Closet Picks

17 Jun 2023

Hideo Kojima’s Closet Picks

The pioneering video game designer throws a spotlight on treasures of 1950s and ’60s Japanese cinema, including Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Twilight and Nobuo Nakagawa’s Jigoku.

Choices
9
Single films
8
Box sets
1
Chose Director Year
1 High and Low Akira Kurosawa 1963
2 Late Spring Yasujiro Ozu 1949
3 Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozubox set, 5 films
4 Ugetsu Kenji Mizoguchi 1953
5 Kwaidan Masaki Kobayashi 1965
6 Harakiri Masaki Kobayashi 1962
7 Jigoku Nobuo Nakagawa 1960
8 Onibaba Kaneto Shindo 1964
9 Woman in the Dunes Hiroshi Teshigahara 1964

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