan)
  • 2. Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray, India)
  • 3. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
  • 4. Ugetsu (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
  • 5. The Music Room (1958, Satyajit Ray, India)
  • 6. Charulata (1964, Satyajit Ray, India)
  • 6. Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
  • 8. Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
  • 8. Yellow Earth (1984, Chen Kaige, China)
  • 10. The Life of Oharu (1952, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
  • 10. Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
  • 10. Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu, China)
  • 13. Aparajito (1956, Satyajit Ray, India)
  • 13. Late Spring (1949, Yasujirō Ozu, Japan)
  • 13. The World of Apu (1959, Satyajit Ray, India)

The highest-ranking Asian films in the 2002 Sight & Sound Critics' Poll of greatest films were:

  • 1 Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirō Ozu, Japan)
  • 2 Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
  • 3 Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
  • 4 Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray, India)
  • 5 The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
  • 6 Ugetsu (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
  • 7 Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)

The highest-ranking Asian films in the 2012 Sight & Sound Critics' poll of greatest films were:

  • 1 Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirō Ozu, Japan)
  • 2 Late Spring (1949, Yasujirō Ozu, Japan)
  • 3 Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
  • 4 In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  • 5 Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
  • 6 Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray, India)
  • 7 Ugetsu monogatari (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)

In a 1998 critics' poll of all-time greatest films conducted by the New Delhi-based Asian film magazine Cinemaya, the following films were ranked the highest:

  • 1. Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirō Ozu, Japan)
  • 2. Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray, India)
  • 2. Ugetsu (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
  • 4. Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
  • 4. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
  • 6. Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
  • 7. The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959, Satyajit Ray, India)
  • 7. Yellow Earth (1984, Chen Kaige, China)
  • 9. The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1986, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan)
  • 9. A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan)
  • 11. Charulata (1964, Satyajit Ray, India)
  • 11. Floating Clouds (1955, Mikio Naruse, Japan)
  • 11. Mandala (1981, Im Kwon-Taek, South Korea)
  • 11. The Music Room (1958, Satyajit Ray, India)
  • 11. Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu, China)
  • 11. Subarnarekha (1962/1965, Ritwik Ghatak, India)

In a 2000 audience poll of "Best Asian films" conducted by the UK-based MovieMail, the highest-ranking films were:

  • 1. Raise the Red Lantern (1991, Zhang Yimou, China)
  • 2. The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959, Satyajit Ray, India)
  • 3. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
  • 4. Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
  • 5. Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953, Japan)
  • 6. Ugetsu (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
  • 7. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  • 8. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  • 9. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee, China / Hong Kong / Taiwan)
  • 10. Maborosi (1995, Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)
  • 10. Yellow Earth (1984, Chen Kaige, China)

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